The Laughing Mystics: Jungian Psychology, Christian Spirituality, and Laughter

(82) Our Question: When have I had a calling that I couldn't ignore?

Edward Edinger's book on the Prophets:

⁠Ego and Self: The Old Testament Prophets From Isaiah to Malachi

Edinger quote  -

"As early as Jeremiah, we hear about a so-called new covenant, different from the old, which promised that 'I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts.'"

from The Psyche in Antiquity

Laura used to teach emotional intelligence.  What is that? https://www.6seconds.org/emotional-intelligence/

Thomas Keating --"Divine life is basically the inner freedom to choose the right and the good spontaneously."

Today's Readings

Curious about the Enneagram?? Marci is leading an online ⁠⁠introduction to the Enneagram ⁠⁠in September through the ⁠Franciscan Spirituality Center⁠!

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(81) Our Question: What unlocks the Kingdom of Heaven for you (me)?

The Community Fridge Project: Community-run fridges for anyone in need.

Details about the Sacrament of Reconciliation

Vatican II document about how Catholicism views other religions: Nostra Aetate

Edward Edinger's books:

The Bible and the Psyche

Ego and Self: The Old Testament Prophets From Isaiah to Malachi

Transformation of the God-Image: An Elucidation of Jung's Answer to Job

The Sunday Readings⁠

Curious about the Enneagram?? Marci is leading an online ⁠introduction to the Enneagram ⁠in September through the Franciscan Spirituality Center!

Thank you for listening! You're invited to join our FB community at ⁠⁠⁠⁠ https://www.facebook.com/laughingmystics/⁠⁠⁠⁠

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(80) Our Question: How do I feel about laws? Am I comfortable breaking any laws?

Laughing Mystics is a podcast loved by Progressive Christianity!

Kohlberg’s seven stages of moral development

Thomas Merton book: Opening the Bible

Einstein's idea of spooky science and quantum mechanics

We wonder about healing vs. cures and Anointing of the Sick

The Sunday Readings

Curious about the Enneagram? Marci is leading an online introduction to the Enneagram in September through the Franciscan Spirituality Center!

Thank you for listening! You're invited to join our FB community at ⁠⁠⁠ https://www.facebook.com/laughingmystics/⁠⁠⁠

Need more poetry in your life? ⁠⁠⁠Visit Marci's blog ⁠⁠⁠and/or ⁠⁠⁠subscribe to Laura's new substack ⁠⁠⁠and receive one of her fresh poems delivered to you periodically.

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(79) Our question: What are my associations with storms or being in deep water?

Thomas Keating's thoughts on silence.

Thomas Merton's thoughts on silence.

A mystery that we chew on - From Sean J. McGrath on Psychology and the Cross podcast. McGrath explores the common idea of Jesus as one of the symbols of the Self that Jung explored. I'm still capitalizing the word to show that it is different than our regular conception of the ego/self . "...I think that what we see in the Christian revelation of the Christ is that Christ is not primarily a symbol of the Self; he’s a symbol of God. He’s a symbol of God, and the God is not the Self. The Self, then, we’d have to say, from a Christian perspective, that unconscious center of the soul, the Self is an image of God. And Jung says as much, he says, it’s imago dei, it’s an image of God. We have that in Genesis. And so it points toward God. But Christ doesn’t simply express the human reality; he does that, of course, but he also expresses the divine reality. We get both."

Sunday Readings

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(78)

"What in my life fails to satisfy me?"

More about virtues

There are four verbs in the reading that correspond to the Eucharistic prayers in the Catholic Mass: take, bless, break, and give. It can be thought of as a way to live.

Megan McKenna, who's a scripture scholar, has a book called Not Counting Women and Children, Neglected Stories from the Bible.

The Sunday Readings

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(77) Our question: What do I want?

 Thomas Moore (Author of Care of the Soul):

"We must look at our deepest longings and cravings, eventhe messy ones, not as errors to be cured, but as the soul desperately crying out for what it needs to feel alive."

We talk about dreamwork. If you are curious. Here is a link to a dream dictionary, to help understand the layers of meaning in a dream.

 American psychologist Carl Rogers

The Sunday Readings.

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(76) Our Question: What are the weeds growing alongside the wheat in my life?

What do I groan for?

We might think of the seed as our potential and the light and the dark inside of us.

The Sunday Readings

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(75) Questions we ask: What is my current growing edge?  

How do I make myself into “rich soil?”

The Sunday Readings

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(74) 14th Sunday

Where am I young and innocent in a good way?

We talk about the baggage and burdens that we lug around all the time and the importance of play.

Zechariah's story

More about yokes

More about James Finley

Song from Rent about baggage

Sunday Readings

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(73) 13th Sunday in Ordinary Time

When have I been rewarded for doing the right thing, when I didn’t expect a reward?

What is the rock and hard place that I’m in (or have been in?)

In the Bible there are seven stories of barren women: three of the four matriarchs, Sarah (Genesis 11:30), Rebekah (25:21), and Rachel (29:31); Hannah, mother of the prophet Samuel (1 Samuel 1-2); the anonymous wife of Manoah, mother of Samson (Judges 13); and the “great woman of Shunem,” also called the Shunammite, an acolyte of the prophet Elisha and Elizabeth.

In the Bible, barrenness refers to the physical inability to conceive, but spiritually, it symbolizes a woman who experiences waiting, disgrace, and unrequited longing. To be a barren woman is to be forced to wait for a deliverance that only the Lord can provide.

It is a powerful metaphor.

Ilia Delio, her book about Jung-- The Not Yet God, Carl Jung, Teilhard de Chardin and the Relational Whole

More about Death cafes

More about Marie Louise Von Franz 

Sunday Readings

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