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The Contemplative Journey: Volume 2
- Contemplation and Transformation from Christianity's Mystical Tradition
- Narrated by: Thomas Keating
- Length: 10 hrs and 37 mins
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In the darkest hour of the darkest age, Christian monks developed a meditation tradition unique in the Western world. A 14th-century author described their profound mystical experience as entering the cloud of unknowing. Yet during the 500 years after this great monastic flowering, this precious tradition - and the direct path to union with God it described - was virtually lost.
For decades Father Thomas Keating, together with other monks, examined this great question: Could anyone enter the cloud of unknowing through a prayer practice specifically created to attain it? Keating reached back in time for clues about the prayer forms of the Christian mystics. He synthesized his work into a Centering Prayer method that has helped thousands of seekers travel the contemplative path to divine union.
From infancy, Father Keating teaches, we accumulate emotional layers, or programs, as a result of traumatic experiences. The practice of Centering Prayer engages directly with the unconscious and loosens old traumas that hinder your spiritual development. This form of divine therapy draws from a contemplative method that has brought profound inner transformation into the lives of thousands of practitioners. The Contemplative Journey is Father Thomas Keating's great masterwork: a complete curriculum devoted to a Christian path for achieving the still point of resting in God.
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- Kindle Customer
- 13-05-17
wonderful insight to Christian contemplation.
Fr. Kea ting provides great insight into the mysteries of engaging in centring prayer and contemplation. His lessons in how to approach God the history and lessons learned from the greatest Christian exponents were expertly and concisely exposed.
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- Carol
- 19-02-23
Spiritual jewels to be treasured
The two volumes by Keating on Centred Prayer and Contemplation, delivered by him personally in a series of talks, have transformed my life. There is much to absorb but worth every second.
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- markj
- 19-07-19
Far too long
The basic problem here is twofold: 1) It is just too long - What Keating usefully says in 24 sessions, each almost an hour long, could be said in six or eight, with more clarity; 2) Keating chooses to interpret mystical and psychological sources in his own particular language, often (particularly on the psychological side) enthusiastically failing to grasp the ideas he is dealing with: too many words; too little deep understanding. Undoubtedly he has real knowledge and insight, but it is all rather lost in this overly long exposition. A disappointment.
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