I came across your name and website this morning. I read with great interest many of your posts and watched your book launch video. My name is Mark Scoville and my formal education has been in engineering, physics, chemistry and biology. I spent much of my early professional career in the military but have spent the last 15 years working as a dentist in Winnipeg, Manitoba Canada. I also teach part-time as a clinical instructor at the University of Manitoba.

I know from personal experience how easy it is to develop a life-narrative around the issue of child abuse. Trying to understand current complexes by searching solely through the wounds and injuries of childhood trauma, however, is a Freudian approach rather than Jungian. As an atheist, Freud’s thought was inevitably bound by the linearity of time and the inescapable thermodynamic (entropic) reality of our post-singularity, post-Big Bang universe. In contrast, the world view of Jungians, is less limited; less absurd. The individual histories of human beings are much too grand–tied as we are to each other through shared stories and fictions– our true potentials are infinite and stretch far beyond the range of time’s linear arrow.

For example, in coming to understand my own upbringing, I have travelled in a circle of sorts. Where I was once caught in a fiction of childhood victimhood and powerlessness, I have come to comprehend and to choose to be my own good and nurturing father. As an adult, I can love and care for the child that I never really left behind. Similarly, I can choose to be the good parent of my abused sister. I can even distort the rational bounds of time and gender to become the good father and mother of my own parents. I have arrived at this point through an understanding of quantum paradoxes and Christian mysticism: “…I am in the Father, and the Father in me: or else believe me for the very work’s sake.” (John 14:11).

Carly , eventually the wound itself causes the reflection. I promise this is the way that it unfolds.

As a result the person splits to the extreme in an effort to survive. This I think automatically happens. I have come to see that all people are mentally ill and the ones we pronounce as “mentally ill” are just people who have these same traits just more intensely. What is a further shame is the paucity in actual healers which instead we have so called experts who are of no help and make things worse.