A Coaching Session on Centering Prayer

Turning to the Mystics with James Finley

Center for Action and Contemplation

Spirituality, Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.8 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 9 May 2022

⏱️ 46 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

On this special episode, Jim coaches Kirsten in implementing the Centering Prayer practice that he has been teaching about from within The Cloud of Unknowing. Resources: Turning to the Mystics is a podcast by the Center for Action and Contemplation. To learn more about Jim, visit jamesfinley.org  For the transcript for this podcast can be found here. The book being used for this season can be found here. Connect with us: We also produce other podcasts you might enjoy. To learn more about them and our other offerings, visit cac.org This podcast is made possible, thanks to the generosity of our donors. If you would love to support the ongoing work of the Center for Action and Contemplation and the continued work of our podcasts, you can donate at cac.org/podcastsupport Thank you!

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	You're listening to a podcast by the Center for Action and Contemplation
0:04.1	to learn more, visit caac.org.
0:08.3	Greetings. I'm Jim Finley.
0:11.0	And I'm Kirsten Oates.
0:12.8	Welcome to Turning to the Mistakes.
0:22.8	Welcome everyone to season five of Turning to the Mistakes,
0:26.7	where we're turning to the Cloud of Unknowing that was written by an anonymous author.
0:32.8	And this is the last episode of this season before we take questions from our listeners.
0:40.8	And in this episode, Jim and I are going to have a little coaching session,
0:45.3	where Jim's going to share with me about this practice and I'm going to give it a try.
0:51.7	So Jim, thank you for being here.
0:53.6	Sure. Yes. Good. Yes.
0:55.9	That's what I thought would be helpful here is I'm going to speak as if I'm the author of the
1:01.6	Cloud of Unknowing. And since in the Cloud, the author is clearly talking to a directi.
1:08.5	Someone who's been coming to him for a direction.
1:11.5	And so I want to be speaking to you as if you're that person that I as the author of the cloud
1:17.5	is talking to as my directi.
1:21.1	And I'm assuming too that as I listen to you as the author of the Cloud,
1:27.3	I discern that you've come to a very kind of mysterious place in your spiritual path.
1:33.1	There for some time you've been in the special way of the life of devotional sincerity,
1:38.5	of lexio divina, consolations of God, aspirations, living the Christ-like life.
1:46.6	I'm also assuming that from time to time you've experienced this blind stirring of love,
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Center for Action and Contemplation, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Center for Action and Contemplation and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.