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of truth that they spontaneously evoke—not in their denotations, the hard, factual, uni-dimensional casings of their historical reference.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)
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The Laughing Mystics: Jungian Psychology and the Christian Liturgical Year
The Laughing Mystics: Jungian Psychology and the Christian Liturgical Year
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The Laughing Mystics: Jungian Psychology and the Christian Liturgical Year
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The Laughing Mystics: Jungian Psychology and the Christian Liturgical Year
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