Podcasts by Bridging the Ideal and the Real
A collection of audio mp3s of lectures/sermons by J. Pittman McGehee, D.D. for all those with a deep human longing to experience the transcendent in their ordinary lives in the 21st century. To live a life with more mindfulness and self compassion, McGehee is an expert at describing the value of non dual consciousness, a healthy spiritual way of being and Jungian psychology for our bio, psycho, social and spiritual selves. He says, “My purpose is to deliver people from a black and white world to help them navigate a grey one.”
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Re-Membering from 2023-08-10T04:37:13
This talk was given by J. Pittman McGehee, D.D. on 4/18/2001. Pittman describes his near death experience when he was a five year old child. He was critically burned over 1/2 of his body and for...
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As the Dalai Lama said to me... from 2023-07-20T06:09:44
This talk was given by J. Pittman McGehee, D.D. on 4/7/91. Pittman describes how the holiness in each of us is projected when we meet a highly developed soul such as the Dalai Lama. Resurrection...
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My Ego Ain't My Amigo Anymore, pt 4 from 2023-06-01T23:38:42
In part 4 of the series given by J. Pittman McGehee, D.D. in April of 2004, Pittman describes the nature of the Jungian concept of the Self with a capital “S”. A synonym is God within, Buddha na...
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My Ego Ain't My Amigo Anymore pt 3 from 2023-05-14T03:55:52
In part 3 of the series given by J. Pittman McGehee, D.D. in April of 2004, Pittman is describing the nature of the Jungian concept of complexes, (where we have coalesced energy around a particu...
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My Ego Ain't My Amigo Anymore pt 2 from 2023-05-02T05:19:06
In part 2 of the series given by J. Pittman McGehee, D.D. in April of 2004, Pittman elaborates on the attachments and defenses we all express. He gives detailed examples of suppression, repressi...
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My Ego Ain't My Amigo Anymore pt 1 from 2023-04-16T22:18:26
This 4 part series was given by J. Pittman McGehee, D.D. in April of 2004. Pittman begins with a humorous and mind provoking song by Terry Allen that gave him the title for the series. He then g...
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The Problem of Authority from 2022-11-01T15:14:23
This talk was given at Bridget’s Place by J. Pittman McGehee, D.D. on March 5, 2005. Pittman describes our ego’s evolutionary development starting from childhood to becoming an adult. Our ...
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Eros and Forgiveness from 2022-08-29T02:39:42
This Sunday School class was given by J. Pittman McGehee, D.D. on 6/18/1989. (scratchy in places but very worth hearing anyway).
Pittman describes the biblical story of David and Bathsheba ...
I Like You Just the Way You Are - Part 2 from 2022-06-21T02:57:23
This talk has two parts by J. Pittman McGehee, D.D. on October 20 and 27th, 1996. In part two, Pittman recites two poems, one by William Butler Yeats and another one by William Blake. Then tells...
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I Like You Just the Way You Are Pt 1 from 2022-05-21T20:55:04
This talk has two parts by J. Pittman McGehee, D.D. on October 20 and 27th, 1996. In part one Pittman explores six basic reasons we all fear change. He is speaking from the standpoint of develop...
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The Human Denial of Death from 2022-04-17T19:15:45
This Sunday School class was given by J. Pittman McGehee, D.D. on 3/27/1987. The American extroverted and materialistic way of our culture would much rather avoid the reality of death. We value ...
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Focus on the Trinity from 2022-04-17T17:45:12
This Sunday School class was given by J. Pittman McGehee, D.D. on 3/14/1987. Speaking on the trinity in a way you have never heard, this talk is both intriguing and thought provoking. Speaking f...
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Three Questions from 2022-04-14T18:30:34
This Sunday School class was given by J. Pittman McGehee, D.D. on 12/13/1987. Pittman continues from the previous talk that something has to die so that something new can be born. He descr...
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Thoughts on Advent from 2022-01-07T04:26:59
This Sunday School class was given by J. Pittman McGehee, D.D. on 11/28/1987. Pittman tells the bible story preceding the birth of Christ that symbolizes something dying so that something new ca...
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Advent II - Angels as Messengers from 2021-11-28T19:25:22
This Sunday School class was given by J. Pittman McGehee, D.D. on 11–22-1987. If an angel came to you today, what would it look like? Angels as messengers come in many ways and as a storyteller,...
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Visible and Invisible: Balancing Two Worlds from 2021-08-05T02:51
This talk was given by Rev. J. Pittman McGehee, D.D. on October 20, 2002 at The Women’s Institute. We’ve all heard the saying that what we don’t know can’t hurt us, but the truth is our unconsci...
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Fleshing Out the Soul: The Theology of the Body from 2021-07-10T04:51:57
Pittman McGehee, D.D. speaks at the Paths to Healing Conference at Christ Church Cathedral in Houston, Texas on 1/27/01. He describes the relationship between body and soul as bodies...
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Fleshing Out the Soul: The Theology of the body Pittman McGehee, D.D. speaks at the Paths to Healing Conference at Christ Church Cathedral in Houston, Texas on 1/27/01. He describes the relationship from 2021-07-10T04:51:57
Pittman McGehee, D.D. speaks at the Paths to Healing Conference at Christ Church Cathedral in Houston, Texas on 1/27/01. He describes the relationship between body and soul as bo...
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Post Resurrection Appearances from 2021-04-04T17:47:01
This Sunday School class was given by J. Pittman McGehee, D.D. on April 9, 1989. McGehee describes two of the post resurrection appearances to show what happened before that are pivotal to the w...
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Advent I - Eve and Mary from 2021-03-28T23:51:06
This Sunday School class was given by J. Pittman McGehee, D.D. on 11–20-1988. McGehee states that we have to see things as they are before we can see them as they aren’t. We have to be wiling to...
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The Psychology of Fundamentalism from 2021-03-07T23:25:29
This Sunday School class was given by J. Pittman McGehee, D.D. on October, 1989. Pittman talks about the fundamentalist in all of us as a result of placing authority outside ourselves. We always...
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Christian Love from 2021-03-07T23:15:49
This Sunday School class was given by J. Pittman McGehee, D.D. on February, 14, 1988. Pittman talks once again about the Greek words for love, Eros, Philia and Agape, but this time he uses stori...
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Love, Let Me Count the Ways from 2021-02-25T02:05:07
We live in a culture of narcissism centered on ego and ego gratification and most of us think love is a synonym for excitement instead of the Jungian view point of a Self for a Self, what Martin...
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Four Elements of Faith from 2021-02-08T07:10:35
McGehee describes that what we deem to be evil and the worst thing that ever happened to us, may be the best thing that ever happened to us and that this autonomous and mysterious God that we mu...
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Reemergence of the Feminine Within the Masculine from 2021-01-31T19:31:02
FYI this talk was given the week before the one I posted last week, 9-23-90 so they are out of order. In this talk, McGehee describes the difficulty of being males who learned from their fathers...
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Masculine Psychology from 2021-01-28T22:26:38
Pittman McGehee begins by quoting Carl Jung. “Nature does not care about higher consciousness. Neither does society. Society is only interested in achievement and that for the most part, posthum...
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The Power of Darkness, Part 2 from 2021-01-25T03:49:10
There is power in looking into the darkness as we recognize the parts of us that we repress, collectively and individually especially our cultural obsession with the body and human sexuality. An...
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The Power of Darkness Part 1 from 2021-01-17T20:26:11
Part 1 of a talk given to the Jung Center in San Antonio, Tx on May 15, 1998, McGehee lays the groundwork for ego development as it is the beginning of our becoming conscious human beings. Refra...
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The Christmas Spirit # 3 Five Childhood Fears from 2021-01-10T19:09:31
This Sunday School class talk was given by J. Pittman McGehee, D.D. on December 30, 1990. There are five childhood fears that McGehee singles out to describe but the biggest of all is non-being....
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Christmas Spirit #2 Words Made Flesh from 2021-01-10T18:53:13
This Sunday School class talk was given by J. Pittman McGehee, D.D. on December 23, 1990. The prologue of the Gospel of John carries within it the origin of all things —breath that worded us int...
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Christmas Spirit from 2020-12-29T03:59:05
This Sunday School class talk was given by J. Pittman McGehee, D.D. on December 16, 1990. Christmas time can be a joy filled time and a time of despair and depression. Pittman weaves our hopes a...
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A Story of a Coach from 2020-11-25T03:50:17
This Sunday School class talk was given by J. Pittman McGehee, D.D. on April 17, 1988. This story is about his coach at Oklahoma State University and it is so funny that you will love it. It is ...
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The Potato Thrower from 2020-11-25T03:44
Using a humorous story about an article about a baseball team, Pittman McGehee tells a tale about the cosmic game of life and how Jesus came along to change the game. This Sunday School class ta...
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Quantity vs Quality from 2020-08-02T16:58:53
The ego has its own value system of what quality of life is for us and an essential part of our ego development is to acquire material things, power to get them and self worth derived from havin...
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Teeter Totter II from 2020-07-17T23:49:38
This talk is about our human ego and our soul and our imbalanced state that begins by building a lightness and a darkness in order to conform with what is acceptable in our environment and in ou...
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Teeter Totter I from 2020-07-01T20:56:31
In this talk, Pittman shares the idea of balance vs integration, coming to a realization that there are some things in our psyche that are just not for us. Attitudes or associations we may have ...
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The Day My Father Died from 2020-05-31T00:48:14
This is a story about the day Pittman’s Father died and the way men live with their ties cutting their bodies and feelings off at the neck. His intimacy at the end with his Father is revealing o...
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Surprise Endings from 2020-05-29T14:44:20
Pittman gives three stories at the beginning and then takes you through a bible story of Pentecost where they begin to understand that the holy spirit doesn’t dwell in heaven but within each hum...
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What Matters? What's Possible? from 2020-05-06T15:31:58
Pittman begins by describing our need for Mother (matter) being transcribed into material and that although it is important to have our material and physical needs met, it is also not what gives...
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The Easter Chicken from 2020-04-12T20:05:32
Pittman begins with a humorous story from childhood about a dozen baby chickens all colored for Easter that his Father had brought home. Only one survived and grew up to be inferior as it had wh...
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Hurts So Good from 2020-04-10T00:55:21
Pain is a peculiar human possession. We do not become close truly intimate without pain. Each of us has to take the risk of loving another as there is no wonderful love story without pain which ...
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Dialectical Theism - Knowing God from 2020-03-24T01:25:06
How do we know a piece of art, a song or wisdom or even the taste of water? Can we even know that which we cannot comprehend? How would I know what you know. Pittman describes the two bookends o...
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Comedy - Release from Trajedy from 2020-03-03T22:12:23
Pittman begins by telling the story of hearing that Jesus was riding in to Calgary on an ASS and how that made him laugh as a young boy who was hearing it in a church of all places. Life is fill...
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The Sexuality Issue from 2020-03-02T20:51:41
Human nature says everyone will have a different sexuality — a personality and mystery of it's own. In this talk, Pittman defines Gods gifts of sexuality 1) procreation 2) to experience union (w...
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What is Your Thirst? from 2020-02-23T01:59:04
The nature of human beings is to be religious and Pittman gives two etymological descriptions of the word religion — to bind back which presumes something is broken and to tie up as in the moori...
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The Evangelists Holy War from 2020-02-22T23:40:08
Pittman tells a poignant story of a childhood experience of the fear based preaching of an Evangelist and a high school friend who had the integrity to not let it affect his choices. The healing...
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The Religion That Wounds and the Religion That Heals from 2020-02-17T18:41:39
Starting with a brief history of the evolution of Christianity, from St. Augustine’s original sin, Calvin's approach during the Reformation and then Puritanism, our American Christian reli...
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Rigors of Spirituality from 2020-02-12T03:32:03
This mp3 is a talk given by Pittman McGehee on 9-28-96 at Adult Education Class at Christ Church Cathedral in Houston, Texas. In a world that values above all the rational and material, the spir...
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The Abundant Life from 2020-02-09T19:46:28
Materialism is not what we would call the abundant life. All ISMS are negative. We have more "stuff" than we have ever had before but there is still more dissatisfaction and emptiness than human...
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What Authenticates? from 2020-02-06T23:00:31
Is it the desire to be "nice", to be what everyone expects of you what authenticates? Telling a story about Mrs. Bridge, McGehee reads to us vignettes of an unathenticated cardboard character tr...
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Transition and Transformation from 2020-02-06T21:43:33
This mp3 is a talk given by Pittman McGehee on 2-28-88 at Adult Education Class at Christ Church Cathedral in Houston, Texas. We know we cannot judge each others difficult experience because eve...
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Self Worth from 2020-02-06T05:24:05
Real self worth is something that takes us all a very long time to truly accept but it is easier when we understand that we may all be a combination of characters (some we like and some we do no...
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Plurality and Ambiguity from 2020-02-06T05:14:48
There are always more ways to see the individual expression of wholeness than meets the eye of any one person and much more that we can comprehend. This is a talk given by J. Pittman McGehe...
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The Priest as Shaman from 2020-01-31T05:59:34
There is no life without struggle, sickness, pain and death. The Priest as Shaman enters the brokenness of everyone including his own. Into humanity he goes in every crisis, every death as a par...
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Reductionism vs. Teleology from 2020-01-30T17:08:09
In this talk, Pittman speaks of the value of recognizing our unconscious Self. The vicissitudes and events that occur that are looked at as cause and effect can be viewed from the deeper insight...
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Trip to See the Cardinals from 2020-01-26T21:45:13
As masterful story teller, Pittman McGehee tells a story about himself as a child with a T-shirt his Mom bought him that said, "Hi My Name is PITT." McGehee describes how that which is most pers...
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Dark Side of Blessings from 2020-01-26T04:59:56
Pittman is describing how a blessing is a wounding and not at all what we think it is. This thought provoking talk will leave you with a completely new outlook on how important our mistakes are ...
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Patriarchs: Perfection vs. Wholeness from 2020-01-24T18:00:29
This is a very humorous and informative talk about the nature of wholeness. This Sunday School class talk was given by J. Pittman McGehee, D.D. on March 15, 1987.
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Releasing Shadow Figures from 2020-01-24T17:33:50
This is a poignant and informative antidote of his relationship with esteemed school mate Cheesy Eubanks. McGehee takes us into Carl Jung's concept of the shadow to introduce us to the hidden un...
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