Centering Prayer Meditation
Are centering prayer and meditation the same thing? How do you meditate, and why should you do it? Our group of contemplative practitioners talks about why meditation is important and how they practice it.
Devotional vs Contemplative Practices
Our speakers discuss the difference between devotional and contemplative practices
Is Contemplation Isolating?
The Contemplative Path—is it Isolating? We asked our speakers if they felt that being a contemplative means being isolated, or removed from the world. Here are some of their responses.
Contemplation in the Material World
Where does the contemplative life fit, in terms of living in the material world? We asked our group of speakers how a contemplative practice can be assimilated into an everyday life in the material world. Their answers were varied and thoughtful.
Unconsious Mind
Sister Ilia Delio, Dr, Philip Clayton, George Gantz, Dean Radin, Dr. Ted Peters and Dr. Frank Heile talk about the nature of the unconscious mind; the subconscious mind and the collective unconscious, and how they relate to ideas about cosmic consciousness and the world soul.
Universal Oneness
Various scientists, philosophers and theologians discuss the idea that all things originate from one source — a comprehensive and nameless unified oneness that is entirely whole and complete.
Uncertainty and Human Perception
Experts in the fields of conscientiousness, theology and science discuss Heisenberg’s Uncertainty Principle and how it affects free will and human consciousness.
Pilgrimage Introduction
We took a pilgrimage to the Holy Land during May this year. We were 36 pilgrims in a bus, plus our guide Iyad Qumri, and our spiritual leader Mark Stanger.
The Carillon at Grace Cathedral
The Grace Cathedral carillon can be heard throughout the community, commemorating joyful events and tolling to mark local and national tragedies. Members of the Grace Cathedral guild of carillonneurs talk about their carillon ministry, and about the history and the purpose of the bells.
A Hunger for Wholeness
Ilia Delio, OSF, PhD, Franciscan Sister from Washington, DC, American theologian and prolific author, talks about our need to create an interior universe, in an introduction to her new book, A Hunger for Wholeness: On Soul, Space and Transcendence.
The Mystic Path to Understanding (2)
Around the world wherever conscious beings exist we can find people searching to find a place of oneness or the world’s soul. There seems to be a universal longing for truth, understanding, and reaching a mystical awakening. Mysticism focuses on working to uncover our deep internal reality and reach new experiences of understanding by traveling […]
Mystical Knowing
Mary Reed, the “Unwitting Mystic” talks about meditation, contemplation, and the experience of embodiment on the path to mystical knowing. ….Enjoy these short excerpts taken from interviews for our upcoming full-length documentary on mysticism. Stay tuned!
Inner Knowing
Lama Palden Drolma discusses the Buddhist mystical path. .. ….Enjoy these short excerpts taken from interviews for our upcoming full-length documentary on mysticism. Stay tuned!
The Mystic Path
Dr. Carol Weyland Conner, Murshida of Sufism Reoriented, talks about the journey of soul.
Attaining Mystical States
Rabbi Aubrey Glazer, of Congregation Beth Shalom, San Francisco, talks about Attaining a Mystical State, in Jewish Mystical Thought.
Mystic Wisdom
Sufi Hadi Paul Reicherz defines mysticism and discusses its relationship with religion.
Sufi Wisdom
Shankina Reinhertz talks about seeing, listening and becoming—the embodiment of the holy in Sufi mystical tradition.
