by Andrew Jasko | Sep 19, 2019 | Nondual Theology and Philosophy, Psychology, Religious Trauma and Spiritual Abuse, Secular Humanism, Spirituality
What if you could borrow the mind of God? Or perhaps manufacture something like it through technological sorcery. Imagine what your life might look like from the perspective of an all-loving, all-knowing creative intelligence. How would your infinitesimally puny human...
by Andrew Jasko | Jun 28, 2019 | Psychology, Secular Humanism, Spirituality
Atheistic Humanism lacks a developed language for psychological experiences typically labeled religious or mystical. It often focuses narrowly on the dangers of religion, which makes metaphysical claims about mystical-type experiences without evidence or critical...
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 | Aug 11, 2018 | Religious Trauma and Spiritual Abuse, Secular Humanism, Spirituality
What is Woo-woo? Is it not a derogatory slur used to pre-judge and dismiss ideas we find threatening? My fellow humanists, we may find ourselves slipping into the same dogmatism we strongly (and rightly) protest in religion. I confess I am guilty–when I left religion...
