Psychospiritual Approach to Psychoanalysis

Disclaimer: Possible Triggers Pertaining Trauma & Abuse (these views are personal and not meant to adversely affect anyone's mental well-being).

Rationale: Something Freud elected not to elaborate further on for fear of unbridled persecution was his own obscure knowledge of generational, traumatic events occurring within families - typically at dissociative levels.

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Freud very clearly articulated and worked to disseminate his belief that, in essence, to develop neurosis (anxiety, depression, etc.), usually occurring in the later teenage years to early adulthood, is the result of unconscious trauma-based disruptions disturbing the mindscape and coming to roost after a so-called latency period (in general, the highly neuroplastic brain in childhood through adolescence is made of more durable, resilient mettle). In layman's terms, he believed that just about every living person exists with, to varying extents, subconsciously buried past conscious experiences, something that in popular culture has been coined as repressed memories. For a good century-plus since these ideas were first brought to light by the father of western psychological pedagogy, and especially in recent decades, the validity of these theories have been hotly debated. Especially because towards the twilight of his career and exalted social status, Freud partially reneged certain long withstanding views on his own apparent volition. Nowadays, modern science and medicine have officially accredited this view, which is to say repressed memories are, indeed, quite real - known throughout the psychiatric field as a disorder termed Dissociative Amnesia. Essentially, this disorder is considered to be any buildup of an amnesic barrier in the brain to quarantine particularly painful, singular memories or groups of memories from the person's waking consciousness - it is even labelled presumably one of the foremost common forms of mental illness. In this context, when you consider that nearly everyone has, again to a varying degree, an egoic personality complex - which are considered to be disorders themselves - then you grasp the potential scope of this belief. However, there is still heated debate and discursive challenges frequently issued around the topic - including the widespread theoretical rebuff and inception of a False Memory Syndrome Foundation in recent times. So, is there possibly anything more going on here we might not be privy to? Certainly, fake memories do exist. Yet remain, most vitally, forgotten ones.

First off, it is important to acknowledge that Freud - also like Michelangelo, da Vinci, Beethoven, Tesla, Einstein, Musk, et cetera - was labouring and sharing knowledge from a place that you could terminologically token as psychospiritual interdimensionality. This is not so woo-woo as it sounds, simply it is the mere reality that one's future existence be shaped with a bit more planning and cosmic consideration than many before incarnation. Like being singularly, directed guided by Universe's Invisible Hand. Maybe that's still pretty woo-woo. Anyways, second it is important to understand an inclination Freud maintained toward brutal self-confession. You could say that, for Sigmund himself, he practiced a sort of open-fire, internal bombardment on his own mind, misusing the brain organ to constantly attack its ego and willfully force truthfulness in all and every circumstance, through self-power forcibly providing the role of an impartial observer. Through this rigorous discipline of internal honesty he was constantly blasting his cerebral structures and straining neurotransmission. He had nerves of steel. Yet from lack of faith and discounting the existence of an astral realm and soul, the man never ascended, nor accessed deeper truths.

What is most significant about this disregarded aspect of Freud's psychoanalytic research is its direct correlation to the reporting of most persons at the beginning of a personal phenomenon known as Spiritual Awakening. Many and, in fact, probably all if not the vast majority of people who begin waking up experience in the early stages of The Dark Night of the Soul a total recall of disremembered events from their past. Generally, much of the content of these recollections has to do with traumas (as our minds wouldn't block positive experiences), and, in particular, experiences of sexual abuse, be they molestation or rape. Now, one must understood that someone who wakes up in this life is no different than someone else who doesn't. Some younger souls spend their lives incarnating in the essential pursuit of good times, seeking somewhat of a Spring Break setlist of fun and lively experiences life after life. It is when we are more experienced souls that one might start to endeavor to work with the needs of the universe, getting into gritty areas and doing particular dirty work so that other future souls might not have to. However, these subtle differences in life-planning really have no major effect on the early stages of one's life. We are all of us the same, borne into this world vis-à-vis the same mystical powers, born by the same people, undergoing similar treatment and experiences on the basis of civilized culture or not. So, what does this mean - what am I really trying to get across here?

It is essentially a very thin margin of likeliness that someone destined to wake up would encounter traumatic experiences at a higher rate than others. Human existence currently is riddled with genetic health problems, mental disorders and hereditary makeups that are still under the spell of the severe traumatic experiences earlier humans lived with. Indeed, two of the biggest wars in contemporary history happened in the last century. Humanity still has a huge karmic footprint, and with that, the massive likelihood of trauma behaviour in our genes at the deepest DNA levels. And like Alan Watts reiterated in many an audio recording - if you have never listened to Alan Watts' speeches on YouTube, highly suggest that you do - that when a human knows of their own darkness, of the electrical energy they carry or has been suppressed in the body and brain, thus understands themselves deeper than most, there is a high likelihood that person is in control, capable of incredible self-control and restraint, even if he desires or feels sensations that let him know he possesses hatred and loathing. He is less likely to act on these impulses. Yet when one doesn't know, perhaps one who has forgotten their trauma, and further, is subscribed to egoic ideals of an upright and proper human being - pretending to be nothing but a kind and upstanding citizen for the sake of societal security - than that person is much more likely to be in a less controllable state per their reactions and behavioural slips. How can one heal or begin to comprehend and combat something that they do not know even exists? That is the trickiest thing about dissociative mental deception, these disorders hide inside someone and that very person may have no idea about a lifelong tendency they may have towards dissociating into Psychogenic Fugues. How does society and the mental health frontier begin to help people with dissociative disorders if one doesn't know that the inclination hides within? How to end generational trauma cycles when the characteristics of these illnesses are what causes them to be perpetuated in family units?

Any available answers are not so simple. Speculation is pointless. What is absolutely possible (and essential) for us to conduct on an individual basis is to start listening to our bodies. The mind, fraught with egoic turmoil, will not give you any answers besought. As a general departure point to step of the precipice of interoception, consider such things as, have you always found your emotions to be rocky? Do you get uncomfortable, physical sensations that crop up now and again - this could be an aversion to touching, or being touched in certain areas of the body (areas you might not expect), or general discomfort in a situation that should warrant comfort like, say, laying down in bed after a long day of school, work or caring. Become attuned to listening to the sensations and pulsations in your body. Perhaps take a look into the longstanding behavioural patterns generating from your mindscape - are you easily triggered, do your moods shift and swing consistently, can you go from happy to sad, from a state of gusto to defeat, or malcontent quite readily? NONE of these things are absolute indicators, nor necessarily indicative or should be counted as measuring sticks to determine if you have suffered severe traumas in the past - only remembering can provide that such information - however, it can never hurt to learn how to listen and tune into your complex internal systems even better. Because even if you haven't suffered the types of trauma suggested in this article, there could be other underlying problems or past grievances you're holding onto inside of your cellular machine.

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