Finding Radical Freedom: Some Reflections on Meister Eckhart
10th October, 2021
15:00 – 16:30 BST
Presented by Jim Griffin
Seminar Description
It can be difficult to know how to characterise Meister Eckhart. Some say he is simply a philosopher, the father of German philosophy. Others see him as the profoundest of mystics, “the man from whom God hid nothing”, “the mystic’s mystic”. Others, noting his love of paradox, see him as a Christian Zen master. Whatever else, Eckhart probed the depths of human freedom, unfolding the art of “living without a why”. In this seminar we will try to catch a first glimpse of what such freedom might mean.
Speaker
Dr Jim Griffin is a psychotherapist living in the Scottish Borders. He has a PhD in comparative philosophy (Christian and Confucian) and taught for a while at university level. He teaches meditation and does some writing. The dialogue between religions in contemporary culture has been his abiding interest.
Jim is also one of the tutors on a new 5-module online course: Truth is One but the Wise see it differently.
Booking
Cost: FREE via Zoom
Registration is required via Eventbrite
https://eckhart.eventbrite.co.uk
A portal in the Predigerkirche, the church in Erfurt where Eckhart trained as a Dominican and later was Prior. The portal was designed in 1998 as a monument to Eckhart. It is closed, but the light shines through a strip of glass in the middle inwards and outwards. On the outside, a metal strip embedded in the floor extends the light beam. The writing in the door is from the beginning of John’s Gospel (Chapter 1, verse 5). “The light shines in the darkness and the darkness has not grasped it.”