during this looking out research, Fr. Murchadh Fr. Ó Madagáin describes the lifestyles and innovations of Fr. Thomas Keating, the Trappist monk who was once one of many founders of the centering prayer circulate. Centering prayer goals to reclaim the Christian contemplative and mystical traditions after centuries of forget and to make it on hand for contemporary religious seekers. Fr. Ó Madagáin strains its roots again to the fourth- and fifth-century desolate tract Fathers equivalent to Evagrius and John Cassian. He indicates the way it was once utilized in the medieval vintage The Cloud of Unknowing and practiced through saints John of the move and Teresa of Avila, then revived via Thomas Merton in the course of the 20th century.

Fr. Ó Madagáin illustrates how, through bringing the insights of latest psychology to endure in this historical approach to prayer, Fr. Keating has not just revitalized the contemplative culture, but in addition has enabled it to develop into a robust device for individuals of religion to achieve perception into themselves and God, whom Keating calls the "divine healer." Fr. Ó Madagáin additionally unpacks the approaches at paintings in centering prayer and clears up a few of the universal misunderstandings that encompass it.

Centering Prayer and the therapeutic of the Unconscious is an important paintings for all these drawn to the heritage and perform of centering prayer. as well as describing the heritage of this special and potent perform, Fr. Ó Madagáin bargains distinctive insights into the guidelines of 1 of its best modern academics and practitioners.