Worry is our heart’s way of getting our attention
Worrying is a powerful tool for self-development and growth. Worry is our heart’s way of getting our attention, telling us it needs to be heard, seen, and loved. If we deny the voice of worry and push it away through spiritual practice – meditation, church, yoga...Religious fundamentalism operates by creating and sustaining a sense of unsafety. Anxiety drives religious devotion.
Deal with any sense of unsafety in your life. It is hard to grow, love, sometimes even to function if you feel unsafe. Your body focuses its energy and attention on the primary need to SURVIVE. Even if you know the unsafety isn’t real, your body thinks that death is a...
Healing religious trauma. Awakening spirituality grounded in reality.
- Religion works like mental illness. It gets you by through dysfunction, and leaves you with painful psychological symptoms
- Christianity is Holy War. The Great Commission is Ideological Jihad. God’s Kingdom is a Regime of Violent Global Conquest. Liberal Christianities are Complicit.
- Finding Spirituality after Religion. The Spiritual Suppression and Imperialism of Christianity: Individually, Globally, and Historically.
- God is not loving. Love in God’s Kingdom is conditioned on obedience. Conditional love means I will accept you if you give me what I want
- Christianity is a trauma reaction. It re-enacts the trauma of suffering through punishments of wrath and sin. Compassionate awareness is the key to healing this traumatized way of approaching life
- The Protestant work ethic is the mental illness of our time. Willpower is a function of having access to yourself. Real hard work is not really hard.
- Crimes of Emotion: Emotional Repression and Toxicity in Christian Fundamentalism
- My Relational Meditation
- My Psychiatric Drug Addiction
- Worry is our heart’s way of getting our attention