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

We talk about the problem of “always looking up.” Laura mentions Jungian James Hillman

 We talk about the the political and economic power of the church.

 Laura and Marci swim in the deep waters of Hebrews and Atonement theory.

[There is a] . . . continued and progressive divine incarnation. Thus man is received and integrated into the divine drama. He seems destined to play a decisive part in it; that is why he must receive the Holy Spirit. I look upon the receiving ofthe Holy Spirit as a highly revolutionary fact which cannot take place until the ambivalent nature of the Father is recognized. -- Carl Jung

The Sunday Readings.

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We talk about controversies in the early church and today.  

Marci offers a great exercise for listening deeply to others.  

We explore following literal laws of the church vs. the law of love.

 We talk about Laura’s love of rocks and her gift of petoskey stones.  

Marci recommends "Ordinary Mysticism :Your Life as Sacred Ground" By Mirabai Starr

"Christ, as a particular concrete manifestation of the Holy Spirit, must die in order for the disciples to develop an individual relation to the Holy Spirit, that is, the projection must be withdrawn. This is the"very important step forward beyond Christocentrism."

--Carl Jung

"The Spirit is destined to be incarnate in man or to choose him as a transitory dwelling-place. "Non habet nomen proprium," (he doesn’t have a proper name) says St. Thomas; because he will receive the name of man. That is why he must not be identified with Christ. We cannot receive the Holy Spirit unless we have accepted our own individual life as Christ accepted his. Thus we become the "sons of god" fated to experience the conflict of the divine opposites, represented by the crucifixion."

--Edward Edinger

The Sunday Readings

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A thought-provoking and joyful discussion. 20% more laughter in this episode!

We talk about the apostle Barnabas and his Epistle, and the Gnostic Bible.

Also the conflict of opposites and quotes by Edward Edinger and Carl Jung

We explore the connotations of the word "glory" as well as the Jungian terms, inflation and conjunctio (from Jung's study of alchemy).

We reflect on brokenness and share more personal stories as part of our own "Acts of the Apostles."

The Sunday Readings

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Laura and Marci talk about faith. Laura offers this quote by Carl Jung.

Also this quote, talking about the Apocalypse. Christ was the first attempt of the God-image to incarnate and transform itself. Now, the second time around, humanity as a whole and not just one person is going to be the subject of that process. God is going to incarnate in humanity as a whole....
Edward Edinger, from his book- Archetype of the Apocalypse.

Marci mentions the Healthy minds app

We talk about childhood religious training, concrete vs. abstract thinking, and anthropological research about initiation rituals and the adolescent brain.

Also the Initiation of young girls in Greece.

The Sunday Readings are here.

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A happy conversation. We talk about the change in consciousness within the early Christians. We explore the concept of the "Second Coming."

Marci reads this poem -

Antiphon for Divine Wisdom By Hildegard of Bingen, Translated By Barbara Newman

Sophia!

you of the whirling wings,

circling encompassing

energy of God:

you quicken the world in your clasp.

One wing soars in heaven

one wing sweeps the earth

and the third flies all around us.

Praise to Sophia!

Let all the earth praise her!

The Sunday Readings

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Laura reflects on her powerful and unexpected experience of Holy Week.

She recalls the scene/joke from the Tony award-winning musical "Passing Strange." (Great musical - with adult language and themes)

We talk about the forms of worship, from traditional to modern and the effects they produce. Joseph Campbell had strong opinions on this. "....they've translated the Mass out of ritual language and into a language that has a lot of domestic associations. The Latin of the Mass was a language that threw you out of the field of domesticity. The altar was turned so that the priest's back was to you, and with him you addressed yourself outward. .... They've forgotten that the function of ritual is to pitch you out, not to wrap you back in where you have been all the time. ... the rituals that once conveyed an inner reality are now merely form."

-- Joseph Campbell

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We talk about Thomas as the "literal man," "wounded healers," the value of our woundedness, healing vs. cures, and what does it mean "to believe."

Mandala like paintings of the Book of Revelation.

Also the work of Robert J. Schreiter and his book The Ministry of Reconciliation

Marci mentions this video about Christ in all things.

The mystical paintings of Fra Angelico.

Link to the readings.

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We discuss the Easter readings.

Laura imagines the scene and wonders- would you go into the tomb or wait outside?

Marci reads her poem, "Sneaky Jesus" and she recalls Mary Oliver's poem, "The Summer Day."

Link for the Sunday Readings

"The imitation of Christ, then, is participating in the suffering and joys of the world, all the while seeing through them the radiance of the divine presence."

--Joseph Campbell

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Marci shares her excitement and knowledge of the 3 holy days of the Triduum. Our original discussion was 1 hour and 20 minutes, now down to 46 minutes. Laura runs out of steam at the end. Please forgive the shortened Easter vigil description.

Holy Thursday Readings: https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/041725-Supper.cfm

Good Friday Readings: https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/041825.cfm

Easter Vigil Readings : https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/041925.cfm

We spent much of our history arguing about the “how” and the “if” and who could do what Catholics called the “transubstantiation” of the bread and wine instead of simply learning how to be present. We made the Eucharist into a magic act to be believed instead of a personal transformation to be experienced. We changed bread more than people, it seems to me. We emphasized the priest as the “transformer” instead of the people as the transformed. We made “Real Presence” into a doctrine (which has its very good meaning!), but we seldom taught people how to be really present (which is contemplation). When you are really present, you will experience the Real Presence for yourself.

--Fr. Richard Rohr

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We continue on the journey of the Passion. Reflecting on how the media portrays it and our own ability to witness suffering.

"Another aspect of the Gethsemane image that it emphasizes the fact that suffering is a crucial part of the process. The important part is to accept the suffering one encounters. You know we all have the deeply ingrained infantile notion that we’re supposed to be happy. That’s not true. We are supposed to suffer. If you attach any psychological credence to what I’m describing as a Christian archetype, if it has any general validity, can you escape the conclusion that is implied that we’re supposed to suffer?"

--Edward Edinger, The Christian archetype : a Jungian commentary on the life of Christ

"For many centuries the west, under Byzantine influence, represented Christ himself alive and open-eyed, a triumphant Savior wearing a royal crown. In the 11th Century there appeared a new type, the emaciated figure with its head fallen on one shoulder and, later, wearing the crown of thorns. This version prevailed in western art thereafter."

Edinger

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