For decades, Father Thomas Keating, together with other monks of St. Joseph's Abbey in Spence, Massacusetts, examined this great question: could anyone enter the 'cloud of unknowing' through a prayer practice specifically created to attain it? Keating reached back into for clues about prayer forms of the Christian mystics. He synthesized his works into a 'Centering Prayer' method that has helped thousands of seekers travel the path from woundedness to transformation. Guidelines for Christian growth; the four consents; basic goodness; the three essential relationships; Soul incorporated; Anthony's spiritual journey and temptations; the sacred sentence; freedom from the false self; guidelines for everyday spiritual growth; Divine therapy; personal responsibility; the four stages of prayer; the path of pure faith; the night of sense; the freedom from culutral conditioning; the night of Spirit; daily practices; the Biblical desert; Lectio Divina revisted; entering the night of sense; troward transformation; functions of the night of Spirit; healing the emotional programs; the spiritual senses; steps to contemplative prayer; the undifferentiated presence of God; transforming union; true contemplation; what contemplative prayer is not; the essence of contemplative prayer; from contemplation to action; What can I do and much more. 12 cassettes. 12 hours.
