by Andrew Jasko | Sep 2, 2019 | Nondual Theology and Philosophy, Psychology, Religious Trauma and Spiritual Abuse, Spirituality
This is the God Complex: I make myself God to others to save myself from my suffering. Salvation from suffering through egotism is the problem of God. Humanity creates its Gods in the image of its ego. Ego worship is the source of the tribalistic us-versus-them...
by Andrew Jasko | Jun 27, 2019 | Religious Trauma and Spiritual Abuse, Secular Humanism, Spirituality
The religious differences of the world could be resolved with the one true confession of faith: “I don’t know.” I don’t know who I am or the ultimate nature of reality. My spirituality is an open question I’m living into, and I’m avoiding the temptation to need all...
by Andrew Jasko | Jun 24, 2019 | Nondual Theology and Philosophy, Religious Trauma and Spiritual Abuse, Secular Humanism, Spirituality
“God” must speak blasphemy to every truth seeker, total self-annihilatory heresy, in order to remain distinct from our ideas. God rages against your most treasured notions of God: your Jesus, your Buddha, your Muhammad, your Scientism, and must destroy God in these...
by Andrew Jasko | May 30, 2019 | Nondual Theology and Philosophy, Religious Trauma and Spiritual Abuse, Spirituality
Many forms of Christianity do not resemble the spirituality Jesus taught. The teachings of Jesus and the Bible may require his followers to transform their Christian religious institutions in order to become Christians (lit. “followers of Christ”) because Christianity...
by Andrew Jasko | May 10, 2019 | Psychology, Religious Trauma and Spiritual Abuse, Spirituality
Martyrdom is an ideology that weaponizes its victim to conquer an indigenous culture in Holy War through human sacrifice. Human sacrifice appeases the wrath of diabolical gods of human aggression, which is mobilized through a persecution complex to satiate the greed...
by Andrew Jasko | Apr 26, 2019 | Religious Trauma and Spiritual Abuse, Sexuality
Interview on Liz LaPoint ‘s The Naked Advice Blog on The Impact of Religious Sexual Teachings and Healing