T.S. Eliot: Session 2

Turning to the Mystics with James Finley

Center for Action and Contemplation

Spirituality, Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.8 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 30 September 2024

⏱️ 52 minutes

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This is the second session that focuses on the poet T.S. Eliot and his work, Four Quartets. In the tenor of the ancient practice of Lectio Divina, James Finley begins with passages from Four Quartets, reflects on the qualitative essence of the spirit of this text, and finishes with a meditative practice. 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.
0:10.0	Greetings, I'm Jim Finley.
0:13.2	Welcome to turning to the mysteries.
0:16.2	Greetings everyone. Greetings everyone.
0:24.0	everyone.
0:25.0	Welcome to our time together, turning for guidance found in T.S. Ali's Poem Four Quartets. In the previous session, we reflected on the first of the
0:38.0	four poems, Burton Norton. And now we move now into the second of the four poems, East Coker.
0:46.7	And right away we can see the continuity of these poems.
0:50.8	And they're just as Burton or Norton refers to an actual place.
0:55.0	East Koker refers to a place.
0:58.0	Only now the place East Koker is a town in England,
1:02.0	instead of a more specific place like Burton
1:05.4	is a town. Another source of continuity which is more relevant is he's going to begin by reflecting on the town from the standpoint of time.
1:17.6	And then he's going to roll it over to look at time from the standpoint of eternity in the town.
1:25.0	Another interesting little shift
1:27.4	is he's looking at the town from the standpoint of time
1:31.0	with respect to the buildings the people build to live in in the town and to
1:36.2	conduct the business of the day.
1:38.8	And that's how he's going to start.
1:40.9	I'll begin then with the opening stanza, East Koker.
1:46.0	In my beginning is my end.
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