Dialogue 1: The Journey Begins

Turning to the Mystics with James Finley

Center for Action and Contemplation

Spirituality, Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.8 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 1 April 2024

⏱️ 51 minutes

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This is the first dialogue session that focuses on the 19th-century mystical text, The Way of a Pilgrim, which covers sections of the first chapter. 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 at the Center for Action and Contemplation here. The transcript for this episode can be found here. The book we will be using this season can be found here. Connect with us: Have a question you'd like Jim or Kirsten to answer about this season? Email us: [email protected] Questions for this season will only be accepted until May 6th, 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.
0:09.7	I'm Jim Finley.
0:11.3	And I'm Kristen Oates. Welcome to turning to the mysteries.
0:16.0	Welcome everyone.
0:20.0	Welcome everyone to season 9 of turning to the Mystics where we're turning to
0:28.2	the anonymous author who wrote The Way of a Pilgrim and I'm here with Jim and we're going to dialogue about
0:35.5	Jim's first session for this season. Welcome Jim. Yes, yes welcome but we're all together again, which is good. Yes, yes, and we have a little
0:48.0	announcement we want to do at the beginning, which is an invitation to our audience to share aspects of their own pilgrim journey.
0:58.8	The idea being that as they listen to your sessions it might bring to mind their own
1:05.0	experiences and so we'd love to have a we'd love to hear from people to share
1:10.9	about their own pilgrimage experiences.
1:13.0	And I'd like to add this also that always when you send in questions,
1:19.0	we're not able to read all the questions, but we always read all of them.
1:23.2	And the same is true with any of these personal entries that you make.
1:28.1	We'll read all of them, but be able to read a random sample.
1:33.2	And also I suggest it either be anonymous or not anonymous,
1:36.4	it's up to you.
1:37.5	And also probably to choose a decisive moment,
1:40.6	like a turning in your own awakening. also not with this but in a bigger thing to consider it
1:47.2	is to write your spiritual memoir in the present tense at the feeling level that is right now how little you were when you got your first sense of God was real or your first sense of to just kind of because a spiritual practice to see how you've been led right up to this where you are right now in your own
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