The Sacred Speaks
Join depth psychotherapist and Jungian scholar Dr. John W. Price in an ongoing exploration of the mysteries that stir beneath the surface of ordinary life. Through wide-ranging conversations with experts, artists, scholars, saints, and skeptics, this podcast uncovers the symbolic, spiritual, and psychological layers hidden in plain sight.
Rooted in the understanding that life itself initiates us, The Sacred Speaks explores how our experiences—grief, wonder, rupture, longing—are invitations to grow, transform, and show up more fully in the world. At its core, the project asks: What if consciousness is always speaking to us—through dreams, synchronicities, crises, or beauty—beckoning us into a deeper, more expansive relationship with ourselves and the mystery we live within?
The Sacred Speaks
132: Solo - The Sacred Rhythm: Ritual, Meaning & Sacred Practice
In this solo episode, I explore the deep significance of ritual—especially as we move through the season of descent and into the longest night of the year.
Modern culture has stripped ritual of its heart, reducing sacred rhythms to holidays and surface forms. What once rooted us in mystery has become spectacle or habit. In this conversation, I want to return to the essence of ritual as something alive—something that helps us remember what we’ve forgotten.
I share personal stories and reflections from my own spiritual practice, from early meditation experiences to what I’ve learned through depth psychology and comparative religion. We’ll look at how genuine ritual serves not as superstition, but as an act of remembering, reconnecting, and transforming—an embodied way of saying yes to the unseen life moving through us.
This episode explores how ritual bridges matter and spirit, how mystical experience can reorient the psyche, and how remembering the sacred in everyday life is both an act of rebellion and a return home.
Ritual invites us to tend what still burns within us—to live in rhythm with the mystery that underlies all things.
Key Reflections
Ritual anchors the sacred in the rhythms of everyday life.
Modern culture often forgets the true essence and transformative power of ritual.
Mystical and peak experiences ask to be honored, integrated, and lived—not chased.
Remembering and reclaiming ritual is an act of rebellion, renewal, and belonging.
In This Episode
(00:00) Introduction to Ritual and Peak Experience
(00:59) The Cultural Disconnect with Rituals
(03:34) Personal Story: Meditation and Transformation
(07:48) The Dual Structure of Human Experience
(10:12) The Importance of Mystical Experience
(14:34) Ritual as Rebellion and Remembrance
(16:02) Invitation to Free Webinar on Ritual
(17:08) Conclusion and Closing Reflection
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