Why do so many recoil at the mention of GOD.

I’ll never forget the time a client asked me what I did when I travelled — or was it how I got into breathwork? I can’t quite remember. But I’d said something like, “I studied a lot of meditation, yoga, religion…”

“Religion?!” she gasped.

I’ll always remember how funny I found that — especially coming from this real Mother Earth type. So caring, so into healing.

Of course religion — the original spirituality.

Why ever not?

I mean, I get it.

With the church came complex humans who twisted words or used them for power. But that’s not the full story.

I kind of hop, skipped, and jumped over Catholicism and the church growing up. I was around it — a very Catholic Polish grandma, singing hymns in school — but church was boring, and no one taught it with any passion. So I didn’t pay much attention.

Maybe that saved me from the trauma I later saw in my cousin — the shame, the sin, the weight people carried. So many could never even say God. The word itself made them want to vomit.

Then came the ideas about being gay… the Crusades… we were told nothing good came from religion.

And I get it.

But it’s not completely true.

A lot of the democracies and freedoms we enjoy today were built on Judeo-Christian values. That’s not bullshit.

Equality. Women’s rights.

History is brutal — whichever angle you look from.

The new age communities tend to glorify the peaceful natives — who, in reality, were often just as violent with other tribes. The Aztecs and Mayans? Full of human sacrifice and bloodshed.

And yes, the Christian and Catholic crusades caused their own horror, imposing over what was already there — pagan rituals, cultures, people.

It’s history.

But God only knows how Jesus himself would have brought his teachings to other continents. Maybe it was all necessary in some way. Maybe the teachings were still there — the seeds planted — even if human ego got tangled up in it.

Maybe we simply weren’t conscious enough to understand it fully. But the teachings remained.

Maybe we had to collectively go through more traumas and processes to become more awakened.

In my early twenties, I started meditating and exploring Buddhism. Bikram yoga gave me peace. Eckhart Tolle taught me presence. The Celestine Prophecy awakened a kind of magic in me.

Travel deepened it all — Vipassana, India, being immersed in the Gods and Goddesses — all of it, as they call it, “religion.”

In Bali, the island of the Gods, and across Latin America and the Philippines, I saw Catholic influence everywhere. The churches were incredible — and yet, so much resentment lingered.

But was the anger towards God, or towards the humans who misused His message for control? I’d bet the latter.

After all my explorations, God — as I would call It — became everything & quite abstract. I knew God, although I couldn’t explain It. Perhaps a mosaic of everything I’d studied.

It wasn’t until I started paying attention to Jewish practices that I found myself being led back to Jesus. (weirdly)

I mean Jesus is cringe isn't he - really I was totally looking thru some weird beliefs and ego I feel until - again totally cringe - my eyes were opened.

Could it be that you carry some wounding or beliefs around religion? Does this kind of talk trigger you?

We all have our horror stories to heal.

I knew a man who saw demons when he masturbated — all because of his Christian upbringing, drenched in shame and threats of hell. I’ve seen how Jehovah’s Witness teachings damaged girls I once knew.

I’ve been lucky enough not to be deeply touched by the traumas of organized religion myself. But during a mushroom ceremony in northern Mexico, I cried buckets — grief that felt ancestral, like my whole tribe had been wiped out. It carried the flavor of religion.

The religion part needs healing.

But Jesus — well. I think we’ve been overlooking him in all this new age spirituality.

He’s the most influential human who ever lived.

Have you ever considered why?

I’m not too proud to admit that I know very little — and that I want to keep learning, keep being led. By truth & spirit.

We toss around words like Christ consciousness and priestess energy,

but maybe — just maybe — the way is through Christ.

I’m not even kidding.

Let me know if this resonates with you — or if you’d rather I stay focused on emotional processing and trauma healing.

With love,

Lisa x

“Let not the wise boast of their wisdom or the strong boast of their strength or the rich boast of their riches,but let the one who boasts boast about this:that they have the understanding to know me.”— Jeremiah 9:23–24 (NIV)