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In a relational, evolving world, questions of war and justice cannot be answered by control and domination, but only through the lens of love, relationship, and what makes life possible. This episode of The Sacred Everywhere podcast and video series features Dr. Sheri Kling discussing the question of whether there is ever really a just war from a process perspective. 

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This episode of The Sacred Everywhere podcast and video series features Dr. Sheri Kling discussing archetypes and the patterns of our lives.

Read a condensed version in article form on Substack at https://sherikling.substack.com/p/the-patterns-of-our-lives.

The video is available on Substack .

This episode of The Sacred Everywhere podcast and video series features Dr. Bruce Epperly, a process theologian and one of my professors at Claremont School of Theology. Bruce has spent over forty years in the varied vocations of seminary and university professor, university chaplain, congregational pastor, and seminary administrator. This is the first half of our conversation. The full episode is available to paid subscribers.

Bruce Epperly is the author of over sixty books in theology, spirituality, health and healing, scripture, politics, and ministerial excellence and wellbeing, including The Elephant is Running: Process and Open and Relational Theologies and Religious Pluralism; Process Theology: Embracing Adventure with God; Mystics in Action: Twelve Saints for Today; Prophetic Healing: Howard Thurman's Vision of Contemplative Activism; and Francis of Assisi: From Privilege to Activism. Follow his work at Patheos, https://www.patheos.com/blogs/livingaholyadventure/.

In this episode, we talk about one of his newest books, Whitehead and Jesus: An Adventure in Spiritual Transformation, available at https://www.amazon.com/Whitehead-Jesus-Adventure-Spiritual-Transformation/dp/1631999664/.

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You can watch the video of Pt. 1 on YouTube here.

This episode of The Sacred Everywhere podcast and video series features Dr. Jerry Wright, a Jungian psychoanalyst, teacher, and writer based in Flat Rock, North Carolina. This is the first half of our conversation, which you can also watch on YouTube.

The full conversation video is available to paid subscribers of The Sacred Everywhere.

Jerry is an experienced conference and retreat leader, as well as a pilgrimage consultant. I met Jerry more than twenty years ago at a conference and have been privileged to be part of two pilgrimages with him, one to western Ireland and the other to the isle of Iona, Scotland.

His new book Welcoming Our Gods Back Home: The Wisdom of Psychological Mysticism was just published by Chiron and is part of a trilogy of books that includes Reimagining God and Religion: Essays for the Psychologically Minded and A Mystical Path Less Traveled: A Jungian Psychological Perspective.

Learn more about Jerry’s work at

https://www.jerryrwright.com/

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This week, I’ll be launching The Sacred Everywhere in podcast and video form. Listen to this introduction to find out what’s coming in this new offering.

Several years ago, when I was in an Eco-Process Theology course at Claremont School of Theology, I composed this hymn as a midterm creative project. It basically summarized our semester to date.

We were reading textbooks exploring ideas from process theology, ecofeminist theology, and the writings of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin.

I thought the ideas expressed were so inspiring that I wanted people to be able to sing this theology. I believe strongly that we will never change how we think about God, the world, and ourselves until we can sing about it.

Bad theology is written into so many church hymns, and if we keep singing that theology, the theology that is preached - even if radically different - will not move the needle.

The beginning of this hymn I imagine as a choral chant. And it tells the scientific story of the universe. The verses then express the kinds of insights that have been shared by mystics for centuries.

I’ll soon be breaking down each of these verses in posts and on YouTube.

We All Are Related

by Sheri D. Kling

(Choral chant)

Fiery brilliance, cooling gas, condensing gravity

Atoms forming stars and carbon-fueled diversity

Earth with sky and oceans, molecules then multiply

Stardust is the mater of the cosmos and all life.

(Congregational verses)

We all are related, woven as threads in earth’s tapestry

A kinship creation, depending on all in deep harmony.

Internally formed by each other, creative and free

We all are related, wholly and actively.

The world is becoming, the future of God is luring us there.

Grace within chaos, the pow’r of the new, holiness bare.

The Singer is singing the Song we are yearning to share.

The world is becoming, process is everywhere.

God is embodied, Word become flesh, in all that we see.

Deeply incarnate in every bird, in every tree.

In the heartbeat of billions of bodies just wanting to be.

God is embodied, soul of the world, breathing in me.

All things have value, all the way up and all the way down.

God is redeeming the lowliest stone and the glorious crown.

Christ is the pattern in every atom around.

All things have value, whispering Spirit Sound.

We need liberation from seeing our world as dead-matter machines

All creatures as neighbors, a healing embrace, so held we are free.

Entraining our rhythms to the heartbeat of Life consciously,

We all are related,

In a world that’s becoming,

Where God is embodied,

And all things have value,

We are liberated, affirming the world we see.

© 2011 Sheri D. Kling, Waking Woman Music

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This episode of The Sacred Everywhere podcast and video series features Philip Shepherd,  someone whose work I’ve come to greatly appreciate. The full episode is available for paid subscribers to The Sacred Everywhere.

Both Philip and I question the dominant worldview of Western culture. Process thinkers have been doing the same as well for a very long time. What Philip calls “The Story” asserts that “humans stand as independent of nature as our skyscrapers do; that the head should be in charge of the body, just as a CEO is in charge of a corporation; that we can own trees, land, and animals; that self-mastery is the means to success; that what we feel as ‘the self’ lies within the boundary of the skin; that the pursuit of happiness is the primary goal of our lives; and that money buys security.”

What led him to question this story in the first place? That’s part of our conversation, as is the whole notion of wholeness and our immersion within it, and how Philip’s thinking intersects with the process thought of Alfred North Whitehead and my own work on the whole-making sacred.

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Philip Shepherd is recognized as a leader in the global embodiment movement. He created The Embodied Present Process™ (TEPP) in partnership with Allyson Woodrooffe, and as co-directors they provide practices and new perspectives on our culture to help people come home to the body’s deep presence and wisdom. They share the work of TEPP online, in one-on-one coaching sessions, and worldwide in workshops, retreats and Facilitators Trainings.

TEPP is also supported by Philip’s two books – Radical Wholeness and New Self, New World – which articulate the causes, perils and personal challenges of our culture’s disembodiment. Philip’s own journey to embodiment includes cycling alone as a teenager through Europe, the Middle East, Iran, India and Japan; studying classical Japanese Noh Theater; co-founding an interdisciplinary theatre company; writing two internationally produced plays and a television documentary; and playing lead roles on stages in London, New York, Chicago and Toronto. 

The TEPP website and online courses are found at EmbodiedPresent.com. Philip’s most recent book, Deep Fitness, was co-authored with Andrei Yakovenko and offers a revolutionary and highly effective approach to fitness. He is currently working on a new book, Remembering Ourselves: A Guide to Our Lost Intelligence.

This episode of The Sacred Everywhere podcast and video series features Bob Hoss, someone I met many years ago due to our mutual interest in and study of dreams and using dream work for wholeness and healing. The full episode is available for paid subscribers to The Sacred Everywhere. You can watch the video of this first half on YouTube at https://youtu.be/538358uLzKU.

 Robert Hoss, MS is the former President and present Conference Director of the International Association for the Study of Dreams and director of the DreamScience Foundation for dream research grants. He is an APA member, a Haden Institute faculty instructor and on the board of the National Institute for Integrative Healthcare.

 His research specializes in content analysis and its relation to neuroscience and psychological theory. His training as well as his teaching activity is eclectic with a focus on Gestalt Therapy, Jungian theory and contemporary research.

 He is author/editor of: Dreams: Understanding Biology, Psychology & Culture (Greenwood); Dreams that Change Our Lives (Chiron); Dream to Freedom (EP Press); Dream Language (Innersource), He is also published in 11 professional and dream related books and 5 journals and has been featured in a PBS special, Readers Digest, Prevention, the Psychology Today blog and USA Today. He was awarded the IASD lifetime Achievement Award in 2021. You can learn more about Bob’s work at www.dreamscience.org

This episode of The Sacred Everywhere podcast and video series features series host, Dr. Sheri Kling. You can watch the video on YouTube at https://youtu.be/AKbyE02wHcM.

For more information on the Haden Institute and its spiritual direction and dream work certification programs, or its Summer Dream & Spirituality Conference, visit https://www.hadeninstitute.com/.

 To learn more about Parker J. Palmer and his work on Healing the Heart of Democracy, visit the Center for Courage & Renewal at https://couragerenewal.org/.

This episode of The Sacred Everywhere podcast and video series features Ilia Delio, OSF, a Franciscan Sister of Washington, DC, and an American theologian specializing in the area of science and religion, with interests in evolution, physics, and neuroscience and the import of these for theology. Her most recent book is The Not-Yet God: Carl Jung, Teilhard de Chardin, and the Relational Whole (Orbis, 2025). This is Pt. 1 and may also be watched on YouTube at https://youtu.be/sOVSKWP5CF8. The full episode is available on Substack at https://open.substack.com/pub/sherikling/p/god-in-matter-evolution-and-ai?r=22d1zx&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true.

Ilia currently holds the Josephine C. Connelly Endowed Chair in Theology at Villanova University and is the author of twenty books, including "Care for Creation" (coauthored with Keith Warner and Pamela Woods), which won two Catholic Press Book Awards in 2009: first place for social concerns and second place in spirituality.

Her book The Emergent Christ won a third-place Catholic Press Book Award in 2011 for the area of Science and Religion. Her recent books include The Unbearable Wholeness of Being: God, Evolution, and the Power of Love (Orbis, 2013), which received the 2014 Silver Nautilus Book Award and a third-place Catholic Press Association Award for Faith and Science. Ilia holds two honorary doctorates, one from St. Francis University in 2015, and one from Sacred Heart University in 2020.

Ilia also has a podcast called Hunger for Wholeness https://christogenesis.org/podcast/.

Learn more at the Center for Christogenesis. https://christogenesis.org/

This episode of The Sacred Everywhere podcast and video series features Dr. Tripp Fuller, a theologian, author, and long-time podcaster. Tripp received his PhD in Philosophy, Religion, and Theology at Claremont Graduate University. For almost 16 years Tripp has been doing the Homebrewed Christianity podcast where he interviews different scholars about their work so you can get nerdy in traffic, on the treadmill or doing the dishes. Last year it had over 3.5 million downloads. You can also find it on YouTube.

Homebrewed Christianity also inspired a book series with Fortress Press called the Homebrewed Christianity Guides to… topics like God, Jesus, Spirit, Church History etc. Tripp’s most recent book is Divine Self-Investment: An Open and Relational Constructive Christology.

Tripp is a very committed and (some of his friends think overly) engaged Lakers fan, takes Star Wars and Lord of the Rings very seriously, enjoys coaching his oldest son Elgin’s flag football and basketball team, and prides himself in giving rousing editions of Sandra Boynton tunes during bedtime reading. Tripp and his partner since 18 Alecia have three kids and live in North Carolina.

Here, we have a super collegial conversation that ranges in tone from lighthearted to serious about podcasting, “theology that doesn’t suck” (Homebrewed Christianity’s tagline), the “bifurcation of nature,” Bonheoeffer, Crossan, as well as why what happens at Theology Beer Camp breaks down barriers and welcomes all to the table.

Because our conversation was so fun, I got distracted from watching the time clock, so the first part of this conversation is nearly an hour, while the second part goes about another 40 minutes beyond that. So buckle up and listen in!

This episode of The Sacred Everywhere podcast and video series features Swami Padmanabha, an Argentinian-born and Catholic-raised Hindu monk who writes and teaches all over the world. This is the first half of our conversation which can also be heard on YouTube at https://youtu.be/OZOPUhbKOwg.   

The full conversation is available to paid subscribers on Substack at  https://sherikling.substack.com/p/evolution-in-divine-love-with-swami.

At an early age, Swami Padmanabha delved deeply into the theology of diverse mystical traditions. After taking up Gaudiya Vaishnavism in 1999 at the age of 19, he has dedicated himself to an extensive study of the Gaudiya scriptures under the guidance of his various mentors. Fluent in English and Spanish, Swami has written hundreds of articles in both languages, with his first two books published in English and in the process of being translated to other languages.

For the past twenty years, he has traveled around the world and lectured in universities, ashrams, and yoga studios. All of his numerous talks and seminars are available online for free at swamipadmanabha.com. As a leader of spiritual retreats and communities, he inspires both practitioners and visitors with his penetrating teachings and personal example.

He is the author of Inherent or Inherited? Bhakti in the Jiva according to Gaudiya Vedanta, Radical Personalism: Revival Manifesto for Proactive Devotion and, most recently, Evolution in Divine Love: The Eternal Becoming of God, Soul, and Matter.

https://www.amazon.com/Radical-Personalism-Manifesto-Proactive-Devotion/dp/B0C6BWMHB2/

https://www.amazon.com/Evolution-Divine-Love-Eternal-Becoming/dp/0996915605/

Find him online at https://swamipadmanabha.com/.

Learn about Swami’s podcast, The Free Radical Podcast, at https://swamipadmanabha.com/free-radical-podcast/ or on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/@swamipadmanabha

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MY STORY: My name is Dr. Sheri Kling, and I’m interested in helping you discover a whole-making Sacred in your own sacred life.

I’ve spent my life walking the journey I teach. It’s been a path shaped by deep questions, hard-won insights, and moments of grace that awakened me to new, life-giving images of the sacred. These shifts didn’t just change my thinking—they gave me the strength to face profound adversity and the joy of finally feeling at home in my own life and body.

Whether you’re seeking personal healing, professional clarity, or a more meaningful spiritual path, I offer grounded, heart-centered tools to help you thrive—and to remind you that wholeness is not just possible, it’s your birthright.

You can learn more about my work at https://sherikling.com/

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This episode of The Sacred Everywhere podcast and video series features Dr. Sheri sharing about her spiritual journey, recent struggles around life disappointments, and an experience in meditation. You can watch the video version on YouTube at https://youtu.be/iU4r5BWpaws .

This episode of The Sacred Everywhere podcast and video series features Josh Patterson, a theologian and podcaster who hosts the show (Re)Thinking Faith, a space to talk about life’s biggest questions. This is the first half of our conversation which can also be heard on YouTube at https://youtu.be/ZOWIsds5muQ.

The full conversation is available to paid subscribers on Substack at https://open.substack.com/pub/sherikling/p/radical-theology-freedom-and-love?r=22d1zx&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

A former evangelical youth pastor, Josh was thrown into a journey of self-discovery and faith deconstruction that led him to embrace open theism, process theology, and radical theology. He is also an ordained minister with the Curian network, a staff member of Theology Beer Camp, and is editing a new volume on process thought and radical theology.

Learn more about Josh at his website: https://www.joshuagpatterson.com/

Listen to Josh’s podcast at (Re)Thinking Faith. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/rethinking-faith/id1438696524

Isn’t it funny how something so small as a laugh or a gesture can spark a friendship between people on different continents? This episode of The Sacred Everywhere podcast and video series features Jane Kennedy. I first encountered Jane through a short film on the YouTube channel Reflections of Life, and immediately felt a kinship that led to this conversation.

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 Jane Kennedy has been using storytelling for a long time as a path of integrity and authenticity. Her work journey began in the early 80s with photography. Over time, she expanded her skills across various mediums, including audio-visual, video, filmmaking, documentaries, and television production.

 For 30 years, Jane’s professional life was primarily focused on directing and producing reality television and factual storytelling. In the latter part of her career, she honed in on directing food shows — and as a result, she is a pretty accomplished cook!

Within that context, she interviewed hundreds of people about their emotional states, their dreams, fears, and hopes for their lives. Through these experiences, Jane came to understand and deeply appreciate the gift of inquiry — essential both for storytelling and for understanding the human condition.

 Now Jane continues to refine and extend these skills in new and meaningful ways. Her background in visual storytelling enables her to assist others in understanding — and sometimes transcending — their own narratives. Jane holds space for others and is also currently in training to become a Somatic Experiencing practitioner.

 Jane Kennedy: https://janekennedy.co.za/

 Jane is featured in two films with Reflections of Life:

What Happens When You Stop Forcing Life https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qqMpOSBsjDI

 Why I Chose to Not Panic

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Du7fMHtPkh0

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Can science and the sacred be in relationship? This episode of The Sacred Everywhere podcast and video series features Dr. Philip Clayton discussing his new book, Science and the Sacred: Beyond the Gods in Our Image. He and Dr. Sheri also dig into everything from mystical experience to the differences between panpsychism and cosmopsychism, why theology is important, and how spiritual practices can offer us meaning, belonging, and transformation.

Watch the full episode here.

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Dr. Philip Clayton works at the intersection of philosophy, theology, and science. He has published several dozen books and some 350 articles. Most recently, he and C. S. Pearce co-authored Science and the Sacred: Beyond the Gods in Our Image. Although he continues to work on fundamental questions that arise within each of these fields and at their intersections, his more recent focus has turned increasingly to the intersection of climate science, ethics, religion, and social philosophy, or ecotheology.

He is the Ingraham Chair (emeritus) at Claremont School of Theology, where he founded the PhD program in comparative theologies and philosophies. Philip is also the founding president of the Institute for Ecological Civilization, now known as the EcoCivilization Coalition (EcoCiv.org) and served president of the Institute for the Postmodern Development of China, which works with universities and government officials to promote the concept of ecological civilization through conferences, publications, educational projects, and ecovillages.

He has previously served as a Dean, founding Provost, and Executive Vice President of a multi-religious university, Claremont Lincoln University.

Philip enjoys cycling, sailing, refereeing competitive soccer, and wilderness camping with family and dog.

You can learn more about my work at

https://sherikling.com/

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You can also follow me on:

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What if the Bible actually offers us a narrative pointing to universal God identity and transformation? What if the work of Jesus was never about establishing a new religion? This episode of The Sacred Everywhere podcast and video series features Doug King discussing the biblical narrative in light of the spiral dynamics model of the evolution of worldviews.

 Doug King began his religious life in a very conservative denomination and deeply studied the Hebrew and Christian texts, later finding that systems like spiral dynamics offered a transformative lens through which to look at the texts.

 Doug and his wife, Denée, live in Dacula, GA. He has a background in business and worked with his father, author, scholar and speaker Max King, to form Presence International, a growing network that engages emergent, integral, and interspiritual organizations and idea leaders.

 You can find his work at these links:

Website: https://www.presence.tv/

Podcast: https://www.presence.tv/podcast

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Was Jesus’ Resurrection Real?

From Empty Tomb to Living Transformation

What if we’re asking the wrong question about Jesus’ resurrection? Maybe the real question isn’t “did it happen?” but “what does resurrection actually mean?”

It was watching a video with Paul Wallis about the possibility that Jesus spent time in India before beginning his ministry that led me down today’s recorded rabbit hole. Of course, it’s a rabbit hole I love to explore and a question that I think a lot of people – Christians included – wonder about.

 In this video and podcast, I explore a wide-ranging territory, including:

* Paul’s conversion on the road to Damascus (Acts 9:1-19)

* Was what happened to Paul both a near death and a shared death experience?

* What does scripture say about Jesus’ resurrected body?

* What about the effects on Paul’s life?

* How did the Jesus event radically change the people around him?

* Does this connect with the idea in process theology about Christ as creative transformation?

* What does resurrection mean for us today?

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 Watch Paul Wallis talk about Jesus in India: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5imgmomcgRo .

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For those of us who have lived alone for a long time, it’s often hard to ask for help. Asking for help makes us vulnerable. It can feel frightening.

But what happens when we listen to what we need, move into how we feel about it, and ask for help from the people we know and love?

Sometimes, the results can be surprising.

In this video and podcast, Dr. Sheri Kling talks about projection, synchronicity, feminine vs. masculine (or lunar vs. solar) power, questioning our trauma-based lies and illusions of separation, and about sacred listening, asking, and the healing she received.

Asking for help can be a radical act of self love. Do we love ourselves enough to ask for what we need? Even when it’s scary?

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Watch Kyle Cease talk about How Complaining Blocks Healing:

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In this episode of The Sacred Everywhere, Dr. Sheri talks with Dr. Thomas Jay Oord, an open and relational theologian, author, public speaker, and nature photographer. Listen to the full episode here: https://sherikling.substack.com/p/tom-oord-full

In the first half, they talk about Tom’s recent book, A Systematic Theology of Love, Tom’s journey to becoming a process and open & relational theologian, and what it means to center our theological perspectives on God on love as essential.

In the second half of the full episode (available to paid subscribers on Substack), Sheri and Tom talk about God’s power when it comes to evil and suffering as well as Tom’s costly advocacy for LGBTQIA+ people.

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Thomas Jay Oord, Ph.D., is a theologian, philosopher, and scholar of multi-disciplinary studies. Oord directs the Center for Open and Relational Theology and doctoral students at Northwind Theological Seminary.

He is an award-winning author and has written or edited more than fifty books. A gifted speaker, Oord lectures at universities, conferences, churches, and institutions. He is known for his contributions to research on love, science and religion, open and relational theology, the problem of suffering, and advocacy for the full inclusion of queer people.

Books:

A Systematic Theology of Love: Volume 1: God and Creation https://www.amazon.com/dp/1968136509

God Can’t: How to Believe in God and Love after Tragedy, Abuse, and Other Evils https://www.amazon.com/God-Cant-Believe-after-Tragedy/dp/1948609126/

Website: thomasjayoord.com

Center for Open & Relational Theology: https://c4ort.com/

Northwind Seminar Doctor of Theology specializing in open & relational theology: https://www.northwindseminary.org/cort-2024

ORTCON https://c4ort.com/ortcon/

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This is the video and audio version of the article “Reminders of Another Time and Place.”

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In “Returning to the Shack” Dr. Sheri Kling speaks with author Wm. Paul Young, author of the novel The Shack.

In the first half, Sheri and Paul talk about the power of fiction and why The Shack moved so many people. They also touch on images of God, and how presence is more important than answers.

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In the second half – available only to paid subscribers on Substack – they discuss Paul’s newest book, Return to the Shack, and the themes that are at the center of this revisiting. A central part of this second half is their discussion of the “Hymn of Grief” – a piece written by Australian poet David Tensen - that gets woven into Mack’s heart-wrenching journey to deeper healing.

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Wm. Paul Young, author of The Shack, Cross Roads, Eve, and Lies We Believe About God, was born a Canadian and raised among a Stone Age tribe with his missionary parents in the highlands of West Papua. He suffered great loss as a child and young adult but now enjoys the “wastefulness of grace” with his growing family in the Pacific Northwest of the United States. He can be found online at https://wmpaulyoung.com/.

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In “Collective Shadow, Woundedness, and Meaning,” Dr. Sheri Kling speaks with Jungian analyst Tony Caldwell.

In the first half, Tony and Sheri dig into

* collective shadow in the United States

* place, race, ideologies, and personal mythologies

* the psychic energy held in the personal shadow

* libido, creativity, and the drive to life and generativity

* Jungian analysis, including transference and counter-transference

* the developmental approach within Jungian thought; and

* complexes.

In the second half – available only to paid subscribers on Substack – they discuss

* meaning making

* identity

* self-parenting/self-narrative, and

* seeing the Sacred in our wounds and in our unexpressed potentials.

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Tony Caldwell is a Jungian psychoanalyst with over 25 years of experience as a psychotherapist. As an analyst, Tony specializes in life transitions, the “middle passage” of midlife, and lifelong growth in adults.

Clinically, his specialties include depression, anxiety, trauma, difficulty in relationships, men’s issues, adjustment, attachment, grief/bereavement, matters related to human sexuality, religious abuse and trauma, and spiritual direction/personal growth. Sessions can involve dreamwork as desired by the client.

Tony is a former lecturer at the University of Mississippi and currently serves as a teaching analyst at the Inter-Regional Society of Jungian Analysts and is a core faculty member at the Haden Institute in Hendersonville, NC. In becoming a Jungian analyst, he trained and analyzed for 13 years under the guidance of renowned Jungian analysts, including James Hollis, Ph.D.

Tony provides training, workshops, and retreats, and has been a guest speaker at Jack White’s Third Man Records, Victor Wooten’s Nature and Music Camps, St. Augustine’s Episcopal Chapel, Kanuga Retreat Center, The Nashville Jung Circle, The C.G. Jung Society of New Orleans, Vanderbilt University, and other college campuses, churches, spiritual gatherings, retreat centers, and various other settings across the U.S.

In his free time, Tony enjoys spending time with his family, co-creating with his son, Silas, reading, writing, and traveling.

He may be found online at https://www.tonycaldwell.com/.

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In “The Biology of Spiritual Experience,” Dr. Sheri Kling speaks with Rev. Dr. Shaleen Kendrick about neurotheology and how our stories about God and reality shape our brains and our spirits. This is part one of the conversation.

Did this resonate with you? Watch the full episode at https://sherikling.substack.com/p/biology-of-spiritual-experience.

Download Dr. Sheri’s FREE guide, “Awakening to the Sacred,” here: http://subscribepage.io/jaCwFD

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If, as growing evidence suggests, spirituality is an innate human capacity, maybe our bodies are not secondary to spiritual experience but the living temple of encounter with the Sacred. In this episode, Dr. Kendrick talks about our three brains, neuro-relational integration, and why she brings open & relational theology to the intersection of neurobiology, theology, and spiritual experience. She also talks about our three brains: head, heart, and gut.

In part 2, we get into a fascinating discussion of Jesus’ parables and what may be going on there in terms of polyvagal theory and neurospirituality. Watch the full episode at https://sherikling.substack.com/p/biology-of-spiritual-experience.

Rev. Dr. Shaleen Kendrick, ThD, is an emerging neurotheologian who developed the Neuro-Relational Integration™ (NRI) model—demonstrating how conscious integration across Mind–Body–Spirit neural systems can facilitate rapid adaptive evolution in how we think, act, and relate to ourselves, others, and the challenges of our time. NRI integrates neuroscience with liberation theology to show that through daily wholeness-making practices we can expand our human capacity and create new abilities that nurture not just individual flourishing but transform the systems we live in.

Rev. Dr. Kendrick is the author of Your Three Brains: The Neuroscience & Spirituality of Wholeness coming soon from Orbis books. https://orbisbooks.com/products/your-three-brains-the-neuroscience-spirituality-of-wholeness

She serves companies, practitioners, and faith communities, translating evolutionary spirituality into embodied practice—because the world needs humans who can evolve as quickly as our challenges emerge. This is Human Evolution in Practice.

https://www.shaleenkendrick.com/

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This episode of The Sacred Everywhere features Jim Palmer. Jim and I met a couple of years ago at ORTCON (Open & Relational Theology Conference), and I’ll be speaking there again next week.

We covered a lot of ground in part 1, including:

* Jim’s journey from megachurch pastor to an expert on religious trauma and deconstruction

* Meaning and existential health

* What are the core components of existential health?

Watch the Full Conversation: https://sherikling.substack.com/p/jim-palmer-full

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Jim Palmer is a writer, teacher, and founder of the Center for Non-Religious Spirituality. A former megachurch pastor, certified spiritual director, and existential health counselor, his work explores meaning, identity, purpose, belonging, mortality, and the challenges of being human in a rapidly changing world. He is the author of six books and writes extensively on non-religious spirituality, religious deconstruction and reconstruction, and existential health. Through his writing, teaching, and public engagement, Palmer helps people navigate life's deepest questions without outsourcing their authority to institutions, ideologies, or inherited belief systems, fostering greater self-authorship, reality contact, and human flourishing. 

Read “10 Religious Ideas We No Longer Need to Believe” at https://jimpalmerauthor.substack.com/p/10-religious-ideas-we-no-longer-need

See Jim’s work on Substack: https://jimpalmerauthor.substack.com/

Visit the Center for Nonreligious Spirituality: https://www.nonreligiousspirituality.com/

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