Trauma is not the event itself, such as an accident, psychological or physical assault, act of violence, war or natural disaster. Trauma is a complex internal survival mechanism that enables us to survive such an event and go on living.

Trauma is essentially one single illusion. It is the illusion that the devastating threat still exists. The fact that the danger is over, that I have survived and am now safe, has no reality for the trauma.

So far we have seen how trauma works physically, how illusion plays a fundamental role in this process, and how the soul itself traumatises us through our consciousness (‘I am’). Trauma comes from the human soul and it is also from the soul that it can be healed. Let us therefore look at the phenomenon of ‘spirituality’ as a general code for accessing the soul, the inner side of our aliveness.