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

2nd Sunday of Advent - John the Baptist!

Our question: What events in my life have helped separate the wheat and the chaff within me.

The Hebrew word for "fear" in "fear of the Lord," such as in Isaiah, is typically 𝑦𝑖𝑟𝑎ℎ (יִרְאָה), which translates to a sense of reverence, awe, and profound respect, rather than terror. 

Laura mentions the free newsletter "Believing " from the New York Times.

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Season Two! First Sunday of Advent.

Our question: What helps me stay awake or what puts me to sleep spiritually/psychologically?

Marci recommends the book, Learning to Walk in the Dark by Barbara Brown Taylor, and quotes Anthony De Mello.

A quote from Parker Palmer, via Fr. Rohr."Thomas Merton claimed that “There is in all visible things … a hidden wholeness.” But back in the human world—where we are less self-revealing than jack pines—Merton’s words can, at times, sound like wishful thinking. Afraid that our inner light will be extinguished or our inner darkness exposed, we hide our true identities from each other [and] become separated from our own souls. We end up living divided lives, so far removed from the truth we hold within that we cannot know the “integrity that comes from being what you are.”

https://cac.org/daily-meditations/wholeness-includes-imperfection/

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The Feast of Christ the King.

Question: Who is someone I trust and admire enough that I’d be their subject and honor them as a  King in my world.

 Laura mentions mythologist Michael Meade and his Living Myth podcast.

We talk of Joseph Campbell and an ancient practice of sacrificing the King.

Laura also mentions another podcast, including ⁠The Rise and Fall of Mars Hill.

We explore the power of changing the genders in the second reading.

 We mention: Jungian Marion Woodman and her quote about the Goddess,

Elizabeth’s Johnson’s book, She Who Is.

Laura again uses the Jungian term "Objective Psyche" as a synonym for God. Marci mentions sand mandalas made by Tibetan monks.

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The 33rd Sunday in The Kingdom of Heaven is Now Time.

Question: "How do I know that I'm on the right side of history?" And "If I could join Paul and write letters to the Churches in America, what would I say?"

We dip into politics.

We mention the metaphor of the purifying fire found in both scripture and in the medieval practice of alchemy.

We again mention Teihard de Chardin and the evolution of consciousness.

We mention historian Heather Cox Richardson and her daily podcast that explores daily life through the lens of history.

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Feast of the Dedication of the Lateran Basilica in Rome.

Questions we ask each other (and you): What is your favorite memory of a sacred space? If you were going to be a sacred space, what space might represent your soul?

We talk about the "living water" and a story that Carl Jung often told.

Also Jung's exploration of his own psyche through architecture.

Laura mention's Ezra Klein's book, Abundance.

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Our question today is: What happens after we die? We talk about heaven and hell, The Day of the Dead and skull faces.

We visit Ilia Delio's website for several juicy quotes. Here and here. And also this quote to chew on: "

"A person is a center of consciousness expressed in a particular matrix of matter, as if the entire universe (if indeed consciousness is the stuff of the universe) is compacted into this particular material form. In this respect, every person is the universe aware of itself (as Teilhard noted). To put this another way, there is no universe apart from the active centers of personal consciousness; each person is the universe come to self-consciousness."

Marci reads Mary Oliver's poem "When Death Comes."

Laura reads Teilhard de Chardin's poem, "Aging/Dying Prayer"

There are two different reading options for the second reading and the gospel.

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We explore the story of Jesus raising the widow's son as our gospel reading.

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30th Sunday in The Kingdom of Heaven is Now Time.

We ask ourselves (and you) several questions: What does it mean for me to repent?

What was a moment of conversion in my life?

We wonder about how Paul forgave himself and integrated his own conversion experience after being struck down in Damascus. Here is one possible timeline of events.

We talk about prayer, the "Way of the Pilgrim" and his prayer, and prayer mantras.

We explore the paradoxical nature of parables and compare them to dreams.

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Thank you to Josh Mortensen for having Laura on his podcast, The Explorer Poet.

And if you're in Nashville, come to the Tennessee International Film Festival on Nov. 6 and see Laura and her film, Dumpling!

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29th Sunday in the Kingdom of Heaven is Now Time.

Question we ask ourselves: "When the Son of Man comes, what faith will he find in me?"

We talk about what posture we take in the world and what is the best "posture" to fight evil or unconsciousness?

Jung's answer to "will the world survive?" "As he did so often, Jung saw the individual as the key to the future: If there are enough individuals who are conscious, who recognize the reality of the opposites, who have done sufficient work on themselves to face and manage the opposites in themselves, then we might avoid this most horrendous of tragedies."

--Sue Mehrtens

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28th Sunday in the Kingdom of Heaven is Now Time.

We ask ourselves: "What is my faith around “being healed?”

We talk about the bubbles we travel in - economic, spiritual, or political.

Also, Do I prefer to swim in the shallow water or the deep?

We drift into the deep waters of the Adam and Eve story.

We talk of the Felix culpa -- Latin for “happy fault.” It comes from a line in the Exsultet, an ancient hymn sung during the Easter Vigil.

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Laura is starting a new product - practicing symbolic thinking using fairy tale stop motion films in a Monthly Film Club.

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We ask ourselves (and you) this question: "What is my unique calling, how am I to serve the world?"

Laura mentions the book, Paradoxical Thinking and  

a great article about the prophet Habakkuk and his infrequent appearance in the church calendar. Marci offers a wonderful metaphor of faith and flying a kite and she mentions Father Richard Rohr's book,  Everything Belongs.

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