Three Mystics Walk into a Tavern

A Once and Future Meeting of Rumi, Meister Eckhart, and Moses de León in Medieval Venice

James C. Harrington, Sidney G. Hall III

• Publisher: Hamilton Books
• Year: 2015
• Edition: 1
• eBook ISBN:
  9780761865438
• Topic: Theology & Religion
• Subtopic: Christian Theology

In Three Mystics Walk into a Tavern, Jalal ad-Din Rumi, Moses de León, and Meister Eckhart—three of the greatest mystics of all time—meet in Venice for an imaginary night-long conversation that will inspire everyday individuals of the twenty-first century to find their own spirituality and realize that everyone can be a mystic. Although the mystics came from different backgrounds and religious traditions (Islam, Judaism, and Christianity), their spiritual paths led them to similar understandings of a union with the Divine. The three mystics have a timeless and timely message for people who walk the earth eight centuries after they did, no matter an individual's religious background or even if they have none. It is a message of connecting with the "divine spark" deep within us and within the universe.

Table of contents

• Title Page
• Foreword
• Introductory Comments—A Tavern?
• What This Book Is—And Is Not—About
• They Meet at Taverna degli Alighieri in Venice
• Mysticism
• The 13th and Early 14th Centuries as Backdrop
• Jalal ad-Din Rumi
• Meister Eckhart
• Moses de León
• The Conversation Continues, about the Divine
• More Tea, Wine, and Conversation
• Still More Çay and Conversation
• Women and the Feminine
• As Dawn Approaches
• They Conclude—the Underground River and Expanding the Circle
• Select Bibliography
• Index