The Ontological Lenses
Bringing Ontological Lenses to Your Journey of Self-Discovery
In Helen’s private practice, she incorporates ontological lenses to guide and enrich a participant’s personal exploration through self-awareness. Ontology, the study of being, allows you to delve deeply into the essence of who you are and the nature of your existence. By using these lenses, Helen and you can uncover the underlying patterns and beliefs that shape your experience, providing profound insights into your true self.
Through this approach, both work together to explore the fundamental aspects of your being, including your thoughts, sensations, emotions, and behaviors. This deeper understanding supports you in aligning more authentically with your inner truths, fostering greater clarity, connection, and fulfillment in your life. Whether through Akashic Records, Source of Your Consciousness, Decoloniality, Empirical Validation, Somatic Experiencing, Reprocessing Therapy, or our various classes, the ontological perspective is a powerful pathway in your journey toward self-connection and wholeness.
Somatic Experiencing® (SE™)
“A naturalistic, and neurobiological, body-oriented approach to healing trauma and other stress-related disorders; restoring the authentic self with self-regulation, relaxation, wholeness, and aliveness.
The SE™ Approach
The Somatic Experiencing® method is a body-oriented approach to healing trauma and other stress disorders. It is the life’s work of Peter A. Levine, PhD, resulting from his multidisciplinary study of stress physiology, ethology, biology, neuroscience, psychology, and indigenous healing practices, together with over 50 years of successful clinical application. The SE™ approach releases traumatic shock and restores connection, which is key to transforming PTSD and the wounds of emotional and early developmental attachment trauma. It offers a framework to assess where a person is “stuck” in the fight, flight, or freeze responses and provides clinical tools to resolve these fixated physiological states.
The Science
Trauma may begin as acute stress from a perceived life-threat or as the end product of cumulative stress. Both types of stress can seriously impair a person’s ability to function with resilience and ease, and live in the here-and-now. Trauma may result from a wide variety of stressors such as accidents, invasive medical procedures, sexual or physical assault, emotional abuse, neglect, war, racial discrimination, oppression, natural disasters, loss, birth trauma, or the corrosive stressors of ongoing fear, conflict, and chronic shaming.
Dr. Levine believes that the traumatic event isn’t what causes long-lasting trauma, it is the overwhelming trapped response to the perceived life-threat that is causing an imbalanced nervous system. Somatic Experiencing’s aim is to help one access the body memory (procedural memory) of the event, not the story. It is not necessary to share the details of your trauma history to do SE™. The objective is to diffuse the power of the narrative and remap the body memory to regain aliveness and flow.”
— Peter Levine
Eye Movement Desensitization Reprocessing (EMDR) Therapy
“EMDR therapy, developed by Dr. Francine Shapiro in 1987, revolutionized mental health treatment with its unique approach to processing trauma. Over the years, it gained global recognition and acceptance, leading to the establishment of EMDR organizations and widespread adoption in therapeutic practices. Today, EMDR is a well-researched, evidence-based method, continuously evolving with advancements in psychology and neuroscience.
Reprocessing Therapy is a structured therapy that encourages the client to briefly focus on the traumatic memory while simultaneously experiencing bilateral stimulation, which is associated with a reduction in the vividness and emotion associated with the trauma memories.”
— Francine Shapiro
Akasha
“As the Hindu sages who fashioned the Akashic concept realized, there are aspects of the human mind that are unlimited in space, therefore omnipresent, and that are also boundless in time, therefore eternal and immortal. Omnipresence and eternality are qualities that have always been attributed to the Divine – thus the Hindu aphorism Tat tvam asi, “Thou art that,” which affirms that we share qualities with the Godhead or the Absolute, however named.”
— Ervin László
Akashic Records
"Mystics and sages have long maintained that there exists an interconnecting cosmic field at the roots of reality that conserves and conveys information, a field known as the Akashic Record. Recent discoveries in vacuum physics show that this Akashic Field is real and has its equivalent in science’s zero-point field that underlies space itself. This field consists of a subtle sea of fluctuating energies from which all things arise: atoms and galaxies, stars and planets, living beings, and even consciousness. This zero-point Akashic Field is the constant and enduring memory of the universe. It holds the record of all that has happened on Earth and in the cosmos and relates it to all that is yet to happen."
— Ervin László
Source Consciousness
“The build-up of structure in the universe is what we call evolution. It started, as far as cosmologists know, with the Big Bang. Our science tells us this was 13.8 billion years ago. And that was the beginning of a continuing process. So, what we know of the universe, of the galaxies, all the planets, all forms of life, ourselves included, is that all are part of the continuing build-up of structure that started with the Big Bang. It started when the universe cooled sufficiently to allow semi-stable structures to form, as particles or quarks. And from this point onwards, the universe has kept evolving to higher and higher levels of structure and complexity. We humans are an expression of that build up. The world around us is another expression, manifestation of that process.”
“In the book, Reconnecting to the Source, as the title suggests, the challenge before us is to reconnect with the source, and the source is nature, it is the universe. If we become conscious of who and what we are, we will not separate ourselves from this harmony of oneness, but will embrace it and be elevated by it. All of us, all of the web of life on Earth, must come together to form the symphony of oneness. That is the purpose of our existence. It is our contribution to the world. When we use our mind, our spirit, our consciousness the natural way, the way they were born to be used, we will find our way to oneness in our family and community, on Earth, and in the universe.”
— Ervin László
Decoloniality
“Decoloniality refers to the logic, metaphysics, ontology, and matrix of power created by the massive processes and aftermath of colonization and settler-colonialism. This matrix and its lasting effects and structures are called "coloniality." More plainly said, decoloniality is a way for us to re-learn the knowledge that has been pushed aside, forgotten, buried, or discredited by the forces of modernity, settler-colonialism, and racial capitalism. Decoloniality is a method and paradigm of restoration and reparation that depends on context, historical conditions, and geography. Therefore, as a method, it aspires to restore, elevate, renew, rediscover, acknowledge and validate the multiplicity of lives, live-experiences, culture, and knowledge of indigenous people, people of color and colonized people as well as to decenter hetero/cis-normativity, gender hierarchies, and racial privilege. We understand that producing knowledge and living it is not separate. We seek to learn and make visible the connections between knowledge, social practices, and social action.”
― William & Mary, a premier public research university
Empirical Validation
The validity that is based on results of observation and experimentation.
“Generally speaking, validation involves a judgment over the quality of a model. How good is model A? Is it better or worse than model B? A model can be good from a certain point of view and bad, or inadequate, from another one. Also, validation is not necessarily a 0–1 pass test: the criteria can be continuous.
The validity of a model can be defined as the degree of homomorphism between a certain system (the model) and another system that it purportedly represents (the real-world system). Model validation can be defined along different dimensions. Empirical validation is often the basis for theory validation – the validation of the theory relative to the simuland (the real-world system). Empirically validating an ABM means, broadly speaking, “taking the model to the data,” in the form of empirical and/or experimental data, historical evidence, or even anecdotal knowledge.”
— Giorgio Fagiolo and Matteo Richiardi
Edited by Domenico Delli Gatti, Giorgio Fagiolo, Mauro Gallegati, Matteo Richiardi and Alberto Russo
Experience the existence of life through the ontological lenses of the Akash, Decoloniality, Empirical Evidence, and Soma.
LEARN MORE ABOUT WHAT SHAPED THE ONTOLOGY PERSPECTIVE
ERVIN LÁSZLÓ : "Science and the Akashic Field ~ An Integral Theory of Everything"DONNA J. HARAWAY : "Staying with the Trouble ~ Making Kin in the Chthulucene"MICHAEL TALBOT : "The Holographic Universe ~ The Revolutionary Theory of Reality"
