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June 03, 2006

Contemplative Prayer

It's a code word ...

When Christians contemplate God's Word or are meditating on it, the mind is still engaged and the individual is still thinking. Popular movements such as contemplative prayer, centering prayer or breath prayers are different. These are contemporary descriptions of an eastern form of taking a word or phrase, perhaps from Scripture, and saying it over and over in your mind until the phrase has no meaning. You are then brought into an altered state of consciousness where you've reached the silence of the mind, a place where you can supposedly "hear" God.

Check out this radio program feature Brian Flynn, author of Running Against the Wind.

HT: Slide of Laodicea.

Posted by calvin at June 3, 2006 03:46 AM

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