A graduate researcher at the University of Illinois Springfield is developing the first standardized assessment tool for religious and spiritual trauma — and is looking for participants to help validate it. The Multidimensional Religious and […]
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My Experience of Going Public: Surviving Spiritual Abuse in Plum Village
GUEST POST BY JAM Ae few weeks ago, I sent Plum Village (PV) centres around the world the results of my open letter: an appeal for better safeguarding measures. Finally, I have taken what may […]
Cultic Experiences: The Untold Consequences and How to Find Healing
Guest Post By Nina Drew Around 0.5-3% of people (between 1.65 million to 6.6 million individuals) are involved in a cult at some point in their life and those that finally break free often have […]
Heartwood Hosts Its First Gathering of Survivors of Abuse by Buddhist Teachers
Blog post by A Participant in the Heartwood Survivor Program We are only one of multiple ongoing survivor groups, including BIPOC survivors, created by Heartwood, an alternative medicine healing center outside Chicago in the United […]
Walking Free from coercive, cultic and spiritual abuse
On Saturday, 15 July 2023, there was an Inform seminar on “Harm in New and Minority Religions: Sources of Support” at King’s College London. Among other speakers¹ Gillie Jenkinson, Director of Hope Valley Counselling, gave […]
Karmapa Agrees to Multimillion-Dollar Settlement with Mother of his Child, Source Says
GUEST POST by VETTED CONTRIBUTOR The 17th Karmapa, Orgyen Trinley Dorje, has agreed to a multimillion-dollar financial settlement with a woman who alleged she was sexually assaulted and impregnated by him in 2017, according to a […]
Tibetan Buddhism – Struggling With Diffi·Cult Issues 