Dialogue 2: The Teacher Arrives

Turning to the Mystics with James Finley

Center for Action and Contemplation

Spirituality, Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.8 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 15 April 2024

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

This is the second 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, 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 9 of turning to the Mystics where we're turning to
0:28.4	the way of a pilgrim by an anonymous author and I'm here with Jim and we're here to reflect on Jim's second talk for this season.
0:38.0	Welcome Jim.
0:40.0	Yes, so good.
0:41.0	It's one of my favorite texts actually in the Mystic, so glad we're doing this together.
0:46.0	Yes, me too. I've just been so enjoying this season and this book. It's just wonderful.
0:53.4	Yeah.
0:54.4	So, Jim, you've given all of us an invitation to let the word and events of the
1:02.0	pilgrim shed light on our own lives and the way our lives
1:06.7	unfold. And then you and I also offered an invitation for people to send in their own stories of pilgrimage or their own
1:15.2	stories of being quickened this way and so in today's episode we're going to go
1:20.0	through some of the elements that the books teaching us about this journey and so if
1:25.0	someone's thinking they might write into us you know they might choose one of these
1:29.5	elements and how that played out in their life.
1:33.0	Just starting with the overarching theme,
1:36.0	and the overarching theme is that we are all pilgrims
1:41.0	and we're on a journey to God.
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