Dialogue 1: The Mystery of the “I Don’t Know”

Turning to the Mystics with James Finley

Center for Action and Contemplation

Spirituality, Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.8 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 17 April 2023

⏱️ 48 minutes

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This is the first dialogue that focuses on the mystic, Meister Eckhart. In this episode, Jim and Kirsten discuss Session 1. Resources: The transcript for this episode can be found here. Connect with us: Have a question you'd like Jim or Kirsten to answer about Meister Eckhart? Email us: podcasts@cac.org or leave us voicemail. 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	How do you tell the story of your inner journey? Join James Finley for the healing stories online
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0:14.4	Jim offers guided reflections to help you become more conscious of the thread of your own sacred
0:20.5	journey. The event will be recorded and all registered will have access to the replay.
0:26.4	Register today at cac.org-healing-retreat. That's cac.org. Slash h-e-a-l-i-n-g-r-e-t-r-e-a-t.
0:41.4	You're listening to a podcast by the Center for Action and Contemplation. To learn more,
0:46.3	visit cac.org. Greetings. I'm Jim Finley. And I'm Kirsten Oates. Welcome
0:55.6	to Turning to the Mystics. Welcome, everyone, to our first dialogue in season 7 of Turning to the
1:09.5	Mystics, where we're turning to the German Mystic Meister Eckert, who lived in the 13th and 14th
1:17.6	century. And Jim, I'm here with Jim and Corey. We're excited to discuss Myster Eckert today.
1:26.9	And Jim, I really like the way you seem to be gently exposing us to Eckert in this first
1:34.2	teaching that you offer. Yes, I wanted to be careful. You know, I think the podcast, the intention
1:43.8	is to have them be very invitational and heartfelt, something we can walk around with during the day.
1:51.7	And I wanted to be very careful not to get into the details of kind of the academic background,
1:59.2	filled off philosophy, metaphysics, philosophical theology, and so on. And just stay purely with
2:04.8	his intention of these teachings as sermons, as dialogue. So that's been important for me as I
2:12.5	set the tone here. Wonderful. And I thought in this session, we'd spend some time just getting to
2:20.4	know and getting a deeper understanding of some of his words and some of his metaphors.
2:26.4	You say that these mystics, they share a common worldview, but their language, their metaphors
2:33.3	can be quite different. Yes, I would say that what they all share in the Christian tradition
2:41.1	is this importance of living a life that honors the gift of daily life, then honors the gift of
2:51.1	daily life illumined by faith, discipleship, and the call of discipleship to be ever more
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