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What does it mean to trust in life, the universe, or some kind of higher power, after religious trauma, integrating rationality and spirituality?

What does it mean to trust in life, the universe, or some kind of higher power, after religious trauma, integrating rationality and spirituality?

What does it mean to trust the universe/Source/God, when that thing/person is the source of all your trauma, agony, betrayal, and continued unanswered desires/prayers, along with all the good of life? Supposedly, anyway.   This is a question that has plagued me since...
Major Life Update: visions of past, present, & future. Angels, deities, writings, and life developments

Major Life Update: visions of past, present, & future. Angels, deities, writings, and life developments

Yesterday at the Emergency Room, after the doctor examined my ears and consulted his peers, he returned and asked me, “This might sound strange, but do you believe in God/spirituality and have you had any experiences recently?” I told him the truth, that I had seen...
A Psychological-Theological Repudiation of Opposition to Abortion by Christian Fundamentalists in the Wake of Roe v. Wade’s Overturning

A Psychological-Theological Repudiation of Opposition to Abortion by Christian Fundamentalists in the Wake of Roe v. Wade’s Overturning

The cross Jesus was crucified upon has become a sword in the hands of the militant Christian fundamentalists who perpetrate the violence he experienced, in an act of Godself-mutilation. Were Jesus’s dying words, “Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do”...
What is Unconditional Love? The Philosophy & Experience of Pure Love as Healing for its Opposites: Meritocracy, Original Sin, and Ego-Bound Mind

What is Unconditional Love? The Philosophy & Experience of Pure Love as Healing for its Opposites: Meritocracy, Original Sin, and Ego-Bound Mind

Unconditional love is a universal longing of the human heart. We all experience the agonies of rejection, not-belonging, and love tainted by strings attached. We seek unconditional love from romantic partners, peers, social groups, and from ourselves. We benefit from...
The Law of Attraction’s Psychological and Spiritual Harms. Nondual Manifestation: A Healthy Alternative

The Law of Attraction’s Psychological and Spiritual Harms. Nondual Manifestation: A Healthy Alternative

The Law of Attraction (LOA), also known as manifestation, is a cardinal doctrine of self-help, New Age, and New Thought movements. Defined as the central law of the universe, LOA claims a level of authority similar to that of a creator God. This ideology is accepted...
What Would it be Like to Believe in Myself as God? Nondual Humanism: Turning Low Self-Worth into Divine Confidence, Prayer into Personal Power

What Would it be Like to Believe in Myself as God? Nondual Humanism: Turning Low Self-Worth into Divine Confidence, Prayer into Personal Power

What would it be like to channel all the belief you could muster for a creator of the universe into yourself? What if you could stand in your power and believe in yourself with the same fervency the most hysterical evangelist believes in God? Our turnings to faith and...
Hell, the Mark of Christ? The Twisted Psychology of Hell. The Bodhisattva Vow as the Solution to Hell and the Warped Jesus of Condemnation

Hell, the Mark of Christ? The Twisted Psychology of Hell. The Bodhisattva Vow as the Solution to Hell and the Warped Jesus of Condemnation

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...
God and Satan Are One: Facing the Archetype of Satan, the Nondual Devil. Open to Divinity’s Shadow of Evil and Suffering as Love in Reverse to Become Whole. A Nondual Theodicy

God and Satan Are One: Facing the Archetype of Satan, the Nondual Devil. Open to Divinity’s Shadow of Evil and Suffering as Love in Reverse to Become Whole. A Nondual Theodicy

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...
Jesus is a Heretic: Christianity’s Denial of Jesus’s Gospel Message of Your God Nature and the Symbol of the Incarnation of Christ

Jesus is a Heretic: Christianity’s Denial of Jesus’s Gospel Message of Your God Nature and the Symbol of the Incarnation of Christ

Jesus is the greatest heretic to establishment Christian orthodoxy of all time. Jesus was murdered by the religious establishment of his day because they understood his heretical claim that he is God and so are you. Christianity has downplayed the radical nature of...
I AM God: Theology of Divine Enlightenment. Interpreting the Bible Spiritually Through the Lens of Self-Divinity

I AM God: Theology of Divine Enlightenment. Interpreting the Bible Spiritually Through the Lens of Self-Divinity

What if you could borrow the mind of God? Or perhaps manufacture something like it through technological sorcery. Imagine what your life might look like from the perspective of an all-loving, all-knowing creative intelligence. How would your infinitesimally puny human...

Transpersonal Hour Interview: Healing Religious Trauma and Experiencing Divinity

Transpersonal Hour Interview: Healing Religious Trauma and Experiencing Divinity: Watch my interview on the Transpersonal Hour Show with Anna Bobikova about realizing your divinity and healing religious trauma. The talk criticizes fear-based elements in religion and...
Omniscience: Your Divine Nature is All-Knowing. The Path of Faith: Gaining Awareness of the Knowledge You Need that Already Exists, to Serve your Purpose Now

Omniscience: Your Divine Nature is All-Knowing. The Path of Faith: Gaining Awareness of the Knowledge You Need that Already Exists, to Serve your Purpose Now

Omniscience means divinity is “all-knowing.” Omniscience has been traditionally understood as an attribute of God, something inaccessible to human beings. But understanding human nature as divine (godliness), omniscience can be applied to everyday people, literally or...
Atheistic humanism needs language for the ‘mystical’ experiences described by religions. Psychological reality as a dialogical bridge between atheism and religion

Atheistic humanism needs language for the ‘mystical’ experiences described by religions. Psychological reality as a dialogical bridge between atheism and religion

Atheistic Humanism lacks a developed language for psychological experiences typically labeled religious or mystical. It often focuses narrowly on the dangers of religion, which makes metaphysical claims about mystical-type experiences without evidence or critical...
Jesus May Call Christians to Leave Institutional Religion. Evolving Christianity from a Dogmatic Institution into a Spiritual Path. A New Paradigm of Divinity After Bibliolatry

Jesus May Call Christians to Leave Institutional Religion. Evolving Christianity from a Dogmatic Institution into a Spiritual Path. A New Paradigm of Divinity After Bibliolatry

Many forms of Christianity do not resemble the spirituality Jesus taught. The teachings of Jesus and the Bible may require his followers to transform their Christian religious institutions in order to become Christians (lit. “followers of Christ”) because Christianity...
Antichrist Politicians and the Climate Change Denial Apocalypse. Trump Lives the Opposite Lifestyle of Jesus. The Bible Calls Christians to Preserve Nature and Resist the Mark of the Beast

Antichrist Politicians and the Climate Change Denial Apocalypse. Trump Lives the Opposite Lifestyle of Jesus. The Bible Calls Christians to Preserve Nature and Resist the Mark of the Beast

A politician who uses Christianity to promote immorality and economic exploitation through lying propaganda is considered an antichrist in the Bible. Christians who embrace Trump and his promises of salvation (or any politician who uses God as a pretense) are...
Eat The Fruit of The Tree of Life: Solving the Ecospiritual Crisis of Climate Change and Existential Despair by Having Mystical Experiences

Eat The Fruit of The Tree of Life: Solving the Ecospiritual Crisis of Climate Change and Existential Despair by Having Mystical Experiences

The Tree of Life is a symbol central to many spiritual traditions. It is perhaps more relevant now than any other time in human history. We face a great ecospiritual crisis: the destruction of life on Planet Earth and human consciousness. Climate change, war, and the...
Religious Addiction

Religious Addiction

Fundamentalist Christianity is like a drug culture. Its drug of choice is known by the street names of the gospel (good news), salvation, and eternal life. Religious addicts consume the good news drug by various means, including compulsive prayers of self-degradation...
My Exorcism of Jesus

My Exorcism of Jesus

When I was a little boy I asked a foreign entity to come into my heart and take over my body. He told me I was lost and hopeless without him, and that he would take my life if I didn’t obey his every word. I was very afraid. My entire community told me I needed this...