History as Trauma
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2026-01-15/history-trauma
As you read your next Zero Hedge article and try to make sense of the world we live in you may like to consider this perspective.
When a person experiences an event that totally overwhelms their capacity to cope a surprising survival mechanism kicks in. They blame themselves for what is happening.
In his classic study of Hiroshima A-bomb survivors Robert Jay Lifton noted a pervasive “death guilt”. This guilt for an event that obliterated all normal boundaries of life was so deep that survivors felt they no longer deserved to live. So ubiquitous was the presence of this guilt that Lifton titled his book Death in Life.
Guilt works as a survival mechanism because it returns to the person a sense of control over the situation. If I am to blame for what is happening then, however bad a person that makes me, at least I am not helpless. In fact, I must be powerful. Just look at what I have done!
Yet while self-blame improves a person’s ability to survive in the short term, the long term consequences are profound.
The belief that a person is to blame for the suffering of all men, women and children who participated in the experience gives rise to other negative beliefs.
They are shamed for having committed such an act. There is despair for being the kind of person that would do such a thing. Belief in the need for punishment is also likely to be present.
Feelings become beliefs as a person habitually identifies with them. Feelings of hurt and rage over the experience add to the negative emotions that now make up the person’s identity.
Needless to say these feelings and beliefs are not pleasant. So instead of being felt and released, they are repressed.
In the unconscious they do not remain idle. Instead, they are expressed as compulsive behaviour. Because they are unconscious the person in effect forfeits conscious control of their behaviour for large areas of their life.
Unknown to themselves they are no longer in control but being controlled.
For example repressed self-blame can express itself as repeated failures in business, relationships or health as the person is driven to self-sabotage opportunities for happiness.
Most often unconscious beliefs are projected into the world in a process called transference. Instead of blaming themselves a person perceives the problem as out there. Their troubles are always someone else’s fault. It can be their spouse, the government or on the international stage, another nation.
In order to ascertain how pervasive this compulsive behaviour is in society you may wish see whether in the next ten minutes you blame yourself or someone else.
Having appreciated the survival mechanism by which compulsive behaviour comes to dominate large areas of a person’s life, could it be that the latest news is itself an expression of compulsive behaviour stemming from a traumatised state?
News of terrorist attacks, corruption and war come from all over the world. Atrocities like these are also pervasive throughout history. This means that for the above thesis to hold we need an event that took place that was both global and so overwhelming that it produced a society where compulsive behaviour became the norm. Does such an event exist?
Two Princeton University academics, Immanuel Velikovsky and Julian Jaynes, both independently found such an experience occurring around 1,500 B.C. I summarise their work in Wake Up: The Human Journey Beyond Cataclysm and in a series of YouTube videos.
In Worlds in Collision Velikovsky presents evidence that around 1,500 B.C. the Earth was involved with a near miss encounter with Venus. The result was massive physical upheaval including three mile high tidal waves, flaming meteorites follow by twenty years of gloom.
The focus of Jaynes’ work is the development of human consciousness. He describes a transition from what he calls the bicameral mind to the consciousness we are familiar with.
In the bicameral period of human development Jaynes provides evidence that men and women were directly connected to the gods. As corroboration spiritual traditions around the world describe a golden age of peace and abundance when the gods were close to man. They go on to narrate that troubles began when this connection was broken.
Was 1,500 B.C. the time when history as we know it began? Does this history describe a traumatised race compulsively expressing unconscious feelings and beliefs they have yet to come to terms with? Is this what we see in the news every day?
Here is a carved image of Tukulti-Ninurta I of Assyria who reigned between 1243-1207 B.C. Jaynes calls Tukulti the world’s first tyrant. Before him there were wars but nothing on the scale or savageness displayed by Tukulti’s armies as they swept into adjacent lands. Killing for its own sake and the obliteration of towns was something new.
Jaynes suggests Tukulti’s behaviour was the result of his experience of an overwhelming event. In the carving he is standing, then kneeling before an empty throne where his god once sat. Lines from an Assyrian cruciform tablet from around the same time reads:
“My god has forsaken me and disappeared,
My goddess has failed me and keeps at a distance,
The good angel who walked beside me has departed.”
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Is This The Real World?
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2026-02-10/real-world
In a recent article I outlined evidence suggesting the wars and sheer human suffering we call history are the result of a global trauma experience that occurred three thousand five hundred years ago. We saw that when faced with overwhelming events a universal survival mechanism is to blame ourselves for what is taking place. The reason guilt works is that it gives us a sense of control in a situation beyond human capabilities. The logic goes like this: “If I am to blame then I am not powerless. Just look at what I have done!”
However useful in the short term, guilt as a survival strategy has long term consequences. Unable to bear the self-judgement of having caused suffering for all men, women and children, the belief that we are such a monster is pushed into the subconscious.
But the negative identity does not lie dormant. Instead it expresses itself as compulsive behaviour we have little or no control over. Hence the sufferings of humanity we call history.
One perceptive reader of the article asked: “if there was a global cataclysm why have I not heard of it before?” The reason is that together with guilt, there is a second survival mechanism we employ in a crisis: amnesia. We simply forget.
This may sound all very theoretical until we begin to see how far society goes in order to perpetuate amnesia by creating a fantasy world around us.
For example we have an innate respect for the objectivity of science. But listen to Dr Donald E. Scott former Professor at the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering at the University of Massachusetts discuss some of the fantasies of modern astronomy:
“The requirements of the non-electrical models of modern cosmology have led to such arcane inventions as ‘curved space,’ ‘neutron stars,’ ‘weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs),’ ‘massive compact halo objects (MACHOs),’ several different sizes of ‘black holes,’ ‘superluminal jets,’ ‘dark energy,’ ‘strange matter,’ and magnetic field ‘lines,’ that ‘tangle up,’ ‘merge,’ ‘open,’ and ‘reconnect.’
“We continuously hear about ‘discoveries’ such as:
- ‘There is a black hole at the centre of that galaxy,’ (Otherwise we cannot explain its level of energy output.)
- ‘There is invisible dark matter in that galaxy.’ (Otherwise we cannot explain how it rotates the way it does.)
- ‘Ninety six per cent of the universe is made up of dark energy and dark matter which we cannot see.’ (Otherwise clusters of galaxies would fly apart because gravity alone can’t hold them together.)
- ‘Pulsars are made up of strange matter.’ (Otherwise we can’t explain their oscillator-like behaviour.)
- ‘Photographs of connections between two objects that have different redshifts (such as galaxy NGC 4319 and its companion Markarian 205) are only chance alignments.’ (Otherwise the Big Bang is falsified.)
“So astrophysicists tell us not to believe in the existence of things that we can observe but to believe in the existence of their invisible and untestable entities – for the simple reason that their deduced hypotheses require these fictions.”[1]
The purpose of these fictions is to keep us in amnesia about the cataclysms of the past and the trauma they produced. Each fiction is a demonstration of the lengths astronomers will go to in order to preserve the view that gravity is the dominate force in the sky. Scott and others have empirically demonstrated that observations in space are electrical in nature and can be reproduced in the laboratory.
The need to preserve gravity in the face of all the evidence is because if gravity is the dominant force then there never was, and never can have been, an event in the past that upset the movements of the planets as we see them today. In other words there could never have been a near miss encounter between Venus and the Earth around 1,500 B.C.
Once you begin to appreciate the scale of the fantasies we as a society take as real, the nature of history, and indeed the next news article you read, begins to feel less like a description of reality and more like a potential drug to keep you asleep.
This Illusion is everywhere. Darwin suggested that evolution takes place through small changes over very long periods of time. His theory cannot be proven wrong because it is based not upon evidence but upon an assumption.
Darwin accepted from his mentor Charles Lyell the axiom that no process of change took place in the past that cannot be seen in operation today. This is called the Principle of Uniformity. In other words Darwin based his theory not on evidence that could be proved or disproved, but on a statement of faith. This theory is taught to millions of students every day. Can you guess why?
Like gravity in astronomy, the Principle of Uniformity applied to evolution says, not only there never were any cataclysmic events in the past, but there never could have been any such events.
If you would like to explore the evidence for cataclysms their consequences for our current perception of reality I go into more detail in my book Wake Up – The Human Journey Beyond Cataclysm. There is also a series of short YouTube videos linked from the same page that go into the major themes of the book.
The key is to realise these fantasies keep us asleep to the compulsive expression of negative beliefs that are likely to create the majority of suffering we experience. You have only to scan the news headlines to appreciate what I mean.
Instead of this dystopian existence if we want regain control of our lives the solution is to clear the negative belief from the unconscious. Three thousand five hundred years after the event it is no longer useful.
To this end I have created 3 Steps to Freedom, a program of three videos supported by weekly Zooms calls and a private Facebook page. All for $20. If what I outline in this article is not true the program also has a 60 day money back guarantee.
It is a new day. When the past is gone anything is possible.
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