Spiritual abuse and human fallibility — my attempt to become ordained as a Buddhist.

A personal account and a warning of how spiritual communities can be just as damaging as normal human society is — even though they purport to be aimed at healing practices. But I have learned how the healing must come from within yourself- So beware and do not trust too carelessly, we are all deeply fallible humans after all.

We all know the stories about sexual abuse within spiritual communities across all the world’s religions and practices from shambala Tibetan Buddhism and yoga to…