Book
The naked now : learning to see as the mystics see
Publication Information
New York : Crossroad Pub. Co., 2009.
Physical Description
187 p. ; 21 cm.
Contents
- Preface
- Why I am writing this book
- The gift is already given
- When you surrender to fear and distraction
- When you joyfully surrender to God
- Discover your birthright
- Prayer-practicing heaven now
- The great unsaying
- Three ways to view the sunset
- The urgent need for contemplative seeing
- What it means to be a mystic
- We should have "known" better
- Knowing worse : all-or-nothing thinking
- Knowing better : contemplation and presence
- Mystical Christianity : a critique from within
- A lesson from the monks
- The limitations of individualism
- A debate everyone can win
- Glimpses of wonder : the quest is begun
- But we have to make judgments, don't we?
- We see what we are ready to see
- The radical perceptual shift : is it true?
- Yes, but
- Not many things, but one thing
- Getting thrown off your horse : sudden conversion
- Gradual conversion
- How Martha becomes Mary : willfulness and willingness
- What about Jesus?
- The prayer of Jesus
- Not here, not there
- The two heels of a Christian achilles
- Conversion : begin by changing the seer
- Healing the observer
- Three levels of conversion
- Change your mind
- The ego hates change
- Different religions, same ego resistance
- Inertia resists change
- Heaven and hell : you must change again and again
- Things "too good to be true" : from polarity thinking to prayer
- Reframing false dilemmas
- Alternative consciousness
- Prayer is resonance
- Experience impossible and improbable things
- The lost tradition
- The decline of contemplation
- More recent rediscoveries
- Faith is more how to believe than what to believe
- Opening the door : great love and great suffering
- What nondual thinking is not
- The watchful gaze : what do we mean by being "awake"?
- The meaning of spiritual love
- Sinners, mystics, and astrophysicists : how to celebrate paradox
- The value of paradox
- Greek logic
- Trinity
- Physics and astrophysics
- What it means to follow Jesus
- What every good leader knows
- The principle of likeness : in the end, it all comes down to this
- Appendices.