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When mental health treatment conflicts with spiritual experience

My therapist wants to medicate what I experience as spiritual visions but I'm terrified of losing this connection to something larger.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The pathologizing of transcendence creates a false choice between sanity and sanctity.

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“Where Are You with Mystical experience — neuroscience and theology?”

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