by Andrew Jasko | Sep 19, 2020 | Psychology, Religious Trauma and Spiritual Abuse
The Bible contains many depictions of God, some benevolent, others less than praiseworthy. One of the Bible’s main images of God lies on the diabolical end of the divinity spectrum: God the Fascist. Although the Bible never calls God a fascist outright, many of...
by Andrew Jasko | Aug 31, 2020 | Nondual Theology and Philosophy, Religious Trauma and Spiritual Abuse, Spirituality
What would it be like to channel all the belief you could muster for a creator of the universe into yourself? What if you could stand in your power and believe in yourself with the same fervency the most hysterical evangelist believes in God? Our turnings to faith and...
by Andrew Jasko | Jun 30, 2020 | Psychology, Religious Trauma and Spiritual Abuse
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...
by Andrew Jasko | Jun 22, 2020 | Nondual Theology and Philosophy, Psychology, Religious Trauma and Spiritual Abuse, Spirituality
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...
by Andrew Jasko | Apr 12, 2020 | Nondual Theology and Philosophy, Psychology, Religious Trauma and Spiritual Abuse, Spirituality
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...
by Andrew Jasko | Mar 16, 2020 | Psychedelics, Psychology, Religious Trauma and Spiritual Abuse, Spirituality
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...
