Healing Spiritual Abuse & Church Hurt
Since my first article on spiritual abuse, I have been surprised and saddened by just how many people have contacted me who have...
Working with our Shadow
In my earlier article on The Spiritual Life and our Shadow, I describe the Jungian under-standing of how we learn, from early childhood,...
Psychological Ways We Can Undermine Our Spiritual Transformation
In my earlier article on Struggling with Prayer: A Psychological Perspective, I looked at ways we can unconsciously resist the change...
Spiritual Abuse
Spiritual abuse is a much under discussed subject that is sadly more prevalent in spiritual contexts, including mainstream religions,...
Spiritual Life and Our Shadow
Carl Jung, a 19th century Swiss psychoanalyst whose work bridges the gap between psychology and spirituality, understood our Shadow to be...
Spiritual Pathology
Spiritual pathology describes how we can distort and undermine our spiritual path and its practices, because of our own deep unresolved...
Living With Paradox
In our Western world many people suffer from an inability to live with paradox and contradiction. We have lost touch with paradoxical,...
The Wisdom of Imperfection
Rob Preece, a Buddhist spiritual mentor I am privileged to know, recently wrote a book entitled 'The Wisdom of Imperfection.' An...
Spiritual Life and Our Emotions Part 2 - Spiritual Bypassing
Spiritual bypassing, a term coined by psychologist John Welwood in 1983, is the use of spiritual beliefs and practices to avoid dealing...
