Claiming Sanctuary

The Gathering Room Podcast

Martha Beck

Business, Entrepreneurship, Self-improvement, Courses, Education

5 • 656 Ratings

🗓️ 30 January 2021

⏱️ 31 minutes

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In this deeply emotional episode, Martha explains that while every human culture has created a sacred space where people can claim sanctuary, many of us feel unable to access any form of safety in modern times. She offers up a simple way to create personal sanctuary within ourselves through repetition and ritual, allowing us all to build a sacred place where no one can hurt us. (This conversation originally aired on July 13, 2020.)

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Gathering Pod, the audio version of my weekly gathering room broadcast.
0:07.0	I'm Martha Beck.
0:09.0	So today I, well, today you can find at Maria Shriver's Sunday paper, which is her online
0:18.0	sort of newsletter that is marvelous, you will find an article by me.
0:22.8	And it is called, it's about recovery.
0:26.5	The theme of the Sunday paper for this week was recovery.
0:30.9	And I was asked to write an article on spiritual recovery.
0:34.6	And I thought to myself, we really aren't at a point where I'm thinking about recovery very much.
0:42.3	There is a lot going on in the world right now.
0:45.3	The COVID-19 cases are still going up.
0:49.3	The mortality is still going up.
0:52.3	The economic damage is still increasing.
0:55.7	And nobody's really talking about recovery yet.
0:59.3	We're sort of treading water as fast as we can.
1:03.1	But then I went and looked up the word cover.
1:05.2	And I realized that it can mean take cover.
1:08.7	It can mean shelter, can mean protection. And that got me off reading about
1:14.3	how we can take shelter from even things that are happening right now. And I used you guys,
1:22.9	the gathering room, as a place where I take shelter from all the stern drawing of the world.
1:32.3	And I thought, you know what? Since these people give me sanctuary, I want to talk about sanctuary with them.
1:38.3	So I don't know if you remember seeing on a movie or whatever, somebody running into a Catholic church in Europe in
1:48.0	pre-modern times and shouting, sanctuary. For most of like the Middle Ages, that was all you had to do
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