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Wholeness as the Holy Work of Process Theology with Dr. Sheri Kling

Author
Victoria Loorz
Published
Sat 06 Sep 2025
Episode Link
https://share.transistor.fm/s/6f60db9c

In this episode of The Holy Wild, Victoria Loorz and Dr. Sheri Kling explore how personal trauma, dreamwork, and encounters with the natural world can become gateways into deeper wholeness and divine relationship. Sheri weaves process theology and Jungian psychology into lived stories of synchronicity, butterflies, and sacred encounters that remind us we are co-creators in an unfolding cosmos of meaning. What emerges is an invitation to trust the flow of becoming, where even separation is part of the holy dance that leads us back into connection with Earth, Spirit, and one another.

Dr. Sheri D. Kling, Ph.D., serves as the Director of Process & Faith (a multifaith network for relational spirituality under the Center for Process Studies) and is also the interim minister of Redeemer Lutheran Church in Bradenton, Florida. She earned her doctorate in Religion: Process Studies from Claremont School of Theology and brings together theology, depth psychology, mystical wisdom traditions, relational worldviews, and the intersections of spirituality and science to help individuals find meaning, belonging, and transformation. A theologian, teacher, songwriter, and spiritual mentor, Kling is a faculty member at the Haden Institute and Claremont School of Theology (adjunct), and authored A Process Spirituality: Christian and Transreligious Resources for Transformation; she also offers courses, concerts, retreats, and dynamic “Music & Message” presentations.


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Timestamps:

  • 00:00 Introduction
  • 07:04 Sheri's Background, Looking For Belonging
  • 09:11 A Love Of Horses
  • 09:53 Suburban Nature And The Golf Course
  • 11:41 The North Georgia Mountains
  • 12:55 Finding Comfort In Nature From Trauma
  • 13:55 Finding The Divine Feminine
  • 14:31 Finding Home
  • 15:46 Emerging From Emotional Numbness
  • 17:46 Connecting With Jungian Work
  • 18:53 Deep Relationship With Place
  • 21:27 Introduction To Process Theology
  • 28:13 Connecting Inner Wholeness With Universal Wholeness
  • 31:44 Whitehead + Jung
  • 33:55 Dream Work And Syncronicity
  • 42:12 Transformational Practices Of Wholeness
  • 47:00 Sin And Separation As Necessary
  • 51:49 The Butterfly Pushing Out
  • 55:47 Invitation And A Story With A Chimpanzee

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