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Experiences of Divine Therapy in Centering Prayer

Posted on August 14, 2025 (August 14, 2025)

  Q: I have been practicing Centering Prayer for almost a year now and have gradually moved to twice daily, twenty minutes each time. I have experienced interior disturbances sometimes […]

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Tagged Centering Prayer, Divine Therapy, thoughts, transformation, unloading, unloading of the unconscious

A Word from the Contemplative Outreach Prison Outreach Service Team

Posted on July 29, 2025

  We’d like to introduce ourselves to you, especially if you’ve never heard of us before. We are the Prison Outreach Service Team. Our goal is to bring Centering Prayer […]

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Tagged Centering Prayer, prison ministry, prison outreach

Suggested Guidelines for Intensive Retreat Videos

Posted on July 29, 2025 (July 29, 2025)

  CO Retreats Team 2025 Suggested Guidelines for Intensive Retreat Videos by Leslee Terpay The Contemplative Outreach Retreats Service team is responsible for the guidelines that cover content for the […]

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Tagged Centering Prayer, human condition, intensive retreats, retreat, Thomas Keating

How to Start a Centering Prayer Group

Posted on July 17, 2025 (July 18, 2025)

  Q: I’d like to start a Centering Prayer group and would appreciate guidance on how to do this. A: Thank you so much for your interest in starting a […]

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Tagged Centering Prayer, centering prayer group, contemplative community, facilitator, Lectio Divina

An Experience of the Living Flame of Love Within

Posted on June 25, 2025

  Q: This is pretty out of sorts for me, but something happened in the past few weeks, and I ended up googling a term that seemed to match the experience: […]

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Tagged Centering Prayer, contemplation, contemplative spirituality, Divine Indwelling, John of the Cross, Living Flame, mystic, Thomas Keating

Settling into Centering Prayer and Working with Thoughts

Posted on June 25, 2025

  Q: I am a meditation instructor for health and a secular Carmelite. I have difficulty with the Centering meditation technique and I am asking for help. I have understood […]

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Tagged Centering Prayer, sacred symbol, sacred word, Thomas Keating, thoughts, vestibule

An Interspiritual Experience with Charis Circles

Posted on May 20, 2025 (May 23, 2025)

  by Ronald Barnett, PhD, rbarnett@hey.com Germantown, Maryland, USA   Something is happening here, but you don’t know what it is do you, Mr. Jones? – Bob Dylan, Ballad of a […]

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Tagged Centering Prayer, centering prayer group, Charis Circles, facilitator, interspiritual

Centering Prayer and the Sense of Dying

Posted on May 19, 2025

  Q: While practicing Centering Prayer I suddenly had a very intense feeling of terror come and a sense that I was dying and losing all my loved ones and things […]

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Tagged Centering Prayer, Dark Nights, dying, false self, Secret Embrace, true self, unloading

Contemplative Practice with Parkinson’s Disease

Posted on May 19, 2025

  Q: I am a long-time traveler on the contemplative and eco-spirituality path. I recently was diagnosed with Parkinson’s Disease (PD) and find the tremors to be disruptive to Centering […]

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Tagged Centering Prayer, chronic illness, nervous system, Parkinson's Disease, welcoming prayer

Chapter Simplicity

Posted on April 30, 2025 (April 30, 2025)

    “Leadership is an ambiguous term in the Christian situation where everyone is equal at the most fundamental level which is the essence of our being.  Everyone is designed […]

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Tagged Centering Prayer, centering prayer group, contemplative service, servant leadership

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