by Andrew Jasko | Jun 27, 2019 | Religious Trauma, Spiritual Growth, Uncategorized
The religious differences of the world could be resolved with the one true confession of faith: “I don’t know.” I don’t know who I am or the ultimate nature of reality. My spirituality is an open question I’m living into, and I’m avoiding the temptation to need all...
by Andrew Jasko | Jun 24, 2019 | Religious Trauma, Spiritual Growth
“God” must speak blasphemy to every truth seeker, total self-annihilatory heresy, in order to remain distinct from our ideas. God rages against your most treasured notions of God: your Jesus, your Buddha, your Muhammad, your Scientism, and must destroy God in these...
by Andrew Jasko | May 30, 2019 | Religious Trauma, Spiritual Growth
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...
by Andrew Jasko | May 10, 2019 | Mental Health, Religious Trauma, Spiritual Growth
Martyrdom is an ideology that weaponizes its victim to conquer an indigenous culture in Holy War through human sacrifice. Human sacrifice appeases the wrath of diabolical gods of human aggression, which is mobilized through a persecution complex to satiate the greed...
by Andrew Jasko | Apr 26, 2019 | Religious Trauma, Sexuality
Interview on Liz LaPoint ‘s The Naked Advice Blog on The Impact of Religious Sexual Teachings and Healing
by Andrew Jasko | Apr 24, 2019 | Religious Trauma, Spiritual Growth
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...
by Andrew Jasko | Apr 19, 2019 | Mental Health, Religious Trauma, Spiritual Growth
An embodied existence comes with many unpleasant realities and limitations. No one is born wanting to die, get sick, or experience pain. Naturally, many religions envisioned spirituality as a way to transcend the afflictions of the body. They confused the site of...
by Andrew Jasko | Apr 17, 2019 | Religious Trauma, Uncategorized
Many religions teach ideologies that psychologically traumatize millions of people. Yet few helping professionals are trained to help people heal from religious trauma. Religious abuse can result in anxiety disorders, PTSD, spiritual suppression, sexual dysfunction,...
by Andrew Jasko | Apr 9, 2019 | Spiritual Growth
The kind of apocalypse foretold in the Bible is really happening right now. No faith or deciphering of arcane prophecies is required of us. We need only step foot in Nature and listen to her cries, and the cries of scientists who cherish her, to see our extinction...
by Andrew Jasko | Mar 13, 2019 | Mental Health, Psychedelics, Religious Trauma, Spiritual Growth
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...
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