# Carlos Eire

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St. Charbel: The mystic monk and miracle worker who wrote nothing

Saint Charbel (1828–1898) was a Lebanese monk and mystic who wrote nothing about his encounters with God, yet his life of radical solitude, fasting, prayer, and silence reveals a profound mystical path. Known as the “second St. Anthony of the Desert,” Charbel embraced an extreme asceticism that dre…

Blessed Anne of Saint Bartholomew: St. Teresa of Avila's right-hand woman

Blessed Anne of Saint Bartholomew (1550–1626) was a Carmelite mystic and as a close companion of Teresa of Ávila, her right-hand woman. Her extraordinary encounters with Christ began in childhood and continued through religious wars in France. From visions of the Infant Jesus when she was a child t…

Unseen Existences (with Brian Zahnd): How to See the Divine Mystery Here and Now

Brian Zahnd, a Christian leader and pastor of forty years and four-times pilgrim of the Camino de Santiago, completed this remarkable (and quite short) book, Unseen Existences: Of Heaven, Earth, and the Divine Mystery in All Things. You can read it in a long afternoon or a few sessions of a couple …

Angels, Demons, and the UFO? Carlos Eire on religiosity and UAP

How should we understand the human inclination to interpret everything extraordinary under the lens of religious dogmatism? Can we prevent that collapse of categories when engaging the subject of UFOs and non-human intelligence? On this episode, I sit down with Carlos Eire, author of “They Flew:  A…

Jakob Böhme: A Lutheran mystic excommunicated by his church

Jakob Böhme (1575–1624) was a German Lutheran mystic, visionary, and theosophical writer whose highly original theology profoundly influenced later German philosophy, Romanticism, and mystical Christianity. His mysticism appears inspired by mystics that preceded him centuries earlier and despite be…

Do Miracles Really Happen?

Carlos Eire arrived in Miami at age 11 in 1962, a refugee from Castro’s Cuba. Three years passed before his mother could join him, and he never saw his father again. This experience of dislocation profoundly shaped Eire’s work as a religious historian.  In his latest book, They Flew, Eire looks at…