Awakening, Trauma, and Dissociation: How to Tell Presence from Shutdown After a Shift
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After awakening, something paradoxical can happen: the mind quiets, the inner world loses some grip, and yet the system starts doing something that looks almost spiritual—blankness, calm, contentless space. And it can be confusing, because it’s close to the territory. It can even resemble unbound consciousness. But the speaker’s warning is direct: traumatized systems can
