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Title: Why Not Be a Mystic? by Frank X. Tuoti ISBN: 0-8245-1453-X Publisher: Crossroad Publishing Company Pub. Date: 01 January, 1995 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.25 (4 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: He knows the way, but where's he going?
Comment: A fine example of how Western mysticism is converging with psychoanalysis. To highlight the point, Tuoti holds out Carl Jung, the father of modern psychotherapy, as an authority on mysticism, and frequently employs such Jungian jargon as "individuation," the "anima" and the pronoun "she" when referring to the Holy Spirit. The book also demonstrates how far "Christian" mysticism has strayed from its source. Tuoti shuns the Gospel of Jesus Christ. You will not find in these pages any significance given to the doctrines of sin and salvation, the Blood and the Cross, except perhaps as metaphors for the "true inner self." Today's mystic monks find closer fellowship with Ramakrishna and Swami Muktananda than they do with the apostle Paul. Tuoti proudly cites his mentor, Thomas Merton, who "found more in common with many mystics he met in Asia than with most of his Christian contemporaries..." Presumably, their commonalities did not include obeisance to Jesus' words that "no one comes to the Father but through me."
Merton and his Eastern brethren have undoubtedly tapped into something that resembles the experiences of genuine Christian mystics such as Teresa of Avila and John of the Cross. But if they are not communing with the One to whom only Jesus is the way, what are they experiencing? An answer may be found in the works of another true Christian mystic, John of Ruysbroeck. Man's attempt to connect with his inner being did not begin with Carl Jung. It was prevalent, and successful, 700 hundred years ago in Ruysbroeck's day. Ruysbroeck wrote of those who "turned in upon the bareness of their own being" and "the onefold simplicity which they there possess, they take to be God, because they find a natural rest therein." He said that "[t]his rest is in itself no sin; for it exists in all men by nature, whenever they make themselves empty." But this rest that all may obtain through natural means "is wholly contrary to the supernatural rest, which one possesses in God [and which] is exalted above the rest of mere nature as greatly as God is exalted above all creatures."
The way to this heavenly rest was clear to Ruysbroeck: "For through his own power no man has ascended into heaven, save the Son of Man, Jesus Christ. And therefore we must unite ourselves with Him, through grace and virtue and Christian faith: so we shall ascend with Him whither He has gone before us." Here was a man who was not ashamed of the Gospel of Christ.
If you want to find your inner self, Tuoti happily points the way. If you want to find God the Father, read Ruysbroeck or better still the Son who said, "I am the way."
Rating: 4
Summary: Great Intro To The Contemplative Life
Comment: This book is a great solution for all of those who have looked for god and failed to find it because they were looking in the wrong places. It is literally like a breath of fresh air when compared to most varieties of contemporary religious teaching and was definitely an eye-opener. Only for the open-minded. Contains a wealth of excellent references and bibliography.
Rating: 5
Summary: A surprising presentation of the normal Biblical way to God!
Comment: "Taste and see how good the Lord is!" This book is a delicious presentation by Frank Tuoti of piping hot Biblical truth about the banquet of unrelenting Love to which God calls all of God's creation, and out of which God operates. The recipe is simple but not easy. Tuoti shows how the whole Bible insists that the Mystical life should be the normative Christian experience, as normal as eating, and as necessary as drinking (living) water for health and well-being. Indeed, as Thomas Merton, quoted here by Tuoti, points out, it is "the only cure for the angst" of modern humankind. Tuoti, among a number of contemporary Christian spiritual writers, vividly and emphatically illustrates in many short and readable chapters how the whole of Judeo-Christian scripture reveals taht God yearns for us in wordless self communication that has its most glorious model in the Life of the Holy Trinity. Many Christians will be surprised to learn that for the first 1600 years of the Christian era, contemplative prayer was well understood to be the path for all to take in the way to a closer walk with God and transformation into Christlikeness. And readers will be delighted to learn that all it really takes is grace-filled self surrender to come into this Banquet of God's Love. God will do the rest!
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Title: Open Mind, Open Heart: The Contemplative Dimension of the Gospel by Thomas Keating ISBN: 0826406963 Publisher: Continuum International Publishing Group Pub. Date: 01 June, 1994 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: The Holy Longing: The Search for A Christian Spirituality by Ronald Rolheiser ISBN: 0385494181 Publisher: Doubleday Books Pub. Date: 20 July, 1999 List Price(USD): $21.95 |
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Title: The Human Condition: Contemplation and Transformation (Wit Lectures.) by Thomas Keating ISBN: 0809138824 Publisher: Paulist Press Pub. Date: 01 June, 1999 List Price(USD): $6.95 |
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Title: The Inner Experience : Notes on Contemplation by Thomas Merton, William H. Shannon ISBN: 0060539283 Publisher: HarperSanFrancisco Pub. Date: 03 June, 2003 List Price(USD): $22.95 |
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Title: Everything Belongs: The Gift of Contemplative Prayer by Richard Rohr ISBN: 0824519957 Publisher: Crossroad Publishing Company Pub. Date: 01 March, 2003 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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