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of truth that they spontaneously evoke—not in their denotations, the hard, factual, uni-dimensional casings of their historical reference.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: Jungian Psychology and the Christian Liturgical Year
From the amazing (and challenging) Ilia Delio (excerpt from article linked below): "The monotheistic revolution represented a profound shift in human consciousness—the movement from polytheistic See more
The Laughing Mystics: Jungian Psychology and the Christian Liturgical Year
How can we really become the "Body of Christ?" Dealing with conflict, hurt, and setting healthy boundaries is part of the journey. “Boundaries protect the See more
The Laughing Mystics: Jungian Psychology and the Christian Liturgical Year
"Too many people get credit for being good, when they are only being passive."
Fulton J. Sheen
Wow. Thank you Rev. Sheen.
The Laughing Mystics: Jungian Psychology and the Christian Liturgical Year
A spiritual joke...
He got rid of his ego and now he thinks he's better than anyone else.
The Laughing Mystics: Jungian Psychology and the Christian Liturgical Year
Re: Science and Religion - "During the last fifty years or so, the investigations of science have proved beyond all doubt that there is no See more
The Laughing Mystics: Jungian Psychology and the Christian Liturgical Year
New Episode!
The Laughing Mystics: Jungian Psychology and the Christian Liturgical Year
Thank you Chelly for sharing your thoughts on the podcast!!
The Laughing Mystics: Jungian Psychology and the Christian Liturgical Year
Paradox is a characteristic of the Gnostic writings. It does more justice to the unknowable than clarity can do, for uniformity of meaning robs the See more
The Laughing Mystics: Jungian Psychology and the Christian Liturgical Year
New Episode Thursday!
The Laughing Mystics: Jungian Psychology and the Christian Liturgical Year
Love this.
The Laughing Mystics: Jungian Psychology and the Christian Liturgical Year
Re: healthy conflict at church. "Practicing the skill set of honest expression, for example, would mean that “the elephant in the sanctuary” cannot remain there See more
The Laughing Mystics: Jungian Psychology and the Christian Liturgical Year
Pope Leo in his recent letter about AI. "With the heart of a shepherd and a father, I ask everyone to abandon the construction of See more
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