Ep. 244 – An Autobiography of Trauma with Peter A Levine, PhD
Heart Wisdom with Jack Kornfield
Be Here Now Network
4.8 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 25 June 2024
⏱️ 89 minutes
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Summary
Jack and trauma expert, Peter A Levine, PhD, map the path to healing through imagination, curiosity, somatic experiencing, and loving awareness.
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“Healing has to be coming together through the minute particulars in the body and in the story that’s actually our experience and not some idea about it.” – Jack Kornfield
In this fresh conversation, Jack and Dr. Levine dive into:
- Mapping trauma and the path to healing suffering
- A relaxing Jack “Just Here: Guided Meditation” on loving awareness
- How An Autobiography of Trauma led to Peter’s powerful healing journey
- Working with the astrological and Jungian archetype of Chiron, the Wounded Healer
- Somatic Experiencing and the roots of healing trauma in the body
- The transformative aspects of meeting trauma with loving kindness and persistence
- Curiosity as a necessary factor of enlightenment
- How the gift of Jack’s childhood trauma led him to discover Buddhism
- Imagination and Peter’s mystical meet-ups with Albert Einstein
- Miracles, intuition, and psychic premonition/knowing
- What Jack shared with his scientific-materialist atheist father on his deathbed
- Our inseparable connection and recognition that it’s always “us” in this web of life
“The whole notion that we are separate is a fabrication. We are in a field of consciousness.” – Jack Kornfield
About Peter A Levine, PhD:
Dr. Peter A. Levine has worked in the field of stress and trauma for over 40 years, is the developer of the Somatic Experiencing method, and founder of the Ergos Institute of Somatic Education. To connect more with Peter’s teachings, pick up a copy of his illuminating book, An Autobiography of Trauma: A Healing Journey, and sign up for his upcoming classes and programs at SomaticExperiencing.com
This conversation was originally filmed on 5/24/24 by the Ergos Institute of Somatic Experiencing as a community health somatic support benefit for MathMoms in Cape Town, South Africa. Learn more about this compassionate initiative here at mathmoms.co.za
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| 0:47.1 | The healing has to be in the coming together in my new particulars in the body and in the story that's actually our experience and not some idea about it so that curiosity we talk about which led you to discover so many things. |
| 0:53.2 | It's actually in Buddhist teachings, |
| 0:54.8 | it's one of the qualities of enlightenment |
| 0:57.4 | that's necessary to actually to awake. Hey there and welcome back to Jack Cornfield's Heart Wisdom Our |
| 1:16.1 | podcast on the Be Here Now Network. I'm Ginesh, honored, and grateful to open the door to episode 244, an autobiography of Trauma with Dr. Peter |
| 1:29.2 | A. Levheim. We do these podcasts each week, so it is always exciting when a fresh new episode |
| 1:39.7 | comes along. And this is one of those weeks. |
| 1:45.1 | Peter is a stress and trauma expert who developed somatic experiencing which is a revolutionary method for helping people overcome |
| 1:56.9 | trauma which in today's world seems to be a pretty necessary task for us. |
| 2:03.5 | Peter also just wrote an amazing book called an autobiography of Trauma, A Healing |
| 2:09.3 | Journey, and in this episode, Jack is actually in the interviewer role. |
| 2:17.0 | And he does this flawlessly. |
| 2:20.0 | I don't know why I was so surprised to see it set up this way, but I thought it was so cool. |
| 2:27.0 | This one really gets personal as well. |
| 2:31.0 | Both of these individuals share stories of trauma from their childhood. |
| 2:37.0 | They explore various moments that were heart-wrenching that ended up becoming gifts for them in the long run. |
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