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Jun 12, 2020•1 hr 2 min•Ep. 51
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Jun 05, 2020•19 min•Ep. 49
Know more on The Contemplative Path Through the Crisis HERE Watch all talks from this series HERE Soundtrack: Aourourou by Blue Dot Sessions is licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial License.
May 29, 2020•1 hr 3 min•Ep. 48
Know more on The Contemplative Path Through the Crisis here Watch all talks from this series here Kim Nataraja has been a contemplative since her youth and joined The World Community for Christian Meditation in 1993. In 1998 she became a Benedictine Oblate to the Community. From 1999 to 2016, Kim was director of The World Community for Christian Meditation School of Meditation . Kim is a trained Spiritual Director and has held a variety of meditation days/weekends and retreats in the UK, Europe,...
May 22, 2020•32 min•Ep. 47
Know more on The Contemplative Path Through the Crisis here Watch all talks from this series here Herman Van Rumpoy is a Belgian politician, who served as Prime Minister of Belgium from 2008 to 2009 and then as the first permanent President of the European Council from 2009 to 2014. More recently, in 2018, he was one of the speakers at the John Main Seminar 2018, in Belgium addressing the theme Politics and the management of division . Soundtrack: Aourourou by Blue Dot Sessions is licensed under...
May 15, 2020•13 min•Ep. 46
Know more on The Contemplative Path Through the Crisis HERE Watch all talks from this series here Claudia Nielsen is a psychotherapist and meditator working in London. Soundtrack: Aourourou by Blue Dot Sessions is licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial License.
May 08, 2020•21 min•Ep. 45
This talk is part of the course The Shape of Christian Virtue. Learn more and watch here Sarah Bachelard is a theologian, retreat leader and priest in Anglican Orders. She lives in Canberra in Australia where she has taught in the areas of theology, ethics and spirituality at Charles Sturt University. She is currently director of Benedictus Contemplative Church. She is a member of the WCCM and was a keynote speaker at the John Main Seminar in Montreal in 2007 and at the John Main Seminar 2019 in...
Apr 30, 2020•1 hr 32 min•Ep. 44
Know more on The Contemplative Path Through the Crisis HERE Watch all talks from this series here Alan Wallace is the founder and director of the Santa Barbara Institute for Consciousness Studies and the motivating force behind the development of the Center for Contemplative Research in Tuscany, Italy. Eva Natanya is a scholar of Christian systematic theology and Tibetan Buddhism, with long-term experience in interreligious dialogue worldwide. Laurence Freeman OSB is a Benedictine monk of the Ol...
Apr 16, 2020•1 hr 32 min•Ep. 43
Know more on The Contemplative Path Through the Crisis HERE Watch all talks from this series here Alan Wallace is the founder and director of the Santa Barbara Institute for Consciousness Studies and the motivating force behind the development of the Center for Contemplative Research in Tuscany, Italy. Eva Natanya is a scholar of Christian systematic theology and Tibetan Buddhism, with long-term experience in interreligious dialogue worldwide. Laurence Freeman OSB is a Benedictine monk of the Ol...
Mar 27, 2020•1 hr 31 min•Ep. 42
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Mar 20, 2020•40 min•Ep. 41
Dr Barry is Consultant Haematologist from Dublin and he was the first National Director of Clinical Care for the Irish Health Executive. He has been working with Laurence Freeman to teach meditation at the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland and to the healtchare environment Listen to all talks here Soundtrack: Aourourou by Blue Dot Sessions is licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial License....
Mar 06, 2020•17 min•Ep. 39
Mike Sarson is founder of East West Organization charity which offers a choice of unique holistic interventions for the prevention, treatment and recovery from addictions. Soundtrack: Aourourou by Blue Dot Sessions is licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial License.
Feb 28, 2020•23 min•Ep. 38
Kim Nataraja is a WCCM Benedictine Oblate and former Director of The School of Meditation. She leads retreats worldwide and is a Spiritual Director. She edited and co-authored Journey to the Heart - Christian Contemplation through the Centuries - an illustrated Guide (Canterbury Press) which was based on the first Roots course held in 2003. You can find Roots of Christian Mysticism online course here You can find the book Journey to the Heart here Soundtrack: Aourourou by Blue Dot Sessions is li...
Feb 21, 2020•1 hr 17 min•Ep. 37
Shaikh Kabir Helminski has lived with Rumi for more than 40 years, as a translator, and as someone trained in the living tradition that began 750 years ago with Mevlana Jalaluddin Rumi. This conference was part of the Meditatio Centre London Programme, 2019.
Feb 14, 2020•1 hr 28 min•Ep. 36
SLIDE PRESENTATION - Download here Order the Meditatio Journal on Crisis , based on the JMS 2018 Soundtrack: Aourourou by Blue Dot Sessions is licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial License.
Feb 07, 2020•55 min•Ep. 35
EPISODE NOTES Watch to all the talks from the Seminar Contemplative Care: Healthcare and Meditation HERE Soundtrack: Aourourou by Blue Dot Sessions is licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial License.
Jan 31, 2020•42 min•Ep. 34
This talk is part of the Contemplative Christianity for our Time Course. Soundtrack : Aourourou by Blue Dot Sessions is licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial License.
Jan 24, 2020•47 min•Ep. 33
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Jan 17, 2020•32 min•Ep. 32
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Jan 10, 2020•55 min•Ep. 31
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Jan 03, 2020•45 min•Ep. 30
In this episode we’ll hear Bernard McGinn speak about the nature of mysticism, its development and its importance for the contemporary world. Professor McGuinn recaptures the riches of the mystical tradition and invites us to enter into the practical character of it. Bernard McGinn is widely regarded as the preeminent scholar of mysticism in the Western Christian tradition.. This talk was part of a John Main Seminar held at the University of St Thomas, in Houston, Texas.
Nov 29, 2019•51 min•Ep. 29
In this episode we’ll hear Bernard McGinn speak about the nature of mysticism, its development and its importance for the contemporary world. Professor McGuinn recaptures the riches of the mystical tradition and invites us to enter into the practical character of it. Bernard McGinn is widely regarded as the preeminent scholar of mysticism in the Western Christian tradition.. This talk was part of a John Main Seminar held at the University of St Thomas, in Houston, Texas.
Nov 29, 2019•51 min•Ep. 29
Fr. Laurence speaks about the need of teaching the richness of our contemplative tradition and the knowledge and wisdom behind the simple repetition of a sacred word. This talk was part of a John Main Seminar at Quest University in Squammish, Canada. Music Credits: Aourourou by Blue Dot Sessions
Nov 22, 2019•52 min•Ep. 28
Fr Laurence Freeman speaks about Ripeness, a stage of the journey where a new dimension of Knowledge is acquired, and our Identity becomes sharper as we become more mysterious to ourselves. This is the third talk of the Milestones Series recorded at the Meditatio Centre, in London. Wisdom shows the stages of life we all pass through in uniquely personal ways. Meditation as a way of wisdom illuminates these stages of the journey of life and has its own milestones. In this series of talks Fr Laure...
Nov 08, 2019•58 min•Ep. 27
These sonnets by the poet Rilke stand as one of the masterpieces of German poetry. Written near the end of his life in a brief period of intense creativity, the poems invite us to open our lives to the depths and to find new courage to indwell the world with creative passion. Our exploration of these poems will invite us to answer the poet’s call to “do the heart-work” with the memories and experiences of our lives, since—as he suggests—“the world, the more we observe it, wants to flourish in lo...
Nov 01, 2019•1 hr 2 min•Ep. 26
Sean Hagan shares his personal experience as a leader and how his meditation practice has enabled him to upgrade his leadership style by engaging more effectively and more consciously and by learning to make better decisions over time. Sean Hagan was General Counsel and Director of the Legal Department at the International Monetary Fund. He is currently a Visiting Professor at Georgetown Law School. He is a member of both the Executive Committee and Advisory Council for the WCCM. This talk was p...
Oct 25, 2019•38 min•Ep. 25
Fr Laurence Freeman speaks about how meditation and the restoration of the real meaning of leisure are ways of recovering the contemplative experience in an age of distraction. This retreat Talk took place at Monte Oliveto in Italy. Music Credits: Aourourou by Blue Dot Sessions
Oct 18, 2019•1 hr 3 min•Ep. 24
Almost everything you think you know about differences between the brain hemispheres is wrong. The topic was taken over and distorted by pop psychology,and hence understandably, but nonetheless irrationally, neglected by the mainstream.So why is the brain, an organ that exists only to make connections, divided and asymmetrical? What does it tell us about the structure of the world we inhabit? Iain McGilchrist will argue that lateralisation is now the topic in neuroscience of greatest significanc...
Oct 11, 2019•1 hr 18 min•Ep. 23
The Contemplative Executive Speaking from the experience of his own quest for "meaning, depth, significance, and purpose" in life, Peter Ng says: "The first challenge ... is to take a step away from the busyness of the business world." This step he found in the simple practicality of John Main's teaching on meditation. Download the transcript here: tiny.cc/ContemplativeExecutive 1. Wisdom and Transformation 2. The Road Less Travelled 3. Contemplative Consciousness 4. Meditation and Leadership 5....
Oct 04, 2019•1 hr 18 min•Ep. 22
Deep ecological awareness is a spiritual state of consciousness, and without the activation of spirit it is difficult to achieve this awareness. Secular policies and green politics may not be able to work the transformation that is required. This talk will explore the entry into ecological awareness as an initiation into the transpersonal and universal dimensions of spirit. David Tacey is Emeritus Professor of Humanities at La Trobe University, Melbourne, and Research Professor at the Australian...
Sep 27, 2019•1 hr 11 min•Ep. 21