I would simply *not do* the psychedelic-mediated therapy that seems to create a "demon management problem" for its practitioners. ecstaticintegration.org/p/does-interna…
@DouthatNYT (Neutrally, and with a faint tight smile): "We prefer to call it a demon management *situation*."
@DouthatNYT IFS is not "psychedelic mediated" nor particularly prone to "demonic possession." It's a standard form of therapy. If people are brainwashed by religion into believing that "demons" exist, that will come up in the beliefs they interrogate during therapy.
@DouthatNYT Oh, come on, try it. I think you’d be surprised. I know that I was.
@DouthatNYT @EWErickson but if you're not flirting with demons, are you really living?
@DouthatNYT The things the passage describes as "Catholic teaching" aren't necessarily Catholic teaching, but signs of possession/obsession commonly observed by exorcists as signs of such maladies. And, so are the other signs it describes.
@DouthatNYT I'm a little confused by this piece, because it seems like the demonic stuff is not necessarily emerging ONLY when psychedelics are incorporated in IFS. Is that right?
@DouthatNYT "70% of all respondents agreed that ‘psychedelics open us up to the spirit world, in good ways and bad’. 60% agreed that ‘people working with psychedelics should be trained in how to engage with the spirit world’, but only 38% said they felt adequately trained to engage"
@DouthatNYT They’ll chase any option that’s not just “turn to Jesus”. Sounds like that would fix a lot of this.