Peter Levine - Spirituality, Archetypes, and Trauma

Peter Levine's talk was given April 18th, 2015 at the Jung Society of Austin (www.jungsociety.com/)
The intrinsic relationship between trauma, archetypes, and spirituality is generally overlooked among the many pitfalls and “tight corners” of trauma treatment. But an understanding of this intimate relationship suggests therapeutic strategies that can help trauma clients maintain the resources needed to genuinely transform their traumatic experiences. Indeed, the “awe-full” qualities of horror and terror may share essential structural, psycho-physiological, and phenomenological roots with such underlying transformative states as awe, presence, timelessness, and ecstasy. Our organisms are designed with primitive-instinctual proclivities-“slow-motion” perception, and intensely focused alertness, for example-that move us to extraordinary feats when we perceive that our lives are threatened. When these survival capacities are bridged to or “owned” from more ordinary states of consciousness, an experience of timelessness and presence-sometimes referred to, in meditation systems, as “the eternal now”-is promoted.

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  • @jimcameron9848
    @jimcameron98484 жыл бұрын

    Peter Levine: He seems like such a kind and helpful person. A wonderful human being.

  • @Vib.H

    @Vib.H

    5 ай бұрын

    Yes... Probably the reason for his choice of career ;) (( he has a genuine interest in his fellow humans and likes people, and is clearly good at getting along with "these" :) )) AND a really good example of the saying that: " It is the desire ,that drives the work". It is good that there are people like him with such a passion for their work. Which is epoch-making for humanity! Love such people. What a difference he/they make in life, for so many. Hats off to him and the many others like him. ​

  • @fightington
    @fightington2 жыл бұрын

    Peter Levine's work lead me to an incredible therapist Spiritual pursuits had become a problem because of traumatic childhood So blessed i found this

  • @cesartoscano6813
    @cesartoscano68134 жыл бұрын

    As a Jordan Peterson fan who hasn’t heard of archetypes being talked about much by other people I clicked onto this video so fast.

  • @Gorman-px1fg
    @Gorman-px1fg3 жыл бұрын

    Peter Levine help me through my trauma. His books are amazing, thank you for this video. I love this man!! 🙏🏽

  • @payvibaby
    @payvibaby6 жыл бұрын

    As an Artist whose obsessed with Alchemy, Astrology, and the Archetypes of Carl Jung - having suffered from severe childhood trauma myself - you can imagine how invaluable this information is.....especially since my own father is a prominent psychoanalyst in the APA Community who openly DENIES the Dissociation epidemic in America

  • @blugirl214

    @blugirl214

    4 жыл бұрын

    Payvi Baby So Damn Crazy I also experienced early childhood trauma and find myself constantly drawn to the same three things... alchemy, astrology, and the philosophies of Carl Jung. It’s helped me understand myself and accept and approve and love myself more deeply as I continue on my the path. Louise Hay and Abraham-Hicks and Tara Brach also ❤️

  • @djdebssuperlawyersjusticeu9855

    @djdebssuperlawyersjusticeu9855

    4 жыл бұрын

    Denial......is deadly in CODEPENDENT, Alcoholic, drug ADDICTED PARENTS and DOCTORS THERAPISTS PSYCHIATRIST TOO 🤗 🤗🤩😍 😎🦄🎹🎸 🎷📻 🎧🎤 🎛️🎛️🔊🔊 📲🎻🎻 🎺🥁

  • @djdebssuperlawyersjusticeu9855

    @djdebssuperlawyersjusticeu9855

    4 жыл бұрын

    Thanks for sharing.....🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈

  • @payvibaby

    @payvibaby

    4 жыл бұрын

    Aika Papa To be honest, I don’t remember my childhood trauma but it was undoubtedly complex and rather frequent. Most of my the events surrounding my early years occurred before I turned 6 years old without a clear memory of my father’s presence. I know I had a sensitive, overbearing mother and that we moved a lot from country to country.

  • @flamingrobin5957

    @flamingrobin5957

    2 жыл бұрын

    jesus is the answer. God was manifested in the flesh to die for our sins paying our debt so we can be adopted by God. this is what jesus refered to as "you must be born again" restoration to God by the grace of God through faith in the blood sacrifice of Jesus

  • @Symbolsysteme
    @Symbolsysteme7 жыл бұрын

    Such an important topic! Of course there are individuals who are much more traumatized - on a personal level - than others, but for my point of view the whole humanity is deeply traumatized in fact. This wonderful planet is at stake and if we try to put a blindfold on or not - on a subconscious Level we all feel it.

  • @nadasadhana

    @nadasadhana

    7 жыл бұрын

    I have come to share a similar point of view, trauma as a multiplied, almost universal shared condition of consciousness, to varying degrees conscious, majoratively not; 'modernity is a mental illness'

  • @RachelDoesntknow

    @RachelDoesntknow

    2 жыл бұрын

    You have to be joking. We are talking about actual individual psychological trauma here. ffs

  • @FreeJulianAssange23
    @FreeJulianAssange234 жыл бұрын

    He is so right about the Alienated body. I witnessed my soul leave my body then said I don’t f-en blame it. I wanted to leave too.

  • @704GOD

    @704GOD

    3 жыл бұрын

    Hallelujah Amanda

  • @shatteredbones1048

    @shatteredbones1048

    3 жыл бұрын

    Same. I distinctly remember floating above my little naked body while I was being Tortured. I "thought" I was so clever whenever I figured out how to do that. Now I understand another part in my System took all that Pain. And that part saddens me. 😭

  • @jennygoodwine2494
    @jennygoodwine24944 жыл бұрын

    The session with the Dutch man is staggeringly beautiful to me.

  • @slithygogs
    @slithygogs8 жыл бұрын

    Amazing. So helpful for me. Thank you for uploading!

  • @Maria-pu8wc
    @Maria-pu8wc7 жыл бұрын

    just brilliant

  • @raphaellavelasquez8144
    @raphaellavelasquez81445 жыл бұрын

    He's speaking my life.

  • @boneymacaroni13
    @boneymacaroni135 жыл бұрын

    Note to self: buy these books: Maggy Klein - trauma proofing your kids

  • @makaylahollywood3677
    @makaylahollywood36774 жыл бұрын

    This is powerful.

  • @serpentines6356
    @serpentines63566 жыл бұрын

    Wow....Did some 'sessions' with Peter way before the internet...And here we are....Nice to know you are alive Carl and now posting on the net...: )...

  • @ThunderAppeal
    @ThunderAppeal3 жыл бұрын

    Ray the Marine. 'I thought this was the dumbest thing in the world.' As a guy I feel where he's coming from. 'I dont want to be a burden to anyone.' Again, I know where he is coming from. It is encouraging to see another male who has lived through a trauma and work his way through it using Dr. Levines methods.

  • @montanamvk

    @montanamvk

    2 жыл бұрын

    It is ALSO encouraging to see a fella take the time to ponder, process, and share. Even that you are listening & engaging with this work speaks volumes about you. Hope you are doing well and overall feel maybe a tiny bit closer to where you’re going… and especially, to HOME. 🤗💜

  • @lauralee7050
    @lauralee70507 жыл бұрын

    It has been awhile since I have seen my teacher... Thank you!

  • @salome3049
    @salome30497 жыл бұрын

    Thank you.

  • @lilianaorsi6681

    @lilianaorsi6681

    7 жыл бұрын

    Relajacio

  • @itr6540
    @itr65402 жыл бұрын

    Thank you very much! Great lecture!

  • @myrootsgraspNewsoil
    @myrootsgraspNewsoil Жыл бұрын

    Just Wowwwwww!!!! This gave me so much hope!

  • @motherofthezodiac4511
    @motherofthezodiac45116 жыл бұрын

    Yessss fucking kill it Peter Levine

  • @Fverheijden
    @Fverheijden7 жыл бұрын

    thank you! fantastic

  • @erikav9180

    @erikav9180

    5 жыл бұрын

    Juhge7

  • @viviannimue
    @viviannimue4 ай бұрын

    Peter is one of these rare great healing personalities...not everyone using the same techniques would achieve such results. Nevertheless we need to train many more professionals to help traumatized people in such a profound way

  • @ledacedar6253
    @ledacedar62533 жыл бұрын

    YES! Solution to suffering was to read Women Who Run With The Wolves for a serious paradigm shift & grounding in archetypes, legends of old wise women ripe with tragedies, suffering & feeling lost to finding ways, wild creativity & self reclamation; feminist counsellor/therapists the best.

  • @adamandeve1712

    @adamandeve1712

    3 жыл бұрын

    Oh I loved that book too! Helped me understand so much about our instinctual nature& how to heal our wounds ... highflying recommend that book!

  • @fred8097
    @fred80979 ай бұрын

    The video of the session with the concentration camp survivor was extremely moving.

  • @katherenewedic8076
    @katherenewedic8076 Жыл бұрын

    Thank you for explaining what an archetype is, but what it isn't. Many only see them as characters

  • @IrishGal690
    @IrishGal6905 жыл бұрын

    Id LOVE to listen to this, anyone else find the Audio, terrible? Its "staticky" and so annoying I had to stop. :((

  • @djdebssuperlawyersjusticeu9855

    @djdebssuperlawyersjusticeu9855

    4 жыл бұрын

    Thanks

  • @davart311
    @davart3115 жыл бұрын

    he mentioned his question to the psycanalist about patients not having body senses, BUT not having body senses is , per se , a sort of body sense..!!!

  • @AmNotHere911
    @AmNotHere9117 жыл бұрын

    It's a shame that the late neo-Jungian Dr Robert Moore never met and exchanged ideas with Peter Levine.

  • @Ayman-te7wf
    @Ayman-te7wf4 жыл бұрын

    From a personal experience, I can tell you flat out that you can’t move out of and from traumatic symptoms by yourself. Seek professional help, it’s the easy route, don’t make anything hard on yourself.

  • @ledacedar6253

    @ledacedar6253

    3 жыл бұрын

    Totally. Trauma has happened within relationship & therefore, relational trust & attachment must be addressed with that professional that helps you feel safe & ride on that edge of discomfort in reaching for release via the guide's wisdom. Our brain gets hijacked when we try looking at this too.

  • @patriciastott8894

    @patriciastott8894

    3 жыл бұрын

    Pra

  • @nikkibaxter5550

    @nikkibaxter5550

    3 жыл бұрын

    Easier said than done, when you can't find the kind of help you need.

  • @aymanhimself

    @aymanhimself

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@nikkibaxter5550 Have you read any of Peter's books or have you at least heard of Somatic Experiencing, the method he developed ? There are more than 3000 practitioners as far as I'm concerned around the globe.

  • @Gandalf_the_quantum_G

    @Gandalf_the_quantum_G

    2 жыл бұрын

    It is possible. It took me several years. But nowadays I'd liked myself to have had help all these years, but I'm fine with it how it is now.

  • @AmNotHere911
    @AmNotHere9117 жыл бұрын

    I personally hope Peter Levine gets to be invited to give a lecture to the Minnesota Mens Conference also as well as be given a chance to meet and exchange ideas with Martin Prechtel.

  • @illadelagos8770

    @illadelagos8770

    6 жыл бұрын

    Oh man I love Prechtel also, what a great combination to observe trauma from these differently wonderful perspectives, the somatic therapist and the shaman!

  • @Paulo.1984
    @Paulo.1984 Жыл бұрын

    This was fantastic to watch. I couldn't help but noticing the dynamics in relationship between the marine and his wife Melissa. The video presented it a bit Hollywood like, where 1 year later he married and had a child and all is well. But how much of that healing was due to somatic therapy rather than the willingness of a loving wife/woman to stay around and not abandon him. She was clearly distressed and the moment she said "it's been a long road"...had so much more in it. My point being, how much could he have achieved all alone? Like many trauma survivors become - estranged from family, no friends, no relationships. And how much would this healing hold if Melissa was to suddenly leave him, after all that?! Or to sudden put her needs first, as she will eventually have to do after putting all her energy into a partner and a child. Those dynamics aren't often spoken about, and when they are, someone will quickly label them as negative or resistance.

  • @alvodin6197

    @alvodin6197

    Жыл бұрын

    We can answer all of that, you talk as ifs a mystery. According to most therapists, one needs another to heal. We are socially and emotionally depending on others just to grow into a "normal" person. If a person has significant developmental trauma, problems with attachment. Then, you would need someone else to heal that lack of attachment, which you didn't get as a child. As to how much of the healing has to do with somatic therapy and how much has to do with his wife staying..These are not separate issues which we can test, it makes no sense even. If you are stuck, you try it. If you don't need it, then you don't need it. These are people who have many things, but are still open to change. You know you can do these things at home, instead of just trying to put something down. It's all there, available. You can pirate the books or pay etc. Then you can come back and comment..isn't that more constructive? Thanks

  • @Paulo.1984

    @Paulo.1984

    Жыл бұрын

    @@alvodin6197 You are preaching to the choir smart pants. I didn't comment as though it was a mystery, but as a professional in this area who is capable of critical thinking. On the other hand, you do talk as if you knew anything about me, what I do or do not do, read or do not read. You sound resentful, dry and actually not very knowledgeable. Of course healing is the sum of many parts but only if you are in the business of selling false hope, do you not want to dive deep and understand the big picture. Anyways, you don't' sound like the type of person I want to be discussing this type of subjects with, especially if you consider my comment to be putting anything down. A speedy recovery to you!

  • @Paulo.1984

    @Paulo.1984

    Жыл бұрын

    @@alvodin6197 And btw, I had already answered you in my original comment : "Those dynamics aren't often spoken about, and when they are, someone will quickly label them as negative or resistance." - That was for people like you because I knew you'd come.

  • @iaaaiaaa5169
    @iaaaiaaa51692 жыл бұрын

    Sounds like the sound layer of this video got caught in that vortex he was talking about ;p. Other than that, great way to expand upon some very key and central ideas - all being summed up in the simple but high volume concept of the link between archetypes and instincts. They really are two halfs of one critical informing pillar of the psyche. I really enjoyed the fact that he described this in such a way as to show the direct relation between animal and human levels of being - showing even moreso the truth that we are all one, yet existing in diverse evolutionary stages. I believe that Jung's works, among a few others, are key in helping bridge the gap between science and spirituality. In fact, Jung approached spirituality scientifically in his psychoanalytic system - how pioneering and helpful is that in a time when both systems apart from one another too often leave such an incomplete and empty point of view...?

  • @Vib.H
    @Vib.H5 ай бұрын

    it is very unfortunate that the sound is so poor and, on top of this, that there are no subtitles available either. ;) bummer... 🙏

  • @boneymacaroni13
    @boneymacaroni135 жыл бұрын

    Interesting, I find that I go into this rocking state in meditation sometime... Hadn't thought of it being a brain mechanism! 😋

  • @KatrinaKatress

    @KatrinaKatress

    3 жыл бұрын

    It’s a self soothing mechanism ❤️🙏

  • @aidanroberts8721

    @aidanroberts8721

    2 жыл бұрын

    Sounds like you’re just at the edge of entering the first of the Buddhas Jhana!

  • @MEGNIKH
    @MEGNIKH8 жыл бұрын

    "IDEAS" in greek has to do with "FORMS" since it from the verb SEE...therefore are extented ICONS, IMAGES, FORMS

  • @Ayman-te7wf
    @Ayman-te7wf4 жыл бұрын

    Does anyone know where I can find Peter Levine sessions like the one mentioned in the video?

  • @pipjo5684

    @pipjo5684

    4 жыл бұрын

    TraumaHealing.org has a listing of Somatic Experiencing Practitioners who do this work.

  • @Y-ye2ln
    @Y-ye2ln25 күн бұрын

    P H E N O M E N A L ❤

  • @patriciagomez20
    @patriciagomez207 жыл бұрын

    SERIA GENIAL TRADUCIRLO AL CASTELLANO

  • @genesisofdaylightgodthecre8146
    @genesisofdaylightgodthecre81462 жыл бұрын

    I am the last Obsidion archetype ! i got genesis inside of my.

  • @djdebssuperlawyersjusticeu9855
    @djdebssuperlawyersjusticeu98554 жыл бұрын

    XOXO 🎧 🎼🎤 the videos 🤗 🎇♥️ 🎼🎵 🎶🎙️ can relate 100% for independence...... freedom and C-P-TSD

  • @nikkibaxter5550
    @nikkibaxter55503 жыл бұрын

    Have you come.across.a.link between childhood trauma, and having strange paranormal experiences? I have since childhood had many encounters, my childhood home was already occupied, and I was tormented by these, lost souls? Throughout my childhood, I found out a couple of years back that their was a house exactly where my child home was situated, in the 1940's the house which was there previously had been hit by a bomb, and family were inside at the time, so a man his wife and teenage daughter were killed instantly. I also.had dreams of a women who I thought was a.witch and related to my mom, and a young girl, in the dream I was in my childhood home, but it was a house, and had a back door, which our flat never had. I saw.lots of weird things in that flat, flouting see through colours. Then I .my twenties I moved to a place that had also it strange goings on it it, I have had many encounter s with what people call the greys, and these.experiences were very traumatizing. Does trauma open us up to these other realms?

  • @peneloperunkle7489
    @peneloperunkle74894 жыл бұрын

    3:05 that is peppermint patty not lucy in the comic strip

  • @sayedenforever556

    @sayedenforever556

    2 жыл бұрын

    Good catch

  • @mariamakinen2651
    @mariamakinen26517 жыл бұрын

    I appreciate Diane L..the most. But how does this operate me on my lost intimacy? My f. Is mafia ccan kill n i am petrified wth fear.Again. I miss adult intimacy. I adviced mum on their marital issues, listened n sometimes had no guts to go to school the following day. I was kept prisoned in that situation. I want out. New beginning Far.Operated.

  • @scottthomas5819
    @scottthomas58193 жыл бұрын

    get 'em some points! comment comment comment...

  • @metapod666
    @metapod666 Жыл бұрын

    y'all need to upgrade your audio quality

  • @Fverheijden
    @Fverheijden7 жыл бұрын

    too bad the video stops all the time in the last part

  • @ale_patagonia_argentina2863
    @ale_patagonia_argentina2863 Жыл бұрын

    Como es posible que nadie en 7 años de publicado, le haya puesto subtítulos en español!! Así no se ayuda a la difusión de la técnica.

  • @radicalhonesty3628
    @radicalhonesty36283 жыл бұрын

    It seems so wildly impossible to imagine that the people still willfully in a comatose state after a year of this insanity... will ever wake up. I don't know what to think any more... Sometimes I'm certain it's all a mass awakening happening at turtle-speed, and all is perfect; divine timing. Other times... watching zombies in masks, salivating with excitement over the mark of the beast... that's when I lose my ability to hold on to hope... (I also heard David icke speak in an interview about the coming of 6g and 7g! How will humanity survive that?)

  • @GloxGlox-nl4cd
    @GloxGlox-nl4cd4 жыл бұрын

    BULL TICKY

  • @ajpeustace
    @ajpeustace3 жыл бұрын

    Love his work. But the triune brain model he describes has been debunked as pseudoscience.

  • @hitoshura2800

    @hitoshura2800

    3 жыл бұрын

    Not that I'm disagreeing with you but any sources?

  • @ajpeustace

    @ajpeustace

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@hitoshura2800 If you Google it lots of sources including Yale university. Here’s an example from another source: how-emotions-are-made.com/notes/Triune_brain_myth

  • @hitoshura2800

    @hitoshura2800

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@ajpeustace thanks