The Laughing Mystics: An unorthodox journey through the liturgical year

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 Laughing.Mystics@gmail.comWe 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 Laughing.Mystics@gmail.comWe 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 Laughing.Mystics@gmail.comWe 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 Laughing.Mystics@gmail.comWe 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 Laughing.Mystics@gmail.comWe 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 Laughing.Mystics@gmail.comWe 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 Laughing.Mystics@gmail.comWe 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 Laughing.Mystics@gmail.comWe 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 Laughing.Mystics@gmail.comWe 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 Laughing.Mystics@gmail.comWe 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 Laughing.Mystics@gmail.comWe 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 Laughing.Mystics@gmail.comWe 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.The Sunday ReadingsThank 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 Laughing.Mystics@gmail.comWe 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 Laughing.Mystics@gmail.comWe 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 Laughing.Mystics@gmail.comWe 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/