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Category: Jungian themes

Dreams: writing your unique sacred text
Dreams

Dreams: writing your unique sacred text

Posted on February 17, 2019February 17, 2019 by Sande Ramage

Two women on a road trip. Hardly Thelma and Louise, although it did feel a bit like driving off a cliff as we headed towards a dream retreat. I’d been in, and loved, Jungian dream analysis but the idea of…

Rethinking organisational capture, collusion and reciprocity
Compassion

Rethinking organisational capture, collusion and reciprocity

Posted on September 23, 2018September 26, 2018 by Sande Ramage

I have a dream that spirituality and soulfulness can be creatively reimagined for our time through inspirational workplaces that take meaning making, compassion and connectedness seriously as part of the deep, holistic wisdom we are rebirthing in our everyday communities.…

Flinging open doorways to The More
Art

Flinging open doorways to The More

Posted on July 23, 2018July 23, 2018 by Sande Ramage

There’ll be no return to church, said The Analyst in reflective mode, ‘until they get rid of the homily.’ He was musing, not on the lapsed art of stylish rhetoric, but the tendency to use a pulpit to tell people…

Full immerson: Jungian slow release from the Christian ties that bind
Books

Full immerson: Jungian slow release from the Christian ties that bind

Posted on July 22, 2018July 22, 2018 by Sande Ramage

A workshop at Common Ground Conference Progressive Christianity Aotearoa Saturday 8th September 2018 Abstract Blogging about spirituality drew sharp criticism from church authorities who determined my theology ‘not Christian’. I responded by destroying my website, home to myriad articles that…

Reimagining the Christian myth in Palmerston North
Books

Reimagining the Christian myth in Palmerston North

Posted on July 22, 2018 by Sande Ramage

The Illness The We Are: A Jungian Critique of Christianity by John P. Dourley A creative reading group for explorers Dates and times Thursday evenings, 7-8.30pm. 4, 11, 18, 25 Oct & 1, 8 November 2018. Venue A café in…

Reimagining the Christian myth: a tribute to John P. Dourley
Bodies

Reimagining the Christian myth: a tribute to John P. Dourley

Posted on July 15, 2018July 22, 2018 by Sande Ramage

When I was at theological college I was fascinated by how it was perfectly acceptable to see the first chapters of Genesis as mythology but not necessarily the Gospel of Mark, an action-packed narrative that forms the bare bones of…

Out of the blue God
Bodies

Out of the blue God

Posted on July 12, 2018July 25, 2018 by Sande Ramage

Can you close the curtain? Sure. We call them the blue soundproof ones. Yeah, nah, not, it’s an illusion. (He laughs) So, what does God look like for you today? See that blue? Yeah. It’s like the sky and the…

Burning Seraphina: a solstice to get you in the guts
Church

Burning Seraphina: a solstice to get you in the guts

Posted on June 24, 2018June 24, 2018 by Sande Ramage

The giant creature Seraphina went up in flames on Wellington harbour. Within her maternal belly were notes holding the secret desires, dreams, yearnings, and concerns of the locals. A form of confession if you like. The whole thing was cathartic,…

Jungian novice dreams up more
Church

Jungian novice dreams up more

Posted on April 29, 2018May 19, 2018 by Sande Ramage

In 1969 when singer Peggy Lee released, Is that all there is, she posed an intense existential question. She wasn’t searching for an after-life but musing about the disappointment that life can be, even when faced with the unbridled energy…

Not Christian theology!
Church

Not Christian theology!

Posted on January 29, 2018May 22, 2018 by Sande Ramage

‘So,’ said my Jungian analyst, voice quiet but interested. ‘You didn’t put your ordination dates in this autobiography.’ I scrambled to find the page and chuckled when I realised that I hadn’t even noticed the omission. An inadvertent absence was…

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