20a. The Beatitudes: Therapeutic the Emotional Packages, Half 1

That is one video in a sequence of 31 hour-long talks by Thomas Keating that make up his foundational video teachings, “The Religious Journey with Fr. Thomas Keating.” All of those talks at the moment are out there on YouTube, and are listed right here on the finish. Fr. Thomas was an internationally famend theologian, speaker and creator of dozens of books together with “Open Thoughts, Open Coronary heart.”

Fr. Thomas co-founded Contemplative Outreach, which presents this sequence and helps Centering Prayer. Together with Fr. William Meninger and Fr. Basil Pennington, Fr. Thomas started the Centering Prayer motion within the 1970’s to resume the Christian custom of contemplation. An summary of Contemplative Outreach is at

Go to for extra data on Centering Prayer, together with retreats and native chapters that provide help to practitioners in any respect ranges within the U.S. and world wide. A web-based retailer presents books, streaming and downloadable movies and mp3 audios, DVDs, and CDs. A web-based course, “The Religious Journey – Formation within the Christian Contemplative Life,” attracts upon the sequence of talks supplied right here and likewise consists of newer teachings of Fr. Thomas, inside a year-long curriculum.

“The Religious Journey with Fr. Thomas Keating” consists of a Prologue and 5 elements. Every half has as much as six talks in it. Every speak has separate movies for the primary half (a) and the second half (b).

Prologue:
(a primary introduction to Centering Prayer)

• The Methodology of Centering Prayer (in 2 movies)
• The Psychological Expertise of Centering Prayer (in three movies)

Half One: Creating Centering Prayer
(Centering Prayer grows out of a prayerful relationship with God that ideally consists of prayerful studying of Scripture – the apply of Lectio Divina)

0a & 0b. Introduction
1a & 1b. Prayer as Regarding God
2a & 2b. 4 Ranges of Scriptural Expertise
3a & 3b. Towards Resting in God
4a & 4b. Centering Prayer as Methodology
5a & 5b. Progress in Centering Prayer

Half Two: Mannequin of the Human Situation
(the center of the educating on the apply of Centering Prayer)

6a & 6b. The Human Situation: The Evolutionary Mannequin
7a & 7b. Formation of the Selfmade Self: The Existential Mannequin
8a & 8b. The Pre-Rational Power Facilities
9a & 9b. Frustrations Attributable to the Emotional Packages
10a & 10b. Dismantling the Emotional Packages
11a & 11b. The False Self in Motion

Half Three: Paradigms of the Religious Journey
(sensible examples of Centering Prayer in day by day life)

12a & 12b. The 4 Consents
13a & 13b. The Human Situation: The Philosophical Mannequin
14a & 14b. Anthony as a Paradigm of the Religious Journey
15a & 15b. Liberation from the False Self System
16a & 16b. Liberation from Cultural Conditioning
17a & 17b. Spirituality in On a regular basis Life

Half 4: Contemplation: The Divine Remedy
(the Christian contemplative roots for Centering Prayer)

18a & 18b. Night time of Sense: The Biblical Desert
19a & 19b. Night time of Spirit: Towards Transformation
20a & 20b. The Beatitudes: Therapeutic the Emotional Packages
21a & 21b. The Religious Senses
22a & 22b. What Contemplation is Not
23a & 23b. From Contemplation to Motion

Half 5: Divine Love: The Coronary heart of the Christian Religious Journey
(the fruits of the Centering Prayer apply)

24a & 24b. The Most Glorious Path
25a & 25b. The Divine Banquet an Dance
26a & 26b. Prayer in Secret: Matthew 6:6
27a & 27b. What’s the Divine Remedy?
28a & 28b. Contemplative Outreach: A Response to the Divine Invitation

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