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Celeste Howe
they later fall in love. It looks like at wether the early experience of sexual abuse
affects the capacity to experience love in an embodied manner, and ponders the
re-traumatization.
The method used in this dissertation is both hermeneutic and heuristic, where an
initiatory experience was used in the forming of the question. This question was
then used, after a period of reflection, as a guide in the selection of reading. The
reading then influenced the understanding of the question, which led into
organized into chapters, and the process of reading, reflection, and writing was
Sexual abuse and its healing can both be understood through the concept of
kundalini, consciousness that first lies trapped in its dormant state within the
body. In the early stages it manifests as sexual energy, or libido. Sexual abuse, as
an energetic penetration, causes a premature arousal of kundalini, a
own transformation in the healing of trauma. This study finds that where
consciousness develops to the point where the adult survivor falls in love, this
consciously, can result in the transcendence of the trauma, and the healing of the
split between spirit and matter, which underlies the phenomenon of sexual
abuse. Once this occurs the adult victim is ready to return to embodied and