QUESTION:

What if it’s not necessarily the result of trauma, what if the human vehicles we’re riding have a tendency to do stuff that the soul doesn’t necessarily aligns to, but when you’re driving a car that seems to have a will of its own, let’s call that natural instincts, you’re not only the driver, you’re also a passenger.

ANSWER:

Sometimes it can appear like we have control of “the human vehicles” and sometimes it appears as if we don’t have control of our movements, reactions, behaviors, and patterns as human beings.

When I speak of trauma, it basically means unresolved pain. And unresolved pain has consequences. So anything that has ever been experienced in the whole of human history that has created pain in the human experience, creates a consequence as a new pattern, because the brain and nervous system have to interpret, manage, orientate the bodily experience as a stimulus response to internal and external forces.

These stimulus responses to pain create patterns of behavior within us individually and within us as a species. These patterns are how our DNA has formed and evolved. So there are patterns in the human DNA that have been influenced and created to create certain patterns and behaviors that can sometimes feel out of our conscious control. This is what the nature of unconscious forces in the human experience are. It’s patterns that have been ingrained in our species as a whole, and within us as individuals. So these patterns are our responsibility.

These patterns have been influenced by the environment and through the way our brains’ interpreted the experiences that we have had through all human history. So the planetary forces of the external environment and also our sense of ourselves as individuals and of each other, and of the understanding of ourselves (meaning our level of consciousness at the time of experience) have influenced these patterns to be formed within the DNA to be the way that they are.

These patterns are often unconscious to us until we become aware of them through experiencing some type of consequence. We are just acting them out habitually and often can’t clearly even perceive them or the consequences they have on our self and others until the pain is felt somehow. Sometimes we are unaware of the pain that is being caused.

For example, if we unknowingly slowly poisoned our self, we might not notice until the pain was gross and created a consequence that we could feel. And when we can’t feel the pain we do to our self and to others, then we are fated to harm our self unconsciously until a consequence appears. Thus is why it is said that “life is suffering”.

In the dynamic of when we are unconscious to the harm we are causing another, the pain must be expressed aloud by the other to make itself known. And when we are not sensitive to the expression of pain from others, then often the consequence must be enforced by the other for us to become aware of the relational consequences to our unconscious patterns.

When we are unconscious to these patterns, they play out repeatedly passed down from human-to-human-to-human until enough pressure is created from within the psychology of the individual or from the external forces outside the individual – what we could call relational forces or societal forces (which are also all ultimately planetary forces).

Once enough pressure, tension, or pain has happened, it reaches a threshold where some type of change or evolution is pushed for. This is when there is an accessible or perceivable potential for something to transform. This could be within us as an individual, within a relationship dynamic, or within a societal structure.

As we become more conscious of ourselves as individuals through using our mind to reflect on ourselves as a species and as an individual through our actions and behaviors, the consequences of those things and how they affect others, and when we start to question what we are doing and why, and when we start investigating if there is other ways we can get our physiological, psychological, mental, and emotional needs met that cause less harm to ourselves, others, and our environment, then we begin to become more conscious. We begin using our mind in a way that is constructive for ourselves and for our species as a whole towards greater potentials of experience that align with the way our souls can sense reality.

Our soul and its experience can be part of a catalyst that creates pressure from within for us to become more aware of our experience as a human being by way of contrast.

If we have had a lot of experience with certain patterns as a soul, then at some point our habitual human patterns can feel so uncomfortable in contrast that it creates the pressure to push that brain to wake up to what it is as a soul and become more conscious within the human experience. That could be called “the embodiment process” in a spiritual framework.

The example I gave in the YouTube video “How Dark Forces are Moved in the Planetary Consciousness & Human Experience” was of a kid being yelled at by their teacher in front of other kids, which was said as an example of something that could cause some type of “trauma”. This was just a small example to try to ground in a basic understanding of how pain in the human experience, no matter how small, can create consequences that influence and effect our behaviors and patterns as human beings.

However, contrarily, it is also useful to say that some things that cause pain, suffering, and trauma are not always ultimately and fundamentally a bad thing from every lens of our individual journey. All experiences shape who we are right now and who we become. The greatest challenges of our life can create the catalyst and drivers for new possibilities to be discovered within our human experience. When one individual discovers a new potential within their own individual life, that expands the potential for all other human beings.

All experiences can have value in the wisdom, the strength, and the power that can be discovered from the journey of transformation that happens through complete integration of the experience. Through experience we individually and collectively discover clearly what we don’t want, so to be able to clearly define and direct ourselves towards what we do want. That is the natural process of evolution and of becoming more conscious.

However, that being said, the value gained from the lens of an individual’s journey of transformation through the perseverance and discovering of personal power through the integration and transcendence of a traumatic experience, it never validates anyone’s behaviors of unconsciousness,  maliciousness, or intentional harm being done to another under any circumstances.

Only through conscious, clear, open, honest, and direct communication with each other can we evolve together towards the greatest potentials relationally and societally, meaning for the best of us all as a species together.

The framework of what could be called “trauma” is far beyond just our experience as individuals within the limited memories of our one human brain. This relates more to humanity as a whole and how it has developed in the way it has up till now, and how patterns keep repeating until one individual wakes up to themselves and chooses to stop the unconscious patterns that create painful consequences from perpetuating.

Where there is a will there is always a way. If there is a pattern within your experience that feels destructive in some way – either to yourself or others – that you feel you have no control over then it is imperative that you know that there is always a way to resolve any pattern, no matter how big, how hard, or how deep it is. When you know this, then that opens the door for you to seek to find the answer of how the pattern can be resolved.

It’s helpful to know, however, that there is a force within us that is deeply psychologically and emotionally invested in our behaviors and patterns staying exactly the same, no matter how destructive they are to ourselves and others.

When you meet your experience with this foresight and wisdom, then you can open the door to start to be honest with yourself about how much you really enjoy the pattern exactly the way it is.

This can sometimes be discovered to be a dark force within an aspect of the psyche that only cares about getting its own needs met in whatever way it wants, no matter how harmful it can be. These parts can even get joy at harming others or harming other aspects of the psyche that have been fragmented. We can notice this pattern in deep addictive patterns that are extremely self-destructive.

Once we acknowledge that we are equally that dark force within the psyche, just as we are the light forces in the psyche, then a possibility for transformation can open.

However, if you never acknowledge this and just keep blaming something external, someone else, or some other external force as a the culprit, then you separate yourself from your own agency and your own authority and so your ability to see yourself clearly is obscured, which will keep you from integrating the dark forces (which means reforming) and transforming the patterns.

There is always a way to transform any pattern if you truly want to resolve it. However, it’s good to know that every journey of transformation has a process and that process takes sincere intention, focus, and time. Transforming some deeply rooted patterns can take more than one lifetime.

Sometimes it also takes extreme pressure and consequences from external forces or from others who are tired of feeling the consequences of our unconsciousness. This is what is sought after in the ideal of seeking justice when someone has caused harm to another.

The ideal of true justice (which does not come from trying to be vindictive and get revenge) aims to create wise consequences and thoughtful pressure on an individual in hopes that they can feel the pain of their unconsciousness so to inspire them to open up the true desire to want to change the course of their actions.

True justice is aimed at helping another take responsibility for their actions through creating a consequence of limitation, a consequence of restriction, or the consequence of the effects of public awareness about their unconscious behaviors. This can create a contrast of experience in that individual’s life, which can open up the potential for that individual to reflect on their actions and potentially wake up to the responsibility of their unconscious behaviors.

No matter how uncontrollable, destructive, or deep our patterns can feel, no matter how out of control it can seem, there is always a way to transform and resolve any pattern or behavior if that is what you claim you want.

Your soul and what you are beyond the soul is way more powerful than the force of any pattern, no matter how solid or extreme of a pattern it appears to be.

The spiritual path invites you in many different ways to find a deep humility by accepting that there is something way greater than you as you know yourself to be. And through the sincere will and conviction and intention to find a resolve to the pattern, along with the love, devotion, and reverence towards that which is Transcendent to yourself, the solution to the resolve of any problem or any challenge can be discovered.

That intention will invite you on a journey to discover more of what you are, and more of what you are capable of than you have ever known before.