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A key finding is that the hereditary source of the sick soul temperament is probably intergenerational trauma. This explains behaviours which James labelled as heterogeneous and psychopathic whilst other research connects religious melancholia with pathological shame. I argue that the psychopathic experience and the conversion experience are, to a point, biologically the same. How the sick soul subjectively experiences arousal results in the different outcomes of continued heterogeneity and division or a twice born unification or conversion experience. I also argue that the sick soul has a phobic reaction to autonomic nervous system arousal which ‘highjacks’ the conversion process and prevents further arousal and the ecstatic-samadhi rebounce, ie, non-ordinary/ religious experience. This research concludes that sick souls, as a result of intergenerational trauma, have the capacity and propensity for heightened arousal, emotional intensity and automatisms - which induce fear and phobic responses. The challenge is supporting the sick soul to fully relax and let go whilst increasing and sustaining arousal levels thereby enabling ecstatic-samadhi rebounce or twice-born conversion experience. The knowledge for achieving this exists within some religious institutions and also within some secular environments which support body movement, vocalisation, emotional expression and storytelling within an empathic and compassionate communal setting. I suggest there would be value in conducting further research to test these conclusions. 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I argue that the psychopathic experience and the conversion experience are, to a point, biologically the same. How the sick soul subjectively experiences arousal results in the different outcomes of continued heterogeneity and division or a twice born unification or conversion experience. I also argue that the sick soul has a phobic reaction to autonomic nervous system arousal which ‘highjacks’ the conversion process and prevents further arousal and the ecstatic-samadhi rebounce, ie, non-ordinary/ religious experience. This research concludes that sick souls, as a result of intergenerational trauma, have the capacity and propensity for heightened arousal, emotional intensity and automatisms - which induce fear and phobic responses. The challenge is supporting the sick soul to fully relax and let go whilst increasing and sustaining arousal levels thereby enabling ecstatic-samadhi rebounce or twice-born conversion experience. 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