Links

=** Links **=

@https://www.contemplativelight.com/blog/2017/6/5/the-jesus-prayer-and-integral-christianity The Jesus Prayer has long served mystics as a one-ticket route to Divine Union on The Christian Mystical Path. However, the territory one travels in consistent, disciplined use of the prayer can seem vague and nebulous at times, even when God's brilliant Light is shining the fiercest. It helps my own journey tremendously to make use of the hidden maps and patterns that [|Ken Wilber], [|Carl Jung], and other great minds have described for us in their work. What Wilber calls the Witnessing stage of the mystical path ([|Dark Night of the Spirit in St. John of the Cross lingo]) is actually a simple and transcendent "resting in God," as Christian contemplatives like to say. It is simply the silent Observer ([|Tolle]) behind our thoughts and feelings.
 * Jesus Prayer:**

@http://www.contemplativeoutreach.org/faq
 * FAQs from Contemplative Outreach on the Centering Prayer**

@http://www.nadiabolzweber.com/
 * The cranky spirituality of a Postmodern Gal **

**Book News: Ancient Texts From Vatican And Bodleian Libraries Digitized**
@http://bav.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/

@http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2013/12/03/248333184/book-news-ancient-texts-from-vatican-and-bodleian-libraries-digitized?utm_content=socialflow&utm_campaign=nprbooksfacebook&utm_source=nprbooks&utm_medium=facebook

Alta Retreat Center ||  ||   || St. Edith Stein Lay Carmelites Sacred Space ||  ||   || //**CLICK HERE FOR ACCESS TO WEBRINGS OF INTEREST**// Geez magazine @http://www.geezmagazine.org/
 * // Links to other Catholic websites of interest... // ||  ||   ||
 * Fr. Meninger's Monastery || St. Benedict's Monastery, Colorado ||  ||
 * Contemplative Outreach, Ltd || International office, support organization ||  ||
 * Trappist Order || Information on Fr. Meninger's order ||  ||
 * Contemplative Outreach for Northern California
 * Contemplative Outreach for Northern California
 * Resources for Catholic Educators ||  ||   ||
 * Mount Saviour Monastery ||  ||   ||
 * Archdiocese of Chicago ||  ||   ||
 * Totally Catholic Link Network
 * // Ecumenical and other religions... // ||  ||   ||
 * Centering Prayer Email Discussion List ||  ||   ||
 * FindtheDivine.com ||  ||   ||
 * Contemplativemind.org ||  ||

@http://www.ramdass.org/ramdass-media-library/
 * Ram Dass Media Library**

@http://www.semiticmuseum.fas.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do
 * Semitic Museum of the Far East**

@http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/on-faith/ohio-congressman-on-a-mission-to-bring-meditation-to-the-masses/2012/04/16/gIQAdp37LT_story.html
 * Tim Ryan: ** Ohio congressman on a mission to bring meditation to the masses

__**Merton Archives at St. Bonaventure University**__
@http://web.sbu.edu/friedsam/archives/mertonweb/index.html

=Evidence Builds That Meditation Strengthens the Brain= http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/03/120314170647.htm

__**The Gospel of Thomas**__
@http://www.gnosis.org/naghamm/nhl_thomas.htm

http://earlychristianwritings.com/text/signs.html
 * Gospel of the Signs (John built from this)**

__**Contemplative Society**__ @http://www.contemplative.org/index.html

@http://www.rc.net/wcc/readings/
 * __Daily Scripture:__**

@http://www.cacradicalgrace.org/
 * __Center for Action and Contemplation:__**

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 * __Psalms for Centering__**

__**Living in the Truth of the Present Moment:**__ @http://truthofthepresentmoment.blogspot.com/

**Centering Prayer Index: @http://www.kyrie.com/cp**
 * __Epektasis__** - The Perpetual Ascent of the Soul [].


 * __Inner Explorations__: Where Christian mysticism, theology and metaphysics meet Eastern religions,** **Jungian psychology and a new sense of the earth.** ** More than 500 web pages, 2,500 pages of text, and 1,000 images. **[]

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 * The Center for Contemplative Mind in Society** works to integrate contemplative awareness into contemporary life in order to help create a more just, compassionate, reflective, and sustainable society. @http://www.contemplativemind.org/

=The Dalia Lama Center for Ethics and Transformative Values: []=
 * The Association for Contemplative Mind in Higher Education** is an initiative of [|the Center for Contemplative Mind in Society], which has provided resources and practical directions for bringing about an “education //par excellence//” for the past ten years. @http://www.acmhe.org/

=New Testament History and Literature=

Dale B Martin Yale @http://academicearth.org/courses/new-testament-history-and-literature
Free Books: @http://books.google.com/books

Fr. Thomas Keating's [|Contemplative Outreach] website. The [|Lectio Divina] site (in particular []). The online book by Fr. Basil Pennington, "[|Centered Living: The Way of Centering Prayer]" The [|Contemplative Outreach Northwest] site. Contemplative Outreach of [|Northern California] site Writings on [| Centering Prayer, Lectio Divina, and Contemplative Living] Centering Prayer in terms of the [|Twelve Step] tradition Contemplative Outreach [| Birmingham] Shaun McCarty: [| Centering Prayer Trinitarian?] Ascension Mission: [|Prayer & Meditation] [|A] [|Carmelite Tradition and Centering Prayer/Christian Meditation] (Ernest Larkin O.Carm) [|Teresa of Avila and Centering Prayer] (Ernest Larkin O.Carm)

**From the links page of the Association for Contemplative Mind in Higher Education:**
@http://www.acmhe.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=26&Itemid=85

> Directed by Jean L. Kristeller, Contemplative Practice Fellow and Professor of Psychology. > Directed by Dan Holland, Contemplative Practice Fellow and Associate Professor of Psychology. > Directed by Ed Sarath, Contemplative Practice Fellow and Professor of Music.
 * Programs, Departments and Study Centers**
 * __ [|**Indiana State U. Center for the Study of Health, Religion, and Spirituality**] __
 * The**[| Brown University Contemplative Studies Initiative]** is supported with a Contemplative Program Development Fellowship under the direction of Hal Roth, Contemplative Practice Fellow and Professor of Religious Studies.
 * **__ [|U. of Arkansas] __****__ [| Mindfulness-Based Campus-Community Health Program] __**
 * **__ [|U. of Michigan Program in Creativity and Consciousness Studies] __**


 * Research**
 * The **[|Metro-Area Research Group on Meditation and Awareness (MARGAM)]** at New York University aims to facilitate dialogue and collaboration between psychologists, philosophers, and scholars of Buddhism engaged in research on meditation and related topics. The **[|MARGAM Facebook page]** also provides information on the group's activities.
 * **__ [|Mind & Life Institute] __** works to promote the creation of a contemplative, compassionate, and rigorous experimental and experiential science of the mind which could guide and inform medicine, neuroscience, psychology, education and human development.
 * **__ [|Spirituality in Higher Education: A National Study of College Students’ Search for Meaning and Purpose] __** is a multi-year research project at UCLA that assesses and tracks the spiritual growth of students during their undergraduate college years. They also publish an interesting __ [|newsletter] __.

> An interdisciplinary symposium and virtual conversation from the Center for New Designs in Learning and Scholarship at Georgetown University.
 * Organizations**
 * The__ [| **Association for Mindfulness in Education**] __ is a collaborative association of organizations and individuals working together to provide support for mindfulness training as a component of K-12 education.
 * **[|Education as Transformation]**is an international organization that works with colleges, universities, K-12 schools and related institutions exploring the impact of religious diversity on education, strategies for addressing this diversity, and the role of spirituality in educational institutions.
 * [|**Mindfulness in Education Network**] posts news, announcements and events relevant to educators who want to bring a contemplative awareness to their work.
 * **[|Minding Your Life]** helps educators and schools wishing to incorporate mindfulness practices to enhance learning and promote more centered, less stressful life.
 * [|**Teaching to Connect the Heart and Mind**]

https://plus.google.com/communities/112657446012005514722
 * Ram Dass Google Circle Group:**