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MJS – The Hidden Soul

Mystic Journey Series

Meister Eckhart – The Hidden Soul

Presented by Bob Aten

October 10 @ 8:30 AM – 3:00 PM

Gathering at 8:30 AM

The Mystic Journey Series invites you to a time of exploration.

Matthew 10:16: “Behold, I send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves.”

Is the mystical Jesus really saying, “I am sending the sheep (the mystical soul) into the midst of wolves (the darkened human ego)”?

I’m sending you into the marketplace. The marketplace is not out there… it is the dark, hostile world of the addicted ego. It is a demanding place, filled with noise, glitter, promises, and life’s endless bling. It will call to you from every direction, telling you what you need, what you want, and who you should become. Do not be fooled by these demanding voices or their promises.

The marketplace will promise satisfaction but leave you wanting more. It will offer you recognition, but never enough. It will tell you that you are incomplete and that something outside of yourself will finally make you whole.

Listen and observe, but don’t obey.

Enter the marketplace, but do not become its possession.

“Learn to stand within the noise,” but don’t let it enter your soul. For beneath the noise, the voices, the glitter, the striving, there is an ineffable silence that cannot be bought or sold.

There, beyond the marketplace of the ego, lies the ineffable soul. The ineffable soul that you were seeking all along…the I Am.

Meister Eckhart answers the question of what remains when the ego goes quiet.

Come, discover the unitive consciousness of the Mystical I Am!

Flow for the Day:

  • 8:30 AM — Gathering & light continental breakfast
    9:00 AM — The Birthing of Mystical Consciousness
    10:30 AM — Quiet Prayer
    11:00 AM — Presentation Part 1
    12:15 PM — Mediterranean catered lunch
    1:00 PM — Quiet Prayer
    1:30 PM — Presentation Part 2
    3:00 PM — Conclusion
ai generated, heart, burning, shape, fire, flame, burn, abstract, explosion, fiery
8:30 AM — Light continental breakfast upon arrival
12:15 PM — Mediterranean Catered lunch will be provided, or you are welcome to bring your own lunch

Community of Christ Church

Address

830 N Kirkwood Rd
St. Louis, MO
63122

About the Presenter

Bob aten

Bob Aten has been an apophatic hermit for the past 30 years.  Former USAF Chaplain, Vietnam veteran, Death Row Chaplain @ Pototsi State Maximum Security Center, military teacher, high school teacher, Junior college math teacher.  Founder of Contemplative Outreach of St. Louis in 1989.

A little history on the formation of the Mystic Journey Series

THE MYSTIC JOURNEY
There are many definitions of the word “mystic” as noted in religious traditions throughout the world.  Most traditions agree that the Mystic is a person who seeks through contemplation, self-surrender and personal transformation the experience of unity with the sacred 
Absolute Divine reality.

Karl Rahner, in his famous quote regarding the spiritual journey of the future, said “you will be a mystic or nothing at all …”

Everyone is invited to join us to consider the life and stories of persons who have revealed and written of their experience encountering the extraordinary presence and love of Divine reality.
Some may call them “saints” or apply other characterizations, but they were no different than you or I who are seeking the same loving God.
water, light, glowing, man, nature, fantasy

For more information: Susie Brent – susiebrentcostl@gmail.com

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