Signposts (Formerly Lessons From Dead Guys)

Every Monday we will venture into the thoughts and voices of those in the Christian mystical tradition in five minutes or less! In this Mystic Monday episode we hear from the Thomas Merton  (January 31, 1915 – December 10, 1968) was an American Trappist monk, writer, theologian, mystic, poet, social activist, and scholar of comparative religion. Today’s selection comes from his work New Seeds of Contemplation.Buy me a Coffee!Like what I am doing and want to say thanks? Then feel free to BUY ME A COFFEE (or 6)! Music provided by Alex Sugg / songsforstory.com

Every Monday we will venture into the thoughts and voices of those in the Christian mystical tradition in five minutes or less! In this Mystic Monday episode we hear from the Pierre Teilhard de Chardin SJ (1 May 1881 – 10 April 1955) was a French idealist philosopher and Jesuit Catholic priest who trained as a paleontologist and geologist and took part in the discovery of the Peking Man. He conceived the vitalist idea of the Omega Point (a maximum level of complexity and consciousness towards which he believed the universe was evolving), and he developed Vladimir Vernadsky's concept of noosphere. Buy me a Coffee!Like what I am doing and want to say thanks? Then feel free to BUY ME A COFFEE (or 6)! Music provided by Alex Sugg / songsforstory.com

Every Monday we will venture into the thoughts and voices of those in the Christian mystical tradition in five minutes or less! In this Mystic Monday episode we hear from the Maximus the Confessor, also known as Maximus the Theologian and Maximus of Constantinople (c. 580 – 13 August 662), was a Christianmonk, theologian, and scholar.Buy me a Coffee!Like what I am doing and want to say thanks? Then feel free to BUY ME A COFFEE (or 6)! Music provided by Alex Sugg / songsforstory.com

Every Monday we will venture into the thoughts and voices of those in the Christian mystical tradition in five minutes or less! In this Mystic Monday episode we hear from the Edward Burrough (1634–1663) was an early English Quaker leader and controversialist. He is regarded as one of the Valiant Sixty, who were early Quaker preachers and missionaries.Buy me a Coffee!Like what I am doing and want to say thanks? Then feel free to BUY ME A COFFEE (or 6)! Music provided by Alex Sugg / songsforstory.com

Every Monday we will venture into the thoughts and voices of those in the Christian mystical tradition in five minutes or less! In this Mystic Monday episode we hear from the Raimon Panikkar (1918–2010), was a Spanish Roman Catholic priest and a proponent of Interfaith dialogue. As a scholar, he specialized in comparative religion. His work largely centers around their synthesis of Christian and Hindu theology.Buy me a Coffee!Like what I am doing and want to say thanks? Then feel free to BUY ME A COFFEE (or 6)! Music provided by Alex Sugg / songsforstory.com