Turning to Meister Eckhart

Turning to the Mystics with James Finley

Center for Action and Contemplation

Spirituality, Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.8 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 3 April 2023

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Welcome to Season 7 of Turning to the Mystics. This season we are turning to 15th-century German mystic Meister Eckhart for spiritual guidance. In this episode, James Finley and Kirsten Oates cover the person and life of Meister Eckhart and how we can work with his teachings to transform our lives. 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. Jim's reading list for Meister Eckhart can be found here. Connect with us: Have a question you'd like Jim or Kirsten to answer about Meister Eckhart? Email us: podcasts@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 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
0:06.0	retreat. Saturday, August 26th from 9-5 Pacific. Inspired by his memoir, The Healing Path,
0:14.4	Jim offers guided reflections to help you become more conscious of the thread of your own sacred
0:20.5	journey. The event will be recorded and all registered will have access to the replay.
0:26.5	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.
0:55.9	To Turning to the Mystics.
1:04.4	Welcome everyone to season seven of Turning to the Mystics. I'm here with Jim and Cory
1:11.8	and we're excited to learn about our Mystic for season seven. So Jim, will you welcome
1:20.8	and will you introduce us to our season seven Mystic? Yes, I'm pleased to resume our
1:27.4	explorations together in this series and the podcast. And so what we're going to be doing now
1:34.7	beginning season seven is turning to the Mystic Master Act card. And we'll be exploring
1:42.0	a card the same way I did the other Mystics. And I'll be reading passages and then reflect on
1:48.1	the passages with practical examples to make the teachings as accessible as possible
1:54.8	in the daily living of our life. And then as we're trying to back and forth between a man Mystic
2:01.3	and a woman Mystic, then in season eight we'll do McDowell to Magbirg and there's a woman Mystic.
2:08.8	And so that'll bear an expair of a man and a woman Mystic in this season and the one that follows.
2:16.1	Wonderful. So in this session we'll be able to learn a little bit more about
2:21.5	Mystic before you get into his teaching. And so just wondering who was this
2:29.2	Mystic Master, Mystic, who was he historically? So to begin first, like we always try to do,
2:35.7	is to begin with who he was historically because that helps us understand who he is spiritually.
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