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Focusing on Thomas Keating's transformative journey, this book explores his development into a contemporary Christian mystic during the final decades of his life. It delves into his spiritual insights and practices, highlighting how he integrated traditional Christian teachings with modern spirituality, offering a unique perspective on faith and mysticism. The narrative captures the essence of his teachings and their relevance in today's world, making it a profound exploration of spiritual growth and enlightenment.

In The Corner of Fourth and Nondual, a title inspired by Thomas Merton, Cynthia Bourgeault describes the foundations of her theology: a cosmological seeing with the eye of the heart, and classic Benedictine daily rule informed and enlightened by wisdom from the Asian traditions.

The book explores the foundations of Cynthia Bourgeault's theology, emphasizing a cosmological perspective seen through the heart. It integrates the Benedictine daily rule with insights from Asian traditions, highlighting the impact of philosophers on her thought. Central to her theology are the concepts of the Incarnation and the Paschal Mystery, interconnected through the Trinity as a fundamental principle of creation.

This groundbreaking book shares the evolution of Cynthia Bourgeault's spiritual journey and offers a new map to understanding energy and our collective reality. In Eye of the Heart, Cynthia Bourgeault investigates the imaginal realm--an energetic realm well known to the mystical traditions but often forgotten in our own times. It is invisible to the physical eye, but clearly perceptible through the eye of the heart. The imaginal realm has long been associated with the personal world of dreams, prophecy, and oracles, and it also points toward a higher vision of our human purpose that is both evolutionary and collective. Bourgeault explores both aspects of imaginal reality and shows readers how we can cooperate more fully with its guidance in our lives. Expertly blending her own lived experiences with research on the imaginal realm, Bourgeault explores how her personal relationships have helped to bring these teachings into sharper focus and the role this realm plays in Christian and other mystical traditions. She delves into the connections between our inner consciousness and what happens in the world, exploring the transformative energy and governing conventions that make the manifestation of this realm possible. Eye of the Heart presents Bourgeault's spiritual journey with the imaginal realm and encourages readers to attune their hearts for the well-being of the world.

The best-selling author of The Wisdom Jesus and The Meaning of Mary Magdalene demystifies the popular Christian meditation method rooted in contemplative prayerCentering Prayer is the path to a wonderful and radical new way of seeing the world. It is not, as is sometimes thought, simply an act of devotional piety, nor is it simply a Christianized form of other meditation methods. Cynthia Bourgeault here cuts through the misconceptions to show that Centering Prayer is in fact a pioneering development within the Christian contemplative tradition. She provides a practical, complete course in the practice and then goes deeper to analyze what actually happens in Centering  the mind effectively switches to a new operating system that makes possible the perception of nonduality. With this understanding in place, she then takes us on a journey through one of the sources of the practice, the Christian contemplative classic The Cloud of Unknowing , revealing it to be among the earliest Christian explorations of the phenomenology of consciousness.Cynthia Bourgeault’s illumination of the Centering Prayer path provides compelling evidence of how important the practice has become in the half-century since it first arose among American Trappist monks, and of its maturation and refinement over the ensuing years of sincere study and practice. It will resonate with beginners on the Centering Prayer path as well as with seasoned practitioners.

This is a guidebook for those who are called to the path of conscious love.

The fresh translation presents the Song of Songs as an invitation from Lady Wisdom, guiding seekers toward both physical and spiritual intimacy, ultimately revealing the unity of God, woman, man, and nature. Accompanied by facing-page commentary, the book offers historical, religious, and spiritual insights from both Christianity and Judaism, along with comparisons to other translations, enriching the reader's understanding of this profound text.

The book explores the concept of the Divine Feminine, embodied as Wisdom, who serves as a guide for spiritual journeys. Wisdom, depicted as the Mother of all life, offers teachings found in the Holy Scriptures, urging readers to live harmoniously and joyfully. Through contemporary translations and insightful commentaries, Rami Shapiro reveals the essence of Wisdom, making Her teachings accessible and relevant. This edition emphasizes the transformative power of Wisdom, encouraging readers to embrace Her creative energy and live with compassion and integrity.

Just as she's done in her previous books, Cynthia Bourgeualt asks us to take a look at an idea from traditional Christianityand this time the formula of Father, Son, and Holy Spirit as though we're looking at it for the first time. And as usual, she reveals it to be something we hadn't expected at all. She finds in the idea of the Holy Trinity a striking vision of the nature of reality. What she claims, in a nutshell, is that embedded within this theological formula that Christians recite mostly on autopilot lies a powerful metaphysical principle that could change our understanding of Christianity and give us the tools so long and so sorely needed to reunite our shattered cosmology, rekindle our visionary imagination, and cooperate consciously with the manifestation of Jesus's "Kingdom of Heaven" here on earth

Mary Magdalene is one of the most influential symbols in the history of Christianity—yet, if you look in the Bible, you’ll find only a handful of verses that speak of her. How did she become such a compelling saint in the face of such paltry evidence? In her effort to answer that question, Cynthia Bourgeault examines the Bible, church tradition, art, legend, and newly discovered texts to see what’s there. She then applies her own reasoning and intuition, informed by the wisdom of the ages-old Christian contemplative tradition. What emerges is a radical view of Mary Magdalene as Jesus’s most important disciple, the one he considered to understand his teaching best. That teaching was characterized by a nondualistic approach to the world and by a deep understanding of the value of the feminine. Cynthia shows how an understanding of Mary Magdalene can revitalize contemporary Christianity, how Christians and others can, through her, find their way to Jesus’s original teachings and apply them to their modern lives.