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of truth that they spontaneously evoke—not in their denotations, the hard, factual, uni-dimensional casings of their historical reference.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
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The Laughing Mystics: An unorthodox journey through the liturgical year
We continue to explore the Acts of the Apostles and the stories of the early church. We wonder about how the early days of religious See more
The Laughing Mystics: An unorthodox journey through the liturgical year
Perfection is inhuman. Human beings are not perfect. What evokes our love --and I mean love, not lust--is the imperfection of the human being. So, See more
The Laughing Mystics: An unorthodox journey through the liturgical year
“Religion is not about accepting twenty impossible propositions before breakfast, but about doing things that change you. It is a moral aesthetic, an ethical alchemy. See more
The Laughing Mystics: An unorthodox journey through the liturgical year
From the fantastic James Hollis: “Some of us, understandably, do not wish to hear even this message of hope and personal growth. We wish to See more
The Laughing Mystics: An unorthodox journey through the liturgical year
Language, in its origin and essence, is simply a system of signs or symbols that denote real occurrences or their echo in the human soul. See more
The Laughing Mystics: An unorthodox journey through the liturgical year
So many of our friends value the use of tarot and the I Ching, yet Christianity today still has a leftover fear of these psychological/spiritual See more
The Laughing Mystics: An unorthodox journey through the liturgical year
Jesus's message in the gospel of Mark [the earliest gospel in the New Testament canon] was not about himself, it is about the kingdom of See more
The Laughing Mystics: An unorthodox journey through the liturgical year
Rumi's poem reminds me of my work teaching emotional intelligence. But his poetry is much better than my ppt. Can never hear this one enough. See more
The Laughing Mystics: An unorthodox journey through the liturgical year
Re: the passover sacrifice of the lamb, a wonderful passage from Richard Rohr. "Thank God, the Jews eventually stopped animal sacrifice, but it was meant 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
A poem..... about contemplation in daily life. For more free poems, visit poemsbylauralb.substack.com/ Ad Adventure - I am unprepared. I am on an adventure. I See more
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