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I just signed up for conference. Thank you for providing information and a link. I didn’t know this was going on! I’ve been thinking about the relationship between intergenerational trauma and global environmental — but it’s in an abstract or intuitive sense. I’m looking forward to hearing what various speakers have to offer. I’m somewhat familiar with Thomas Hubl and Deb Dana. The rest of them are new names. I regret having missed the intergenerational trauma summit. I wasn’t even aware it had happened. I’ve been busy. But I’ll find away to connect because this is a central interest of mine.

I’m going to take a closer look at your articles as I’m trying to educate myself about the environment. It’s something that came up BIG for me when I was doing ketamine therapy. I started making connections. I don’t know where it’s going to lead me — but I know there’s got to be another way to be in the world that’s more respectful, not necessarily limited to how I relate to others — but the environment. The healing of human suffering and the violence perpetuated on the planet are connected, perhaps…

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thank you Anna, delighted you are going to explore the summit! Very powerful to hear that the environment surfraced during your ketamine therapy -- would love to hear more about that. Meanwhile, here's something related to these themes I just published in my other newsletter on the connection between the climate crisis and collective trauma: https://matthewgreenglobal.substack.com/p/what-if-the-climate-movement-allowed

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The reference to your link is helpful. As I said, I need to get up to speed. I’ve been wanting to read Hubl’s work as well. I’ve just been preoccupied with my own healing. Ketamine has been great insofar as it’s helped me resolve childhood trauma. And it brought up a lot of spiritual, intergenerational references which I don’t know how to make sense of yet. I also wasn’t anticipating including visions of future environmental catastrophe and barren landscapes, but also war. This wasn’t a preoccupation or central interest of mine prior to taking ketamine. It felt a bit like a spiritual awakening. I don’t know if you’ve ever tried psychedelics or been in an altered state of consciousness. It can be difficult to separate what’s true from what’s imagined. What is symbolic versus what has more literal meaning? I don’t pretend to understand. I’m trying to make sense of these experiences because that’s what human need to do. It’s just interesting to consider the variety of themes and the sequence in which they emerged for me. These experiences are causing me to rethink what I plan to do with the rest of my life. Our lives are short. It’s important for me to find something to do that will benefit others or the planet.

I look forward to the summit.

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