The Other Side of Silence: A Guide to Christian Meditation PDF
Preview The Other Side of Silence: A Guide to Christian Meditation
Tte Otter 3fcfe of 3ilence Q. Gakfe to Christian Atelitation Mse^ AortonT Digitized by the Internet Archive 2012 in http://archive.org/details/othersideofsilenOOkels_0 2- <^%Aj~ UM^ cp^\ //THE OTHER SIDE OF SILENCE I Tf>e Other aide of ailence g Guide to Christian AMitation AortonTISelse^ PAULIST PRESS NEW YORK MAHWAH • i,\ CopyrightO 976 by 1 TheMissionary Society ofSt. Paul theApostle in theStateofNewYork All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the Publisher. Cover Design: Nigel Rollings LibraryofCongress CatalogCard Number: 76-9365 ISBN: 0-8091-1956-0(Paper) Published in the United States by Paulist Press 997 Macarthur Boulevard, Mahwah, NewJersey07430 Printed and bound in the United States ofAmerica Acknowledgments Roberto Assagioli, M.D PSYCHOSYNTHESIS: A MANUAL OF PRINCIPLES AND TECHNIQUES. N,ew York, The Viking Press, 1971. Used with thepermission of ThePsychosynthesisResearch Foundation, NewYork, NewYork. T. S. Eliot, "Burnt Norton" in FOUR QUARTETS. Copyright 1943 by T. S. Eliot; copyright 1971 by Esme Valerie Eliot. Reprinted by permission of Harcourt, Brace,Jo- vanovich, NewYork. LouisEvely,THATMAN IS YOU. Westminster,Maryland,TheNewman Press, 1965. Usedwith permission. Edward Fischer, "TheJournal as Worship," from WORSHIP, vol. 47, no. 8. Usedwith permissionofEdward Fischer. Baron Friedrich von Heugel, THE MYSTICAL ELEMENT OF RELIGION AS STUDIED IN SAINT CATHERINE OF GENOA AND HER FRIENDS, Vol. II. London,J.M. Dentand Sons, Ltd., 1927. Usedwith permission. William Johnston, THE STILL POINT: REFLECTIONS ON ZEN AND CHRIS- TIAN MYSTICISM. New York, Harper & Row, Publishers, 1970. Used with permis- THE COLLECTED WORKS OF C.G.JUNG. Ed. byGerhard Adler,Michael Ford- ham, HerbertReadandWilliamMcGuire.Trans, byR.F.C. Hull.BollingenSeriesXX, Vol. ii,PsychologyandReligion: WestandEast. Copyright 1958 by Bollingen Foun- dation and O1969 by Princeton University Press. Reprinted by permission ofPrinceton UniversityPress. London,RoutledgeandKeganPaul.Usedwithpermission. C.G. Jung, ANALYTICAL PSYCHOLOGY: ITS THEORY AND PRACTICE. CopyrightOi968 by HeirsofCG.Jung, all rights reserved. NewYork,Pantheon Books, aDivisionofRandom House, Inc. Usedwithpermission. MEMORIES, DREAMS REFLECTIONS. Recorded andedited byAniela Jaffe. Translated by Richard and ClaraWinston. NewYork, Pantheon Books, aDivision ofRandom House, Inc., 1963.Usedwithpermission. St.John oftheCross, DARKNIGHTOFTHE SOUL. TranslatedbyE. Allison Peers. NewYork,TheNewman Press. Usedwith permission. Morton T. Kelsey, ENCOUNTER WITH GOD. Reprinted by permission. Published andcopyright, 1972, Bethany Fellowship, Inc.,Minneapolis,Minnesota. Srfren Kierkegaard, FEAR AND TREMBLING and THE SICKNESS UNTO DEATH. Translated by Walter Lowrie. Copyright 1941, 1954 by Princeton University Press,PrincetonPaperback, 1968.ReprintedbypermissionofPrincetonUniversityPress. George Maloney, THE BREATH OF THE MYSTIC. Denville, NewJersey, Dimen- sion Books, Inc., 1974. Usedwith permission. ArthurMiller,AFTERTHE FALL. NewYork,TheVikingPress, Inc., 1964.Usedwith permission. JaroslavPelikan,THE CHRISTIANTRADITION: A HISTORYOFTHEDEVEL- OPMENT OF DOCTRINE, Vol. 2, The Spirit of Eastern Christendom (600-1700). Chicago,TheUniversityofChicagoPress, 1974. Usedwithpermission. WRITINGS FROM THE PHILOKALIA ON PRAYER OF THE HEART. Trans- lated by E. Kadloubovsky and G.E.H. Palmer. London, Faber & Faber, Ltd., 1954. Usedwith permission. Jim Elliott in an interview with Dr. Ira Progoffon "The IntensiveJournal," released in duplicated form in 1971 for Dialogue House Associates by Explorations Institute, Berk- eley,California. Usedwith permission. C.J.Jung, MODERN MAN IN SEARCH OF A SOUL. New York, Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, Inc. London, Routledgeand Kegan Paul. Usedwith permission. T.S. Eliot,THE COMPLETE POEMS AND PLAYS: 1909-1950. New York, Har- court, BraceandWorld, Inc., 1952. To Paisley Brown Roach, faithful co-worker andfriend. .. Contents Introduction Part One A Basic Perspective i. Encountering God 7 2. Intimacy, Anand Meditation 16 Part Two The Basic Climate forMeditation 3. The ClimateofMeditation 31 4. The Spiritual World as the Soul's Soil 33 5. Cracking the Husk: Man's Need for God 42 6. To Whom Do We Pray? 57 7. The Creative PowerofLove 62 8. A Word ofWarning and Encouragement 70 Part Three Preparations forthe InwardJourney 9. Time 83 10. Silence: Discovering the Way Inward 93 1 1 Aids in the PracticeofSilence 109 Part Four The Use ofImages in Meditation 12. Silence, Mysticism and Religious Experience 125 13 Exploring the Natureofthe Spiritual World 163 vii viii Contents 14. Developing Imagination: Stepping into the Inner World 178 15. A Check List forthe Venture Inward 192 16. PuttingImagination to Work 208 Part Five Adventures on the Other Side ofSilence 17. Windows Inward 239 Notes 309
The list of books you might like
