What If Contemplation Is Easier and More Human Than We Realize? Award-winning translator, author, poet, teacher, and workshop leader, Carmen Acevedo Butcher, PhD, is core faculty and Dean at the Center for Action and Contemplation, founded by...
Mystical Awakening & Divine Love Summary: A conversation about spontaneous mystical awakening, divine love, and the challenges of integrating powerful inner experiences within a Christian context. It also explores kundalini, panentheism,...
Evolutionary Christianity and the Great Birther Summary: This conversation explores how theology can move beyond inherited doctrines into a wider, evolutionary understanding of spirit, creation, and human development. It also looks at patriarchy,...
Disillusionment as the Path to Awakening Summary: A conversation about how repeated disillusionment can become a catalyst for spiritual awakening. The discussion moves from strict religion and biblical study to Christ consciousness, belief...
Reincarnation, Karma, and the Preconception Contract Summary: This conversation explores reincarnation, karma, and the idea that souls enter life through a kind of preconception contract. It also examines how science and mysticism can be...
Why AI Needs Religion Summary: This conversation explores God as absolute mystery, the relationship between consciousness and matter, and how science and religion can deepen one another. It also considers AI, transhumanism, and why love and...
Christian Meditation, Contemplative Consciousness, and the Mantra Summary: This conversation explores the roots of Christian meditation, the use of the mantra, and the difference between mindfulness and deeper contemplative practice. It also...
The Universal Christ and Nondual Consciousness Summary: A conversation about the Universal Christ, the limits of transactional religion, and the shift from exclusionary theology toward a more expansive spirituality. The discussion also explores...
The Imaginal Realm, Discernment, and Grace Summary: This conversation explores the imaginal realm as a real dimension of consciousness and how it relates to prayer, service, and transformation. It also examines spiritual discernment, humility,...
Trauma, Mysticism, and the Nearness of God Summary: This conversation explores contemplative Christianity through Thomas Merton, the healing of trauma, and the paradox of God as both transcendent and intimately present. It also touches on...
Kingdom Within, Living Jesus, and Spiritual Awakening Summary: This conversation explores spirit realms, mind-to-mind communication, and the nature of reality beyond the body. It also follows a decades-long unfolding of awakening centered on...
Kimberly Braun, Minister, M.A., CSP and Meditation Coach has been impelled from and within her contemplative experiences from the age of 5, with over ten of her years spent as a Carmelite monastic nun. Her Masters in theology was completed in...
Matthew Fox is a spiritual theologian, an Episcopal priest, and an activist. As a spiritual theologian he has written 34 books that have been translated into over 60 languages. Among them are Original Blessing, The Coming of the Cosmic Christ, A...
The Rev. Cynthia Bourgeault, Ph.D., is an Episcopal priest, teacher, writer, and internationally acclaimed retreat leader. A student of Fr. Thomas Keating, Bruno Barnhart, Beatrice Bruteau, and the Gurdjieff Work, she has made her mark exploring...
The Rev. Matthew Wright is an Episcopal priest, writer, and retreat leader working to renew the Christian Wisdom tradition within a wider interspiritual framework. He writes a monthly column, Belonging, for Contemplative Journal and serves as...
Cheryl Abram is a mother of 4 from southern Louisiana. She’s a graduate of the Catholic University of America in Washington D.C. and holds a Master's degrees in Social Work in Quality Systems Management. Cheryl currently lives in Northern...
Rev. Michael Dowd is a bestselling evolutionary theologian and pro-future evangelist whose work has been featured in The New York Times, LA Times, The Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Newsweek, Discover, and on television nationally. His...
Adyashanti, author of The Way of Liberation: A Practical Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment, Resurrecting Jesus, True Meditation, and The End of Your World, is an American-born spiritual teacher devoted to serving the awakening of all beings. His...
David Alsobrook is now deceased. His father was a Nazarene pastor and David received a “new birth experience” at age 15. He devoured the Bible from cover to cover and went much deeper into exhaustive, detailed studies of Scriptures for years...
Francis Bennett entered the Trappist Abbey of Gethsemane in 1981 and in the 90's subsequently lived at a "daughter house" of Gethsemane in Moncks Corner, South Carolina. Until recently, he was living in a small urban monastery in Montreal Quebec....
Fr. Thomas Keating was a founding member and the spiritual guide of Contemplative Outreach, LTD. He served on Contemplative Outreach's Board of Trustees since the organization's beginning. Fr. Keating was one of the principal architects and...
Presence of God and Pure Awareness Francis Bennett spent decades in the Trappist/Catholic contemplative world while also exploring Vipassana and Zen, and in 2010 he experienced a profound shift into the ever-present reality of pure Awareness....
The Cone of Silence — A CEO, a Christian Minister, and a Date-Specific Awakening Rev. Winn’s experience is that the Kingdom of Heaven is a state of higher consciousness. He focuses on understanding and experiencing the Christian mystical...
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