Tag: spiritual abuse

• What I mistook for faith

  August 29, 2026

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  faith and control, jessa blog, religious trauma, spiritual abuse, when faith becomes control

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  via GIPHY The trouble begins when people confuse understanding something with endorsing it. This is the intellectual equivalent of refusing to learn what poison looks like because poisoning people is wrong. From This Is How To Live A Good Life: 5 Secrets From Ancient Wisdom I was too naïve to understand the faces of power.…

• Claimed — A novella about spiritual abuse

  April 28, 2026

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  artificial intelligence, cults, fiction, jessa blog, spiritual abuse, writing

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  Claimed is the result of an experiment in collaborative drafting with AI on a topic I knew. About an hour to read. Free PDF below. I wanted to experiment with co-writing fiction with an AI, and since I learned how to use Claude Code, Claimed is what came out of it. And I think it…

• Late-night musings #31

  November 12, 2025

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  jessa blog, Life, love bombing, psychological manipulation, Relationships, spiritual abuse

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  I was trying to remember the quote that tells about how forgetting the past condemns one to repeat it. After an online search, the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy was correct to say that the quote is often inaccurately quoted, just like I did. “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it” The…