Feels Like Redemption

The Pilgrimage to Health and Healing (My Pilgrimage)

By: Seth Taylor

Narrated by: Seth Taylor

Length: 2 hrs and 51 mins

Publisher's summary

In the Christian church and the world at large today, addiction to pornography is not just a crisis, it is the crisis. The approach for many has been to label this a war, and scores of books and teachers have tried to show that using various control methods and tools in order to deal with the problem leads to freedom. But the crisis continues to grow, and true freedom, the kind that Jesus seems to be pointing to in the Gospels, seems forever out of reach.

This powerless approach has left millions without true freedom and asking some very hard questions about themselves, their sexuality, and the nature of God. In this groundbreaking new book on an age-old topic, author Seth Taylor leads us into the question: "Is there any real power? And if there is, why don't we see it more?" With this question as the starting point, Taylor shows listeners how to peel back the layers of all the things people are medicating with pornography and other "drugs." He gives listeners the tools to make their spirits come alive. Through a compelling combination of stories and spiritually grounded teaching from his own pilgrimage, Taylor shows listeners that freedom is not a myth, but rather the essence of every human being, created in the image of God.

Feels Like Redemption powerfully teaches that this journey into sexual and spiritual health is not a battle. It's a pilgrimage - a sacred journey. And in walking this journey, we can be changed forever.

©2015 Seth Taylor (P)2015 Seth Taylor

Powerful story and bold fresh approach .

the compulsive nature of today's pornography consumer is real. PIED is a term that wasn't used 10 years ago. it stands for pornography induced erectile dysfunction and today's high speed Internet access coupled with compulsive out of control pornography consumption is the reason this new term exists. Not to mention the broken families and relational conflicts a pornography addicted person struggles with. Seth book is a fresh approach and his story is one of help hope and healing. 5 stars!

This is the first book that I can truly say has changed my life!

Everything this man describes has clicked with something deep within me. Christianity and my addiction are finally starting to make connections and make sense! I recommend this book for anybody

Lay down your sword

All I can say is from one who is one who likes control, certainty, and structure, this book makes you take an approach to freedom that makes me fearful and afraid. Jesus did not ask Peter to make sure everything was ok before he stepped out on the water, He said Come! So as you read, trust in your Heavenly Father when He says come to Me, know that it is not a bait and switch. He wants you to experience peace and freedom beyond understanding. This book has been a blessing and I will continue to go through it a few more times in the coming weeks.

Awesome

Amazingly powerful. Speaks to what's missing in recovery. Looking forward to listening again and again.

Real life

I appreciated most all of it, but not the scattered vulgar words that I didn't feel helped communicate his feelings better than without them. This was helpful in many ways, but not as much as I had hoped.

Helpful, But Also Seems Mixed Up

Essentially, this is a book about mindfulness as a way of helping porn addiction. In that vein it is helpful, but other works, especially those on Dialectical Behavioral Therapy, are more helpful and mindfulness methods are not deeply discussed. More often the author pushes for the reader toward a highly postmodern, psychologized, secular form of the faith with undertones of mysticism that, at least from the point of view of what Christians have believed throughout the history of the church (the great tradition), are more often confused than helpful.

I think the one criticism I have of this book (and it is important) is that the thrust of human sexuality throughout the book is almost completely individualistic. There are points where sexuality is connected with God and community, but the predominant emphasis is that sexuality is about a disjunction within a person's own self. This is true. This is also helpful and the therapy (e.g. mindfulness) associated with learning to understand this disjunction is gold. But as the core issue of human sexuality and as a category the author effectively places God this emphasis obscures human identity and God's relationship to the world. In effect, it is the difference between the cosmological view of sexuality people like Rod Dreher talk about (see "The Benedict Option") and a psychologized and individualistic view of sexuality. That last statement is vague and unhelpful, but a look at Dreher's book and his footnotes could go a long way to understanding what I mean here.

I wish I could give this book more stars while remaining honest, but I think these faults are significant and one would be better reading books on mindfulness/DBT and learning mysticism from the church fathers and the spiritual traditions of the Eastern Orthodox, Roman Catholics and Protestants (especially the desert fathers).

Yea! No sin, it's "medicating."

This book is the unhealthy pendulum swing of "white knuckling." Looking at a someone lustfully is no longer committing adultery in the heart, it is now "medicating." People act out due to self-hate, not because of any spiritual reason (in the Christian sense). Very new age. I was looking for a good resource but found a very flesh and emotion driven solution which ends up being no solution at all. The summary? The author says it at the end of the book - just try something. I was hoping for a lot more than that. Very disappointing.

Dangerous Doctrine

This gets categorized under Christian but it's more closely related to New Age and Mysticism. Be on your guard.