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The Laughing Mystics: An unorthodox journey through the liturgical year

Laura Lewis-Barr - Marci Madary

Good friends Marci Madary & Laura Lewis-Barr bring differing perspectives to the Sunday readings of the liturgical calendar. Each week Marci shares her mystical Christian insights & infectious laughter with Laura, who ponders what Carl Jung & Joseph Campbell might say about these scriptures. Unscripted & lively, Laura & Marci offer as many questions as answers as to how Depth Psychology & Christianity might come together. New episodes every Thursday! 🙏Please 🙏

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Ep 9c - Palm Sunday Part 3 - Reflecting on the Passion

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2025/04/11

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

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Ep 8 - 5th Sunday of Lent, April 6, 2025

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2025/04/04

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 StudiesReadings: Isaiah 43:16-21, Philippians 3:8-14, John

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Ep 7 - Fourth Sunday of Lent - March 30. 2025

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2025/03/28

Marci shares a wonderful poem by Mechthild of Magdeburg.https://www.poetry-chaikhana.com/Poets/M/MechthildofM/Effortlessly/index.htmlWe 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, 11-32https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/033025-YearC.cfmThank you for listening! Questions? Comments? Please send to Laughing.Mystics@gmail.comPlease follow us to be alerted for new episodes. We hope you'll share this passion project

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Ep 6 - Third Sunday of Lent - March 23, 2025

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2025/03/21

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/9V2k6yqhttps://footnotes2plato.com/2024/05/11/reading-jungs-answer-to-job/Teilhard De Chardin also talked

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Ep 5 - Second Sunday in Lent - March 16 2025

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2025/03/14

We talk about the power of imagination, we wonder about the history of Gnosticism. https://earlychristianhistory.net/gnostic.htmlLaura mentions the book- The Gift: How the Creative Spirit Transforms the World https://tinyurl.com/y3yex6m4and we talk about "The Transfiguration" a Song by Sufjan Stevenshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UDnmO4cTUGc Thank you for listening! Questions? Comments? Please send to Laughing.Mystics@gmail.comNew episodes every Friday!For more on Laura Lewis-Barr visit -

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Ep 4 - First Sunday of Lent- March 9, 2025

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2025/03/07

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 4:1-13https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/030925.cfmSoul, if you want to learn secrets, your heart must forget about shame and dignity. You are God's lover, yet you worry what

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Ep 3 - Official Launch! Ash Wednesday - March 5, 2025

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2025/03/03

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, 16-18https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/030525.cfmThank you for listening! Questions

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Ep 2 - 8th Sunday in the “Kingdom of Heaven is Now"...

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2025/02/28

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/6ez9001http://tiny.cc/sdz9001Themes of the vessel being cooked, also found in alchemyhttp://tiny.cc/qgz9001and Marci's "good fruit test." And another mention of Ilia Delio.https://christogenesis.org/about/ilia-delio/Readings: Sirach 27:4-7, ⁠ ⁠

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Ep 1 - 7th Sunday in the “Kingdom of Heaven is Now"...

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2025/02/21

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 Deliohttps://christogenesis.org/about/ilia-delio/Readings - 1 Samuel , 1 Corinthians, Luke 6https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/022325.cfmThank you for listening

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Introducing The Laughing Mystics

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2025/01/10

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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