3a. Toward Resting in God, Part 1, with Thomas Keating

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3a. Toward Resting in God, Part 1, with Thomas Keating

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Fr. Thomas Keating recounts the ultimate goal of Lectio Divina as resting in God. The scriptural story of the disciples on the road to Emmaus (Luke 24) presents the paradigm for resting in God: the way to Emmaus means opening oneself to being transformed. Fr. Keating’s goal is to communicate a practice based on a full understanding of the human person from both modern science and psychology as well as the Christian mystical tradition. He notes that many people who have been raised Christian grew up with a fear-based understanding of God, which leads to being frightened by any experience of inner peace.
This is one video in a series of 31 hour-long talks by Thomas Keating that make up his foundational video teachings, “The Spiritual Journey with Fr. Thomas Keating.” All of these talks are now available on KZfaq, and are listed below with links. Fr. Thomas was an internationally renowned theologian, speaker and author of dozens of books including “Open Mind, Open Heart.”
To access condensed highlights of this video series plus more recent series by Fr. Thomas as part of a free online course, go to www.contemplat... for the complete course, or to • The Spiritual Journey ... for just the videos.
Fr. Thomas co-founded Contemplative Outreach, which offers this series and supports Centering Prayer. Along with Fr. William Meninger and Fr. Basil Pennington, Fr. Thomas began the Centering Prayer movement in the 1970’s to renew the Christian tradition of contemplation. An overview of Contemplative Outreach is at www.youtube.co....
Go to www.contemplati... for more information on Centering Prayer, including retreats and local chapters that offer support to practitioners at all levels in the U.S. and around the world. An online store offers books, streaming and downloadable videos and mp3 audios, DVDs, and CDs. An online course, “The Spiritual Journey - Formation in the Christian Contemplative Life,” draws upon the series of talks offered here and also includes newer teachings of Fr. Thomas, within a year-long curriculum.
“The Spiritual Journey with Fr. Thomas Keating” consists of a Prologue and five parts. Each part has up to six talks in it. Each talk has a separate video for the first half (a) and the second half (b).
Prologue
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(A basic introduction to Centering Prayer)
• The Method of Centering Prayer (2 videos)
• The Psychological Experience of Centering Prayer (3 videos)
Part One: Developing Centering Prayer
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(Centering Prayer grows out of a prayerful relationship with God that ideally includes prayerful reading of Scripture - the practice of Lectio Divina)
0a & 0b. Introduction
1a & 1b. Prayer as Relating to God
2a & 2b. Four Levels of Scriptural Experience
3a & 3b. Toward Resting in God
4a & 4b. Centering Prayer as Method
5a & 5b. Progress in Centering Prayer
Part Two: Model of the Human Condition
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(The heart of the teaching on the practice of Centering Prayer)
6a & 6b. The Human Condition: The Evolutionary Model
7a & 7b. Formation of the Homemade Self: The Existential Model
8a & 8b. The Pre-Rational Energy Centers
9a & 9b. Frustrations Caused by the Emotional Programs
10a & 10b. Dismantling the Emotional Programs
11a & 11b. The False Self in Action
Part Three: Paradigms of the Spiritual Journey
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(Practical examples of Centering Prayer in daily life)
12a & 12b. The Four Consents
13a & 13b. The Human Condition: The Philosophical Model
14a & 14b. Anthony as a Paradigm of the Spiritual Journey
15a & 15b. Liberation from the False Self System
16a & 16b. Liberation from Cultural Conditioning
17a & 17b. Spirituality in Everyday Life
Part Four: Contemplation: The Divine Therapy
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(The Christian contemplative roots for Centering Prayer)
18a & 18b. Night of Sense: The Biblical Desert
19a & 19b. Night of Spirit: Toward Transformation
20a & 20b. The Beatitudes: Healing the Emotional Programs
21a & 21b. The Spiritual Senses
22a & 22b. What Contemplation is Not
23a & 23b. From Contemplation to Action
Part Five: Divine Love: The Heart of the Christian Spiritual Journey
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(The fruits of the Centering Prayer practice)
24a & 24b. The Most Excellent Path
25a & 25b. The Divine Banquet an Dance
26a & 26b. Prayer in Secret: Matthew 6:6
27a & 27b. What is the Divine Therapy?
28a & 28b. Contemplative Outreach: A Response to the Divine Invitation

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@tishvoit1881 5 ай бұрын

All is ONE! Hallelujah!

@branandubh 5 жыл бұрын

This is a great talk! Fr Keating talks about many obvious things that Christians tend to avoid, such as the mystic experience and going beyond mere believing. There is that interview with Carl Jung where he is asked if he believes in God, and he says, I dont have to believe- i know. He regretted saying that and has been strongly derided for saying it, but i think it has to be like that. We have to get the actual experience.

@pedrozaragoza2253 2 жыл бұрын

Gloria in Excelsis Deo! 🙏

@77cmax77 2 жыл бұрын

On consciousness; Consciousness is not without conscience.

@billyoumans1784 5 жыл бұрын

Another thing fundamentalists object to here is the non-dual conception of God. Keating is notably careful to avoid saying that God and we are one, but he says all creation is one, with Gd underlying it. This falls far short of the Vedantic claim that there is only God, which is pure existence consciousness bliss, and everything else is nothing more than a movie projected onto this unchanging screen, or dream of this consciousness, which is God. Keating stays strictly within the Catholic idea of Union with God, which, if you read the great mystical writers - Meister Eckhart, St. John of the Cross, etc, comes very close to pure oneness.