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Since 1973 New Dimensions Radio/Media, a not-for-profit membership organization, has been producing and distributing the "New Dimensions" radio series heard worldwide. Each week, this life-long learning program series presents leading-edge thinkers, scientists, artists, healers, ecologists, spiritual leaders, and social architects in award winning, deep dialogues.
Delving into many different spiritual paths can be thought of as digging many shallow wells with the hope of reaching water. However, Mirabai Starr’s experience tells her that she is using many different tools to dig a single deep well. Following the interspiritual path goes beyond simply understanding another’s religion. Rather, it means, “Embracing the sacred in multiple traditions with discipline and passion.” She speaks of going through the “dark night of the soul” when we no longer feel a connectedness with our spiritual path. Giving us comfort in the advice of St. John of the Cross she says, “Rest in it and surrender . . . let go of all our old attachments to the way the spiritual path is supposed to be. Let down into that darkness and into that emptiness where we find what he calls an ineffable sweetness that begins to rise into that hollowed out container.” (hosted by Justine Willis Toms)
Bio
Mirabai Starr is an adjunct professor of Philosophy and World Religions at the University of New Mexico, Taos. She is a certified bereavement counselor, and travels the world speaking and giving workshops on contemplative practice and the teachings of the mystics.
Her books include the critically acclaimed translations:
- Dark Night of the Soul
(Riverhead 2003)
- The Interior Castle: St. Teresa of Avila
(Riverhead 2004)
- Devotion, Prayers & Living Wisdom (Sounds True 2008), six-volume series of translations of the writings and poetry of six Christian mystics:
- Saint John of the Cross (Devotions, Prayers & Living Wisdom)
- Saint Michael the Archangel (Devotions, Prayers & Living Wisdom)
- Saint Francis of Assisi (Devotions, Prayers & Living Wisdom)
- Hildegard of Bingen (Devotions, Prayers & Living Wisdom)
- Our Lady of Guadalupe (Devotions, Prayers, and Living Wisdom)
- Saint Teresa of Avila (Devotions, Prayers & Living Wisdom)
- Saint John of the Cross (Devotions, Prayers & Living Wisdom)
She is the author of:
(Monkfish 2012)Topics Explored in This Dialogue
- How can we embrace multiple traditions while still going deep
- How is the state of longing our birthright as human beings
- What helps when we no longer feel our familiar old connectedness with our spiritual path
- What is a writing practice that will help uncover our true spiritual questions
- What is the difference between interspiritual and interfaith
- Why is keeping a “Sabbath” in our life a radical act
Host: Justine Willis Toms Interview Date: 7/13/2012 Program Number: 3444
