The Christian Jung: Contemplative Prayer and the Depths of the Soul
Christian contemplation meets the depths of the soul. The Christian Jung is a podcast about contemplative prayer, the Christian mystics, and the inner life, hosted by Angela Meer, an ordained minister with graduate degrees in Jungian studies.
Each episode draws from Scripture, the Desert Fathers and Mothers, saints like Teresa of Ávila and John of the Cross, and Carl Jung's map of the psyche to help you meet God in silence, in dreams, and in the hidden places of the heart. Theology leads, and psychology serves. You'll find practices you can actually pray, like the Jesus Prayer, Lectio Divina, Visio Divina, and praying with your dreams, along with honest teaching on shadow, healing, and discernment.
For weekly articles and guided practices, visit angelameer.com. It's time to awaken holy wonder.
Episodes
42 episodes
Dreams as a Practice in Art: How Dreams and Art Both Awaken Your Soul to Jesus
AI can already outsmart us on the Bible, on exegesis, on historical and archaeological findings, on nearly every methodology you could name. But there is one thing it cannot do, and it may be the thing that matters most. AI cannot dream. Today,...
Becoming God's Clay: Interpreting Dreams as a Way for God to Shape your Soul
I once had a dream that took fifteen years to interpret and twenty years to come true. I knew the moment I woke that it mattered. I took it to every trusted counselor I had, and not one interpretation ever rang true. Today, on episode 19 of the...
Post-Dream Formation: Continuing the Conversation From a Dream
What do you actually do after a dream ends? Most of us write it in a journal, or worse, let it float away with our morning coffee. Today we talk about what happens next, the three-step sequence that turns a single dream image into months of rea...
The Nightmare or the Dark Dream: Does the Soul Send What Frightens You?
Is every nightmare an attack from the enemy? Or could God actually be the one speaking through the dream that terrifies you? Today we tackle one of the hardest and most misunderstood categories in the dreaming life: the nightmare.This ep...
When Dreams or Symbols Reappear: Dreams as a Pattern of Soul Work
You keep having the same dream. Or the same number keeps showing up on your clock. Or the same street sign keeps appearing in three different places in one week. It's not an angel number, and it's not there to freak you out. Today we talk about...
The Cast of Your Dream on the Stage of Your Life: How Your Dreams Can Teach You To Pray Effectively
A frightening figure in your dream is not what you think it is. Neither is the stranger you can't place, the ex from twenty years ago, or the beautiful radiant stranger. Today we discover that only about one percent of the time does a figure in...
The Vocabulary of Dreams: Signs and Symbols as God's First Language
If God speaks through dreams, what language is He actually speaking? Not English, not just Hebrew. Signs and symbols, the same language the prophets received, chosen on purpose because it bypasses the intellect we have learned to lean on far to...
The Sleeping Self: Why God Speaks When You Are Unconscious
Why does God speak through dreams specifically? What is it about the unconscious state that makes it a particular channel of divine communication?In Week 2 of The Christian Jung's Dreams Arc, Angela Meer explores the theology of the slee...
The Dreaming Church: A History We Were Never Taught
Before you decide whether God still speaks through dreams, consider what the church believed for the first fifteen hundred years of its existence. Not the fringe. The theologians, the martyrs, the desert fathers, the bishops who gave us the cre...
God Has Always Spoken in Dreams
The church made a quiet decision. God never agreed to it.In the opening episode of The Christian Jung's Dreams Arc, Angela Meer makes the case that the biblical record has always treated dreams as a legitimate channel of divine communica...
Your Shadow Is Not Going Anywhere. The Division Inside You Can.
The single most reliable sign that the work of this arc is taking root in a person’s life is not that they have stopped struggling. The struggle continues, often for life. What changes is something else, and once you know what it is, you can se...
The Shadow Is Expensive to Face. It Is Far More Expensive to Keep.
Nobody wants to tell you this part. Becoming real has a price, and the price is real. You will lose people who only ever loved the performing version of you. You will lose rooms you used to be welcome in. You will lose admiration that, when you...
Step Out of Your Shadow, and Into the Shadow of the Almighty
There is probably one room in you that your relationship with God has never been allowed to enter. A hidden failure, a fear, a shame. You pray daily, you love God sincerely, and you have quietly kept that one corner out of the conversation....
You Have Been Trying to Force This Part of You to Change. That Is Why It Will Not.
There is something in you that will not change. You have prayed about it, repented of it, made the plan, found the accountability, and read the book. And that part of you is still standing exactly where it has always stood.In this episod...
Your Shadow Is Not Only Where the Wounds Are. It Is Also Where the Gold Is.
For five episodes, the shadow has meant one thing: the dark room where you keep what you are ashamed of. This episode turns that over. The shadow is also where you buried the gold.In this episode of The Christian Jung Podcast, Angela Mee...
The Contract You Never Signed Is Still Draining You
There is a version of you that everyone has met, and almost no one has questioned. The capable one. The one who is fine. The one who holds it, carries it, and does not need anything back. And it is tired in a way that sleep does not reach.<...
What Your Art, Dreams, and Imagination Reveal About the Shadow
There is a scene from a film that has stayed with you for years. A recurring dream you stopped writing down. A painting, a song, a line from a novel that landed too hard the first time you encountered it and has been quietly waiting in the back...
Why Good Christians Become Strangers to Themselves
There is a kind of Christian who can recite the Gospel with precision, lead a small group through Romans, weep at worship, and still be a complete stranger to themselves. This episode is for that Christian. The serious one. The one who has read...
S2 E3: When Your Shadow Speaks Through Your Judgment
The person you cannot stop judging is the most accurate map to your own buried self that you currently have. Most of us are walking around with a precision instrument we have been taught to read backwards.This week on The Christian Jung ...
The Shadow Is What You Had to Bury to Be Loved
What did you have to fold away to be safe in your first home? Most of us have an answer to that question. We buried our anger, our need, our grief, our bold selves, not because we chose to, but because we discovered that burying them was the pr...
Why Good Christians Repeat Hidden Patterns
A new season of The Christian Jung Podcast for serious Christians seeking healing as deep as their theology. Explore shadow work, contemplative Christianity, emotional healing, spiritual formation, Jungian insight, and the hidden inner li...
E.20: Theopoiesis: Becoming the Poem God Is Writing
In this finale of The Christian Jung Podcast’s anima–animus arc, we explore how the Spirit turns wholeness into creative works: Jung’s transcendent function, the Church Fathers’ theopoiesis, and the Pentecost pattern th...
E.19: From Babel to Pentecost: When the Spirit Restores Understanding
In this episode of The Christian Jung Podcast, we explore the mystery of anamnesis: holy remembering. Through Jung, Scripture, and the Emmaus road, we trace how the Holy Spirit gathers what has been scattered and turns knowledge into rev...
E.18: How the Holy Spirit Turns Fragmentation into Harmony
In this episode of The Christian Jung Podcast, the anima and animus rise from the descent into the radiance of integration. Through Jungian psychology, Christian mysticism, and the movements of Sophia and Logos, we explore what happens w...
E.17: Shadow Work + Christian Faith: Why God Leads Us Into the Dark Night
In this episode of The Christian Jung Podcast, we explore what happens after the sacred marriage, when divine love awakens what has long been hidden. Through Jungian shadow work and Christian mysticism, we examine how the wounds...