Archive for February, 2011
Karmic Lessons
Thursday, February 24th, 2011In tracing a karma cycle, let’s begin arbitrarily just before conception. Karmic lessons incompletely mastered in previous lives determine the specific issues that need to be confronted in the next life. The pattern of past karma generates the plan for the next life and determines the attributes of the new body, […]
Evolution from Primitive to Enlightened
Tuesday, February 22nd, 2011The array of memories emerging from Karmic Therapy is much broader than the limited territory of recollection in mainstream psychology. It includes infancy, birth, the prenatal period, conception, past lifetimes as humans and animals, as well as the interim states between lives. According to a hypothetical model that I have […]
Impact of Abuse in the Three Non-Ordinary Dimensions
Thursday, February 17th, 2011Now we will consider the impact of childhood abuse in three dimensions that extend beyond consensus reality into domains that have not yet received much recognition in “evidence-based” psychology and medicine. Regardless of their low status in the mainstream scientific tradition, the value of these three domains in the integrative […]
Shameful Memories
Tuesday, February 15th, 2011The part of self that holds the shameful memories must be split off and
repressed to protect us from feeling vile and revealing the awful truth to the
world. We remain perpetually on guard, not allowing anybody close enough to see our shame. Eventually we manage to forget what originally caused us to […]
Shame and Secrecy
Thursday, February 10th, 2011Social and cultural issues such as these have a direct influence on inner and outer relationships. Any therapist who does deep uncovering work knows the powerful toxicity of two elements that are greatly intensified by social paranoia: shame and secrecy. In my clinical experience, these two factors alone account for much […]
Accusations of Abuse
Tuesday, February 8th, 2011Working with children in situations where accusations of abuse have been taken to court, I have observed that the legal procedures used to elicit testimony from a child and the pressure on the child from biased parents often turn out to be more traumatic than the alleged abuse itself. Protecting the […]
Tragic Results
Thursday, February 3rd, 2011Loving fathers, innocent of any inappropriate conduct, have been accused by divorcing wives of molesting their daughters as a legal manipulation to exact revenge and gain custody of the children. The results can be tragic. In one case, a caring father and dedicated schoolteacher lost his family, his job and his […]
Social and Cultural Attitudes
Tuesday, February 1st, 2011We like to think that we have made progress in recent decades defining and enforcing the rights of children to be protected from abusive treatment, and in many respects that appears to be true. The subject is no longer taboo and parents are no longer permitted to treat children as chattels […]