Meister Eckhart: Listener Questions (Part 2)

Turning to the Mystics with James Finley

Center for Action and Contemplation

Spirituality, Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

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🗓️ 7 August 2023

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Welcome to the listener questions series from our sessions on Meister Eckhart. Due to the volume of questions this season, we have decided to make three episodes dedicated to listener questions. This is the second of three on Meister Eckhart. Resources: The transcript for this episode can be found here. Jim's reading list for Meister Eckhart can be found here. Connect with us: 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
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0:25.9	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 to Turning to the Mystics.
1:04.2	Welcome everyone to season seven of Turning to the Mystics where we've been
1:08.6	turning to the German Mystic Meister Eckert. And this is part two of our question and response
1:16.7	session. We had so many questions come in this season, more than we've ever had. And we're so
1:23.1	grateful for that. We've read all the questions and we've put them into themes. And unfortunately,
1:30.1	we won't be able to address every question, but we have read every question. And they're such a
1:34.4	helpful grounding for us as we continue forward with the podcast. So I'm here with Jim,
1:39.9	Corey in the background. And Jim, we're going to ask you to respond to some more questions.
1:46.5	Yes, yes, of course. So we're going to start with the theme of the ground and the powers.
1:54.6	And so the first question is from Rebecca. And she asks, how did the powers become exiled from
2:02.3	the ground? Or is that part of the mystery that we will only understand once the powers are fully
2:09.3	reunited with the ground? Yes, here's the kind of classic Christian, we understand this mystery
2:20.4	about the Australian, like where did the Australian come from? Like how did this happen? And Eckert
2:26.4	goes into this and looks at this. Is that where our ground is our ground, our ground is God's ground,
2:34.1	but the mystery, the unit of mystery, the person, this trans-objective mystery of the person.
2:40.6	Then we're given a human nature as empowered by God to realize that, which is the soul or the
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