American liberals scream about Gaza, genocide, and Free Palestine while treating Hamas and the IRGC as romantic underdogs. Most of them live in a country where the worst daily threat is bad Wi-Fi. They have never lived under the theocratic police states or militia rule they soft-pedal. Searching “summer outfit trends” and calling the resulting feed research is not waking up. It is proof the algorithm trained them to feel sophisticated while remaining historically illiterate. There is a difference between a people and the men with guns who rule them. If your version of Free Palestine requires defending the groups that embed among civilians, divert concrete into tunnels, and reject demilitarization, you are not freeing anyone. You are protecting the leadership that treats Palestinian deaths as strategic assets. Authenticity is the willingness to follow the evidence even when it ruins the preferred story. Soul over ego. Evidence over performance.
Author Archives: catacosmosis
Science vs Spirituality | Beyond the Psychological Self — Pearls, Swine, and the Ongoing Yes
The command not to cast pearls before swine is a real warning. But it is a call to wisdom about how we give, not a release from the call to keep loving. There is a difference between guarding what is holy and refusing to let love move through us at all.
Science vs Spirituality | Beyond the Psychological Self — What Healthy Love Actually Is
Most of the confusion around boundaries, self-awareness, and “too much” love does not start with those topics themselves. It starts with the fact that many people no longer have a clear understanding of what love actually is – psychologically, philosophically, or biblically.
Science vs Spirituality | Beyond the Psychological Self — Self-Awareness as Refined Selfishness
What often passes for self-awareness today is less about honest examination before God and more about the skilled protection of the emotional self. The language sounds wise. The fruit is often a quieter, more sophisticated form of selfishness.
Science vs Spirituality | Beyond the Psychological Self – The Incomplete Map
Psychology has given us a clear map for pouring from an empty self. What it cannot chart is the possibility that the pouring might not be coming from the self at all.
Science vs Spirituality | Beyond the Psychological Self – The Self is not the Source
Psychology has a clear map for pouring from an empty self. But what if the pouring is not coming from the self at all? What if it is coming from Him – and He always replenishes?
Root Work: The Deliverance Sessions | Session Ten – Interlocking Strongholds and Sustained Freedom
Session Ten examines how the spirits addressed in this series form interlocking strongholds and why isolated deliverance often fails. True freedom requires the dismantling of the entire system and is sustained through ongoing submission, renewal of the mind, spiritual community, and the practiced filling of the house. Deliverance opens the door; discipleship keeps it open.
Root Work: The Deliverance Sessions | Session Nine – The Spirit of Self-Hatred and the Orphan Identity
Session Nine confronts the spirit of self-hatred and the orphan identity that so often underlies every other wound. This spirit turns abandonment, rejection, violation, and failure into a verdict against the self. The post examines its operation, its biblical confrontation, and the process of renunciation so that the heart can agree with God’s declaration that His children are fearfully made, His workmanship, and the object of His rejoicing.
Root Work: The Deliverance Sessions | Session Eight – Spirits That Enter Through Sexual Violation and Trauma Bonds
Session Eight addresses the spirits and trauma bonds that enter through sexual violation. It treats both the real trauma and the spiritual consequences with gravity, outlines the careful process of renunciation and cleansing, and emphasizes the non-negotiable need for mature covering. What was taken by force does not define those who have been purchased by Christ.
Root Work: The Deliverance Sessions | Session Seven – The Strong Man of Fear (and the Spirit of Control)
Session Seven confronts the strong man of fear and its primary strategy of control. Fear says safety depends on management; Scripture says God gave a spirit of power, love, and sound mind. The post examines how fear and control operate, their biblical confrontation, and the process of renunciation so that the heart can transfer its dependence from self-protection to the faithful presence of God.
Root Work: The Deliverance Sessions | Session Six – The Spirits of Rage and Entitlement
Session Six confronts the spirits of rage and entitlement that rise when performance and people-pleasing fail. These secondary spirits feed on the original wounds of abandonment and rejection, keeping the heart locked in demand and bitterness. The post examines their biblical confrontation, their operation, and the process of renunciation so that justice and comfort can be received from the Father rather than demanded from others.
Root Work: The Deliverance Sessions | Session Five – The Spirits of Performance and People-Pleasing
Session Five examines the spirits of performance and people-pleasing – common strategies the heart develops to manage abandonment and rejection. These patterns appear virtuous but are agreements with the original strong man. The post walks through their spiritual root, biblical confrontation, and the process of renunciation so that work and service can flow from freedom rather than from the need to earn belonging.
Root Work: The Deliverance Sessions | Session Four – The Spirit of Rejection
Session Four addresses the spirit of rejection – the near-constant companion of abandonment. It examines how rejection turns the wound of being left into the identity of being unworthy, contrasts this with the biblical reality of being chosen and accepted in the Beloved, and walks through the process of renunciation and receiving the truth of Ephesians 1. Human rejection does not define those whom God has chosen.
Root Work: The Deliverance Sessions | Session Three – The Strong Man of Abandonment
Session Three confronts the strong man of abandonment – one of the most common and deeply rooted spirits. It examines how this strong man enters, the secondary spirits it invites (rejection, entitlement, performance, rage), the biblical answer of adoption, and the specific process of renunciation and receiving the Spirit of adoption. The Father does not leave His children as orphans.
Root Work: The Deliverance Sessions | Session Two – The Process
Session Two of Root Work walks through the biblical process of deliverance: identification of open doors and strong men, repentance and renunciation, resistance in Christ’s authority, and the essential filling of the Holy Spirit. The order cannot be reversed. Submission precedes resistance. Anything less leaves the house empty and vulnerable.
Root Work: The Deliverance Sessions | Session One – Foundations
This first session of Root Work lays the biblical foundation for deliverance and inner healing. It examines why the modern church (especially New Thought and therapeutic streams) has largely abandoned real spiritual authority, explains the strong man principle, and issues a clear warning: this work requires maturity and covering. Submission to God must come before resistance.