Disconnection breeds stagnation. Physically, materially, spiritually and psychologically. It robs the souls of the light of existence and kills mind and body. It robs dreams and makes the landscape of society a panorama to be feared and shunned.
Vedanta is a Hindu philosophy based on the transgression of knowledge, tradition and bias. No psychological knowledge: No Mind. It is freedom of existence available to the student of its practice and then non-practice. It is the flow of a universe in motion and not fixed in the sophomoric ideas welded in place by unyielding beliefs and cemented doctrines about self and the world. It is Connection and Impermanence.
Trauma fixes an occurrence or system of occurences in place and the emotions, terrors and lacerations build upon themselves to lock the victim in place. Trauma without treatment places the victim in a mental isolation that blocks calls for help inwardly and outwardly from arriving to their destinations. Trauma has a victim and a transgressor. The transgressor can be nature, accident, man or woman and animal. It is almost always from the outside and the current political climate will dictate how hard society fights to right the systematic biases in place to allow these crimes to re-occur.
Mental illness and its traumas are unique. We are victims of ‘ourselves’. The disease lives in our blood and no governmental proxy will be able to protect us from us. We are subjugated to the plantations of our minds to be whipped by our corrupted mental master until we are broken from our episodes and awakened to the horrific actions against self and family our disease has taken in our absence from lucidity.
The trauma is ever-present as we try to navigate back to the world wearing the scars of our myopic wars without any guarantee this psychological civil war will not break out in its personal genocide again. Ever present of our own destruction and constantly rebuilding a life we abandoned years prior, we become permanent victims; abandoned by our rescuers we die to our life and our future. We have welded a mask of loss and pain onto our skin and it will remain for perpetuity. The Iron Maiden of our disease can shut us off from the world and bury us in plain sight.
The use of mindfulness in DBT, Dialectical Behavioral Therapy, is a good start but immature in its desire to aid the traumatized and mentally ill or both, back to the world. Mindfulness and its attempts to be in the present are needed but flawed in its reliance on the self to transgress itself. It creates another set of knowledge based beliefs to take the place of the damaging ones from the past life and forces a constant battle between here and now and then.
Vedanta with its speakers, Krishnamurti, Romain Rolland, Ramakrishna and others allows for the ultimate knowledge of the fallacy of any self and the need to drop mind from the equation. To enter into mental disease is not to ‘lose one’s mind’ but to be lost ’In” ones mind and its ever solidifying beliefs. The ability of Vedanta to show a reader to move into the evolving universe and stand away from their past and present can be a tremendous tool for those in society such as myself that have a personal history beyond charismatic biographical rewriting.
Vedanta can help trauma victims traumatized by themselves, which ultimately we all are, in our ever consuming self lacerations of horrors in the past and allow for a Resurrection to the sunshine and optimism of a moment truly not dictated by yesterday or tomorrow. It is the observance of and then stepping into the flowing River of Life and stepping away from the stagnate pond of despair so many of my brothers and sistesr on the brink of suicide and death are drowning in.
Look into Vedanta for the escape of a personal and cultural super-ego that fixes you in place with the belief that your thoughts are facts and can therefore be punished the same as actions. Live in the potentiality of now and keep reaching back into those stagnate ponds and re-light your human family.
Sincerely,
Virgil
