Dialogue 3: The Dry Salvages

Turning to the Mystics with James Finley

Center for Action and Contemplation

Spirituality, Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.8 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 21 October 2024

⏱️ 58 minutes

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In this third dialogue session Jim and Kirsten focus on quartet three, The Dry Salvages. 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 everyone.
0:20.0	Welcome everyone to turning to the Mystics, where we're turning to T.S. Elliot and his
0:29.0	poetry in the Four Quartets. And I'm here with Jim to discuss his third session.
0:34.8	Welcome Jim. Yes, thank you. Thank you.
0:37.2	Thank you.
0:38.2	Glad to be together again with our listeners. In the third session you focused on the third poem in four quartets called
0:45.7	Dry Salvages and you open with sharing that it's actually a place of the
0:52.0	northeast coast of Cape Anne, Massachusetts. I actually
0:56.0	looked it up. There's images online for the place and it helped me to look at the
1:00.8	images as you discuss one of the key themes of this poem, which is that our interface with the primordial.
1:09.0	Yes, you know, it shows you his sensitivity to the spirituality of place because when he
1:15.8	would vacation in the summers at Cape and then look out he could actually see it as
1:20.2	a small all-crop rocks with a beacon to warn ship so they wouldn't crash on the rocks.
1:27.0	And then he saw layers of meaning.
1:28.7	He took something like that and that becomes the leaping off place.
1:33.0	You know what reminds me of there's a passage in Gabriel Marcel?
1:37.0	He talks about a deep thought.
1:40.0	And he said, well, what is a deep thought?
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