Awakening Through Grief with Mirabai Starr

Jul 24, 2024

Loch Kelly welcomes Mirabai Starr to discuss how grief can lead to a connection with the sacred. They explore mystics' teachings, integrating personal and collective experiences. Mirabai's book 'Wild Mercy' emphasizes wisdom from women mystics. The podcast touches on the transformative power of grief, mystic poetry in mental health crisis, and nurturing longing in spiritual journey.

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INSIGHT

Grief As A Portal To The Sacred

Grief functions as a portal that reveals both the transcendent and the immanent dimensions of reality.
Mirabai Starr calls grief a luminous nexus that reflects interconnectedness and invites sacred presence.

INSIGHT

Subtlety Of Mystical Experience

Mystical experience is often subtle rather than dramatic and requires leaning in to notice it.
Poetry and contemplative practices can knock on the heart's door and open deeper knowing.

ADVICE

Use Poetry As Contemplative Practice

Use poetry as a contemplative practice to let language evoke embodied feeling and open the heart.
Stay with poems like lexio divina to inhabit the landscape they evoke and deepen spiritual receptivity.

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Join Loch Kelly the creator of the mindful glimpses app here as he welcomes spiritual teacher and author Mirabai Starr about how grief is a portal to the sacred. They explore the mystics' poetic teachings on embracing both the transcendent and immanent - the ultimate reality and our embodied human experience.

Wild Mercy by Mirabai Starr is about “living the fierce and tender wisdom of the women mystics.” Drawing on the feminine wisdom traditions and others, Loch and Mirabai Starr discuss how loss and the heart's longing can reveal our belonging to the "holy hush" where the fragrance of the sacred perfumes suffering with ultimate meaning. Loch also shares his own early awakening through the crisis of his father's death, emphasizing an integration of the absolute and relative, the personal and collective.

[TIMECODE] The episode features Loch offering a guided practice called Knowing From HeartMind. These mindful glimpses serve as invaluable tools for experiencing ways to access the awake consciousness.

You can now explore all of Loch Kelly's practices and teachings on the new Mindful Glimpses app, found at https://lochkelly.org/mindful-glimpses. This innovative meditation and wellness app offers daily micro-meditations, step-by-step programs, and simple-yet-advanced tools for awakening.

Mirabai Starr Bio

Mirabai Starr is an author, speaker and philosopher who lives for beauty, especially the beauty of language found in literary fiction and mystical poetry. Wild Mercy by Mirabai Starr has been called “essential reading for anyone ready to awaken the feminine mystic within.” Born to secular Jewish parents active in the counter-culture, she embraced an ecumenical spiritual path from an early age at communities like the Lama Foundation. Starr taught Philosophy and World Religions for 20 years, making connections between the perennial teachings at the heart of all spiritual traditions. Her work explores the transformational power of grief and loss, illuminated by her own profound experiences of loss. Starr speaks and teaches internationally on the wisdom of the mystics and contemplative practices. https://mirabaistarr.com/

You can now explore all of Loch Kelly’s practices and teachings on the new Mindful Glimpses app, found at https://lochkelly.org/mindful-glimpses. This innovative meditation and wellness app offers daily micro-meditations, step-by-step programs, and simple-yet-advanced tools for awakening.

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Loch Kelly Bio
Loch is the creator of the Mindful Glimpses app, and an award-winning author, psychotherapist, and nondual meditation teacher. He is also known for his unique practical methods that support awakening as the next natural stage of human development. Backed by modern neuroscience and psychology, Loch introduces Effortless Mindfulness, which combines an ancient form of nondual meditation and IFS psychology that allows immediate access to our embodied awake nature which arises as our calm, clear, and compassionate healing capacity.

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