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| Dreams as a Practice in Art: How Dreams and Art Both Awaken Your Soul to Jesus | 27 sept. 2026 | 00:28:50 | |
AI can already outsmart us on the Bible, on exegesis, on historical and archaeological findings, on nearly every methodology you could name. But there is one thing it cannot do, and it may be the thing that matters most. AI cannot dream. Today, in the final episode of the season, we talk about why that matters and what to do about it. This is week ten of our ten-week series on the dreaming life, and it closes the arc somewhere I did not expect to land. About a year ago I was studying Carl Jung's mandalas when the Lord told me to stop writing my dreams down and start illustrating them instead. I was not thrilled. I share the objections I had, which are probably the same ones you have, and what I discovered underneath all of them: that writing a dream down is already translating it out of the language it arrived in, and translation always loses something. We look at why God chooses symbols in Scripture, in parables, and in dreams, precisely because symbols are not fixed and cannot be reduced to a single meaning. We look at Carl Jung, who worked in watercolor, oil, calligraphy, stone, and architecture, and who never considered himself an artist, only someone who needed art to understand his soul. We visit Bollingen, the tower on Lake Zurich where Jung started building a castle out of materials on the ground and found meaning surfacing in places he never expected. And we talk about why play matters for anyone trying to disconnect from the rational world long enough to hear God. If you have been following this series, thank you for walking the whole ten weeks. Subscribe to The Christian Jung on Substack, and find full show notes at angelameer.com. Heal Deeply. Walk Holy.
Scripture referenced: Romans 8 (sons and daughters), Acts 17:11 (the Bereans). Key terms: Mandala (a circular symbolic form Jung drew daily as a way of recording the state of the soul). Translation loss (the essence that drops away when a dream is converted out of symbol into words). Bollingen (the tower Jung built on Lake Zurich, where play and building became part of his working method). Prayer: the Suscipe of St. Ignatius of Loyola, from the close of the Spiritual Exercises. Heal Deeply. Walk Holy.
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| Becoming God's Clay: Interpreting Dreams as a Way for God to Shape your Soul | 20 sept. 2026 | 00:32:02 | |
I once had a dream that took fifteen years to interpret and twenty years to come true. I knew the moment I woke that it mattered. I took it to every trusted counselor I had, and not one interpretation ever rang true. Today, on episode 19 of the season, we finally arrive at interpretation. This episode is week nine of our ten-week series on the dreaming life, and it explains something you may have noticed: I built the entire foundation of dream interpretation before I ever taught interpretation itself. That was deliberate. After 25 years of teaching this, I've learned that interpretation is the last step of the process, because at its most basic level it is not something you do. It is something the Holy Spirit does with you, building on the foundation you've laid. I tell the story of the dream I couldn't crack, the semi-truck crashing in the road in front of me, and how it finally opened only when the events of the world caught up to it. We look at John 14:26 and how the Holy Spirit partners with us in remembering and illuminating, at Habakkuk 2 and the revelation that awaits an appointed time, and at the four passages where Scripture calls us clay and God the potter: Isaiah 64:8, Jeremiah 18, Isaiah 45:9, and Job 10:9. We also look at Carl Jung's Psychology and Religion, where he used the dreams of atheist patients at Yale in 1937 to show that even they were being formed at night. If you've been carrying a dream you've never been able to interpret, this episode may reframe the whole experience for you. Subscribe to The Christian Jung on Substack, and find full show notes at angelameer.com. Heal Deeply. Walk Holy.
Scripture referenced: John 14:26, Habakkuk 2:1-3, Isaiah 64:8, Jeremiah 18:1-6, Isaiah 45:9, Job 10:9, Romans 8. Key terms: Life dream (a dream carrying unusual weight on waking, giving instruction for an extended future season rather than commenting on recent events). Symbol excavation (working out what a symbol feels like, what associations it carries, and what factual details deepen it). Dream posture (the inner stance of willingness that lets God show you where you are an obstacle to your own growth). Referenced work: Carl Jung, Psychology and Religion, delivered as the Terry Lectures at Yale University in 1937. Prayer: a hymn of surrender by Adelaide Pollard, 1907. Heal Deeply. Walk Holy.
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| Post-Dream Formation: Continuing the Conversation From a Dream | 06 sept. 2026 | 00:29:39 | |
What do you actually do after a dream ends? Most of us write it in a journal, or worse, let it float away with our morning coffee. Today we talk about what happens next, the three-step sequence that turns a single dream image into months of real spiritual formation. This episode continues our ten-week series on the dreaming life by walking through nepsis, the Desert Fathers' practice of paying attention, synchronicity, Carl Jung's term for meaningful coincidence developed alongside physicist Wolfgang Pauli, and active imagination, modeled by the prophet Habakkuk stationing himself on the ramparts to hear what God would say. I tell the story of a giraffe that followed me everywhere, in decor, in the news, in random conversations, for weeks, until I finally stopped and asked God what it meant, and the season of leadership formation that followed. We talk about why this matters even if you rarely dream, since nepsis works just as well on your waking life. We look at Biblical examples of active imagination in Abraham, Ezekiel, and Jeremiah, and we close with a prayer from the twelfth-century mystic Richard of St. Victor and a practical way to start noticing what God has already been saying to you. If you've ever had a dream, a number, or a symbol that kept following you and you didn't know what to do with it, this episode gives you an actual sequence to work with. Subscribe to The Christian Jung on Substack, and find full show notes at angelameer.com. Heal Deeply. Walk Holy.
Scripture referenced: Habakkuk 2:1-2, Genesis 15 (Abraham and the stars), Ezekiel 37 (the valley of dry bones), Jeremiah 1 (the almond branch), 1 Corinthians 2:9-10, John 10:10. Key terms: Nepsis (a Desert Fathers term for watchful attention to one's soul and surroundings). Synchronicity (Carl Jung's term, developed with physicist Wolfgang Pauli, for a meaningful coincidence with no material causation). Active imagination (entering into a dream or waking image to receive its full meaning, practiced by Ignatius of Loyola and adapted by Jung). Heal Deeply. Walk Holy.
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| The Nightmare or the Dark Dream: Does the Soul Send What Frightens You? | 30 août 2026 | 00:28:14 | |
Is every nightmare an attack from the enemy? Or could God actually be the one speaking through the dream that terrifies you? Today we tackle one of the hardest and most misunderstood categories in the dreaming life: the nightmare. This episode continues our ten-week series on the dreaming life by looking honestly at where nightmares come from and how to tell the difference. I share my own story of night terrors starting at age three, twenty years of fear at night, and the deliverance prayer that finally broke the pattern. I also share a nightmare I had ten years later, one that terrified me into thinking I'd lost my deliverance, and what it actually took me a full five-year season to understand it had been warning me about all along. We look at Scripture's own scary dreams, Daniel's vision that made him sick for three days, and Job's testimony that God scared him with dreams and terrified him with visions. We talk about the discernment test that actually matters, not how afraid a dream makes you, but what fruit it leaves in your soul. And we close with a prayer from St. Augustine and a practical next step for any dream you're not sure how to hold. If you've ever been afraid of sleep, or you're carrying a nightmare you've never told anyone about, this episode gives you a way to bring it to God instead of just trying to forget it. Subscribe to The Christian Jung on Substack, and find full show notes at angelameer.com. Heal Deeply. Walk Holy.
Scripture referenced: Daniel 7:15, Job 7:14, Ezekiel 33, John 10, 1 John 4. Key terms: Discernment (the practice of testing whether a dream's fruit points toward God or the enemy, rather than judging by fear alone). Deliverance (the act of breaking off a spiritual attack, often through spoken, faith-filled prayer in the name of Jesus). Compensatory nightmare (a dream that surfaces emotions or grief the waking mind has kept under wraps, used by God to help the soul process what it's avoided). Heal Deeply. Walk Holy.
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| When Dreams or Symbols Reappear: Dreams as a Pattern of Soul Work | 23 août 2026 | 00:25:42 | |
You keep having the same dream. Or the same number keeps showing up on your clock. Or the same street sign keeps appearing in three different places in one week. It's not an angel number, and it's not there to freak you out. Today we talk about why God repeats Himself, patiently, until we finally say yes to the conversation He's trying to have with us. This episode continues our ten-week series on the dreaming life by looking at repeating patterns, both in our dream life and our waking life. I share a dream I still have after 25 years, an exam I never studied for, and the real, somatic anxiety it gives me every single time. We look at why the exam dream is one of the most common recurring dreams in human experience, what Carl Jung discovered about reoccurring dreams in his own clinical work, and how King Nebuchadnezzar's dream in Daniel 2 shows the same pattern playing out three thousand years earlier. We talk about why these dreams give us a real bodily response, and why that response is not something to dismiss but something to take as seriously as a physical symptom. The dream is the hospital of your soul. We anchor the whole conversation in Psalm 77:6 and a prayer from the Celtic saint Columba, and we close with a practical next step you can use starting tonight. If a dream or a sign keeps repeating in your life and you don't know what to do with it, this episode gives you a way to actually listen. Subscribe to The Christian Jung on Substack, and find full show notes at angelameer.com. Heal Deeply. Walk Holy.
Scripture referenced: Daniel 2 (Nebuchadnezzar's dream), Psalm 77:6, Psalm 23. Key terms: Psychic inflation (Carl Jung's term for an untouchable sense of hubris or grandiosity that the psyche eventually reflects back through the body or through a warning dream). Somatic response (a bodily reaction, like waking in a sweat or sitting up in a panic, that a dream produces to make sure it isn't ignored). Reoccurring dream (a dream pattern that repeats until its message is received, understood by Jung as the psyche's way of creating sensations so it can no longer be dismissed). Heal Deeply. Walk Holy.
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| The Cast of Your Dream on the Stage of Your Life: How Your Dreams Can Teach You To Pray Effectively | 16 août 2026 | 00:26:54 | |
A frightening figure in your dream is not what you think it is. Neither is the stranger you can't place, the ex from twenty years ago, or the beautiful radiant stranger. Today we discover that only about one percent of the time does a figure in a dream actually represent themselves. The rest of the time, they're carrying something else entirely. This episode continues our ten-week series on the dreaming life by looking at the cast of people who show up in our dreams and what they're actually there to tell us. We talk about Carl Jung's concept of projection, the way dream figures become containers for feelings, seasons, and soul wounds we haven't fully faced, and we walk through Jacob's all-night wrestling match at the Jabbok in Genesis 32, where he refused to let go until he received a blessing. I share a story I don't often tell publicly: nearly two decades of recurring dreams about an ex-boyfriend, well into the first years of my happy marriage, and what I finally understood those dreams were actually about once I stopped praying generic prayers and started asking God to do soul-level work. We walk through a simple three-word practice for working with your own recurring dream figures, anchored in Proverbs 3:5 and 1 John 4:18. If a certain person keeps showing up in your dreams and you don't know why, this episode gives you a way to actually find out, and a way to pray about it that might finally get to the root. Subscribe to The Christian Jung on Substack, and find full show notes at angelameer.com. Heal Deeply. Walk Holy.
Scripture referenced: Genesis 32 (Jacob wrestling at Peniel), Proverbs 3:5, 1 John 4:18. Key terms: Projection (Carl Jung's term for the way figures in our dreams carry qualities, fears, or unresolved tensions from our own inner life). Archetype (a recurring pattern or role a dream figure can embody, to be covered further in later episodes). Three-word practice (naming a dream figure's quality, role, and season of life as a first step toward discerning what they represent). Heal Deeply. Walk Holy.
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| The Vocabulary of Dreams: Signs and Symbols as God's First Language | 09 août 2026 | 00:27:04 | |
If God speaks through dreams, what language is He actually speaking? Not English, not just Hebrew. Signs and symbols, the same language the prophets received, chosen on purpose because it bypasses the intellect we have learned to lean on far too heavily. This episode continues our ten-week series on the dreaming life by looking at why God's first language in Scripture has always been image rather than statement. We talk about what we've lost by trading the numinous for the explainable, what theologian Rudolf Otto called the mysterium tremendum et fascinans, and what Carl Jung called numinosity when he borrowed the term to describe the psyche's own religious function. I share a dream I don't often talk about publicly: walking a moonlit dock, watching an eye larger than a whale's rise out of the water, and realizing in the last second before it submerged that I was looking at the Ancient of Days. We look at Jung's distinction between sign and symbol, how Daniel and Ezekiel used symbol rather than statement to describe God, and why apophatic theology and Psalm 139 both name the same holy limit: some knowledge is too wonderful, too lofty to attain by intellect alone. If you've ever had a dream you couldn't explain and didn't know what to do with, this episode makes the case that the not-knowing might be the point. Subscribe to The Christian Jung on Substack, and find full show notes at angelameer.com. Heal Deeply. Walk Holy.
Scripture referenced: Proverbs 3:5, Daniel 7, Ezekiel 1, Psalm 139:1-6. Key terms: Numinous/numinosity (the felt sense of the Holy Other as both overwhelming and inviting, a term Carl Jung borrowed from theologian Rudolf Otto). Sign (a symbol with a fixed, swappable, translatable meaning). Symbol (an image that carries meaning within itself and resists being flattened into a single explanation). Apophatic theology (the view that every true statement about God is also, necessarily, insufficient). Heal Deeply. Walk Holy.
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| The Sleeping Self: Why God Speaks When You Are Unconscious | 02 août 2026 | 00:18:01 | |
Why does God speak through dreams specifically? What is it about the unconscious state that makes it a particular channel of divine communication? In Week 2 of The Christian Jung's Dreams Arc, Angela Meer explores the theology of the sleeping self. Drawing on Job 33:14-16 ('when deep sleep falls on men, he opens the ears'), Psalm 127:2, and Jung's concept of the compensatory dream, this episode argues that the sleeping state is not a spiritual vacancy -- it is one of the soul's most open moments. Angela shares a deeply personal story: the season she was building ministry hot and fast, with all the visible metrics of success pointing upward, and the dream she calls The Dream that stopped everything. The Dream named what her waking self had been successfully filtering out: the difference between impact and transformation, between transformation and fruit -- and the uncomfortable truth that she was building a ministry at the altar of her ego. She didn't want to receive it. She went to counselors trying to find a way out. Until the dream kept replaying and she finally had to admit what it was saying. This episode covers: -- The filter: how the managing, performing conscious self decides what to let in and what to keep out -- Job 33 and the structure of God's speech through the sleeping state -- Jung's compensatory function: the dream responds specifically to what the waking life has excluded -- Why the sleeping self is, in some ways, the more honest self -- How to begin recognizing the compensatory pattern in your own dream life Scripture covered: Job 33:14-16, Psalm 127:2, Psalm 4:4 Find the full written article and the Inner Room companion on Substack. Search The Christian Jung or visit angelameer.com. Heal Deeply. Walk Holy.
Scripture: Job 33:14-16 | Psalm 127:2 | Psalm 4:4 Key terms: Compensatory dream: Jung's term for the dream that responds specifically to what the waking attitude has excluded -- bringing the counterweight to the ego's one-sidedness Ego: in Jungian terms, the center of conscious awareness -- the managing, filtering, performing self; not the whole person, only the conscious portion Nepsis: the Desert Fathers' term for watchfulness; applied to dream life, the practice of attentive, non-defensive reception of what the night brings Links: Free article | Inner Room | angelameer.com | Heal Deeply. Walk Holy.
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| The Dreaming Church: A History We Were Never Taught | 26 juil. 2026 | 00:23:04 | |
Before you decide whether God still speaks through dreams, consider what the church believed for the first fifteen hundred years of its existence. Not the fringe. The theologians, the martyrs, the desert fathers, the bishops who gave us the creeds, the canon, and the contemplative tradition that shaped Christian spirituality to this day. None of them thought God had stopped speaking in the night. The question was never whether. It was how to listen well. In Week 1B of The Christian Jung's Dreams Arc, Angela Meer traces the history of the dreaming church: Tertullian's three categories of dreams (divine, demonic, natural), Perpetua's prophetic dreams in prison and the church's preservation of her account for public worship, the desert fathers' nepsis and the sophisticated discernment tradition they developed, Augustine's mother Monica and the dream that sustained her prayer for seventeen years, Jerome redirected by a dream serious enough to leave bruises, Hildegard of Bingen and Thomas Aquinas engaging visions and dreams as matters of serious theological attention. The episode culminates with Ignatius of Loyola and the surprise reveal: Carl Jung read the Spiritual Exercises. In his 1937 Terry Lectures at Yale, he recognized that Ignatius's imaginative contemplation -- entering a Gospel scene with all five senses, attending to the movements of consolation and desolation -- was structurally identical to what he was developing as active imagination. The church had been doing it for five centuries. Jung gave it a new name. This episode covers: -- Tertullian's De Anima and the theology of dream discernment -- Perpetua of Carthage: dreaming in prison, preserved in worship -- The desert fathers' nepsis and the tradition of interior discernment -- Monica, Augustine, and the dream that held for seventeen years -- Jerome: flogged in a dream, redirected in his scholarly life -- Ignatius of Loyola and the Spiritual Exercises -- Jung's recognition of Ignatius: active imagination and the five-century precedent -- How we lost this -- and how we recover it Scripture covered: Acts 2:17, Joel 2:28, Numbers 12:6, Hebrews 1:1-2 Find the full article and Inner Room practice guide on Substack: The Christian Jung. Find more at angelameer.com. Heal Deeply. Walk Holy.
Scripture: Acts 2:17 | Joel 2:28 | Numbers 12:6 | Hebrews 1:1-2 Key figures: Tertullian (c. 155-240) | Perpetua of Carthage (c. 181-203) | Desert Fathers/Apophthegmata Patrum (3rd-5th c.) | Augustine of Hippo (354-430) | Jerome (c. 347-420) | Hildegard of Bingen (1098-1179) | Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274) | Ignatius of Loyola (1491-1556) | Carl Jung (1875-1961) Key terms: Nepsis: the Desert Fathers' practice of watchful attentiveness to interior movement, including what comes in the night; the posture of receptive discernment Consolation/Desolation: Ignatius of Loyola's categories for distinguishing genuine divine interior movement (consolation -- drawing toward God, love, peace, holy desire) from counterfeit (desolation -- drawing away, toward anxiety, self-protection, diminishment) Application of the Senses: Ignatius's practice of entering a Gospel scene or sacred image with all five senses and attending to what arises in the interior life Active imagination: Jung's term for the same practice -- deliberate, receptive engagement with an interior image, allowing it to develop without forcing a predetermined outcome Cessationism: the 19th-century theological position that certain gifts of the Spirit ceased with the apostolic age; not the patristic, medieval, or consistently Reformation position Links: Free article | Inner Room | angelameer.com | Heal Deeply. Walk Holy.
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| God Has Always Spoken in Dreams | 19 juil. 2026 | 00:17:08 | |
The church made a quiet decision. God never agreed to it. In the opening episode of The Christian Jung's Dreams Arc, Angela Meer makes the case that the biblical record has always treated dreams as a legitimate channel of divine communication -- and that the church's dismissal of dreams as 'pizza dreams' or spiritually irrelevant is not a biblical position. It is a cultural one, shaped by Enlightenment rationalism and absorbed into Western Christianity over the last three centuries. Angela walks through the density of dream material in Scripture: Jacob's covenant at Bethel while asleep on a stone, the Joseph narrative whose entire arc begins with two dreams, the infancy of Jesus protected by the dream obedience of his father Joseph, and Joel 2:28 quoted by Peter at Pentecost as evidence of the Spirit's outpouring. She also shares something personal: she always knew God spoke in dreams, even when her tradition laughed at the idea. When the Charismatic and Catholic Charismatic Renewal gave her language and a framework for interpretation, it did not feel like new information -- it felt like vocabulary for something she had already recognized. And she speaks directly to the listener who has been quietly nodding along, who kept that knowing private, who was not sure they were allowed to take their own dreams seriously. This episode also introduces Carl Jung's observation that modern Western Christianity is historically anomalous in dismissing the dream -- and sets the stage for ten weeks of Scripture, depth psychology, and the recovery of a practice the serious Christian was never supposed to lose. Scripture covered: Genesis 28:10-17, Genesis 37:5-11, Matthew 1:20-21, Matthew 2:12-13, Joel 2:28, Acts 2:17, Numbers 12:6 Find the full written article and the Inner Room companion on Substack. Search The Christian Jung or visit angelameer.com. Heal Deeply. Walk Holy.
Scripture: Genesis 28:10-17 | Genesis 37:5-11 | Matthew 1:20-21 | Matthew 2:12-13 | Joel 2:28 | Acts 2:17 | Numbers 12:6 Key terms: Dream incubation: the ancient practice of sleeping in a sacred space for the purpose of receiving divine communication through a dream -- practiced in Egyptian, Greek, and Hebrew cultures Nepsis: the Desert Fathers' term for watchfulness or sobriety; applied to dreams, it means receiving them attentively without credulity or dismissal Compensation: Jung's term for the dream's tendency to supply what is missing from conscious life -- a concept introduced in later weeks Links: Free article | Inner Room | angelameer.com | Heal Deeply. Walk Holy.
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| Your Shadow Is Not Going Anywhere. The Division Inside You Can. | 12 juil. 2026 | 00:27:27 | |
The single most reliable sign that the work of this arc is taking root in a person’s life is not that they have stopped struggling. The struggle continues, often for life. What changes is something else, and once you know what it is, you can see it in yourself, often before you can name it. The struggle stays. The doubling ends. In the finale episode of the shadow arc on The Christian Jung Podcast, Angela Meer lands the work of ten weeks. The central claim: integration is not the elimination of the shadow. The shadow stays. Wholeness, in this Christian sense, is not perfection, sinlessness, or the end of struggle. It is the end of the divided life: the person who is one self under Christ, with every part of her known, owned, and brought into a single life. Angela walks through David’s prayer for the undivided heart in Psalm 86:11, the wholehearted love of God commanded in the Shema (Deuteronomy 6:5; Mark 12:30), and James’s warning against double-mindedness (James 1:8). She returns to Jacob’s morning after the Jabbok, when the sun rose upon him as he passed Penuel, limping because of his hip (Genesis 32:31), and reads it as the picture of integration: not the limp gone, the two selves gone. She brings in Carl Jung’s honest observation that integration does not remove the shadow but ends its autonomous reign from below, and she names the clear edge of Jung. Jung could describe the wholeness. He could not, by himself, supply the One in whose presence the divided heart finally finds its rest. Augustine finishes the sentence, in Confessions 1.1.1: the heart is restless until it rests in Thee. The episode includes a personal disclosure. Angela tells what wholeness has actually looked like in her own life, naming the abundant life of John 10:10 as a fuller measure of hope, an overwhelming love unshaken by the enemy’s lies, a faith that has become a byproduct rather than something worked up, and peace as a resting and abiding fruit. She is direct that she is not talking about prosperity or fame. She is direct that her life is not perfect. And she names the fruit of the Spirit (Galatians 5:22-23) as the actual evidence of the integrated life. This is the finale of the shadow arc, inside the larger work of The Christian Jung, a systematic theology of psychological wholeness for serious Christians whose orthodoxy is intact but whose inner life still needs healing. If you have walked the whole arc with us, thank you. Find this week’s free article on Substack at The Christian Jung, and the Inner Room companion with the three practices for maintaining the integrated life. Visit angelameer.com. Heal Deeply. Walk Holy.
Scripture passages discussed: • Psalm 86:11 (the undivided heart) • Deuteronomy 6:4-5 and Mark 12:30 (the Shema, wholehearted love) • James 1:8 (the double-minded life) • Genesis 32:31 (the morning after Jacob’s wrestling) • John 10:10 (the abundant life) • Galatians 5:22-23 (the fruit of the Spirit) • 2 Corinthians 5:17 (the new creation) Key terms (one sentence each): • Integration: the bringing of every part of the self, the wounds, the gold, the resistance, the hidden self, into one life under Christ; not the elimination of the shadow but the end of being two of yourself. • The undivided heart: David’s term in Psalm 86:11 and Scripture’s enduring image for the integrated person, the heart that is no longer two minds. • The maintained integrated life: the daily walking of integration after the work of the arc is done, sustained by practices like Psalm 86:11 prayer, the noticing of the integrated body, and the fruit ledger. Resources mentioned: • Carl Jung on the integration of the shadow, from his work in analytical psychology • Augustine of Hippo, Confessions 1.1.1 Links: • This week’s free article on Substack: The Christian Jung • The Inner Room paid companion article Heal Deeply. Walk Holy.
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Christianity, Jungian psychology, shadow work, spiritual formation, integration, inner healing, Christian podcast Links: - This week’s free article on Substack: The Christian Jung - The Inner Room paid article companion - angelameer.com Heal Deeply. Walk Holy. | |||
| The Shadow Is Expensive to Face. It Is Far More Expensive to Keep. | 28 juin 2026 | 00:21:02 | |
Nobody wants to tell you this part. Becoming real has a price, and the price is real. You will lose people who only ever loved the performing version of you. You will lose rooms you used to be welcome in. You will lose admiration that, when you look at it closely, was never actually for you. And there is another half no Christian writing seems to talk about. The shadow you are tempted to keep, the curated, religiously-tinted, presentable version of yourself, has been quietly charging you more, every year, than the price of becoming real would ever total. In this episode of The Christian Jung Podcast, Angela Meer counts both bills. She works through Jesus on losing your life to find it (Matthew 16:25), the grain of wheat that must fall and die to bear fruit (John 12:24), Jacob wrestling at the Jabbok and walking away with a new name and a permanent limp (Genesis 32:24-31), and Paul’s account of the outer self wasting away while the inner self is renewed day by day (2 Corinthians 4:16). She brings in what Carl Jung was honest enough to say, that integrating the shadow takes considerable moral effort, the kind the ego will spend almost any energy avoiding, because facing it threatens the ego. And she names the danger specific to this week of the arc: most serious Christians who do shadow work stop not at the beginning but near the end, when the bill arrives, and they renegotiate, keeping just enough of the filter to keep what they cannot stand to lose. This episode includes a personal disclosure. Angela tells the story of years of working to remove the Pharisee spirit, with her real self emerging as a byproduct she had not aimed for, and the concrete cost she has paid in the ministry and church world: lost relationships, lost respect, lost opportunities. And what she has decided about all of it. The episode closes with a prayer from John of the Cross, doctor of the costly inner road, an excerpt from his Prayer of a Soul Taken with Love. This is week nine of the shadow arc, inside the larger work of The Christian Jung, a systematic theology of psychological wholeness for serious Christians whose orthodoxy is intact but whose inner life still needs healing. If you have been paying the price of becoming real, this episode is for you. Find this week’s free article on Substack at The Christian Jung, and the Inner Room companion with the three practices for paying the cost on purpose. Visit angelameer.com. Heal Deeply. Walk Holy.
Scripture passages discussed: • Matthew 16:25 (lose your life to find it) • John 12:24 (the grain of wheat must fall and die) • Genesis 32:24-31 (Jacob wrestling, the new name, the limp) • 2 Corinthians 4:16 (outer self wasting, inner self renewed) • Colossians 3:3 (you have died, your life hidden with Christ in God) Key terms (one sentence each): • The two bills: the visible cost of becoming real, and the slower, hidden cost of keeping the curated or filtered self. • The marks: the visible signs that a person has stopped hiding (changed relationships, closed rooms, a different register), read as evidence rather than as damage. • The settlement: the half-converted ego’s offer to keep just enough of the filter to keep the rooms, which is how shadow work most often fails near the end. Resources mentioned: • Carl Jung on the moral cost of integrating the shadow, from his work in analytical psychology • John of the Cross, Sayings of Light and Love 27 (Prayer of a Soul Taken with Love) Links: • This week’s free article on Substack: The Christian Jung • The Inner Room paid companion article Heal Deeply. Walk Holy.
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Christianity, Jungian psychology, shadow work, spiritual formation, authenticity, inner healing, Christian podcast Links: - This week’s free article on Substack: The Christian Jung - The Inner Room paid article companion - angelameer.com Heal Deeply. Walk Holy. | |||
| Step Out of Your Shadow, and Into the Shadow of the Almighty | 21 juin 2026 | 00:21:29 | |
There is probably one room in you that your relationship with God has never been allowed to enter. A hidden failure, a fear, a shame. You pray daily, you love God sincerely, and you have quietly kept that one corner out of the conversation. In this episode of The Christian Jung Podcast, Angela Meer brings the whole shadow arc to its turning point and asks how Jesus Himself meets the hidden self. The answer overturns the thing we most fear. Jesus is not repelled by the shadow. He seeks it out. He walked to the exact tree where Zacchaeus was hiding and called him down by name (Luke 19:1-10). He chose the route through Samaria to reach one hidden, ashamed woman at a well, and named her whole hidden life, which became the beginning of her faith rather than the end of it (John 4). Angela works through the unspoken theology that keeps so many believers locked out of their own healing, the belief that you must clean the hidden room before you may invite God in, and shows from Psalm 139 and Hebrews 4 that God is already present in the hidden place and that being fully seen by Him leads to the throne of grace, not to condemnation. The episode also names the clear edge of Carl Jung. Jung saw, rightly, that the shadow does not heal in the dark and must be brought into the light, but he could only point at the light. He could not be it. The light the hidden self must be carried into is not a concept but a Person. This episode includes a personal disclosure. Angela tells the story of the financial chaos she hid in her early twenties, nearly twenty thousand dollars of debt, a repossessed car, deep shame, and the night she cried out to God for a rescuing miracle and heard Him answer instead, “I want to teach you wisdom with wealth, not just save you from your mistakes.” She traces how He did not lift her out of the hardship but stepped into it and formed her over ten years, and how the integrity her ministry now stands on was built that way. This is week eight of the shadow arc, inside the larger work of The Christian Jung, a systematic theology of psychological wholeness for serious Christians whose orthodoxy is intact but whose inner life still needs healing. If you have been carrying the hidden self alone, this episode is for you. Find this week’s free article on Substack at The Christian Jung, and the Inner Room companion with the three practices for bringing the hidden self to Christ. Visit angelameer.com. Heal Deeply. Walk Holy.
Scripture passages discussed: • Psalm 91:1 (the shelter of the Most High, the shadow of the Almighty) • Luke 19:1-10 (Zacchaeus) • John 4:4-29 (the woman at the well) • John 1:47-48 (Nathanael under the fig tree) • Hebrews 4:13, 4:15-16 (exposed before Him, drawing near to the throne of grace) • Psalm 139:7-8 (no hidden place where God is not already present) Key terms (one sentence each): • The hidden self: the part of the inner life a person keeps even from God, usually a shame, a failure, or a fear. • The clean-the-room-first theology: the unspoken belief that you must fix the hidden thing before you may bring it to God, which keeps the worst room permanently locked. • Formation over rescue: God’s frequent way of healing the hidden self not by removing the hardship but by stepping into it and slowly forming the person within it. Resources mentioned: • Carl Jung on the shadow needing to be made conscious and brought into the light, from his work in analytical psychology • The Lorica, also called St. Patrick’s Breastplate, ancient Celtic prayer Links: • This week’s free article on Substack: The Christian Jung • The Inner Room paid companion article Heal Deeply. Walk Holy.
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Christianity, Jungian psychology, shadow work, spiritual formation, inner healing, prayer, Christian podcast Links: - This week’s free article on Substack: The Christian Jung - The Inner Room paid article companion - angelameer.com Heal Deeply. Walk Holy. | |||
| You Have Been Trying to Force This Part of You to Change. That Is Why It Will Not. | 14 juin 2026 | 00:20:43 | |
There is something in you that will not change. You have prayed about it, repented of it, made the plan, found the accountability, and read the book. And that part of you is still standing exactly where it has always stood. In this episode of The Christian Jung Podcast, Angela Meer goes deeper into the shadow, to the parts of it that refuse to move, and she names the reason force has never worked. A part of you that will not change is not lazy and not disobedient. It is afraid, and it is working. It took on a protective job during a hard season, it has done that job faithfully ever since, and no one has ever told it the job is finished. It is loyal to a danger that is most likely over. And when you attack it with willpower and shame, it grips harder, because pressure is the exact threat it was built to withstand. Angela works through Paul’s account of the divided self in Romans 7, where the most spiritually serious man in the New Testament describes a part of himself that will not obey him, and refuses to answer it with “try harder.” She looks at Jesus asking the man at the pool the strange question, “Do you want to be healed?” (John 5:6), at Israel in the wilderness longing to return to the food of its slavery (Exodus 16:3), and at Lazarus raised to life and still bound in graveclothes (John 11:44). She brings in Carl Jung’s hard observation that a suppressed shadow does not vanish but grows stronger and more autonomous, which means the long war of shame against a stuck part has been feeding it all along. This episode includes a personal disclosure. Angela tells the present-tense, unresolved story of a health plan she and her husband built carefully and kept for twelve weeks, a devastating letter that crashed her hopes for the year, and the emotional blockade that has kept her from re-engaging the plan in the ten weeks since, even with the whole system still intact. This is week seven of the shadow arc, inside the larger work of The Christian Jung, a systematic theology of psychological wholeness for serious Christians whose orthodoxy is intact but whose inner life still needs healing. If you have been at war with the same part of yourself for years, this episode is for you. Find this week’s free article on Substack at The Christian Jung, and the Inner Room companion with the three practices for working with a resisting part. Visit angelameer.com. Heal Deeply. Walk Holy.
Scripture passages discussed: • Romans 7:15-25 (the divided self) • John 5:1-9 (the man at the pool, “Do you want to be healed?”) • Exodus 16:3 and Numbers 11:4-6 (Israel longing for Egypt) • John 11:44 (Lazarus raised and still bound) • 2 Corinthians 12:9 (grace sufficient, power made perfect in weakness) Key terms (one sentence each): • A resisting part of the shadow: a part of the inner life that refuses to change because it formed to protect you and is still doing that job. • Protective logic: the hidden, reasonable fear underneath a stubborn behavior, which the part has never been allowed to say out loud. • Loyalty to an old danger: the way a protective part keeps guarding against a threat from a season that has already ended. Resources mentioned: • Carl Jung on the shadow’s resistance to integration and the danger of suppression, from his work in analytical psychology • Teresa of Avila, “Nada te turbe” Links: • This week’s free article on Substack: The Christian Jung • The Inner Room paid companion article Heal Deeply. Walk Holy.
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Christianity, Jungian psychology, shadow work, spiritual formation, inner healing, self-sabotage, Christian podcast Links: - This week’s free article on Substack: The Christian Jung - The Inner Room paid article companion - angelameer.com Heal Deeply. Walk Holy. | |||
| Your Shadow Is Not Only Where the Wounds Are. It Is Also Where the Gold Is. | 07 juin 2026 | 00:19:33 | |
For five episodes, the shadow has meant one thing: the dark room where you keep what you are ashamed of. This episode turns that over. The shadow is also where you buried the gold. In this episode of The Christian Jung Podcast, Angela Meer teaches the golden shadow, the part of the inner life that holds not your faults but your buried gifts, strengths, and aliveness. She walks through how a gift gets buried, almost never out of cruelty, usually out of the need to belong, and how people of faith then baptize the burial and call it humility. Scripture, she shows, refuses that name. In the parable of the talents the servant buries his gift and states his own reason plainly, “I was afraid” (Matthew 25:25), and the master is not pleased. Angela works through the way God calls people in Scripture, Gideon hailed as a mighty man of valor while he hides in a winepress (Judges 6:12), Moses and Jeremiah reaching for self-diminishment, and the consistent pattern: God names the gold first, while we can only see the hole we buried it in. She brings in Carl Jung’s observation that we hand our disowned gifts to the people we most admire, and his claim that intense admiration is often a map back to our own buried gold. The teaching is anchored by Catherine of Siena, the fourteenth-century mystic and reformer, and her line, “If you are what you should be, you will set all of Italy ablaze.” This episode includes a personal disclosure. Angela tells the story of her own buried gift: a childhood instinct for the supernatural, the miraculous, and the symbolic in Scripture that she was quietly taught was not serious, and that she buried in order to fit in with academic theology. It is the very gift, recovered, that her current work is built on. This is week six of the shadow arc, inside the larger work of The Christian Jung, a systematic theology of psychological wholeness for serious Christians whose orthodoxy is intact but whose inner life still needs healing. If you set a gift down years ago and have wondered about it ever since, this episode is for you. Find this week’s free article on Substack at The Christian Jung, and the Inner Room companion with the three practices for recovering a buried gift. Visit angelameer.com. Heal Deeply. Walk Holy.
Scripture passages discussed: • Matthew 25:14-30 (the parable of the talents, especially 25:25) • Matthew 5:14-16 (the lamp not hidden under a basket) • Judges 6:12, 6:15 (Gideon, mighty man of valor) • Exodus 3:11; 4:10 (Moses, “Who am I?”) • Jeremiah 1:6 (“I am only a youth”) • 1 Timothy 4:14 and 2 Timothy 1:6 (do not neglect, and fan into flame, the gift) • 2 Corinthians 4:7 (treasure in jars of clay) Key terms (one sentence each): • The golden shadow: the part of the unconscious that holds buried gifts and positive potential, not only repressed faults. • Projection: the way we hand our own disowned qualities, including gifts, to other people, then admire or envy them for carrying it. • False humility: the burial of a God-given gift, mistaken for modesty, which Scripture names as fear rather than virtue. Resources mentioned: • Carl Jung on the golden shadow and projection, from his work in analytical psychology • Catherine of Siena, Letter T368, and her Prayer to the Holy Spirit Links: • This week’s free article on Substack: The Christian Jung • The Inner Room paid companion article Heal Deeply. Walk Holy.
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Christianity, Jungian psychology, shadow work, spiritual gifts, spiritual formation, calling, Christian podcast Links: - This week’s free article on Substack: The Christian Jung - The Inner Room paid article companion - angelameer.com Heal Deeply. Walk Holy. | |||
| The Contract You Never Signed Is Still Draining You | 31 mai 2026 | 00:20:07 | |
There is a version of you that everyone has met, and almost no one has questioned. The capable one. The one who is fine. The one who holds it, carries it, and does not need anything back. And it is tired in a way that sleep does not reach. In this episode of The Christian Jung Podcast, Angela Meer names the contract underneath that tiredness, the unwritten agreement that says you will be the strong one, the one who does not need. Most of us never signed it. It was drafted long before we could read it, by a family, a church, a wound, a season when being seen genuinely was not safe. And we have been paying on it ever since. Angela reframes the Pharisee spirit, not as the villain of the Gospels, but as a reflex that lives in the most sincere believers, the part of us that learned the safest way to be a Christian is to be seen doing it well. She traces the fear of being seen back to its origin in Scripture, the hiding that began in the garden (Genesis 3:8-10), and works through Jesus’ words on the cup clean only on the outside (Matthew 23:25-28), the Pharisee and the tax collector (Luke 18:9-14), and the God who looks on the heart rather than the outward appearance (1 Samuel 16:7). She connects this to what Carl Jung called the persona, the mask that is necessary for ordinary life but dangerous when we wear it so long that we lose the self underneath. This episode includes a personal disclosure. Angela speaks openly, as a pastor, about the unwritten contract between a congregation and the one who pastors it, what it has cost her, and the shift she is in the middle of right now: the recognition that she is not responsible for the contract, but is responsible for the long-term, sustainable health of her own soul. She also names how this same shadow shows up for people who are not pastors at all, but who quietly pastor everyone in their sphere. The episode closes with a prayer from Julian of Norwich, the fourteenth-century anchoress whose Revelations of Divine Love is a vision of a God who beholds us with love rather than blame. This is week five of the shadow arc, inside the larger work of The Christian Jung, a systematic theology of psychological wholeness for serious Christians whose orthodoxy is intact but whose inner life still needs healing. If you are tired in a way that sleep does not reach, this episode is for you. Find this week’s free article on Substack at The Christian Jung, and the Inner Room companion with the three practices in full. Visit angelameer.com. Heal Deeply. Walk Holy.
Scripture passages discussed: • Genesis 3:8-10 (the first hiding) • Matthew 6:1 (righteousness practiced to be seen) • Matthew 23:25-28 (the cup clean only on the outside, whitewashed tombs) • Luke 18:9-14 (the Pharisee and the tax collector) • Psalm 139:1-7, 23-24 (the God who has searched and known us) • 1 Samuel 16:7 (the Lord looks on the heart) • 2 Corinthians 12:9 (power made perfect in weakness) Key terms (one sentence each): • Persona: Carl Jung’s term for the mask we present to the world, necessary for ordinary life and dangerous only when we identify with it so completely that we lose the self underneath. • The Pharisee spirit: not a category of villain, but a reflex in sincere believers, the part of us that learned to perform righteousness in order to be safely seen. • The fear of being seen: the oldest reflex in Scripture, first shown in Adam and Eve hiding in the garden. Resources mentioned: • Carl Jung on the persona, from his work in analytical psychology • Julian of Norwich, Revelations of Divine Love Links: • This week’s free article on Substack: The Christian Jung • The Inner Room paid companion article Heal Deeply. Walk Holy.
Christian fear of being seen, Pharisee spirit, Christian people pleasing, the persona Jung, Christian performance exhaustion, ministry burnout, pastor burnout, being known by God, Christian shadow work, Jungian Christianity, contemplative Christianity, Christian depth psychology, Julian of Norwich, hiding from God, Christian inner healing podcast
Christianity, Jungian psychology, shadow work, spiritual formation, contemplative prayer, ministry, Christian podcast Links: - This week’s free article on Substack: The Christian Jung - The Inner Room paid article companion - angelameer.com Heal Deeply. Walk Holy. | |||
| What Your Art, Dreams, and Imagination Reveal About the Shadow | 24 mai 2026 | 00:22:19 | |
There is a scene from a film that has stayed with you for years. A recurring dream you stopped writing down. A painting, a song, a line from a novel that landed too hard the first time you encountered it and has been quietly waiting in the back of you ever since. You were taught these were distractions. You were taught the imagination was suspect. In this episode of The Christian Jung Podcast, Angela Meer argues that your soul has been speaking to you for years, and that Scripture has always known this. Half of the Bible is given in image, dream, vision, and parable. Joseph received the throne of Egypt through dreams (Genesis 41). Daniel received the architecture of empire through visions (Daniel 7). Joel prophesied that the Spirit at Pentecost would come with dreams and visions, and Peter quoted that promise on the first day of the Church (Joel 2:28; Acts 2:17). Jesus refused to teach in proposition: “He did not say anything to them without using a parable” (Mark 4:34). Angela walks through the Christian imagination as something older than Jung by fifteen centuries: the Desert Fathers’ nepsis (watchfulness of the heart), Ignatian imaginative contemplation, Hildegard of Bingen’s visionary fidelity, and the careful Christian adaptation of what Carl Jung called active imagination. She names the resistance most orthodox Christians feel about this language, and she answers it from Scripture. She also shares her own ongoing practice of illustrated dream journaling and explains, with specific recent dream images, why she draws her dreams instead of writing them. This is week four of the shadow arc, inside the larger work of The Christian Jung, a systematic theology of psychological wholeness for serious Christians whose orthodoxy is intact but whose inner life still needs healing. If you have ever wondered what to do with the images that have stayed with you for years, this episode is for you. Find this week’s free article on Substack at The Christian Jung. The Inner Room companion article teaches three Christian practices for learning to listen, in depth. Subscribe at The Christian Jung on Substack, or visit angelameer.com. Heal Deeply. Walk Holy.
Scripture passages discussed: - Genesis 37:5-11; 41:25-32 (Joseph’s dreams) - Daniel 7:1-14 (the vision of beasts and the Son of Man) - Joel 2:28 (the promise of dreams and visions) - Acts 2:17 (Peter at Pentecost) - Habakkuk 2:1-2 (“Write the vision and make it plain”) - Ezekiel 1 (the chariot vision) - Mark 4:34 (Jesus taught only in parables) - Mark 4:35-41 (the calming of the storm, the Ignatian exercise referenced) - Psalm 139:23 (“Search me, O God”) - Psalm 51:6 (wisdom in the inward parts) - Ephesians 3:16-17 (the inner being) - Colossians 1:15 (Christ, the image of the invisible God) Key terms (one-sentence definitions): - Active imagination: Carl Jung’s practice of engaging the images that arise from the unconscious; the Christian adaptation brings these images before God in prayer and keeps Christ as the interlocutor. - Visionary tradition: The long Christian tradition (Hildegard of Bingen, Julian of Norwich, John of Patmos, the prophets) of receiving theological knowing through image. - Imaginative contemplation: Ignatius of Loyola’s method of praying inside a Scripture scene by composing the place, entering the scene, and dialoguing with Christ. - Nepsis: The Desert Fathers’ practice of watchfulness of the heart, considered the foundation of all spiritual discernment. Resources mentioned: - Carl Jung, The Red Book (Liber Novus), the visionary journal Jung kept for nearly two decades - Ignatius of Loyola, The Spiritual Exercises, completed 1548 - Hildegard of Bingen, Scivias, her major visionary work - Hildegard of Bingen, Symphonia armonie celestium revelationum, source of the closing prayer (Spiritus sanctus vivificans)
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Christianity, Jungian psychology, dreams, imagination, contemplative prayer, shadow work, Christian mysticism Links: - This week’s free article on Substack: The Christian Jung - The Inner Room paid article companion - angelameer.com Heal Deeply. Walk Holy. | |||
| Why Good Christians Become Strangers to Themselves | 17 mai 2026 | 00:23:24 | |
There is a kind of Christian who can recite the Gospel with precision, lead a small group through Romans, weep at worship, and still be a complete stranger to themselves. This episode is for that Christian. The serious one. The one who has read deeply, prayed long, served quietly, and is now sitting with a question they cannot quite ask out loud. Why does my soul feel so far from me when I am working this hard to be near God? In Episode 3, Angela Meer opens the shadow arc of The Christian Jung by naming something many sincere Christians have felt for years without having the words for it. The way certain forms of faith, especially the most devout forms, can quietly require us to leave the very soul Christ came to heal. We trace the pattern of hyper-spiritualization, the slow making of the false self, the cost of a holiness that hides the body and silences the emotion, and the way Jesus Himself named this in His confrontation with the religious leaders of His day. This people honors me with their lips, but their heart is far from me (Matthew 15:8). The Greek word for hypocrite in that passage is hypokrites, a stage actor. Jesus was not naming bad doctrine. He was naming distance from the self. Angela shares her own story for the first time on the podcast. Thirty years of preaching emotional suppression as if it were spiritual maturity, and what that teaching cost her as a woman with Cerebral Palsy trying to live faithfully inside a body she had not been allowed to feel. We turn to Carl Jung, specifically his concept of the shadow as developed in Memories, Dreams, Reflections, and we test it against Psalm 139:23-24, where David asks God into the unsearched parts of himself. We close with three teaching points the listener can carry through the week. This is the opening movement of an eight-episode arc on shadow, dreams, symbol, the Pharisee spirit, the positive shadow, inner resistance, Jesus and the hidden self, and the cost and gift of becoming whole. If you have ever suspected that your faith is asking you to be smaller than the soul God actually made, this is the episode that begins to name why, and what to do about it. Subscribe to The Christian Jung on Substack for the written companion and the Inner Room paid teaching. Full show notes and the article are at angelameer.com. Heal Deeply. Walk Holy. --- Scripture covered
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| S2 E3: When Your Shadow Speaks Through Your Judgment | 10 mai 2026 | 00:19:49 | |
The person you cannot stop judging is the most accurate map to your own buried self that you currently have. Most of us are walking around with a precision instrument we have been taught to read backwards. This week on The Christian Jung Podcast, we go into projection: the psychological mechanism by which the shadow speaks through your judgment of others. Carl Jung described it across his career, with the most concentrated treatment in Aion (1951). Jesus described it first, and with surgical precision, in Matthew 7:3-5: the speck and the plank. They are not metaphors for general humility. They are a diagnostic claim about how the human heart works. We work through three signatures by which projection surfaces in Christian life: the trait that disgusts you most viscerally, the person you cannot pray for honestly, and the repeated moral confrontation. We anchor in Matthew 7, Romans 2:1, James 4:11-12, and Galatians 6:1. I share a personal story from my own ministry experience: a woman I could not stop judging, whose boldness I despised, until I recognized that the boldness was the most thoroughly buried part of me, and her presence in my awareness was the unintentional service of carrying my own disowned material in front of me. The Inner Room companion piece this week gives you a contemplative protocol for working with your judgments as raw material for formation, with three practices drawn from the Hesychast, Ignatian, and Christian journaling traditions. Available to paid subscribers at angelameer.com/substack. SHOW NOTES Scripture References: Matthew 7:3-5 (the speck and the plank); Romans 2:1 (judgment as self-revelation); James 4:11-12 (the one Lawgiver and Judge); Galatians 5:17 (flesh and spirit at war within); Galatians 6:1 (restoring gently, watching yourself); Jeremiah 17:9 (the heart deceitful); Psalm 51:6 (truth in the inward parts); Psalm 139:23-24 (search me, O God); John 10:10 (abundant life, perissos in Greek); John 17:17 (sanctify them by the truth); 1 Thessalonians 5:23 (whole spirit, soul, and body). Key Terms: Projection (Jungian) is the psychological mechanism by which the contents of the unconscious are perceived as belonging to someone else. Surgical in its accuracy. The shadow's primary mode of self-expression. The Plank is Jesus's name (Matthew 7:3-5) for the corresponding interior wound that produces the heat of judgment we direct at others. The Examen is the Ignatian daily review practice; adapted for projection work to surface where the shadow exited that day. Nepsis is the Hesychast Greek term for watchfulness; the somatic foundation of contemplative attention. Links: Free Substack article angelameer.com/substack | Inner Room (paid) angelameer.com/substack | Prophetic Hubs angelameer.com/hub | Website angelameer.com Subscribe to The Christian Jung on Substack for weekly articles, and find show notes and resources at angelameer.com. Heal Deeply. Walk Holy. Links: - This week’s free article on Substack: The Christian Jung - The Inner Room paid article companion - angelameer.com Heal Deeply. Walk Holy. | |||
| The Shadow Is What You Had to Bury to Be Loved | 03 mai 2026 | 00:14:52 | |
What did you have to fold away to be safe in your first home? Most of us have an answer to that question. We buried our anger, our need, our grief, our bold selves, not because we chose to, but because we discovered that burying them was the price of staying loved. Jung called this collected mass of rejected selfhood the shadow. Scripture calls it the hidden parts, the inward places, the deep self. Psalm 139:23-24 names it as the territory God most wants to search. This episode is part of the Inner Exodus, a systematic theology of psychological wholeness for serious Christians. This week we go into what the shadow actually is (and what it is not), why it does not stay buried, and why the formation work that avoids these rooms will always be incomplete. We look at Psalm 27:10, the astonishing promise that the Lord takes up what the family of origin could not hold, and at Jacob wrestling in the dark at the Jabbok (Genesis 32), the encounter that gave him a new name but left him limping. The shadow is not your enemy. It is the invitation to stop running from the parts of yourself that God has always been willing to meet. I also share something personal from my own story of learning to be capable instead of known, and what happened when God began, gently, to ask for the folded-away parts back. If you want to go deeper into the contemplative practices that turn shadow awareness into spiritual formation, the Inner Room companion piece for this episode is available to paid subscribers at angelameer.com/substack. Subscribe to The Christian Jung on Substack for weekly articles, and find show notes and resources at angelameer.com. Heal Deeply. Walk Holy. Show Notes Scripture References: - Psalm 27:10 - Psalm 42:7 - Psalm 51:6 - Psalm 139:1, 13, 23–24 - Genesis 3:8–9 - Genesis 32:22–32 (Jacob at the Jabbok) - John 7:38 - 1 Corinthians 14:25 Key Terms: - Shadow (Jungian): The repository of everything the self deemed unacceptable, buried not by conscious choice but by the survival logic of early formation. - Inner Exodus: Angela's ongoing series, a systematic theology of psychological wholeness. - Sanctification: The theological process of becoming whole and holy; in Angela's framework, this includes the formation of the interior life. Links: - Free Substack article: [LINK] - Inner Room (paid): angelameer.com/substack - Website: angelameer.com Heal Deeply. Walk Holy. Keywords (14) Christian shadow work | Jungian Christianity | inner healing faith | Christian depth psychology | spiritual formation podcast | contemplative Christianity | Psalm 139 shadow | what is the shadow Christian | Christian psychology podcast | buried self spiritual | Christian inner healing | psychological wholeness faith | Jacob wrestles God meaning | Christian unconscious Tags (8) Christianity | Jungian psychology | inner healing | shadow work | spiritual formation | contemplative prayer | Christian podcast | theology Links: - This week’s free article on Substack: The Christian Jung - The Inner Room paid article companion - angelameer.com Heal Deeply. Walk Holy. | |||
| Why Good Christians Repeat Hidden Patterns | 26 avr. 2026 | 00:15:56 | |
A new season of The Christian Jung Podcast for serious Christians seeking healing as deep as their theology. Explore shadow work, contemplative Christianity, emotional healing, spiritual formation, Jungian insight, and the hidden inner life through a Christ-centered lens. Why do sincere Christians keep repeating the same fears, habits, reactions, and self-sabotage patterns even when they deeply want freedom? In this episode of The Christian Jung Podcast, Angela Meer explores the hidden inner life through Scripture, contemplative Christianity, and Jungian psychology to uncover why willpower often fails—and how Christ heals deeper than behavior management. In this episode, you’ll discover:
If you love Jesus, honor Scripture, and know the gospel must reach deeper than surface change, this episode is for you. For deeper practices and weekly formation, search The Christian Jung on Substack. Heal Deeply. Walk Holy. Links: - This week’s free article on Substack: The Christian Jung - The Inner Room paid article companion - angelameer.com Heal Deeply. Walk Holy. | |||
| E.20: Theopoiesis: Becoming the Poem God Is Writing | 30 nov. 2025 | 00:23:56 | |
In this finale of The Christian Jung Podcast’s anima–animus arc, we explore how the Spirit turns wholeness into creative works: Jung’s transcendent function, the Church Fathers’ theopoiesis, and the Pentecost pattern that keeps creating through us. We talk about: If you’re longing for faith that makes — not just thinks or feels — this episode invites you from integration into incarnation. Angela Meer takes us into the fire that follows union — when inner reconciliation becomes outward creation. If you are interested in more free resources on this topic, please visit AngelaMeer.com. #holyspirit #pentecostfire #spirituscreator #jungianpsychology #individuation #conjunctio #theopoiesis #animaanimus #spiritualcreativity #christianmysticism #erosandlogos #creativefaith #spiritualalchemy #christwithin #wholenessinChrist #propheticimagination #depthpsychology #spiritledlife #innerwholeness #unionwithGod #creationandcreator #sacredmarriage #spiritualformation #christianpodcast #mysticalchristianity #innerlight #spiritualrebirth #divineunion #sanctification #holyfire #spiritualintegration #teleios #logosandwisdom #creativecalling #spiritualgifts #livingicon #sacredcreation #contemplativeprayer #soultransformation #healingandwholeness #propheticvision #holywisdom #pneumatology #christiancreativity #spiritualrenewal #madeinGodsimage #renewingofmind #faithandpsychology #becomingwhole #newcreation Comma-separated holy spirit, pentecost fire, Spiritus Creator, Jungian psychology, individuation, coniunctio, theopoiesis, anima animus, spiritual creativity, Christian mysticism, eros and logos, creative faith, spiritual alchemy, Christ within, wholeness in Christ, prophetic imagination, depth psychology, Spirit-led life, inner wholeness, union with God, creation and Creator, sacred marriage, spiritual formation, Christian podcast, mystical Christianity, inner light, spiritual rebirth, divine union, sanctification, holy fire, spiritual integration, teleios, Logos and wisdom, creative calling, spiritual gifts, living icon, sacred creation, contemplative prayer, soul transformation, healing and wholeness, prophetic vision, holy wisdom, pneumatology, Christian creativity, spiritual renewal, made in God’s image, renewing of mind, faith and psychology, becoming whole, new creation. Links: - This week’s free article on Substack: The Christian Jung - The Inner Room paid article companion - angelameer.com Heal Deeply. Walk Holy. | |||
| E.19: From Babel to Pentecost: When the Spirit Restores Understanding | 23 nov. 2025 | 00:18:00 | |
In this episode of The Christian Jung Podcast, we explore the mystery of anamnesis: holy remembering. Through Jung, Scripture, and the Emmaus road, we trace how the Holy Spirit gathers what has been scattered and turns knowledge into revelation. We talk about: Whether you’ve known about God for years or are yearning to know God, this episode meets you on that road — where the heart begins to burn and the Word becomes flesh again. Angela Meer takes us into the sacred work of remembering — the moment when truth stops being information and becomes encounter. To get more free resources related to this podcast, visit: AngelaMeer.com #holyspirit #anamnesis #spiritualawakening #christianmysticism #jungianpsychology #innerhealing #rememberwhoyouare #sacredmemory #faithandpsychology #spiritledlife #awakenthesoul #spiritualencounter #innerunion #divinememory #soulremembrance #christianpodcast #spiritualpodcast #liveinthespirit #voicesofwisdom #heartburning #roadtoemmaus #unionwithgod #pentecostfire #meaningmaking #synchronicity #innerwholeness #encountergod #spiritualdepth #divinewhisper #spiritofwisdom #spiritoftruth #spiritualintegration #contemplativeprayer #symbolicfaith #christianmeditation #numinous #archetypes #depthpsychology #unitiveconsciousness #revelationnotinformation #innerknowing #spiritualillumination #spiritofgod #awakeningjourney #mysticalchristianity #jesusencounter #holyspiritmove #breathofgod #heartsburning ➤ Comma-separated keywords holy spirit, anamnesis, spiritual awakening, Christian mysticism, Jungian psychology, inner healing, remember who you are, sacred memory, faith and psychology, Spirit-led life, awaken the soul, spiritual encounter, inner union, divine memory, soul remembrance, Christian podcast, spiritual podcast, live in the Spirit, voices of wisdom, heart burning, road to Emmaus, union with God, Pentecost fire, meaning making, synchronicity, inner wholeness, encounter God, spiritual depth, divine whisper, Spirit of wisdom, Spirit of truth, spiritual integration, contemplative prayer, symbolic faith, Christian meditation, numinous, archetypes, depth psychology, unitive consciousness, revelation not information, inner knowing, spiritual illumination, Spirit of God, awakening journey, mystical Christianity, Jesus encounter, Holy Spirit move, breath of God, hearts burning. Links: - This week’s free article on Substack: The Christian Jung - The Inner Room paid article companion - angelameer.com Heal Deeply. Walk Holy. | |||
| E.18: How the Holy Spirit Turns Fragmentation into Harmony | 16 nov. 2025 | 00:16:03 | |
In this episode of The Christian Jung Podcast, the anima and animus rise from the descent into the radiance of integration. Through Jungian psychology, Christian mysticism, and the movements of Sophia and Logos, we explore what happens when the Holy Spirit becomes the rhythm within us. We talk about: If you’re longing to live from your center — not balancing, not fixing, but resting in harmony — this episode is an invitation into inner resurrection. Angela Meer takes us into the dawn of the soul — where the shadow has been surrendered and the Spirit begins to breathe new life. Go to AngelaMeer.com for more resources related to this podcast. #innerawakening #christianmysticism #holyspiritfire #jungianpsychology #sophiarising #innerresurrection #spiritualalchemy #divinefemininechristian #logosandwisdom #psychologyandfaith #innerwholeness #unionwithGod #sanctification #spiritualtransformation #christianpodcast #jungianarchetypes #mindbodysoul #spiritualintegration #animaanimus #erosandlogos #shadowtowholeness #holymystery #contemplativeprayer #symbolicfaith #christianmeditation #depthpsychology #wholenessinChrist #spiritualunion #wordandwisdom #sacredmarriage #divinebreathe #spiritledlife #breathofGod #soultransformation #individuationjourney #healingwithGod #sacredsynthesis #holyspiritmovement #spiritualillumination #christianinnerhealing #sacredfeminine #redeemedmasculine #resurrectionlife #christwithin #soulintegration #innerlight #becomingwhole #spiritofwisdom #awakeningjourney Comma-separated inner awakening, Christian mysticism, Holy Spirit fire, Jungian psychology, Sophia rising, inner resurrection, spiritual alchemy, divine feminine Christian, Logos and Wisdom, psychology and faith, inner wholeness, union with God, sanctification, spiritual transformation, Christian podcast, Jungian archetypes, mind body soul, spiritual integration, anima animus, eros and logos, shadow to wholeness, holy mystery, contemplative prayer, symbolic faith, Christian meditation, depth psychology, wholeness in Christ, spiritual union, Word and Wisdom, sacred marriage, divine breathe, Spirit-led life, breath of God, soul transformation, individuation journey, healing with God, sacred synthesis, Holy Spirit movement, spiritual illumination, Christian inner healing, sacred feminine, redeemed masculine, resurrection life, Christ within, soul integration, inner light, becoming whole, Spirit of Wisdom, awakening journey. Links: - This week’s free article on Substack: The Christian Jung - The Inner Room paid article companion - angelameer.com Heal Deeply. Walk Holy. | |||
| E.17: Shadow Work + Christian Faith: Why God Leads Us Into the Dark Night | 09 nov. 2025 | 00:19:32 | |
In this episode of The Christian Jung Podcast, we explore what happens after the sacred marriage, when divine love awakens what has long been hidden. Through Jungian shadow work and Christian mysticism, we examine how the wounds we fear most may be doorways into union with Christ. We talk about: Whether you’re walking through a dark night, confronting old patterns, or feeling the Spirit call you deeper, this episode will meet you in that descent — and remind you that transformation never ends in darkness. Angela Meer takes us into the soul’s descent — the ancient passage every lover of God eventually walks. #shadowwork #christianmysticism #innerhealing #jungianpsychology #spiritualalchemy #christianspirituality #innerwholeness #individuation #soultransformation #darknightofthesoul #healingjourney #spiritualgrowth #faithandpsychology #innerchildhealing #sanctification #mindbodysoul #divineunion #conjunctio #soulawakening #masculineandfeminine #animus #anima #psychologicalhealing #personaltransformation #christianpodcast #spiritualpodcast #contemplativeprayer #innerwisdom #traumahealing #wholenessinChrist #spiritualdirection #unionwithGod #soulpurpose #christianmeditation #woundedhealer #spiritualawakening #depthpsychology #reclaimingwholeness #prayerandcontemplation #shadowintegration #rebirthandrenewal #sacredmarriage #divinelove #healinginChrist #spiritualdepth #faithjourney #intothedepths #awakeningjourney #spiritledlife ➤ Paragraph (comma-separated) shadow work, Christian mysticism, inner healing, Jungian psychology, spiritual alchemy, Christian spirituality, inner wholeness, individuation, soul transformation, dark night of the soul, healing journey, spiritual growth, faith and psychology, inner child healing, sanctification, mind body soul, divine union, coniunctio, soul awakening, masculine and feminine, animus, anima, psychological healing, personal transformation, Christian podcast, spiritual podcast, contemplative prayer, inner wisdom, trauma healing, wholeness in Christ, spiritual direction, union with God, soul purpose, Christian meditation, wounded healer, spiritual awakening, depth psychology, reclaiming wholeness, prayer and contemplation, shadow integration, rebirth and renewal, sacred marriage, divine love, healing in Christ, spiritual depth, faith journey, into the depths, awakening journey, Spirit-led life. Links: - This week’s free article on Substack: The Christian Jung - The Inner Room paid article companion - angelameer.com Heal Deeply. Walk Holy. | |||
| E.16: Discovering the Bridal Chamber Within: Song of Songs, Jung, and the Soul | 02 nov. 2025 | 00:24:05 | |
In this episode of The Christian Jung Podcast, we step into the chamber where longing and fulfillment touch, where the soul’s ache meets the Spirit’s invitation. Through the lens of Jungian alchemy and ancient Christian mysticism, we explore how even our wound-ed selves are drawn into the bridal chamber of divine union. We talk about: 🔥 Why every ache of longing may be a prophecy of Christ’s coming 🧠 How Jung’s concept of the coniunctio mirrors the Scriptural call to teleios (wholeness) 💬 How Logos and Sophia, masculine and feminine, speak a deeper grammar of redemption ✝️ Why the wound isn’t the opposite of holiness — it is the doorway into it Whether you’re feeling the tug of inner opposites, standing at the threshold of wholeness, or simply longing for a faith that dives deep into the soul — this episode meets you there. Angela Meer takes us into the sacred meeting place of psychology and prophecy — where the timeless patterns of Scripture meet the deep symbols of the soul. Come with a heart open — and let the Spirit lead the dance of union. #soultransformation #christianmysticism #jungianpsychology #inneralchemy #conjunctio #wholenessinChrist #logosandsophia #animaandanimus #psychologyandfaith #spiritualunion #shadowwork #spiritualwholeness #christiandiscipleship #sacredmarriage #souljourney #christianpsychology #sacredsymbolism #divineunion #mysticalchristianity #innerchamber #teleios #woundbecomesaltar #masculineandfeminine #christianmystic #soulrestoration #psychologicalwholeness #faithandmind #sacredsynthesis #spiritandpsyche #sacredlonging #bethesong #bridalchamber #innerbride #woundedgroom #Christinthecenter #integrationofopposites #sacreddance #holymystery #becomingwhole #spiritualalchemy #ChristianJung #animaanimusarc #sacredchemistry #mysteryofwholeness #ChristianSoul #innermarriage #SpiritandSoul #soulmending #depthpsychologychristian #unionwithGod #sacredjourneyhome Paragraph (comma separated) soul transformation, Christian mysticism, Jungian psychology, inner alchemy, coniunctio, wholeness in Christ, Logos and Sophia, anima and animus, psychology and faith, spiritual union, shadow work, spiritual wholeness, Christian discipleship, sacred marriage, soul journey, Christian psychology, sacred symbolism, divine union, mystical Christianity, inner chamber, teleios, wound becomes altar, masculine and feminine, Christian mystic, soul restoration, psychological wholeness, faith and mind, sacred synthesis, spirit and psyche, sacred longing, be the song, bridal chamber, inner bride, wounded groom, Christ in the center, integration of opposites, sacred dance, holy mystery, becoming whole, spiritual alchemy, Christian Jung, anima animus arc, sacred chemistry, mystery of wholeness, Christian soul, inner marriage, Spirit and soul, soul mending, depth psychology Christian, union with God, sacred journey home. Links: - This week’s free article on Substack: The Christian Jung - The Inner Room paid article companion - angelameer.com Heal Deeply. Walk Holy. | |||
| E.15: Mystical Union: Jung, Teresa of Ávila, and the Spirit Who Unites the Soul with Christ | 19 oct. 2025 | 00:13:08 | |
All your longings — every wound, every dry season, every divided part of your soul — are not random struggles. They are doorways into the mystery of union with God. In this episode, Angela Meer leads us into the heart of mystical Christianity, where anima and animus become rivers flowing into the ocean of Christ’s love. We talk about: If you’ve ever wondered whether your longing, your wounds, or your silence could actually be the Spirit’s invitation — this episode shows you that the end is not division, but a wedding. 🌿 #MysticalUnion #TeresaOfAvila #InteriorCastle #JohnOfTheCross #DarkNightOfTheSoul #JungianPsychology #ChristianMysticism #BridegroomChrist #MarriageSupperOfTheLamb #AnimaAndAnimus #SoulUnionWithChrist #SpiritUnblocksWells #MysticalMarriage #ChristianWholeness #UnionWithGod #LivingWaterSpirit #ChristTheBridegroom #MysticalChristianity #Galatians328 #Colossians117 #ConiunctioOppositorum #MysticalTheology #ChristianContemplation #AnimaHealing #AnimusHealing #SpiritAndSoul #SoulLonging #ChristianSpirituality #Ephesians5Mystery #RevelationWeddingFeast #MysticalJourney #FaithAndPsychology #HolySpiritWholeness #ChristUnion #ChristianDepthPsychology #MarriageSupper #BrideOfChrist #UnionOfOpposites #MysticalUnionWithChrist #StTeresaMystic #StJohnMystic #ChristianDarkNight #SoulTransformation #MysticalFaith #ChristOurPeace #ChristianArchetypes #SpiritAndUnion #WholenessInChrist #MysticalMarriageChrist #ChristAndTheSoul Comma-separated: Links: - This week’s free article on Substack: The Christian Jung - The Inner Room paid article companion - angelameer.com Heal Deeply. Walk Holy. | |||
| E.14: The Spirit Who Reconciles: Anima, Animus, and the Journey Toward Wholeness | 12 oct. 2025 | 00:11:50 | |
Have you ever felt split in two — one part of you aching for tenderness and beauty, the other demanding clarity and strength? Jung named them anima and animus. Scripture gives us their echoes in the Bride and the Prophet. But the real question is: who brings them into harmony? We talk about: If you’ve ever felt torn between longing and clarity, prayer and argument, tenderness and harshness — this episode shows you how the Spirit hovers over your chaos to bring life, freedom, and balance. 🔗 Join the Christian Jung Community: AngelaMeer.com #AnimaAndAnimus #HealingTheSoul #SpiritBringsWholeness #BlockedWells #ChristianMysticism #JungianPsychology #TendernessAndStrength #HolySpiritHealing #ChristianWholeness #BrideAndProphet #RiversOfLivingWater #ChristianDepthPsychology #WholenessInChrist #SpiritAndSoul #AnimaHealing #AnimusHealing #ChristianIndividuation #InnerSplitHealing #SpiritUnites #GraceAndTruth #ChristianSpirituality #SoulTransformation #FaithAndPsychology #LivingWaterSpirit #ChristianArchetypes #BrideOfChristSoul #PropheticVoiceInnerWord #ChristianContemplation #SpiritAndWholeness #ChristianInnerLife #AnimaAndSpirit #AnimusAndSpirit #SpiritHovers #AnimaAndAnimusWholeness #ChristianHealingJourney #HolySpiritWholeness #SoulArchetypes #SpiritUnblocksWells #ChristianMysticalTheology #SpiritAndTenderness #SpiritAndConviction #AnimaAnimusReconciliation #ChristianInnerHealing #ChristAndWholeness #SpiritFreesTheSoul #SpiritLivingWater #WholenessJourney #AnimaAnimusBalance #SpiritBringsHarmony #ChristianDepthWork Comma-separated: Links: - This week’s free article on Substack: The Christian Jung - The Inner Room paid article companion - angelameer.com Heal Deeply. Walk Holy. | |||
| Healing the Animus: The Inner Word, Father Wounds, and Following Christ | 05 oct. 2025 | 00:16:16 | |
In this episode of The Christian Jung Podcast, Angela Meer guides us into the mystery of the animus — the soul’s inner word, the voice of conviction and truth that can either build or destroy. Through the lens of Jungian psychology and ancient Christian mysticism, we explore how the Word that spoke creation into being also echoes within us, calling us into discernment, courage, and prophetic strength. We talk about: Whether you’ve wrestled with father wounds, struggled with voices of harsh authority, or longed to speak truth with courage and compassion — this episode invites you to let the Spirit purify your inner word. 🔗 Join the Christian Jung Community: AngelaMeer.com #AnimusArchetype #HealingTheAnimus #JungianAnimus #ChristianAnimus #VoiceOfConviction #InnerWord #AnimusAndSpirit #PropheticStrength #DiscernmentAndWisdom #AnimusHealing #ChristianDepthPsychology #ArchetypesInScripture #ChristianWholeness #ChristianInnerVoice #AnimusAndAuthority #AnimusAndProphets #AnimusInDreams #AnimusAndFatherWounds #AnimusAndWordOfGod #BiblicalAnimus #AnimusAndCourage #AnimusAndTruth #AnimusAndChrist #AnimusAndDiscipleship #ChristianAnimusHealing #AnimusAndConviction #AnimusShadow #AnimusLight #ChristianSoulHealing #AnimusInPrayer #AnimusAndLogos #AnimusInBible #AnimusDiscernment #AnimusAndWisdom #ChristianAnimusJourney #AnimusAndClarity #AnimusAndTheSpirit #AnimusInScripture #AnimusArchetypeHealing #AnimusTransformation #AnimusInChrist #ChristianAnimusWork #AnimusAndProphecy #AnimusRedeemed #AnimusAndAuthorityHealing #AnimusAndVoice #AnimusAndInnerWord #AnimusShadowHealing #AnimusAndLife #AnimusAndDeath Comma-separated: Links: - This week’s free article on Substack: The Christian Jung - The Inner Room paid article companion - angelameer.com Heal Deeply. Walk Holy. | |||
| Ep12: Mother Wounds, Anima, and the Bride of Christ: A Jungian-Christian View | 28 sept. 2025 | 00:28:27 | |
In this episode of The Christian Jung Podcast, Angela Meer guides us into the sacred undoing that begins every true transformation. Through the lens of Jungian psychology and ancient Christian mysticism, we explore how the anima — the soul’s inner bride — can become both a wellspring of beauty and a danger of illusion. We talk about: Whether you’ve wrestled with mother wounds, felt beauty stir your soul, or longed for a faith that touches more than intellect — this episode meets you in that longing. 🔗 Join the Christian Jung Community: AngelaMeer.com #ChristianMysticism #JungianPsychology #HealingTheSoul #ChristianSpirituality #FaithAndPsychology #SoulTransformation #InnerHealingJourney #CarlJungChristianity #IndividuationAndFaith #SymbolicFaith #SacredDeconstruction #HolySpiritFire #BecomingWholeInChrist #BrideOfChristArchetype #MotherWoundsHealing #BiblicalArchetypes #ChristianDepthPsychology #AnimaAndAnimus #ChristianContemplation #JungianArchetypes #ChristianMeditation #SoulArchetypes #MysticalUnionWithChrist #SpiritualImagination #ChristianDreamInterpretation #PsychologyAndFaith #ChristianWholeness #ShadowAndLight #MysticalChristianity #FaithAndWholeness #ChristianInnerLife #HealingWithChrist #ChristianArchetypes #SpiritualArchetypes #BiblicalWisdomAndPsychology #ChristianDepthWork #ChristianShadowWork #ArchetypalFaith #ChristianMysticalTheology #HealingAnima #ChristianSoulCare #ChristAndArchetypes #HolySpiritAndPsyche #ChristianIndividuation #AnimaHealing #FaithfulPsychology #BiblicalMysticism #ChristianWonder #ChristAndTheSoul #WholenessInChrist Comma-separated: Links: - This week’s free article on Substack: The Christian Jung - The Inner Room paid article companion - angelameer.com Heal Deeply. Walk Holy. | |||
| What Are Anima and Animus? Jungian Archetypes for Christian Spiritual Growth | 21 sept. 2025 | 00:19:51 | |
In this episode of The Christian Jung Podcast, Angela Meer takes us into the sacred waters where creation and the soul meet. Through Jung’s vision of anima and animus and the biblical imagery of rivers, we uncover how wholeness is written into God’s design. These archetypes aren’t about gender — they are inner parables of tenderness, courage, imagination, and truth. We talk about: Whether you’ve wrestled with wounded intimacy, a harsh inner voice, or the longing for something more, this episode invites you into a deeper encounter with the Spirit who hovers over your hidden waters. 🔗 Join the Christian Jung Community: AngelaMeer.com Links: - This week’s free article on Substack: The Christian Jung - The Inner Room paid article companion - angelameer.com Heal Deeply. Walk Holy. | |||
| Jung’s Shadow Meets Scripture: Where God Desires to Heal | 31 août 2025 | 00:16:02 | |
In this episode of The Christian Jung Podcast, Angela Meer invites you into a sacred encounter with the shadow — the hidden terrain of the soul where our unacknowledged fears, desires, and gifts dwell. Rooted in the wisdom of Scripture and the depth of Jungian psychology, we discover that Christ does not avoid these places; He seeks them out, bringing His light into every locked room. We talk about: For the soul ready to walk with Christ into the mystery of its own depths, this episode is a guide to the luminous journey where darkness is not denied — but redeemed. 🔗 Join the Christian Jung Community: AngelaMeer.com #CarlJung #ShadowWork #ChristianShadow #InnerHealing #FaithAndPsychology #BiblicalShadow #JungianPsychology #SoulIntegration #SpiritualDepth #ChristianGrowth #ShadowsInChrist #ChristianPodcast #HealingInChrist #MindAndSpirit #ScriptureAndShadow #TransformationInChrist #FaithJourney #SpiritualIntegration #ShadowHealing #ComplexHealing #EmotionalWholeness #DivineLight #FaithPodcast #InnerDepths #HealingThroughGrace #ShadowAwareness #ShadowIntegration #ChristianMind #PsychoSpiritual #SoulHealing #HolisticChristian
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| Complexes and the Psychological Reasons We Sin | 24 août 2025 | 00:15:07 | |
In this episode of The Christian Jung Podcast, Angela Meer takes us into the hidden world of complexes — those emotional knots that tie the past to the present, shaping our reactions in ways we barely notice. Through the lens of Carl Jung’s psychology and biblical wisdom, we explore how these inner constellations are formed, how they distort our perception, and how the Spirit of Christ invites us into their healing. We talk about: Whether you’ve felt hijacked by an overreaction, found yourself stuck in old patterns, or wondered why certain people or situations push your buttons, this episode will help you see those moments as doorways to transformation. 🔗 Join the Christian Jung Community: AngelaMeer.com 📌 Subscribe for more on: Carl Jung, Christian spirituality, soul transformation, faith and psychology, inner healing, individuation, symbolic faith, sacred deconstruction, Holy Spirit fire, spiritual depth, becoming whole in Christ. Carl Jung, Jungian Psychology, Complexes, Emotional Healing, Triggers and Faith, Christian Podcast, Inner Healing, Faith and Psychology, Bible and Psychology, Soul Healing, Emotional Triggers, Christian Growth, Spiritual Healing, Complex Healing, Christian Spirituality, Faith Journey, Emotional Wholeness, Biblical Healing, Transformation in Christ, Mind and Spirit, Inner Freedom, Healing in Christ, Christian Teaching, Faith Podcast, Breaking Strongholds, Inner Depths, Emotional Patterns, Healing Journey, Spirit Led Healing, Christian Mind Links: - This week’s free article on Substack: The Christian Jung - The Inner Room paid article companion - angelameer.com Heal Deeply. Walk Holy. | |||
| S1.E8: Jung and the Spiritual Unconscious: Dreams, Symbols & Scripture | 17 août 2025 | 00:16:36 | |
In this episode of The Christian Jung Podcast, Angela Meer takes us beneath the surface of the mind into the hidden territory Carl Jung called the unconscious —as sacred ground where God plants seeds of transformation. Through Scripture, dreams, and Jung’s insights, we explore how forgotten memories, buried fears, and God-given symbols can become doorways into deeper relationship with Christ. You’ll discover biblical examples of God bypassing the intellect to speak through visions, and learn how to recognize the Spirit’s movement in your own inner depths. We talk about: If you’ve been longing for more than surface faith — if you sense God stirring something deep within — this episode invites you into the mystery of your own soul, where the Spirit is already at work. 🔗 Join the Christian Jung Community: AngelaMeer.com #CarlJung #JungianPsychology #UnconsciousMind #ChristianPodcast #SpiritualDepth #InnerHealing #BibleAndPsychology #DreamInterpretation #SoulTransformation #FaithAndPsychology #ChristianSpirituality #SymbolicFaith #UnconsciousSymbols #HolySpiritVoice #ChristianGrowth #SpiritualTransformation #PodcastOnFaith #PsychoSpiritual #InnerDepths #ChristianTeaching #FaithJourney #PsychologyAndFaith #TransformationInChrist #SacredPatterns #FaithPodcast #InnerCityFaith #MindAndSpirit #BibleAndMind #SpiritualJourney #DivineSymbolism #ChristianMind Links: - This week’s free article on Substack: The Christian Jung - The Inner Room paid article companion - angelameer.com Heal Deeply. Walk Holy. | |||
| How Archetypes in Scripture Unlock Your Spiritual Transformation | 10 août 2025 | 00:20:49 | |
In this episode of The Christian Jung Podcast, Angela Meer takes us into the sacred meeting place of psychology through archetypes — where the timeless patterns of Scripture meet the deep symbols of the soul. Through the lens of Jungian psychology and Christian theology, we explore how archetypes — the Hero, Prophet, Servant, and Mother — can reveal the role God has been shaping in you all along. We talk about: Whether you’re feeling called into a new season, discerning God’s next step, or simply longing for a faith that feels alive with meaning — this episode will awaken holy wonder and guide you to the role God has prepared for you. 🔗 Join the Christian Jung Community: AngelaMeer.com 📌 Subscribe for more on: Carl Jung, Christian spirituality, soul transformation, faith and psychology, inner healing, individuation, symbolic faith, sacred deconstruction, Holy Spirit fire, spiritual depth, becoming whole in Christ. #CarlJung #JungianPsychology #ChristianSpirituality #BiblicalArchetypes #FaithAndPsychology #SpiritualTransformation #ChristianFaith #InnerHealing #SymbolicFaith #ChristianPodcast #SoulTransformation #BibleStudy #ChristianLife #PropheticCalling #DreamInterpretation #HeroArchetype #ServantHeart #ProphetVoice #MotherArchetype #HolySpiritFire #SpiritualDepth #ChristianLiving #PersonalGrowth #FaithJourney #DiscerningGodsCall #Sanctification #SpiritualFormation #ScriptureStudy #CollectiveUnconscious #ChristianCounseling #PropheticVoice #SpiritualHealing #BiblicalPatterns #FaithOverFear #ChristianTeaching #MysticalFaith #DiscipleshipJourney #ChristianLeadership #TransformationInChrist #SacredPatterns #ChristianEncouragement #HolyWonder #PrayerLife #GodsCall #FaithAndHealing #KingdomCalling #DreamsAndVisions #ChristianWisdom #FaithInAction #ChristCenteredLife #BiblicalTeaching
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| S1,E6: Christian Dream Interpretation with Jung: How God Speaks in Your Sleep | 03 août 2025 | 00:15:35 | |
In this episode of The Christian Jung Podcast, Angela Meer guides us into the sacred tapestry of dreams—where Scripture meets Jung, and where the soul listens for the Spirit in sleeping visions. Through the lens of Jungian psychology and Christian mysticism, we explore how dreams can function as divine invitations—rich with archetypal symbolism and spiritual authority. We talk about: Whether you’re seeking deeper clarity in the life you feel stuck in—or longing for God to speak in unexpected, symbolic ways—this episode meets you in that threshold space between night and new life. 🔗 Join the Christian Jung Community: AngelaMeer.com Links: - This week’s free article on Substack: The Christian Jung - The Inner Room paid article companion - angelameer.com Heal Deeply. Walk Holy. | |||
| Carl Jung's Persona and the Prayer of Simple Regard: Taking Off the Mask Before God | 27 juil. 2025 | 00:29:24 | |
Why is "be yourself" such hard advice to follow, even for sincere Christians? In this fifth episode of the Foundations series on The Christian Jung, Angela Meer explores Carl Jung's idea of the persona, the mask we wear to do our work in the world, and two building blocks of contemplative prayer that help us live from the inside out: the prayer of simple regard and parrhesia. Angela begins with a mask she recently put on with the person who knows her best, her husband: anger, because anger is easier than grief. From there she explains why Jung said some personas are essential for our roles as parents, professionals, and pastors, and why the trouble begins when a role becomes who we are. She tells how Jung, the son of a Swiss pastor, watched his father become the role, and why the author of Answer to Job wrestled with the Christian faith all his life. The episode traces the mask through Scripture: the Pharisees who did their works "to be seen by men," Adam hiding in the garden, Moses moving from a hidden face to speaking with God "face to face, as a man speaks to his friend," and Paul's "unveiled face" in 2 Corinthians 3. Angela introduces the prayer of simple regard, where you look at Jesus and let Him look at you, and parrhesia, the frank, unafraid speech of close friends, with Peter on the beach and King David in the Psalms as guides. She shares how the Song of Songs undid her own religious persona, and Jung's famous dream of a house with a cellar beneath the cellar. The episode closes with a short guided moment of simple regard and a prayer from John of the Cross, freshly translated: "O night that guided me! O night more lovely than the dawn!" Christ never called you to wear a mask. He wants your face and your voice. Closing block (paste at the end of the description): 📖 Read the full article and guided practice: [FREE ARTICLE LINK] 🌿 Join the wait list for A Return to Awe, my fall course: https://landing.mailerlite.com/webforms/landing/f6n3e2 🕯️ Join the FireHouse Contemplative Communities wait list: https://landing.mailerlite.com/webforms/landing/d5f3x9 Angela Meer is an ordained minister with graduate degrees in Jungian studies. It's time to awaken holy wonder. Show notes: Scripture referenced (World English Bible): Matthew 23:5, 28; Genesis 3:9-10; Exodus 3:6; Exodus 33:11; 2 Corinthians 3:12-13, 18; Psalm 27:8; Psalm 34:5; Hebrews 4:15-16; Luke 22:56-57; John 21:17; Song of Songs 1:5-6; 2:14; 2 Corinthians 12:9-10; Galatians 1:10; Luke 9:24; Psalm 139:1. Key terms: Persona (Jung's term for the face we present to the world, from the Latin word for an actor's mask). Prayer of simple regard (a wordless contemplative prayer of looking at God and letting Him look at you). Parrhesia (Greek for frank, unafraid speech; "boldness" in 2 Corinthians 3:12 and Hebrews 4:16). Sources: C. G. Jung, Two Essays on Analytical Psychology (Collected Works vol. 7) and "Concerning Rebirth" (Collected Works vol. 9i); Memories, Dreams, Reflections, chapters 2 and 5. Catechism of the Catholic Church, para. 2715. Thomas Merton, New Seeds of Contemplation, chapter 5. Prayer: John of the Cross, The Dark Night, stanza 5, translated into modern English. Episode tags: Foundations, Carl Jung, contemplative prayer, Contemplative Series, unmasking, true self, Moses face to face
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| Nepsis and the Consuming Fire: Contemplative Prayer, Carl Jung, and Einstein | 20 juil. 2025 | 00:30:17 | |
Why does Scripture call God a consuming fire, and what if that fire is an invitation rather than a threat? In this fourth episode of the Foundations series on The Christian Jung, Angela Meer introduces nepsis, the watchfulness of the Desert Fathers and Mothers, as the first building block of contemplative prayer. Angela begins with a mural she walked past every day as a child on the mission field: a great fire above the words "Our God is a consuming fire." She reflects on how fear of God shapes our bodies and our theology, and why we so often intellectualize our faith so we don't have to face that fear. From there she turns to the watchmen on the walls, Habakkuk on the ramparts, and Moses turning aside to see why the bush was not burning up, and to a dinner table in Zürich, where a young Albert Einstein first started Carl Jung thinking about "a possible relativity of time as well as space." The episode offers four simple questions for practicing nepsis in everyday life, a word on discernment, and John of the Cross's image of a log that blackens before it becomes fire. It closes with a short guided moment of watchfulness and a traditional prayer of the church: "Come, Holy Spirit, fill the hearts of your faithful, and kindle in them the fire of your love." God's consuming fire doesn't leave ashes. It makes you burn. Closing block : 📖 Read the full article and guided practice: [FREE ARTICLE LINK] 🌿 Join the wait list for A Return to Awe, my fall course: https://landing.mailerlite.com/webforms/landing/f6n3e2 🕯️ Join the FireHouse Contemplative Communities wait list: https://landing.mailerlite.com/webforms/landing/d5f3x9 Angela Meer is an ordained minister with graduate degrees in Jungian studies. It's time to awaken holy wonder. Show notes: Scripture referenced (World English Bible): Hebrews 12:28-29; 1 Peter 5:8; 1 Thessalonians 5:6; Habakkuk 2:1; Exodus 3:2-4; Luke 24:32. Key terms: Nepsis (watchfulness, sobriety, vigilance; a building block of early Christian contemplative practice). Synchronicity (Jung's term for meaningful coincidence between inner and outer events). The dark night (John of the Cross's name for God's purifying work in the soul). Sources: C. G. Jung to Carl Seelig, February 25, 1953 (Letters, vol. 2). John of the Cross, The Dark Night of the Soul, Book II, ch. 10. Prayer: "Come, Holy Spirit," a traditional prayer of the church. Episode tags: Foundations, Carl Jung, contemplative prayer, Contemplative Series, burning bush, Habakkuk, watchfulness Links: - This week’s free article on Substack: The Christian Jung - The Inner Room paid article companion - angelameer.com Heal Deeply. Walk Holy. | |||
| Individuation and the Way of Christ: Teresa of Ávila's Interior Castle and the Holy Undoing of the False Self | 13 juil. 2025 | 00:28:10 | |
Why does drawing closer to God sometimes make your fears louder? In this third episode of the Foundations series on The Christian Jung, Angela Meer explores individuation, the early church's Way, and Teresa of Ávila's Interior Castle as a map for bringing your fears to Christ. Before they were called Christians, the followers of Jesus were known as people of the Way (Acts 9:2). Not a label, but a road you walk with the One who said, "I am the way, the truth, and the life." Angela traces that road through Moses turning aside at the burning bush, Jeremiah's fire shut up in his bones, Isaiah's voice behind you saying "This is the way," and the two disciples on the road to Emmaus whose hearts burned before they recognized Jesus. Carl Jung called the inward side of this road individuation, which he translated as "coming to selfhood," and he noticed it almost always begins with loss. He saw Jesus as the One who became Himself completely, the example by which we become ourselves. Centuries earlier, Teresa of Ávila had already drawn the map: the soul as a castle of clear crystal with God dwelling at the center, and prayer as the gate. Angela shares her own story of the season when growing closer to God brought her deepest fears to the surface, including the fear that surrender would erase her personality, and the shame-based hiding she learned growing up with cerebral palsy, and how God has been excavating the person He made from under those layers. The episode teaches three movements of the contemplative life: fear can be a door, not a wall; some undoings are holy, like Teresa's silkworm becoming a butterfly; and prayer is the gate. It includes a short breath prayer and closes with Teresa's bookmark, "Let nothing disturb thee," in Longfellow's translation. If your fears have grown louder as you've drawn near to God, you may not be going backward. You may be walking deeper into the castle than you've ever gone. Closing block (paste at the end of the description): 📖 Read the full article and guided practice: https://read.angelameer.com/ 🌿 Join the wait list for A Return to Awe, my fall course: https://landing.mailerlite.com/webforms/landing/f6n3e2 🕯️ Join the FireHouse Contemplative Communities wait list: https://landing.mailerlite.com/webforms/landing/d5f3x9 Angela Meer is an ordained minister with graduate degrees in Jungian studies. It's time to awaken holy wonder. Show notes: Scripture referenced (World English Bible): Acts 9:2; Acts 24:14; John 14:6; 2 Corinthians 4:16; Exodus 3:4-5; Jeremiah 1:5; Jeremiah 20:9; Isaiah 30:21; Luke 24:32; Colossians 3:3. Key terms: The Way (hodos, the early church's name for following Jesus). Individuation (Jung's word for the lifelong process of becoming whole, "coming to selfhood"). The Interior Castle (Teresa of Ávila's 1577 book picturing the soul as a crystal castle with God at the center). Contemplation (quietly attending to God Himself). Jung: Collected Works 7, para. 266; "Psychotherapists or the Clergy," Collected Works 11, para. 509. Prayer: Teresa of Ávila's bookmark, translated by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Episode tags: Foundations, Carl Jung, contemplative prayer, Contemplative Series, Moses and the burning bush, Acts 9 the Way, road to Emmaus Links: - This week’s free article on Substack: The Christian Jung - The Inner Room paid article companion - angelameer.com Heal Deeply. Walk Holy. | |||
| Carl Jung, the Prophets, and Spiritual Thirst: Has Your Theology Made You Thirsty? | 06 juil. 2025 | 00:29:03 | |
At nineteen, sitting in her church's outdoor amphitheater before a Sunday service, Angela Meer heard a sentence bubble up inside her that she never chose: Surely there is more to Christianity than this. She was a missionary kid who had done everything right. The sentence was not rebellion. It was thirst. In this second episode of the Foundations series on The Christian Jung, Angela explores what Carl Jung called the religious function of the psyche: the soul's built-in reach for God. She tells how Jung, as a young psychiatrist at the Burghölzli in Zurich, took seriously the images his patients carried, why he insisted the soul is naturaliter religiosa, naturally religious, and how, in his 1961 letter to Bill Wilson of Alcoholics Anonymous, he footnoted Psalm 42 to name the spiritual thirst of our being for wholeness. Angela grounds the episode in Scripture: the Psalmist's soul thirsting for the living God, Jesus at the well declaring that God is spirit and seeks worshipers in spirit and truth, Jesus crying out at the Feast of Tabernacles that anyone who is thirsty may come and drink, and John's word that the living water is the Holy Spirit. She turns to the Old Testament prophets, who met God in visions, dreams, and fire: Jeremiah with a fire shut up in his bones, Elijah hearing God in a still small voice, and David hearing God in the sky and in the Scriptures side by side in Psalm 19. The episode teaches three movements of life in the Spirit: the soul reaches before the mind explains, symbols carry more than concepts, and what we ignore does not disappear. It includes a short guided moment of contemplative prayer and closes with Anselm of Canterbury's prayer of longing from the Proslogion: let me seek you in longing, let me long for you in seeking. If your theology is sound but your soul feels dry, this episode is for you. Your thirst may be the most faithful thing in you. Closing block: 📖 Read the full article and guided practice: read.AngelaMeer.com 🌿 Join the wait list for A Return to Awe, my fall course: https://landing.mailerlite.com/webforms/landing/f6n3e2 🕯️ Join the FireHouse Contemplative Communities wait list: https://landing.mailerlite.com/webforms/landing/d5f3x9 Angela Meer is an ordained minister with graduate degrees in Jungian studies. It's time to awaken holy wonder. Show notes: Scripture referenced (World English Bible): Psalm 42:1-2; John 4:23-24; John 7:37-39; Jeremiah 20:9; 1 Kings 19:11-12; John 10:27; Psalm 19:1-3, 7; Romans 8:26; Jeremiah 1:11; 1 Samuel 3:9-10. Key terms: The religious function of the psyche (Jung's observation that the soul is naturaliter religiosa, naturally religious; Psychology and Alchemy). The symbolic life (Jung's phrase for a life that lives by image and meaning, not intellect alone). Burghölzli (the psychiatric hospital of the University of Zurich, where Jung worked in the early 1900s). Living water (Jesus' image for the Holy Spirit, John 7:37-39). Jung's letter: C. G. Jung to Bill Wilson, January 30, 1961, with its footnote to Psalm 42:1. Prayer: Anselm of Canterbury, Proslogion, chapter 1 (translated by Sidney Norton Deane). Episode tags: Foundations, Carl Jung, contemplative prayer, Contemplative Series, Anselm of Canterbury, Jung letter to Bill Wilson, John 7 living water Links: - This week’s free article on Substack: The Christian Jung - The Inner Room paid article companion - angelameer.com Heal Deeply. Walk Holy. | |||
| Is Carl Jung a Christian? | 01 juil. 2025 | 00:23:59 | |
There has been plenty of speculation about this through the years, but I will start taking a stab at it from my own perspective, however it may take an entire season to approach this issue! Stay with me! Links: - This week’s free article on Substack: The Christian Jung - The Inner Room paid article companion - angelameer.com Heal Deeply. Walk Holy. | |||
| God Is Looking for Spirit and Truth Friends: The Numinous, Jung, and the Jesus Prayer | 25 juin 2025 | 00:29:33 | |
A wealthy American sits in Carl Jung's office in Zurich, months into treatment, and he has just started drinking again. What Jung told him that day became part of the story of Alcoholics Anonymous, and it says something every Christian needs to hear about thirst. In the first episode of the Foundations series of The Christian Jung, Angela Meer begins ten weeks on the foundations of Christian contemplation and what Carl Jung's psychology can teach us about the soul. She starts with the word numinous, coined by the German theologian Rudolf Otto in 1917 for the awe-filled, holy otherness of God, and she shows how Jung borrowed it to describe the way people meet the holy in dreams, visions, and ordinary life. She tells the story of Rowland Hazard, Ebby Thacher, and Bill Wilson, and of the 1961 letter in which Jung named the cure in three Latin words: spiritus contra spiritum, Spirit against spirits. Angela grounds the episode in Scripture: Jacob waking at Bethel in awe, Jesus offering living water to the woman at the well, His declaration that God is spirit and seeks those who worship in spirit and truth, Daniel's vision of the Ancient of Days, and the invitation of Psalm 46 to be still and know. She shares a dream in which she met God as the Ancient of Days, and the night she spent afterward not analyzing it, only receiving the awe. The episode teaches three movements from mental assent into encounter: truth is held, not traded; thirst is a signpost, not a sin; and encounter needs a container. It closes by praying the Jesus Prayer together, followed by Augustine's prayer from the Confessions to the Beauty of ancient days. Find this week's free article and the paid companion with the full guided practice of the Jesus Prayer on Substack by searching The Christian Jung, and find the free weekly letter at angelameer.com. Heal Deeply. Walk Holy. Show notes: Scripture referenced (World English Bible): Genesis 28:16-17; John 4:13-14; John 4:23-24; Daniel 7:9; Daniel 7:15; Psalm 46:10; Luke 18:13; Luke 18:38. Key terms: Numinous (Rudolf Otto's 1917 term for the awe-filled, holy otherness of God, from the Latin numen). Mysterium tremendum et fascinans (Otto's phrase for a mystery that makes us tremble and draws us in). Spiritus contra spiritum (Jung's phrase in his January 30, 1961 letter to Bill Wilson: the Spirit against the spirits of addiction). The Jesus Prayer (an ancient prayer of the Desert Fathers and Mothers: Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on me). Prayer: Augustine of Hippo, Confessions, Book X (translated by E. B. Pusey). Heal Deeply. Walk Holy. Keywords (12): numinous encounter with God, Rudolf Otto numinous, spiritus contra spiritum, Carl Jung and AA, Rowland Hazard Jung, woman at the well John 4, God is Spirit, Ancient of Days dream, Augustine Confessions prayer, holy awe and wonder, contemplative prayer podcast, Jungian psychology and faith Tags (7): Christianity, contemplative prayer, Jungian psychology, Christian podcast, spiritual formation, mysticism, prayer Links (copy-paste ready): Substack article: https://angelameer007.substack.com/p/3d524d25-1e01-482d-8cb0-0940d6a58bd2 Website: https://www.AngelaMeer.com Links: - This week’s free article on Substack: The Christian Jung - The Inner Room paid article companion - angelameer.com Heal Deeply. Walk Holy. | |||