If you would like to support our mission to communicate and nurture meditation in the Christian tradition as passed on through the teaching of John Main OSB, please contribute here: tiny. By downloading tracks from this playlist you agree to use the downloaded files only for personal, non-commercial use. The tracks on this playlist are intended solely for personal non-commercial use. It is the principal source of the popular meditation practice. Revd Graeme Watson explains the significance of approaching God through a one-word prayer, explains the significance of ‘the cloud of unknowing’ and ‘the cloud of forgetting’, reflects on humility and charity as virtues fundamental to human living and to contemporary prayer, and explains how contemplative prayer deals with the roots of sin. The Cloud of Unknowing is on nearly everyones Top Ten list of Western spiritual classics.
These talks present the teaching of the 14th century spiritual classic The Cloud of Unknowing in a contemporary form. "Here beginneth a book of contemplation, the which is called the CLOUD OF UNKNOWING, in the which a soul is oned with GOD."ĭenis Poisson (known from the esoteric review channel Foolish Fish) provides an introduction for this fine new Black Letter Press edition.Talks on the Cloud of Unknowing by Revd Graeme Watson "HERE BYGYNNITH A BOOK OF CONTEMPLACYON, THE WHICHE IS CLEPYD THE CLOWDE OF UNKNOWYNG, IN THE WHICHE A SOULE IS ONYD WITH GOD" This version is highly faithful to the Middle English original while offering updated spellings, and elucidating unfamiliar archaisms to make the text intelligible to the modern reader. Watkins (the founder of London's oldest esoteric bookshop, Watkins Books). The text used here is the 1922 translation by John M.
The approach is surprisingly ecumenical, with the author recommending that all that the candidate thinks he or she knows about God to be discarded before any attempt can made at the described exercise. The Cloud of Unknowing is a pillar of medieval mystic writing, written as a 'how to' guide for a first-hand encounter with God.
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