Teresa of Avila: Listener Questions (Part 1)

Turning to the Mystics with James Finley

Center for Action and Contemplation

Spirituality, Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.8 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 5 October 2020

⏱️ 59 minutes

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In this episode, Jim and Kirsten answer questions that were submitted by the listeners during the airing of the 2nd season. Resources: Turning to the Mystics is a podcast by the Center for Action and Contemplation. To learn more about Jim, visit jamesfinley.org  The transcript for this episode can be found 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 cac.org.
0:08.9	Greetings.
0:10.2	I'm Jim Finley.
0:11.6	And I'm Kirsten Oates. Welcome to turning to the Mystics.
0:17.0	Welcome to turning to the Mystics.
0:20.0	Welcome everyone. We're coming to the end of season two of turning to the mystics.
0:28.3	Well we've been turning to the 16th century mystic St. Theresa of Vavala and her beautiful book the interior
0:35.9	castle. We have two more episodes this week and next week and in both episodes
0:41.5	we're turning to questions from our audience.
0:44.0	So we're so grateful for the questions and I think you'll see they draw a lot of wisdom from Jim.
0:50.0	So thank you for those people that sent them in. Let's get started. Welcome Jim,
0:57.0	good to see you. We've come to the end of the beautiful work by St. Theresa of Avalon, the Interior Castle, and today
1:06.9	we're taking questions from listeners. I wondered if you had any you've read
1:12.4	through a lot of the questions do you have any just initial overall
1:16.1	Reflections about what you've been seeing yes, I read them all
1:21.0	I thought they were very good in the sense that what she's saying here she's
1:27.4	really writing this a spiritual direction for guidance for those who are drawn to move toward these more contemplative ways of
1:35.0	experiencing God's presence. And these questions that people are asking are the kinds
1:40.4	of questions people ask. I mean because like what about this and what about
1:44.9	that? Either around the prayer itself or these great states of
1:49.6	consciousness or as it applies to events in their life because it touches things that we've gone
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