Mirabai Starr – In the Footsteps of Teresa of Avila
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What You’ll Discover Over the Next 7 Months
Mirabai will guide you into the heart of an ecstatic relationship with the Beloved in this 7-month transformational course, utilizing St. Teresa’s illuminating map for awakening and sacred service, so you can learn to experience the rapturous heights of spiritual realization while remaining fully rooted in the groundedness of your humanity.
Each contemplation and training session will flow smoothly into the next, allowing you to get a comprehensive, holistic grasp of the practices, skills, and principles required to awaken and sustain your spiritual enlightenment, divine embodiment, and inspired service.
Station 1 – Inward Turning
A meditative practice opens the door to the internal regions. We begin to disengage from the pull of thoughts and accept the truth of what is by shifting our consciousness inside and resting in calm and silence. When we open to the holy suchness of the present, we naturally get a greater awareness of self, and we are enabled to reflect upon our real nature with humility and gratitude.
This module will teach you:
Create a regular thoughtful practice that corresponds to your particular manner of being.
Learn self-inquiry techniques that will help you be present to what is.
Learn what it means to be a contemplative and how to use those ideals in your daily life (not limited to formal meditation practice).
When you commit to a contemplative path, you will experience the infusion of the holy into the mundane.
Develop the confidence to confront the challenges that may come when you decide to follow the spiritual path.
Featured Technique: Make a consistent commitment to sit in quiet and stillness, whether for half an hour every morning or for 10 minutes three times a week. Recognize that meditation is about being present to what is, allowing a spaciousness to open around your ideas and feelings, bearing witness to your own experience, and “not believing everything you think.”
Station 2 – The Holy One’s Love Letters:
The cacophony of the outward world fades as we get more acquainted with our inner terrain, and the music of the soul becomes clearer. We can see the difference between shallow dogma and real wisdom. We learn to identify the voice of the Beloved in the books we read, the spiritual discourses we listen to, profound conversations with loved ones, and chance encounters with strangers. Everywhere we look, we seem to gain confirmation of the exact teaching we want, and the linkages amaze us.
This module will teach you:
Improve your judgment in judging the legitimacy of diverse teachings.
Allow yourself to receive the bountiful messages from the Beloved that you require to lead you on your path.
Increase your openness to synchronicities and their blessings in your life.
Deepen your devotion to spiritual practice, even if it does not generate the spiritual “highs” that first drew you to it.
Deep contemplation on a religious passage, poetry, piece of music, film, or audio or video teaching that moves you is the featured practice. Write down your reaction.
Dark Night of the Soul: Station 3:
We can take the spiritual life too seriously at times. We learn some things, experience a few epiphanies, give up our comfort for the rigors of practice, and begin to believe we have discovered the Truth. We suffocate the Holy One by placing it in a box. Everything that once inspired me now feels dry and hollow. This is our chance to let go of our beliefs and rest in the Mystery.
This module will teach you:
Allow for fresh insights by softening around your valued belief systems.
Discover a new perspective on what mysticism is all about.
For advice in navigating spiritual emptiness, read John of the Cross’ spiritual teachings in The Dark Night of the Soul.
Become really at ease with the various benefits of groundlessness.
Featured Technique: Make a list of the spiritual activities and religious notions to which you are most emotionally committed, whether by inherited upbringing or personal experience. Make a separate list of questions and challenges for each. Keep a journal of the findings of your investigation.
Station 4 – Quiet Prayer:
When we shift our emphasis from trying to figure God out with our intellect to focusing on feeling God in our hearts, we reach a realm of exquisite calm. This level reflects the spiritual journey’s midpoint. We have three stations behind us where we mostly achieve spiritual progress via our own efforts, and three stations ahead where grace takes control.
This module will teach you:
Use heart-centered meditation practices to help you more thoroughly feel the Beloved’s growth in your heart, not your head.
Learn about the active and passive stages of the spiritual journey and how to tell which level you are in.
Investigate St. Teresa of Avila’s “three waters” concept and how it relates to your life.
Feel the freedom that comes with letting go of the impulse to mend ourselves and allowing ourselves to be in a holy field.
Guided Metta Meditation is the featured practice.
Station 5 – Union Prayer:
This is the stage at which the soul’s silkworm spins a cocoon and climbs inside to disintegrate. Only when the old self is destroyed can the genuine self emerge. The soul rests in the Divine in her suspended condition, and the Divine rests in her. This dying is a big thrill for the soul.
This module will teach you:
Examine the inter-spiritual principles of self-annihilation and how they may relate to you.
Determine which elements of your false self must be released in order for your metamorphosis to occur.
Investigate St. Teresa of Avila’s “butterfly” metaphor and how it applies to your life.
Consider your personal connections to be a mirror of your developing intimacy with the Beloved.
Featured Technique: Create a work of butterfly art, such as a drawing, painting, poetry, drama, dance, song, film, sculpture, or any other creative effort that symbolizes the butterfly’s transformative potential.
Station 6 – This Lovely Wound:
During this phase, the lover’s (soul’s) desire for connection with the Beloved (God) causes searing suffering. Often, after navigating the spiritual journey deep into the terrain of Mystery, the individual begins to suffer from numerous exterior illnesses that correlate to the inner fire. People at this stage may be dealing with a number of diseases and losses, all of which add to their sense of estrangement from the world. And yet, just beyond the surface of the tumult, “an exquisite sweetness” exists, and the soul knows she is getting closer to the Holy One.
This module will teach you:
Investigate the relationship between personal loss and spiritual desire.
Recognize spiritual desire and the relationship between personal loss and longing for God/union with the Divine.
Approach pain as an alchemical transfiguration.
Use your sensation of separation to get access to oneness.
Learn a more spiritual and practical approach to dealing with sorrow and loss, and how to use them as a catalyst for spiritual growth.
Featured Technique: Make a collection of poems about loss and transformation that you may add to on a regular basis.
Station 7 – The Infinite Chamber:
When the lover (soul) finally joins with the Beloved, only love remains. The spiritual journey’s task is to get out of our own way and enable the Holy One to love through us. We realize our basic oneness with everything that is when the differences between self and God begin to vanish. After experiencing this merger, our only desire is to assist alleviate suffering in the world. Raptures, visions, and other altered states of consciousness fade away, leaving us firmly in the middle of the human situation, ready to stand up and contribute.
This module will teach you:
Investigate inter-spiritual viewpoints on compassionate action, the Bodhisattva Vow, and the relationship between contemplative practice and service.
Extend your understanding of what it means to serve.
Distinguish between charity given to those we believe to have (or be) less and compassion based on the understanding of our fundamental unity with those who suffer.
Find a happy medium between personal spiritual practice and selfless service…
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