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When evolutionary psychology challenges spiritual identity

My therapist keeps talking about how we evolved to have certain patterns and it makes sense but it also makes me feel like everything I thought was my soul is just biology and I'm having an existential crisis.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Scientific explanations for human nature threaten the seeker's sense of spiritual uniqueness, reducing the sacred self to mere biological programming.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Evolution and creation across traditions?”

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