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Bridging the Ideal and the Real
by J. Pittman McGehee, D.D.
A collection of audio mp3s of lectures/sermons by J. Pittman McGehee, D.D. for all those with a deep human longing to experience the transcendent in their ordinary lives in the 21st century. To live a life with more mindfulness and self compassion, McGehee is an expert at describing the value of non dual consciousness, a healthy spiritual way of being and Jungian psychology for our bio, psycho, social and spiritual selves. He says, “My purpose is to deliver people from a black and white world to help them navigate a grey one.”
Episodes
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Re-Membering
This talk was given by J. Pittman McGehee, D.D. on 4/18/2001. Pittman describes his near death experience when he was a five year old child. He was critically burned over 1/2 of his body and for 3 days was near death. This amazing story was blocked out as an important event in his life when he...
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As the Dalai Lama said to me...
This talk was given by J. Pittman McGehee, D.D. on 4/7/91. Pittman describes how the holiness in each of us is projected when we meet a highly developed soul such as the Dalai Lama. Resurrection, a new birth is continuous throughout our lives as it is deeply desired in the psyche of everyone. It…
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My Ego Ain't My Amigo Anymore, pt 4
In part 4 of the series given by J. Pittman McGehee, D.D. in April of 2004, Pittman describes the nature of the Jungian concept of the Self with a capital “S”. A synonym is God within, Buddha nature, Christ, etc. The Self occupies the center and circumference of our life which includes everything...
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My Ego Ain't My Amigo Anymore pt 3
In part 3 of the series given by J. Pittman McGehee, D.D. in April of 2004, Pittman is describing the nature of the Jungian concept of complexes, (where we have coalesced energy around a particular archetype), how they are formed and what we can do to in the second half of life to integrate our...
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My Ego Ain't My Amigo Anymore pt 2
In part 2 of the series given by J. Pittman McGehee, D.D. in April of 2004, Pittman elaborates on the attachments and defenses we all express. He gives detailed examples of suppression, repression and denial along with idealization or illusion (which is also a form of denial) we use to hang on to...
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My Ego Ain't My Amigo Anymore pt 1
This 4 part series was given by J. Pittman McGehee, D.D. in April of 2004. Pittman begins with a humorous and mind provoking song by Terry Allen that gave him the title for the series. He then goes on to elaborate on the developmental stages of the ego as it leaves the unconscious. By nature we...
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The Problem of Authority
This talk was given at Bridget’s Place by J. Pittman McGehee, D.D. on March 5, 2005. Pittman describes our ego’s evolutionary development starting from childhood to becoming an adult. Our ability to make choices in the beginning is shaped by our parents, surrogate parents, church, government,...
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Eros and Forgiveness
This Sunday School class was given by J. Pittman McGehee, D.D. on 6/18/1989. (scratchy in places but very worth hearing anyway). Pittman describes the biblical story of David and Bathsheba which is about our instinctual human nature and the unconditional love God has for us. This complex story...
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I Like You Just the Way You Are - Part 2
This talk has two parts by J. Pittman McGehee, D.D. on October 20 and 27th, 1996. In part two, Pittman recites two poems, one by William Butler Yeats and another one by William Blake. Then tells us what the poems mean to him. He describes the sacred task we each have to become conscious in order…
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I Like You Just the Way You Are Pt 1
This talk has two parts by J. Pittman McGehee, D.D. on October 20 and 27th, 1996. In part one Pittman explores six basic reasons we all fear change. He is speaking from the standpoint of developmental psychology and part two will be based on theology. Pittman explains the process of how our...
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The Human Denial of Death
This Sunday School class was given by J. Pittman McGehee, D.D. on 3/27/1987. The American extroverted and materialistic way of our culture would much rather avoid the reality of death. We value old things but we don’t value older human beings. Life and death are very real and at the same time…
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Focus on the Trinity
This Sunday School class was given by J. Pittman McGehee, D.D. on 3/14/1987. Speaking on the trinity in a way you have never heard, this talk is both intriguing and thought provoking. Speaking first on family systems, the self I am, the self you see in me and the way the spirit transcends both as...
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Three Questions
This Sunday School class was given by J. Pittman McGehee, D.D. on 12/13/1987. Pittman continues from the previous talk that something has to die so that something new can be born. He describes the role of John the Baptist who came before Jesus and he also tells some stories from his youth that...
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Thoughts on Advent
This Sunday School class was given by J. Pittman McGehee, D.D. on 11/28/1987. Pittman tells the bible story preceding the birth of Christ that symbolizes something dying so that something new can be born. Life doesn’t allow us to stay in the same place although we know there will be excruciating...
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Advent II - Angels as Messengers
This Sunday School class was given by J. Pittman McGehee, D.D. on 11–22-1987. If an angel came to you today, what would it look like? Angels as messengers come in many ways and as a storyteller, Pittman invites us to see the many forms an angel can arrive and he doesn't believe they look like…
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Visible and Invisible: Balancing Two Worlds
This talk was given by Rev. J. Pittman McGehee, D.D. on October 20, 2002 at The Women’s Institute. We’ve all heard the saying that what we don’t know can’t hurt us, but the truth is our unconscious behavior, attitudes and drives that motivate us can hurt us. Jung called these invisible archetypal...
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Fleshing Out the Soul: The Theology of the Body
Pittman McGehee, D.D. speaks at the Paths to Healing Conference at Christ Church Cathedral in Houston, Texas on 1/27/01. He describes the relationship between body and soul as bodies ensouled. Speaking of St. Augustine who embraced the Manichean philosophy, and how our culture which is very...
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The Power of Darkness, Part 2
In Part 2, McGehee continues answering questions from the audience.
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The Power of Darkness, Part 1
In this talk given in San Antonio on May 15, 1998 at the C.G. Jung Center of San Antonio, Pittman McGehee, D.D. describes a new way of looking at darkness as containing a place for transformation as becoming conscious is not an easy thing to do. The Self is using our mistakes, failures and...
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Post Resurrection Appearances
This Sunday School class was given by J. Pittman McGehee, D.D. on April 9, 1989. McGehee describes two of the post resurrection appearances to show what happened before that are pivotal to the way Jesus comes to us in our everyday quotidian life. Usually when we hear the story of the appearance…
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Advent I - Eve and Mary
This Sunday School class was given by J. Pittman McGehee, D.D. on 11–20-1988. McGehee states that we have to see things as they are before we can see them as they aren’t. We have to be wiling to see both sides. In order to do exactly that, Eve gave us that opportunity when she risked going…
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The Psychology of Fundamentalism
This Sunday School class was given by J. Pittman McGehee, D.D. on October, 1989. Pittman talks about the fundamentalist in all of us as a result of placing authority outside ourselves. We always have to make choices and an adolescent ego always looks to an authority for their decisions. We all…
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Christian Love
This Sunday School class was given by J. Pittman McGehee, D.D. on February, 14, 1988. Pittman talks once again about the Greek words for love, Eros, Philia and Agape, but this time he uses stories in the bible about David which are in the Old Testament in Sammuels. There are 3 stories about King...
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Play
Pittman McGehee was asked to give a 15 minute talk on Play in Houston at the University of Houston Center for Humanities called Visions for Houston. So the beginning of this talk is about someone happening in the news at the time (Ginsberg) who was denied the ability to serve his country because…
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Love, Let Me Count the Ways
We live in a culture of narcissism centered on ego and ego gratification and most of us think love is a synonym for excitement instead of the Jungian view point of a Self for a Self, what Martin Buber calls an I-thou relationship. We are each barely conscious of who we choose to love as the...
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Four Elements of Faith
McGehee describes that what we deem to be evil and the worst thing that ever happened to us, may be the best thing that ever happened to us and that this autonomous and mysterious God that we must be related to is in charge. We are not. We are however in charge of our responses and to be a person...
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Reemergence of the Feminine Within the Masculine
FYI this talk was given the week before the one I posted last week, 9-23-90 so they are out of order. In this talk, McGehee describes the difficulty of being males who learned from their fathers and other men in authority that to be masculine is to compete and defeat other males. The reemergence…
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Masculine Psychology
Pittman McGehee begins by quoting Carl Jung. “Nature does not care about higher consciousness. Neither does society. Society is only interested in achievement and that for the most part, posthumously. In this talk, he explains the 3 most common rituals that men in our culture use to achieve the...
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The Power of Darkness, Part 2
There is power in looking into the darkness as we recognize the parts of us that we repress, collectively and individually especially our cultural obsession with the body and human sexuality. Anything repressed doesn’t go away, it comes out in a distorted form hence perversion and obsession so...
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The Power of Darkness Part 1
Part 1 of a talk given to the Jung Center in San Antonio, Tx on May 15, 1998, McGehee lays the groundwork for ego development as it is the beginning of our becoming conscious human beings. Reframing our failures, our mistakes, even illness and accident, any crisis that leads to suffering is the...
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The Christmas Spirit # 3 Five Childhood Fears
This Sunday School class talk was given by J. Pittman McGehee, D.D. on December 30, 1990. There are five childhood fears that McGehee singles out to describe but the biggest of all is non-being. To understand the remedy for that we graduate into our own self hood, our own containment by leaving...
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Christmas Spirit #2 Words Made Flesh
This Sunday School class talk was given by J. Pittman McGehee, D.D. on December 23, 1990. The prologue of the Gospel of John carries within it the origin of all things —breath that worded us into existence and the doctrine of grace. To be what we were created to be by God who conceived of you and...
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Christmas Spirit
This Sunday School class talk was given by J. Pittman McGehee, D.D. on December 16, 1990. Christmas time can be a joy filled time and a time of despair and depression. Pittman weaves our hopes and fears together and skillfully makes them acceptable so that something more substantial can occur…
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A Story of a Coach
This Sunday School class talk was given by J. Pittman McGehee, D.D. on April 17, 1988. This story is about his coach at Oklahoma State University and it is so funny that you will love it. It is as he says his chance at reconciliation and becoming real.
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The Potato Thrower
Using a humorous story about an article about a baseball team, Pittman McGehee tells a tale about the cosmic game of life and how Jesus came along to change the game. This Sunday School class talk was given on September 13, 1987.
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Quantity vs Quality
The ego has its own value system of what quality of life is for us and an essential part of our ego development is to acquire material things, power to get them and self worth derived from having accumulated matter and time. We all want more time. The problem is our ego thinks it's all that is of...
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Teeter Totter II
This talk is about our human ego and our soul and our imbalanced state that begins by building a lightness and a darkness in order to conform with what is acceptable in our environment and in our society. This leads to a fairly significantly unbalanced view of life. If we ignore the darkness long...
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Teeter Totter I
In this talk, Pittman shares the idea of balance vs integration, coming to a realization that there are some things in our psyche that are just not for us. Attitudes or associations we may have been dealt in our early days by parents, culture, family, etc. and the necessity of embracing that…
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The Day My Father Died
This is a story about the day Pittman’s Father died and the way men live with their ties cutting their bodies and feelings off at the neck. His intimacy at the end with his Father is revealing of the four Fs (feelings, failures, fantasies and fears) that he had a chance to hear before his Dad...
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Surprise Endings
Pittman gives three stories at the beginning and then takes you through a bible story of Pentecost where they begin to understand that the holy spirit doesn’t dwell in heaven but within each human being. The surprise ending is a perfect symbol for each of us. This mp3 is a talk given by J.…
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What Matters? What's Possible?
Pittman begins by describing our need for Mother (matter) being transcribed into material and that although it is important to have our material and physical needs met, it is also not what gives our life meaning. We all run into ruts, hardship and the walls that life brings, when we need someone...
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The Easter Chicken
Pittman begins with a humorous story from childhood about a dozen baby chickens all colored for Easter that his Father had brought home. Only one survived and grew up to be inferior as it had white feathers with purple tips. The shadow side of us is like that — different, rejected, inferior in…
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Hurts So Good
Pain is a peculiar human possession. We do not become close truly intimate without pain. Each of us has to take the risk of loving another as there is no wonderful love story without pain which informs us that we are alive. Christianity at it's most basic level integrates the pain as part of the...
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What Matters. What's possible?
Marion Woodman, in her book Addiction to Perfection does a definitive job explaining that our addictions whatever they may be are symbolic of our need for Mother. Our need to reconcile either too much Mother or not enough nurturing from the human being who was our Mother. What matters to us in…
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Dialectical Theism - Knowing God
How do we know a piece of art, a song or wisdom or even the taste of water? Can we even know that which we cannot comprehend? How would I know what you know. Pittman describes the two bookends of knowing God. One is the anthropomorphic God who hears, who walks and talks like a human being which…
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Maleness
Pittman begins with the sadness he felt when he received notice of a friend/hero who had died when he happens upon a tv lecture by a female doctor about the endocrine system and male testosterone. As men, it is our transcendence and goodness, our imago dei which is even more than can be captured…
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Comedy - Release from Trajedy
Pittman begins by telling the story of hearing that Jesus was riding in to Calgary on an ASS and how that made him laugh as a young boy who was hearing it in a church of all places. Life is filled with ironic and humorous comedy when we don’t take it so seriously it can sustain us in times that…
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The Sexuality Issue
Human nature says everyone will have a different sexuality — a personality and mystery of it's own. In this talk, Pittman defines Gods gifts of sexuality 1) procreation 2) to experience union (with another and with God) and the responsibilities of bringing another human being into the world. We...
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What is Your Thirst?
The nature of human beings is to be religious and Pittman gives two etymological descriptions of the word religion — to bind back which presumes something is broken and to tie up as in the mooring of a boat (or an anchor). Christianity does not offer any of us safety as it rains on the just and…
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The Evangelists Holy War
Pittman tells a poignant story of a childhood experience of the fear based preaching of an Evangelist and a high school friend who had the integrity to not let it affect his choices. The healing he experienced through his parents unconditional love gave him a foundation of a God who loves us all...
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A collection of audio mp3s of lectures/sermons by J. Pittman McGehee, D.D. for all those with a deep human longing to experience the transcendent in their ordinary lives in the 21st century. To live a life with more mindfulness and self compassion, McGehee is an expert at describing the value of non dual consciousness, a healthy spiritual way of being and Jungian psychology for our bio, psycho, social and spiritual selves. He says, “My purpose is to deliver people from a black and white world to help them navigate a grey one.”
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