The Way to Contemplation (Record no. 97760)
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| control field | Monogr.mrc |
| 005 - DATE AND TIME OF LATEST TRANSACTION | |
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| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| International Standard Book Number | 0809128764 |
| Terms of availability | 0 |
| 082 00 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | K30.1 |
| Item number | J182 |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Jager, Willigis |
| 245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | The Way to Contemplation |
| Remainder of title | Encountering God Today |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. | |
| Place of publication, distribution, etc. | New York |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc. | Paulist Press |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc. | 1987 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | 144p |
| 500 ## - GENERAL NOTE | |
| General note | includes index and biblioraphy |
| 505 2# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE | |
| Formatted contents note | Introduction : What is Contemplation ? ...3 Chapter I. The way of body and breath ...5 1. Correct breathing ...5 Breathing and mental activity ...5 Attention to breathing in the monastic fathers ...6 Everyday life as practice field ...7 2. Posture ...8 3. Recollection ...9 Using a word ...9 The wor and breathing ...12 Silencing of active everyday consciousness ...13 Love and self- surrender as helps to progress ...17 Chapter II. Awareness of one`s own being ...19 1. Gazing into one`s own being ...19 2. Prayer of quiet ...21 3. Summary view of the way of prayer ...22 Chapter III. Awareness of God ...25 1. The ultimate reality ...25 2. Aspects of the mystical experience ...31 Ego and self ...31 Beyond duality ...33 Timelessness ...34 3 Individuality and the experience of Enlightenment ...55 4 Unity ans multiplicity - God and creation ...37 Chapter IV. Personalization of the experience ...41 1. Goal of contemplation ...41 2. Martha as model of mystics ...44 3. Virinity and wifehood according to Echart ...46 4. The likeness of the picture praises the artist ...48 5. All things taste of god ...50 Chapter V. Transformation of the personality ...53 1. A new organization of personal values ...53 2. A deepening understanding of sin ...54 3.Purification of senses and spirit ...56 4. Asceticism and contemplation ...57 5. Social responsibility and contemplation ...59 6. Contemplation as wordless prayer ...63 7. Prayer of petition and contemplation ...65 8. Faith and contemplation ...66 Chapter VI. God the simple - God the manifold ...69 1. The dynamism of the divine life ...69 2. The two aspects of the god-life ...70 3. Religion and contemplation ...72 4. Possible obstracles ...74 The sacrements ...74 Visions ...76 Theological ideas ...78 Chapter VII. General perspectives ...82 1. Psychological aspects ...82 Contemplation and feelings ...82 Contemplation : A state of clarified consciousness ...85 2. Prospect ...86 A new dimension ...86 Mysticism as ecumenical ground of the religions ...88 Biliographical references ...91 Appendix : Reports of exprience (RE) ...94 Notes ...139 |
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