Dialogue 4: The Dark Night

In this bonus episode, Jim concludes the section on The Dark Night by reflecting on it using two key passages from the text. 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 fo ...  Show more

This is the sixth session that focuses on the mystic, St. John of the Cross. With this episode, Jim turns back to Thomas Merton's book, The Inner Experience, to summarize his own understanding of The Dark Night and begins to move us towards St. John of the Cross's work on The Spi ...  Show more

In this episode, we distill Richard Rohr's teaching philosophy into three animating questions: What do we want to know? How do we want to grow? How do we want to show up in our lives and in the world? These questions serve as foundational guides for embodying incarnational mystic ...  Show more

Why is there such a disconnect between who we want to be and what we actually do? In this second of two conversations with Ger Jones of Vintage Church LA, John Mark and Ger discuss the practice of contemplation. John Mark argues that we overestimate the ability of willpower and i ...  Show more

Casual talk about the every day stories we tell and how it impacts the co-creation of our lives. Tisha chats with guest Rejys Cowan, host of the Spiritual Shit You Need to Know podcast about how to change our story to align with what we want based on the teachings of Abraham Hick ...  Show more

Hello beautiful souls! I love how this story shows just how much our angels will guide our everyday life. Marty even guides his partner Milissa from the Other Side by telling her when to change the furnace filter. We also talk about why you don't need to go to the cemetery to ...