Dialogue 1: Burnt Norton

Turning to the Mystics with James Finley

Center for Action and Contemplation

Spirituality, Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.8 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 23 September 2024

⏱️ 57 minutes

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In this first dialogue session Jim and Kirsten focus on quartet one, Burnt Norton. 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: [email protected] 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 to turning to the mysteries.
0:17.0	Welcome everyone to season 10 of turning to the mystics where we're turning to
0:28.5	T.S. Elliot and the Four Quartets. I'm here with Jim to discuss his first session and welcome Jim.
0:37.0	Yes, so good to be together like this and share these teachings with the listeners.
0:43.0	And I absolutely loved the first session diving into this poetry.
0:48.0	And I thought it might be helpful just for you to give us a few words
0:52.0	about how to settle in into a poem like this.
0:55.4	Here's the thing about poetry and I'm thinking now when I was in the monastery and we
0:59.7	chanted the Psalms which were poetry and when I first went we chanted it in Latin like back and
1:05.8	for and here's the thing the poetic voice is not the voice that defines or explains
1:14.4	it's rather a voice that evokes
1:17.6	sensitivities to the interior dimensions of our life. And that's the poetic voice. St John of the Cross for
1:26.3	example or Meister Eckhart even when they're doing the teaching there's a poetic
1:31.4	intonation to the way they talk. Yes. But the poetry
1:35.2	is kind of the distilled state of an evocative language, a logos. And so Tiesle
1:42.3	that's why we're turning to the poet, you see, this mystic.
1:46.0	Concentrated time with this experience, yeah.
1:50.0	And that's why to get into it you have to tease it out.
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