JohnChaplain
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My Tagline:
Who among us hasn't had the experience of being half Jung and half Narcissus? -- deeply insightful, and loving one's insightfulness...
My Interests:
Caregiving, Unity, hospice, chaplain, improv, transpersonal, Jungian
My Favorite Books, Authors, Musicians, Movies, Preachers, TV shows, etc:
Lessons In Truth, The Cider House Rules, Rules for the Unruly, all seven Harry Potters, Conversations With God; Love Actually, The Big Chill, American Beauty, Excalibur; U2, Sting, Neil Young, Bruce Springsteen; Grey's Anatomy, The Daily Show
Who Inspires Me:
Jesus, Ghandi, Martin Luther King, Carl Jung, Uranda, Lloyd Arthur Meeker, Charles Filmore, Myrtle Filmore, my mother (dearly departed), my father, my wife, my children, Walter Bahan, Bono
My organizations and affiliations:
ACPE, Clinical Pastoral Education, Unity Church of Christianity, Association of Unity Churches
My favorite spiritual activities:
centering prayer, attunement, prayer-healing,
What is your current spiritual mood?:
Grateful
What's your spiritual type?:
Spiritual Straddler - I have one foot in traditional religion, one foot in free-form spirituality.
About Me
Hello, BeliefNeters,
I am here to give and receive insights and half-cooked ideas about the meeting place of spirituality and psychology. I enjoy the writings of Carl Jung, Robert Johnson, Robert Bly (just finished his excellent short book, "A Little Book on the Human Shadow"), Joseph Campbell; and Marianne Williamson, Neale Donald Walsch, Charles and Myrtle Filmore, H. Emily Cady and others.
I am a hospice Chaplain, and would be glad to converse with others from the hospice field. Encouraging self-care and assisting those facing "compassion fatigue" among professional caregivers is also a strong interest of mine.
But I can't be all serious. I like comedy, and used to perform professionally in clubs in the 90's. I worked with Dave Attel, Doug Stanhope, Steve Marmel, and other "dark poets" of the genre, though my material was much lighter in tone. (But not as funny.)
I like to sing and play drums and a little guitar. And play ping-pong.
My Basics
Gender: Male
Occupation: Hospice Chaplain
Relationship Status: Married
Faiths:
New Thought,
Faith Description: Unity Church of Christianity, Jesus Christ, Myself, Power of Love, Heaven, God, Prayer, Community, Service
JohnChaplain's Journal
Posted: Jun 15, 2008 10:19 AM
Over the past few years, it's become a tradition that my girls (ages 12 and 10) and I go on a road trip together. It started in 2004 on... (more)
Parenting & the spiritual journey
Posted: Apr 1, 2008 8:48 PM
Parenting and the Spiritual Journey By John Connor In researching some of the most well-known mystics and sages, I... (more)
Posted: Feb 18, 2008 10:18 PM
Hi gang, This is an essay I wrote recently, and could be fodder for discussion. What to you think? Have you ever had a mystical... (more)
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John, Just~a~ note to say... - June 21, 2008 - 01:31 PM
Thank you! How kind and thoughtful of you ~ how very "You." Gratefully, Jalus ^I^