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S3E6 Dietrich Bonhoeffer, invisible Christianity and it's church

In the final episode of this season of searching for the seeds of Secular Christianity, we travel to the 20th century to learn from the German Protestant theologian Di...

S3E5 Secular Christ | Living without a why

What Meister Eckhart learnt, and we can learn, from The Beguines.

S3E5 Secular Christ | Meister Eckhart & Beguine Mysticism

We left off in Alexandria in the second century and in this episode time travel a thousand years forward in tie, to the 14th century Northern Europe. At this point in ...

S3E4 Secular Christ | Clement of Alexandria

In this episode we travel back in time to the city of Alexandria, the cultural Mecca of the Roman Empire to learn from the Christian theologian and philosopher Clement...

S3E3 Secular Christ | Christian humanism

We need to reclaim the future for Christian consciousness, and to recognize that the first Christians were looking towards the future, looking towards the fruition of ...

S3E2 Secular Christ | The glory of God is man fully alive

The Christian teaching is that we are not yet human. We are on the way towards humanity. Humanity is still to come.  - Sean J McGrath and Jakob Lusensky go seeking for...

S3E1 Secular Christ 3 | Seeds of Secular Christianity

Sean J McGrath together with Jungian Analyst Jakob Lusensky go seeking for the seeds of Secular Christianity. The music played in this episode is licensed under creati...

C.G Jung: Face to Face with Christianity now available for pre-order

I am delighted to announce that the upcoming publication C.G Jung: Face to Face with Christianity - Conversations on Dreaming the Myth Onward published by Chiron Publi...

E22 The Secret of the Golden Flower with Jason Smith

The Secret of the Golden Flower is a Taoist text on inner alchemy that landed in Jung's hands in the late 1920s. It was the sinologist and Christian missionary in Chin...

E21 Hans Trüb & Psychoanalysis at eye level with Paul Bishop

Hans Trüb is one of the unsung heroes of the early movement of Analytical Psychology. He was a pioneer of relational psychoanalysis or intersubjective psychotherapy ye...

E20 Rudolf Steiner & C.G Jung with Jonah C. Evans

In this episode, I speak to Jonah C. Evans about the ideas of Austrian social reformer, architect, and Christian esotericist Rudolf Steiner (1861-1925) and how they re...

Seeds of Secular Christianity | Secular Christ Season 3 (Trailer)

In our third season of Secular Christ with Sean J. McGrath we go searching for the seeds of Secular Christianity. The series will go live in early 2024.

E19 Healing Fire: Orthodox Christianity and Analytical Psychology with Pia Chaudhari

In this episode, I speak to Pia Chaudhari about her book Dynamis of Healing: Patristic Theology and the Psyche published by Fordham University Press. Pia holds a docto...

A letter from Carl Gustav Jung to Sabina Spielrein

A letter from Carl Gustav Jung to Sabina Spielrein (1885-1942), 4th of December 1908.My Dear,I regret so much; I regret my weakness and curse the fate that is threaten...

E18 The Life and Work of Fritz Künkel with Sarah Larkin

In this episode, I am joined by Sarah Larkin to discuss the life and work of Christian depth psychologist Fritz Künkel (1889-1956). Sarah has a background in religious...

E17 Jung on Ignatius of Loyola’s spiritual exercises with Martin Liebscher

In this episode, I speak with Martin Liebscher from the Philemon Foundation. Martin is a Research Fellow in the German Department and an Honorary Senior Lecturer at th...

A mind free to explore with John A Sanford

This is an edited version of an old interview with Jungian Analyst and Episcopal priest John A Sanford (1929-2005). Sanford begins by defining his own understanding of...

In memory of Dora Gerson †

Eighty years ago this month the Berlin-born Jewish German cabaret singer and actress of silent movies Dora Gerson (1899-1943) was murdered with her family in Auschwitz...

E16 Etty Hillesum & C.G Jung with Barbara Morrill

"We never know what comes forward in a soul when the worst of the worst happens."   Episode description:Ever since I first read the diaries of Etty Hillesum (1914-1943...

C.G Jung and the Machine (Interviewed by Kaarle Nordenstreng, Feb 1961)

In February 1961, four months before his death, C.G Jung was interviewed at his home in Küsnacht by Kaarle Nordenstreng, a freelance journalist for the Finnish Broadca...

Divine folly - Jung's imitation of Christ (Excerpt Red Book, Chapter XIV)

A read excerpt from chapter XIV, "Divine Folly" of Jung's Red Book, Liber Secundus. In this chapter, Jung picks up Thomas à Kempis (1380–1471) book The Imitation of Ch...

The Christianity of C.G Jung - Online course starting Jan. 10th

Are you interested in a more intimate and in-depth exploration of the intersection of Jungian psychology and Christianity? Maybe you should consider joining the online...

E15 The depth psychology of Søren Kierkegaard with Dr. C. Stephen Evans

"The opposite of sin is faith in which one responds, you might say, appropriately to the call that comes to one. So faith is a kind of response. Faith is a passion. It...

E14 Jung's Answer to Job with Paul Bishop

"The six million dollar question is, what is this God that Jung is talking about? What is Yahweh? In effect, he's putting Yahweh on the couch.  That's the entire geniu...

Interlude: Church music † 2029

Church music 2029. A musical interlude by The Psychia†ry. 1. Move into our own - Nicole Mitchell 2. This and that and the other - African Head Charge 3. The carnival o...

"I have no quarrel with Christianity. I have lots of quarrel with how its presented." | Robert A Johnson

This is a sample of a video recording with Jungian Analyst Robert A. Johnson (May 26, 1921 – September 12, 2018) author of books such as Owning Your Own Shadow: Unders...

Summary of season 2 of 'Secular Christ' & Q&A with Sean McGrath

Edited recording of live Q&A and summary of season 2 of Secular Christ with Sean J McGrath. 

S2E5 The razor's edge of contemplative Christianity

What's the point of a Christian community? Why is community important for a contemporary contemplative Christian? In the final episode of the second season of Secular ...

S2E4 A letter to a young contemplative

Sean McGrath received an email from a young person who has been listening to Secular Christ asking: How can I keep growing spiritually through the Christ image, any wo...

S2E3 The self that cannot help itself

In the third episode, McGrath takes on the self-help industry and how its ideological spokespersons such as Jordan B. Peterson misses the point of grace and self-trans...

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