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Podcast EpisodeThe Lord of Spirits
Introduces an Eastern Orthodox account of angels, demons, and the spiritual world from within that tradition’s scriptures and theology.
BookJohn of the Cross
John’s extended account of detachment, prayer, spiritual perception, and the path toward union with God.
BookJoe Dispenza
Joe Dispenza combines meditation instruction, workshop reports, personal transformation stories, and language drawn from neuroscience, epigenetics, and quantum physics. He argues that people can move beyond habitual identity and biology toward unusual healing and changes in lived reality.
BookMargery Kempe
A medieval laywoman’s account of visions, tears, pilgrimage, family negotiation, conflict with clergy, and public devotion.
BookAnonymous
The anonymous author counsels a student to place thoughts beneath a 'cloud of forgetting' and reach toward God through naked loving intent beneath a 'cloud of unknowing.' It preserves direct access to a central stream of Christian contemplative practice.
Community / DestinationContemplative Outreach
A Contemplative Outreach pathway to local Centering Prayer groups and online gatherings in the Meditation Chapel.
BookHadewijch
Poems, visions, and letters from a thirteenth-century Beguine whose language of divine Love shaped Christian mysticism.
BookJohn of the Cross
A Carmelite account of the purifying “nights” of sense and spirit through which attachment and familiar spiritual consolation are transformed.
Podcast ShowAndrew Nemr; Mike Freeman
A bounded series reads John of the Cross slowly while one artist tests the text against lived spiritual disorientation.
BookRichard Gallagher
A psychiatrist recounts cases he interprets as genuine demonic possession and explains how his clinical skepticism gave way to belief.
Podcast EpisodeThe Holly Pivec Podcast
Examines how claims to hear God can be used coercively and offers a countervoice to spiritual authority that discourages questioning.
BookBernard McGinn, editor
A broad historical anthology of Christian mystical texts organized around practices, experiences, and theological themes.
BookRichard Rohr
Richard Rohr presents contemplation as a way of receiving reality before dividing it into sacred and ordinary, worthy and unworthy, or success and failure. Drawing from Franciscan Christianity, Scripture, psychology, and the language of nondual awareness, he argues that prayer can loosen the judging mind and make room for a more direct encounter with God, the self, and the present moment. The book is brief and experiential: it offers a spiritual posture more than a systematic account of contemplation.
Podcast EpisodeThe Remnant Radio with Joshua Lewis, Michael Miller, and Michael Rowntree
Compares truth-encounter, inner-healing, and Roman Catholic approaches to deliverance, naming perceived strengths and weaknesses and testing their practices against the hosts’ reading of Scripture.
BookBernadette Roberts
A Catholic contemplative describes a post-unitive transition she interprets as the disappearance of the reflexive self.
Podcast EpisodeDark Night Podcast
John’s spiritual obstacles are explained through conversation rather than a flattened “hard season” slogan. This exact conversation earns inclusion because the audio mode performs work a parallel book entry would not.
BookCynthia Bourgeault
Bourgeault develops the imaginal realm as a participatory mode of perception between sensory and purely spiritual worlds.
Podcast EpisodeDavid Steindl-Rast with Krista Tippett
David Steindl-Rast makes mysticism ordinary: moments of belonging, grateful attention, relationship, nature, and the mystery already present in daily life.
BookTeresa of Avila
Teresa of Ávila describes movement through seven dwelling places of prayer, self-knowledge, trial, union, and service. The work belongs as a classic map whose psychological observation remains influential beyond its original convent setting.
BookMeister Eckhart
This selection introduces Meister Eckhart’s sermons and writings on detachment, divine birth in the soul, the ground of being, images of God, action and contemplation, and the breakthrough beyond possessive knowing. The medieval Dominican’s language is intensely Christian yet frequently apophatic and paradoxical, seeking a freedom in which the soul releases even its concepts of God so divine life may be encountered without grasping.
BookPseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite
The foundational Christian apophatic text on ascending beyond names, images, and concepts into divine unknowing.
BookEvelyn Underhill
Underhill’s classic study describes mystical experience and development through a broad, historically influential Christian framework.
BookRichard Rohr
Franciscan teacher Richard Rohr introduces contemplative Christianity as a shift from habitual either-or judgment toward nondual seeing. Through Scripture, Jesus, early Christian sources, psychology, and practice, he argues that contemplation changes the perceiver before it supplies answers, allowing reality to be received with less defensiveness and division.
BookCarl McColman
Carl McColman offers a broad guide to Christian mysticism through Scripture, theology, history, major contemplative figures, prayer, embodiment, justice, and everyday practice. The expanded edition widens the range of voices and addresses how contemplation relates to action, making the field approachable without reducing mysticism to unusual experiences.
BookThomas Merton
Thomas Merton reflects on contemplation, solitude, false and true selfhood, freedom, love, faith, social division, and union with God through a sequence of theological and meditative essays. Written from Trappist Catholic life but reaching beyond a cloistered audience, the book presents contemplation as awakening to reality in God rather than acquiring unusual experiences or escaping the world.
BookJulian of Norwich
Julian interprets visions of Christ’s suffering through divine love, creation, sin, mercy, and the hope that “all shall be well.”
BookOlivier Clément
A thematic anthology of early Christian mystical theology drawn from Greek and Syriac patristic sources.
John Philip Newell
John Philip Newell presents a creation-centered stream of Christian spirituality in which Earth, the body, and every person bear sacred worth. Through figures associated with Celtic and wider Christian traditions, he connects contemplation with ecological healing, nonviolence, justice, and renewed attention to the divine presence within creation.
Podcast EpisodeStories from the SPIRIT
Discusses how voice-hearing may receive spiritual, psychological, or mixed interpretations and why discernment should resist a single automatic explanation.
BookRhonda Byrne
A highly influential popular expression of manifestation and the law of attraction. Rhonda Byrne teaches that sustained thoughts and feelings attract corresponding experiences, extending the claim across success, relationships, money, and health. Best read as a cultural and spiritual artifact rather than an evidence-based account of how events occur.
Sophfronia Scott
Sophfronia Scott places her own life in conversation with the journals and writings of Thomas Merton. Through questions of ambition, race, family, faith, work, violence, solitude, and love, she makes a major Christian contemplative voice feel like a living conversation rather than a monument that must be mastered.
Community / DestinationShalem Institute for Spiritual Formation
Shalem Institute offers Christian-rooted contemplative programs, retreats, groups, and longer formation pathways enriched by other traditions.
Podcast EpisodeDark Night Podcast
Jonah and John are compared as different threshold images while the conversation shows interpretive work in motion. This exact conversation earns inclusion because the audio mode performs work a parallel book entry would not.
Podcast EpisodeDark Night Podcast
A sustained reading of spiritual dryness and intimacy provides a lived Deepening path. This exact conversation earns inclusion because the audio mode performs work a parallel book entry would not.
BookSam Storms
Sam Storms offers a book-length continuationist evangelical account of spiritual warfare, moving from biblical teaching about Satan and demons into questions about temptation, demonization, prayer, deliverance, and inner healing. He combines theological argument with personal ministry accounts and practical instruction, writing for Christians who believe the New Testament's descriptions of demonic activity remain relevant to contemporary life.
BookSimone Weil
Letters and essays on attention, affliction, prayer, beauty, love of God, and Weil’s refusal of baptism.
Podcast EpisodeThe Scott and Brandon Show with Michael Miller
Michael Miller explains contemporary deliverance ministry, including demonization, spiritual authority, generational sins, sin and discipline, ministry methods, red flags, and why interest in the practice has returned.
Podcast EpisodeDark Night Podcast
Text and first-person disorientation let listeners hear the difference between loss of comfort and simple failure. This exact conversation earns inclusion because the audio mode performs work a parallel book entry would not.