The 13th Century Christian mystic Meister Eckhart declared, “I pray God to rid me of God.”
Eckhart, however, wasn’t throwing in the towel on his spiritual journey. Instead, his desire was to be rid of his own limited notions of God to make room for the true Mystery that is the Divine. This is the beginning of the mystical journey, and today author and minister Amos Smith shares with us his insights on the mystical path and how it is an everyday journey that can lead to both inner and outer transformation.
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SHOW NOTES
Amos’s Website
Healing the Divide: Recovering Christianity’s Mystic Roots by Amos Smith
Be Still and Listen: Experience the Presence of God in Your Life by Amos Smith
A Hidden Wholeness by Parker Palmer
Everything Belongs by Richard Rohr
Classics on Christian Mysticism recommended by Amos:
- The Sacrament of the Present Moment by Jean Pierre de Caussade
- The Gospel of John
- The Gospel of John in the Light of Indian Mysticism by Ravi Ravindra
- The Gospel of Thomas
- The Cloud of Unknowing
- The Philokalia in English by Faber & Faber, Book number 2 (in 4 book series)
- Intimacy with God by Thomas Keating
- The Naked Now by Richard Rohr