Trauma + Transcendence - Polly Young-Eisendrath - The Gates of Mercy: Portals of Transcendence

This presentation draws principally on two models of substrate consciousness: Jung’s collective unconscious and the Buddhist (Yogacara) alaya-vijnana or store-house consciousness. Looked at from the perspectives of everyday life and psychotherapy, these models of mind are mapping the way to an awareness that is wiser and more transcendent than mundane consciousness. When we collide with loss, trauma, failure, pain, hurt, and some aspects of dreaming and meditating, our sense of a continuous self is disrupted. These disruptions are potential openings to a transcendent reality. I will present and compare these two models of mind and talk about how and why the human mental construct of self creates an illusion of control and how dropping that control is the only true path to grace and healing.

[@archaeologyforthesoul1811]

I love your book "The Resilient Spirit". I would so love to meet you. Thank you deeply for your work.

[@Misslotusification]

Walking around waking consciousness is the most delusional consciousness, this is where the dream is solidified because we believe we understand what's going on.

[@hawkarae]

Minute 42, I have the beginning of an explanation of the tectonic shift I experienced at the height of my annihilation practices, and more helpful still confirmation of the path I've been stumbling, skipping and pausing on ever since. 2017: 95% unconscious. 2021: grateful. 🙏

[@deborahclements1650]

Thank you. You message is so inspiring for me to go forward. I hope to meet you onr day. 🙌

[@annafrebel2872]

What is the name of the second speaker?
Thankyou for the presentation.

[@elizabethmansfield3609]

Reading his name tag, it is Joseph Cambray, who was/is CEO-President at this Institute according to an internet search. :)

[@annafrebel2872]

@@elizabethmansfield3609 Thanks!