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Sounds True: Insights at the Edge

Father Thomas Keating: Inviting the Presence of the Divine, Part One

Sounds True: Insights at the Edge

Tami Simon

Religion, Religion & Spirituality

4.61.8K Ratings

🗓️ 15 December 2009

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Tami Simon speaks with Father Thomas Keating, a Trappist monk in the Cistercian Order who has served as abbot of Saint Joseph’s Abbey Monastery in Spencer, MA, for 20 years. He now resides at Saint Benedict’s Monastery in Snowmass, CO. He is the author 20 books, as well as the Sounds True audio-learning course The Contemplative Journey. Father Keating is one of the architects of the contemporary Centering Prayer movement. In the first of a two-part series, Father Keating discusses his personal monastic path, prayer, doubt, and how he has dealt with both little deaths and big deaths in his own life. (28 minutes)

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You're listening to Insights at the Edge. Today I speak with Father Thomas Keating.

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Father Keating is a Trappist monk in the Cistercian Order. He served as Abbot of St. Joseph's Monastery in Spencer, Massachusetts for 20 years and now resides at St. Benedict's Monastery in Snowmass, Colorado.

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He's the author of over 35 books, as well as the

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Sounds True Audio Learning Course, The Contemplative Journey, Contemplation,

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and Transformation from Christianity's mystical tradition.

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Father Keating is one of the architects of the contemporary centering prayer movement,

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a Christian contemplative practice in which practitioners invite

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and receive the presence of the divine.

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Recently, Sounds True recorded a complete home study course on centering prayer.

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This is a course that we have also developed

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into an online learning course that will begin on January 20th, 2010 at sounds true.com.

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During the recording of this Centering Prayer course.

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We recorded most of the material on video

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and then some of the guided meditations on audio.

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I had the chance to interview Father Thomas Keating.

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He was 85 at the time of this interview and we'll

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