I suggested that psychological bypassing is the reverse: the use of clinical or therapeutic language to avoid the sacred and numinous. That is worth knowing, because a reflex you can trace is a reflex you can compassionately change and work with. When someone's spiritual life becomes active, it is often a signal that something is moving, even when the presentation is painful. Some of what people bring us is genuinely a symptom or a survival defence, and that is exactly what makes this so hard. There really are clinicians in whose offices all of it is welcome, including a propensity for spiritual or mystical experiences.