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You’ve consumed hours of content, skimmed countless threads, and sat through sessions that dulled your instincts. You can name the symptoms but not the root. Words like “healing,” “masculinity,” and “shadow” feel hijacked or hollow.
This glossary doesn’t offer easy answers, it offers precision. It gives you symbolic language to name the nameless and reintroduce meaning where it’s gone missing. You’re not broken, you’re untranslated. Let’s fix that.
Glossary Sections H-L
Hatred Punishment
HMH Functions (Integrative Self-Analysis)
Hyperreflexivity
Hypervigilance
Hypnagogia & Hypnopompia
Hypnosis
Iatrogenic
Idealizing
Identified Complexes (Psycho-Systems Analysis)
Ideomotor Phenomenon
Idiopathic Diagnosis
Imago
Interoception
Internal Projection
Intuition (Psycho-Systems Analysis)
Leveraging Immaturity
Long-Term Memory
Love Withdrawal
Imaginative Emersion
Fantasifuld Fremkomst, dansk
Definition
If you don’t learn to use your imagination wisely, it will use you. Imaginative Emersion is when you stop escaping into fantasy and instead start living your imagination in the real world. It’s about using creative thought to interact with life, not hide from it. This idea created by Michael C. Walker is rooted in Jungian psychology and deepened by thinkers like Hillman and Rupert Sheldrake, shows how true transformation comes when your inner world meets the real world in symbolic, meaningful ways.
Why It MattersYour imagination isn’t just for dreaming. It’s a tool for awakening. When used with intention, it becomes your bridge out of the Matrix and into purpose.
Instinctual Consciousness
Primære bevidsthedskilde, dansk
Definition
A term developed by Michael C. Walker, Instinctual Consciousness is the deep awareness that lives in your body before your thinking mind kicks in. It works through emotion, gut feeling, and inner signals that guide your actions and choices. This is not just animal instinct. Inspired by Jaak Panksepp’s emotion systems, Mark Solms’ brain research, and Carl Jung’s idea of the unconscious, this layer of consciousness is your original compass. It helps shape your thoughts from the bottom up and brings wisdom that words cannot always explain.
Why It Matters
Most of what drives your life starts in your genomic instincts, not your thoughts. When you reconnect with this base layer, you stop living in your head and start living in your truth.
Instinctual Drift
Instinktuel Drift, dansk
Definition
Instinctual Drift is the emotional force inside you that rises from your body and flows into your thoughts, dreams, and choices. It is older than your ego and speaks in feelings, not words. Inspired by Freud’s life drives and Panksepp’s emotional brain systems, this Drift is what moves you toward meaning, not just survival. It is the quiet pull from within that shapes who you are becoming.
Why It Matters
If you don’t learn to feel this inner pull, you’ll keep chasing things that don’t feed your soul. If you do, you’ll remember what it means to be fully alive.
Instinctual Rescripting
Instinktiv Omskrivning, dansk
Definition
If you don’t rewrite your inner programming, it will keep running your life without your permission. Instinctual Rescripting is the process of spotting and changing the deep, automatic patterns in your thoughts and actions that were shaped by old pain, trauma, or childhood conditioning. It pulls from psychology, neurobiology, and ancient spiritual wisdom to help you stop repeating the same emotional loops and start living with real choice, not just reaction. Developed in the Integrative Self-Analysis framework by Michael C. Walker, this idea was influenced by Mark Solms’ work in neuropsychoanalysis and the Psycho-Systems Analysis approach of Steve and Pauline Richardson. It works by identifying old “scripts," called prediction errors, hidden in your nervous system and updating them with new, healthier patterns that match who you really are.
Why It Matters
Most people are still living out someone else’s story without knowing it. This gives you the tools to reclaim your own
Integrative Self-Analysis (ISA)
Integrativ selvanalyse (ISA), dansk
Definition
Integrative Self-Analysis (ISA) is an open-source, trauma-informed healing modality created by Michael C. Walker for individuals living with the complex and often misunderstood effects of Complex Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (C-PTSD). Unlike traditional therapy models that focus primarily on cognitive restructuring, ISA targets the Instinctual Consciousness: the deep, unconscious layer of human awareness that governs instinctual drives, emotional signals, and symbolic narratives.
Drawing from five healing lineages:
Neuropsychoanalysis
Depth Psychology
Somatic Awareness
Christian Mysticism
Trauma Theory
ISA provides a comprehensive framework for decoding trauma’s hidden messages, integrating instinct, emotion, and thought, and restoring authentic selfhood.
At the heart of ISA are the Five Principles of Consciousness:
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Instincts as Core Drivers: Consciousness begins in our genetic blueprint, with instincts shaping behaviors, emotions, and thought patterns.
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Emotions as the Psychogenic Language of the Instinctual Consciousness: Emotional experiences translate instinctual meaning into felt awareness.
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Imagery and Narratives as Psychogenic Bandwidth: Dreams and symbolic stories carry the emotional truth of past and present experience.
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The Egoic Verge: The interface where emotions and symbols are transformed into conscious thought and meaning.
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Symbols to Structured Frameworks: The evolution of symbols into language, belief systems, and adaptive personality structures.
ISA helps individuals bypass survival-driven psychological defenses (Malignant Complexes), by reconnecting through the use of dream imagery and free associated created autobiographical scenes (“Confabulated Scene,” “Meta-Autofiction”) and integrate instinctual wisdom into daily life. It addresses a wide spectrum of trauma-related challenges, including emotional dysregulation, attachment wounds, chronic relationship struggles, intrusive memories, somatic symptoms, and the psychosomatic effects of unresolved drive-state pressures.
Why It Matters
Unlike purely cognitive approaches such as CBT, which often plateau by focusing only on surface-level thought correction, ISA works at the neuropsychological, biopsychosocial, instinctual, and spiritual roots of suffering, providing deep, lasting transformation. This method is particularly valuable for people who have been misdiagnosed, misunderstood, or underserved by conventional mental health systems, offering a path to decode trauma, reclaim purpose, and unlock genomic human potential.
Internal Projection
Indre Projektion, dansk
Definition
Your mind can turn against you without you even knowing it. Internal Projection is when a part of you, usually Protective Ego Construct (PEC), secretly pushes its own fears, shame, or unmet needs into your unconscious and reflects it back to you with an grandiose supernatural charge. It’s like placing a filter over your inner world, one that makes you see yourself in a twisted and inflated way. Instead of discovering who you really are, you end up stuck in a story built from old wounds, hidden desires, and false beliefs. The term is from Psycho-Systems Analysis, and is borrowed by Michael C. Walker. It is an important idea used in Michael's Integrative Self-Analysis set of principles.
Why It Matters
When trauma pushes you out of your body, you might chase big ideas in philosophy, religion, or education to feel whole. But without grounding these high ideals in real experience, you risk mistaking learned concepts for your true self. Internal Projection traps you in this confusion, making it harder to connect with your real feelings and body, where true healing starts.
Libidinal Energies
Libidinale Energiers, dansk
Definition
Libidinal energies are not just about sex. They are the deep, instinctual life forces inside you that push you to feel, create, and survive. Freud first called this the energy behind sexual urges, but today we know these energies also drive all basic emotions like fear, anger, seeking, care, play, panic, and lust, as discovered by neuroscientist Jaak Panksepp. These powers come from your brain’s core and your genetic makeup, shaping how you live and react. Understanding libidinal energies helps you see how old survival habits (Malignant Complexes) can trap these forces in harmful cycles, or how you can free them to grow, heal, and live fully (Counter-Complexes).
Why It Matters
The world tried to dismiss Freud, but modern neuroscience proves him right (Mark Solms). These instinctual powers are your true life force. If you don’t know how they work, your energy can get stuck in old trauma or addictive patterns, blocking real growth. When you learn to connect with and guide your libidinal energies, you unlock your creativity, healing, and strength to break free from the digital trance and live with real power.
