Bonus: The Mystics and Social Justice

Turning to the Mystics with James Finley

Center for Action and Contemplation

Spirituality, Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.8 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 10 June 2020

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

On this bonus episode, Jim and Kirsten are offering a reflection on what it means to turn to the mystics during this time of increasing awareness of the evils of systemic racism within our culture. Afterwards, there is a silent meditation for 8:46 to honor the life of George Floyd. To learn about the history of systemic racism in the United States, please visit this link. For listeners who are new to this conversation and are looking for a comprehensive list of resources to further your work of anti-racism, we encourage you to please visit this link.

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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.
0:08.9	Greetings, I'm Jim Finley.
0:11.8	And I'm Kirsten Oates. Welcome to turning to the Mystics.
0:17.0	Greetings everyone and welcome to this bonus session in which Kirsten and I were
0:31.4	talking about how helpful it would be to see what the
0:36.4	implications are to our efforts to turn to the Mystics for spiritual guidance in
0:42.1	guiding us and how we understand and respond to this widespread
0:46.9	social unrest throughout the United States and other countries in the world too in response to the killing of George Floyd,
0:55.2	which is seen also to be but the latest example of an ongoing systemic racism
1:02.4	within the culture and then the rising up like a collective
1:06.6	consciousness or the collection of the movement of the spirit in the world, moving people to make
1:12.3	a response to this.
1:15.0	And so our commitment to the mystics is a commitment then to this presence of God that utterly transcends the darkness of this world, but not to
1:27.0	distance us from it, but rather to radicalize our commitment to God's presence in the world.
1:37.0	And so the mystics, the tonal quality of the mystics then, and the Christian mystic mystic that the mind it was in Christ Jesus also be a new.
1:47.6	How would Jesus? How could we join Jesus and how Jesus would understand what's happening. How could we join
1:56.0	Jesus and what Jesus' attitude would be, that it might be our attitude, and how
2:01.7	might that Christ consciousness move us to act in response to
2:06.1	this societal crisis slash opportunity and to get at this, in this brief reflection here, I thought I
2:18.0	sure with you a paraphrase in the writings of St. Augustine, who's a great early Christian philosopher,
2:25.8	theologian and mystic.
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