Home and Homesickness With James Finley

Everything Belongs: Living the Teachings of Richard Rohr Forward

Center for Action and Contemplation

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.8 • 723 Ratings

🗓️ 17 April 2024

⏱️ 82 minutes

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What if we could feel at home wherever we are? In this episode, we're joined by James Finley as we continue our chapter-by-chapter exploration of Falling Upward with Chapter 7: "Home and Homesickness." In this episode, we discuss a lifelong exploration of contemplation, healing, and facing the challenges of our times through a lens of love and finding "home" in a challenging world . Before we dive in to the interview with Jim, CAC staff catch up with Richard at his hermitage to hear his reflections on the sixth chapter a decade after he originally wrote it. James Finley, a clinical psychologist and spiritual director, is one of the core faculty members of the Center for Action and Contemplation and is the host of our sister podcast on the CAC network, Turning to the Mystics. A former novice under Thomas Merton at the Abbey of Gethsemani, he is the author of the classic book Merton's Palace of Nowhere: A Search for God through Awareness of the True Self, The Contemplative Heart, and most recently, The Healing Path. Resources: A PDF of the transcript for this episode is available here. Grab a copy of the newly revised version of Falling Upward, with a new foreword by Brené Brown here. Connect with us: Have a question or thought about this season that you'd like to share with us? Email us: podcasts@cac.org Send us a voicemail here: http://www.cac.org/voicemail

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0:00.0	You're listening to a podcast by the Center for Action and Contemplation. To learn more, visit
0:05.4	cac.org. Psychologist and minister, Dr. Tamea Bryant, describes healing as a transformative
0:12.6	homecoming. It's not a homecoming in the traditional sense of returning home to a physical place,
0:18.8	but rather is about embracing a state of being within ourselves,
0:23.0	where we recognize how we have disconnected from ourselves and our lives and fully accept
0:27.6	our wholeness. The act of accepting ourselves into our wholeness is to be still and still
0:33.7	moving, which calls to us the poetry of Tius Eliot, which kicks off chapter
0:39.1	seven of Richard's book, falling upward. It goes like this. Old men ought to be explorers. Here
0:47.1	and there does not matter. We must be still and still moving. Into another intensity for a further union, a deeper communion.
0:58.0	In this chapter, Richard writes that home is the self-same moment that we find God and ourselves.
1:05.3	We also find ourselves inside God.
1:08.3	This is full homecoming.
1:13.8	Today, we're back in Richard Hermitage reflecting on the themes of Chapter 7, Home and Hom sickness. In this conversation, we explore the complexities
1:20.2	of the spiritual journey, the longing for a divine home, and the potential for healing and
1:26.0	growth throughout life's stages.
1:34.3	From the Center for Action and Contemplation, I'm Mike Petro.
1:39.3	I'm Paul Swanson. And this is Everything Belongs.
1:55.5	Here we are, Richard once again on your porch, listening to the beautiful sounds of an Albuquerque afternoon.
1:57.5	And today we're going to be talking about Chapter 7 from falling upward, home and homesickness.
2:02.8	Another one of my favorites.
2:05.1	You write, the goal in a sacred story is always to come back home after getting the protagonist to leave home in the first place.
2:15.3	And we've talked already this season about how Western myth and mysticism and
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