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Necessary Suffering With Mirabai Starr

Wednesday, April 10, 2024
Length: 01:26:00
Size: 120mb

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What if the goal of the spiritual journey is to understand suffering? 

In this episode, we’re joined by Mirabai Starr as we continue our chapter-by-chapter exploration of Falling Upward with Chapter 6: “Necessary Suffering.” This episode explores how loss, suffering, and grief can be a transformative spiritual path, leading to deeper connection with the divine and a more authentic self, by urging us to confront pain and surrender to a greater reality. Before we dive in to the interview with Mirabai, CAC staff catch up with Richard at his hermitage to hear his reflections on the sixth chapter a decade after he originally wrote it.

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Meet the Guest

Mirabai Starr is an award-winning author of creative non-fiction and contemporary translations of sacred literature. She taught Philosophy and World Religions at the University of New Mexico-Taos for 20 years and now teaches and speaks internationally on contemplative practice and inter-spiritual dialog. A certified bereavement counselor, Mirabai helps mourners harness the transformational power of loss. Her latest book, WILD MERCY: Living the Fierce & Tender Wisdom of the Women Mystics, was named one of the “Best Books of 2019”. She lives with her extended family in the mountains of northern New Mexico.

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