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The translator on the book he helped bring into English, and how to read it without harming yourself.
Patristic Nectar
A contemplative reflection drawing on Finley's training with Thomas Merton.
Original source
A full hour-long English interview in which he traces his life as a Gaelic singer and songwriter on Lewis and explains how the unaccompanied psalm singing of the island congregations works.
Hugh Sung
An English-language broadcast meeting in which Alemu Aga plays the begena and speaks about the instrument.
RFI English
Christiane Najjar sings a programme of sacred Arabic hymns of return and mercy, one after another without interruption, in the Eastern church style she has studied as a musicologist.
Christiane Najjar
A full evening of sacred chant by Abeer Nehme, recorded and published by the Beirut Chants Festival itself.
Beirut Chants Festival
Bucko discusses spiritual activism, his work with homeless youth in New York, and the 'new monasticism' fellowship he co-founded.
Buddha at the Gas Pump
One of the lamentations sung at the tomb on Holy Friday, by Nektaria Karantzi with the women's choir Psaltries.
Nektaria Karantzi
A short chant on the Lord as shepherd, from the Maronite and Melkite repertoire she was raised in.
Sister Marie Keyrouz
An audio recording of the ensemble singing the Cherubic Hymn from the Byzantine Divine Liturgy in the ornate Asmatikon style.
Cappella Romana
The Ave Maria sung in Arabic, in the ornamented line of the Eastern churches.
A short set at the Desert Song Festival in Alice Springs, close to where most of the singers live.
Channel NT
A lecture in German asking which springs a person actually draws on, and what happens when they run dry.
Bistum Würzburg
Beverly Lanzetta in conversation with Fr. Adam Bucko on emerging mysticism.
Paul Swanson
A lecture on the Celtic vision of the sacred, given at Hartford International University.
Hartford International University
A Super Soul Sunday conversation on gratefulness as a daily practice.
The Episcopal priest on his own practice and on holding Christian, Sufi and Buddhist material together without blurring them.
A long interview on her path and on the end of suffering as something available now rather than later.
A full concert at Three Hierarchs Chapel in New York, part of the choir's American tour in September 2021.
St Vladimir's Orthodox Theological Seminary
A full concert in Yerevan of Armenian medieval monody and later choral settings.
CafesjianArts
The canon sung for the patron saint of Bucharest, whose relics rest in the cathedral where the choir sings.
TRINITAS TV
A full evening of music at home with his family, close to two hours of Gaelic song alongside country and sixties material.
Calum Martin
A twenty-minute sit led by Keating, recorded with the men at Folsom Prison.
Contemplative Outreach
A full Hirundo Maris concert of songs from the Mediterranean and the Nordic north, sung and played by Arianna Savall with Petter Udland Johansen, on their own channel.
Arianna Savall & Petter Udland Johansen
An hour of the chants that carry the Orthodox liturgy, sung by the choir of the Patriarchal Cathedral.
A full recording of Ambrosian chant from the Milanese liturgical tradition, directed by Marcel Pérès.
Musica Medievale
A full concert of Melkite sacred chant with the Ensemble de la Paix, the Greek Catholic repertoire of the Arabic-speaking churches.
Ensemble de la Paix
The hymn sung at the great entrance, here in the old Bulgarian chant setting.
Sretensky Monastery Choir
A recording from the Icons of Sound research project, in which Cappella Romana's singing of the Cherubic Hymn is rendered with the reconstructed acoustics of the original Hagia Sophia.
From the Christ empowerment retreat, on the saying that those who have ears will hear and what it asks of a listener.
Harmony of The Way
Carl McColman in dialogue with Richard Smoley on Christian mysticism and contemplative spirituality.
Theosophical Society
Filmed footage of the ensemble performing a Sunday Communion hymn live during a tour in Greece.
A short lecture distinguishing contemplation from meditation as the Christian tradition has used the two words.
Oxford Postgraduate Hub for the Inklings
A concert of hymns from the Coptic rite, sung by El Moalem Ibrahim Ayad with the Institute of Coptic Hymns.
Institute of Coptic Hymns
The first part of a teaching on building a picture of the world you can actually stand in, instead of borrowing one.
Spirits in Spacesuits
Jeffrey Mishlove interviews Matthew Fox about creation spirituality, the Cosmic Christ and his break with the Dominican order.
New Thinking Allowed with Jeffrey Mishlove
Bourgeault connects centring prayer to a non-dual reading of the Christian contemplative tradition.
Ialoni perform the traditional polyphonic songs Diash Darjol and Mirangula.
Ialoni • იალონი
A short guided meditation drawing on the Divine Feminine within the Christian mystical tradition.
Connie Huebner on meditation teaching and healing practices.
Dom Brightmon
A single complete medieval pilgrim hymn from the Compostela vespers repertoire, performed by Ensemble Organum.
Ensemble Organum - Topic
A full Paschal concert of Orthodox chant by Divna Ljubojević and the Melodi choir.
Divna & Melódi
The hymns of the Gregorian liturgy, one of the three eucharistic rites still sung in the Coptic Orthodox Church.
Ibrahim Ayad
Beverly Lanzetta discusses her books on emerging spirituality and monastic practice.
SDI — The Home of Spiritual Companionship
Ensemble Basiani performs a Christmas carol by the Georgian composer Vakhtang Kakhidze.
Basiani Ensemble
A full-length concert recording of Georgian Orthodox chant and traditional polyphony sung by the ensemble.
Brian Thomas Swimme at the Center for Action and Contemplation.
Center for Action and Contemplation
A full recital of Maronite, Syriac and Byzantine Good Friday hymns, sung by Christiane Najjar in Arabic and Greek, moving from the night before the passion to the tomb.
A psychologist who was once a Trappist on where to stand when things come apart.
A late interview, closer to his life than to his philosophy.
Lucette Verboven
A long teaching on matter as something the spirit is already in, rather than something it has to escape.
On the Christian journey as the Fathers describe it, which runs the other way round from what people expect.
Institute for Orthodox Christian Studies
His complete session at the 2015 Gaelic Psalm Singing and American Music conference, an hour in English on the tradition and its kinship with other call-and-response singing.
ScottishPartnershipfor ArtsandEducation
Unaccompanied Gaelic psalm singing recorded in Back Free Church on Lewis in 2003, a complete precented psalm from the opening line to the last.
A chanted sermon sung during the Washing of the Feet, one of the ceremonies of Holy Week.
TM Production
The ensemble Ialoni sing a Georgian Orthodox church chant during a concert.
Voices of the Ancestors
An hour-long live conversation with Abby Wynne about mystical experience, prayer and everyday life.
Abby Wynne
An hour of questions about a God who is still becoming, and what that leaves of the old picture.
The Bible for Normal People
A full concert performance by Ensemble Organum of Machaut's medieval polyphonic mass, filmed at the Royaumont abbey.
Royaumont
Nearly two hours on the tradition he spent his life inside, and on what it asks of a person.
Commonweal
A talk for the Iona Community on heartfulness: what it asks for beyond attention, and what it does to the way a person meets others.
Iona Community
Filmed along the Hildegard pilgrimage route in Germany, with Annette Esser speaking Hildegard's own words from her book Saint Hildegard Speaks.
The Unruly Mystics
A complete concert around Hildegard von Bingen and medieval song, with Arianna Savall on voice and harp, recorded by France Musique.
France Musique concerts
"Life lies in the grave", the opening lamentation of the Holy Friday service, sung by Nektaria Karantzi with the Psaltries choir.
Cynthia Bourgeault, his own student, questions him for over an hour on prayer and on what he thinks he got wrong.
A conversation with Jon M. Sweeney about the Jesuits, prayer and the shape of a vocation.
America - The Jesuit Review
A guided sitting built on four questions, from the Sacred Space foundation he leads in Cumbria.
Sacred Space
Noah Samarkand sets out what he means by the Christic path and how the practice he teaches is shaped by it.
A more recent talk on imagination as a key to change, representative of her current voice.
A lecture at Durham on where care, spirituality and research meet, given by a nurse who became a contemplative teacher.
Durham University
A long kalophonic setting from the Byzantine repertoire, sung by the full choir.
Achilleas Chaldaiakis
An audio recording of Cappella Romana's choral setting mourning the fall of Constantinople, sung in Greek.
The Naghash Ensemble performing excerpts from Light the Candle live in Vilnius.
The Naghash Ensemble of Armenia
Excerpts from Light the Candle, a new Armenian Christmas oratorio, performed by the three singers and instrumentalists of the Naghash Ensemble.
A full performance of Orthodox chant by Divna Ljubojević and Melódi at the Morgenland world-music festival in Germany.
Three female vocalists and instrumentalists on duduk, oud and dhol, recorded live at a concert hall in Ghent.
One of the Lost Lectures found in the Morehouse College archives: three quarters of an hour of him on love as the only workable politics.
Morehouse College Archives
Harpa Dei sing the Magnificat a cappella in Aramaic.
Harpa Dei
Richard Smoley talks with Matthew Fox about the Western mystical tradition and the sources of creation spirituality.
A long session from Embodied Philosophy's Radical Theology series in which Fox presents creation spirituality and takes questions.
Embodied Philosophy
A short talk on the relationship between contemplative practice and physical and mental health.
meditatiowccm
The full recording of Lars Muhl and Naleea Landmann's New Year gathering, closing with a guided meditation.
Lars Muhl
A short Advent meditation from the Taizé community, spoken in French and English.
Taizé
A short introduction in her own words to how she works and who she works with.
Georgette Star
The anaphora of the Divine Liturgy, sung by the choir of the Sretensky Monastery in Moscow.
The Tasbeha, the night office of the Coptic Orthodox Church, led by the cantor who has taught these melodies to a generation of deacons.
Saint Mina and Pope Cyril VI Coptic Orthodox Church
A full concert in Washington, shared with the Indonesian Children and Youth Choir: Lutheran hymns sung in Western Arrarnta and Pitjantjatjara.
The Kennedy Center
A podcast conversation on making mystical texts accessible beyond specialist circles.
An hour on money as a spiritual question rather than an economic one.
Money & Life
A long conversation in which Aedamar Kirrane describes her spontaneous awakening and the Christian mystical language she found for it.
Carl McColman on the Transfiguration and Christian mysticism as a contemplative and theurgic path.
The Apostolic Johannite Church
Finley on bringing non-dual, contemplative awareness into ordinary daily life.
An hour on Orthodoxy outside the countries it came from, and what that asks of it.
A thirteenth-century hymn by Khachatur Taronatsi, sung by the eight voices of the ensemble.
An hour on the Benedictine monk who became a Hindu sannyasi, and on what that cost him.
Urban Dharma
Singers from seven desert communities on the road in the United States, in their own words.
Desert Song Festival
A long interview covering her own awakening, growing older, and what she means by the sacred feminine.
The Augustinian friar and scholar of the desert fathers on what happens when a person keeps sitting still long enough.
Festival of Faiths
The Small Supplicatory Canon to the Theotokos, chanted in the Byzantine tradition. It is sung in Orthodox churches through the first two weeks of August.
A Maronite hymn on Mary rising and going out to the hill country, sung in the Lebanese church tradition.
Ghada Shbeir
A lecture on the twelve steps of humility in the Rule of Benedict, read as a way out of the self rather than a way of shrinking it.
Benedictine Living Communities
Freeman reflects on the resurrection scene in which Mary Magdalene mistakes Jesus for the gardener.
Rohr introduces the central idea of his book The Universal Christ, from a Franciscan contemplative view.
Rohr on presence as the core practice underlying all contemplative work.
John Philip Newell in conversation about Celtic wisdom and his book Sacred Earth, Sacred Soul.
Brilliant Miller
A satsang on peace: not as a mood that comes and goes, but as what is there when the fight stops.
Kosi
A satsang of nearly two and a half hours on sadhana, the daily practice that carries a person between one meeting and the next.
The Good Friday hymn to the one who wraps himself in light as in a garment.
On the body as the place where a second axial spirituality has to land, rather than as something to rise above.
Science and Nonduality
A Humanitas Lecture Series panel discussion (UC Santa Barbara) on unusual, intermingled sensory experiences as they appear in the thought and practice of figures within the Jewish, Islamic and Christian mystical traditions, considered comparatively rather than through any one tradition.
University of California Television (UCTV)
Connie Huebner on her spiritual experience and energy healing practice.
Wisdom From North
A conversation about the method she calls soul-stream work and how she uses it with people.
Shaman Sister Sessions
A complete evening of liturgical hymns sung by Abeer Nehme in the church itself, published on the parish's own channel.
Holy Martyrs Chaldean Church
A lecture in German on finding silence, on meditation and on the rituals that make room for it in an ordinary week.
Peter Samuel Jost
The lament of the sorrowing mother at the cross, one of the long Holy Week pieces of the Maronite repertoire.
A lecture at Yale on how Teilhard read the traditions of the world into one unfinished whole.
Yale Forum on Religion and Ecology
A Franciscan theologian at Durham on what evolution does to a classical Christian doctrine.
Centre for Catholic Studies, Durham University
Father Nathan Castle discusses his work helping souls who have died complete their journey home.
The Channel Within
A short film portrait of Arvo Part's life and musical language, built from archive footage and conversations with musicians close to his work.
DW Classical Music
Brian Thomas Swimme with Dr. Michael Ben-Eli on cosmology and the noospheric imagination.
The Sustainability Laboratory
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