15a. Liberation from the False Self System, Part 1, with Thomas Keating
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- Опубліковано 8 вер 2024
- Fr. Keating continues his explanation of the trajectory of the Spiritual Journey by drawing on John of the Cross’ description of the Night of Sense. As a person’s relationship with God deepens, a person’s self knowledge increases and that often leads to such afflictive emotions as mourning, anxiety, melancholy. These unpleasant experiences in the Night of Sense suggest that the emotional programs for happiness are drying up. John of the Cross outlines three intense trials that can be experienced during the Night of Sense. Fr. Keating offers St. Anthony’s experience as an example of the first temptation, the spirit of fornication.
This is one video in a series of 31 hour-long talks by Thomas Keating that make up his foundational video teachings, “The Spiritual Journey with Fr. Thomas Keating.” All of these talks are now available on UA-cam, and are listed below with links. Fr. Thomas was an internationally renowned theologian, speaker and author of dozens of books including “Open Mind, Open Heart.”
To access condensed highlights of this video series plus more recent series by Fr. Thomas as part of a free online course, go to www.contemplat... for the complete course, or to • The Spiritual Journey ... for just the videos.
Fr. Thomas co-founded Contemplative Outreach, which offers this series and supports Centering Prayer. Along with Fr. William Meninger and Fr. Basil Pennington, Fr. Thomas began the Centering Prayer movement in the 1970’s to renew the Christian tradition of contemplation. An overview of Contemplative Outreach is at • Contemplative Outreach... .
Go to www.contemplati... for more information on Centering Prayer, including retreats and local chapters that offer support to practitioners at all levels in the U.S. and around the world. An online store offers books, streaming and downloadable videos and mp3 audios, DVDs, and CDs. An online course, “The Spiritual Journey - Formation in the Christian Contemplative Life,” draws upon the series of talks offered here and also includes newer teachings of Fr. Thomas, within a year-long curriculum.
“The Spiritual Journey with Fr. Thomas Keating” consists of a Prologue and five parts. Each part has up to six talks in it. Each talk has a separate video for the first half (a) and the second half (b).
Prologue
• Prologue to The Spirit...
(A basic introduction to Centering Prayer)
• The Method of Centering Prayer (2 videos)
• The Psychological Experience of Centering Prayer (3 videos)
Part One: Developing Centering Prayer
• Part 1 of The Spiritua...
(Centering Prayer grows out of a prayerful relationship with God that ideally includes prayerful reading of Scripture - the practice of Lectio Divina)
0a & 0b. Introduction
1a & 1b. Prayer as Relating to God
2a & 2b. Four Levels of Scriptural Experience
3a & 3b. Toward Resting in God
4a & 4b. Centering Prayer as Method
5a & 5b. Progress in Centering Prayer
Part Two: Model of the Human Condition
• Part 2 of The Spiritua...
(The heart of the teaching on the practice of Centering Prayer)
6a & 6b. The Human Condition: The Evolutionary Model
7a & 7b. Formation of the Homemade Self: The Existential Model
8a & 8b. The Pre-Rational Energy Centers
9a & 9b. Frustrations Caused by the Emotional Programs
10a & 10b. Dismantling the Emotional Programs
11a & 11b. The False Self in Action
Part Three: Paradigms of the Spiritual Journey
• Part 3 of The Spiritua...
(Practical examples of Centering Prayer in daily life)
12a & 12b. The Four Consents
13a & 13b. The Human Condition: The Philosophical Model
14a & 14b. Anthony as a Paradigm of the Spiritual Journey
15a & 15b. Liberation from the False Self System
16a & 16b. Liberation from Cultural Conditioning
17a & 17b. Spirituality in Everyday Life
Part Four: Contemplation: The Divine Therapy
• Part 4 of The Spiritua...
(The Christian contemplative roots for Centering Prayer)
18a & 18b. Night of Sense: The Biblical Desert
19a & 19b. Night of Spirit: Toward Transformation
20a & 20b. The Beatitudes: Healing the Emotional Programs
21a & 21b. The Spiritual Senses
22a & 22b. What Contemplation is Not
23a & 23b. From Contemplation to Action
Part Five: Divine Love: The Heart of the Christian Spiritual Journey
• Part 5 of The Spiritua...
(The fruits of the Centering Prayer practice)
24a & 24b. The Most Excellent Path
25a & 25b. The Divine Banquet an Dance
26a & 26b. Prayer in Secret: Matthew 6:6
27a & 27b. What is the Divine Therapy?
28a & 28b. Contemplative Outreach: A Response to the Divine Invitation
Thanks for posting these. This one in particular has been very helpful to me. I'm only now familiarizing myself with Keating works. I wish I'd done so sooner. He actually made his home in my home state. Though, I categorically reject the idea of a literal hell and referring to the divine as a person and male at that, that heaven is here on earth, as well as the whole idea of being "Christian" which I believe is antithetical to what Jesus was about, if I'd known about Keating's work, or someone like him, sooner, my life would've have turned out so differently.
I rejected organized religion before, and then again, most vehemently, after my experience with the Divine Source -- because of the church -- which I'd begun going to because during my experience a new friend who'd come into my life at that time kept telling me what I was sharing as I was going through it, was straight out of the New Testament. (I had never read the bible.) Not only was I told that my experience had been "the devil masquerading as an angel of light" but their arrogance and hypocrisy in claiming they are the only true followers, the special "chosen ones" of God, sickened me. The only good that came out of that experience is that I did a deep dive into the study of the New Testament. I read the OT but still feel it was mostly an ego-filled screed, and that monotheism was invented to justify imposing patriarchy on the populace to claim power over it. It's no coincidence that with the establishment of that religion women were stripped of all their rights - even the right to be in the public square.
Anyway, my experience occurred many moons ago, more than a decade before the internet and cellphones and I fell into the trap of believing that the dark night of the soul I was experiencing was my fault and I was being punished. My old temptations also came back with a vengeance, to a point where I even wanted to cut the tongue out of my mouth. I'd even read St John's book but couldn't make sense of it, at the time. It was brutal. And then, I made the fatal mistake of going on psych meds to dampen the depression and despair I was in. I am only now recovering, after seven years drug-free. I just bought seven of his books and hope to find my way back to some measure of peace, before I leave this world!
I liked his speaking of the energy as voltage. I'd call it an analogy, but it's not. It is pure energy. During the most intense part of my experience with the Divine Source I felt like my finger was in an electrical socket. It seemed like I could feel every cell in my body vibrating. And all of life was vibrating with that energy too. The defining features of that experience were an overwhelming awe and gratitude. Profoundly humbling. I felt like that newborn babe, whose eyes had just opened, seeing the world as it truly was (a heaven on earth,) utterly defenseless but completely protected/safe. The synchronicities were piling on so fast that it seemed absurd to even call it synchronicity. Like it's actually the reality of the universe revealing its true nature, affirming that all is connected/One and that when you are plugged into this what you seek/the answers to the burning questions you ask, come to you instantly, in one form or another. One of the biggest takeaways from the experience was that there is no death. Not the way we conceive of it anyway. Our consciousness does not die. Amen!
Anthony of Egypt. This is part of a series, Anthony as a Paradigm for the Spiritual Journey
St ANTHONY - organized the cenobitic monks into community thru the understanding of Gods incarnation in Christ . Athanasia used this against Arias at the council of Nicea as an example of Christ divinity .
We all have shadow Carl Jung speaks about this. And others too.
Is there a lecture in which Fr. Keating addresses the emotion of Fear/Anxiety? Can someone please point me to it? Many thanks.
No lecture comes to mind, but he touches on the topic in this brief excerpt from his "Heartfulness" series: www.contemplativeoutreach.org/video/fear-is-not-helpful/
@@coutreach Thank you for your reply. I will have a look at the link :)
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25:00 or 24:00 night of sense. Fornication. First trial.
St athenatius Anthony
Anthony of the desert ?
who is Anthony?
Kevin Cease I’m assuming that it is St Anthony the Great but it could also be St Anthony of Padua. Both phenomenal saints.
St. Anthony the great( one of the desert fathers in the third and fourth centuries in Egypt )
Lola-Maria Bielicka, because he’s talking on contemplation, he’s most probably referring to St Anthony, the Desert Father who is sometimes associated with hermit-monastic life.
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