A Coaching Session on Gabriel Marcel

Turning to the Mystics with James Finley

Center for Action and Contemplation

Spirituality, Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.8 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 26 May 2025

⏱️ 60 minutes

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In this special episode, Jim and Kirsten review the season and offer a way for us to turn to Gabriel Marcel for guidance on our own spiritual path. Resource Section: A transcript for this episode can be found here. A link to the Oneing article Kirsten mentions can be found here. An information sheet on Lectio practice can be found ⁠here⁠. The book we will be using this season can be⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠found here⁠⁠⁠. Connect with us: 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 ⁠https://cac.org/support-cac/podcasts/⁠ Thank you!

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0:00.0	You're listening to a podcast by the Center for Action and Contemplation.
0:04.0	To learn more, visit cac.org.
0:08.2	Greetings. I'm Jim Finley.
0:11.2	And I'm Kirsten Oates.
0:13.2	Welcome to Turning to the Mystics.
0:27.6	Welcome, everyone, to season 11 of Turning to the Mystics,
0:31.2	where we've been turning to the philosophy of Gabriel Marcel.
0:34.2	And I'm here with Jim for our coaching session,
0:40.5	where we try and make our teaching applicable to you in daily life. So welcome, Jim.
0:48.2	Yes, yes. I always enjoy these coaching sessions and we personalize all of this.
0:56.0	Wonderful. So Jim, I think where you're going to get us started is reflecting on Marcel's vision and how that might apply to us. Yes. Here's a way that helps me to kind of be present,
1:03.6	turning to Marcel for trustworthy guidance. Is to say first of all how helpful it is
1:10.8	that he's helping us to be more aware of the quality of our awareness.
1:16.6	And he noticed that sometimes we're aware of things that are in the realm of the problematic,
1:23.6	like the daily task and details of the day, this way, and the problematic are things that are dualistically and objectively other than ourselves
1:31.4	are problems.
1:32.4	Car won't start roofs leaking.
1:34.6	We're a complex math problem.
1:37.0	And what we do is we look for a method to solve the problem where we go to someone who's skilled
1:41.2	in solving it.
1:42.1	Then we move on to the next problem.
1:45.3	But Marcel says that really there's another dimension of our life, which is the realm of the mysterious. And the
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