India Missionary De-Conversion Trip: Exposing Missionary Abuse and Promoting Religious Healing

by Andrew Jasko | Mar 22, 2019 | Mental Health, Religious Trauma, Spiritual Growth

Six years ago, I worked as an undercover missionary in India, converting Hindus and Muslims to Christianity under the pretense of charitable work. This summer I’m going back to tell my story of de-conversion from Christianity and reconcile with the people I used...

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

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...

Thou Shalt Not Judge: Religious Othering, The Politics of Division and Destruction of the Planet

by Andrew Jasko | Feb 27, 2019 | Hell, Religious Trauma, Spiritual Growth

The Bible promotes a political strategy of division by othering everyone outside of the religion. Through divisive labeling, my neighbor morphs from a fellow human being into a distant other, the sinner, to whom I, the saint, no longer can relate with empathy: an...

Psychological Splitting: The Spiritual Neurosis of Dualism, A Crisis of No Empathy

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...

Putting Out The Fires Of Hell

by Andrew Jasko | Jan 29, 2019 | Hell, Religious Trauma

Hell exists as a real place of torture in the minds of those who feed its imaginary fires through their fear. It is only religious people who suffer from the real hell, and those escaping religion who are still in recovery from hellfire trauma. Hell really exists for...

Castration and Emasculation in the Bible: Sexual Violence as a Temptation Avoidance Strategy

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...