Category: Symbolic Thinking

I continue to attend Mass at a nearby Catholic community.  I’m surprised to see how the ritual itself works on me from week to week.  Most weeks I’m also grateful to recognize depth psychological themes in the readings.  The preaching of priests and laity is lovely but almost every week…

Learning from Joseph Campbell, Carl Jung, and others, I remind myself that holy texts describe what is always happening in our lives. I’m thinking about this reading heard at Church today. Mary and Joseph are told that Jesus is the guy.  The guy to save the world.  (Does every parent…