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The Heart of Centering Prayer: Nondual Christianity in Theory and Practice Cynthia Bourgeault
CENTERING PRAYER is the path to a beautiful and radical new way of seeing the world. As is sometimes thought, it is not simply an act of devotional piety, nor is it a Christianized form of other meditation methods. Cynthia Bourgeault cuts through the misconceptions to show that Centering Prayer is a pioneering development within the Christian contemplative tradition. She provides a practical course in the practice and then goes deeper to analyze what happens in Centering Prayer: the mind effectively switches to a new operating system that lays the foundation for the perception of nonduality. With this understanding in place, she takes us on a journey through one of the practice sources, the Christian contemplative classic The Cloud of Unknowing, revealing it to be among the earliest Christian explorations of the phenomenology of consciousness.
Cynthia Bourgeault’s illumination of the Centering Prayer path provides compelling evidence of how important the practice has become in the half-century since it first arose among American Trappist monks and of its maturation and refinement over the ensuing years of intense study and practice. It resonates with beginners on the Centering Prayer path and with seasoned practitioners.
