Science will always find answers. Case in point: if you look deeply enough into labs (and pay deeply as well), you will find evidence of Lyme disease. Lyme disease is real, but it doesn’t take expensive tests to prove it — just ask anyone who suffers from it (or fibromyalgia, or Crohn’s). These diseases are highly correlated with adverse childhood experiences. Critics will point to individuals have experienced little or no childhood trauma, but they do not take into account epigenetic, which can land the disabling effects of a parent or grandparents experiences upon later, seemingly untraumatized, generations.
The difference between individuals who have personally experienced childhood trauma, and those who have inherited it epigenetically, is that the former tend to see their landscapes in terms of threat-based landmarks and pathways, while the latter’s landscapes may be more reward-based. Reward-based behavior proceeds with controlled spontaneity — one’s knowledge of the world gives them the confidence to play safely beyond comfort zones. Threat-based individuals tend to exhibit more extreme behavior — either overdoing indulgent and unsafe behaviors, or walling themselves in with fear-based belief systems.
One cannot say, however, that reward-based individuals have better cure rates than threat-based individuals when it comes to trauma diseases. In our material world, we put our faith in material cures — with the accent is on the word material, and not faith. Faith is qualiadelic. The child who knows nothing of science or religion, but who has the immediate love of her family is much more likely to be cured; It is harder for the adult to find unconditional support. Faith comes from somewhere else, some other reliable source of support and giving.
Unconditional support and giving comes from a place for which a family’s love for their child is merely emblematic. In nature, animals have perfect faith that the qualia they notice will lead them to the matter they need for survival. Their senses have evolved with the niches they inhabit; the usual landmarks and pathways seldom fail to provide. But when things do fall apart, their reward-based habits cause them to explore new qualia, which, more often than not, leads them to discover new matter for survival (death may be common, but extinction is not). Animals do not live in fear, despite the threats all around them. People who live in threat-based landscapes will have a more difficult time noticing new qualia, and giving up the landmarks and pathways in which they feel safe.
The landmarks and pathways of the human landscape — its traditions and customs — tend to be conservative and threat-based. The point is that medical researchers will always find material evidence of diseases — spirochetes and other bacteria in the flesh and blood, for instance — but killing them off with antibiotics is like popping pimples to cure acne. It won’t work. But which of the will venture beyond the material landscape into the qualiadelic. The cure is in the qualia which holds matter together, which gives matter its form. Scientists don’t look at qualia, they look at matter. Likewise, they look at landscapes, and not ecosystems — as do the rest of us — and there is a world of pain in that mistake.
The deeper unconditional support, wherein lies the cure for trauma disease, is in the bounty of ecosystems. Ecosystems are continually sending out qualia, the heralds of her material gifts. Qualia always comes before matter; faith comes before the cure. The support we need, to overcome trauma diseases, goes beyond family support, and even beyond science and religion. The support will always come, at its deepest level, from ecosystems, and the qualia which they are always giving to us. Human ecosystems reveal themselves through all the cracks in our material civilization, like weeds growing through the sidewalk. We can never really know ecosystems, but we can put our faith in their qualia, which forever keeps coming back strong.