Risking Enchantment is a discussion about beauty in art and culture, and its place in the Catholic faith. The show is hosted by Rachel Sherlock, and she is joined every week by a friend to dive into a particular theme or topic. We discuss literature, music, poetry, art, architecture and more, and talk about how experiencing these can hint at the transcendental and better inform our Catholic faith and how we live it out.
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Risking Enchantment is a discussion about beauty in art and culture, and its place in the Catholic faith. The show is hosted by Rachel Sherlock, and she is joined every week by a friend to dive into a particular theme or topic. We discuss literature, music, poetry, art, architecture and more, and talk about how experiencing these can hint at the transcendental and better inform our Catholic faith and how we live it out.
The Sublime Mystery of Thin Places: Numinous Experiences and Liminal Spaces
Risking Enchantment
53 minutes 4 seconds
2 years ago
The Sublime Mystery of Thin Places: Numinous Experiences and Liminal Spaces
“The perfect stillness of the night was thrilled by a more solemn silence. The darkness held a presence that was all the more felt because it was not seen. I could not any more have doubted that He was there than that I was. Indeed, I felt myself to be, if possible, the less real of the two.”—William James
In this episode of Risking Enchantment, we are delighted to welcome back Katie Marquette, host of the podcast Born of Wonder, to talk about the experience of liminal spaces, what it means to encounter the numinous, and how we interpret this in our lives of faith. We discuss the Eucharist as the meeting point between heaven and earth, but also the moments of the 'thinning of the veil' to be found in nature and even our own homes.
Music: Ashton Manor by Kevin MacLeod
Hosts: Rachel Sherlock, Katie Marquette
Listen to Katie’s podcast: Born of Wonder
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Rachel was also previously a guest on the Born of Wonder podcast. To listen to that episode, click here: Falling in Love with Words: Nora Ephron and You’ve Got Mail with Rachel Sherlock
Works Referenced:
Born of Wonder: S4:9 EP51: The Lure of the Edge and Trying to Capture it
Born of Wonder: S4:10 EP52: Thin Places: Lifting the Veil Between Heaven and Earth
A Photographer at the Ends of the Earth
Thomas Joshua Cooper | The World's Edge
Rudolf Otto's 'Mysterium Tremendum et Fascinans' of the Numinous Experience
Otto on the Numinous
November: A Thin Place
The Problem of Pain by C.S. Lewis
The Weight of Glory by C.S. Lewis
'Effing the Ineffable' by Roger Scruton
Letters to Malcolm by C.S. Lewis
The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Graham
What We're Enjoying At the Moment:
Katie: Three Blind Mice by Agatha Christie
Rachel: House of David by Molly O'Mahony
Risking Enchantment
Risking Enchantment is a discussion about beauty in art and culture, and its place in the Catholic faith. The show is hosted by Rachel Sherlock, and she is joined every week by a friend to dive into a particular theme or topic. We discuss literature, music, poetry, art, architecture and more, and talk about how experiencing these can hint at the transcendental and better inform our Catholic faith and how we live it out.
