Collective Trauma: A Process for Integrating Our Intergenerational and Cultural Wounds

A Comprehensive Guide to Understanding and Shared Trauma What can you do when you carry scars not on your body, but within your soul? And what happens when those spiritual wounds exist not just in you, but in everyone in your family, community, and even beyond?Spiritual teacher Thomas Hbl has spent years investigating why it is that old and seemingly disconnected traumas can seed their way through communities and across generations. His work culminates in Collective Trauma, a new perspective on trauma that addresses both its visible effects and its most hidden roots. Thomas combines deep knowledge of mystical traditions with the latest scientific research. In this way, writes Thomas, we are weaving a double helix between ancient wisdom and contemporary understanding.Thomas details the Collective Trauma Integration Process, a groupbased modality for evoking and eventually dissolving stuck traumatic energies. Providing structured practices for both students and group facilitators, Collective Trauma is intended to build a practical tool kit for integration.Here, you will learn: The innumerable ways trauma shapes our worldfrom identity and health to economy, geopolitics, and the state of the environment The concept of trauma loyaltyunconscious group bonds based in a narrative How the climate crisis is both a manifestation of humanitys collective trauma and an opportunity to heal Retrocausalityhow the power of presence can reshape the past and make new futures possible Including essays contributed by experts such as Dr. Gabor Mat, Dr. Otto Scharmer, Dr. Christina Bethell, and Ken Wilber, Collective Trauma offers not just an advanced look at community trauma but also a hopeful glimpse of the future. As Thomas declares, Together, I believe we can and must heal the soul wound that marks us all. In so doing, we will awaken to the luminous possibility and profound potential of our true, mutual nature as humankind.