Collective Unconscious Informed Consent: Psychological Science of COVID-19 Injections
The Wounded Healers Institute (WHI) holds more than a challenging position that directly confronts the foundational principles of modern legal, medical systems, and common sense. However, as we know, common sense isn’t common. Our research highlights how drug use creates memories that can be traumatic, produce dissociation, and addictive. Due to the absence of common sense that says that injections of what the body would consider poison, the body response accordingly with standard symptoms of stress and dissociation. The absence of definitions and transdiagnostic status of psychological and medical terms like addiction, dissociation, and unconscious (O’Brien, 2023a), our stance is clear: when governmental or political systems force citizens to “follow the science of law” or the “evidence of their science”, in the context of public safety and mental health, it is not only perpetuating a flawed and paradoxical framework based on unethical and immoral practices that leading to a breakdown of moral character for those who uphold it, it implies everything that consumers should know about who they are purchasing what from.
The Drug as a Traumatic Event
The WHI’s research demonstrates a deeper, more unsettling truth: a drug use is a traumatic stressor because it creates a traumatic memory without unconscious informed consent. This applies not only to illicit substances but also to technologies like a vaccine adjuvant or mRNA technology, which are ingested or injected without a person’s unconscious being able to fully process or consent to their profound dissociative effects. Purposition is that a person can unconsciously consent.
This youtube video and these regulations.gov reinforce that by highlighting how certain medical and governmental actions can inadvertently create trauma. The system, in its attempt to enforce a “legal good,” can create a lingering, unresolved traumatic state that the mind cannot simply reason away. This is because, as our work shows, the physical body is the psychological unconscious. The memory of the traumatic event, whether it’s a car accident or the ingestion of a drug, is not stored in a cognitive folder to be filed away. It is a physiological state, a frozen feeling, that persists in the nervous system and is the real driver of addictive behavior. Similarly, when someone experiences a prescription medication, vaccine or flu shot, or an overwhelming positive experience that become the pleasure seeking and risk taking kind of conditioning.
The Wounded Healers Institute’s (WHI) framework on trauma is directly and powerfully supported by the provided sources. The YouTube video, for instance, illuminates the very concept of medical trauma, where the system itself, in its attempt to heal or protect, inadvertently creates a new, unresolved wound. It explains that a person’s mind cannot simply “reason away” a traumatic state because the experience is not a cognitive one; it is a profound physiological and embodied event. The video’s discussion of the fight, flight, and freeze responses to perceived threats underscores our central thesis that the physical body is the psychological unconscious. A memory of a traumatic event, whether it’s the ingestion of a drug or a forced medical intervention, is not a narrative stored in a cerebral cortex; it is a physiological state, a “frozen feeling” that persists in the nervous system and dictates behavior.
This is where the article HERE on COVID-19 “harms and damages” becomes a critical piece of evidence. The detailed list of non-exhaustive conclusions about the physical effects of these injections is not merely a medical report; it is a testament to the fact that a bodily event can be a traumatic experience. The system assumes a person is a rational actor who will simply comply with a directive. What it fails to account for is that this act of compliance, and the subsequent physical damages, can create a deep, psychological wound. The body, in a state of perceived violation, does not care about the medical rationale; it only knows that its integrity has been compromised. This unresolved physical trauma then becomes the very fuel for addictive behavior, as the individual seeks to escape from that persistent, embodied state of fear and violation.
The Problem With “The Science of Law” is Evidence.
The current system operates from a logically detached cognitive reasoning that is left-brain quantitative dominance, and uses the logic of 1+1 only =’s 2. It seeks to impose order and predictability on human suffering through legal codes and diagnostic criteria. The law, with its rigid definitions of addiction as a substance use disorder or a gambling compulsion, fails to grasp the complex, embodied reality of trauma as dissociation. It is a system that is, in essence, addicted to its own linear logic, unable to see the transdiagnostic and deeply personal nature of a person’s pain. It misses the fundamental truth that the “law” is built on an inadequate understanding of the human condition itself. Thus, the public is misinformed on these topics.
This video on “germ vs. terrain theory” provides the perfect metaphor for this systemic failure. The “germ theory,” with its focus on external pathogens and standardized solutions, is the embodiment of the left-brain quantitative dominance of our current system. It is a logic of 1+1=2, where a problem (a germ) is met with an external solution (a shot), completely disregarding the individual’s unique internal state. The “terrain theory”, on the other hand, aligns with the WHI’s right-brain holistic logic. It understands that the health of the internal “terrain” —a person’s mental state, their resilience, and their sense of safety—is paramount. The video makes the crucial point that coercive mandates are themselves a stressor that weakens the terrain, making the individual more susceptible to illness. The system, in its attempt to enforce a “legal good,” is literally creating the conditions for disease and trauma.
This embodied truth goes beyond the client to the very professionals working in the system. Every professional, in every profession, experiences vicarious trauma as a result of their work. If not, they are living in fear of it. Because the psychological unconscious is the physical body, this vicarious trauma is not secondary to physical health; it is a deeply physical state of being. Yet, society lives in a fractured way, standardizing medical care for all while treating mental health as a secondary, non-essential service. The system doesn’t believe in paying for it because it believes that it doesn’t need it. The irony is that if every professional is traumatized and living dissociated from it, then they are dependent—in other words, addicted—to that very dissociated state of being (addicted to trauma, as Van der Kolk presented in 1985). This perpetuates a system where the very individuals meant to heal others are themselves living with unaddressed trauma, making them agents of a system that compulsively re-enacts its own pathology.
This is precisely where the regulations.gov comment becomes a critical piece of evidence. This legal document is an institutional representation of the system’s “left-brain” logic in action. In its attempt to enforce a “legal good,” it creates a policy that, for many, is experienced as an act of coercion and a profound breach of unconscious informed consent. The system assumes that an individual is a rational actor who will simply comply with a directive. What it fails to account for is that this act of compliance can create a deep, psychological wound.
The body, in a state of perceived threat, does not care about the legal rationale; it only knows that its autonomy has been violated. This unresolved trauma then becomes the very fuel for addictive behavior or the cause of the disease (autoimmune response), as the individual seeks to escape from that persistent, embodied state of fear and violation. The documents, therefore, are not just about a policy; they are about the system’s fundamental inability to recognize the living, breathing, and feeling being it seeks to control.
An Unethical and Immoral Mandate
This leads to a critical ethical conclusion: moral come first. When the law, guided by a limited “science,” mandates a course of action that fundamentally disregards a person’s embodied reality and the potential for a new, unseen trauma, it becomes unethical. It forces individuals to comply with a system that is blind to their lived experience.
The moral character of those in law and medicine who enforce these rules is compromised because they are knowingly or unknowingly participating in a system that perpetuates suffering. They are forced to act as agents of a fragmented, inaccurate worldview. The system, like a trauma-bonded individual, compulsively re-enacts its own pathology, creating the very suffering it claims to prevent. The WHI’s work is an act of advocacy that calls on us to move beyond this flawed paradigm. It is a plea for a new kind of “science”—one that is rooted in compassion, in the messy reality of the human body, and in the profound truth that the path to healing is not through enforcing a law, but through embracing a deeper, more authentic understanding of who we are as human beings. Through experiential cognitive, emotional, and moral development, WHI educates on healing so more healings are happening’. “Being with” and “being together” are all that we truly have.
Conclusion
No psychological, medical, or legal national or global organization or professional association denied that shutdowns would be detrimental to the masses. When to not shutdown what U.S. law, where are those who did not say, did not speak out, and did not follow the law? When the modernization of routes of administration (injections), potency of the industrialized manufactured drugs, and lack of common sense in the professions and their associations (because they profit), citizens must become more aware of what we are all dependent on.
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References
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