Here are a number of videos from various sources relating to Centering Prayer. The two important ones for learning the method are those showing the Guidelines Parts 1 and 2 by Fr Thomas Keating - see first row.
These videos are not local to the EasterSpirit site. (If you are looking for the EasterSpirit videos instead, please go here.) They are rather linked and embedded here from other sites. Click on a video to watch it here. A technical note is at the bottm of this page.
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Fr Thomas Keating is co-founder of Contemplative Outreach |
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| Reaching Out to the World: Contemplative Outreach and their work on Centering Prayer - new, recommended - from the Contemplative Outreach site | CENTERING PRAYER - Guidelines Part 1 - Fr Thomas Keating, Trappist monk |
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The two Guidelines videos above tell you what you need to know, if you are interested in practising Centering Prayer. For more information, go to Contemplative Outreach, and buy the book Open Mind, Open Heart - the contemplative dimension o fthe Gospel, by Fr Thomas Keating ocso on Alibris, Play.com, or Amazon or elsewhere. |
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| Faith; the separate self; love; and the crucial importance of contemplative practice in human development - Fr Thomas Keating with philosopher Ken Wilber | Centering Prayer - a brief introduction by Fr Jim Martin |
An Introduction to Centering Prayer by an Episcopal priest, Fr Matthew Moretz |
| Celtic Christianity Today #1 - Rev George Cairns | Celtic Christianity Today #12 - Rev George Cairns | Celtic Christianity Today #3 - Rev George Cairns |
| Baptist Rev Cairns,
a professor with the Chicago Theological Seminary,
is a teacher of Centering Prayer licensed by Contemplative Outreach, taught by Fr Thomas Keating. See his links here.
The videos were recorded on
recorded on November 9, 2007 in Munising Michigan. Thank you, Rev Cairns. |
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| Centering Prayer - Fr Thomas Keating, at the Crossings | You and the Other (with a capital O) - a clip from One, the Movie | The Roman Catholic Church opening up to other religions - Fr Thomas Keating ocso |
| Fr Thomas Keating - the Garrison Institute Interview, Part 1 | Fr Thomas Keating - the Garrison Institute Interview, Part 2 | Fr Thomas Keating - the Garrison Institute Interview, Part 3 |
| "Father Thomas Keating is the animator of Centering Prayer and of Contemplative Outreach. A Trappist monk for 65 years, he is a retired abbot, author of a dozen
books and a major voice in inter-religious dialogue. In the 1970s, he was one of three Trappist monks who studied ancient Christian contemplative practices which were largely lost after the Reformation, and distilled them into a simple, accessible method known as Centering Prayer. He is interviewed by Jonathan F.P. Rose, Chairman of the Garrison Institute." Thank you, Garrison Institute for the videos and for this description.
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| Oneness and the Heart of the World - Fr Thomas Keating | How do I practice CENTERING PRAYER? "CP is much espoused by the Carmelites..." Fr Joe McCloskey | |
| Fr Thomas Keating seems at first to be simply speculating on theology, but he is really talking about contemplative experiences. Among other things
he talks about the senses, or their mystical analogues, in the context of contemplative prayer; the attraction to silence; faith or trust as the third eye; humans and the realisation of oneness; "not this, not that"; collective and individual human transformation; and other themes.
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