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Lisa Cataldo’s paper provides a robust rationale for the exploration of spiritual and religious experience in psychoanalytic treatment. Through a weaving of relational theory and clinical examples, she addresses the historic reductionism in psychoanalytic views of religion, the differences between spirituality and religion, and the inner and outer experiences, and she applies the concepts of surrender and the third to such experiences. In this discussion, Cataldo’s salient points are summarized and elaboration is offered. The commentary concludes with a cautionary note regarding the “survival of destruction,” which may prove more hazardous than anticipated.