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Friday, July 30th, 2010Genpo Merzel Roshi, Zen Master in the Japanese Soto and Rinzai traditions, founder of Kanzeon Sangha, author of five books and originator of the Big Mind Big Heart Process:
As a psychiatrist as well as a student of Zen and shamanism, Dr. Proskauer is concerned with helping patients who have been […]
Big Heart Healing
Wednesday, July 28th, 2010Big Heart Healing
A Multidimensional Approach to Trauma and Abuse
Once we have committed to healing ourselves, out woundedness becomes our greatest gift to the world. We have every reason to celebrate our humanness, our vulnerability to pain and fear and joy, our spiritual dept, for without opening to the full range of […]
BIG HEART HEALING: A MULTIDIMENSIONAL APPROACH TO TRAUMA AND ABUSE
Tuesday, July 27th, 2010
BIG HEART HEALING:
A MULTIDIMENSIONAL APPROACH TO TRAUMA AND ABUSE
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This fascinating book by Integrative Psychiatrist Stephen Proskauer MD, is a study of how to coordinate psychiatric, psychological, and spiritual methods of healing the severe anxiety and splintering of the self caused by trauma and abuse in order to promote harmony, wholeness, integration and fulfillment.
Dr. […]
Dualistic Spiritual Beliefs and Ego Inflation
Thursday, March 18th, 2010Dualistic spiritual beliefs, such as the struggle between the forces of light and darkness, the modern version of heaven and hell, may function as ego projections, rooted in the private hell of the traumatized body and the personal heaven of dissociative escape. Ego inflation and glamor often accompany these beliefs, and a group of “true […]
The Grace of Transformation
Friday, March 12th, 2010During Karmic Therapy sessions a patient transcend ordinary reality in the process of reuniting with the soul. Such sessions have enormous healing power as well as a poignant numinous quality that brings tears. One has the feeling of witnessing a sacred moment. A mysterious shift has occurred and reality has been transformed forever into a […]
Dissociation and Shamanic Initiation
Monday, March 8th, 2010Dissociating from the body may make it difficult to stay grounded and to feel at home in the physical world, but on the positive side, the dissociation that so often results from severe injury temporarily protects us from overwhelming fear and pain, loosens our attachment to the physical senses, and creates a spiritual opening into […]
Awareness during Coma and Anesthesia
Friday, February 26th, 2010The rich recollections of a young child’s experience recovering from an automobile accident contradict the naive assumptions about coma and anesthesia that prevail in technologically sophisticated medicine. We might provide more compassionate support for our fellow beings as they pass through illnesses, accidents, surgical operations and other crises if we assumed that they were absorbing […]
Extreme Circumstances and Profound Splits
Wednesday, February 10th, 2010A profound split can arise in response to extreme circumstances of pain and fear, when we protect our spirits from enduring intolerable agony and terror by partial dissociation of soul energy from our bodies. This form of dissociation amounts to an abandonment of the body and there is a high karmic price to pay, including […]
New Karmic Learning
Wednesday, February 3rd, 2010We encounter the greatest distress with new karmic learning. From understanding our own suffering we learn compassion for others.
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Karmic Scripts and New Learning
Thursday, November 26th, 2009It seems that the more demanding the learning task, the greater the trauma setting up that life script. Typically, new learning seems to come about through struggle with adversity. If the theme is learning how to give and receive love, parents are chosen who do not know how to love. Karmic Therapy teaches that we […]
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