Losing Oneself in Ritual
Gianluigi Gugliermetto
July 25, 2026
A very important sub-theme has emerged this week in my discussion of the theme of ritual. This theme is represented by the relations between the
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Wholeness
Gianluigi Gugliermetto
June 25, 2026
In recent years, there are two words that have captured my attention when it comes to the description of the spiritual journey. They are wholeness
Week of 5/25-30/2026: Andrew Harvey, Spiritual Counseling, Pope Leo’s AI Encyclical
Daily Meditations Team
May 31, 2026
This is a summary of the previous week’s daily meditations. Some are written by Matthew Fox (MF) and some are written by his colleague, Gianluigi
Know Thyself in Spiritual Counseling
Gianluigi Gugliermetto
May 29, 2026
Jungian analyst and scholar of religion Antonio Dorella has offered such a convincing parallel between the four paths of Creation Spirituality and the four psychological
The Resurrection in Emily Dickinson, Jung, & Steven Herrmann
Matthew Fox
April 7, 2026
In his excellent book on Emily Dickinson: A Medicine Woman for Our Times, Jungian analyst Steven Herrmann (who, for transparency’s sake, I confess is a friend of
Diary from the Italian Countryside, part 2
Gianluigi Gugliermetto
March 14, 2026
Even though I live in the countryside, I am not becoming a misanthrope. Four days a week, I drive to the nearby city. Serendipitously, a
Deep Feeling, Not Sentimentalism
Gianluigi Gugliermetto
December 17, 2025
How can one differentiate between deep feeling and sentimentalism? I have run the risk of throwing out deep feeling together with sentimentalism, so I will
Carl Jung, Murray Stein, Steven Herrmann & Christianity’s Future
Matthew Fox
December 16, 2025
Jungian analyst Steven Herrmann has gifted us with significant books on topics such as Spiritual Democracy, Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, Jung and William James, Jung
Wholeness (part three)
Gianluigi Gugliermetto
November 28, 2025
Evagrius Ponticus, writing in the fifth century, states openly that there is nothing within the person that may keep her from desiring wholeness and that
Wholeness (part two)
Gianluigi Gugliermetto
November 27, 2025
The archetype of wholeness has a long history. It appears, for example, in the Pauline letters under the name of pleroma, where it refers to
