You don't have to be some special kind of person or particularly trained or in any way qualified or to merit a mystical experience.

It's also bypassing that whole idea that you have to be pure and perfect and have arrived at some state of awakening in order to be granted access to that numinous reality that that is yours for the

receiving we all have them and I'm interested in how do we cultivate that

garden so that we get to harvest more and more of them.

So so many people walk through life just living in a state of perpetual grayness

kind of waiting for the big moments, the sacred, the mystical occasions to just magically

appear and change everything.

It turns out those moments, they're actually and

they're rarely, they're tiny, they're ordinary, and they're there for the taking all day

every day when we understand how to welcome moments of ordinary mysticism

into our lives.

Even if you're a practical non-Wuu-Kermudgeon,

you can connect with a deep sense of wonder.

So the question is, how?

And that is where we're headed with today's guest Mirbai Starr, an award-winning

author internationally acclaimed speaker and inter-spiritual teacher.

Drawing from over 20 years teaching, being a professor, philosophy, and world religions,

and a lifetime of contemplative practice, Mirbai shares wisdom on really living a spiritually

awakened life grounded in the mystical traditions in her

latest book titled Ordinary Mysticism your life as sacred ground takes these

moments into our everyday lives. In this conversation, Mirb I really

demystifies the notion of mysticism, inviting us to recognize the mystical

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