Spiritual bypassing-the use of spiritual practices or beliefs to avoid dealing with painful feelings, unresolved wounds, and developmental needs-is so pervasive that it goes largely unnoticed in our culture. In the tradition of the landmark work Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism by Chgyam Trungpa, Spiritual Bypassing casts a lucidly critical eye on our deeply entrenched misuse of spirituality, furthering the body of psychological insight into how we use (and abuse) our spiritual practice in often unconscious ways.