One of the essays rolling around in my head to write is the exploration of the idea that philosophies + religions of restraint, suppression, +/or detachment are historically born out of + rise through collective cultural traumas (this can be mapped) + continue to attract the traumatized, who seek to assuage feelings of uncertainty + discomfort - the distress fuelled by a deep mistrust in the self + others - through attempts at "mastery" to control + dominate the triggers - passion, desire, sorrow, envy, grief (linking rather neatly into PTSD/C-PTSD avoidance behaviors).
+ of course to then argue that the better answers, in my view, are found within paths of integration, of total aliveness - Camus's defiance; Kieregaard's leap of faith; Carl Roger's organismic trust; theories of self-actualization; Schwartz's Internal Family Systems Model; + even the Enneagram journey toward a unified self through understanding, compassion + trust.
