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Turning to Thomas Merton

Turning to the Mystics with James Finley

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The Seven Story Mountain

Merton was a prolific and widely read spiritual writer in our time, really. He got very involved in the contemplative traditions of the non-Christian traditions. And so he carried on very serious dialogue with the Muslim Sufis, with the Zen Buddhist,. The Jewish tradition, the Protestant Christian tradition. People would come there and visit him. There were rumors that CIA killed him because this was back the Bergen brothers.

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