Dialogue: The First Mansion

Turning to the Mystics with James Finley

Center for Action and Contemplation

Spirituality, Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.8 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 6 July 2020

⏱️ 61 minutes

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In this episode, Jim and Kirsten have a dialogue around the first mansion of Teresa of Avila's The Interior Castle and discuss the path it provides for spiritual transformation. Resources: Turning to the Mystics is a podcast by the Center for Action and Contemplation. To learn more about Jim, visit jamesfinley.org  The transcript for this episode can be found here. The book being used for this season can be found here. Check out our online course on the Interior Castle, details are here. Connect with us: We also produce other podcasts you might enjoy. To learn more about them and our other offerings, visit cac.org 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 cac.org/podcastsupport 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.
0:08.9	Greetings, I'm Jim Finley.
0:11.6	And I'm Kirsten Oates. Welcome to Turning to the Mystics.
0:17.0	Welcome everyone to turning to the Mystics. In this season we are turning to
0:28.0	Saint Theresa of Avala and Jim is leading us in Lexio using her book, The Interior Castle.
0:35.0	As Jim and I reflected on this season, we thought it would be helpful to include some more question and response sessions to support the Lexio practice.
0:44.7	Currently we are two mansions in and we thought this would be a good time to
0:49.2	reflect on some key themes and teachings. So welcome Jim. Very good yes and I'd like to add to that
0:57.7	by saying that you know these these reflections that I'm sharing with you in these
1:01.3	series of podcasts. I've been giving these talks
1:06.2	on a silent weekend contemplative retreats for the past 30 years. These are silent retreats. At the end of each conference
1:15.4	it would be on Teresa or Eckhart or somebody. And there's questions, people ask
1:22.3	questions, and they're deeply personal questions, but over the year certain
1:27.2	fundamental questions get asked over and over and over again, because these mystical teachings raise questions relative to our
1:35.8	customary ways of understanding things and how do I relate to this how do I
1:40.6	relate to that how can I benefit from this? So that's the purpose of this
1:44.8	session here, is to kind of hopefully tap into some of these very broad-based
1:50.1	questions to make these teachings more accessible or more helpful to you.
1:56.8	So that's kind of the logic of this time here together with Kirsten and hopefully
2:02.0	it'll you'll find it helpful.
2:04.0	Thanks Jim.
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