Posts Tagged "mysticism"


One of our greatest resistances in healing prayer is trusting the messages we receive.  If we are not accustomed to receiving visions then we are especially vulnerable to doubt. One thing we can do to train ourselves to recognize what voice is what, which is not a perfect process, is to do contemplative prayer.  Each and every day, sit still for as long as you can.  Try to build up to 20 to 30 minutes a day.  You can focus on a word,...

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What is our future as committed Christians as the third millennium begins? How shall we live the Christian life – how do we live the gospel now – as we seek to create a new, just, peaceful world? What resources of the Spirit of God are available to us in the quest to transform our cultures and societies? Two temptations are enticing. One is to plunge into activism without a spiritual grounding. The other, especially insidious, is to...

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Peering Through As a mystic I feel as though I spend much of my time in the dark.  It is a place that shares more with worlds that exist in cartoons than with what we experience in our world every day.  There is a lot of slipping and sliding around. Silence is crucial.  Knowing how to detect something around you so that you can become still is necessary for survival. In spite of the increased challenge in finding my way around,...

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