Good friends Marci Madary & Laura Lewis-Barr bring differing perspectives to the Sunday readings of the liturgical calendar. Each week Marci shares her mystical Christian insights & infectious laughter with Laura, who ponders what Carl Jung & Joseph Campbell might say about these scriptures. Unscripted & lively, Laura & Marci offer as many questions as answers as to how Depth Psychology & Christianity might come together. New episodes every Friday! Write to us at Laughing.Mystics@gmail.com, Join our FB community for a dialogue between Mystical Christianity and Depth Psychology.
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Metaphors carry us from one place to another, they enable us to cross boundaries that would otherwise be closed to us. Spiritual truths that transcend time and space can only be borne in metaphorical vessels whose meaning is found in their connotations—that is, in the cloud of witnesses to the many sides of truth that they spontaneously evoke—not in their denotations, the hard, factual, uni-dimensional casings of their historical reference.
From the introduction of Thou Art That: Transforming Religious Metaphor (The Collected Works of Joseph Campbell) (p. 33)
The Laughing Mystics: An unorthodox journey through the liturgical year
New episode Thursday! Our question to you: What is a memory of "seeing the light" or a moment of conversion in the world or in See More
The Laughing Mystics: An unorthodox journey through the liturgical year
Tackling the Beatitudes in an upcoming episode. Quote from a helpful article linked below. “Blessed are the meek for they shall inherit the earth”. The See More
The Laughing Mystics: An unorthodox journey through the liturgical year
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The Laughing Mystics: An unorthodox journey through the liturgical year
“The spiritual life is not a life before, after, or beyond our everyday existence. No, the spiritual life can only be real when it is See More
The Laughing Mystics: An unorthodox journey through the liturgical year
A wonderful exploration of ancient writings and Jungian understandings.... "In the Midrash, the ancient Israelites encounter the figure of Serach bat Asher, who was able See More
The Laughing Mystics: An unorthodox journey through the liturgical year
Wonderful (and affordable!) online February "Natural Spirituality Conference." I'll be sharing a wonderful process for exploring the fairy tale, "The Girl Without Hands." This gathering See More
Our 2026 Theme: Dreams and The Underworld
The Laughing Mystics: An unorthodox journey through the liturgical year
Jungian Edward Edinger gets to the heart of how altrusim can backfire and our misunderstanding of "selfishness." “In my experience, the basis of almost all See More
The Laughing Mystics: An unorthodox journey through the liturgical year
Laura's blog post exploring the film "One Battle After Another." It is a film with lots of violence but it also explores deep themes of See More
The Laughing Mystics: An unorthodox journey through the liturgical year
“I asked God for religious certainty, and God gave me relationships instead. I asked for solid ground, and God gave me human beings instead—strange, funny, See More
The Laughing Mystics: An unorthodox journey through the liturgical year
From the National Catholic Reporter, about Joseph Campbell and this image, discussed in an upcoming episode. [Joseph] Campbell once spoke about the famous image astronauts See More
The Laughing Mystics: An unorthodox journey through the liturgical year
Wonderful (and affordable!) online February "Natural Spirituality Conference." I'll be sharing a wonderful process for exploring the fairy tale, "The Girl Without Hands." This gathering See More
The Laughing Mystics: An unorthodox journey through the liturgical year
New episode and also a new Logo! Thank you so much Jackie for sharing your talents with the podcast! The Slow Work of Evolution - See More
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