In a world where the undercurrent of sexual exploitation runs deeper than you may know, "Alchemizing Exploitation" takes you on the courageous journey of a survivor. Sarah's story begins with an exploration into the very heart of human sex traffic...
Spiritual warfare surrounds a young girl as she falls prey to a wicked man in her home, eventually leading to her exploitation in unspeakable evil. Meanwhile, a teacher struggles against those same forces of evil as he strives to complete God's calling to start a specialized restoration home for sexually exploited girls.
This book integrates humanist approaches in enabling both spiritual growth and social science knowledge in advocating for the emancipation of exploited women, children and youth, based on critical realism. Through an autoethnographic account of the first author's journey from being a secular Jew, through Anglicanism, to Quakerism and then Islam, a pacifist-based social science methodology is developed. This approach describes attempts to understand and liberate sexually exploited youths in Bangladesh; exploited women and girls in Pakistan; and struggling women in Gaza, Palestine. The model attempts to integrate moral goals of Judaism, Christianity and Islam in seeking peaceful co-operation. Secular humanism is added, creating a research model which seeks the enhancement of human welfare through the universal ethic of the social contract, in which humans and their welfare are both interesting and exciting. A review of research on child sexual exploitation elaborates the model of child-centred humanism. | Author: Chris. Adam-Bagley, Mahmoud Abubaker, Alice Sawyerr | Publisher: Ethics International Press, Inc | Publication Date: Apr 18, 2023 | Number of Pages: 254 pages | Language: English | Binding: Hardcover | ISBN-10: 180441123X | ISBN-13: 9781804411230
Have You Experienced Spiritual Heartbreak?
Of all the things modern people of faith overlook or choose to ignore in the Bible, stories of sexual exploitation are near the top of the list. This isn't so different from our world today, when victims of trafficking, rape, and harassment are dismissed and disbelieved, their stories twisted and erased. Trauma-informed educator and minister Camille Hernandez dives deep into the Bible's stories of exploitation and abuse to name the difficult truths buried in Scripture, address the forms such violence takes in modern society, and illuminate a path of healing and hope. With a blend of storytelling, cultural analysis, and trauma-informed care, The Hero and the Whore invites readers to reconsider their assumptions about victims of sexual exploitation and respond with compassionate understanding that will bring us all to the wholeness God desires. | Author: Camille Hernandez | Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press | Publication Date: Oct 31, 2023 | Number of Pages: 200 pages | Language: English | Binding: Paperback | ISBN-10: 0664268218 | ISBN-13: 9780664268213
Spiritual abuse involves coercion, control, or exploitation by another person in a spiritual context. It can come from a faith leader or a partner who uses spiritual or religious beliefs or doctrine to exert power over you. Spiritual abuse can involve verbal, emotional, and/or physical violence.
Your spiritual ego is a sinkhole that can engulf your sense of self and reset your spiritual progress by turning you into a spiritual narcissist.
2019 NAUTILUS GOLD WINNER In a time of rapid climate change and species extinction, what role have the world’s religions played in ameliorating—or causing—the crisis we now face? Religion in general, and Christianity in particular, appears to bear a disproportionate burden for creating humankind’s exploitative attitudes toward nature through unearthly theologies that divorce human beings and their spiritual yearnings from their natural origins. In this regard, Christianity has become an otherworldly religion that views the natural world as “fallen,” as empty of signs of God’s presence. And yet, buried deep within the Christian tradition are startling portrayals of God as the beaked and feathered Holy Spirit – the “animal God,” as it were, of historic Christian witness. Through biblical readings, historical theology, continental philosophy, and personal stories of sacred nature, this book recovers the model of God in Christianity as a creaturely, avian being who signals the presence of spirit in everything, human and more-than-human alike. Mark Wallace’s recovery of the bird-God of the Bible signals a deep grounding of faith in the natural world. The moral implications of nature-based Christianity are profound. All life is deserving of humans’ care and protection insofar as the world is envisioned as alive with sacred animals, plants, and landscapes. From the perspective of Christian animism, the Earth is the holy place that God made and that humankind is enjoined to watch over and cherish in like manner. Saving the environment, then, is not a political issue on the left or the right of the ideological spectrum, but, rather, an innermost passion shared by all people of faith and good will in a world damaged by anthropogenic warming, massive species extinction, and the loss of arable land, potable water, and breathable air. To Wallace, this passion is inviolable and flows directly from the heart of Christian teaching that God is a carnal, fleshy reality who is promiscuously incarnated within all things, making the whole world a sacred embodiment of God’s presence, and worthy of our affectionate concern. This beautifully and accessibly written book shows that “Christian animism” is not a strange oxymoron, but Christianity’s natural habitat. Challenging traditional Christianity’s self-definition as an other-worldly religion, Wallace paves the way for a new Earth-loving spirituality grounded in the ancient image of an animal God. Product DetailsISBN-13: 9780823281312 Media Type: Paperback Publisher: Fordham University Press Publication Date: 11-20-2018 Pages: 224 Product Dimensions: 6.00(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.60(d) Series: Groundworks: Ecological Issues in Philosophy and TheologyAbout the Author Mark I. Wallace is Professor of Religion and Environmental Studies at Swarthmore College and core faculty for the U.S. State Department’s Institutes on Religious Pluralism at Temple University. His books include Green Christianity: Five Ways to a Sustainable Future and Finding God in the Singing River: Christianity, Spirit, Nature.Table of Contents Table of Contents Preface ix Introduction: Crossing the Species Divide 1 The Animal God • Animism • Feral Religion • God of Beak and Feathers 1. Song of the Wood Thrush 20 The Singing Monk of the Crum Woods • Nature Religion • The Pigeon God • Sacred Animals • Christian Animism • Divine Subscendence • Avian Spirit Possession • Return to the Crum Woods 2. The Delaware River Basin 50 Toxic Tour • Heidegger’s Root Metaphors • Calling Spirit from the Deep • Sacrament of Dirt and Spit • Girard’s Fear of Monstrous Couplings • Green Mimesis • The Pileated Woodpecker 3. Worshipping the Green God 81 Crum Creek Visitation • Christian History • Jesus and Sacred Land • Augustine and Natalist Wonder • Hildegard’s Viriditas Pneumatology • Rewilding Christian Worship 4. “Come Suck Sequoia and Be Saved” 113 John Muir’s Christianimism • Indian Removal in Yosemite • The Great Code • The Water Ouzel • The Two Books • Sequoia Religion • “Christianity and Mountainanity Are Streams from the Same Fountain” 5. On the Wings of a Dove 141 Sagebrush Requiem • Is Earth a Living Being? • Suffering Earth • Refreshment and Fragrance in the Hills • A Tramp for God • The Death of God • God on the Wing Acknowledgments 173 Notes 177 Index 205 Show More
What is Spiritual Exploitation? Does it take place within the Mormon culture and community? How is it defined and how is it detected? What are the impacts?
Women are messengers of divine love and beauty. They carry the divine mission to give love, peace, joy, understanding and nobleness to earth's inhabitants. But they have been deceived, mistreated, abused, lied to and exploited since the beginning of time. From an early age they are massively manipulated, disenfranchised, intimidated, abused for other purposes by assimilation programmes and pressed into collective norms. In this way they lose all uniqueness and become mass products for satanic purposes. They are put into externally controlled roles without their conscious consent and are tempted into being child-bearing machines, housewives, career women, mothers, wives, partners, sex objects and much more. This keeps them from their true life plan and distracts them from their divine mission. This book looks at the greatest fraud on women, pregnancy, from the spiritual, mental and energetic perspective. The purpose of this book is not to demonise pregnancy, but to consciously look at it for what it mostly is in reality: a satanic ploy to bring sinister characters, dark souls and low vibrating beings to earth! This is why women rarely get the children they want. Even for those who already have children, this book is a great revelation and helps to eliminate misunderstandings between parents and children caused by satanic forces. May this book bring more peace and joy to our world. Because without peace, no one has a future! Saeed Habibzadeh works internationally as a spiritual teacher, author, karmalogist, matrix cleaner and composer and has helped millions of people worldwide with his unique work. His works and products expand consciousness and give peace, healing and zest for life to body and soul. His compositions for film, pop and classical music touch the heart and bring salvation to the soul. www.saeed.eu www.saeed-music.com | Author: Saeed Habibzadeh | Publisher: Beyond Matrix Publishing | Publication Date: Jan 28, 2023 | Number of Pages: 123 pages | Language: English | Binding: Paperback | ISBN-10: 3946082203 | ISBN-13: 9783946082200
Through prayer, support, and advocacy, we can embody God’s love. By Chance Galloway
This book is a historical account of the mountains that were held sacred by the Native American tribes. It explores their cultural and spiritual significance as well as the European colonization and exploitation of these lands. The author, Joel Tyler Headley, was a nineteenth-century American author and clergyman who was passionate about preserving the history of the Native American peoples. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant. | Author: Headley Joel Tyler | Publisher: Legare Street Press | Publication Date: Jul 18, 2023 | Number of Pages: 216 pages | Language: English | Binding: Paperback | ISBN-10: 102212529X | ISBN-13: 9781022125292
Cults are exploitative, weird groups with strange beliefs and practices, right? So what about regular religions then?
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• Explores 13 principles of unconditional love for addressing the trauma of domestication, healing relationships, and restoring deep connection to the inner guidance of your wild soul • Explains the nature of trauma from the perspective of emotional development • Provides experiential practices for the cultivation of authentic relationships that are free of exploitation and codependency After more than twenty years as a professional horsewoman, and applying what she had learned to a half-wild husky dog, Ren Hurst decided to take a deep look into the nature of domestication and humanity’s relationship to other animals. She found that our own domestication--and our resultant disconnection from nature--is the root trauma for much of the human experience, perpetuated by our domestication of others. She then reverse-engineered the conditioning process that leads to domestication and discovered a practical roadmap for deprogramming and undomesticating yourself in order to heal trauma, restore connection, and reclaim the innate wisdom of wildness within. Sharing enlightening moments from her journey of taking in and connecting with her husky, Denali, the author explains how their growing relationship was testing her to her limits. Yet when she embraced the principles of unconditional love, she found the instinct and intuition necessary so she and the dog could understand one another and find their rightful places within the power dynamics of guardian and dependent. The author shows how, when there is emotional awareness and authentic leadership that links in with your own wild parts, an authentic relationship between human and animal--or between one’s self and another person--is possible. Looking at the domestication of humanity, the author explains the nature of trauma and disconnection from the perspective of emotional development. She unveils 13 principles of unconditional love for deprogramming yourself, healing the trauma of domestication, and restoring deep connection to inner guidance, your wild soul, and, ultimately, freedom. She also offers experiential practices to help you cultivate authentic, undomesticated relationships free of exploitation and codependency, whether with human or animal companions. Helping you reclaim the innate wildness within, Ren Hurst explores how to rewild your heart, receive guidance from your wild soul, and approach your life path with authenticity and emotional maturity. | Author: Ren Hurst | Publisher: Findhorn Press | Publication Date: Jan 17, 2023 | Number of Pages: 160 pages | Language: English | Binding: Paperback | ISBN-10: 1644116790 | ISBN-13: 9781644116791
When the Holy Spirit directed me to write this thesis it was after God had implemented the changes and corrections for the church and believers began to benefit fully from the transition. I hope you will be blessed by the many wonderful testimonies throughout. The apostolic thesis is the first of its kind. Not only does the Holy Spirit explain faith crisis and spiritual exploitation, but also uncovers the underlying root causes. God is addressing a faith in crisis, a spiritual government in crisis, and belief systems that He did not authorize or sanctify in the name of Jesus Christ. The church had suffered under the hands of many spiritual butchers, slicing and dicing faith this way and that. Each area of spiritual exploitation has had a catastrophic and blinding influence on all facets of Christian life. Believers were led into a very confusing era. Ministers were constantly rehashing faith programs as they sorted out their own failings, reducing covenant to a psychology. Ideas were tabled as quickly as they were introduced. Thankfully, the church has now entered into a new apostolic era. God has restored His true culture of faith and heritage to the church, helping believers understand once again the apostolic authority, calling, and anointing.
Chapter 1 Haven’t you ever got mad at someone? Haven’t you ever used foul language, flaunted something, double-crossed someone, stolen or misappropriated something, exploited the...
Psychological manipulation is the exercising of toxic influence on someone through mental and emotional exploitation, with the aim of controlling them.
