Many people live with shame and self-doubt tied to religious messages without realizing it. How to recognize religious harm ...

In my years of practice, I have had the honor of helping many individuals recognize and heal from religious trauma. As you can imagine, when something so sacred as religion is used in a way by the ...

Religious belief is one of the oldest and most complex aspects of human culture, shaping civilizations, laws, and personal identities. But for those who stand outside the realm of faith, certain ...

Psychologists, anthropologists, and religious-studies scholars have been studying religious experiences for a long time now. What have they learned? Well, the answer to that question has changed over ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about relationships, personality, and everyday psychology. Many people come to therapy upon the realization that their ...

Across cultures and history, psychedelics have been used to induce religious experiences described as unity, transcendence, and encounters with divine beings. Modern research shows substances like ...

Three major themes emerged from the survey responses: religion was a key influence on participants’ mental health, some respondents experienced religious separation, and a few respondents experienced ...

It’s been an exciting few months in the world of near-death experiences. First, neurosurgeon Eben Alexander published Proof of Heaven, in which he describes falling into a meningitis-induced coma and ...

University of North Carolina at Charlotte's School of Nursing, collaborating with Harvard's Human Flourishing Program, reports that adolescents who report transformative religious or spiritual ...

It’s a long word, a neologism, that seeks to capture a cultural transformation that is both historically specific and socially profound, a shift in mentalities and practices cutting to the core of ...