Teresa of Avila: Listener Questions (Part 2)

Turning to the Mystics with James Finley

Center for Action and Contemplation

Spirituality, Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.8 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 12 October 2020

⏱️ 69 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  For the transcript to this podcast, you can find it 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.
0:16.0	Welcome to the Missings.
0:20.0	Welcome to the final episode for season 2 of turning to the Mystics, where we've been turning to
0:28.9	Saint Theresa of Avalon and her book, The Interior Castle.
0:33.8	It's been an absolute joy to be a part of this season and thank you so much for listening.
0:39.5	We're ending on a wonderful note turning to listener questions in a dialogue with Jim. So let's get started.
0:46.1	Well thank you for being here Jim and this is our second episode on turning to listener questions and we're so grateful for the questions
0:57.6	they really help with the understanding of your teaching so thank you for sending them in.
1:03.7	Are you ready to get started Jim I am I'm ready okay great so we have a question from Amy and she's asking would you consider
1:11.2	Elliot a mystic I think he was as so many poets.
1:17.0	Yes, you know, first of all, I, I, T.S. Elliot, I don't,
1:27.0	and other mystics tools, like in a broad sense, yes.
1:31.0	As a matter of fact, I have a retreat that I give on four quartets and I intend
1:38.8	once we finish the Christian Mystics we'll see how the series goes.
1:43.4	But I'd also like to do each one on these poets.
1:45.6	I'd like to do Blake and T.S. Elliot and Dickinson
1:50.4	and Gerard Manley Hopkins and Rilka and on the poet is mystic and Heidegger
1:57.8	Sazan poetic thinking is thinking that transcends conceptualization and so on, yes.
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