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Every human problem has its symptoms - negative physical states, emotions, thoughts and identities. Having those symptoms usually serves as a means to recognize that there are some pathological processes in our body or a disharmony in our psyche. There are also causes behind the symptoms of any problem. Most of the symptoms are obvious and clearly visible whereas the causes of a problem are less visible and less known. The main cause of any problem is a traumatic experience or a psychological trauma we once experienced for some reason. Our traumatic experiences cause all our problems, although different kinds of post-traumatic syndromes are later added to the trauma, causing additional negative consequences.

THE STRUCTURE OF A TRAUMATIC EXPERIENCE

How does a trauma appear and what is the inner dynamics of a traumatic experience? Given the needed circumstances, a trauma can appear any time. First of all, there must be a form of the outer or inner stimulus a person subjectively experiences as negative. This may or may not cause a traumatic experience, which directly depends on the next condition - our reaction to the stimulus. If the stimulus results in our negative emotions or even negative physical condition accompanied by emotions, the intensity of which surpasses our tolerance, our psycho-energetic field may simply fall apart. This is otherwise known as a mild or a strong form of a nervous breakdown. Such a collapse of the energy structure or psyche results in our strong need for defense from an undesirable experience. It is still possible to avoid the creation of a trauma using a positive defense model. But if we defend ourselves with in a negative way, the result will be a negative psycho-energy model of emotions, thoughts and behavior, otherwise called trauma.

Negative means of protection are:

- negative emotions (we are angry, unhappy about everything,
in a state of shock resulting from fear),

- negative thoughts, which shape into negative conclusions and
decisions concerning us, life, other people or God,

- a disintegrated identity which continues to live in fragments
helping our defense mechanism to protect us from the same or similar future experiences.
 
A traumatic experience is a type of negative reaction that our psyche produces as a result of an unexpected or shocking external stimulus. For example, a child that does not get what it wants from the environment, concludes that it is not loved and that the world is not meeting its needs. The child then experiences a mild or strong nervous breakdown. At that moment the child's psycho-energy system breaks down as well as its old defense mechanism. A state of psychic disintegration is, therefore, extremely suitable for programming. At the moment when our psycho-energetic field is breaking down we are open and vulnerable to various imprints. Our energy body has lost its compactness and is not able to protect itself from negative external influences. Since the energy body behaves like any other living system, it seeks out any kind of protection in order to ensure its survival, being a priority goal at such a time. Our psyche, for that reason, unconsciously and automatically builds a new defense mechanism, even though it might be based on a negative attitude or a negative perception of reality.

The stability of our psyche depends on the firmness of the reality model imprinted on it. We think our beliefs are "real" because the logic of the many things happening in our lives corresponds to our attitudes. Having certain beliefs makes us feel safe and secure, but then the time comes for changing our attitude and the way of life. We have to leave the old reality model behind and build a new one, which always creates inner resistance. Since absolutely nothing happens accidentally, the higher, spiritual aspects of our being create such circumstances which will enable us to replace our old viewpoint with a new one. The way to perform such a transformation is a problem we seem to face accidentally. Each problem is a kind of initiation and has its own meaning, but our reaction to it is of prime importance. If it is negative, then a negative psycho-energy conglomeration of emotions, thoughts and identities is created, resulting in a negative reality model in our psyche. Everything we conclude or decide at that moment, charging it with strong emotions, becomes a part of our energy body and our being as a whole. On the basis of those negative states we shape our perception of reality, creating a model through which we experience ourselves and the world around us.

Since there is a safety mechanism in our psyche that cannot endure too much negative content in the domain of conscious mind, such a negative model is sent to the subconscious, but there it continues to exist. It would be ideal if we could immediately clear and reprogram negative impressions, thus eliminating the reason for their suppression into the subconscious. If, however, the negative model is not cleared, it must be eliminated from the consciousness, because its energy is so strong that it can cause another breakdown in our psyche, directly endangering our mental health and physiological existence. Such breakdowns prevent us from functioning in the material world, weakening our immune system and causing different illnesses - both physical and mental. Each negative or destructive reality model that is not dealt with, is for that reason suppressed into the subconscious.

However, a negative creation placed in our subconscious directly influences the circumstances in our life, attracting situations corresponding to the reality model we have built. Therefore, the life of a person with suppressed negative reality models is filled with continuous struggle with invisible threats and dangers which seem real, but are in fact irrational. The subconscious contents also become a kind of defense mechanism from the same or similar experiences as the one having caused the trauma, but this kind of protection is destructive. For example, if a soldier somehow caused our trauma, we later become frightened of every soldier we meet, even if they are friendly. Phobias of flying, hospitals, school or the opposite sex are caused in the same manner. This way of protecting ourselves is certainly not the one we want or one that is pleasant for us. What we want is to feel good, relaxed and calm in every situation.

The energy and spiritual dimensions of a traumatic experience

We are going to look now into some other things that also happen during a traumatic experience, not so much involving our psyche, but the spiritual and energy dimensions of our being. When trauma is experienced, our soul is not in our body. It is somewhere outside, usually next to the body. Therefore, we are not present in the time and space of the traumatic experience, because we are not able to bear the unpleasant situation we are in. We cannot endure the pressure of the unwanted incident, which results in the breakdown of our psycho-energy layer. We leave our body trying to protect ourselves from the negative events we are experiencing.

Some phrases in Croatian and other languages, English, for example, mention the state of dissociation from the body while experiencing a shock or a trauma. In Croatian, people often say that they were "out of themselves" due to anger, grief, surprise, or shortly, shock. In English, people express the same inner condition when they say "I was beside myself", which also describes the real situation of a trauma very well. People are aware of the fact that their consciousness is not in the body at the moment of experiencing a shock. It moves away from the physical towards the spiritual reality. Our soul runs away from the unpleasant event into the peace and quiet of the spiritual world. This is the main reason why most often people do not remember their traumas. The loss of memory gives the impression that the traumatic experience never really happened. Many people claim they have never had a traumatic experience for that same reason. Their whole lives are marked by a deep trauma that they are not even aware of having experienced. Therefore, they build an unnatural system of thought and behavior that they strongly identify with. They think that anybody who tries to threaten their frame of mind in any way is the enemy, crazy, stupid or mislead.

On the one hand, the detachment of our consciousness from the body is another condition for creating a negative psychic imprint. And on the other hand, such escape creates a situation suitable for entering an unwanted, negative energy creation in our energy system. To understand the energy and spiritual events during a traumatic experience properly, some new terms and concepts will have to be introduced. Namely, besides a physical body, people also have an energy body. The soul, which is the carrier of the consciousness, uses different material and energy forms to express itself. The soul has no name, sex or shape and it is also originally empty, but it can be manifested in the energy world using the energy body of different shapes, quality and purpose. The soul can also be manifested in the material world by first taking an energy, and then a material body.

This means that, besides the physical beings, there are also different beings existing at the energy or astral level. Those beings do not possess a material, but an energy body. So, there are energy beings of different kinds and origins. The ones we are now interested in are those that literally enter our energy body at the moment of the nervous breakdown, or the breaking of our energy body. When we experience a trauma, those beings enter our energy body. Such beings can be called entities, although this term is rather wide and encompasses all entities existing at the astral level. Many of them are neither negative nor connected with traumatic experiences. This specific kind of entities will be called, in a more defined sense, astral fragments.

When our energy layer is broken down under the influence of a traumatic experience, an entrance for an entity is created. The entity wants to connect with the energy and material bodies of a physical person in order to feed on the person's energy. An astral entity moves into our energy body and stays there as a part of our being. It carefully intertwines with our psychological characteristics, giving the impression that it does not exist. The entity feeds on the negative energy created by our traumatic experience and with the negative energy attracting other traumatic experiences daily. However, each psychic breakdown is not necessarily follow by the entrance of a harmful entity. All attacks on our psycho-energy system are a kind of initiation, changing our old attitude into a new one. Initiation is a method for development and its purpose is to be carried out successfully. A temporary crack in our energy body followed by a successful initiation may attract a negative entity, but it will not enter our energy body because it has nothing to feed on. If, nevertheless, the initiation does not succeed (temporarily) and if a new, more positive and constructive attitude is not developed, a traumatic experience is created instead. A traumatic experience enables a harmful entity to enter or to make predisposition for its creation. Such an experience is a continuous source of negative energy coming from within us and from our surroundings.

Contrary to the positive energy of a successful initiation, the energy of a traumatic experience is completely different. If an astral entity has a need to feed on someone else's energy, its energy and consciousness are at a low level and its existential orientation is negative. At the moment when a traumatic experience occurs, such an entity enters our energy body to enjoy the abundance of the negative energy acting as food that was ensured by our trauma. The entity will encourage us to react negatively in unpleasant situations, in the same way that we learned at the moment of the traumatic experience. We will be attracted by a negative types of people so that the entity has enough food from our interaction with such persons. It will encourage us to be angry and aggressive, practice perverted sex, overeat or enjoy extremely spicy and mostly unhealthy food. We will start taking alcohol or drugs, being passive and constantly feel tired, endlessly watching TV or staring at a computer screen and behaving in a way that will provoke negative reactions in other people. Entity needs all the energy food that it can get from our negative activities, because lack of such food fails to fulfil the main goal of its existence.

The astral entity connected with our energy body at the moment of a traumatic experience is not at all some kind of an evil being that we should be frightened or terrified of. Its nature is rather simple - it seeks food and functions in a mechanical way, similar to an animal that is restless or even aggressive when hungry, and tame and amiable when full. This type of astral entity simply searches for energy food because it matches its origin. According to doctor Samuel Sagan1, an Australian physician, such entities are created when a dead person's astral body disintegrates. At the moment of death, our energy body starts disintegrating in the same way as our physical body. Our soul, as the immortal part of our being, goes to a certain sphere, depending on the karma and the level of consciousness, whereas our physical and energy bodies fall apart. Entities are, therefore, fragments of a disintegrated astral body. They are energy forms with their own consciousness representing some human characteristics, either passive (suppressed) or active during life.

A human soul can simultaneously use a number of identities in order to attain its goals. Although our original spiritual nature is characterized by unity (non-existence of duality), at all other levels we are not one-sided, but complex beings, consisting of many characteristics or even several personalities. These personalities can be connected and directed towards a common goal, but they can also be opposed, even up to the point of lack of any communication between them. In that case, each fragment of a personality (split identity) lives its own life and is permanently in conflict with other fragments, which seem to endanger it. For example, a part of our personality would like to be occupied with spirituality, but is directly endangered by a fragment which loves money and thinks that spiritual activities lead to poverty. Or, an individual can have the identity of a chain-smoker in conflict with the identity of an athlete, etc.

Not all such fragments, however, continue to live as astral entities after the physical body dies. It directly depends on the type and quality of energy implanted in it during life. If we are aware of the fact that identities are nothing but roles we play from time to time in order to reach a goal, and if we are not unnaturally stuck to them, such identities simply disintegrate after our death while their energy mass turns into astral dust. The positive identities that we have been using all our life and investing a lot of energy in, because they helped us learn a certain spiritual lessons, will be transformed into pure spiritual consciousness and energy after we die. But, if an identity was long fed by negative energy from our lower consciousness and has not been connected with our higher consciousness, it will probably tend to continue living as an energy being after our death. Our astral body will disintegrate and some of its parts will continue to exist at the energy level, but now these beings no longer have a source of energy food. Such an astral being will, therefore, try to find a new physical body to continue feeding on its energy.

If we have, for example, put a lot of energy into creating an identity of a vengeful person during our life, that identity will continue to exist as an astral fragment when we die, looking for a suitable person to attach to. Such identity was not connected with our spiritual consciousness during our life, but fed on the energy of our lower being. For that reason, after we die it continues to live as an astral leech searching for a new source of energy food. A person with the same or similar tendencies as the last "owner" will become a suitable carrier. The entity will circle around such people, waiting for the opportunity to enter their energy system. A traumatic experience is a good opportunity, because the person's protective system is broken and a foreign energy creation can enter the person's energy body.

On the other hand, it is obvious that an astral entity can also be created by ourselves, during our own life. We can make an astral entity come alive if we fill our traumatic experience with negative emotions, conclusions and decisions, as well as by splitting a part of our soul (losing our identity). Since we are its creators, an astral entity can start living as soon as a few months after a trauma. It is, therefore, important to understand that each traumatic experience is followed by a creation or entering of an astral entity into the person experiencing a trauma. The astral fragment connects with an already existing split identity formed during the trauma, making it even more powerful. While eliminating the cause of a certain problem we must know how to get rid of the entity, because our intervention will not be complete if we fail to do so.

Each trauma consists of an energy block made of a frozen conglomerate of negative emotions, conclusions, decisions and split identities. An astral entity always sticks to such an energy block making the whole mass a protective mechanism. Its purpose is to protect us from similar experiences in the future, but not by confronting them, but by avoiding them. Since it is impossible to confront the negative mental contents continually, the whole traumatic construction moves into our subconscious. It continues to live there, separated from the conscious dimension of our being, thus becoming stronger than any other conscious content. The negative inner attitude we have created will also attract negative experiences coming from the outer world, to which we will react negatively and then we definitely have a problem. Consequently, a traumatic experience is a complex creation, which must be approached carefully with the client's full co-operation. The client must be aware of all the cleansing processes in order to be able to learn the lesson behind the traumatic experience.

THE SOURCE OF A TRAUMATIC EXPERIENCE

While the unique cause of all human problems is the traumatic experience, the source of human problems lies in our failure to recognize the primal essence of our being or, in other words, in the separation from our original nature or God. The process of solving any problem, therefore, has to be completed with returning to our original nature. Connecting with some of the numerous aspects of our higher consciousness is a crucial phase in the clearing of a traumatic experience. We experience a trauma only because of our ignorance or inability to act from the higher aspect of our being at the moment of suffering a stress, shock or having our ego hurt. Since we are not aware of the fact that an unpleasant situation is a way of undergoing an initiation (the lesson hidden in it), we turn the experience into a trauma. A trauma consists of a number of frozen negative emotions, conclusions, decisions, a split fragment of our personality and an astral entity, which has moved into our energy body. When we dissolve all the elements of a trauma and let go of them, our subconscious will be cleared enabling us to communicate with our higher conscious. The same way as the cleared symptoms (mental contents) enable us to communicate with our subconscious, the dissolved subconscious contents will ensure free contact with our higher conscious. It is important to be able to connect with higher conscious, because that way we can get some very valuable information.

Conscious connection with higher conscious will reveal the meaning of the traumatic experience or the lesson hidden in it. A child who experienced the trauma of not being given food when he/she was hungry, would not realize that security, fulfillment, protection or love are inner aspects of human being. The child could not learn that it can rely on itself and on some aspects of its own primal nature. The lesson the child did not learn then, will be learnt at the moment of releasing the trauma through the process of clarification. This time, a new state of consciousness will be accompanied by a few practical messages. The meaning of a problem can always be found in discovering and integrating one of the primal states. It is always about having a spiritual experience, which then becomes a part of the conscious aspect of our being. After that, we discover the positive intention behind the problem. Problems always lead us towards more freedom, fulfillment, peace, satisfaction and happiness. After discovering the positive intention or the positive goal of a problem, we can try to find a positive way to reach the original intention. We can now use the spiritual lesson, or a new level of consciousness, in practice and find concrete means that will enable us to live in the conditions of our newly discovered primal state.

CONSEQUENCES OF A TRAUMATIC EXPERIENCE

A traumatic experience creates a number of consequences resulting in physical, psychological and spiritual problems. If these consequences are not cleared, they will be the reason for the soul's repeated return to the problem until it gets solved once and for all. The term "unfinished business" is often mentioned as a reason for a soul's return from the state of a clinical death back to the physical body. The soul comes back (among other things) to finish any unfinished business - to sort out relationships, attain some goals and clear itself from negativity. Unfinished business is also a reason for new incarnations. The unsolved physical, psychological and spiritual problems are the three areas of human life where karma is manifested in the form of unfinished business.

Most of the negative contents of conscious and subconscious mind, resulting from a traumatic experience, are cleared during the process of working on the cause of the problem. The inner causes of all trauma consequences can already be dissolved while the trauma is being cleared. Unfortunately, a traumatic experience causes a change of perception and behavior, and creates bad habits in basic domains of life. They should, therefore, be paid special attention to, because a change of one's attitude and behavior does not happen quickly, but takes time. Working on the consequences of a traumatic experience means clearing the negative energy phenomena, attitudes and behavior models. They must be transformed in order to complete the change accomplished by clearing the trauma causes.

Physical consequences

Physical consequences are pathological disorders of the physical body resulting from a traumatic experience. Not all illnesses result from a trauma. Sometimes a physical illness is a message from our higher conscious that something in our life needs to be changed, a relationship sorted out, an old attitude, belief or behavior that is limiting or burdening us, altered. As soon as the needed change is made the illness disappears rather easily and quickly. The same is valid for illnesses with which people attract attention. Serious illnesses, however, are consequences of a long-lasting uncleared traumatic experience or a psychoenergy block, which first creates a disorder in the energy body, and then it moves to the physical body. In such cases it is more difficult to treat the physical illness, because of tissue deformation. Treating the disorder then becomes a long process, usually involving all aspects of a person's life and different forms of therapy.

Besides the standard medical treatment (which I think should not be avoided, unless it involves too aggressive or destructive forms of therapy that can be replaced by an "alternative" method), the treatment of a physical problem must include clearing the psychological and spiritual causes of the problem and all other energy disorders. I would like to stress that a standard medical treatment alone is usually not enough (it does not ensure long-term health), but neither does cleansing the spiritual, psychological and energy source always substitute for the results of medicaments, surgery or physiotherapy. The body must be paid special attention to, because its health or treatment cannot be taken care of by the Holy Spirit alone. Instead of medieval type wars, the best results would be obtained by a co-operation between medicine treating the physical body, and healing systems treating the energy body, the soul and the spirit.

Since I am not a physician, I do not intend to deal with medicine. I would only like to stress the direct connection between traumatic experiences and physical disorders, whatever form they might take. An illness as a consequence of a traumatic experience follows this model:

traumatic experience - spiritual disorders - psychological disorders
(negative identities, conclusions, decisions and emotions) - energy disorders - 
blocked energy flow (tension, weak immunity) - physical illness

This model can be found in all physical illnesses, acute ones and especially chronic ones. It is obvious that physical disorders are directly connected with psychological and spiritual disorders. An unhealthy body is the consequence of a long-lasting disharmony of bodies more subtle than the physical body. Besides treating the body, the soul (psyche) and the spirit must be treated as well. I believe that the internal causes of physical illnesses will have to be the central part of medical research in the near future, if medicine wants to be holistic and effective.

A physical disorder can be the consequence of a negative karma, behind which there is always a traumatic experience. In order to heal the body, the following should be done:

- clearing the traumatic experience, together with all the accompanying energy impurities,
- clearing all the psychological and spiritual consequences of a traumatic experience,
- undergoing a medical treatment or procedures in order to regain physical health,
- making a plan and program of positive activities to compensate the outer part of the karma.

When we deal with a physical disorder, we can be certain that it was preceded by problems in all the four psychological levels, as well as by spiritual problems. Treatment of the physical problem, therefore, also needs to focus on clearing all unresolved relationships, creative blocks, inner conflicts and negative identifications as psychological consequences of a trauma. On the spiritual level, the person will have to break up the subtle connections with the sphere of the lower astral and reconnect with God and the spiritual world through direct and personal spiritual experience. A wider model of the creating of a physical disorder looks as follows:

- unhealthy spirit (created by the feeling of being separated from God)
- unhealthy soul (created by negative thoughts and emotions resulting from the lack of love)
- unhealthy body (created by blocked energy flow, i.e. tension in organs).

Only treatment of all three mentioned levels will provide conditions for permanent and complete physical health. If, however, the illness continues to take its destructive course, it represents an extremely rare case of a so-called "pure karma". Unfortunately, cases of recovering form serious illnesses are equally rare, because only a small number of people are ready to accept their illness as a challenge and to make changes at all of the mentioned levels.

Psychological consequences of traumatic experience

A traumatic experience can or need not result in physical problems, but it definitely causes a number of psychological consequences. The four main areas of life that these disorders are manifested in are:

1. Relationship problems

2. Creative blocks and problems in reaching goals

3. Mental blocks and inner conflicts

4. Identifications, addictions and search for fulfillment outside one's own being.

Clearing a traumatic experience must be followed by reprogramming one's consciousness. The negative mental states, negative emotions, conclusions and decisions must be replaced by positive ones. The person must create a strong positive reality model inside his/her psyche to be able to attract the right life circumstances, which will lead a person directly towards self-realization. A cleared trauma, however, does not always automatically create changes in relationships. It will not immediately direct us towards discovering new dimensions of life (learning) and developing our creative potential. It will also not automatically harmonize the conflicted tendencies inside our being or make us independent. We shall have to additionally intervene in order to completely harmonize these four extremely important dimensions of our life.

Clearing a traumatic experience is a therapeutic intervention on a personal level. It causes inner changes - clears negative mental states and creates positive ones. Since our inner states are manifested in our environment in many different ways, the first dimension of human life that a traumatic experience is directly reflected in is the sphere of interpersonal relations. After clearing the trauma we have to deal with sorting out of our relationships influenced by the traumatic experience. Relationship problems block our feelings of happiness and love, which is essential for harmonious relations. Therefore, immediately after clearing the traumatic experience it is important to start sorting out our family and partnership relations, as well as other kinds of relationships negatively influenced by the trauma.

The next consequence of a traumatic experience is a creativity block, which can be the source of great dissatisfaction. It is manifested in learning disabilities, the inability to precisely define goals, to overcome obstacles in their realization, to discover creative talents and effectuate inner creative impulse. We want to achieve something, realize our ambition or deep inner needs, but the traumatic experience blocks everything, not allowing concrete steps in attaining our goals. Then we create opinions about our incapability, stupidity, insufficient education or lack of talent to justify for the failure to realize our goals. After having cleared the traumatic experience and sorted out relationships, we can move on to clearing our creative blocks and achieving our goals.

Inner conflicts hinder the realization of our peace of mind, essential for inner stability and mental health. So, the next consequence of traumatic experience are mental blocks, which strongly influence our reality. During the process of cleansing the trauma, we definitely clear a number of negative conclusions and decisions, beliefs and prejudices. Some negative beliefs, however, are extremely strong and have a specific form, which demands additional attention. Sometimes such beliefs are conflicted, creating inner mental conflicts directly manifested in the person's inability to make decisions. Somebody with a mental conflict continually swings back and forth between the two opposing goals, making it impossible to achieve peace of mind. The person lives in a state of extreme tension. Inner conflict of the opposing tendencies makes us passive, not doing or changing anything in spite of the fact that the we feel strongly disturbed and unsatisfied. We do not develop in a positive or constructive direction, but slowly degenerate. Since almost all traumatic experiences result in mental blocks or conflicts, successful therapeutic intervention must also contain methods to eliminate all kinds of mental consequences caused by trauma.

The last group of psychological consequences caused by a traumatic experience are unconscious identifications with external sources of fulfillment which create different types of addictions and prevent the person from feeling whole and independent. Many people unconsciously take negative identities, which completely control and program their actions. One of the most widely spread identifications is the role of a victim. It is so common, that we could call it a kind of modern psychological epidemic. A person unconsciously identifying with the role of a victim does not take an active part in creating his/her own life. Such an individual suppresses healthy aggressiveness and does not take what he/she needs from life, refusing to take responsibility. Such a person cannot feel happy and fulfilled. Dissolving identifications is the most complex aspect of clearing psychological consequences of a traumatic experience.

All forms of the four groups of psychological consequences of a trauma are usually intertwined. Although a problem is most pronounced on one level, it always influences all four of the mentioned aspects of life. Therefore, clearing a trauma should be followed by clearing all four groups of psychological consequences.

Spiritual consequences of traumatic experience

After clearing the psychological consequences, we deal with the spiritual consequences of a traumatic experience. They are also related to the connection with an external source of energy food, but the source of energy is quite different in this case. A traumatized person consciously or unconsciously seeks help and protection of any kind. The person is shocked, hurt and unprotected. Not only is his/her perception of the material world negative while in such condition, but of the spiritual world as well. There is no God for a traumatized person. If God does exist, then God must be a traitor, torturer or a sadist who watches the person suffer indifferently, not doing anything to help. Refusing to turn to the higher consciousness and pass the offered possibility of initiation, a traumatized individual also refuses contact with spiritual reality. Instead of seeking safety and protection in God, the person finds himself or herself in an energy connection with the lower astral world or with a negative aspect of the collective unconscious. Doing this, the person creates spiritual impurities that strongly influence his/her life. After having cleared the cause of the problem we reach another very important dimension of our being. Modern psychology or "change-systems" know almost nothing about this, while spiritual schools and religions try to make it as incomprehensible as possible.

Contrary to the psychological consequences preventing the individual from attaining his/her personal goals in life, the spiritual consequences make the individual incapable of spiritual growth. The person is not able to gain spiritual knowledge. The subtle inner states, characteristic of spiritual health, remain beyond the person's reach (see Criteria for the Spiritual, Mental and Physical Health). The person does not accept spirituality as a sphere of reality, but takes it as being an interesting idea that is nothing more than a metaphor. Since the higher aspects of consciousness are not available to her, the person is at the same time not whole, hence unsatisfied. Spiritual needs are very strong inner motivation for everybody. Unless a person becomes aware of them and realizes them in a conscious and direct way, spiritual needs degenerate in one of the unnatural forms of the spiritual life. Atheists may become almost religiously loyal to worldly occupations and pleasures, political parties, leaders or to the members of their family. Therefore, it is important to know that there is a spiritual dimension of our being, which we should be aware of, accept it and realize it in our everyday life. At the same time, we should also know what blocks and contaminates our spirit and how to clear these kind of inner impurities.

THE MEANING OF A TRAUMATIC EXPERIENCE

A negative karma is manifested through different kinds of problems. As most of the people are not aware of the universal karmic principle, they do not understand why problems occur. The main mistake is denying a problem or resisting it. People do not like problems, not even everyday ones, let alone difficult and complex ones. But the fact is that problems have a meaning. Problems are not boring mosquitoes nagging at our peaceful life. They, on the contrary, occur at a carefully planned moment, only seemingly threatening our goals or whatever we have created. There is a positive intention underneath their destructive surface. This intention is even more positive and deeper than the goal the problem seems to be threatening. The positive intention behind the problem is always bringing our consciousness and our life into unity with God and realizing our creative potential. It is useful to bear this in mind at that moment when we perceive a problem as a punishment or a planned conspiracy of all the forces in universe out to destroy us.

The original positive intention

The idea of positive intention is not about the form of naive or fanatic positivism, but about the latest achievements of modern psychology and spiritual science. Techniques such as "Reframing" from the system of Neurolinguistic programming, Connirae and Tamara Andreas' "Core Transformation", Ž. M. Slavinski's "Aspectics" or my "Realisation Formula" have one thing in common - there is a positive intention behind every action, behavior or condition in life. It means that everything existing in time and space has been created with a positive intention, be it events we perceive as desirable and positive, or those we perceive as negative, unpleasant or undesirable. All problems occur when the means we use to realize the original positive intention for some reason turn into negative ones. At that moment our positive behavior ceases to be the way of realizing the goal of our positive intention, and turns into negative behavior. Although we still want to achieve the positive goal, the methods we are using are no longer positive and create problems, for us and our environment. For example:

- a person who feels safe and protected when he/she has a lot of money, somehow loses money, but instead of working (positive action),starts stealing (negative action);

- a person who wants to be loved becomes possessive;

- a person who strives towards spiritual experience and fulfillment (and is not aware of it) starts taking drugs.

Even criminals try to achieve positive goals through their negative actions. A murderer, looking at it from a superficial standpoint, kills due to hate, revenge or robbery, but the real goal is always something else - peace, freedom or happiness that is behind the killing urge. There is a paradox in the fact that the intention of a negative action is in fact positive, but a negative action can result only in negative goals because of the karmic principle. We all know that our parents have positive intentions. With their nagging, meddling in our lives, giving unnecessary advice or arguing, they only want to show their love and concern for us. If, however, the original positive intention degenerates into a destructive action, we become aware that the road to hell is really paved with good intentions. Therefore, we should be aware of the original positive intention of either our own or somebody else's behavior. We should also achieve our goals taking positive action.

It is advisable to have the same attitude towards problems. They do not occur to destroy us, because it is contrary to their positive background. Since every problem in life has a positive intention and occurs in order to be solved, we should look for the solution in the problem itself, in its original positive intention. Positive intention should be discovered and cleared from the negative models of thought and behavior that create the negative action. A positive way must be found to realize our original intention in the material reality. So, an important aspect in a problem solving process is our awareness that the problem does not occur to destroy us and that it carries a solution as well. When we discover the meaning of a problem - its positive intention, we are halfway to finding its solution.

A traumatic experience as an unsuccessful initiation

Problems always occur when it is time for change, moving to a higher level of consciousness or a new quality of life. A problem is a kind of initiation because its purpose is to stir up a change. If people were not so sluggish, initiations would not be followed by problems. They would be recognized on time and people would go through them smoothly and painlessly, showing no resistance. Problems arise from resistance to change or to go through any kind of initiation in life. Resistance in turn arises from spiritual ignorance - distrust of the spiritual plan. Instead of undergoing an initiation smoothly and without struggle, we resist it for some reason. Our resistance creates a negative psycho-energy construction called a traumatic experience. Before another attempt at undergoing the initiation, we have to confront that negative construction first. Than the second attempt starts with an either small or a big problem to reveal the real background by solving it, and then pursuing successfully with the initiation.

Every traumatic experience is a consequence of our negative reaction to unpleasant external stimulus. But, a negative external stimulus is sometimes a way to start initiation, because people develop in two ways. The first way is connected with learning and the knowledge a person directly receives from other people in "teacher - student" relationships. It is an indirect observation of life and learning from other people's experiences and mistakes. This way is more or less pleasant and requires mostly mental effort. The other way is less pleasant, but equally useful. Biological survival processes show that on this planet only the strong survive. Evolution shows no pity for the weak. People develop by gaining strength to react constructively to negative or unpleasant external stimuli. It means that they have to be able to protect themselves from negative stimulus with positive action. To be safe from external threats people have to be capable of confronting them and then consciously deciding whether to fight them or run away. Not being ready to react positively and constructively to an external stimulus, creates trauma. This trauma is considered an unsuccessful initiation. One of the basic conditions for creating trauma is initiation with a goal of gaining strength for survival in unfavorable circumstances. This is not, of course, its original purpose, but an unwanted consequence, because of the fact that people cannot always surpass the next step in their development. They will, nevertheless, have to make that step sooner or later. Clearing a traumatic experience will create positive conditions for undergoing an initiation successfully.

For example, a person could be ready for a good emotional relationship. This original goal is, however, obstructed by all the emotional traumas from this or some previous existences that the person has not cleared. This obstruction takes form of an inner resistance created by conscious or unconscious negative contents resulting from previous traumatic experiences and unsuccessful initiations. The goal is also hindered by all external actions that we are not in tune with it. For instance, if a person is currently an inharmonious relationship, it will have to be ended to make a room for the new one. This process can be extremely painful and the person can oppose it, not being aware that everything is happening because of a positive step, both for the person and his/her partner. It is not easy to keep a positive attitude in this situation, but it is not impossible, either. A number of methods can be helpful. The cleansing processes we have to undertake are followed by a positive action making it clear why such unpleasant experiences during the process of change happened and what the final positive goal is. If the initiation is successful this time, the goal surpasses all expectations. It is always worth undergoing the processes of cleansing a traumatic experience and followed by initiation, because the person always gains much more than he/she loses confronting the problems.

It is interesting and paradoxical that problems come to make our life easier. If the problems are initiation processes (a means for our development and moving towards higher levers of consciousness), it is obvious that their purpose is to make our life simpler and, eventually, easier. There is a scientific discipline called the Living Systems Theory, whose creator is James G. Miller, an American scientist. This theory regards all creations of the manifested universe as systems having a certain internal structure. Each higher level system consists of smaller number of elements, a few internal principles and limitations and a simpler internal structure than a lower type system. So, if we are developing towards higher levels of consciousness, our life becomes simpler and easier because of fewer limitations and principles governing us. Each higher level system is characterized by a greater openness towards other systems, a better permeability and communication. A higher level system achieves its goals much more easily than a lower level system which is characterized by rigidity, reservation and complexity. This can be illustrated by computer technology. Information carriers are getting smaller and simpler every day, while their capacity is growing. Enlightened people are further proof. They find it easy to communicate and reach their goals in life, sometimes using supernatural abilities. Jesus used palm healing very successfully while modern medicine cannot always help patients in spite of its very complicated technology.

Problems arise because of a person's refusal to change, to undergo an initiation. An unsuccessful initiation does not bring about a new and simpler structure of life, but a negative one, which hinders a smooth transition to a new level of consciousness and a new way of life. If the first initiation had passed smoothly, there would be no problems whatsoever. The initiation failed because of the person's ignorance to the meaning and purpose of changes in life, leading towards negative reactions to anything questioning the person's attitudes or way of life. The whole metaphysics of karmic problems could be summed up in two simple statements representing the basic knowledge needed to pass initiations in life successfully. Firstly, there is a positive intention behind each problem. It should be discovered and positive ways of its realization should be found. And secondly, problems do not occur to destroy us, but at the moment when we are ready to solve them and to move to a new level of consciousness, followed by a new quality of life.

 

©Tomislav Budak (August, 2000)

 


 

 
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