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How to discern between spiritual healing and intellectual escape

My therapist says my religious trauma is why I became a biologist and now I cannot tell if my career is healing or avoidance.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The pursuit of objective knowledge can become both liberation from and flight from subjective wounding.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Religion and science — the examined relationship?”

If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.