Feeling Beyond the Personal...You Are Not Crazy—You Might Be Sensing a World in Pain
By Margot – Akasha Therapies
Shamanic councelling | Philosophical Ground | Presence-Based Bodywork
Have you ever felt a wave of despair or anxiety that didn’t seem to have a clear cause?
A sudden heaviness.
A grief that doesn’t belong to a specific memory.
A rage or sorrow that seems to come from deeper down—or far beyond.
You might have wondered: “Am I going crazy?”
Let me offer this instead:
You’re not crazy.
What you may be feeling is the grief of a collapsing world, an ecosystem and a culture that are in crisis.
What you may be sensing is unprocessed pain from the collective field. Ancestral and collective wounding from the shadow side of our species history..
Your body may be telling a truth that your rational mind cannot make sense of. You are not crazy...The pain that you are feeling is a portal. Understanding deeper truths about your place in the universe, the path we have walked as species, the state of our world and how to come to terms or find meaningful next steps from here are to be found on the other side. My work is about making sense and processing this ctogether.
1. The Culture is in Crisis—and We Feel It in Our Bodies
We live in a time of breakdown. The climate is destabilizing. Biodiversity is vanishing at new record speed all around us.
Social, political, and spiritual structures are shaking at their foundations. Our sense of time, future, and meaning is dissolving all around us.
This is not just happening “out there.”
Your body is part of the ecosystem.
Your nervous system is not separate from the collective.
So when you feel anger, despair, disconnection, or deep fatigue—it may not be a personal failing.
It may be a form of collective intelligence passing through your being.
We are not meant to carry this much alone. And yet, our curent culture often tells us to suppress, distract, or numb. The collective Field is in a meaning-crisis.
2. The Collective Field: Trauma That Isn’t Just Yours
We’re taught to think of pain as personal. But what if your pain is also ancestral, cultural, ecological?
In my work, I often witness people carrying:
-Wounds of parents, grand-parents or further down ancestors.
-Unresolved trauma residue of war, oppression, displacement, even wars and trauma 's from the deep past. I often hold past-life processes from middle age inquisition and witch wounds, and beyond.
-Energetic residue of cultural shame and silencing, resulting in blocked troat chakra's, social anxieties and fear of public speaking and standing out. A tendency to be in an energetic contraction and 'in hiding' even tough their is no rational present-life treath.
-Heartbreak and depression around witnessing ecological destruction resulting in loss of meaning and purpose resulting in a sense of 'giving up' and purposefulness regarding the future.
Our bodies are not just individual. They are part of a living memory field.
When we feel “too much,” it may be that we are attuned, not broken.
3. When We Pretend It’s Not Happening
There’s a deep tendency in modern culture to ignore collapse.
To stay productive. To stay “fine.”
To not ask big questions. To ignore the "elephant in the room". You are not crazy...you might in fact be quite sane...
Some of us—often the empaths, artists, healers, mystics—can’t turn it off.
We feel what’s under the surface.
We sense what’s being avoided. Wheather it is passed down trough a family heritage, a collective traumatic memory, or the unspoken truths in our culture and the unalignement of our daily actions with what we know. You might be ready to decondition out of your system the unconscious act.
This sensing doesn’t make life easy, in fact, it can be a lot to carry alone. that is why I find purpose in offering support with my work.
It is only by feeling the pain of the world fully that we can receive the insights necessary to respond to our present times in a Soulful way. To find the purpose, peace and freedom we are seeking. It is often in the darkest spaces that the most precious treasures are burried...
4. Spaces for Healing the Collective
Part of my work involves group soul constellations—where we enter a shared field and access what needs to be seen, felt, and remembered. Sometimes the group becomes a channel for ancestral grief. Sometimes we access collective memories that the culture has repressed. Past life material surfaces. Themes of war, displacement, lost children, broken lineages.
It’s not just about cathartic release. It’s about remembrance, forgiveness, gaining consciousness of what has been hidden, coming to terms with, reclaiming long lost freedom, unveiling hidden secrets...the goal of this work is to find more peace and freedom in daily present life.
In a way it is a space for the soul of the world to speak through us.
5. You Are Not Alone—And You Don’t Have to Carry It Alone
Feeling these things doesn’t mean you are failing.
It means you are alive in a time that is demanding more presence, more depth, more showing up and more honesty than ever before.
This is emotional ecology, spiritual activism...
To feel deeply right now is not a flaw—it’s a form of devotion.
To grieve, rage, or collapse in truth may be the beginning of a new kind of wholeness.
If you’re feeling the weight of the world, I offer spaces to hold you:
1:1 Soul Work & Coaching
Philosophical Ground sessions for reflection & meaning-making
Group sessions in ancestral & collective constellations
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Further Reading & Listening reccomendations
Hospicing Modernity: Facing Humanity's Wrongs and the Implications for Social Activism - Vanessa Machado de Oliveira
The Wild Edge of Sorrow – Francis Weller
The War of the Worldviews – Ken Wilber & Deepak Chopra
Talks by Daniel Schmachtenberger, Bayo Akomolafe, and Thomas Hübl
Margot