The Mother Wound – how to heal humanity’s single point of failure

Teacher

Michael H Hallett

Category:

Consciousness, Sexuality, Shame, Trauma

CLEARING THE UNCONSCIOUS – PART 8

“The dreadful has already happened”

‘The mother of all wounds’

During the 1991 Gulf War, Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein memorably used the phrase, “The mother of all battles.” Since then, the ‘mother of all…’ construct has been used in many ways. When it comes to emotional wounds, there is a mother wound at the collective heart of humanity.

This is ‘the mother of all wounds’. It is humanity’s single point of failure—the original wound, the wound from which all subsequent wounds radiate outwards and downwards across space and time.

It accounts for our disconnection from ourselves and from the planet. This in turn accounts for the state of the environment.

When we look at all the crises facing humanity, it’s easy to envisage that the greatest calamities lies ahead. In fact they happened in the past, and account for our inability to confront our current challenges. In the words of the German philosopher Martin Heidegger, “The dreadful has already happened.”

We’re not looking for technological, political, or economic solutions—though of course they will play their part. The critical solution we’re looking for is healing the mother wound that keeps us from protecting nature, sharing resources, and creating genuine community.

Heal this wound and your life will change.

Heal this wound on a planetary scale and the planet will change.

The mother wound

The mother wound is a six-fold fragmentation of being that occurred several thousand years due to long-term drought, desertification, and famine.

The physiological imbalances this created gave rise to global patriarchy with its all-consuming passion for acquisition, possession, hoarding, consumption, and short-term problem-solving.

The mother wound

This course takes you through the key elements of this wound, so vast in scope and so normalised in its effects, that it’s largely unknown. Includes a written exercise for delving into your own mother wound.

“WOW! It was amazing… Some really interesting things about the patriarchy and the feminine… Cuts straight to the core and is POTENT!”

— Jacqueline, South Africa

Why is this wound unknown? Simple. It’s so painful that we’ve buried it under enough emotional concrete that we’re no longer aware of it. It lies, as Suzannah Lessard notes in her memoir of family trauma, The Architect of Desire, “outside the architecture of civilization as we understand it.”

This course is perhaps the first in the world that even attempts to describe the architecture of the mother wound.

Part 8 of the 8-part series, Clearing the Unconscious.