Table of Contents
1 Avoidance in Holy Drag: An Introduction to Spiritual Bypassing 1
2 Cutting Through Spiritual Bypassing 9
3 Let's Stop Being Negative About Our Negativity 15
4 Blind Compassion: Neurotic Tolerance in Caring's Robes 21
5 Healthy and Unhealthy Transcendence 29
6 Cutting Through Spiritual Shortcuts 37
7 Bringing Shadow Work out of the Shadows 43
8 What Generates Spiritual Bypassing? 51
9 The Anatomy of Magical Thinking 57
10 Why Don't More Spiritual Teachers Include Psychotherapy in Their Work? 67
11 Making Wise Use of Anger 75
12 Boundaries Make Freedom Possible 89
13 Don't Take It Personally? 99
14 Releasing Sex from the Obligation to Make Us Feel Better 105
15 Neither Romancing Nor Fleeing Relationship 115
16 Disembodied Spirituality and Embodied Being 123
17 True Responsibility: Heart, Guts, Accountability 137
18 Spiritual Gullibility and Cultism 145
19 Are We Responsible for Our Illness? 151
20 When Nondual Teachings Are Not Nondual 157
21 Bringing Shame out of the Shadows 163
22 When Our Honeymoon with Spirituality Is Over 173
Appendix I The Method of No Method: Intuitive Integral Psychotherapy 179
Appendix II Illuminating and Integrating Body, Mind, Emotion, and Spirituality 187
Acknowledgments 197
Index 199
About the Author 205