Coaching Session: May God Bind Us All

Turning to the Mystics with James Finley

Center for Action and Contemplation

Spirituality, Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.8 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 23 October 2023

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

In this special episode, Jim and Kirsten review the season and offer a way for us to turn to Mechthild for guidance on our own spiritual path. To help you participate, we have provided the worksheet in the Resource Section below. Resource Section: A transcript for this episode can be found here. The worksheet for this episode can be found here. The book we will be using this season, The Flowing Light of the Godhead, can be found here. Connect with us: Have a question you'd like Jim or Kirsten to answer about Mechthild of Magdeburg? Email us: [email protected] or leave us voicemail. Questions for this season will only be accepted until October 30th, 2023. 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 Kirsten Oates. Welcome to turning to the mysteries.
0:16.0	Welcome everyone.
0:20.0	Welcome everyone to season 8 of turning to the mystics where we've been turning to
0:28.2	the German mystic Mecktilled of Magdeburg and in this coaching session Jim is going to offer us a way that we can
0:37.0	continue to turn to Meck Tild for guidance on our own. So Jim, thank you for being here and I just wanted to let people know that
0:47.1	we've put together a worksheet and that should be available in the show notes and
0:51.8	that you might want to print out that
0:54.6	worksheet and have it with you for this episode as Jim you're going to refer to
0:59.7	it aren't you? Yes and I want to add to that also about the worksheet is that when I'm kind of modeling for you,
1:07.2	the Selexio meditation and prayer using McTell is our guide.
1:12.1	You'll notice on the worksheet that Krista and I put together
1:15.3	under discursive meditation and I'll walk through these in my reflection some bullet points.
1:21.1	So if you find them helpful, you can have the worksheet with you in your
1:24.4	meditation and use them as possible guides to help you kind of move along the
1:30.9	different layers of your own meditation time. The idea here of this
1:35.9	session is that when I was going through Mechtel, I read her and then reflected on her in a very reflective personal way that was
1:50.2	consistent with the prayerful way that we received her teaching, the teachings of all the mystics.
1:56.0	And so what I want to do now, Kristen and I together want to do,
2:01.0	is kind of model in an even closer way how to practice how to
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