I loved reading this 🥰 and agree very much. Some adjacent/tangential thoughts: I think as each area you mentioned heals (clinical, religious, and spiritual) then they actually become more interconnected. For example I started as an atheist, began developing spiritually a lot, and now very much feel the presence of the divine in all things. But I don't think that's mutually exclusive, I think they can simultaneously exist as a spectrum with the presence and absence of the divine as the two polarities. Some psychologists are self-educating in the area of spirituality and I think it's a wonderful development for the field and for people who most need help from both. I was very lucky to find my doctor, who eventually told me that every time I demanded to be evaluated for schitzo I was actually right about something that I wouldn't have known otherwise without the guidance I was receiving. He's the one who vetted a bunch of people and found me the psy-gym because he said he thought what I was having trouble with was uncontrolled skills that they could help me with. They have, it's been a really remarkable year for me. One of the things we worked on was on judgement exactly. Most mental health issues arise as a result of judgement. Rather than tell myself that I was experiencing the "bad crazy" we pivoted the language to discernment. A big part of knowing I wasn't schitzo was my ability to discern the difference between material reality and my guidance. In psy-gym a huge part of the work is discerning the difference between my own "voice" or energy signature and something else. To me I understand it like tuning into different radio frequencies. Discernment is important, so that we can tell which direction along the polarity we're going. But even demons as you call them, even they are part of God's design because my understanding of God is that of an all inclusive field of energy from which all creation springs. In order to experience their creation they must separate from themselves, and that is what I believe material existence is. So the absence of the divine is part of the divine plan too, and these demonic entities are doing their job so to speak. It's not correct to judge them as bad, but it is important to discern when one is feeding off you so you can shake it off and reorient yourself towards the divine presence. My doctor's PhD student centered his thesis around incorporating shamanistic practices of soul retrieval and entity clearing into their clinical practices. Both my doctor and his student are in Peru right now being trained by shamans and I can't wait to hear from them when they return! 💖