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...
by Andrew Jasko | Feb 11, 2019 | Mental Health, Religious Trauma, Spiritual Growth
The worldviews of biblical religiosity and materialistic isolationism arise from the psychological survival technique of splitting. When faced with overwhelming experiences, our psyche protects us by splitting the personality into two parts: the good me and the bad...
by Andrew Jasko | Jan 26, 2019 | Mental Health, Religious Trauma, Sexuality
Sexual violence is commonplace in the biblical narrative. It is perhaps most X-rated in Jesus’s recommendations for mutilation of the male anatomy in castration and emasculation. As a young boy, I was terrified when I heard Jesus’s suggestions that I mutilate myself...
by Andrew Jasko | Jan 7, 2019 | Mental Health, Religious Trauma
Western religions have made narcissism a virtue through the worship of God, who bears all the markers of a Narcissistic Personality Disorder. Narcissism is a painful condition of low self-esteem masked by a shallow presentation of grandiose confidence. Through their...
by Andrew Jasko | Nov 9, 2018 | Mental Health, Religious Trauma
Judeo-Christian religiosity often looks like a severely traumatized individual trying to resolve his trauma in unhealthy ways. Western religion attempts to resolve the trauma of humanity suffering by re-enacting it on other people in the vengeance of divine judgment...
by Andrew Jasko | Nov 5, 2018 | Mental Health, Religious Trauma, Uncategorized
The Protestant work ethic is the notion that your worth is a function of your hard work: what you produce. This is the mental illness of our time. The idea of hard work put forth in American society is a burden that crushes the broken and disenfranchised and...
Awakening Spirituality and Psychological Wholeness. Healing Religious Trauma
