by Andrew Jasko | Jun 30, 2020 | Psychology, Religious Trauma and Spiritual Abuse
Religious belief in hell fills the waking moments and dreams of untold numbers of people with terror, many of whom seek therapy to break the nightmarish fear. Treating hellfire trauma requires knowledge of the client’s religious indoctrination and upbringing, as well...
by Andrew Jasko | Jun 22, 2020 | Nondual Theology and Philosophy, Psychology, Religious Trauma and Spiritual Abuse, Spirituality
Summary: This article explains a spiritual solution to hell on earth and in the mind and provides a psychological understanding of religious doctrines of terror. It proposes a psychological view of hell as trauma seeking to resolve itself through a reenactment of...
by Andrew Jasko | Apr 12, 2020 | Nondual Theology and Philosophy, Psychology, Religious Trauma and Spiritual Abuse, Spirituality
Christian history is a two-thousand-year-old dinner table argument over whose version of Jesus is the right one. People have been debating about who Jesus really was—what he said, what he meant, where he came from—for ages. The reality is Jesus is a metaphor into...
by Andrew Jasko | Mar 16, 2020 | Psychedelics, Psychology, Religious Trauma and Spiritual Abuse, Spirituality
This is a caution about the dangers of hyper-spiritualizing and spiritually-bypassing the coronavirus or any other calamity. Viewing COVID-19 primarily as the physical manifestation of a spiritual problem or encouraging magical spiritual solutions without preventative...
by Andrew Jasko | Feb 23, 2020 | Nondual Theology and Philosophy, Psychology, Spirituality
Learning how to cope with suffering and evil is perhaps the greatest challenge of life. How can we survive our darkest moments and make some meaning of the mess without trivializing agony or condoning evil? The symbol of Satan is a powerful representation of the...
