I propose that PTSD may result from primal trauma and leads to contradictory personal and cultural beliefs. Because of the cultural repression of intuitive knowledge and feelings, many people in modern society may be functioning in a state of cognitive dissonance.

Lipton states: “Parents have a fundamental impact on the developmental expression of their offspring [since] some environments enhance the potential of the child, while other environments may induce dysfunction and disease.”

Lipton observes:
“If a parent provides a child with a positive or negative self image, that perception is recorded in the child's subconscious. The image acquired of self becomes the subconscious ‘collective’ voice which shapes our physiology (e.g., health characteristics, weight) and behavior. Though every cell is innately intelligent, by communal agreement, it will give its allegiance to the collective voice, even if that voice engages in self destructive activities.”

Lipton emphasizes that it is “our perception of the environment [that] directly controls our behavior and gene activity.” Mutations may impair the quality of a life, but 95 percent of the population possesses “fit” genes. 

Lipton adds:
“The expression of the cell is primarily molded by its perception of the environment and not by its genetic code, a fact that emphasizes the role of nurture in biological control.”

Regressive Transformation

Ralph Metzner asserts that regressive transformation leads to greater limitation or imprisonment, to deeper darkness, more extreme fragmentation and separation, into the chaotic depths of madness, depression, and the states of consciousness associated with violence, injury, and disease.

 
Although Metzner’s emphasis is on personal transformation, Chris Bache  suggests that “wherever one of us goes, to some degree we all go.”  Claiming a strong correlation between personal experience and the collective, Bache continues: “If we assume for a moment that the dynamics of this species-mind parallel the dynamics of the personal psyche to some degree, we can speculate that just as problematic experiences can collect and block the healthy functioning of the individual, similar blockages might also occur at the collective level.”

Birth Trauma

Because original trauma may create a tendency to repeat and attract similar traumatic patterns over a lifetime, an intelligent and aware population might begin to focus on the prevention of this trauma, especially during an historical time when such trauma may result in serious negative consequences worldwide and extensive damage to human, animal, and plant populations.

There is evidence that the prefrontal cortex may be harmed if the birth process is traumatic. One notable result of this damage is the inability to imagine the future consequences of one’s actions. Those children in whom a natural empathy does not exist and those who appear to have no conscience may have experienced damage to their prefrontal lobes. In natural births, noticeably large frontal lobes develop rapidly after the birth.

Adrian Raine has researched the role of prefrontal deficits in the development of “antisocial and aggressive behavior in children.”  During a study on predispositions towards violence, including birth complications, maternal rejection, and prefrontal dysfunction, Raine reports the following:
 

“Early maternal rejection (defined by unwanted pregnancy, attempt to abort fetus, and institutionalization of infant for at least four months in the first year of life) may predispose to later violence, because disruption of the mother-infant bonding process early in life may lead to the inability to form meaningful relationships and what has been termed 'affectionless psychopathy’” [by] Bowlby [in] 1946.

In addition to advocating these delineations of complex consciousness, I also propose that there might exist a continuum or spectrum of traumatic disorders that would fall under the diagnosis of post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and reveal itself functionally in the culture as cognitive dissonance. When an entity is in a state of incoherence or dissonance, fields of information are experienced as distortions. Autism and related disorders are already referred to diagnostically as spectrum disorders. Festinger defines cognitive dissonance as follows:

“Cognitive dissonance occurs when a person holds two attitudes or thoughts (referred to as cognitions) that contradict each other. For example, a smoker who knows that smoking leads to lung cancer. The theory predicts that these thoughts will lead to a state of cognitive dissonance.” (quoted in Robert Feldman 1990)

The exponential increase in babies diagnosed with autism spectrum disorders has arisen in epidemic proportions as though it were a contagious disease.  Symptoms of PTSD may surface years later and may be the manifestation of group-resonant fields with their origins in the mistreatment of children. Gun violence and its increasing incidents among children and adolescents may be such a contagious group-field phenomenon. An article in New Scientist Magazine (Bhattacharya 2005) cites Felton Earls at Harvard Medical School referring to violence as “a socially infectious disease" and suggests that “preventing one violent crime may prevent a downstream cascade of ‘infections.’”  Traumatized adults continue to unconsciously, or at times deliberately, inflict suffering on infants and children, thus the normalization of, and increase in, unnecessary suffering over recent decades.

Dr Clare Z

Bruce Lipton (2001) states that early fetal perceptions actually “constitute the life-shaping subconscious mind.” Lipton contends that although the conscious mind might observe and criticize behavioral patterns, it cannot willfully change the subconscious.

Stress has been shown to affect the fetal forebrain and gut. Recent research is demonstrating how bacteria in the gut affects the brain and influences anxiety and depression. Genetically modified foods and vaccinations have a negative effect on intestinal flora and the immune system, in addition to cognition.

Natural techniques and dietary supplements may balance intestinal flora and emotional states.
Tonetti-Vladimorova claims that the limbic system, in particular, needs healing from primal trauma. The work of Antonio Damasio, and others, demonstrates that emotions always affect cognition. Subconscious beliefs might be assessed through “energy psychology modalities” that facilitate a rapid "reprogramming" of limiting core beliefs. Lipton recommends such techniques as Psych-K, EMDR, Body Talk Systems, Holographic Repatterning, Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT tapping), and clinical hypnotherapy.

Although the popular impression remains that genes determine our characteristics and tendencies towards certain diseases, recent studies reveal an interaction between genes and the environment. Epigenetic studies demonstrate that trauma can actually change genetic codes. Adding unnatural substances like pharmaceuticals to the body system may shift the organism further from coherence.