Spiritual Psychology, The End Of Traditional Psychiatry
Spiritual Psychology: The End of Traditional Psychiatry Introduction 1. The Crisis of Psychiatry For more than a century, psychiatry has been dominated by a worldview that is strictly materialist, atheistic, and increasingly divorced from the reality of human spiritual experience. In the hands of those who deny God and believers who are being led astray, psychiatry has become not a healing art, but a mechanism of suppression. Patients who courageously speak of visions, voices, dreams, and encounters with unseen forces are labeled as disordered, delusional, or chemically imbalanced. Their testimonies are ridiculed, their experiences are invalidated, and their spirits are silenced beneath a regime of medication designed to numb the mind rather than address the deeper truth of the soul. 2. The Reality of Spiritual Experience Yet the evidence of lived human experience cannot be dismissed. Across cultures, people report spiritual realities with remarkable consistency: Hearing voices that i...