Trauma
Spring 2018, Issue #91
Beginning to understand ... Trauma
By David Tresemer, MD
Thousands of pages are written about trauma every year. Trauma has become a favorite subject in mainstream psychology. To begin to understand the phenomenon, let us build a picture of the human being:
To the receiving department of the soul’s kitchen, fresh cartloads of sensory impressions are brought—cartload after cartload, every moment. Just as one harvests a vegetable from the garden and removes the outer leaves and the stem as inedible, much of what comes into the receiving department is put to the side. From a cauliflower one might remove a third of its weight. From the cartloads of sensory impressions, one removes 99%, maybe more. Where do these go? The recycling department. We will come back to that.
7 Billion Crowns
By Seth Jordan
Where do new ideas come from? The kind of ideas that fire the imagination and break the hold of tyrant and tradition. How are discoveries made? Inventions? Innovations? How do works of art arise? New melodies that suddenly shine a light on some vast, hidden landscape of the soul; new stories that wake us up to a new understanding of our own story. Where do all these things come from?
And can you see how important all this creativity is? It’s the wellspring of society. These ideas and inspirations are the reason behind our doing anything at all—the goals and dreams that fire our will. With them we build our sense of identity, give meaning to our life.
Editor's Note
By Christy Korrow
Hello Dear Readers,
Flowers are blooming and the sun is shining up here in the Pacific Northwest! The earth keeps turning and we are well out of the season of endless gray days and long dark nights. The days are getting longer and sunnier. Within the next several weeks they’ll culminate in seemingly endless 18 hour days!
An almost manic euphoria sets in and we all get busier and busier as the last glimpses of daylight linger until 10:30 pm. Combine that spring and summer pace with all the “normal” asks/demands of life and soon a spell of overwhelm and stress is cast that can easily take a toll on our emotional and physical health.
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