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Is Centering Prayer for the Non-Religious?

  Q: I’m a practitioner of “A Course in Miracles” and other non-religious pathways. Can I or anyone that is not a traditional Christian practice Centering Prayer? Is Centering Prayer for […]

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Centering Prayer and Mental Health Challenges

  Q: A very seminal moment/question for me.  I have been in contemplative prayer practice daily for almost 10 years.  I understand the “falling away” of the false self with devotion […]

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Cultivating a ‘Contemplative Life’

  by Sue Fox McGovern The members of a Centering Prayer group in Park Ridge, Illinois, USA say they have never felt closer to one another. Perhaps it’s because some […]

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1968: St. Joseph’s Abbey, Conversations with Fr. Thomas and My Near Death Experience

by Richard M. Dell’Orfano, California, USA Excerpt from Book 1, Chapter 27: Regarding my arrival in 1968 at St Joseph’s Abbey, meeting Fr Thomas, and my near-death experience. Route 9 […]

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How Zen Contemplation Relates to Centering Prayer

  Q: I’ve been practicing Zen meditation with a Christian group for 18 years. What is your view with respect to how Zen contemplation relates to Centering Prayer? The principles […]

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Our God Within
Toward Perfection

OUR GOD WITHIN TOWARD PERFECTION January, 2023 Message                                                                                     Ruby M. Shelton                                                                                     01/27/23   In the book, “The Power of Now,” p. 01, Eckhart Tolle quotes Russell E. Dicarlo, […]

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Toward Perfection

“Deliberately dismantle the emotional programming of the false self”

by Cherry Haisten member of Welcoming Prayer service team At the end of early editions of Open Mind, Open Heart appears a list Thomas Keating calls “Means of Extending the […]

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