Thomas Keating

Thomas Keating

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The first portrait of Thomas Keating’s remarkable evolution, in the last decades of his life, into a fully realized modern-day Christian mystic.

In the first four decades of his life as a Trappist monk, Thomas Keating created a comprehensive, unified psychospiritual pathway leading from healing to holiness and from contemporary psychological wellness to classic mystical sanctity and beatitude. In short, he fashioned a powerful new on-ramp to the Christian contemplative tradition. Yet, as beloved author and Keating disciple Cynthia Bourgeault shows, that was not the end of Keating’s story. In this unique blend of biography, personal experience, and close reading of his late works, Bourgeault illuminates Keating’s remarkable spiritual development from the late 1980s until his death in 2018. She explores: 

  • Keating’s increasing commitment to the nondual practice of “objectless awareness”  
  • His contributions to interspiritual dialogue 
  • The evolution of his early teaching on the movement from “false self” to “true self,” to that from “true self” to “no self” 
  • His final “dark night of the spirit” and passage through death 
  • New evidence that he never left Christianity but carried it with him to new places 

The profound final stages of Keating’s spiritual journey will inspire you toward the ineffable experience of living as a modern mystic, yourself—fundamentally at home and at peace in the universe.​CYNTHIA BOURGEAULT is a modern-day mystic, Episcopal priest, and theologian. She divides her time between solitude at her seaside hermitage in Maine and traveling globally to promote the rediscovery of the Christian contemplative path. She is a core faculty member at the Center for Action and Contemplation and founding director of an international network of Wisdom Schools. Cynthia’s articles and essays have appeared in many journals and publications, and she is the author of numerous books, including Eye of the Heart, The Wisdom Jesus, The Meaning of Mary Magdalene, The Holy Trinity and the Law of Three, and The Heart of Centering Prayer.US

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Weight 13 oz
Dimensions 5.5000 × 8.5000 in
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centering prayer, contemplative outreach, spiritual biography, nonduality, nondual christianity, joan chittister, david steindl-rast, contemplative christianity, meditations for christians, thomas keating, the cloud of unknowing, cloud of unknowing, prayer of the cloud, eye of the heart, christian mystics, REL055000, cynthia bourgeault, richard rohr, christian mysticism, Thomas Merton, christian biographies, metaphysical books, christian meditation, REL047000, spiritual books, Christian books, religious books, Mysticism, trappist, biography