The Christian Jung
You know the doctrine. You have prayed the prayers. And still there is a room in you that church has never quite reached. I teach Christians the church's oldest way of prayer, and how God meets us in the parts of the soul we have kept locked.
Many Christians are quietly carrying an ache for something deeper, more mystical, more real. Most of them don't know where to take it without feeling spiritually adrift or intellectually dismissed. You are not alone in that.
Long before small group curricula, the Desert Fathers and Mothers went into the wilderness to do one thing: attend to God. Contemplation is the church's own answer to the ache. It moves you from thinking and speaking about God toward quietly attending to His presence. Loving attention. Being with Him without needing to accomplish anything.
"Be still, and know that I am God" (Psalm 46:10).
Carl Jung took the soul seriously. He saw that the psyche, the very word Jesus used for soul (Mark 12:30), has a religious function. He saw that dreams and symbols carry meaning, and that we hide parts of ourselves we need God to heal. The contemplatives knew this centuries before him.
I don't treat Jung as a replacement for the faith. I bring him in to help the faith. Theology leads, and psychology helps us see what is already happening when we pray.
Each week I draw from Scripture, the Desert Fathers and Mothers, the Christian mystics, and Jung's map of the inner life. Every episode ends with a practice you can take into your own prayer.
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"The way you effortlessly weave scripture into (usually difficult) Jungian concepts and share with us the heart of God for our union with Him. The Scripture cements it all in! This podcast will take new territory for Christ!"
"It's sooo good!!!!!! I have been exclaiming to my husband that most devotionals I've seen/read are so shallow. This is meat!! I love it!!!"
Start with five days. One short message each morning, one practice that takes ten minutes, and an invitation to go deeper.