What’s the Difference Between Dissociation and Deep Meditation?

I’m a trauma therapist. Where is the line between dissolving in the body during deep meditation and dissociation? As a child, I was very dissociated as an escape mechanism. Rupert says: ‘There’s a big difference. When you are dissociating . . . you are facing a situation that is unbearable and terrifying . . . you learned to escape your body . . . that’s not an escape from experience. It’s going deeply into experience and discovering who you are at your core . . . When the abused child takes the emergency exit route . . . that would be an opportunity for someone to realise ‘I still am . . . but I’m not my body’ . . . that could initiate a process of self investigation . . . In meditation, you are reversing that dissociation. You are going back to the One . . . you’re not going into a dissociated state of mind . . . you’re going to your true nature.’

From event 22 May - 25 June, 2025 Weekend in Norway

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