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From “Sex, Trauma and Conjunctio,” just

published by North of Eden Press, available through www.amazon.com. The authors are Marc

Bregman and Christa Lancaster, with Sue Scavo:

If

trauma was nothing more than an event that happened, an event that wounded us

and caused us to be neurotic, then it would just be a problem to solve.

But, in fact, trauma in and of itself, carries the soul, almost as if it is in

nut form, protected and waiting for us.

Ultimately, the child self cannot survive this world, so trauma is assured for

every living being, even if nothing bad ever happens. It occurs the

moment we stop being a child. And we have to stop being a child at some

point; it is simply inevitable. The child self then waits for us to

return.

If

there is another trauma, if something bad did happen, then the trauma becomes

more noisy, like a neon sign flashing, “Here! Here! There is something

HERE!” If nothing bad happened then the trauma is less noisy and it

may be even harder to find. We may even think that there is nothing to

find. But we are all traumatized, we are all lost from ourselves.

It is the nature of the evolution of our being to grow into adulthood without

our inner lives.

Trauma, then, is actually the way back in. It is the place where the

celebration is, the welcome. It is the place where we find the Animus,

where women get wedded, pregnant, where men become the Prodigal Son.

We

become lost from this world because the child that arrives does not really

belong in the outer world. As we acclimate to the outer world, we die to

the world in order to become connected to it. The pain is not just the

result of an outer world trauma, if there is one, but the pain of being

separated from the self. The pain is just the reawakening to the lost

part of ourselves. Trauma is always the portal back in. (Page 59).

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