The Contemplative Journey: Volume 1

Contemplation and Transformation from Christianity's Mystical Tradition

De: Father Thomas Keating

Narrado por: Father Thomas Keating

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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Father Keating is an amazing teacher

This book provides in detail the tools and methodology for one to reprogram those emotions and thoughts that impede our spiritual progress and journey.

Deeper prayer

Not only does Father Keating introduce a deeper way of connecting with God, he does so in a very entertaining way!

Phenomenol

Another great presentation by father Keating. Read Both And by John Murray in the kindle store

Excellent!

I find Fr Keating's subject matter, and his presentation and narration completely inspiring! I look forward to Volume 2.

A complete and thorough teacher

I am a practitioner of contemplative prayer. Thomas Keating has taught me in this book to understand the problems that reside within as I take this journey. I am especially grateful for his exploration of wrong theological ideology in Pre Vatican II that drove me and others from our Catholic roots.This audiobook has allowed me to come home.

Life changing

You’ll listen and relisten. This prayer study has changed my life. What amazing freedom it gives!

Life changing authentic Christian teaching

Father Keating conveys the wisdom of monastic spirituality in the modern context for cozy put it back there in the Context of science and psychology

Spiritual Psychology

Having known and sat in Centering Prayer with Fr. Thomas I know and love him and all that he does. Having said that, I feel that all the hours he spends to explain the psychological basis of human life and spiritual living go beyond what we need by 99.999%
In fact, his organization, Contemplative Outreach, has printed small cards, about the size of business cards, with a brief guide to Centering or Contemplative Prayer. We need nothing more.
Pretty good as a psychology of spirituality, though.

Life changing teaching by Father Thomas Keating

It is the most comprehensive spiritual teaching I have ever experienced. Father Thomas Keating is true Saint. His teaching fundamentally changed my life from soul level with practical daily practice for our true inner transformation. Thank you for the new life!

Pure Love of God!

The teachings of Fr. Thomas are true love of God. It move my conscience to love and compasion for others and to find God in my interior.