Thank you so much for sharing Dr. Besser van Der Kolk's important work. Much of the work I do currently in storytelling focuses on how We become the stories we tell. The first phase is the stories we tell ourselves about ourselves. These stories impact how we view ourselves, interact with others and navigate through challenges and situations. If we were traumatized, these stories in our heads often prevent us from being able to interact in a healthy way or even to allow ourselves to push through a challenge without being re-traumatized. The good news is, we are the author of our own story and with tools and techniques we can re-frame our narrative and tell a different more healthy story. I love doing this work and am grateful for your article re-confirming the power of story! <3

divine is tricky as implies the god of old religions or the sacred of the pagan ..not wrong necessarily but as science has advanced to inform us further about our world-quantum physics, enviro science and the bilogy that transforms us..anyway it just adds another element . As to the pool of available information has widened and deepened it is the lesser heard murmurs that get my attention. I think our species has actually depended on some default evolutional paths and now it is time to reckon with the results not just the convenient aspects, like pointing to technology and not realizing the tool in the service of an atiquaited story will not get us out of the old story!! You mention moral knowledge, i choose the term deep ethics because morality was deemed by some characters that based the world around their own paradigms. However the deep ethics are known to us as children or at least drawing on my experience and my flaunting of irrational to me boundaries, helped me see through much of what is not but a cultural manifest on a greater and more powerfully loving connected, interrelated manifold.