Explore every episode of the podcast The Laughing Mystics: An unorthodox journey through the liturgical year
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| Ep 45 - 3rd Sunday of Advent - Eyes see, ears hear! -December 14, 2025 | 11 Dec 2025 | 00:45:43 | |
We start with a gorgeous poem from Marci. Our question is: what is a memory of seeing the splendor, the glory of God? Laura talks about the term Jung used for this – the “numinous” which comes from numinosum – Rudolf Otto’s term (in his Idea of the Holy) for the inexpressible, mysterious, terrifying, directly experienced and pertaining only to the divinity. Marci mentions experiments of putting monitors on plants and recording their “song.” We explore how dreamwork can help bring sight to my own psychological/spiritual blindness. Laura mentions the Jungian Marie Louise Von Franz and the I Ching, a symbolic tool for understanding the flow of life. We ask ourselves: what would it mean to live with the same commitment as John the Baptist? Thank you for listening! Questions? Comments? Bring your voice to the conversation. We'd like to SHARE THE MIC with you! Send an audio from your phone with a question or comment to Laughing.Mystics@gmail.com We now have an easier way for you to leave a review or rating, using this link! RateThisPodcast.com/thelaughingmystics Please follow us to be alerted for new episodes. We hope you'll share this passion project with others, write a review, or rate/like our podcast on your favorite platform! Join our FB community at https://www.facebook.com/laughingmystics/ New episodes now released on Thursday mornings! For more on Marci Madary visit https://www.insideoutspirituality.com/ For more on Laura Lewis-Barr visit https://psychescinema.com/ Want to support The Laughing Mystics? We now have MERCH! Visit https://www.zazzle.com/store/laughing_mystics/products (0ur show notes are always filled with many links. If your platform doesn't show them, visit the "episode webpage" or our Spotify page.) Music licensed from Artlist | |||
| Ep 44 - 2nd Sunday of Advent - John the Baptist! | 04 Dec 2025 | 00:46:38 | |
2nd Sunday of Advent - John the Baptist! Our question: What events in my life have helped separate the wheat and the chaff within me. The Hebrew word for "fear" in "fear of the Lord," such as in Isaiah, is typically 𝑦𝑖𝑟𝑎ℎ (יִרְאָה), which translates to a sense of reverence, awe, and profound respect, rather than terror. Laura mentions the free newsletter "Believing " from the New York Times. Thank you for listening! Questions? Comments? Bring your voice to the conversation. We'd like to SHARE THE MIC with you! Send an audio from your phone with a question or comment to Laughing.Mystics@gmail.com We now have an easier way for you to leave a review or rating, using this link! RateThisPodcast.com/thelaughingmystics Please follow us to be alerted for new episodes. We hope you'll share this passion project with others, write a review, or rate/like our podcast on your favorite platform! Join our FB community at https://www.facebook.com/laughingmystics/ New episodes now released on Thursday mornings! For more on Marci Madary visit https://www.insideoutspirituality.com/ For more on Laura Lewis-Barr visit https://psychescinema.com/ Want to support The Laughing Mystics? We now have MERCH! Visit https://www.zazzle.com/store/laughing_mystics/products (0ur show notes are always filled with many links. If your platform doesn't show them, visit the "episode webpage" or our Spotify page.) Music licensed from Artlist | |||
| Ep 35 - 27th Sunday in TKOHIN - October 5, 2025 | 03 Oct 2025 | 00:33:07 | |
We ask ourselves (and you) this question: "What is my unique calling, how am I to serve the world?" Laura mentions the book, Paradoxical Thinking and a great article about the prophet Habakkuk and his infrequent appearance in the church calendar. Marci offers a wonderful metaphor of faith and flying a kite and she mentions Father Richard Rohr's book, Everything Belongs. Thank you for listening! Questions? Comments? Bring your voice to the conversation. We'd like to SHARE THE MIC with you! Send an audio from your phone with a question or comment to Laughing.Mystics@gmail.com We now have an easier way for you to leave a review or rating, using this link! RateThisPodcast.com/thelaughingmystics Laura is starting a new product - practicing symbolic thinking using fairy tale stop motion films in a Monthly Film Club. Please follow us to be alerted for new episodes. We hope you'll share this passion project with others, write a review, or rate/like our podcast on your favorite platform! Want to support The Laughing Mystics? We now have MERCH! Visit https://www.zazzle.com/store/laughing_mystics/products Join our FB community at https://www.facebook.com/laughingmystics/ New episodes every Friday! For more on Marci Madary visit https://www.insideoutspirituality.com/ For more on Laura Lewis-Barr visit https://psychescinema.com/ (0ur show notes are always filled with many links. If your platform doesn't show them, visit the "episode webpage" or our Spotify page.) Music licensed from Artlist | |||
| Ep 34 - 26th Sunday in TKOHIN- September 28, 2025 | 26 Sep 2025 | 00:39:53 | |
Our question today (based on the readings). "What are my attitudes toward wealth?' We talk about the work of sociologist Brene Brown and the film, MountainHead. We explore the juicy story of Lazarus and the rich man, and much more! The Sunday Readings -The 26th Sunday in the Kingdom of Heaven is Now time Thank you for listening! Questions? Comments? Bring your voice to the conversation. We'd like to SHARE THE MIC with you! Send an audio from your phone with a question or comment to Laughing.Mystics@gmail.com We now have an easier way for you to leave a review or rating, using this link! RateThisPodcast.com/thelaughingmystics Laura is starting a new product - practicing symbolic thinking using fairy tale stop motion films in a Monthly Film Club. Please follow us to be alerted for new episodes. We hope you'll share this passion project with others, write a review, or rate/like our podcast on your favorite platform! Want to support The Laughing Mystics? We now have MERCH! Visit https://www.zazzle.com/store/laughing_mystics/products Join our FB community at https://www.facebook.com/laughingmystics/ New episodes every Friday! For more on Marci Madary visit https://www.insideoutspirituality.com/ For more on Laura Lewis-Barr visit https://psychescinema.com/ (0ur show notes are always filled with many links. If your platform doesn't show them, visit the "episode webpage" or our Spotify page.) Music licensed from Artlist | |||
| Ep 33 - 25th Sunday in TKOHIN- September 21, 2025 | 19 Sep 2025 | 00:44:06 | |
25th Sunday in the Kingdom of Heaven is Now time. We wrestle with some very tough readings! A question we ask ourselves and you: What are my attitudes toward authority, wealth, and the systems we live under? Marci mentions her poem found in this publication. Unruly Catholic Feminists: Prose, Poetry, and the Future of the Faith We mention Brian Swimme and the "Story of the Universe," the evolution of the world and of justice. Also, Kohlberg's levels of ethics, Ilia Delio's noosphere, and the story of Dietrich Bonhoeffer (0ur show notes are always filled with many links. If your platform doesn't show them, visit the "episode webpage" or our Spotify page.) Thank you for listening! Questions? Comments? Bring your voice to the conversation. We'd like to SHARE THE MIC with you! Send an audio from your phone with a question or comment to Laughing.Mystics@gmail.com We now have an easier way for you to leave a review or rating, using this link! RateThisPodcast.com/thelaughingmystics Laura is starting a new product - practicing symbolic thinking using fairy tale stop motion films in a Monthly Film Club. Please follow us to be alerted for new episodes. We hope you'll share this passion project with others, write a review, or rate/like our podcast on your favorite platform! Want to support The Laughing Mystics? We now have MERCH! Visit https://www.zazzle.com/store/laughing_mystics/products Join our FB community at https://www.facebook.com/laughingmystics/ New episodes every Friday! For more on Marci Madary visit https://www.insideoutspirituality.com/ For more on Laura Lewis-Barr visit https://psychescinema.com/ | |||
| Ep 32 - The Holy Cross - September 14, 2025 | 12 Sep 2025 | 00:31:38 | |
We start with a juicy question : what "inner" puzzle am I working on these days? Then we puzzle through a reading about biting snakes, ingratitude, and looking at what scares us. We talk of Richard Schwartz, - The Founder of Internal Family Systems . (Laura accidentally says Stephen Schwartz -- the creator of Godspell). We grapple with John 3:16. Marci tells a bad joke. And much more! (0ur show notes are always filled with many links. If your platform doesn't show them, visit the "episode webpage" or our Spotify page.) Thank you for listening! Questions? Comments? Bring your voice to the conversation. We'd like to SHARE THE MIC with you! Send an audio from your phone with a question or comment to Laughing.Mystics@gmail.com We now have an easier way for you to leave a review or rating, using this link! RateThisPodcast.com/thelaughingmystics Laura is starting a new product - practicing symbolic thinking using fairy tale stop motion films in a Monthly Film Club. Please follow us to be alerted for new episodes. We hope you'll share this passion project with others, write a review, or rate/like our podcast on your favorite platform! Want to support The Laughing Mystics? We now have MERCH! Visit https://www.zazzle.com/store/laughing_mystics/products Join our FB community at https://www.facebook.com/laughingmystics/ New episodes every Friday! For more on Marci Madary visit https://www.insideoutspirituality.com/ For more on Laura Lewis-Barr visit https://psychescinema.com/ | |||
| Ep 31 - 23rd Sunday in TKOHIN, September 7, 2025 | 05 Sep 2025 | 00:39:29 | |
23rd Sunday in the Kingdom of Heaven is Now time. Lots of laughter as we tackle some very tough readings. We ask ourselves (and you) this question: "What tempts me in my daily life? What is hard for me to renounce or let go of?" "If it is true that the ability to be puzzled is the beginningof wisdom, then this truth is a sad commentary on the wisdom of modern man. Whatever the merits of our high degree of literary and universal education, wehave lost the gift for being puzzled." ----Psychoanalyst Erich Fromm We mention this quote from Thomas Merton: “My Lord God, I have no idea where I am going. I do not see the road ahead of me. I cannot know for certain where it will end. Nor do I really know myself, and the fact that I think that I am following your will does not mean that I am actually doing so. But I believe that the desire to please you does in fact please you. And I hope I have that desire in all that I am doing. I hope that I will never do anything apart from that desire. And I know that if I do this you will lead me by the right road, though I may know nothing about it. Therefore will I trust you always, though I may seem to be lost and in the shadow of death. I will not fear, for you are ever with me, and you will never leave me to face my perils alone.” Laura was searching for this this part of Rumi's poem, The Great Wagon. "Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing,
Laura quotes Erich Neumann on a provocative message in the Psyche and Eros myth Marci tells the story of St. Francis, his father, and the Bishop. And much more!! (0ur show notes are always filled with many links. If your platform doesn't show them, visit the "episode webpage" or our Spotify page.) Thank you for listening! Questions? Comments? Bring your voice to the conversation. We'd like to SHARE THE MIC with you! Send an audio from your phone with a question or comment to Laughing.Mystics@gmail.com We now have an easier way for you to leave a review or rating, using this link! RateThisPodcast.com/thelaughingmystics Laura is starting a new product - practicing symbolic thinking using fairy tale stop motion films in a Monthly Film Club. Please follow us to be alerted for new episodes. We hope you'll share this passion project with others, write a review, or rate/like our podcast on your favorite platform! Want to support The Laughing Mystics? We now have MERCH! Visit https://www.zazzle.com/store/laughing_mystics/products Join our FB community at https://www.facebook.com/laughingmystics/ New episodes every Friday! For more on Marci Madary visit https://www.insideoutspirituality.com/ For more on Laura Lewis-Barr visit https://psychescinema.com/ | |||
| EP 30 - 22nd Sunday in TKOHIN, August 31, 2025 | 29 Aug 2025 | 00:41:28 | |
22nd Sunday in The Kingdom of Heaven is Now Time. We explore the Hebrew word for humility. Excerpts quoted from this site. “How am I using the Divine gifts that have been given to me? Am I reaching my own potential for greatness?” This sentiment is powerfully encapsulated in the Hebrew word for humility, anavah. While the English word humility originates from the Latin, humilis, meaning meekness or lowliness, anavah stems from the word anu, meaning “to respond.” Also found this lovely quote related to this concept. “Every person should have two pockets. In one pocket should be a piece of paper saying: ‘I am but dust and ashes.’ When one is feeling too proud, reach into this pocket and take out this paper and read it. In the other pocket should be a piece of paper saying: ‘For my sake was the world created.’ When one is feeling disheartened and lowly, reach into this pocket and take this paper out and read it. We are each the joining of two worlds. We are fashioned from clay, but our spirit is the breath of Adonai.” (Tales of The Hasidim Later Masters, Martin Buber, p.249-50) Marci uses the word theophonies -
Thank you for listening! Questions? Comments? Bring your voice to the conversation. We'd like to SHARE THE MIC with you! Send an audio from your phone with a question or comment to Laughing.Mystics@gmail.com We now have an easier way for you to leave a review or rating, using this link! RateThisPodcast.com/thelaughingmystics Laura is starting a new product - practicing symbolic thinking using fairy tale stop motion films in a Monthly Film Club. Please follow us to be alerted for new episodes. We hope you'll share this passion project with others, write a review, or rate/like our podcast on your favorite platform! Want to support The Laughing Mystics? We now have MERCH! Visit https://www.zazzle.com/store/laughing_mystics/products Join our FB community at https://www.facebook.com/laughingmystics/ New episodes every Friday! For more on Marci Madary visit https://www.insideoutspirituality.com/ For more on Laura Lewis-Barr visit https://psychescinema.com/ | |||
| Ep 29 -21st Sunday in TKOHIN - August 24, 2025 | 22 Aug 2025 | 00:34:12 | |
21st Sunday in The Kingdom of Heaven is Now Time. We talk about the challenge of diversity and ask the question, “Who makes me uncomfortable?” We explore the idea that we are all fugitives in a strange land and the integration of all parts in the Kingdom. We talk about the power of discipline to create strength through practice. Laura mentions her longing for a loving community and uses the Greek word agape. We mention the author of Women Who Run with the Wolves, Clarrisa Pinkola Estes. And much more! (0ur show notes are always filled with many links. If your platform doesn't show them, visit the "episode webpage" or our Spotify page.) Thank you for listening! Questions? Comments? Bring your voice to the conversation. We'd like to SHARE THE MIC with you! Send an audio from your phone with a question or comment to Laughing.Mystics@gmail.com We now have an easier way for you to leave a review or rating, using this link! RateThisPodcast.com/thelaughingmystics Laura is starting a new product - practicing symbolic thinking using fairy tale stop motion films in a Monthly Film Club. Please follow us to be alerted for new episodes. We hope you'll share this passion project with others, write a review, or rate/like our podcast on your favorite platform! Want to support The Laughing Mystics? We now have MERCH! Visit https://www.zazzle.com/store/laughing_mystics/products Join our FB community at https://www.facebook.com/laughingmystics/ New episodes every Friday! For more on Marci Madary visit https://www.insideoutspirituality.com/ For more on Laura Lewis-Barr visit https://psychescinema.com/ | |||
| Ep 28 - 20th Sunday in TKOHIN, August 17, 2025 | 15 Aug 2025 | 00:42:07 | |
A juicy episode! We talk about the symbolism Jeremiah and the cistern. We mention the movement of an ancient Sicilian symbol and Celtic knots We explore addiction to suffering and the danger of numbing out to the problems of the world, and "Midwest nice” Laura mentions alchemy and the stage of Calcinatio. Thank you for listening! Questions? Comments? Or bring your voice to the conversation. We'd like to SHARE THE MIC with you. Send an audio from your phone with a question or comment to Laughing.Mystics@gmail.com We now have an easier way for you to leave a review or rating, using this link! RateThisPodcast.com/thelaughingmystics Laura is starting a new product - practicing symbolic thinking using fairy tale stop motion films in a Monthly Film Club. Please follow us to be alerted for new episodes. We hope you'll share this passion project with others, write a review, or rate/like our podcast on your favorite platform! Want to support The Laughing Mystics? We now have MERCH! Visit https://www.zazzle.com/store/laughing_mystics/products Join our FB community at https://www.facebook.com/laughingmystics/ New episodes every Friday! For more on Marci Madary visit https://www.insideoutspirituality.com/ For more on Laura Lewis-Barr visit https://psychescinema.com/ | |||
| Ep 27 - 19th Sunday in TKOHIN, August 10, 2025 | 08 Aug 2025 | 00:41:38 | |
19th Sunday in The Kingdom of Heaven is Now. Lots of great people and resources named in this episode: Laura mentions Jungian Marie Louise Von Franz several times. Marci mentions Greek philosophy's focus on knowledge, justice, and the good. We talk about 3 books by Karen Armstrong. We mention mythologist Michael Meade, and poet Mary Oliver, and "Interior Castle" by Teresa of Avila. Laura tells a story from Joseph Campbell. Questions we ask each other and you in this episode: --What comes forward from our own dead places…? --Where does our treasure lie? --What moments have you had answering the door when the "Son of Man comes?" Thank you for listening! Questions? Comments? Please send to Laughing.Mystics@gmail.com We now have an easier way for you to leave a review or rating, using this link! RateThisPodcast.com/thelaughingmystics Laura is starting a new product - practicing symbolic thinking using fairy tale stop motion films in a Monthly Film Club.Please follow us to be alerted for new episodes. We hope you'll share this passion project with others, write a review, or rate/like our podcast on your favorite platform! Want to support The Laughing Mystics? We now have MERCH! Visit https://www.zazzle.com/store/laughing_mystics/products Join our FB community at https://www.facebook.com/laughingmystics/ To find us on other podcast platforms visit https://psychescinema.com/podcast-and-poetry-practicing-symbolic-language/ New episodes every Friday! For more on Marci Madary visit https://www.insideoutspirituality.com/ For more on Laura Lewis-Barr visit https://psychescinema.com/ https://psychescinema.com/depth-psychology-and-christianity/ | |||
| Ep 26 - 18th Sunday in TKOHIN, August, 1, 2025 | 01 Aug 2025 | 00:35:04 | |
We talk about the Death Cafe movement. Marci sings! We explore worry habits, choice, whirlpools, lessons in fairy tales, and the book, Teilhard de Chardin Seven Stages of Suffering. Laura tells an old story of "Rabbi Hockum." Thank you for listening! Questions? Comments? Please send to Laughing.Mystics@gmail.com We now have an easier way for you to leave a review or rating, using this link! RateThisPodcast.com/thelaughingmystics Please follow us to be alerted for new episodes. We hope you'll share this passion project with others, write a review, or rate/like our podcast on your favorite platform! Want to support The Laughing Mystics? We now have MERCH! Visit https://www.zazzle.com/store/laughing_mystics/products Join our FB community at https://www.facebook.com/laughingmystics/ To find us on other podcast platforms visit https://psychescinema.com/podcast-and-poetry-practicing-symbolic-language/ New episodes every Friday! For more on Marci Madary visit https://www.insideoutspirituality.com/ For more on Laura Lewis-Barr visit https://psychescinema.com/ https://psychescinema.com/depth-psychology-and-christianity/ | |||
| Ep 43- First Sunday of Advent - Stay Awake! November 30, 2025 | 27 Nov 2025 | 00:48:12 | |
Season Two! First Sunday of Advent. Our question: What helps me stay awake or what puts me to sleep spiritually/psychologically? Marci recommends the book, Learning to Walk in the Dark by Barbara Brown Taylor, and quotes Anthony De Mello. A quote from Parker Palmer, via Fr. Rohr."Thomas Merton claimed that “There is in all visible things … a hidden wholeness.” But back in the human world—where we are less self-revealing than jack pines—Merton’s words can, at times, sound like wishful thinking. Afraid that our inner light will be extinguished or our inner darkness exposed, we hide our true identities from each other [and] become separated from our own souls. We end up living divided lives, so far removed from the truth we hold within that we cannot know the “integrity that comes from being what you are.” https://cac.org/daily-meditations/wholeness-includes-imperfection/ Thank you for listening! Questions? Comments? Bring your voice to the conversation. We'd like to SHARE THE MIC with you! Send an audio from your phone with a question or comment to Laughing.Mystics@gmail.com We now have an easier way for you to leave a review or rating, using this link! RateThisPodcast.com/thelaughingmystics Please follow us to be alerted for new episodes. We hope you'll share this passion project with others, write a review, or rate/like our podcast on your favorite platform! Join our FB community at https://www.facebook.com/laughingmystics/ New episodes now released on Thursday mornings! For more on Marci Madary visit https://www.insideoutspirituality.com/ For more on Laura Lewis-Barr visit https://psychescinema.com/ Want to support The Laughing Mystics? We now have MERCH! Visit https://www.zazzle.com/store/laughing_mystics/products (0ur show notes are always filled with many links. If your platform doesn't show them, visit the "episode webpage" or our Spotify page.) Music licensed from Artlist | |||
| Ep 25 - 17th Sunday in TKOHIN - July 27, 2025 | 25 Jul 2025 | 00:37:31 | |
17th Sunday in The Kingdom of Heaven is Now time. We talk about haggling with God and the power of the individual to save the world. We mention the relationship between the the exercises of St. Ignatius, and Jung's active imagination. Marci offers several different versions of the Lord’s prayer. Laura wanted to cut the vulnerable story she tells about her dad but she kept it in. (0ur show notes are always filled with many links. If your platform doesn't show them, visit the "episode webpage" or our Spotify page.) Thank you for listening! Questions? Comments? Bring your voice to the conversation. We'd like to SHARE THE MIC with you! Send an audio from your phone with a question or comment to Laughing.Mystics@gmail.com We now have an easier way for you to leave a review or rating, using this link! RateThisPodcast.com/thelaughingmystics Laura is starting a new product - practicing symbolic thinking using fairy tale stop motion films in a Monthly Film Club. Please follow us to be alerted for new episodes. We hope you'll share this passion project with others, write a review, or rate/like our podcast on your favorite platform! Want to support The Laughing Mystics? We now have MERCH! Visit https://www.zazzle.com/store/laughing_mystics/products Join our FB community at https://www.facebook.com/laughingmystics/ New episodes every Friday! For more on Marci Madary visit https://www.insideoutspirituality.com/ For more on Laura Lewis-Barr visit https://psychescinema.com/ y/ | |||
| Ep 24 - 16th Sunday TKOHIN, July 20, 2025 | 18 Jul 2025 | 00:40:22 | |
The 16th Sunday of the Kingdom of Heaven is Now. (If your platform isn't showing hyperlinks for these notes, please let us know! You can also find them on our spotify page.) We dive deep into all three readings. Laura references the book " Abraham : the man and the symbol ; a Jungian interpretation of the biblical story." What Laura forgot, "... the Sages also divided the functions of the angels’ mission into three: to herald the birth of Isaac, to destroy Sodom and Gomorrah, and to heal Abraham. "One more quote from the book, “In the heat of the day” the sun is at its apogee. Midday heat, especially in the Middle East, can affect one’s wakefulness. Perhaps Abraham dozed off as he sat at the door of his tent, and entered a hypnagogic state. At the same time, his psychic receptiveness increased, as often happens when one is half awake and half asleep. In this state, a different consciousness may emerge—the greater, broader, and clearer consciousness of a great vision. Many cultures symbolize this consciousness of and receptiveness to the divinity by a depiction of the sun at its zenith, generating extreme heat." We have a lengthy discussion of the story of Martha and Mary, “martyr syndrome” and wonder: could we all be Mary? Marci offers some wonderful stories about of St. Francis including Francis' visit to the Sultan. Thank you for listening! Questions? Comments? Please send to Laughing.Mystics@gmail.com We now have an easier way for you to leave a review or rating, using this link! RateThisPodcast.com/thelaughingmystics Please follow us to be alerted for new episodes. We hope you'll share this passion project with others, write a review, or rate/like our podcast on your favorite platform! Want to support The Laughing Mystics? We now have MERCH! Visit https://www.zazzle.com/store/laughing_mystics/products Join our FB community at https://www.facebook.com/laughingmystics/ To find us on other podcast platforms visit https://psychescinema.com/podcast-and-poetry-practicing-symbolic-language/ New episodes every Friday! For more on Marci Madary visit https://www.insideoutspirituality.com/ For more on Laura Lewis-Barr visit https://psychescinema.com/ https://psychescinema.com/depth-psychology-and-christianity/ | |||
| Ep 23 - 15th Sunday in TKOHIN, July 13, 2025 | 11 Jul 2025 | 00:40:54 | |
The 15th Sunday in the Kingdom of Heaven is Now time. Laura mentions another podcast, This Jungian Life. She also mentions alchemy and this quote -"A fool who persists in his folly will eventually become wise" -William Blake Marci mentions a prayer from Thomas Merton and this bible quote. Laura quotes from Mary Oliver’s Wild Geese She also mentions her work teaching emotional intelligence. We also talk about Matthew Fox and The Cosmic Christ, our overscheduled lives, xenophobia and much more. Thank you for listening! Questions? Comments? Please send to Laughing.Mystics@gmail.com We now have an easier way for you to leave a review or rating, using this link! RateThisPodcast.com/thelaughingmystics Please follow us to be alerted for new episodes. We hope you'll share this passion project with others, write a review, or rate/like our podcast on your favorite platform! Want to support The Laughing Mystics? We now have MERCH! Visit https://www.zazzle.com/store/laughing_mystics/products Join our FB community at https://www.facebook.com/laughingmystics/ To find us on other podcast platforms visit https://psychescinema.com/podcast-and-poetry-practicing-symbolic-language/ New episodes every Friday! For more on Marci Madary visit https://www.insideoutspirituality.com/ For more on Laura Lewis-Barr visit https://psychescinema.com/ https://psychescinema.com/depth-psychology-and-christianity/ | |||
| Ep 22 - 14th Sunday in TKOHIN - July 6, 2025 | 04 Jul 2025 | 00:29:59 | |
14th Sunday in the Kingdom of Heaven is Now. (Please alert us if you don't see hyperlinks in your show notes!) We discuss the power of home. Laura mentions "nous," a concept she's heard from Ilia Delio. Heavy stuff. "Pierre Teilhard de Chardin saw the emergence of a new type of person with computer technology, an evolution of consciousness that led to a new level of cosmic life, what he called the “noosphere” (from the Greek “nous” or mind). The noosphere is the natural culmination of biological evolution, an organic whole, now on the level of thought, destined for some type of superconvergence and unification." -- Ilia Delio. Also the important concept of Inflation. (Jungian term). [Inflation] should not be interpreted as … conscious self-aggrandizement. Such is far from being the rule. In general we are not directly conscious of this condition at all, but can at best infer its existence indirectly from the symptoms. These include the reactions of our immediate environment. Inflation magnifies the blind spot in the eye. [“The Self,” CW 9ii, par. 44.] -- from Daryl Sharp’s Jung Lexicon Another mention of the book, The Gift, by Lewis Hyde Thank you for listening! Questions? Comments? Please send to Laughing.Mystics@gmail.com We now have an easier way for you to leave a review or rating, using this link! RateThisPodcast.com/thelaughingmystics Please follow us to be alerted for new episodes. We hope you'll share this passion project with others, write a review, or rate/like our podcast on your favorite platform! Want to support The Laughing Mystics? We now have MERCH! Visit https://www.zazzle.com/store/laughing_mystics/products Join our FB community at https://www.facebook.com/laughingmystics/ To find us on other podcast platforms visit https://psychescinema.com/podcast-and-poetry-practicing-symbolic-language/ New episodes every Friday! For more on Marci Madary visit https://www.insideoutspirituality.com/ For more on Laura Lewis-Barr visit https://psychescinema.com/ https://psychescinema.com/depth-psychology-and-christianity/ | |||
| Ep 21 - Peter and Paul - June 29, 2025 | 27 Jun 2025 | 00:37:20 | |
In this episode Marci sings a song! We talk about miracles, doubt and faith. A joke from Joseph Campbell (also attributed to Thomas Merton!) And another Campbell quote that made Marci laugh. Laura mentions the noncanonical Gnostic books featuring St. Peter. The Apocalypse of Peter, Letter of Peter to Philip and Apocryphon of James (among others). We mention The Last Temptation of Christ film And Laura tells the story behind her no-budget feature film, Cloistered Honey. On Amazon Prime. The Sunday Readings are here. https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/062925-Mass.cfm Thank you for listening! Questions? Comments? Please send to Laughing.Mystics@gmail.com Please follow us to be alerted for new episodes. We hope you'll share this passion project with others, write a review, or rate/like our podcast on your favorite platform! (0ur show notes are always filled with many links. If your platform doesn't show them, visit the "episode webpage" or our Spotify page.) Want to support The Laughing Mystics? We now have MERCH! Visit https://www.zazzle.com/store/laughing_mystics/products Join our FB community at https://www.facebook.com/laughingmystics/ To find us on other podcast platforms visit https://psychescinema.com/podcast-and-poetry-practicing-symbolic-language/ New episodes every Friday! For more on Marci Madary visit https://www.insideoutspirituality.com/ For more on Laura Lewis-Barr visit https://psychescinema.com/ https://psychescinema.com/depth-psychology-and-christianity/ | |||
| Ep 20- Corpus Christi - June 22, 2025 | 20 Jun 2025 | 00:37:01 | |
(0ur show notes are always filled with many links. If you are not seeing hyperlinks on your platform, please let us know. Thank you! ) Marci shares some of her research on Julian of Norwich. Laura struggles in this episode. We confess: some of the material (latter third) was added later. Lots of poetry in this episode, including a section from Blessing the Bread by Lynn Unger, Marci's poem, Learning Slowly, and Laura’s poem, Take One Bite. Laura mentions the book Death by Suburb: How to Keep the Suburbs from Killing Your Soul. Thank you for listening! Questions? Comments? Please send to Laughing.Mystics@gmail.com Please follow us to be alerted for new episodes. We hope you'll share this passion project with others, write a review, or rate/like our podcast on your favorite platform! (On spotify click on the About tab, thank you!) Want to support The Laughing Mystics? We now have MERCH! Visit https://www.zazzle.com/store/laughing_mystics/products Join our FB community at https://www.facebook.com/laughingmystics/ To find us on other podcast platforms visit https://psychescinema.com/podcast-and-poetry-practicing-symbolic-language/ New episodes every Friday! For more on Marci Madary visit https://www.insideoutspirituality.com/ For more on Laura Lewis-Barr visit https://psychescinema.com/ https://psychescinema.com/depth-psychology-and-christianity/ | |||
| Ep 19 - Holy Trinity - June 15, 2025 | 13 Jun 2025 | 00:42:43 | |
Marci talks about her use of different pronouns for God. We reflect on what we learned during a recent talk from Ilia Delio. We mention Teilhard de Chardin (as we often do) and the challenge of using words like “god” or “love." We discuss Jung's concept of “eros” and “logos." And Edinger's thoughts on endurance. We talk about individualism and faith, and the book The Gift and The Serviceberry. "Christ, as a particular concrete manifestation of the Holy Spirit, must die in order for the disciples to develop an individual relation to the Holy Spirit, that is, the projection must be withdrawn. This is the 'very important step forward beyond Christocentrism.'" --Edward Edinger quoting Carl Jung - from "The Christian Archetype" Thank you for listening! Questions? Comments? Please send to Laughing.Mystics@gmail.com Please follow us to be alerted for new episodes. We hope you'll share this passion project with others, write a review, or rate/like our podcast on your favorite platform! https://ratethispodcast.com/thelaughingmystics Want to support The Laughing Mystics? We now have MERCH! Visit https://www.zazzle.com/store/laughing_mystics/products Join our FB community at https://www.facebook.com/laughingmystics/ To find us on other podcast platforms visit https://psychescinema.com/podcast-and-poetry-practicing-symbolic-language/ New episodes every Friday! For more on Marci Madary visit https://www.insideoutspirituality.com/ For more on Laura Lewis-Barr visit https://psychescinema.com/ https://psychescinema.com/depth-psychology-and-christianity/ | |||
| Ep 18 - Pentacost Sunday, June 8, 2025 | 07 Jun 2025 | 00:42:48 | |
We talk about fire and wind and the sometimes unpredictable power of groups under the religious impulse. We discuss the work and a video of Ilia Delio, outlining her inspirational message. And a juicy quote from her. Laura talks about her ecstatic experiences in prayer. We struggle with the second reading (Romans) and explore the meanings of the word “love.” Marci suggests Mirabai Starr's book Wild Mercy. Thank you for listening! Questions? Comments? Please send to Laughing.Mystics@gmail.com Please follow us to be alerted for new episodes. We hope you'll share this passion project with others, write a review, or rate/like our podcast on your favorite platform! Want to support The Laughing Mystics? We now have MERCH! Visit https://www.zazzle.com/store/laughing_mystics/products Join our FB community at https://www.facebook.com/laughingmystics/ To find us on other podcast platforms visit https://psychescinema.com/podcast-and-poetry-practicing-symbolic-language/ New episodes every Friday! For more on Marci Madary visit https://www.insideoutspirituality.com/ For more on Laura Lewis-Barr visit https://psychescinema.com/ https://psychescinema.com/depth-psychology-and-christianity/ | |||
| Ep 17 - Ascension - June 1, 2025 | 30 May 2025 | 00:41:06 | |
We talk about the problem of “always looking up.” Laura mentions Jungian James Hillman We talk about the the political and economic power of the church. Laura and Marci swim in the deep waters of Hebrews and Atonement theory. [There is a] . . . continued and progressive divine incarnation. Thus man is received and integrated into the divine drama. He seems destined to play a decisive part in it; that is why he must receive the Holy Spirit. I look upon the receiving ofthe Holy Spirit as a highly revolutionary fact which cannot take place until the ambivalent nature of the Father is recognized. -- Carl Jung --Apologies if the show note hyperlinks aren't showing on your platform. Working to solve this issue, esp. on Apple podcasts. You can reach the links via Spotify. Thank you for listening! Questions? Comments? Please send to Laughing.Mystics@gmail.com Please follow us to be alerted for new episodes. We hope you'll share this passion project with others, write a review, or rate/like our podcast on your favorite platform! Want to support The Laughing Mystics? We now have MERCH! Visit https://www.zazzle.com/store/laughing_mystics/products Join our FB community at https://www.facebook.com/laughingmystics/ To find us on other podcast platforms visit https://psychescinema.com/podcast-and-poetry-practicing-symbolic-language/ New episodes every Friday! For more on Marci Madary visit https://www.insideoutspirituality.com/ For more on Laura Lewis-Barr visit https://psychescinema.com/ https://psychescinema.com/depth-psychology-and-christianity/ | |||
| Ep 16- Sixth Sunday of Easter - May 25, 2025 | 23 May 2025 | 00:37:06 | |
We talk about controversies in the early church and today. Marci offers a great exercise for listening deeply to others. We explore following literal laws of the church vs. the law of love. We talk about Laura’s love of rocks and her gift of petoskey stones. Marci recommends "Ordinary Mysticism :Your Life as Sacred Ground" By Mirabai Starr "Christ, as a particular concrete manifestation of the Holy Spirit, must die in order for the disciples to develop an individual relation to the Holy Spirit, that is, the projection must be withdrawn. This is the"very important step forward beyond Christocentrism." --Carl Jung "The Spirit is destined to be incarnate in man or to choose him as a transitory dwelling-place. "Non habet nomen proprium," (he doesn’t have a proper name) says St. Thomas; because he will receive the name of man. That is why he must not be identified with Christ. We cannot receive the Holy Spirit unless we have accepted our own individual life as Christ accepted his. Thus we become the "sons of god" fated to experience the conflict of the divine opposites, represented by the crucifixion." --Edward Edinger The Sunday Readings Thank you for listening! Questions? Comments? Please send to Laughing.Mystics@gmail.com Please follow us to be alerted for new episodes. We hope you'll share this passion project with others, write a review, or rate/like our podcast on your favorite platform! Want to support The Laughing Mystics? We now have MERCH! Visit https://www.zazzle.com/store/laughing_mystics/products Join our FB community at https://www.facebook.com/laughingmystics/ To find us on other podcast platforms visit https://psychescinema.com/podcast-and-poetry-practicing-symbolic-language/ New episodes every Friday! For more on Marci Madary visit https://www.insideoutspirituality.com/ For more on Laura Lewis-Barr visit https://psychescinema.com/ https://psychescinema.com/depth-psychology-and-christianity/ | |||
| Ep 42 - Kings and Queens - November 23, 2025 | 20 Nov 2025 | 00:35:23 | |
The Feast of Christ the King. Question: Who is someone I trust and admire enough that I’d be their subject and honor them as a King in my world. Laura mentions mythologist Michael Meade and his Living Myth podcast.
We talk of Joseph Campbell and an ancient practice of sacrificing the King. Laura also mentions another podcast, including The Rise and Fall of Mars Hill. We explore the power of changing the genders in the second reading. We mention: Jungian Marion Woodman and her quote about the Goddess, Elizabeth’s Johnson’s book, She Who Is. Laura again uses the Jungian term "Objective Psyche" as a synonym for God. Marci mentions sand mandalas made by Tibetan monks. Thank you for listening! Questions? Comments? Bring your voice to the conversation. We'd like to SHARE THE MIC with you! Send an audio from your phone with a question or comment to Laughing.Mystics@gmail.com We now have an easier way for you to leave a review or rating, using this link! RateThisPodcast.com/thelaughingmystics Please follow us to be alerted for new episodes. We hope you'll share this passion project with others, write a review, or rate/like our podcast on your favorite platform! Want to support The Laughing Mystics? We now have MERCH! Visit https://www.zazzle.com/store/laughing_mystics/products Join our FB community at https://www.facebook.com/laughingmystics/ New episodes now released on Thursday mornings! For more on Marci Madary visit https://www.insideoutspirituality.com/ For more on Laura Lewis-Barr visit https://psychescinema.com/ (0ur show notes are always filled with many links. If your platform doesn't show them, visit the "episode webpage" or our Spotify page.) Music licensed from Artlist | |||
| Ep 15 - Fifth Sunday of Easter - May 18, 2025 | 16 May 2025 | 00:46:50 | |
A thought-provoking and joyful discussion. 20% more laughter in this episode! We talk about the apostle Barnabas and his Epistle, and the Gnostic Bible. Also the conflict of opposites and quotes by Edward Edinger and Carl Jung We explore the connotations of the word "glory" as well as the Jungian terms, inflation and conjunctio (from Jung's study of alchemy). We reflect on brokenness and share more personal stories as part of our own "Acts of the Apostles." Thank you for listening! Questions? Comments? Please send to Laughing.Mystics@gmail.com Please follow us to be alerted for new episodes. We hope you'll share this passion project with others, write a review, or rate/like our podcast on your favorite platform! Want to support The Laughing Mystics? We now have MERCH! Visit https://www.zazzle.com/store/laughing_mystics/products Join our FB community at https://www.facebook.com/laughingmystics/ To find us on other podcast platforms visit https://psychescinema.com/podcast-and-poetry-practicing-symbolic-language/ New episodes every Friday! For more on Marci Madary visit https://www.insideoutspirituality.com/ For more on Laura Lewis-Barr visit https://psychescinema.com/ https://psychescinema.com/depth-psychology-and-christianity/ | |||
| Ep 14 - Fourth Sunday of Easter, May 11, 2025 | 09 May 2025 | 00:36:46 | |
Laura and Marci talk about faith. Laura offers this quote by Carl Jung. Also this quote, talking about the Apocalypse. Christ was the first attempt of the God-image to incarnate and transform itself. Now, the second time around, humanity as a whole and not just one person is going to be the subject of that process. God is going to incarnate in humanity as a whole.... Marci mentions the Healthy minds app
We talk about childhood religious training, concrete vs. abstract thinking, and anthropological research about initiation rituals and the adolescent brain. Also the Initiation of young girls in Greece. Thank you for listening! Questions? Comments? Please send to Laughing.Mystics@gmail.com Please follow us to be alerted for new episodes. We hope you'll share this passion project with others, write a review, or rate/like our podcast on your favorite platform! Want to support The Laughing Mystics? We now have MERCH! Visit https://www.zazzle.com/store/laughing_mystics/products Join our FB community at https://www.facebook.com/laughingmystics/ To find us on other podcast platforms visit https://psychescinema.com/podcast-and-poetry-practicing-symbolic-language/ New episodes every Friday! For more on Marci Madary visit https://www.insideoutspirituality.com/ For more on Laura Lewis-Barr visit https://psychescinema.com/ https://psychescinema.com/depth-psychology-and-christianity/ | |||
| Ep 13 - Third Sunday of Easter, May 4, 2025 | 02 May 2025 | 00:42:10 | |
A happy conversation. We talk about the change in consciousness within the early Christians. We explore the concept of the "Second Coming." Marci reads this poem - Antiphon for Divine Wisdom By Hildegard of Bingen, Translated By Barbara Newman Sophia! you of the whirling wings, circling encompassing energy of God: you quicken the world in your clasp. One wing soars in heaven one wing sweeps the earth and the third flies all around us. Praise to Sophia! Let all the earth praise her! Thank you for listening! Questions? Comments? Please send to Laughing.Mystics@gmail.com Please follow us to be alerted for new episodes. We hope you'll share this passion project with others, write a review, or rate/like our podcast on your favorite platform! Want to support The Laughing Mystics? We now have MERCH! Visit https://www.zazzle.com/store/laughing_mystics/products Join our FB community at https://www.facebook.com/laughingmystics/ To find us on other podcast platforms visit https://psychescinema.com/podcast-and-poetry-practicing-symbolic-language/ New episodes every Friday! For more on Marci Madary visit https://www.insideoutspirituality.com/ For more on Laura Lewis-Barr visit https://psychescinema.com/ https://psychescinema.com/depth-psychology-and-christianity/ | |||
| Ep 12 - Bonus reflections after Holy Week | 28 Apr 2025 | 00:14:50 | |
Laura reflects on her powerful and unexpected experience of Holy Week. She recalls the scene/joke from the Tony award-winning musical "Passing Strange." (Great musical - with adult language and themes) We talk about the forms of worship, from traditional to modern and the effects they produce. Joseph Campbell had strong opinions on this. "....they've translated the Mass out of ritual language and into a language that has a lot of domestic associations. The Latin of the Mass was a language that threw you out of the field of domesticity. The altar was turned so that the priest's back was to you, and with him you addressed yourself outward. .... They've forgotten that the function of ritual is to pitch you out, not to wrap you back in where you have been all the time. ... the rituals that once conveyed an inner reality are now merely form." -- Joseph Campbell We thank listeners for their feedback. Thank you for listening! Questions? Comments? Please send to Laughing.Mystics@gmail.com Please follow us to be alerted for new episodes. We hope you'll share this passion project with others, share a comment, write a review, or rate/like our podcast on your favorite platform! Join our FB community at https://www.facebook.com/laughingmystics/ To find us on other podcast platforms visit https://psychescinema.com/podcast-and-poetry-practicing-symbolic-language/ New episodes every Friday! For more on Marci Madary visit https://www.insideoutspirituality.com/ For more on Laura Lewis-Barr visit https://psychescinema.com/ https://psychescinema.com/depth-psychology-and-christianity/ Music Licensed by Artlist | |||
| Ep 11 - Second Sunday of Easter, April 27, 2025 | 25 Apr 2025 | 00:38:55 | |
We talk about Thomas as the "literal man," "wounded healers," the value of our woundedness, healing vs. cures, and what does it mean "to believe." Mandala like paintings of the Book of Revelation. Also the work of Robert J. Schreiter and his book The Ministry of Reconciliation Marci mentions this video about Christ in all things. The mystical paintings of Fra Angelico. Thank you for listening! Questions? Comments? Please send to Laughing.Mystics@gmail.com Please follow us to be alerted for new episodes. We hope you'll share this passion project with others, write a review, or rate/like our podcast on your favorite platform! Join our FB community at https://www.facebook.com/laughingmystics/ To find us on other podcast platforms visit https://psychescinema.com/podcast-and-poetry-practicing-symbolic-language/ New episodes every Friday! For more on Laura Lewis-Barr visit https://psychescinema.com/ For more on Marci Madary visit https://www.insideoutspirituality.com/ https://psychescinema.com/depth-psychology-and-christianity/ | |||
| Episode 10 - Easter Sunday, April 20, 2025 | 18 Apr 2025 | 00:33:38 | |
We discuss the Easter readings. Laura imagines the scene and wonders- would you go into the tomb or wait outside? Marci reads her poem, "Sneaky Jesus" and she recalls Mary Oliver's poem, "The Summer Day." "The imitation of Christ, then, is participating in the suffering and joys of the world, all the while seeing through them the radiance of the divine presence." --Joseph Campbell Thank you for listening! Questions? Comments? Please send to Laughing.Mystics@gmail.com Please follow us to be alerted for new episodes. We hope you'll share this passion project with others, write a review, or rate/like our podcast on your favorite platform! Join our FB community at https://www.facebook.com/laughingmystics/ To find us on other podcast platforms visit https://psychescinema.com/podcast-and-poetry-practicing-symbolic-language/ New episodes every Friday! For more on Laura Lewis-Barr visit https://psychescinema.com/ For more on Marci Madary visit https://www.insideoutspirituality.com/ https://psychescinema.com/depth-psychology-and-christianity/ | |||
| The Triduum - Reflections on Holy Thursday, Good Friday, Easter Vigil | 14 Apr 2025 | 00:46:43 | |
Marci shares her excitement and knowledge of the 3 holy days of the Triduum. Our original discussion was 1 hour and 20 minutes, now down to 46 minutes. Laura runs out of steam at the end. Please forgive the shortened Easter vigil description. Holy Thursday Readings: https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/041725-Supper.cfm Good Friday Readings: https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/041825.cfm Easter Vigil Readings : https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/041925.cfm We spent much of our history arguing about the “how” and the “if” and who could do what Catholics called the “transubstantiation” of the bread and wine instead of simply learning how to be present. We made the Eucharist into a magic act to be believed instead of a personal transformation to be experienced. We changed bread more than people, it seems to me. We emphasized the priest as the “transformer” instead of the people as the transformed. We made “Real Presence” into a doctrine (which has its very good meaning!), but we seldom taught people how to be really present (which is contemplation). When you are really present, you will experience the Real Presence for yourself. --Fr. Richard Rohr Thank you for listening! Questions? Comments? Please send to Laughing.Mystics@gmail.com Please follow us to be alerted for new episodes. We hope you'll share this passion project with others, write a review, or rate/like our podcast on your favorite platform! Join our FB community at https://www.facebook.com/laughingmystics/ To find us on other podcast platforms visit https://psychescinema.com/podcast-and-poetry-practicing-symbolic-language/ New episodes every Friday! For more on Marci Madary visit https://www.insideoutspirituality.com/ For more on Laura Lewis-Barr visit https://psychescinema.com/ https://psychescinema.com/depth-psychology-and-christianity/ | |||
| Ep 9c - Palm Sunday Part 3 - Reflecting on the Passion | 11 Apr 2025 | 00:22:22 | |
We continue on the journey of the Passion. Reflecting on how the media portrays it and our own ability to witness suffering. "Another aspect of the Gethsemane image that it emphasizes the fact that suffering is a crucial part of the process. The important part is to accept the suffering one encounters. You know we all have the deeply ingrained infantile notion that we’re supposed to be happy. That’s not true. We are supposed to suffer. If you attach any psychological credence to what I’m describing as a Christian archetype, if it has any general validity, can you escape the conclusion that is implied that we’re supposed to suffer?" --Edward Edinger, The Christian archetype : a Jungian commentary on the life of Christ "For many centuries the west, under Byzantine influence, represented Christ himself alive and open-eyed, a triumphant Savior wearing a royal crown. In the 11th Century there appeared a new type, the emaciated figure with its head fallen on one shoulder and, later, wearing the crown of thorns. This version prevailed in western art thereafter." Edinger Music - Distant Candle Light by Tommy H Brandon Licensed by Artlist Thank you for listening ! Questions? Comments? Please send to Laughing.Mystics@gmail.com For more on Laura Lewis-Barr visit For more on Marci Madary visit https://www.insideoutspirituality.com/ | |||
| Ep 9b - Palm Sunday Part 2 - Reading the Passion | 11 Apr 2025 | 00:19:00 | |
We continue our Passion journey. Reading - Mk 14:1—15:47 Scroll down to last reading. https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/032424.cfm Edward Edinger in "Ego and Archetype" re: the crucifixion: "This state is a transition period. It is the limbo of despair following the death of an old life orientation and preceding the birth of a new one. Jesus’ resurrection symbolizes the birth of a more comprehensive personality which can result from the conscious acceptance of the crucifixion ordeal.” | |||
| Ep 9a - Palm Sunday Part 1 -- 3 readings- April 13, 2025 | 11 Apr 2025 | 00:43:11 | |
This was a tough episode for many reasons. Moving into the Passion is hard and Laura struggles to have the courage to share her perspectives on it. Palm Sunday has 4 readings. Here we cover the first three. The next episode is our reading of the Passion and the third episode is our discussion of it. Thank you for sharing this journey with us! Readings: Procession with Palms – Gospel Mk 11:1-10, Is 50:4-7, Phil 2:6-11 https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/032424.cfm “All the gods, all the heavens, all the hells, are within you.” - Joseph Campbell The Jesus Myth by Father Andrew Greeley Edward Edinger – The Christian archetype : a Jungian commentary on the life of Christ A. K. Coomaraswamy observes, “Myth embodies the nearest approach to absolute truth that can be stated in words.” Music – “Selfish” by Theeves and Distant Candle Light by Tommy H Brandon - Licensed by Artlist Thank you to listener Sue P. for sending over this article about the political context of the original Palm Sunday procession. Thank you for listening! Questions? Comments? Please send to Laughing.Mystics@gmail.com Please follow us to be alerted for new episodes. We hope you'll share this passion project with others, write a review, or rate/like our podcast on your favorite platform! Join our FB community at https://www.facebook.com/laughingmystics/ To find us on other podcast platforms visit https://psychescinema.com/podcast-and-poetry-practicing-symbolic-language/ New episodes every Friday! For more on Laura Lewis-Barr visit https://psychescinema.com/ For more on Marci Madary visit https://www.insideoutspirituality.com/ https://psychescinema.com/depth-psychology-and-christianity/ | |||
| Ep 41 - 33rd Sunday in TKOHIN - November 16, 2025 | 13 Nov 2025 | 00:33:08 | |
The 33rd Sunday in The Kingdom of Heaven is Now Time. Question: "How do I know that I'm on the right side of history?" And "If I could join Paul and write letters to the Churches in America, what would I say?" We dip into politics. We mention the metaphor of the purifying fire found in both scripture and in the medieval practice of alchemy. We again mention Teihard de Chardin and the evolution of consciousness. We mention historian Heather Cox Richardson and her daily podcast that explores daily life through the lens of history. Thank you for listening! Questions? Comments? Bring your voice to the conversation. We'd like to SHARE THE MIC with you! Send an audio from your phone with a question or comment to Laughing.Mystics@gmail.com We now have an easier way for you to leave a review or rating, using this link! RateThisPodcast.com/thelaughingmystics Please follow us to be alerted for new episodes. We hope you'll share this passion project with others, write a review, or rate/like our podcast on your favorite platform! Want to support The Laughing Mystics? We now have MERCH! Visit https://www.zazzle.com/store/laughing_mystics/products Join our FB community at https://www.facebook.com/laughingmystics/ New episodes now released on Thursday mornings! For more on Marci Madary visit https://www.insideoutspirituality.com/ For more on Laura Lewis-Barr visit https://psychescinema.com/ (0ur show notes are always filled with many links. If your platform doesn't show them, visit the "episode webpage" or our Spotify page.) Music licensed from Artlist | |||
| Ep 8 - 5th Sunday of Lent, April 6, 2025 | 04 Apr 2025 | 00:29:17 | |
We continue to follow cycle C readings. We discuss our inner wasteland and our wildness, the daily process of resurrection, and finding a third way to deal with political traps. Edward Edinger "The Christian Archetype: a Jungian commentary on the life of Christ. “The divine process of change manifests itself to our human understanding . . . as punishment, torment, death, and transfiguration.” -Carl Jung; Alchemical Studies Readings: Isaiah 43:16-21, Philippians 3:8-14, John 8:1-11 https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/040625.cfm Thank you for listening! Questions? Comments? Please send to Laughing.Mystics@gmail.com Please follow us to be alerted for new episodes. We hope you'll share this passion project with others, write a review, or rate/like our podcast on your favorite platform. Join our FB community at https://www.facebook.com/laughingmystics/ To find us on other podcast platforms visit https://psychescinema.com/podcast-and-poetry-practicing-symbolic-language/ New episodes every Friday! For more on Laura Lewis-Barr visit For more on Marci Madary visit https://www.insideoutspirituality.com/ | |||
| Ep 7 - Fourth Sunday of Lent - March 30. 2025 | 28 Mar 2025 | 00:45:53 | |
Marci shares a wonderful poem by Mechthild of Magdeburg. https://www.poetry-chaikhana.com/Poets/M/MechthildofM/Effortlessly/index.html We explore the powerful story of the Prodigal Son. Today's readings -Joshua 5:9a, 10-12, 2 Corinthians 5:17-21, Luke 15:1-3, 11-32 https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/033025-YearC.cfm Thank you for listening! Questions? Comments? Please send to Laughing.Mystics@gmail.com Please follow us to be alerted for new episodes. We hope you'll share this passion project with others, write a review, or like the podcast on your favorite platform. Join our FB community at https://www.facebook.com/laughingmystics/ To find us on other podcast platforms visit https://psychescinema.com/podcast-and-poetry-practicing-symbolic-language/ New episodes every Friday! For more on Laura Lewis-Barr visit https://psychescinema.com/ For more on Marci Madary visit https://www.insideoutspirituality.com/ | |||
| Ep 6 - Third Sunday of Lent - March 23, 2025 | 21 Mar 2025 | 00:47:03 | |
In this episode: Marci explains the Beguine movement and offers a wonderful poem by Haedwig – a 13th-century poet and mystic. https://www.greynun.org/2020/02/the-beguines-of-medieval-europe-mystics-and-visionaries/ We talk about “callings” and God’s need of a human partner for Divine work in the world. Laura mentions Jung’s exploration of God’s evolution in his book, Answer to Job. https://a.co/d/9V2k6yq https://footnotes2plato.com/2024/05/11/reading-jungs-answer-to-job/ Teilhard De Chardin also talked about “God in evolution” but we’re not sure if he meant that God was also evolving with us? Maybe someone else can tell us? https://christogenesis.org/teilhard-de-chardin-and-the-future-of-god/ We discuss Paul’s zeal and “shadow.” Laura mentions the importance of Edward Edinger and his book Ego and Archetype: Individuation and the Religious Function of the Psyche https://a.co/d/dAiQ9UC Thank you for listening ! Questions? Comments? Please send to Laughing.Mystics@gmail.com New episodes every Friday! For more on Laura Lewis-Barr visit Psychescinema.com For more on Marci Madary visit Insideoutspirituality.com | |||
| Ep 5 - Second Sunday in Lent - March 16 2025 | 14 Mar 2025 | 00:42:14 | |
We talk about the power of imagination, we wonder about the history of Gnosticism. https://earlychristianhistory.net/gnostic.html Laura mentions the book- The Gift: How the Creative Spirit Transforms the World https://tinyurl.com/y3yex6m4 and we talk about "The Transfiguration" a Song by Sufjan Stevens https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UDnmO4cTUGc Thank you for listening! Questions? Comments? Please send to Laughing.Mystics@gmail.com New episodes every Friday! For more on Laura Lewis-Barr visit - Psychescinema.com For more on Marci Madary visit - Insideoutspirituality.com Music licensed through Artlist | |||
| Ep 4 - First Sunday of Lent- March 9, 2025 | 07 Mar 2025 | 00:40:29 | |
Still recording in stereo. That will soon change! Laura revisits the idea of "left and right hands" from last week's gospel. Letting her artistic gifts be given from the left hand means that she may not know what happens to them next. Marci offers many mystical moments. Readings: Deuteronomy 26:4-10, Romans 10:8-13, Luke 4:1-13 https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/030925.cfm Soul, if you want to learn secrets, your heart must forget about shame and dignity. You are God's lover, yet you worry what people are saying. --Rumi Thank you for listening ! Questions? Comments? Please send to Laughing.Mystics@gmail.com New episodes every Friday! For more on Laura Lewis-Barr visit Psychescinema.com For more on Marci Madary visit Insideoutspirituality.com | |||
| Ep 3 - Official Launch! Ash Wednesday - March 5, 2025 | 03 Mar 2025 | 00:44:10 | |
This is our official launch, so that we can start in a season (Lent). This was our first attempt at recording (some was put into our trailer episode). We are in stereo (but that will end). Laura enters a steep learning curve in the recording/editing process. Marci makes some confessions in this episode! She also creates the SIN slot machine analogy. Readings: Joel 2:12-18, 2 Corinthians 5:20—6:2, Matthew 6:1-6, 16-18 https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/030525.cfm Thank you for listening! Questions? Comments? Please send to Laughing.Mystics@gmail.com New episodes (mostly) every Friday! For more on Laura Lewis-Barr visit - Psychescinema.com For more on Marci Madary visit - Insideoutspirituality.com Music licensed through Artlist | |||
| Ep 2 - 8th Sunday in the “Kingdom of Heaven is Now" March 2, 2025 | 28 Feb 2025 | 00:39:36 | |
8th Sunday in the “Kingdom of Heaven is Now" (aka Ordinary Time) Keeping to our "beginners mind" mindset, Marci and Laura explore the Johari window (and "blindspot tees") http://tiny.cc/6ez9001 http://tiny.cc/sdz9001 Themes of the vessel being cooked, also found in alchemy http://tiny.cc/qgz9001 and Marci's "good fruit test." And another mention of Ilia Delio. https://christogenesis.org/about/ilia-delio/ Readings: Sirach 27:4-7, 1 Corinthians 15:54-58, Luke 6:39-45 Thank you for listening ! Our official launch is March 5. Questions? Comments? Please send to Laughing.Mystics@gmail.com New episodes every Friday! For more on Laura Lewis-Barr visit Psychescinema.com For more on Marci Madary visit Insideoutspirituality.com | |||
| Ep 1 - 7th Sunday in the “Kingdom of Heaven is Now" Feb. 23,2025 | 21 Feb 2025 | 00:40:06 | |
7th Sunday in the “Kingdom of Heaven is Now" (aka Ordinary Time) Marci and Laura explore the challenging passage “turn the other cheek," with great scholarship from https://www.trinitycoatesville.org/sermons/turning-the-other-cheek-2/ We also discuss Julian of Norwich, the musical Les Misérables, and we mention the ideas of Ilia Delio https://christogenesis.org/about/ilia-delio/ Readings - 1 Samuel , 1 Corinthians, Luke 6 https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/022325.cfm Thank you for listening ! Our official launch is March 5. Questions? Comments? Please send to Laughing.Mystics@gmail.com New episodes every Friday! For more on Laura Lewis-Barr visit Psychescinema.com For more on Marci Madary visit Insideoutspirituality.com | |||
| Introducing The Laughing Mystics | 10 Jan 2025 | 00:14:57 | |
Marci Madary and Laura Lewis-Barr welcome you with an introduction to The Laughing Mystics podcast. We introduce ourselves, our style, and our format -- with our frequent laughter, affection, and curiosity.
Questions/Comments? Write us at - Laughing.Mystics@gmail.com
For more on Laura Lewis-Barr visit Psychescinema.com
For more on Marci Madary visit Insideoutspirituality.com
Our official launch will be on March 5 - Ash Wednesday
New episodes every Friday!
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| Ep 40 - Temples and Basilicas - November 9, 2025 | 06 Nov 2025 | 00:37:15 | |
Feast of the Dedication of the Lateran Basilica in Rome. Questions we ask each other (and you): What is your favorite memory of a sacred space? If you were going to be a sacred space, what space might represent your soul? We talk about the "living water" and a story that Carl Jung often told. Also Jung's exploration of his own psyche through architecture. Laura mention's Ezra Klein's book, Abundance. Thank you for listening! Questions? Comments? Bring your voice to the conversation. We'd like to SHARE THE MIC with you! Send an audio from your phone with a question or comment to Laughing.Mystics@gmail.com We now have an easier way for you to leave a review or rating, using this link! RateThisPodcast.com/thelaughingmystics Please follow us to be alerted for new episodes. We hope you'll share this passion project with others, write a review, or rate/like our podcast on your favorite platform! Want to support The Laughing Mystics? We now have MERCH! Visit https://www.zazzle.com/store/laughing_mystics/products Join our FB community at https://www.facebook.com/laughingmystics/ New episodes now released on Thursday mornings! For more on Marci Madary visit https://www.insideoutspirituality.com/ For more on Laura Lewis-Barr visit https://psychescinema.com/ (0ur show notes are always filled with many links. If your platform doesn't show them, visit the "episode webpage" or our Spotify page.) Music licensed from Artlist | |||
| Ep 39 - Feast of All Souls - November 2, 2025 | 30 Oct 2025 | 00:42:20 | |
Our question today is: What happens after we die? We talk about heaven and hell, The Day of the Dead and skull faces. We visit Ilia Delio's website for several juicy quotes. Here and here. And also this quote to chew on: " "A person is a center of consciousness expressed in a particular matrix of matter, as if the entire universe (if indeed consciousness is the stuff of the universe) is compacted into this particular material form. In this respect, every person is the universe aware of itself (as Teilhard noted). To put this another way, there is no universe apart from the active centers of personal consciousness; each person is the universe come to self-consciousness." Marci reads Mary Oliver's poem "When Death Comes." Laura reads Teilhard de Chardin's poem, "Aging/Dying Prayer"
There are two different reading options for the second reading and the gospel. We explore the story of Jesus raising the widow's son as our gospel reading. If I forgot a link, please let me know! Thank you for listening! Questions? Comments? Bring your voice to the conversation. We'd like to SHARE THE MIC with you! Send an audio from your phone with a question or comment to Laughing.Mystics@gmail.com We now have an easier way for you to leave a review or rating, using this link! RateThisPodcast.com/thelaughingmystics Please follow us to be alerted for new episodes. We hope you'll share this passion project with others, write a review, or rate/like our podcast on your favorite platform! Want to support The Laughing Mystics? We now have MERCH! Visit https://www.zazzle.com/store/laughing_mystics/products Join our FB community at https://www.facebook.com/laughingmystics/ New episodes every Friday! For more on Marci Madary visit https://www.insideoutspirituality.com/ For more on Laura Lewis-Barr visit https://psychescinema.com/ (0ur show notes are always filled with many links. If your platform doesn't show them, visit the "episode webpage" or our Spotify page.) Music licensed from Artlist | |||
| Ep 38 - 30th Sunday in TKOHIN - October 26, 2025 | 24 Oct 2025 | 00:40:26 | |
30th Sunday in The Kingdom of Heaven is Now Time. We ask ourselves (and you) several questions: What does it mean for me to repent? What was a moment of conversion in my life? We wonder about how Paul forgave himself and integrated his own conversion experience after being struck down in Damascus. Here is one possible timeline of events.
We talk about prayer, the "Way of the Pilgrim" and his prayer, and prayer mantras. We explore the paradoxical nature of parables and compare them to dreams. Thank you to Josh Mortensen for having Laura on his podcast, The Explorer Poet. And if you're in Nashville, come to the Tennessee International Film Festival on Nov. 6 and see Laura and her film, Dumpling! Thank you for listening! Questions? Comments? Bring your voice to the conversation. We'd like to SHARE THE MIC with you! Send an audio from your phone with a question or comment to Laughing.Mystics@gmail.com We now have an easier way for you to leave a review or rating, using this link! RateThisPodcast.com/thelaughingmystics Please follow us to be alerted for new episodes. We hope you'll share this passion project with others, write a review, or rate/like our podcast on your favorite platform! Want to support The Laughing Mystics? We now have MERCH! Visit https://www.zazzle.com/store/laughing_mystics/products Join our FB community at https://www.facebook.com/laughingmystics/ New episodes every Friday! For more on Marci Madary visit https://www.insideoutspirituality.com/ For more on Laura Lewis-Barr visit https://psychescinema.com/ (0ur show notes are always filled with many links. If your platform doesn't show them, visit the "episode webpage" or our Spotify page.) Music licensed from Artlist | |||
| Ep 37 - 29th Sunday in TKOHIN - October 19, 2025 | 17 Oct 2025 | 00:36:38 | |
29th Sunday in the Kingdom of Heaven is Now Time. Question we ask ourselves: "When the Son of Man comes, what faith will he find in me?" We talk about what posture we take in the world and what is the best "posture" to fight evil or unconsciousness? Jung's answer to "will the world survive?" "As he did so often, Jung saw the individual as the key to the future: If there are enough individuals who are conscious, who recognize the reality of the opposites, who have done sufficient work on themselves to face and manage the opposites in themselves, then we might avoid this most horrendous of tragedies." --Sue Mehrtens Thank you for listening! Questions? Comments? Bring your voice to the conversation. We'd like to SHARE THE MIC with you! Send an audio from your phone with a question or comment to Laughing.Mystics@gmail.com We now have an easier way for you to leave a review or rating, using this link! RateThisPodcast.com/thelaughingmystics Please follow us to be alerted for new episodes. We hope you'll share this passion project with others, write a review, or rate/like our podcast on your favorite platform! Want to support The Laughing Mystics? We now have MERCH! Visit https://www.zazzle.com/store/laughing_mystics/products Join our FB community at https://www.facebook.com/laughingmystics/ New episodes every Friday! For more on Marci Madary visit https://www.insideoutspirituality.com/ For more on Laura Lewis-Barr visit https://psychescinema.com/ (0ur show notes are always filled with many links. If your platform doesn't show them, visit the "episode webpage" or our Spotify page.) Music licensed from Artlist | |||
| Ep 36 - 28th Sunday in TKOHIN, October 12, 2025 | 10 Oct 2025 | 00:40:30 | |
28th Sunday in the Kingdom of Heaven is Now Time. We ask ourselves: "What is my faith around “being healed?” We talk about the bubbles we travel in - economic, spiritual, or political. Also, Do I prefer to swim in the shallow water or the deep? We drift into the deep waters of the Adam and Eve story. We talk of the Felix culpa -- Latin for “happy fault.” It comes from a line in the Exsultet, an ancient hymn sung during the Easter Vigil. Thank you for listening! Questions? Comments? Bring your voice to the conversation. We'd like to SHARE THE MIC with you! Send an audio from your phone with a question or comment to Laughing.Mystics@gmail.com We now have an easier way for you to leave a review or rating, using this link! RateThisPodcast.com/thelaughingmystics Laura is starting a new product - practicing symbolic thinking using fairy tale stop motion films in a Monthly Film Club. Please follow us to be alerted for new episodes. We hope you'll share this passion project with others, write a review, or rate/like our podcast on your favorite platform! Want to support The Laughing Mystics? We now have MERCH! Visit https://www.zazzle.com/store/laughing_mystics/products Join our FB community at https://www.facebook.com/laughingmystics/ New episodes every Friday! For more on Marci Madary visit https://www.insideoutspirituality.com/ For more on Laura Lewis-Barr visit https://psychescinema.com/ (0ur show notes are always filled with many links. If your platform doesn't show them, visit the "episode webpage" or our Spotify page.) Music licensed from Artlist | |||