018: The Past Has Arms: Risking Relationship with Ourselves So We Can Grow Up with James Hollis, PhD

“We would rather be ruined than changed We would rather die in our dread Than climb the cross of the moment And let our illusions die.” – W.H. Auden James Hollis, Ph. D., is a trained Jungian analyst at the Jung Institute of Zurich, Switzerland and currently serves as the Executive Director of the Washington Jung Society and author of numerous books including Finding Meaning in the Second Half of Life: How to Finally, Really Grow Up, The Eden Project: In Search of the Magical Other, and most recently, Hauntings: Dispelling the Ghosts Who Run Our Lives. In this episode, James shares about his …

Continue Reading

017: Voicemails – Alison Kirkpatrick on The Conscious Parent / Mark Longhurst on The Brothers Karamazov

Alison (Ali) Kirkpatrick is a writer, speaker and educator and you might say professional inspirer of goodness. You can find her blog #SignsOfLove at alisonkirkpatrick.com. Mark Longhurst is a pastor and a curator of the collaborative contemplative website ordinarymystic.net. If you ever get the chance to dance in the same room as Mark…do it. In this episode, Ali and Mark each share a reflection on a book that has made a deep impact on their personal contemplative journey, and offer a little insight on how each book might improve my own. Subscribe to Contemplify via iTunes, Podbean, Overcast or Google Play EPISODE SHOW NOTES Recommended Books by Alison …

Continue Reading

016: The Other is Us: Connecting to Knowledge, Wisdom and One Another with Barbara A. Holmes

Barbara Holmes served as president of United Theological Seminary of the Twin Cities, as well as professor of ethics and African American religious studies. She was ordained in the Latter Rain Apostolic Holiness Church in Dallas, Texas, and has privilege of call in the United Church of Christ and recognition of ministerial standing in the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ). In addition to her work with law firms, Holmes has worked with homeless missions, HIV/AIDS ministries, and international ministries in Kenya (the Presbyterian Church of East Africa) and Japan. The author of five books and numerous articles, her most recent …

Continue Reading