The Contemplative Journey Volume One

Thomas Keating

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In the darkest hour of the darkest age, Christian monks developed a meditation tradition unlike any other. A 14th -century author, described this 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 of St Joseph's Abbey in Spencer, Massachusetts, examined this great question: could anyone enter the "cloud of unknowing" through a prayer practice specifically created to attain it? Keating, reached back into 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 path from woundedness to transformation.

On this set you will join Father Keating as he brings the mystical tradition of contemplative prayer alive for our times. Here is the fruit of Father Keating's contemplative life as a monastic, a theologian, and a psychologist: a complete 24-session curriculum devoted to this recovered cornerstone of lost Christianity's most revered path for achieving the "still point" of resting in God.

12 CDs