Rock bottom as the condition for something to open
Trauma and crisis — abuse, accident, breakdown, war, extreme loss — appear in nearly one in four accounts. Rock-bottom experiences seem to collapse the ego's grip, sometimes opening into something beyond the ordinary self.
What's notable is that many of these accounts don't frame the trauma as the cause of awakening but as the condition that made it possible — the ordinary self couldn't be maintained any longer, and in that gap, something else became available.
And what happened was when I sat up before I was coherent myself, I started just spilling verbally the abuse, trauma and things.
My homecoming was very traumatic and, you know, as many people who have gone through, I have a generational abuse that there's a lot of silence and, and kind of the rule was if we don't talk about it, it never happened.
It's like natural to just when you meet somebody, yeah, they they could be identified with their neuroses or their wound or trauma or abuse issues.
And so, that was more so was kind of reenter myself, figure out what's going on in my head, my life, all the changes with what's happening, whether it's a spiritual awakening, whether it's a midlife crisis, a mental breakdown.
Experience types that appear most often in accounts with this trigger.
Other triggers that co-occur most frequently in the same accounts.