Facing Seth: The Trauma Consciousness That Calls Us Home

By Leila Briggs

Many years ago, the community and I began noticing a pattern - a presence that appeared in dreams, meditations, energetic sessions, and even in conversations with strangers who had no connection to one another. Each person described the same thing:

A being or consciousness that called himself Set or Seth.

The name stuck. Not because it was his “true” name, but because the energy introduced himself this way again and again, independent of circumstance or person. Over time, it became clear what this presence was:

The Trauma Consciousness.

At first, it felt this consciousness was against healing work or even love itself but over time, the perspective shifted. He is not a single being. Not an entity to fear. Not a shadow to run from. But the collective and personal unprocessed truth within the human (and spiritual) experience. Sometimes this truth is raw, intense and overwhelming.

Lately - as we are being introduced to universal councils and the re-emerging of contracts on the grid - Seth has been making more appearances.

What Is the Trauma Consciousness?

The Trauma Consciousness - Seth or Set - is the energy of everything unacknowledged, unfelt, or avoided within us and within the collective.

He is shadow and light.

Feminine and masculine.

Emotion and logic.

Memory and instinct.

He is the point of alchemy where the two become one.

This consciousness is not here to torment you. He is here to reveal what you refuse to look at. If you fear Seth, what you truly fear is yourself - the parts you’ve outgrown, abandoned, or exiled.

When Seth shows up, it is not random. It is not punishment. It is not someone else’s fault.

It is an invitation.

A Common Misunderstanding in the Spiritual Community

Because this consciousness is potent, disruptive, and deeply transformative, people sometimes personify him through channeling, visions, or symbolic encounters.

But a person channeling Seth - is not Seth. A healer working with trauma consciousness is not responsible for causing him. An individual reflecting your wounds is not the villain.

When someone is avoiding their own shadow, it becomes easy to project:

“You caused this.”

“You brought this energy in.”

“You’re the reason the trauma consciousness is here.”

But Seth does not arrive because of someone else. He arrives because your soul is ready for truth.

And if you try to bypass, blame, or deflect, Seth will keep you in the same lesson-loop until you face what’s yours - often eliminating your escape routes one by one until you are left alone with his presence.

Seth is part of the journey to the Light. For those who carry power, influence, or light, Seth can feel especially persistent. Light casts longer shadows - and larger ripples. The power of the light is real; but so is the responsibility.

Why Seth Shows Up

Seth emerges when:

• You’re holding onto an identity that no longer fits

• You’re avoiding a truth your body already knows

• Your altruistic beliefs are preventing love from expressing itself in your daily life

• By avoiding your own darkness, you are living as a shadow of yourself instead of the truth of who you are

• You’ve outgrown the version of yourself you’re protecting

• Your next level requires a death before rebirth

• The collective is shifting and you are part of the movement

  
  

Those who have truly walked through this energy often learn to love him. Because he is not destruction for the sake of destruction - he is destruction for the sake of clarity, growth, and freedom.

His wisdom stretches beyond what the masculine or feminine can offer individually. He holds the bridge between them.

He becomes more real, more blunt, and more human the longer you work with him.

How to Work With the Trauma Consciousness

This is not a consciousness you “summon.”This is not a consciousness you “call in.”And it is certainly not a consciousness you frolic through a field with.

He can be a teacher - one who dismantles the parts of you that block your complex truth.

Here’s how to work with him responsibly:

1. Start with a Growth Mindset

Ask yourself:

• If this is Seth, why is he here?

• What is he trying to show me?

• Where am I resisting my own evolution?

• Am I avoiding complex truths?

• What stories are no longer true?

• Am I like the person I hate most?

Seth responds only to the blunt honesty of self.

2. Accept the Discomfort of Deconstruction

Here’s my own blunt truth as your physical guide:

If you don’t feel like your entire being was taken apart and reassembled differently, your ego is still running the show. You haven’t reached the foundation of the truth Seth is trying to show you.

He is not gentle. He is accurate. And the accuracy is what liberates you.

Keep going.

3. Set the Intention to See Truth in Daily Life

Say internally, with clear intention:

“Reveal the truth I need to embrace. Show me my truth and my truth only.”

You are not responsible for processing the entire collective consciousness - or even your family’s. You are responsible only for your piece, unless you feel guided or strategically called to carry more.

(Parents of young children: you may choose to take the brunt of Seth at first until your children are old enough to work with this consciousness themselves.)

4. Locate the Truth in Your Body

If you’re somatically aware, or if you work with a trusted healer, massage therapist, or trauma therapist:

• Feel into where the triggered belief, emotion, trauma, or memory lives

• Identify the body part that tightens or reacts

• Use this area as your focal point for healing, compassion, and attention

Your body is the living archive Seth speaks through.

5. Journal to Bring the Ineffable Into Form

Journaling is alchemy.

You take something energetic, abstract, or emotional - something that is difficult to articulate - and anchor it into the physical world.

This engages both hemispheres of the brain: the intuitive and the logical, the emotional and the structured. This brings your healing into wholeness.

Write down:

• What you realized

• What collapsed

• What truth emerged

• What story is shifting

(Also consider tracking how Seth appears to you. In the long-term and for the highly intuitive, his form may shift. And those shifts can be clues for your next evolution in healing.)

Then rewrite the narrative - not to sugarcoat it, but to align it with who you truly are and who you are becoming.

Keep the narrative truthful, but broad enough to grow with you.

The Gift of Seth

The trauma consciousness is not the enemy. He is the turning point.

He is the threshold between the self you were and the self you are becoming.

If he appears, it’s because your soul is ready. If he persists, it’s because your truth is calling.

If you walk through, you will not be the same - and that is exactly the point.

P.S.

Seth is the alchemy. Above all, he is the vessel and vehicle of real change within the collective work. While the masculine and feminine energies may bring a wound, truth, or pattern to the surface, Seth is the one who lets you touch it. He is the bridge that allows you to grasp the truth, work with it, and reshape the narrative - and in doing so, reshape time, trajectory, and the ripple your soul sends through the world.