Psychology & The Cross

A Psychology of the Religious Making Process

Can psychology take religious experience seriously without reducing it to psychological explanations? Did Jung succeed in remaining a psychologist of religion, or did his

A Paradise of Machines

If we are to avoid losing our humanity amid a paradise of machines invading and conditioning our daily lives, there is an urgent need for education in ethical discernment

Jung, Nietzsche and Zarathustra: The Challenge of Transformation with Paul Bishop

In this episode, Jungian scholar Paul Bishop joins Jungian analyst-in-training Emma Iovoli to explore Nietzsche’s Thus Spoke Zarathustra and C.G. Jung’s complex relations

Can the Self Be Known? A Conversation with Donald Carveth

What is the goal of psychoanalysis? Is it greater self-knowledge, or the recovery of our capacity simply to be? In this third Freudian/Jungian conversation with psychoan

Becoming Human in the Age of AI - A conversation with Sean McGrath

Pope Leo XIV's Magnifica Humanitas may be one of the most important reflections yet on artificial intelligence and the future of humanity. In this conversation, Jakob Lu

Magnifica Humanitas by Leo XIV - The introduction

This is a reading of the introduction to Magnifica - Humanitas - On Safeguarding the human person in the time of Artificial Intelligence, by Pope Leo XIV. For the full en

Emma Jung with Ann Conrad Lammers

After our excursion along the currents of our collective dreams, we now turn our attention back to Psychology on the Cross. For this conversation, I invited Jungian schol

Was it just a Dream? | The spirit in the cloud

In the final episode of the first wave of Was it just a dream?, the outside world folds inward, everything condensing toward a single point, triggering a shocking realiza

Was it just a Dream? | Collective commentary

Our last dream received some thoughtful commentary from listeners. We decided to put together some of these as extra material. Read the full dream here.  Music: It was

Was it just a Dream? | Looking the other way

In the sixth episode of Was it just a dream?, we find ourselves in a church, looking the other way.  Share your own commentary and read the full dream on our Substack pa

Was it just a Dream? | The Raven

In the fifth episode of Was it just a dream?, we find ourselves at sea in the Middle Ages. A raven lands on deck and transforms. What is it asking of us? Share your own

Was it just a Dream? | I want to help

In this fourth episode of Was it just a dream?, we're discussing a dream we received as a response to previous dreams. It again involves cutting.  Share your own comment

Was it just a Dream? | How can this be done unto me?

In this third episode of Was it just a dream?, we are faced with catastrophe, and learn something about the creative response to it. The name “Edward” comes from an Angl

Was it just a Dream? | The Fish

In this second episode of Was it just a dream?, we’re invited to follow the symbol of the fish. We’re inviting the fish to remain a fish, to swim swiftly, hard to grasp

Was it just a Dream? | I don't want to hurt you

The first episode of our new podcast series, Was it just a Dream?, is titled “I Don’t Want to Hurt You.” Listen to the dream, and you will understand why. If you’d like t

New podcast | Was it just a dream?

Have you had a dream that stayed with you — one that felt larger than your own life? This is an invitation to join Jungian analysts Cécile Buckenmeyer and Jakob Lusensky

E27 The Lost Road with Sean McGrath

In this episode, I speak with Sean McGrath about his new book The Lost Road - A Search for the Soul of the West, a spiritual autobiography and a philosophical meditation

The world hangs on a thin thread

Audio clip from the film, "Matter of Heart," (1986) directed, edited, and produced by Mark Whitney, conceived and written by Suzanne Wagner, executive producer George Wag

Is psychoanalysis a path to salvation? A conversation with Donald Carveth

Is psychoanalysis a path to salvation? In this second Freudian/Jungian dialogue I ponder this provocative question together with psychoanalyst Donald Carveth. For more

S4E4 Secular Christ | What is Spirit?  

In the fourth and final season of Secular Christ, Sean McGrath introduces his ideas around everyday Christian Mysticism.