The Naked Now Learning to See as the Mystics See

by Rohr, Richard

• ISBN13: 9780824525439
• ISBN10: 0824525434
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-09-01
• Publisher: Crossroad

Summary

The Enlightenment you Seek in other Religions has been present in Christianity from the beginning. Richard Rohr, a global leader in spiritual awakening, helps you recognize the forces (such as ego resistance and dual thinking) that separate you from your deeper self. Then, drawing from the Gospels and the greatest Christian contemplatives, he shows you what it means to be spiritually awake. You'll learn:

Author Biography

Richard Rohr is a well known lecturer who founded the Center for Action and Contemplation. He has been a featured essayist on the NPR program This I Believe, a guest on the radio show Oprah and Friends, and he appeared in the documentary ONE, featuring spiritual teachers from around the world. He is a regular contributor to Sojourners and Tikkun magazines, and he is the author of numerous books, including Adam’s Return, The Enneagram, Everything Belongs, Simplicity, and Things Hidden. He lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

Table of Contents

Preface: Why I am Writing This Book	p. 9
The Gift Is Already Given	p. 15
When You Surrender to Fear and Distraction	p. 17
When You Joyfully Surrender to God	p. 18
Discover Your Birthright	p. 20
Prayer - Practicing Heaven Now	p. 22
The Great Unsaying	p. 25
Three Ways to View the Sunset	p. 27
The Urgent Need for Contemplative Seeing	p. 28
What It Means to Be a Mystic	p. 29
We Should Have "Known" Better	p. 31
Knowing Worse: All-or-Nothing Thinking	p. 32
Knowing Better: Contemplation and Presence	p. 33
Mystical Christianity: A Critique from Within	p. 36
A Lesson from the Monks	p. 39
The Limitations of Individualism	p. 40
A Debate Everyone Can Win	p. 43
Glimpses of Wonder: The Quest Is Begun	p. 46
But We Have to Make Judgments, Don't We?	p. 49
We See What We Are Ready to See	p. 49
The Radical Perceptual Shift: Is It True?	p. 52
Yes, But	p. 55
Not Many Things, but One Thing	p. 58
Getting Thrown Off Your Horse: Sudden Conversion	p. 59
Gradual Conversion	p. 61
How Martha Becomes Mary: Willfulness and Willingness	p. 63
What about Jesus?	p. 67
The Prayer of Jesus	p. 70
Not Here, Not There	p. 74
The Two Heels of a Christian Achilles	p. 80
Conversion: Begin by Changing the Seer	p. 84
Healing the Observer	p. 84
Three Levels of Conversion	p. 86
Change Your Mind	p. 89
The Ego Hates Change	p. 90
Different Religions, Same Ego Resistance	p. 91
Inertia Resists Change	p. 93
Heaven and Hell: You Must Change Again and Again	p. 95
Things "Too Good to Be True": From Polarity Thinking to Prayer	p. 98
Reframing False Dilemmas	p. 99
Alternative Consciousness	p. 100
Prayer Is Resonance	p. 101
Experience Impossible and Improbable Things	p. 103
The Lost Tradition	p. 105
The Decline of Contemplation	p. 108
More Recent Rediscoveries	p. 111
Faith Is More How to Believe Than What to Believe	p. 116
Opening the Door: Great Love and Great Suffering	p. 122
What Nondual Thinking Is Not	p. 129
The Watchful Gaze: What Do We Mean by Being "Awake"?	p. 134
The Meaning of Spiritual Love	p. 140
Sinners, Mystics, and Astrophysicists: How to Celebrate Paradox	p. 143
The Value of Paradox	p. 144
Greek Logic	p. 149
Trinity	p. 150
Physics and Astrophysics	p. 151
What It Means to Follow Jesus	p. 153
What Every Good Leader Knows	p. 156
The Principle of Likeness: In the End, It All Comes Down to This	p. 159
Appendices Practicing The Naked Now
Levels of Development	p. 163
Training for the "Third Eye"	p. 166
Litany of the Holy Spirit	p. 168
Practicing Awareness	p. 170
Christian Tantra: The "Welling Up" Exercise	p. 171
The Prayer of the Self-Emptying One	p. 173
The Virgin Prayer	p. 174
Walking Meditation: The Mirror Medallion	p. 176
A Joyful Mind	p. 178
The Shining Word "And"	p. 180
Notes	p. 183
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