Awakening Through Grief with Mirabai Starr

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Join Loch Kelly, the creator of the Mindful Glimpses app, here as he welcomes spiritual teacher and author Mirabai Starr.
In this episode, Loch and Mirabai explore:
✨ How grief is a portal to the sacred.
✨ The mystics' poetic teachings on embracing both the transcendent and immanent - the ultimate reality and our embodied human experience.
✨ The book 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.
32:19: 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 that is already here within all of us.
✨About Mirabai Starr
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. mirabaistarr.com/
✨About Loch Kelly
Loch Kelly is the creator of the Mindful Glimpses app, award winning author, psychotherapist, and nondual meditation teacher 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, an ancient form of nondual meditation that allows immediate access to our embodied awake nature which arises as calm, clarity, and compassion. www.lochkelly.org
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[@lindsayenance]

2 of the most luminous guides in my spiritual journey. Such a delight and peace to see you connecting and sharing wisdom and wellbeing. Love you both so much!!! Wow. My heart is glowing.

[@TK-bf4ng]

Thank you so much both Loch and Mirabai! You are two who stay true to meditative awakening and full humanity! Your app, Loch, which brings these together these two with simple daily practices has changed my life. So Grateful.

[@traceyschuster1453]

Thank you for this! This is real and human, and what I believe the Divine intends for us as we inhabit these temporary bodies to experience being human. It respects the philosophy of non-duality as something we can experience as a mystical journey. In the Bigger Spiritual Picture, I believe in non-duality in its most loving form. But I would never say I, or any living human, is capable of understanding it. We are not meant to understand it or live it, the way "radical non- duality teachers" would have us believe.. I really can't listen to, or participate with their groups anymore.

[@bogitruth]

As a long term meditation practioneer (zen and vipassana) 12 years ago i lost my wife and my son within 2 months. I went through a long grieving period, crying, meditating...Although I did not awaken through my grieving, my practice deepened and finally, 11 years after the event I experienced deep liberation I read a lot about grieving and I don't think you can avoid grieving after a loss. and you don't awaken after the loss. But it can speed up the process towanrds awakening. So the title is somewhat misleading....