Dialogue: The Sixth and Seventh Mansions (Part 2)

Turning to the Mystics with James Finley

Center for Action and Contemplation

Spirituality, Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.8 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 28 September 2020

⏱️ 59 minutes

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In this episode, Jim and Kirsten have their second dialogue around the sixth and seventh mansions of Teresa of Avila's The Interior Castle and discuss the path it provides for spiritual transformation. In this episode, Kirsten references a translation of the Interior Castle by Mirabai Starr. You can get it here. 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 to this podcast, you can find it here. The book being used for this season can be found here. Check out our online course on the Interior Castle, details are 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!

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0:00.0	You're listening to a podcast by the Center for Action and Contemplation.
0:04.4	To learn more, visit cacac.org.
0:08.9	Greetings, I'm Jim Finley.
0:11.6	And I'm Kirsten Oates. Welcome to turning to the Mystics.
0:17.0	Welcome everyone. I'm grieving and celebrating as we come to the end of our time
0:29.0	with the 16th century Christian Mystic Theresa Vavala and her beautiful book The Interior
0:34.6	castle. Today will be my final dialogue with Jem looking at mansion six and
0:40.2	seven and getting his help to unpack some of the deep and mystical concepts that
0:45.2	Teresa offers us in that book. Next week we'll be looking at questions that have
0:51.6	come in from you all so thank you so much for
0:54.7	sending those in we're excited to hear your thoughts and questions next week but now
1:00.6	let's get started with Jim on the 6th and 7th mansion.
1:04.4	Okay, welcome Jim, we're back again.
1:07.8	Take 2 or part 2 because I've just found these six and seventh mansions so so deep and there's so
1:17.5	many new concepts within them that it was was hard to get through through them both both in one session last week.
1:25.0	So we're back again in a dialogue about mansion six and seven.
1:31.0	So my first question is, why do you think the sixth mansion is so long in the book?
1:36.0	Yes. It's by far the longer.
1:38.0	11 chapters, right? It's by far the longest.
1:40.0	I think it intuitively, it seems to me the reason is is that let's say from the
1:46.0	fourth mansion on there's the beginnings of these which he calls special favors, were mystical states of the experience of God
1:58.0	radiating out from the seventh innermost mansion.
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