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...
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...
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