Turning to T.S. Eliot

Turning to the Mystics with James Finley

Center for Action and Contemplation

Spirituality, Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.8 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 9 September 2024

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Welcome to Season 10 of Turning to the Mystics. This season we are turning to T.S. Eliot for spiritual guidance. In this episode, James Finley and Kirsten Oates cover the life and person of T.S. Eliot and discuss how we can work with his poetry to transform our lives. Resources: Turning to the Mystics is a podcast by the Center for Action and Contemplation. To learn more about James Finley, visit his faculty profile here. The transcript for this episode can be found here. The book we will be using this season can be found here. A free version can be accessed online here. Connect with us: Have a question you'd like Jim or Kirsten to answer about this season? Email us: podcasts@cac.org Send us a voicemail: cac.org/voicemail We'll be accepting questions for our Listener Questions episode until November 7th, 2024. 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	You're listening to a podcast by the Center for Action and Contemplation.
0:04.4	To learn more, visit cacac.org.
0:08.4	Greetings, I'm Jim Finley.
0:11.4	And I'm Keston Oates. Welcome to turning to the mysteries.
0:16.0	Welcome, everyone.
0:20.0	Welcome everyone to season 10 of turning to the Mystics and I'm here with Jim
0:29.6	welcome and we've made it to double figures to season 10.
0:35.6	Yes we did I'm grateful for how well this has been received and we can continue on sharing these
0:41.4	insights with people.
0:43.0	Well, with that, let's get started, Jim.
0:46.0	Let's have the big announcement.
0:48.0	Who is our new mystic for season 10?
0:51.0	Yes.
0:52.0	You know, in all our sessions so far, we've been turning for guidance to the
0:59.4	Christian mystics and we're going to continue doing that in further sessions. But here for the first time,
1:06.5	I want to start turning to poets with a strong kind of mystical tone to their poetic voice.
1:13.5	And this time we'll be turning to T.S.
1:16.5	Elliot in the Poem Four Quartets.
1:19.9	And as with the Mystics, I'll be reading a stanza in the poem.
1:25.0	And then translating the message of the stanza to serve our purposes here
1:31.0	on how we can experientially allow these words of T.S. Elliott to deepen our
1:37.4	experience of in response to God in our life and so we'll be walking through this
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