The Laughing Mystics: An unorthodox journey through the liturgical year

(66) The 6th Sunday of Easter. Our question: What has been a miracle in my life?  Laura shares some insights from her recent trip to Turkey - the "second Holy Land." We talk about charismatic leaders and our openness to religious ecstacy. We offer several quotes by Rumi and St. Julian of Norwich, and explore the tradition of the mystics -- intimacy with the divine. Marci Madary offered this quote from MLK Jr. "All I'm saying is simply this, that all life is interrelated, that somehow we're caught in an inescapable network of mutuality tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly affects all indirectly. For some strange reason, I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be. You can never be what you ought to be until I am what I ought to be. This is the interrelated structure of reality."From excerpts from Martin Luther King Jr’s speech at Western Michigan University, 18 December 1963https://libguides.wmich.edu/mlkatwmu/speechRumi quote - “Take the famous utterance, "I am God." Some people think this is a great pretension, but "I am God" is in fact a great humility. Those who say, instead, "I am a servant of God" believe that two exist, themselves and God. But those who say, "I am God" have become nothing and have cast themselves to the winds. They say, "I am God" meaning, "I am not, God is all. There is no existence but God. I have lost all separation. I am nothing." In this the humility is greater.The Sunday ReadingsThank 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. Questions? Comments? Bring your voice to the conversation. We'd like to SHARE THE MIC with you! Send an audio from your phone with a question or comment to [email protected] now have an easier way for you to leave a review or rating, using this link! RateThisPodcast.com/thelaughingmysticsPlease follow us to be alerted for new episodes. We hope you'll share this passion project with others, write a review, or rate/like our podcast on your favorite platform!pod.link/1799776273New episodes now released on Thursday mornings!For more on Marci Madary visit https://www.insideoutspirituality.com/For more on Laura Lewis-Barr visit https://psychescinema.com/Want to support The Laughing Mystics? We now have MERCH! Visit ⁠https://www.zazzle.com/store/laughing_mystics/products(0ur show notes are always filled with many links. If your platform doesn't show them, visit the "episode webpage" or our Spotify page.)Music licensed from Artlist#jungianpsychology #depthpsychology #richardrohr #progressivechristianity #jungianwisdom #mysticalchristianity #religioustext #transpersonalpsychology

5th Sunday easter - We begin with a poem by Lynn Unger. Our question: What is a memory I have of visiting a spiritual dwelling?  Do I have a memoryof visiting one from another spiritual tradition? We read of complaints to early church leaders and imagineour “complaints” today.  We talk about the paradox of stones, and note that it is one of the archetypes of the Self.  If we were going to create a new lectionary, what other readings might we add? Marci names poets: Joy Hardjoe, Maya Angelou, Mary Oliver, or Tracy K Smith. Laura mentions Wayne Teasdale and his passion for interspirituality.The Sunday ReadingsThank 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. Questions? Comments? Bring your voice to the conversation. We'd like to SHARE THE MIC with you! Send an audio from your phone with a question or comment to [email protected] now have an easier way for you to leave a review or rating, using this link! RateThisPodcast.com/thelaughingmysticsPlease follow us to be alerted for new episodes. We hope you'll share this passion project with others, write a review, or rate/like our podcast on your favorite platform!pod.link/1799776273New episodes now released on Thursday mornings!For more on Marci Madary visit https://www.insideoutspirituality.com/For more on Laura Lewis-Barr visit https://psychescinema.com/Want to support The Laughing Mystics? We now have MERCH! Visit ⁠https://www.zazzle.com/store/laughing_mystics/products(0ur show notes are always filled with many links. If your platform doesn't show them, visit the "episode webpage" or our Spotify page.)Music licensed from Artlist#jungianpsychology #depthpsychology #richardrohr #progressivechristianity #jungianwisdom #mysticalchristianity #religioustext #transpersonalpsychology

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(64) Good Shephard Sunday. Our Question: When have I been shepherded or been the shepherd? We explore the difference between "neurotic" suffering and "transformative" suffering. Quoted in this episode - from ⁠Alfred North Whitehead⁠'s Religion in the Making."A system of dogmas may be the ark within which the Church floats safely down the flood tide of history. But the Church will perish unless it opens its window and lets out the dove to search for an olive branch".  Marci talks about the Enneagram. We talk about the paradoxical, contradictory, and powerful archetypes of shephards, sheep, and gates. Laura's voice suffers from Easter allergies. Boo. The Sunday ReadingsThank 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. Questions? Comments? Bring your voice to the conversation. We'd like to SHARE THE MIC with you! Send an audio from your phone with a question or comment to [email protected] now have an easier way for you to leave a review or rating, using this link! RateThisPodcast.com/thelaughingmysticsPlease follow us to be alerted for new episodes. We hope you'll share this passion project with others, write a review, or rate/like our podcast on your favorite platform!pod.link/1799776273New episodes now released on Thursday mornings!For more on Marci Madary visit https://www.insideoutspirituality.com/For more on Laura Lewis-Barr visit https://psychescinema.com/Want to support The Laughing Mystics? We now have MERCH! Visit ⁠https://www.zazzle.com/store/laughing_mystics/products(0ur show notes are always filled with many links. If your platform doesn't show them, visit the "episode webpage" or our Spotify page.)Music licensed from Artlist#jungianpsychology #depthpsychology #richardrohr #progressivechristianity #jungianwisdom #mysticalchristianity #religioustext #transpersonalpsychology

Our Question: When have I "seen God"?We talk of Peter's public speaking style and Stephen Colbert's talks with God. We wonder about modern spiritual metaphors and talk about the famous NASA photo "Earthrise."We imagine how the early church experienced blood and lambs and sacrifice - symbols that are different for us now. We recall memories of moments of revelations and clarity and how these often vanish. The Sunday ReadingsThank 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. Questions? Comments? Bring your voice to the conversation. We'd like to SHARE THE MIC with you! Send an audio from your phone with a question or comment to [email protected] now have an easier way for you to leave a review or rating, using this link! RateThisPodcast.com/thelaughingmysticsPlease follow us to be alerted for new episodes. We hope you'll share this passion project with others, write a review, or rate/like our podcast on your favorite platform!pod.link/1799776273New episodes now released on Thursday mornings!For more on Marci Madary visit https://www.insideoutspirituality.com/For more on Laura Lewis-Barr visit https://psychescinema.com/Want to support The Laughing Mystics? We now have MERCH! Visit ⁠https://www.zazzle.com/store/laughing_mystics/products(0ur show notes are always filled with many links. If your platform doesn't show them, visit the "episode webpage" or our Spotify page.)Music licensed from Artlist#jungianpsychology #depthpsychology #richardrohr #progressivechristianity #jungianwisdom #mysticalchristianity #religioustext #transpersonalpsychology

This week we go back to the basics with our question: What am I being saved from?We mention the Corporal acts of mercy We talk about the powerful beginnings of the early church and reflect on the Quaker tradition. "Quaker” was originally an insulting nickname given toFriends in the 1650s, based on a widespread belief in England, where Quakerism began, that in their worship, when under the influence of the Holy Spirit (or perhaps evil spirits, depending on one‘s point of view), Friends would shakeand quake.  We explore separateness and losing our separation from each other and recall Robert Frost's opinion that, "good fences make good neighbors." We wonder - is salvation “being saved from our seperateness?"We wonder if Thomas' doubts are actually a very active form of seeking God.  The Sunday ReadingsThank 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. Questions? Comments? Bring your voice to the conversation. We'd like to SHARE THE MIC with you! Send an audio from your phone with a question or comment to [email protected] now have an easier way for you to leave a review or rating, using this link! RateThisPodcast.com/thelaughingmysticsPlease follow us to be alerted for new episodes. We hope you'll share this passion project with others, write a review, or rate/like our podcast on your favorite platform!pod.link/1799776273New episodes now released on Thursday mornings!For more on Marci Madary visit https://www.insideoutspirituality.com/For more on Laura Lewis-Barr visit https://psychescinema.com/Want to support The Laughing Mystics? We now have MERCH! Visit ⁠https://www.zazzle.com/store/laughing_mystics/products(0ur show notes are always filled with many links. If your platform doesn't show them, visit the "episode webpage" or our Spotify page.)Music licensed from Artlist#jungianpsychology #depthpsychology #richardrohr #progressivechristianity #jungianwisdom #mysticalchristianity #religioustext #transpersonalpsychology

An Easter episode full of sound-booth surprises. Our question: How do I experience resurrection in my life?Marci references a ⁠famous video regarding perception. ⁠We appreciate this quote from Thomas Merton, spoken at another difficult time in history. “We are living in a world that is absolutely transparent and the divine is shining through it all the time.”We discuss an old Chinese story: "Good Luck Bad Luck." ⁠Marci discovers a powerful metaphor regarding our lack of "object permanence" with God.We explore the gospel story with active imagination: I'm at the threshold to the tomb. what happens next? And where am I at in the story right now?The Sunday Readings⁠Join the community: Facebook group: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.facebook.com/laughingmystics/⁠⁠⁠⁠Daily Poetry: Visit ⁠⁠⁠⁠Marci’s Blog⁠⁠⁠⁠ and subscribe to ⁠⁠⁠⁠Laura’s Substack⁠⁠⁠⁠ for your daily dose of verse.Share the mic: Send a voice memo to ⁠⁠⁠⁠[email protected]⁠⁠⁠⁠Rate/review easily: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠RateThisPodcast.com/thelaughingmystics⁠⁠⁠⁠Follow + listen: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://pod.link/1799776273⁠⁠⁠⁠New episodes drop Thursday mornings.More from Marci Madary: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.insideoutspirituality.com/⁠⁠⁠⁠More from Laura Lewis-Barr: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://psychescinema.com/⁠⁠⁠⁠Merch: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.zazzle.com/store/laughing_mystics/products⁠⁠⁠⁠(If your platform hides links, visit the episode webpage or Spotify.) Music licensed from Artlist.#jungianpsychology #depthpsychology #richardrohr #progressivechristianity #jungianwisdom #mysticalchristianity #religioustext #transpersonalpsychology #EasterSunday #Resurrection #ThomasMerton

Our challenging question: How have I betrayed the Divine?Marci offers a pun - joke.We explore a story from ⁠Africa from Michael Meade ⁠about "moving toward the roaring."Laura shares her process for working with dreams and how this influences her reading of scripture. ⁠Here is the process Laura's group uses.⁠⁠We also talk about narrative structure and Campbell's Monomyth. ⁠We circle around the many betrayals in the Passion narrative.  ⁠The Sunday Readings⁠We won't be recording the Triduum this year. Last years episode is ⁠here. Join the community: Facebook group: ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.facebook.com/laughingmystics/⁠⁠⁠Daily Poetry: Visit ⁠⁠⁠Marci’s Blog⁠⁠⁠ and subscribe to ⁠⁠⁠Laura’s Substack⁠⁠⁠ for your daily dose of verse.Share the mic: Send a voice memo to ⁠⁠⁠[email protected]⁠⁠⁠Rate/review easily: ⁠⁠⁠⁠RateThisPodcast.com/thelaughingmystics⁠⁠⁠Follow + listen: ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://pod.link/1799776273⁠⁠⁠New episodes drop Thursday mornings.More from Marci Madary: ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.insideoutspirituality.com/⁠⁠⁠More from Laura Lewis-Barr: ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://psychescinema.com/⁠⁠⁠Merch: ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.zazzle.com/store/laughing_mystics/products⁠⁠⁠(If your platform hides links, visit the episode webpage or Spotify.) Music licensed from Artlist.#jungianpsychology #depthpsychology #richardrohr #progressivechristianity #jungianwisdom #mysticalchristianity #religioustext #transpersonalpsychology #HolyWeek #PassionSunday #MichaelMeade #JosephCampbell

Our question: When or how have I come back from "death?"We talk about the power of imagination as a necessary part of change.We recall what Fr. Richard Rohr said about Paul's use of the word "flesh" and "spirit.""Paul made a most unfortunate choice of the word sarx, translated “flesh,” as the very enemy of pneuma, Spirit (for example, Galatians 5:16-24). Now we would probably translate sarx as “ego” or “small self,” which would be much closer to Paul’s actual meaning. Remember that Christianity is the religion that believes “the Word became flesh” (John 1:13), and Jesus even returned to the “flesh” after the Resurrection (Luke 24:40)—so flesh cannot be bad. If our spirituality is in any way anti-body.Join the community: Facebook group: ⁠⁠⁠https://www.facebook.com/laughingmystics/⁠⁠Daily Poetry: Visit ⁠⁠Marci’s Blog⁠⁠ and subscribe to ⁠⁠Laura’s Substack⁠⁠ for your daily dose of verse.Share the mic: Send a voice memo to ⁠⁠[email protected]⁠⁠Rate/review easily: ⁠⁠⁠RateThisPodcast.com/thelaughingmystics⁠⁠Follow + listen: ⁠⁠⁠https://pod.link/1799776273⁠⁠New episodes drop Thursday mornings.More from Marci Madary: ⁠⁠⁠https://www.insideoutspirituality.com/⁠⁠More from Laura Lewis-Barr: ⁠⁠⁠https://psychescinema.com/⁠⁠Merch: ⁠⁠⁠https://www.zazzle.com/store/laughing_mystics/products⁠⁠(If your platform hides links, visit the episode webpage or Spotify.) Music licensed from Artlist.#jungianpsychology #depthpsychology #richardrohr #progressivechristianity #jungianwisdom #mysticalchristianity #religioustext #transpersonalpsychology #ThomasMerton #Lazarus#TrueSelfFalseSelf #ContemplativeSpirituality #Enneagram

A deep dive into some familiar readings. And many questions. Our first question (based on the readings) : What ritual(s) in my life have brought me sight or a pouring out of the "Spirit of the Lord."We talk about the innocent "youngest one," here as David and also within ourselves as our⁠ "inferior function."⁠We ask: where am I asleep in my life? What darkness in myself might I be asleep to? Do I believe when I hear the voice of the Divine? Where am I in this story right now?Join the community: Facebook group: ⁠⁠https://www.facebook.com/laughingmystics/⁠Poetry: Visit ⁠Marci’s Blog⁠ and subscribe to ⁠Laura’s Substack⁠ for your periodic poems.Share the mic: Send a voice memo to ⁠[email protected]⁠Rate/review easily: ⁠⁠RateThisPodcast.com/thelaughingmystics⁠Follow + listen: ⁠⁠https://pod.link/1799776273⁠New episodes drop Thursday mornings.More from Marci Madary: ⁠⁠https://www.insideoutspirituality.com/⁠More from Laura Lewis-Barr: ⁠⁠https://psychescinema.com/⁠Merch: ⁠⁠https://www.zazzle.com/store/laughing_mystics/products⁠(If your platform hides links, visit the episode webpage or Spotify.) Music licensed from Artlist.#JungianPsychology #ShadowWork #InteriorLife #InferiorFunction #DepthPsychology #DreamWork #ContemplativePrayer #Mysticism

Hold on to your hats as we dip into familiar "waters" and discover big surprises. We start with the questions: What is the Living Water? What is it in my life?Laura mentions the fairy tale, ⁠The Water of Life.⁠ We also talk about how fairy tales provide a "folk" commentary on Christianity, kind of like a midrash. ⁠Others are exploring this idea too. ⁠ ⁠We talk about atonement theory and find helpful quotes from Joseph Campbell and Fr. Rohr.⁠ We use the shorter Gospel reading with some added from the longer version.  https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/030826.cfm⁠The Sunday Readings⁠Join the community: Facebook group: ⁠https://www.facebook.com/laughingmystics/Daily Poetry: Visit Marci’s Blog and subscribe to Laura’s Substack for your daily dose of verse.Share the mic: Send a voice memo to [email protected]/review easily: ⁠RateThisPodcast.com/thelaughingmysticsFollow + listen: ⁠https://pod.link/1799776273New episodes drop Thursday mornings.More from Marci Madary: ⁠https://www.insideoutspirituality.com/More from Laura Lewis-Barr: ⁠https://psychescinema.com/Merch: ⁠https://www.zazzle.com/store/laughing_mystics/products(If your platform hides links, visit the episode webpage or Spotify.) Music licensed from Artlist.#JungianPsychology #FolkChristianity #RichardRohr #JosephCampbell #AtonementTheory #LivingWater #FairyTaleWisdom #DepthPsychology #MysticalChristianity #SpiritualDirection

Our question: What is the current design of my life. If it was a landscape, what would it look like?Marci mentions a ⁠favorite video about God and dog.⁠⁠Laura continues her exploration of the fairy tale, The Girl Without Hands. ⁠ We talk about transfigurations and ⁠synchronicities⁠ as a mystical experience and ⁠the symbolism of three. as an image. ⁠⁠The Sunday Readings⁠Join the community: Facebook group: ⁠⁠https://www.facebook.com/laughingmystics/⁠Daily Poetry: Visit ⁠Marci’s Blog⁠ and subscribe to ⁠Laura’s Substack⁠ for your daily dose of verse.Share the mic: Send a voice memo to ⁠[email protected]⁠Rate/review easily: ⁠⁠RateThisPodcast.com/thelaughingmystics⁠Follow + listen: ⁠⁠https://pod.link/1799776273⁠New episodes drop Thursday mornings.More from Marci Madary: ⁠⁠https://www.insideoutspirituality.com/⁠More from Laura Lewis-Barr: ⁠⁠https://psychescinema.com/⁠Merch: ⁠⁠https://www.zazzle.com/store/laughing_mystics/products⁠(If your platform hides links, visit the episode webpage or Spotify.) Music licensed from Artlist.#JungianPsychology #LifeDesign #Synchronicities #DepthPsychology #SymbolismOfThree #FairyTaleWisdom #Transfiguration #ProgressiveChristianity #MysticalChristianity #RichardRohr #SpiritualMapping

The First Sunday of Lent. We begin with several questions including: What am doing for Lent (if anything)? And what are temptations in my life?We dive into the mythic stories of Adam and Eve and Jesus' temptations in the desert.⁠The Sunday ReadingsJoin the community: Facebook group: ⁠⁠https://www.facebook.com/laughingmystics/⁠Daily Poetry: Visit ⁠Marci’s Blog⁠ and subscribe to ⁠Laura’s Substack⁠ for your daily dose of verse.Share the mic: Send a voice memo to ⁠[email protected]⁠Rate/review easily: ⁠⁠RateThisPodcast.com/thelaughingmystics⁠Follow + listen: ⁠⁠https://pod.link/1799776273⁠New episodes drop Thursday mornings.More from Marci Madary: ⁠⁠https://www.insideoutspirituality.com/⁠More from Laura Lewis-Barr: ⁠⁠https://psychescinema.com/⁠Merch: ⁠⁠https://www.zazzle.com/store/laughing_mystics/products⁠(If your platform hides links, visit the episode webpage or Spotify.) Music licensed from Artlist.#Lent2026 #JungianPsychology #DepthPsychology #SpiritualWilderness #Mythology #AdamAndEve #Temptation #ProgressiveChristianity #MysticalChristianity #ShadowWork #RichardRohr

6th Sunday in extra-ordinary time. Our question: What is an inner stumbling block that gets in the way of making the life-giving choice.?Since we won't be making another Ash Wednesday episode, we invite you to listen to last years episode (scroll down to episode 3)Laura again recommends Michael Meades, The Living Myth, podcast⁠, especially this episode on creative practices. ⁠We talk about the mysteries of our life and the mystery genre as a way to explore this. Laura recommends the movie ⁠"Knives⁠⁠Out, Wake up Dead Man."⁠We talk about metaphor and Joseph Campbell. "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."Eugene Kennedy, Ph.D.Campbell, Joseph. Thou Art That: Transforming Religious Metaphor[A]s Jung put it in terms that chill me always, “What is denied inwardly will come to us in the outer world, and we call it fate.”~ James Hollis, Living Between Worlds: Finding Personal Resilience in Changing Times.A very challenging gospel reading!⁠The Sunday Readings⁠Join the community: Facebook group: ⁠⁠https://www.facebook.com/laughingmystics/⁠Daily Poetry: Visit ⁠Marci’s Blog⁠ and subscribe to ⁠Laura’s Substack⁠ for your daily dose of verse.Share the mic: Send a voice memo to ⁠[email protected]⁠Rate/review easily: ⁠⁠RateThisPodcast.com/thelaughingmystics⁠Follow + listen: ⁠⁠https://pod.link/1799776273⁠New episodes drop Thursday mornings.More from Marci Madary: ⁠⁠https://www.insideoutspirituality.com/⁠More from Laura Lewis-Barr: ⁠⁠https://psychescinema.com/⁠Merch: ⁠⁠https://www.zazzle.com/store/laughing_mystics/products⁠(If your platform hides links, visit the episode webpage or Spotify.) Music licensed from Artlist.#JungianPsychology #DepthPsychology #JamesHollis #JosephCampbell #ProgressiveChristianity #MysticalChristianity #MichaelMeade #ShadowWork #SpiritualDirection #KnivesOut

5th Sunday in (extra)ordinary time. Our question: what is my unique light to share with the world?Marci as a trickster.“The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.” - Joseph CampbellWe talk about a ⁠midrash⁠ - a ⁠story of Joseph and his brothers. ⁠Laura mentions the⁠ Natural Sprituality Conference⁠ and her work with the ⁠fairy tale, The Girl Without Hands.⁠We share some recent comments from listeners. Thank you to all those who have left us comments.⁠The Sunday Readings⁠Thank you to the Folklorering Podcast for ⁠inviting Laura to talk about her film work!⁠Join the community: Facebook group: ⁠⁠https://www.facebook.com/laughingmystics/⁠Daily Poetry: Visit ⁠Marci’s Blog⁠ and subscribe to ⁠Laura’s Substack⁠ for your daily dose of verse.Share the mic: Send a voice memo to ⁠[email protected]⁠Rate/review easily: ⁠⁠RateThisPodcast.com/thelaughingmystics⁠Follow + listen: ⁠⁠https://pod.link/1799776273⁠New episodes drop Thursday mornings.More from Marci Madary: ⁠⁠https://www.insideoutspirituality.com/⁠More from Laura Lewis-Barr: ⁠⁠https://psychescinema.com/⁠Merch: ⁠⁠https://www.zazzle.com/store/laughing_mystics/products⁠(If your platform hides links, visit the episode webpage or Spotify.) Music licensed from Artlist.#JungianPsychology #DepthPsychology #MysticalChristianity #ProgressiveChristianity #TranspersonalPsychology #Midrash #SpiritualDirection #RichardRohr #Archetypes #Vocation

4th Sunday in Extra-ordinary Time. Our question: What is a shadowy reaction in me that might come up when I do "good works?"We talk about St. Augustine's thoughts on the Beatitudes and ⁠quote this post. ⁠ Another beautiful essay on this is -- ⁠St. Augustine on the Esoteric Meaning of the Beatitudes.⁠THANK YOU to our listener, Jackie ,who designed our new logo. We love it!⁠The Sunday Readings⁠⁠Laura recommends the Natural Sprituality Conference⁠⁠.Join the community: Facebook group: ⁠⁠https://www.facebook.com/laughingmystics/⁠Daily Poetry: Visit ⁠Marci’s Blog⁠ and subscribe to ⁠Laura’s Substack⁠ for your daily dose of verse.Share the mic: Send a voice memo to ⁠[email protected]⁠Rate/review easily: ⁠⁠RateThisPodcast.com/thelaughingmystics⁠Follow + listen: ⁠⁠https://pod.link/1799776273⁠New episodes drop Thursday mornings.More from Marci Madary: ⁠⁠https://www.insideoutspirituality.com/⁠More from Laura Lewis-Barr: ⁠⁠https://psychescinema.com/⁠Merch: ⁠⁠https://www.zazzle.com/store/laughing_mystics/products⁠(If your platform hides links, visit the episode webpage or Spotify.) Music licensed from Artlist.#JungianPsychology #DepthPsychology #JungianWisdom #MysticalChristianity #ProgressiveChristianity #TranspersonalPsychology #Beatitudes #StAugustine #ShadowWork

3rd Sunday in the new church year. Our question to you: What is a memory of "seeing the light" or a moment of conversion in the world or in myself?We talk of unity and division in the church and the symbols of fish, fishing, nets, and deep waters. Laura shares her ⁠dream of a fish.⁠⁠The Sunday Readings⁠Join the community: Facebook group: ⁠⁠https://www.facebook.com/laughingmystics/⁠Daily Poetry: Visit ⁠Marci’s Blog⁠ and subscribe to ⁠Laura’s Substack⁠ for your daily dose of verse.Share the mic: Send a voice memo to ⁠[email protected]⁠Rate/review easily: ⁠⁠RateThisPodcast.com/thelaughingmystics⁠Follow + listen: ⁠⁠https://pod.link/1799776273⁠New episodes drop Thursday mornings.More from Marci Madary: ⁠⁠https://www.insideoutspirituality.com/⁠More from Laura Lewis-Barr: ⁠⁠https://psychescinema.com/⁠Merch: ⁠⁠https://www.zazzle.com/store/laughing_mystics/products⁠(If your platform hides links, visit the episode webpage or Spotify.) Music licensed from Artlist.#JungianPsychology #DepthPsychology #JungianWisdom #MysticalChristianity #ProgressiveChristianity #TranspersonalPsychology #Conversion #DreamWork #Symbolism

2nd Sunday in "extra-ordinary time." Our question: what is my current "growing edge," spiritually?Here are links from our wide-ranging conversation. Laura quotes and mentions Lewis Hyde's - A Primer for Forgetting. We talk of the photo of the earth taken from space that Joseph Campbell found inspiring. And the inspiring TV series from Carl Sagan (1980) And the wonderful film, using Teilhard's prayer, The slow work of God. The beginnings of Quakerism. The Catholic Worker House in LaCrosse, WI.Robin Wall Kimmerer, Parker Palmer and Michael MorwoodSunday ReadingsLaura is leading a workshop next month at the "Natural Spirituality Conference" which highlights how God speaks through dreams and dream like stories. Attendees are invited into small groups that explore their night time dreams together throughout the weekend. Info at nsrgathering.org/conference.htmlThank you for listening! You're invited to join our FB community at https://www.facebook.com/laughingmystics/Questions? Comments? Bring your voice to the conversation. We'd like to SHARE THE MIC with you! Send an audio from your phone with a question or comment to [email protected] now have an easier way for you to leave a review or rating, using this link! RateThisPodcast.com/thelaughingmysticsPlease follow us to be alerted for new episodes. We hope you'll share this passion project with others, write a review, or rate/like our podcast on your favorite platform!pod.link/1799776273New episodes now released on Thursday mornings!For more on Marci Madary visit https://www.insideoutspirituality.com/For more on Laura Lewis-Barr visit https://psychescinema.com/Want to support The Laughing Mystics? We now have MERCH! Visit ⁠https://www.zazzle.com/store/laughing_mystics/products(0ur show notes are always filled with many links. If your platform doesn't show them, visit the "episode webpage" or our Spotify page.)Music licensed from Artlist#jungianpsychology #depthpsychology #richardrohr #progressivechristianity #jungianwisdom #mysticalchristianity #religioustext #transpersonalpsychology

Readings for The Feast of the Baptism of the Lord. Our question: What old teaching about God/holiness has been upended/changed in me?Marci mentions  Holy Envy by Barbara Brown Taylor. And also Rumi and Hafiz. Laura talks about the 6 Day War, ⁠rebirthing⁠, and Rene Girard’s mimetic theory. This Sunday's ReadingsThank you Jackie M for donating your time and creating a new logo for us! We appreciate it and you! Thank you for listening! You're invited to join our FB community at https://www.facebook.com/laughingmystics/Questions? Comments? Bring your voice to the conversation. We'd like to SHARE THE MIC with you! Send an audio from your phone with a question or comment to [email protected] now have an easier way for you to leave a review or rating, using this link! RateThisPodcast.com/thelaughingmysticsPlease follow us to be alerted for new episodes. We hope you'll share this passion project with others, write a review, or rate/like our podcast on your favorite platform!pod.link/1799776273New episodes now released on Thursday mornings!For more on Marci Madary visit https://www.insideoutspirituality.com/For more on Laura Lewis-Barr visit https://psychescinema.com/Want to support The Laughing Mystics? We now have MERCH! Visit ⁠https://www.zazzle.com/store/laughing_mystics/products(0ur show notes are always filled with many links. If your platform doesn't show them, visit the "episode webpage" or our Spotify page.)Music licensed from Artlist#jungianpsychology #depthpsychology #richardrohr #progressivechristianity #jungianwisdom #mysticalchristianity #religioustext #transpersonalpsychology

The Epiphany of the Lord. Our Question: When have I found God in an unexpected place? We talk about Rene Girard and evolving past a scapegoat mentality. Marci loves this youtube video from Richard Rohr. Sunday ReadingsThank you for listening! You're invited to join our FB community at https://www.facebook.com/laughingmystics/Questions? Comments? Bring your voice to the conversation. We'd like to SHARE THE MIC with you! Send an audio from your phone with a question or comment to [email protected] now have an easier way for you to leave a review or rating, using this link! RateThisPodcast.com/thelaughingmysticsPlease follow us to be alerted for new episodes. We hope you'll share this passion project with others, write a review, or rate/like our podcast on your favorite platform!pod.link/1799776273Join our FB community at https://www.facebook.com/laughingmystics/New episodes now released on Thursday mornings!For more on Marci Madary visit https://www.insideoutspirituality.com/For more on Laura Lewis-Barr visit https://psychescinema.com/Want to support The Laughing Mystics? We now have MERCH! Visit ⁠https://www.zazzle.com/store/laughing_mystics/products(0ur show notes are always filled with many links. If your platform doesn't show them, visit the "episode webpage" or our Spotify page.)Music licensed from Artlist

The Feast of the Holy Family. We gear up for some challenging readings.We start with asking for a memory of honoring family. (We also acknowledge that sometimes honoring family is best from a distance. )We explore the biblical instructions to "obey" or to "be submissive" and the revolutionary message that was implicit in these readings - based on the world at the time. We mention the elderly "nuns on the run," recently in the news, who challenged such orders. We discuss symbolic meanings of Egypt and our own inner Herods. Marci recommends a video -- https://www.theworkofthepeople.com/the-slow-work-of-god And much more!Sunday ReadingsThank you for listening! You're invited to join our FB community at https://www.facebook.com/laughingmystics/Questions? Comments? Bring your voice to the conversation. We'd like to SHARE THE MIC with you! Send an audio from your phone with a question or comment to [email protected] now have an easier way for you to leave a review or rating, using this link! RateThisPodcast.com/thelaughingmysticsPlease follow us to be alerted for new episodes. We hope you'll share this passion project with others, write a review, or rate/like our podcast on your favorite platform!pod.link/1799776273Join our FB community at https://www.facebook.com/laughingmystics/New episodes now released on Thursday mornings!For more on Marci Madary visit https://www.insideoutspirituality.com/For more on Laura Lewis-Barr visit https://psychescinema.com/Want to support The Laughing Mystics? We now have MERCH! Visit ⁠https://www.zazzle.com/store/laughing_mystics/products(0ur show notes are always filled with many links. If your platform doesn't show them, visit the "episode webpage" or our Spotify page.)Music licensed from Artlist

The Christmas story from Luke and a challenging Christmas Blessing.Merry Christmas to those who celebrate. Happy Holidays to all!

Our question: What is being conceived in me, my inner self, right now? Re: the first reading - Ahaz was the twelfth king of Judah, reigning in Jerusalem from approximately 732 to 716 BC. He is often remembered for his idolatrous practices and political alliances that led Judah away from the worship of YahwehAlso, in Hebrew, 'almah (עַלְמָה) primarily means a young woman, maiden, or girl of marriageable age, implying she is youthful and potentially unmarried, but not exclusively a virgin.We explore the metaphor of a "virgin mindset" and what gets in the way of being open to the divine? How is God being birthed in me? Laura mentions the apocryphal story of the birth of Melchizedek.Quotes from Fr. Richard Rohr here and here. Sunday ReadingsThank you for listening! You're invited to join our FB community at  https://www.facebook.com/laughingmystics/Questions? Comments? Bring your voice to the conversation. We'd like to SHARE THE MIC with you! Send an audio from your phone with a question or comment to [email protected] now have an easier way for you to leave a review or rating, using this link! RateThisPodcast.com/thelaughingmysticsPlease follow us to be alerted for new episodes. We hope you'll share this passion project with others, write a review, or rate/like our podcast on your favorite platform!pod.link/1799776273Join our FB community at https://www.facebook.com/laughingmystics/New episodes now released on Thursday mornings!For more on Marci Madary visit https://www.insideoutspirituality.com/For more on Laura Lewis-Barr visit https://psychescinema.com/Want to support The Laughing Mystics? We now have MERCH! Visit ⁠https://www.zazzle.com/store/laughing_mystics/products(0ur show notes are always filled with many links. If your platform doesn't show them, visit the "episode webpage" or our Spotify page.)Music licensed from Artlist#jungianpsychology #depthpsychology #richardrohr #progressivechristianity #jungianwisdom #mysticalchristianity #religioustext #transpersonalpsychology

We start with a gorgeous poem from Marci. Our question is: what is a memory of seeing the splendor, the glory of God? Laura talks about the term Jung used for this – the “numinous” which comes from numinosum – Rudolf Otto’s term (in his Idea of the Holy) for the inexpressible, mysterious, terrifying, directly experienced and pertaining only to the divinity.Marci mentions experiments of putting monitors on plants and recording their “song.” We explore how dreamwork can help bring sight to my own psychological/spiritual blindness. Laura mentions the Jungian Marie Louise Von Franz and the I Ching, a symbolic tool for understanding the flow of life. We ask ourselves: what would it mean to live with the same commitment as John the Baptist?Sunday ReadingsThank you for listening! Questions? Comments? Bring your voice to the conversation. We'd like to SHARE THE MIC with you! Send an audio from your phone with a question or comment to [email protected] now have an easier way for you to leave a review or rating, using this link! RateThisPodcast.com/thelaughingmysticsPlease follow us to be alerted for new episodes. We hope you'll share this passion project with others, write a review, or rate/like our podcast on your favorite platform!pod.link/1799776273Join our FB community at https://www.facebook.com/laughingmystics/New episodes now released on Thursday mornings!For more on Marci Madary visit https://www.insideoutspirituality.com/For more on Laura Lewis-Barr visit https://psychescinema.com/Want to support The Laughing Mystics? We now have MERCH! Visit ⁠https://www.zazzle.com/store/laughing_mystics/products(0ur show notes are always filled with many links. If your platform doesn't show them, visit the "episode webpage" or our Spotify page.)Music licensed from Artlist

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. The Sunday ReadingsThank you for listening! Questions? Comments? Bring your voice to the conversation. We'd like to SHARE THE MIC with you! Send an audio from your phone with a question or comment to [email protected] now have an easier way for you to leave a review or rating, using this link! RateThisPodcast.com/thelaughingmysticsPlease follow us to be alerted for new episodes. We hope you'll share this passion project with others, write a review, or rate/like our podcast on your favorite platform!pod.link/1799776273Join our FB community at https://www.facebook.com/laughingmystics/New episodes now released on Thursday mornings!For more on Marci Madary visit https://www.insideoutspirituality.com/For more on Laura Lewis-Barr visit https://psychescinema.com/Want to support The Laughing Mystics? We now have MERCH! Visit ⁠https://www.zazzle.com/store/laughing_mystics/products(0ur show notes are always filled with many links. If your platform doesn't show them, visit the "episode webpage" or our Spotify page.)Music licensed from Artlist

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/The Sunday ReadingsThank you for listening! Questions? Comments? Bring your voice to the conversation. We'd like to SHARE THE MIC with you! Send an audio from your phone with a question or comment to [email protected] now have an easier way for you to leave a review or rating, using this link! RateThisPodcast.com/thelaughingmysticsPlease follow us to be alerted for new episodes. We hope you'll share this passion project with others, write a review, or rate/like our podcast on your favorite platform!pod.link/1799776273Join our FB community at https://www.facebook.com/laughingmystics/New episodes now released on Thursday mornings!For more on Marci Madary visit https://www.insideoutspirituality.com/For more on Laura Lewis-Barr visit https://psychescinema.com/Want to support The Laughing Mystics? We now have MERCH! Visit ⁠https://www.zazzle.com/store/laughing_mystics/products(0ur show notes are always filled with many links. If your platform doesn't show them, visit the "episode webpage" or our Spotify page.)Music licensed from Artlist

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.The Sunday ReadingsThank you for listening! Questions? Comments? Bring your voice to the conversation. We'd like to SHARE THE MIC with you! Send an audio from your phone with a question or comment to [email protected] now have an easier way for you to leave a review or rating, using this link! RateThisPodcast.com/thelaughingmysticsPlease follow us to be alerted for new episodes. We hope you'll share this passion project with others, write a review, or rate/like our podcast on your favorite platform!pod.link/1799776273Want to support The Laughing Mystics? We now have MERCH! Visit https://www.zazzle.com/store/laughing_mystics/productsJoin our FB community at https://www.facebook.com/laughingmystics/New episodes now released on Thursday mornings!For more on Marci Madary visit https://www.insideoutspirituality.com/For more on Laura Lewis-Barr visit https://psychescinema.com/(0ur show notes are always filled with many links. If your platform doesn't show them, visit the "episode webpage" or our Spotify page.)Music licensed from Artlist

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. The Sunday ReadingsThank you for listening! Questions? Comments? Bring your voice to the conversation. We'd like to SHARE THE MIC with you! Send an audio from your phone with a question or comment to [email protected] now have an easier way for you to leave a review or rating, using this link! RateThisPodcast.com/thelaughingmysticsPlease follow us to be alerted for new episodes. We hope you'll share this passion project with others, write a review, or rate/like our podcast on your favorite platform!pod.link/1799776273Want to support The Laughing Mystics? We now have MERCH! Visit https://www.zazzle.com/store/laughing_mystics/productsJoin our FB community at https://www.facebook.com/laughingmystics/New episodes now released on Thursday mornings!For more on Marci Madary visit https://www.insideoutspirituality.com/For more on Laura Lewis-Barr visit https://psychescinema.com/(0ur show notes are always filled with many links. If your platform doesn't show them, visit the "episode webpage" or our Spotify page.)Music licensed from Artlist

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.The Sunday ReadingsThank you for listening! Questions? Comments? Bring your voice to the conversation. We'd like to SHARE THE MIC with you! Send an audio from your phone with a question or comment to [email protected] now have an easier way for you to leave a review or rating, using this link! RateThisPodcast.com/thelaughingmysticsPlease follow us to be alerted for new episodes. We hope you'll share this passion project with others, write a review, or rate/like our podcast on your favorite platform!pod.link/1799776273Want to support The Laughing Mystics? We now have MERCH! Visit https://www.zazzle.com/store/laughing_mystics/productsJoin our FB community at https://www.facebook.com/laughingmystics/New episodes now released on Thursday mornings!For more on Marci Madary visit https://www.insideoutspirituality.com/For more on Laura Lewis-Barr visit https://psychescinema.com/(0ur show notes are always filled with many links. If your platform doesn't show them, visit the "episode webpage" or our Spotify page.)Music licensed from Artlist

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. The Sunday ReadingsWe explore the story of Jesus raising the widow's son as our gospel reading. If I forgot a link, please let me know!Thank you for listening! Questions? Comments? Bring your voice to the conversation. We'd like to SHARE THE MIC with you! Send an audio from your phone with a question or comment to [email protected] now have an easier way for you to leave a review or rating, using this link! RateThisPodcast.com/thelaughingmysticsPlease follow us to be alerted for new episodes. We hope you'll share this passion project with others, write a review, or rate/like our podcast on your favorite platform!pod.link/1799776273Want to support The Laughing Mystics? We now have MERCH! Visit https://www.zazzle.com/store/laughing_mystics/productsJoin our FB community at https://www.facebook.com/laughingmystics/New episodes every Friday!For more on Marci Madary visit https://www.insideoutspirituality.com/For more on Laura Lewis-Barr visit https://psychescinema.com/(0ur show notes are always filled with many links. If your platform doesn't show them, visit the "episode webpage" or our Spotify page.)Music licensed from Artlist

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. The Sunday ReadingsThank 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!Thank you for listening! Questions? Comments? Bring your voice to the conversation. We'd like to SHARE THE MIC with you! Send an audio from your phone with a question or comment to [email protected] now have an easier way for you to leave a review or rating, using this link! RateThisPodcast.com/thelaughingmysticsPlease follow us to be alerted for new episodes. We hope you'll share this passion project with others, write a review, or rate/like our podcast on your favorite platform!pod.link/1799776273Want to support The Laughing Mystics? We now have MERCH! Visit https://www.zazzle.com/store/laughing_mystics/productsJoin our FB community at https://www.facebook.com/laughingmystics/New episodes every Friday!For more on Marci Madary visit https://www.insideoutspirituality.com/For more on Laura Lewis-Barr visit https://psychescinema.com/ (0ur show notes are always filled with many links. If your platform doesn't show them, visit the "episode webpage" or our Spotify page.) Music licensed from Artlist

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 MehrtensThe Sunday ReadingsThank you for listening! Questions? Comments? Bring your voice to the conversation. We'd like to SHARE THE MIC with you! Send an audio from your phone with a question or comment to [email protected] now have an easier way for you to leave a review or rating, using this link! RateThisPodcast.com/thelaughingmysticsPlease follow us to be alerted for new episodes. We hope you'll share this passion project with others, write a review, or rate/like our podcast on your favorite platform!pod.link/1799776273Want to support The Laughing Mystics? We now have MERCH! Visit https://www.zazzle.com/store/laughing_mystics/productsJoin our FB community at https://www.facebook.com/laughingmystics/New episodes every Friday!For more on Marci Madary visit https://www.insideoutspirituality.com/For more on Laura Lewis-Barr visit https://psychescinema.com/(0ur show notes are always filled with many links. If your platform doesn't show them, visit the "episode webpage" or our Spotify page.)Music licensed from Artlist

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.The Sunday ReadingsThank you for listening! Questions? Comments? Bring your voice to the conversation. We'd like to SHARE THE MIC with you! Send an audio from your phone with a question or comment to [email protected] now have an easier way for you to leave a review or rating, using this link! RateThisPodcast.com/thelaughingmysticsLaura is starting a new product - practicing symbolic thinking using fairy tale stop motion films in a Monthly Film Club.Please follow us to be alerted for new episodes. We hope you'll share this passion project with others, write a review, or rate/like our podcast on your favorite platform!pod.link/1799776273Want to support The Laughing Mystics? We now have MERCH! Visit https://www.zazzle.com/store/laughing_mystics/productsJoin our FB community at https://www.facebook.com/laughingmystics/New episodes every Friday!For more on Marci Madary visit https://www.insideoutspirituality.com/For more on Laura Lewis-Barr visit https://psychescinema.com/(0ur show notes are always filled with many links. If your platform doesn't show them, visit the "episode webpage" or our Spotify page.)Music licensed from Artlist

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.The Sunday ReadingsThank you for listening! Questions? Comments? Bring your voice to the conversation. We'd like to SHARE THE MIC with you! Send an audio from your phone with a question or comment to [email protected] now have an easier way for you to leave a review or rating, using this link! RateThisPodcast.com/thelaughingmysticsLaura is starting a new product - practicing symbolic thinking using fairy tale stop motion films in a Monthly Film Club.Please follow us to be alerted for new episodes. We hope you'll share this passion project with others, write a review, or rate/like our podcast on your favorite platform!pod.link/1799776273Want to support The Laughing Mystics? We now have MERCH! Visit https://www.zazzle.com/store/laughing_mystics/productsJoin our FB community at https://www.facebook.com/laughingmystics/New episodes every Friday!For more on Marci Madary visit https://www.insideoutspirituality.com/For more on Laura Lewis-Barr visit https://psychescinema.com/(0ur show notes are always filled with many links. If your platform doesn't show them, visit the "episode webpage" or our Spotify page.)Music licensed from Artlist

Our question today (based on the readings). "What are my attitudes toward wealth?' We talk about the work of sociologist Brene Brown and the film, MountainHead. We explore the juicy story of Lazarus and the rich man, and much more!The Sunday Readings -The 26th Sunday in the Kingdom of Heaven is Now timeThank you for listening! Questions? Comments? Bring your voice to the conversation. We'd like to SHARE THE MIC with you! Send an audio from your phone with a question or comment to [email protected] now have an easier way for you to leave a review or rating, using this link! RateThisPodcast.com/thelaughingmysticsLaura is starting a new product - practicing symbolic thinking using fairy tale stop motion films in a Monthly Film Club.Please follow us to be alerted for new episodes. We hope you'll share this passion project with others, write a review, or rate/like our podcast on your favorite platform!pod.link/1799776273Want to support The Laughing Mystics? We now have MERCH! Visit https://www.zazzle.com/store/laughing_mystics/productsJoin our FB community at https://www.facebook.com/laughingmystics/New episodes every Friday!For more on Marci Madary visit https://www.insideoutspirituality.com/For more on Laura Lewis-Barr visit https://psychescinema.com/(0ur show notes are always filled with many links. If your platform doesn't show them, visit the "episode webpage" or our Spotify page.)Music licensed from Artlist

25th Sunday in the Kingdom of Heaven is Now time. We wrestle with some very tough readings!A question we ask ourselves and you: What are my attitudes toward authority, wealth, and the systems we live under? Marci mentions her poem found in this publication. ⁠Unruly Catholic Feminists: Prose, Poetry, and the Future of the Faith ⁠ We mention Brian Swimme and the "Story of the Universe," the evolution of the world and of justice.  Also, Kohlberg's levels of ethics, Ilia Delio's noosphere, and the story of Dietrich Bonhoeffer The Sunday Readings(0ur show notes are always filled with many links. If your platform doesn't show them, visit the "episode webpage" or our Spotify page.)Thank you for listening! Questions? Comments? Bring your voice to the conversation. We'd like to SHARE THE MIC with you! Send an audio from your phone with a question or comment to [email protected] now have an easier way for you to leave a review or rating, using this link! RateThisPodcast.com/thelaughingmysticsLaura is starting a new product - practicing symbolic thinking using fairy tale stop motion films in a Monthly Film Club.Please follow us to be alerted for new episodes. We hope you'll share this passion project with others, write a review, or rate/like our podcast on your favorite platform!pod.link/1799776273Want to support The Laughing Mystics? We now have MERCH! Visit https://www.zazzle.com/store/laughing_mystics/productsJoin our FB community at https://www.facebook.com/laughingmystics/New episodes every Friday!For more on Marci Madary visit https://www.insideoutspirituality.com/For more on Laura Lewis-Barr visit https://psychescinema.com/

We start with a juicy question : what "inner" puzzle am I working on these days? Then we puzzle through a reading about biting snakes, ingratitude, and looking at what scares us. We talk of Richard Schwartz, - The Founder of Internal Family Systems . (Laura accidentally says Stephen Schwartz -- the creator of Godspell). We grapple with John 3:16. Marci tells a bad joke. And much more! The Sunday Readings(0ur show notes are always filled with many links. If your platform doesn't show them, visit the "episode webpage" or our Spotify page.)Thank you for listening! Questions? Comments? Bring your voice to the conversation. We'd like to SHARE THE MIC with you! Send an audio from your phone with a question or comment to [email protected] now have an easier way for you to leave a review or rating, using this link! RateThisPodcast.com/thelaughingmysticsLaura is starting a new product - practicing symbolic thinking using fairy tale stop motion films in a Monthly Film Club.Please follow us to be alerted for new episodes. We hope you'll share this passion project with others, write a review, or rate/like our podcast on your favorite platform!pod.link/1799776273Want to support The Laughing Mystics? We now have MERCH! Visit https://www.zazzle.com/store/laughing_mystics/productsJoin our FB community at https://www.facebook.com/laughingmystics/New episodes every Friday!For more on Marci Madary visit https://www.insideoutspirituality.com/For more on Laura Lewis-Barr visit https://psychescinema.com/

23rd Sunday in the Kingdom of Heaven is Now time. Lots of laughter as we tackle some very tough readings. We ask ourselves (and you) this question: "What tempts me in my daily life? What is hard for me to renounce or let go of?" "If it is true that the ability to be puzzled is the beginningof wisdom, then this truth is a sad commentary on the wisdom of modern man. Whatever the merits of our high degree of literary and universal education, wehave lost the gift for being puzzled." ----Psychoanalyst Erich Fromm We mention this quote from Thomas Merton: “My Lord God, I have no idea where I am going. I do not see the road ahead of me. I cannot know for certain where it will end. Nor do I really know myself, and the fact that I think that I am following your will does not mean that I am actually doing so. But I believe that the desire to please you does in fact please you. And I hope I have that desire in all that I am doing. I hope that I will never do anything apart from that desire. And I know that if I do this you will lead me by the right road, though I may know nothing about it. Therefore will I trust you always, though I may seem to be lost and in the shadow of death. I will not fear, for you are ever with me, and you will never leave me to face my perils alone.”Laura was searching for this this part of Rumi's poem, The Great Wagon."Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing,there is a field. I’ll meet you there." Laura quotes Erich Neumann on a provocative message in the Psyche and Eros mythMarci tells the story of St. Francis, his father, and the Bishop. And much more!!The Sunday Readings(0ur show notes are always filled with many links. If your platform doesn't show them, visit the "episode webpage" or our Spotify page.)Thank you for listening! Questions? Comments? Bring your voice to the conversation. We'd like to SHARE THE MIC with you! Send an audio from your phone with a question or comment to [email protected] now have an easier way for you to leave a review or rating, using this link! RateThisPodcast.com/thelaughingmysticsLaura is starting a new product - practicing symbolic thinking using fairy tale stop motion films in a Monthly Film Club.Please follow us to be alerted for new episodes. We hope you'll share this passion project with others, write a review, or rate/like our podcast on your favorite platform!pod.link/1799776273Want to support The Laughing Mystics? We now have MERCH! Visit https://www.zazzle.com/store/laughing_mystics/productsJoin our FB community at https://www.facebook.com/laughingmystics/New episodes every Friday!For more on Marci Madary visit https://www.insideoutspirituality.com/For more on Laura Lewis-Barr visit https://psychescinema.com/

22nd Sunday in The Kingdom of Heaven is Now Time. We explore the Hebrew word for humility.Excerpts quoted from this site. “How am I using the Divine gifts that have been given to me? Am I reaching my own potential for greatness?”This sentiment is powerfully encapsulated in the Hebrew word for humility, anavah. While the English word humility originates from the Latin, humilis, meaning meekness or lowliness,  anavah stems from the word anu, meaning “to respond.”Also found this lovely quote related to this concept. “Every person should have two pockets. In one pocket should be a piece of paper saying: ‘I am but dust and ashes.’ When one is feeling too proud, reach into this pocket and take out this paper and read it. In the other pocket should be a piece of paper saying: ‘For my sake was the world created.’ When one is feeling disheartened and lowly, reach into this pocket and take this paper out and read it. We are each the joining of two worlds. We are fashioned from clay, but our spirit is the breath of Adonai.”(Tales of The Hasidim Later Masters, Martin Buber, p.249-50)Marci uses the word theophonies -a visible manifestation to humankind of God or a god."the great theophany of Sinai"The Sunday ReadingsThank you for listening! Questions? Comments? Bring your voice to the conversation. We'd like to SHARE THE MIC with you! Send an audio from your phone with a question or comment to [email protected] now have an easier way for you to leave a review or rating, using this link! RateThisPodcast.com/thelaughingmysticsLaura is starting a new product - practicing symbolic thinking using fairy tale stop motion films in a Monthly Film Club.Please follow us to be alerted for new episodes. We hope you'll share this passion project with others, write a review, or rate/like our podcast on your favorite platform!pod.link/1799776273Want to support The Laughing Mystics? We now have MERCH! Visit https://www.zazzle.com/store/laughing_mystics/productsJoin our FB community at https://www.facebook.com/laughingmystics/New episodes every Friday!For more on Marci Madary visit https://www.insideoutspirituality.com/For more on Laura Lewis-Barr visit https://psychescinema.com/

21st Sunday in The Kingdom of Heaven is Now Time. We talk about the challenge of diversity and ask the question, “Who makes me uncomfortable?”We explore the idea that we are all fugitives in a strange land and the integration of all parts in the Kingdom. We talk about the power of discipline to create strength through practice. Laura mentions her longing for a loving community and uses the Greek word agape.We mention the author of Women Who Run with the Wolves, Clarrisa Pinkola Estes. And much more! The Sunday Readings(0ur show notes are always filled with many links. If your platform doesn't show them, visit the "episode webpage" or our Spotify page.)Thank you for listening! Questions? Comments? Bring your voice to the conversation. We'd like to SHARE THE MIC with you! Send an audio from your phone with a question or comment to [email protected] now have an easier way for you to leave a review or rating, using this link! RateThisPodcast.com/thelaughingmysticsLaura is starting a new product - practicing symbolic thinking using fairy tale stop motion films in a Monthly Film Club.Please follow us to be alerted for new episodes. We hope you'll share this passion project with others, write a review, or rate/like our podcast on your favorite platform!pod.link/1799776273Want to support The Laughing Mystics? We now have MERCH! Visit https://www.zazzle.com/store/laughing_mystics/productsJoin our FB community at https://www.facebook.com/laughingmystics/New episodes every Friday!For more on Marci Madary visit https://www.insideoutspirituality.com/For more on Laura Lewis-Barr visit https://psychescinema.com/

A juicy episode! We talk about the symbolism Jeremiah and the cistern. We mention the movement of an ancient Sicilian symbol and Celtic knotsWe explore addiction to suffering and the danger of numbing out to the problems of the world, and "Midwest nice” Laura mentions alchemy and the stage of Calcinatio.20th Sunday in the Kingdom of Heaven is Now. The Sunday Readings Thank you for listening! Questions? Comments? Or bring your voice to the conversation. We'd like to SHARE THE MIC with you. Send an audio from your phone with a question or comment to [email protected] now have an easier way for you to leave a review or rating, using this link! RateThisPodcast.com/thelaughingmysticsLaura is starting a new product - practicing symbolic thinking using fairy tale stop motion films in a Monthly Film Club.Please follow us to be alerted for new episodes. We hope you'll share this passion project with others, write a review, or rate/like our podcast on your favorite platform!pod.link/1799776273Want to support The Laughing Mystics? We now have MERCH! Visit https://www.zazzle.com/store/laughing_mystics/productsJoin our FB community at https://www.facebook.com/laughingmystics/New episodes every Friday!For more on Marci Madary visit https://www.insideoutspirituality.com/For more on Laura Lewis-Barr visit https://psychescinema.com/

19th Sunday in The Kingdom of Heaven is Now. Lots of great people and resources named in this episode:Laura mentions Jungian Marie Louise Von Franz several times. Marci mentions Greek philosophy's focus on knowledge, justice, and the good. We talk about 3 books by Karen Armstrong.  We mention mythologist Michael Meade, and poet Mary Oliver, and "Interior Castle" by Teresa of Avila. Laura tells a story from Joseph Campbell. Questions we ask each other and you in this episode: --What comes forward from our own dead places…?--Where does our treasure lie? --What moments have you had answering the door when the "Son of Man comes?"The Sunday ReadingsThank you for listening! Questions? Comments? Please send to [email protected] now have an easier way for you to leave a review or rating, using this link! RateThisPodcast.com/thelaughingmysticsLaura is starting a new product - practicing symbolic thinking using fairy tale stop motion films in a Monthly Film Club.Please follow us to be alerted for new episodes. We hope you'll share this passion project with others, write a review, or rate/like our podcast on your favorite platform!pod.link/1799776273Want to support The Laughing Mystics? We now have MERCH! Visit https://www.zazzle.com/store/laughing_mystics/productsJoin our FB community at https://www.facebook.com/laughingmystics/To find us on other podcast platforms visit https://psychescinema.com/podcast-and-poetry-practicing-symbolic-language/New episodes every Friday!For more on Marci Madary visit https://www.insideoutspirituality.com/For more on Laura Lewis-Barr visit https://psychescinema.com/https://psychescinema.com/depth-psychology-and-christianity/

We talk about the Death Cafe movement. Marci sings! We explore worry habits, choice, whirlpools, lessons in fairy tales, and the book, Teilhard de Chardin Seven Stages of Suffering.Laura tells an old story of "Rabbi Hockum."The Sunday ReadingsThank you for listening! Questions? Comments? Please send to [email protected] now have an easier way for you to leave a review or rating, using this link! RateThisPodcast.com/thelaughingmysticsPlease follow us to be alerted for new episodes. We hope you'll share this passion project with others, write a review, or rate/like our podcast on your favorite platform!pod.link/1799776273Want to support The Laughing Mystics? We now have MERCH! Visit https://www.zazzle.com/store/laughing_mystics/productsJoin our FB community at https://www.facebook.com/laughingmystics/To find us on other podcast platforms visit https://psychescinema.com/podcast-and-poetry-practicing-symbolic-language/New episodes every Friday!For more on Marci Madary visit https://www.insideoutspirituality.com/For more on Laura Lewis-Barr visit https://psychescinema.com/https://psychescinema.com/depth-psychology-and-christianity/

 17th Sunday in The Kingdom of Heaven is Now time. We talk about haggling with God and the power of the individual to save the world.  We mention the relationship between the the exercises of St. Ignatius, and Jung's active imagination. Marci offers several different versions of the Lord’s prayer.Laura wanted to cut the vulnerable story she tells about her dad but she kept it in. The Sunday Readings(0ur show notes are always filled with many links. If your platform doesn't show them, visit the "episode webpage" or our Spotify page.)Thank you for listening! Questions? Comments? Bring your voice to the conversation. We'd like to SHARE THE MIC with you! Send an audio from your phone with a question or comment to [email protected] now have an easier way for you to leave a review or rating, using this link! RateThisPodcast.com/thelaughingmysticsLaura is starting a new product - practicing symbolic thinking using fairy tale stop motion films in a Monthly Film Club.Please follow us to be alerted for new episodes. We hope you'll share this passion project with others, write a review, or rate/like our podcast on your favorite platform!pod.link/1799776273Want to support The Laughing Mystics? We now have MERCH! Visit https://www.zazzle.com/store/laughing_mystics/productsJoin our FB community at https://www.facebook.com/laughingmystics/New episodes every Friday!For more on Marci Madary visit https://www.insideoutspirituality.com/For more on Laura Lewis-Barr visit https://psychescinema.com/y/

The 16th Sunday of the Kingdom of Heaven is Now.We dive deep into all three readings. Laura references the book " Abraham : the man and the symbol ; a Jungian interpretation of the biblical story."What Laura forgot, "... the Sages also divided the functions of the angels’ mission into three: to herald the birth of Isaac, to destroy Sodom and Gomorrah, and to heal Abraham. "One more quote from the book, “In the heat of the day” the sun is at its apogee. Midday heat, especially in the Middle East, can affect one’s wakefulness. Perhaps Abraham dozed off as he sat at the door of his tent, and entered a hypnagogic state. At the same time, his psychic receptiveness increased, as often happens when one is half awake and half asleep. In this state, a different consciousness may emerge—the greater, broader, and clearer consciousness of a great vision. Many cultures symbolize this consciousness of and receptiveness to the divinity by a depiction of the sun at its zenith, generating extreme heat."We have a lengthy discussion of the story of Martha and Mary, “martyr syndrome” and wonder: could we all be Mary? Marci offers some wonderful stories about of St. Francis including Francis' visit to the Sultan.The Sunday ReadingsThank you for listening! Questions? Comments? Please send to [email protected] now have an easier way for you to leave a review or rating, using this link! RateThisPodcast.com/thelaughingmysticsPlease follow us to be alerted for new episodes. We hope you'll share this passion project with others, write a review, or rate/like our podcast on your favorite platform!pod.link/1799776273Want to support The Laughing Mystics? We now have MERCH! Visit https://www.zazzle.com/store/laughing_mystics/productsJoin our FB community at https://www.facebook.com/laughingmystics/To find us on other podcast platforms visit https://psychescinema.com/podcast-and-poetry-practicing-symbolic-language/New episodes every Friday!For more on Marci Madary visit https://www.insideoutspirituality.com/For more on Laura Lewis-Barr visit https://psychescinema.com/https://psychescinema.com/depth-psychology-and-christianity/

The 15th Sunday in the Kingdom of Heaven is Now time. Laura mentions another podcast, This Jungian Life.She also mentions alchemy and this quote -"A fool who persists in his folly will eventually become wise"-William BlakeMarci mentions a prayer from Thomas Merton and this bible quote. Laura quotes from Mary Oliver’s Wild GeeseShe also mentions her work teaching emotional intelligence.We also talk about Matthew Fox and The Cosmic Christ,  our overscheduled lives, xenophobia and much more.The Sunday ReadingsThank you for listening! Questions? Comments? Please send to [email protected] now have an easier way for you to leave a review or rating, using this link! RateThisPodcast.com/thelaughingmysticsPlease follow us to be alerted for new episodes. We hope you'll share this passion project with others, write a review, or rate/like our podcast on your favorite platform!pod.link/1799776273Want to support The Laughing Mystics? We now have MERCH! Visit https://www.zazzle.com/store/laughing_mystics/productsJoin our FB community at https://www.facebook.com/laughingmystics/To find us on other podcast platforms visit https://psychescinema.com/podcast-and-poetry-practicing-symbolic-language/New episodes every Friday!For more on Marci Madary visit https://www.insideoutspirituality.com/For more on Laura Lewis-Barr visit https://psychescinema.com/https://psychescinema.com/depth-psychology-and-christianity/

14th Sunday in the Kingdom of Heaven is Now.We discuss the power of home. Laura mentions "nous," a concept she's heard from Ilia Delio. Heavy stuff. "Pierre Teilhard de Chardin saw the emergence of a new type of person with computer technology, an evolution of consciousness that led to a new level of cosmic life, what he called the “noosphere” (from the Greek “nous” or mind). The noosphere is the natural culmination of biological evolution, an organic whole, now on the level of thought, destined for some type of superconvergence and unification."-- Ilia Delio. Also the important concept of Inflation. (Jungian term).[Inflation] should not be interpreted as … conscious self-aggrandizement. Such is far from being the rule. In general we are not directly conscious of this condition at all, but can at best infer its existence indirectly from the symptoms. These include the reactions of our immediate environment. Inflation magnifies the blind spot in the eye. [“The Self,” CW 9ii, par. 44.] -- from Daryl Sharp’s Jung LexiconAnother mention of the book, The Gift, by Lewis HydeThe Sunday ReadingsThank you for listening! Questions? Comments? Please send to [email protected] now have an easier way for you to leave a review or rating, using this link! RateThisPodcast.com/thelaughingmysticsPlease follow us to be alerted for new episodes. We hope you'll share this passion project with others, write a review, or rate/like our podcast on your favorite platform!Want to support The Laughing Mystics? We now have MERCH! Visit https://www.zazzle.com/store/laughing_mystics/productsJoin our FB community at https://www.facebook.com/laughingmystics/To find us on other podcast platforms visit https://psychescinema.com/podcast-and-poetry-practicing-symbolic-language/New episodes every Friday!For more on Marci Madary visit https://www.insideoutspirituality.com/For more on Laura Lewis-Barr visit https://psychescinema.com/https://psychescinema.com/depth-psychology-and-christianity/

In this episode Marci sings a song! We talk about miracles, doubt and faith.  A joke from Joseph Campbell (also attributed to Thomas Merton!)And another Campbell quote that made Marci laugh.  Laura mentions the noncanonical Gnostic books featuring St. Peter. The Apocalypse of Peter, Letter of Peter to Philip and Apocryphon of James (among others).We mention The Last Temptation of Christ filmAnd Laura tells the story behind her no-budget feature film, Cloistered Honey. On Amazon Prime. The Sunday Readings are here. https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/062925-Mass.cfmThank you for listening! Questions? Comments? Please send to [email protected] follow us to be alerted for new episodes. We hope you'll share this passion project with others, write a review, or rate/like our podcast on your favorite platform!(0ur show notes are always filled with many links. If your platform doesn't show them, visit the "episode webpage" or our Spotify page.)Want to support The Laughing Mystics? We now have MERCH! Visit https://www.zazzle.com/store/laughing_mystics/productsJoin our FB community at https://www.facebook.com/laughingmystics/To find us on other podcast platforms visit https://psychescinema.com/podcast-and-poetry-practicing-symbolic-language/New episodes every Friday!For more on Marci Madary visit https://www.insideoutspirituality.com/For more on Laura Lewis-Barr visit https://psychescinema.com/https://psychescinema.com/depth-psychology-and-christianity/

(0ur show notes are always filled with many links. If you are not seeing hyperlinks on your platform, please let us know. Thank you! )Marci shares some of her research on Julian of Norwich.Laura struggles in this episode. We confess: some of the material (latter third) was added later. Lots of poetry in this episode, including a section from Blessing the Bread by Lynn Unger, Marci's poem, Learning Slowly, and Laura’s poem, Take One Bite. Laura mentions the book Death by Suburb: How to Keep the Suburbs from Killing Your Soul.The Sunday ReadingsThank you for listening! Questions? Comments? Please send to [email protected] follow us to be alerted for new episodes. We hope you'll share this passion project with others, write a review, or rate/like our podcast on your favorite platform! (On spotify click on the About tab, thank you!)Want to support The Laughing Mystics? We now have MERCH! Visit https://www.zazzle.com/store/laughing_mystics/productsJoin our FB community at https://www.facebook.com/laughingmystics/To find us on other podcast platforms visit https://psychescinema.com/podcast-and-poetry-practicing-symbolic-language/New episodes every Friday!For more on Marci Madary visit https://www.insideoutspirituality.com/For more on Laura Lewis-Barr visit https://psychescinema.com/https://psychescinema.com/depth-psychology-and-christianity/

Marci talks about her use of different pronouns for God. We reflect on what we learned during a recent talk from Ilia Delio. We mention Teilhard de Chardin (as we often do) and the challenge of using words like “god” or “love." We discuss Jung's concept of “eros” and “logos." And Edinger's thoughts on endurance. We talk about individualism and faith, and the book The Gift and The Serviceberry. "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.'"--Edward Edinger quoting Carl Jung - from "The Christian Archetype"The Sunday ReadingsThank you for listening! Questions? Comments? Please send to [email protected] follow us to be alerted for new episodes. We hope you'll share this passion project with others, write a review, or rate/like our podcast on your favorite platform!https://ratethispodcast.com/thelaughingmysticsWant to support The Laughing Mystics? We now have MERCH! Visit https://www.zazzle.com/store/laughing_mystics/productsJoin our FB community at https://www.facebook.com/laughingmystics/To find us on other podcast platforms visit https://psychescinema.com/podcast-and-poetry-practicing-symbolic-language/New episodes every Friday!For more on Marci Madary visit https://www.insideoutspirituality.com/For more on Laura Lewis-Barr visit https://psychescinema.com/https://psychescinema.com/depth-psychology-and-christianity/