We talk about fire and wind and the sometimes unpredictable power of groups under the religious impulse.

We discuss the work and a video of Ilia Delio, outlining her inspirational message. And a juicy quote from her.

Laura talks about her ecstatic experiences in prayer.

We struggle with the second reading (Romans) and explore the meanings of the word “love.”

Marci suggests Mirabai Starr's book Wild Mercy.

The Sunday Readings.

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

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

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

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

The Sunday Readings.

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We talk about controversies in the early church and today.

Marci offers a great exercise for listening deeply to others.

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

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

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

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die in order for the disciples to develop an individual relation to the Holy Spirit, that is, the projection must be withdrawn.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

--Carl Jung

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

--Edward Edinger

The Sunday Readings

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

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

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

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

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

The Sunday Readings

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

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

Marci mentions the Healthy minds app

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

Also the Initiation of young girls in Greece.

The Sunday Readings are here.

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

Marci reads this poem -

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

Sophia!

you of the whirling wings,

circling encompassing

energy of God:

you quicken the world in your clasp.

One wing soars in heaven

one wing sweeps the earth

and the third flies all around us.

Praise to Sophia!

Let all the earth praise her!

The Sunday Readings

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

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

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

-- Joseph Campbell

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

Mandala like paintings of the Book of Revelation.

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

Marci mentions this video about Christ in all things.

The mystical paintings of Fra Angelico.

Link to the readings.

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