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Harry Potter and the Sacred Text

Owl Post Edition: The Importance of Re-Reading with Stephanie Paulsell

Harry Potter and the Sacred Text

Vanessa Zoltan, Casper ter Kuile & Ariana Nedelman

Religion & Spirituality, Society & Culture, Jk Rowling, Books, Reading, Harry Potter, Arts, Sacred Reading, Sprituality, Sacred, Philosophy

4.76.8K Ratings

🗓️ 18 March 2021

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

This week, Vanessa and Casper are joined by mentor Stephanie Paulsell to discuss why we re-read sacred texts and what we should keep in mind for starting again at Book 1.


Thanks to Ali, Julianne, Scott, Melissa and anonymous for their beautiful voicemail contributions. Next week we’ll be doing a whole series wrap-up episode covering all seven books.

 

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Hi everybody, I am very excited to tell you about a pilgrimage that I get to go on.

0:36.0

We will be treating Emily Dickinson's poetry as sacred, an amherst Massachusetts on July 14th to July 17th.

0:46.0

Vanessa, that sounds like an amazing pilgrimage, an amazing set of poetry to treat as sacred.

0:53.0

I can't think of anything that would make it more amazing. I can't think of any two people who might be coming on this trip.

0:59.0

Who could make this trip more amazing?

1:01.0

Well, you may have heard of them that they are the people who you think in the first paragraph of your acknowledgements in your book.

1:08.0

They are the people who, along with you, helped design this podcast, Amy Hollywood and Stephanie Palsell,

1:14.0

who have actually taught a class at Harvard Divinity School, reading Emily Dickinson's poetry closely.

1:20.0

The Emily Dickinson class was one of the most popular and successful classes at HDS in like the last three years.

1:25.0

Both Stephanie and Amy are brilliant and wonderful and funny and kind and excellent teachers,

1:31.0

and because the poetry is so rich.

1:34.0

We're going to be eating delicious food. We're going to be going to Emily Dickinson's house in the Dickinson Museum

1:39.0

and looking at some of the texts that she hand wrote that are amherst.

1:44.0

We're going to be having a really immersive and beautiful experience.

1:47.0

So everyone, you can find out more at readingandwalkingwith.com.

1:51.0

That is readingandwalkingwith.com. Space is limited, but I hope that many of you can join us to read Emily Dickinson's poetry as Sacred.

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