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Book

The naked now : learning to see as the mystics see

Call Number

  • 248.22 R7392 (OSH)

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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.

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