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The Rise Of Spiritual Bypassing
How it is harmful to you.
The word was coined during the early 1980s with a transpersonal psychotherapist called John Welwood in his publication Toward a Psychology of Awakening. Under Welwood, spiritual bypassing could be described as:
A trend to use spiritual thoughts and methods to avoid or prevent facing unresolved emotional problems, emotional wounds, and incomplete developmental tasks.