Resources
Websites
Mystical Transformation
Paulist Press - www.paulistpress.com
Paulist Press provides an outstanding collection of the writings of the Christian mystics and other mystics of the Western tradition in the Classics of Western Spirituality Series.
Bethanie - Centre de Recontres Spirituelles - www.centre-bethanie.org
Alphonse and Rachel Goettmann integrate the Prayer of the Heart of the early Christian mystics of the East with the influence of the thought of spiritual teacher and psychotherapist Karlfried Graf Durckheim. Their work at Bethanie, a center of research and hesychast meditation in Eastern France, combines Eastern and Western wisdom for the transformation of consciousness. Their books include Prayer of Jesus, Prayer of the Heart (Paulist Press, 1991) by Alphonse and Rachel Goettmann with an introduction by George Maloney, S.J., and Dialogue on the Path of Initiation: An Introduction to the Life and Thought of Karlfried Graf Durckheim (Globe Press, 1991) by Alphonse Goettmann.
Evelyn Underhill Association - www.evelynunderhill.org
Evelyn Underhill was one of the twentieth century’s most important contributors of the experience and thought of the Western mystical tradition. Her numerous works include the classic book Mysticism and a translation and introduction to the mystical experience and vision of fourteenth century mystic John Ruusbroek. This website provides an introduction to her work.
South Pacific Centre for Human Inquiry - www.human-inquiry.com
The work of John Heron in cooperative-inquiry, spiritual inquiry, and participative spirituality bears some relation to our new vision of mystical transformation and spiritual creativity. Heron’s dipolar model of transcendent consciousness and immanent relational/creative spiritual life helps bridge the depths and heights of the mystical way with our embodied life of relationships, creativity, and work in the world.
Caroline Myss - www.myss.com
Caroline Myss integrates the healing of body and mind with the depth of mystical transformation to our true self in divine union. Her book “Entering the Castle: An Inner Path to God and Your Soul” provides a framework for the mystic journey in everyday life.
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Science and Transformation
William A. Tiller Foundation - www.tillerfoundation.com
The work of William A. Tiller provides a subtle energy understanding of our multidimensional anthropology.
Institute of HeartMath - www.heartmath.org
The Institute of HeartMath provides a scientific understanding for the primacy of the heart and the heart/brain/mind relationship.
Touch the Future - www.touchthefuture.org
The work of Joseph Chilton Pearce puts forth a new way of childhood development, and the transformation to our true self in the Spirit beyond the consciousness of fear and violence in the dominant cultures of religion and science. Information about his work can be found at Touch the Future, an organization that seeks to further adult transformation beyond a fear-based cultural conditioning so as to model a creative intelligence that will enable less impediments to the true self consciousness of our children.
Rupert Sheldrake - www.sheldrake.org
Biologist Rupert Sheldrake provides theory and experience of morphogenetic fields and morphic resonance. These energy fields, which shape our biology, mind, and actions, are transmitted and tuned into via resonance.
Bruce Lipton -www.brucelipton.com
Biologist Bruce Lipton has made ground breaking advances in cellular biology. His discoveries include the knowledge that the brain of the cell is the membrane. With this understanding, DNA is malleable to the commands of consciousness that originate beyond the cell and are communicated to the cell through the membrane. Bruce Lipton’s work gives an important contribution to intention and how beliefs from consciousness become encoded in our biology. His website provides many valuable resources, including excellent links on conscious parenting.
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Personal Transformation, Relationships, and Spiritual Creativity
Kathy Freston - www.kathyfreston.com
Kathy Freston gives us an excellent approach for transforming the self to enable mutually self-giving soul mate relationships.
Richard Moss - www.richardmoss.com
Richard Moss focuses on transformation and self-healing to our essential being of the true self. His work helps us move beyond fear to live from the awareness of the true self through relationships and creativity.
SoulfulLiving Magazine - www.SoulfulLiving.com
The SoulfulLiving online magazine created by Valerie Rickel is a place for spiritual growth, personal development, and living from the heart and soul in everyday life.
Barakaya Consulting - www.barakaya.com
Fiona Taylor works from the awareness of the mystical dimension of the soul where we unite with the divine light to express the fullness of our gifts in the world. She seeks to maximize inspiration and creativity by uncovering the deep fear-based conditioning in the unconscious mind in order to enable the freedom of human intention and creativity. She applies her work in evolution of consciousness to corporate training, sports coaching, and personal coaching.
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Books and Publications
Mystical Transformation
Pseudo-Macarius: The Fifty Spiritual Homilies And the Great Letter (Paulist Press, 1992). Translated, edited, and introduction by George A. Maloney, S.J.
Symeon the New Theologian: The Discourses (Paulist Press, 1980). Translated by C.J. Cantanzaro.
Symeon provides an experience and vision of God as light and fire dwelling within. His spirituality is of the heart where the whole person of spirit, soul, and body experiences divine union. In The Discourses, Symeon conveys his mystical experiences as well as the knowledge that mystical transformation is for all persons within the life of the world.
The Harvest of Mysticism in Medieval Germany: Vol. IV in the Presence of God Series (Presence of God: A History of Western Christian Mysticism) (Herder and Herder, 2005) by Bernard McGinn.
This volume by Bernard McGinn offers an excellent summary of the mystical way of Meister Eckhart and John Tauler, as well as many other mystics who contributed to the emergence of a mysticism of inner being within the Rhineland.
Meister Eckhart: The Essential Sermons, Commentaries, Treatises, and Defense (Paulist Press, 1981) by Edmund Colledge, Bernard McGinn, and Huston Smith.
This volume provides a collection of both the Latin and German writings of the mystical thought of Meister Eckhart, one of the most profound communicators of mystical consciousness.
The Collected Works of St. John of the Cross (ICS Publications 1991) Translated by Kieran Kavanaugh, O.C.D. and Otilio Rodriguez, O.C.D.
This collection contains the mystical poetry of John of the Cross and his commentaries on the journey of transformation to Divine union.
Entering the Castle: An Inner Path to God and Your Soul (Free Press, 2007) by Caroline Myss.
In this work, Caroline Myss gives us a contemporary understanding of the pathway to the true self in divine union by using Teresa of Avila’s Interior Castle as a model. Myss’ attention on “mystics without monasteries” is a fine example of the new vision of mystical transformation and spiritual creativity in the world.
The Way of Transformation: Daily Life as Spiritual Practice (Morning Light Press, 2006) by Karlfried Graf Durckheim.
The work of Durckheim combines insights from Meister Eckhart, depth psychology, and Zen Buddhism. It is a powerful way of transforming and living from transcendence as expressed within our everyday life in the world.
Hara: The Vital Center of Man (Inner Traditions, ) by Karlfried Graf Durckheim.
The teaching of Durckheim emphasizes opening to our transcendent consciousness in within our daily experience in the world. His inner way of spiritual transformation includes the body. Transforming consciousness involves shifting our center of gravity to the vital center of our core as represented by the Japanese concept of “hara,” meaning “belly.”
The Triadic Heart of Siva: Kaula Tantricism of Abhinavagupta in the Non-dual Shaivism of Kasmir (SUNY Press, 1989) by Paul Eduardo Muller-Ortega.
In this scholarly work, Muller-Ortega provides a clear and accessible in-depth analysis of the non-dual heart centered transformation of consciousness of mystic and philosopher Abhinavagupta.
The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom (Amber-Allen, 1997) by Don Miguel Ruiz.
In The Four Agreements, Don Miguel Ruiz gives a very clear and easy to understand presentation of how the fear-based consciousness and culture becomes imprinted in early childhood. The book is an excellent introduction to the transformative work of changing our agreements in order to live from our true self.
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Science and Transformation
The Biology of Transcendence: A Blueprint of the Human Spirit (Park Street Press, 2002) by Joseph Chilton Pearce.
Using science and spirituality, Joseph Chilton Pearce lays out an understanding of the intelligence of the heart. He builds a vision for healing our cultural conditioning of fear and violence to enable the transcendence of the heart and mind-brain resonance. By living from the intelligence of the heart, we open ourselves to our evolutionary potential of all possibilities.
Science and Human Transformation: Subtle Energies, Intentionality, and Consciousness (Pavior, 1997) by William A. Tiller, Ph.D.
Dr. Tiller constructs a scientific model of our multidimensional anthropology. He understands the heart as the dominant center for our highest dimensions in Spirit and offers thoughts on how we may transform beyond fear- based social conditioning to reach our true consciousness of love and intentionality.
Waking the Tiger--Healing Trauma: The Innate Capacity to Transform Overwhelming Experiences (North Atlantic Books, 1997) by Peter A. Levine.
In Waking the Tiger—Healing Trauma, Peter Levine conveys the healing practice of Somatic Experiencing using the felt-sense of the body to dissolve the trauma vortex that develops from traumatic experience. The body’s awareness can be used to heal the trauma loop of either reenacting or avoiding the trauma. In this way, we can learn to rhymically alternate between the trauma and our expansive wholeness to heal trauma and open to our true self of love and creativity.
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Spiritual Transformation and Relationships
Expect a Miracle: 7 Steps to Finding the Right Relationship (St. Martin’s Press, 2003) by Kathy Freston.
In Expect a Miracle, Kathy Freston outlines seven steps for healing body, mind, heart, and soul to enable the attraction of a healthy loving relationship. Her approach views self-transformation as the key to shifting from negative beliefs, thoughts, and feelings to the energy of intention, love, and joy in the heart through the Spirit. In this way, we allow our true self to attract the love of a mutually self-giving soul mate relationship.
The One: Discovering the Secrets of Soul Mate Love (Miramax, 2007) By Kathy Freston.
The journey of personal transformation is where we open to self-giving love in relationships as expressed in a mystical partnership.
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Intention and Spiritual Creativity
The Intention Experiment: Using Your Thoughts to Change Your Life and Your World (Free Press, 2007) by Lynne McTaggert. Journalist Lynne McTaggert presents a comprehensive review of the science of intention. She then gives practical means for putting intention into practice within our daily lives.
The Divine Matrix: Bridging Time, Space, Miracles, and Belief (Hay House, 2006) by Gregg Braden.
In the Divine Matrix, Gregg Braden bridges science, spirituality, and miracles in exploring human intention and creativity.
The Biology of Belief: Unleashing the Power of Consciousness, Matter, and Miracles (Mountain of Love, 2005) by Bruce Lipton.
A synthesis of cellular biology and quantum physics which shows that the energy from our thoughts controls DNA from beyond the cell.
The Energy Healing Experiments: Science Reveals Our Natural Power to Heal (Atria, 2007) By Gary E. Schwartz and William E. Simon.
This work brings forth a scientific understanding of human intention and healing energy. The energy of the Spirit in consciousness through the heart, mind, and emotions influences matter by healing at the physical cellular level of the body. The book provides excellent resources and recommended reading of the recent contributors to energy healing.
Heart Steps: Prayers and Declarations for a Creative Life (Jeremy P. Tarcher/Peguin, 1997) by Julia Cameron.
In this practical book, Julia Cameron offers prayers and declarations that explore the spiritual realm as expressed through our creative life in the world. We find a wisdom that is heart centered from the divine within and an embodied spirituality shown in the fullness of love and creativity.
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Evolution to Our True Humanity
Singularity (Lulu, 2006) by David Sereda.
In Singularity, David Sereda uses quantum and multidimensional physics to understand how inertia forms fear and violence, disease, and limits our movement in time and space. He proposes how a unitary consciousness can overcome inertia. He describes the knowledge of good and evil as the cause of inertia and discusses how Jesus Christ revealed our ability to transcend inertia to become our true enlightened humanity.
A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life’s Purpose (Doubleday, 2005) by Eckhart Tolle.
The mystic way of being of Eckhart Tolle opens the reader to experience our personal transformation within the context of an awakening to the consciousness of our true humanity as a new earth.
The Grand Option: Personal Transformation and a New Creation (University of Notre Dame Press, 2001) by Beatrice Bruteau.
In The Grand Option, Beatrice Bruteau expresses our personal mystical transformation as part of the evolution to our true humanity of a new creation.
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Music
The Visit by Loreena McKennitt.
The songs in this album explore the creative impulse as a visit of grace that is also mystery.
The Mask and the Mirror by Loreena McKennitt.
The Mask and the Mirrror includes two songs exploring the mystic’s way, “The Mystics Dream” and “The Dark Night of the Soul.”
The Book of Secrets by Loreena McKennitt.
The album expresses the wonder of our journey. Includes the song “Dante’s Prayer” inspired by Dante’s “Divine Comedy.”
An Ancient Muse by Loreena McKennitt.
Includes “The Never-Ending Road” that is inspired by the mystics across many spiritual traditions.
Nights from the Alhambra (2 CDs and 1 DVD) by Loreena McKennitt.
In Nights from the Alhambra, Loreena McKennitt gives a live performance that reveals the heart and soul of the human journey. Her beautiful and effortless singing is complemented by the high quality music of her band. A truly heartfelt and inspirational performance.
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Movies and Videos
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