Is Evangelical Christianity’s God the Devil?
“Satan masquerades as an angel of light,” the Bible claims (2 Corinthians 11:14, NIV). Surely then, he must frequent in […]
Religious Trauma and Spiritual Abuse
How Religious Groups Can Stigmatize, Mistreat, and Cause Mental Health Conditions
Religious groups aspire to be agents of psychological and spiritual healing. Yet frequently they stigmatize people who suffer from mental
How Christianity’s Gospel that Jesus Died for Your Sins Creates a Victim-Persecutor-Rescuer Complex (Trauma Triangle)
The gospel message believed in by many Christians that Jesus died to save you from your sins is based on
What is Unconditional Love? The Philosophy & Experience of Pure Love as Healing for its Opposites: Meritocracy, Original Sin, and Ego-Bound Mind
Unconditional love is a universal longing of the human heart. We all experience the agonies of rejection, not-belonging, and love
‘Psychological Spirit Possession.’ Therapy for Healing Religious Trauma and Fundamentalism
How can a person be possessed by the will of another and convinced that will is her own? Possession is
The Law of Attraction’s Psychological and Spiritual Harms. Nondual Manifestation: A Healthy Alternative
The Law of Attraction (LOA), also known as manifestation, is a cardinal doctrine of self-help, New Age, and New Thought
God The Fascist: When the Bible Teaches Fascism. Why Many Evangelicals and Christians Idealize Donald Trump and the Psychology of Fascism
The Bible contains many depictions of God, some benevolent, others less than praiseworthy. One of the Bible’s main images of
What Would it be Like to Believe in Myself as God? Nondual Humanism: Turning Low Self-Worth into Divine Confidence, Prayer into Personal Power
What would it be like to channel all the belief you could muster for a creator of the universe into
Healing Hell Trauma: Psychological Treatment for Religious Indoctrination in Fear of Hell
Religious belief in hell fills the waking moments and dreams of untold numbers of people with terror, many of whom
Hell, the Mark of Christ? The Twisted Psychology of Hell. The Bodhisattva Vow as the Solution to Hell and the Warped Jesus of Condemnation
Summary: This article explains a spiritual solution to hell on earth and in the mind and provides a psychological understanding
