The Way of a Pilgrim: Session 2

Turning to the Mystics with James Finley

Center for Action and Contemplation

Spirituality, Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

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🗓️ 8 April 2024

⏱️ 43 minutes

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This is the second session that focuses on the 19th-century anonymous text, The Way of a Pilgrim. In the tenor of the ancient practice of Lectio Divina, James Finley begins with passages from The Way of a Pilgrim, 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 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.
0:07.0	Greetings, I'm Jim Finley.
0:13.2	Welcome to turning to the mysteries.
0:16.2	Greetings everyone and welcome to our time here together turning for
0:28.4	trustworthy guidance to the way of a pilgrim one of the classic texts in the Christian mystical tradition.
0:37.1	In the previous session, we set the tone for a whole approach to this and really all the mystics.
0:46.6	The tone being the fact that because it's written as a personal narrative, we can say that when the pilgrim shares what he experienced, we could say literally he was really experiencing that.
0:59.0	And whatever anyone told them, someone really did tell him that. But at a more interior level,
1:05.1	his experiences are metaphorical openings into the interior depth dimensions of his
1:11.0	life. It's just like in the Gospels when Jesus said this to
1:16.1	this person they said this person back we can say that in a moment in history
1:19.7	Jesus really did say that. The person did say that or Jesus did this. But really what we see
1:26.1	there in each thing that Jesus says is a timeless depth dimension of the
1:31.4	presence of Jesus in our life. And so the text then is the
1:36.0	interiority of the text is letting the words and the events of the
1:40.0	pilgrim drop down into and shed light on the interior of our own unfolding life.
1:46.4	And so at the deepest level, for example, we're all pilgrims at this deep level.
1:51.6	We're on a journey towards God is where we are. And also it's true that he says that
1:58.4	he's a pilgrim of the humblest birth and that he has some dried bread in it on his knapsack that sustains him through time.
2:05.5	So too we have our clothes and our furniture and our house and but when you really look at it it's
2:10.0	sustaining our bodily presence through time and also over his breast pocket in his heart
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