You and the Other (with a capital O)

a clip from ONE, the movie...

Father Thomas Keating spent twenty years as the abbot of St. Joseph's Abbey, a Trappist monastery in Spencer, Massachusetts, and is now the leading figure in an interdenominational movement to revitalize the Christian contemplative practice known as "centering prayer." He is the cofounder of Contemplative Outreach, an organization devoted to introducing Christian contemplative practices to laypeople of all faiths, and the author of several books, including Open Mind, Open Heart and Intimacy with God, both of which describe the process of spiritual development that such practices are intended to catalyze. He has met and studied with spiritual teachers from a variety of Hindu and Buddhist lineages and helped to create, fifteen years ago, the Snowmass Interreligious Conference, at which teachers from different traditions meet regularly to compare views and ideas, and to evaluate objectively the benefits and drawbacks of their respective practices.

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[Paranormalponderings]

This beautiful, wise being in the form of Fr. Keating, is to be cherished.

The realisation of Oneness & Unselfish love is exactly what God/The Other/Higher Self wants.

Thank you for posting this video.

Blessed be.

[DrBillRamos]

Thank you. God be with you.

[spinhook888]

I like this man.

[DrBillRamos]

Thanks man.

[riversidefox]

Is father Keating still at St. Joseph's Abbey?

[DrBillRamos]

oh...I dont really know

[hollywoodartchick]

Ah, someone who GETS Jesus' teachings! Thanks for this.

[muffin090]

Thanks be to God.

[IMpeaceful1]

Gives me goose bumps. In some ways I've always known this but Keating does a great job explaining it plain and simple. Simply beautiful.

[RoninATX]

I think 99% of you have completely missed the actual message being presented here. The solution to the journey is that there is no other - there never was. It was you all along - you alone possessed everything you needed to be a loving, functioning person all along without the need for a "higher power".

[Mushin001]

@jhgosnell Keating view would be pan-en-theistic, rather than pantheistic... God resides or is one with all of Creation. The mystical tradition tends toward this realization of the oneness of self and Other or divinity, as he says. That is why Thomas Merton felt such a kinship with Zen and the contemplatives of the Orient. This view is found throughout the New Testament, especially in the gospel according to John, or St. Paul: "Now not I but Christ lives in me." Blessings in your journey.

[jhgosnell]

@jhgosnell also, i want to add that some people view pantheism as the oneness of nature and God. But, I go with the other definition of pantheism as in the "pan-theon of Gods." Many different Gods...one for each thing. As for the idea of oneness of God and nature being pantheistic...this is true, but Source or God also exists even if nature dissolves. This last part is not pantheistic.

[jhgosnell]

@kdurston1 Pantheist is more like each thing having it's own spirit...this is a very ancient, primitive notion. Oneness is the one spirit, God, running throughout all things. It's One, but differentiated as this and that. Not pantheism.

Kind Regards, jason

[RyanPleune]

Spiritual awakening is profound - Contemplative Practice and Mindfulness in Education are out there as Best Practices just in other names - Constructivism has it's roots in non-dualistic thought which Father Keating is advocating here.

[kdurston1]

no, your right. i've looked at his other clips, and he's a heretic. he claims Vatican II sanction for his pantheist gnosticism, and it isn't in any of the documents from that council. I've read them. he claims the Church did a 180 regarding the Holy Spirit in other religions(?) which is outright heresy and anti Catholic, anti scriptural, and makes Christ a liar. I'm so glad these "spirit of Vatican II" heretics are dying off. the Church can finally breath again.

[kdurston1]

I think he is referring to the conscious experience of being a real part of Christ's mystical body as described by St. Paul. although i agree it does sound pantheist.

[thePath2]

I was raised Catholic with no prior knowledge of Contemplation/Meditation. I humbly state that in the lowest spiritual moment of my life, when invited to a contemplative gathering, I experienced the Other. It was LOVE in its Purest Boundless form-and it was Always There, Timeless -waiting for me to acknowledge Its Presence. It was me - and yet it wasn't me. Words cannot explain the Peace of knowing that He Cares For All - and that WE ARE ALL ONE...Through Him.

Peace Be With All.