Our Mission
We are a center for experiential education, rooted in the Gospels, encouraging the transformation of human consciousness through contemplation, and equipping people to be instruments of peaceful change in the world.
November 3, 2011
Photograph courtesy of CAC Archives
Emotional Sobriety
Only contemplative prayer touches the deep unconscious, where all of our real hurts, motivations, and deepest visions lie. Without it, we have what is even worse—religious egoic consciousness, which is even more defensive and offensive than usual! Now it has God on its side and is surely what Jesus means by the unforgivable “sin against the Holy Spirit.” It cannot be forgiven because this small self would never imagine it needs forgiveness. It is smug and self-satisfied.
You need to learn and practice this new mind or there will be no lasting initiation, no real change, no authentic encounter with yourself, God, or anybody else. Find your own practice, and learn a new mind. Contemplation really is the change that changes everything.
Adapted from "The Change That Changes Everything,"
The Drumbeat (free monthly e-newsletter from Men As Learners and Elders), October 2011
Starter Prayer:
Change my mind.
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