Dreaming at the Threshold
Grief, imagination and collective re-coherence in a time of civilisational transition
damian’s Substack
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Shame Is Not Conscience
An essay exploring how shame narrows human possibility, and what might flower in us, individually and collectively, if humiliation no longer governed the limits of becoming.
The Person for Whom Opiates Were the Answer
A personal reflection on addiction, recovery, identity, and what happens when the story that once saved your life is no longer large enough to contain who you are becoming.
The Field as Lived Experience
A personal reflection
The Body as the Updating Field
Somatic Practice, Energy Flow and the Restoration of Coherence. Somatic and energetic practices do not release stored trauma. They help the body-field update old predictions and restore flexible coherence.
Trauma as Prediction, Shame as Identity
This article develops a Field Psychology view of trauma, arguing that attachment disruption teaches danger in contact, while shame teaches danger in being. It explores how shame becomes identity, why it resists ordinary change, and how healing requires a coherent relational field in which the self can be seen without collapse.
The Body Does Not Store Trauma
This article explores how predictive neuroscience is reshaping trauma theory, while arguing for a balanced Field Psychology view that honours the body, attachment, shame, relationship and the practitioner’s role in creating the conditions for healing.
Will, Energy and Coherence
Reclaiming a Deeper Understanding of Human Agency
When the Field is Violated
Violence, the Fear of the Feminine, and the Work Men Must Do
Coherence: Holding Shape in a World That Is Breaking
There are times when life moves through us cleanly.