Turning to Gabriel Marcel

Turning to the Mystics with James Finley

Center for Action and Contemplation

Spirituality, Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.8 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 17 March 2025

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Welcome to Season 11 of Turning to the Mystics. This season we are turning to philosopher Gabriel Marcel for spiritual guidance. In this episode, James Finley and Kirsten Oates cover the life and person of Marcel and discuss how we can work with his ideas to transform our lives. 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 will be available soon. 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] Send us a voicemail: cac.org/voicemail We'll be accepting questions for our Listener Questions episode until May 13th, 2025. 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.
0:04.0	To learn more, visit cac.org.
0:08.2	Greetings. I'm Jim Finley.
0:11.2	And I'm Kirsten Oates.
0:13.2	Welcome to Turning to the Mystics.
0:27.6	Welcome, everyone, to Season 11 of Turning to the Mystics.
0:31.9	And I'm here with Jim to introduce our new Mystic for Season 11.
0:33.0	Welcome, Jim.
0:38.9	Yes, glad to start up again, share these insights with the folks.
0:42.4	And so who is our new mystic, Jim, for season 11?
0:48.9	The new mystic is Gabriel Marcel, and as always we'll start with who he was historically to help us better understand who he is spiritually.
0:53.2	Gabriel Marcel was born in France in 1889, where he lived
0:58.6	until his death in 1973. He was a bit of a prodigy, both as a musician and as a composer and as a
1:07.6	playwright, but he was mainly known for his philosophy, and that's what we're going to be
1:12.6	looking at. You know, from the very beginning of the turning to the mystics series of
1:18.7	mystics we've been exploring, I've been focusing on the classical text of the Christian mystics
1:24.8	that I was introduced to in the monastery and have guided and
1:27.9	sustain me over the years. But in the previous session, we branched out and for the first time
1:33.7	turned to a poet as mystic, T.S. Eliot four quartets. We'll be doing more poets in the future to
1:39.5	Emily Dickinson and others. And now we're branching out even more, we're turning to a philosopher as a mystic,
1:46.7	like a mystically awakened philosopher, turning to ourselves, insights, guiding us and our spiritual
1:54.0	paths. Wonderful. Jim, can you, for those of us who perhaps aren't familiar with philosophy, could you give us just a
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