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 [email protected], Join our FB community for a dialogue between Mystical Christianity and Depth Psychology.
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SpotifyMetaphors 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of truth that they spontaneously evoke—not in their denotations, the hard, factual, uni-dimensional casings of their historical reference.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! A thought-provoking and joyful discussion. 20% more laughter! We talk about the apostle Barnabas and his Epistle, and the Gnostic Bible. Also the See More
The Laughing Mystics: An unorthodox journey through the liturgical year
Teilhard was apparently influenced by Jung’s ideas, and Jung knew Teilhard’s work as well. It is said that Jung was reading Teilhard’s Human Phenomenon shortly See More
The Laughing Mystics: An unorthodox journey through the liturgical year
The West has lived with two prominent paradigms for the last several hundred years: the mechanistic worldview and the medieval worldview. The mechanistic worldview has See More
The Laughing Mystics: An unorthodox journey through the liturgical year
“Our job is not to comprehend or control everything, but to learn which story we are in and which of the many things calling out See More
The Laughing Mystics: An unorthodox journey through the liturgical year
“Thomas Merton expresses the need for this mystical imperative: The Christian’s vision of the world ought, by its very nature, to have in it something See More
The Laughing Mystics: An unorthodox journey through the liturgical year
The symbol, energized by metaphor, conveys, not just an idea of the infinite but some realization of the infinite. #josephcampbell Art - Sculpture "Mother Earth: See More
The Laughing Mystics: An unorthodox journey through the liturgical year
Episode 14! Laura and Marci talk about faith. We also talk about childhood religious training, concrete vs. abstract thinking, and anthropological research about initiation rituals See More
The Laughing Mystics: An unorthodox journey through the liturgical year
New episode dropped this morning! In it, Laura offers this quote re: Revelation and the Apocalypse. Hope you'll take a listen! "Christ was the first See More
The Laughing Mystics: An unorthodox journey through the liturgical year
“In the end, what we fear will not go away, for it indicates what we must go through in order to awaken, become more genuine, See More
The Laughing Mystics: An unorthodox journey through the liturgical year
Practicing symbolic thinking. My nonfiction essay is now online with Story Sanctum. Grateful.
In March of 2024 my husband and I took a trip of a lifetime – a 14-day tour of Greece. We made our reservations early and gleefully imagined the trip for almost a year. We read and reread the fantastic itinerary which took us to Athens, Delphi, Olympia, and other rural Greek wonders and ancient he...
The Laughing Mystics: An unorthodox journey through the liturgical year
Gustave Doré's engraving of the New Jerusalem(1866) , Revelation 21:1-2, a symbol of integration.
The Laughing Mystics: An unorthodox journey through the liturgical year
Our current episode. Filled with laughter and deep dives. If you haven't yet, we hope you will follow the podcast, rate, comment, and please share See More
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