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The Sacred Speaks

Date de sortie : 2025-09-20
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Date de sortie : 2025-09-20
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128 - Mirabai Starr: Ordinary Mysticism: Your Life as Sacred Ground

128 - Mirabai Starr: Ordinary Mysticism: Your Life as Sacred Ground

In this episode of The Sacred Speaks, host Dr. John W. Price welcomes Mirabai Starr—acclaimed translator of the mystics, teacher of interspiritual wisdom, and luminous guide to the sacred woven through daily life. Together, they explore the heart of o
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In this episode of The Sacred Speaks, host Dr. John W. Price welcomes Mirabai Starr—acclaimed translator of the mystics, teacher of interspiritual wisdom, and luminous guide to the sacred woven through daily life. Together, they explore the heart of ordinary mysticism: discovering holiness not only in monasteries or mountaintops, but in the tender rhythms of our own existence.
Mirabai opens her story with radical honesty—her countercultural Jewish upbringing, alternative education, and the teachers and traditions that shaped her. The conversation turns to how rigid ideas of “being spiritual” can keep us from true intimacy with the divine, and how humility, humor, and embodiment restore us to a living spirituality. Mirabai shares how the death of her teenage daughter became a devastating but sacred initiation, revealing grief as one of the deepest portals into divine love.
Moving between ancient voices and her own life, Mirabai offers a mysticism that is fiercely tender, humble, embodied, and accessible to all. This dialogue invites us to see our own lives as sacred ground—woven with loss and beauty, pain and joy, shadow and wonder.
Key Takeaways
Mysticism is accessible in everyday life, not just in monasteries or religious settings.
Rigid religious or cultural ideas of “spirituality” can block authentic spiritual experience.
Embodiment and emotions—especially grief—are sacred entry points into deeper connection.
Translating the mystics is less about history than entering a living dialogue across time.
Friendship, humor, humility, and even money can be part of an integrated spiritual life.
In This Episode
(00:00) Introduction and Welcome
(00:20) Introducing Mirabai
(01:14) Mirabai’s Background and Influences
(02:30) Personal Tragedy and Grief
(03:21) Housekeeping and Announcements
(05:26) Interview with Mirabai Starr Begins
(07:33) Ordinary Mysticism and Everyday Spirituality
(08:54) Critique of Organized Religion
(13:38) Counterculture Upbringing and Influence
(18:39) Alternative Education and Teaching Philosophy
(23:29) Feminine Mysticism and Embodiment
(38:32) Translating the Mystics as Living Companions
(43:33) The Supernatural and the Natural
(45:55) Writing as Dialogic Spiritual Practice
(51:27) Grief and the Sacredness of Loss
(01:00:21) Writing as a Spiritual Path
(01:14:02) Navigating Money and Spirituality
(01:18:17) Closing Reflections & Resources
Connect with Mirabai Starr
Company: Wild Heart
Community: Holy Lament (online support for grief; opens twice yearly, next in Nov 2025)
Book: Ordinary Mysticism: Your Life as Sacred Ground (HarperOne, Sept 2025)
Earlier Works: Wild Mercy, Caravan of No Despair, her translations of Dark Night of the Soul and The Interior Castle, and more - check out Mirabai's website: mirabaistarr.com
Connect with John
Come and join, The Open Gate. Link on website
Website: https://drjohnwprice.com
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/drjohnwprice/
Id. d’épisode : 1000727631310
GUID : tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/2173750596
Date de publication : 20/9/2025 à 14:11:25

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Join depth psychotherapist and Jungian scholar, John Price, in an exploration of extraordinary stories and phenomena that lurk beneath the surface of normal and everyday life. Listen in as John interviews experts, dilettantes, sinners, and saints to explore their professional and personal perspective on the underlying purpose of the mysteries which lurk within the seemingly mundane nature of day-to-day life.
John received his Master’s degree in clinical psychology and his Doctorate degree in Jungian psychology. He is in private practice and is also on the faculty of The Jung Center and The University of St. Thomas, both located in Houston, Texas. He lectures and teaches classes in subjects ranging from Parenting and Consciousness to Sex, Drugs and Rock & Roll.
This podcast seeks to accept a challenge laid out by Carl Jung: to explore the universal human feelings of emotional incompleteness, spiritual curiosity and one’s related search for wholeness and meaning. Interviews commence with the belief that, by engaging in this exploration, we can learn more about the psyche, consciousness, spirituality, philosophy and the profound, though often hidden, meaning of the day-to-day lives we lead (or which will lead us, if we aren’t watchful).
Come along as John follows people into bars, universities, places of worship, financial districts and the home. He finds each context equally able to provide a setting for this worthy search and also that, through this process, we have an opportunity to come to know each other and ourselves much more deeply.

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