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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
The science-of-consciousness schools of the world (mysticism) have observed that the highest states of human potential can be achieved through loving another person. Universal love is a more vital endeavor than any other kind of progress because love is the lifeblood...
Many of the insecurities and negative relationship patterns we struggle with stem from the degree of security and attention we experienced in our connection to our primary caregivers as infants. This idea is known in psychology as attachment theory. Psychologists view...
I spent most of my life longing to be more spiritual but dreading spiritual practice because I felt like it’s onerous drudgery, agonizingly boring hard work. I never considered myself a particularly disciplined person and felt deeply ashamed as I compared myself to...
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...
Christians understand that divine grace can be experienced through ingesting a sacred substance. Jesus instituted the eating of sacraments in the Lord’s Supper, a central ritual in Christian gatherings around the world. Psychedelics are an official sacrament in...
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