Browse films, documentaries, conversations and teachings by path and format. 56 videos.
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A contemplative reflection drawing on Finley's training with Thomas Merton.
Original source
A lecture in German asking which springs a person actually draws on, and what happens when they run dry.
Bistum Würzburg
A lecture on the Celtic vision of the sacred, given at Hartford International University.
Hartford International University
A Super Soul Sunday conversation on gratefulness as a daily practice.
From the Christ empowerment retreat, on the saying that those who have ears will hear and what it asks of a listener.
Harmony of The Way
A short lecture distinguishing contemplation from meditation as the Christian tradition has used the two words.
Oxford Postgraduate Hub for the Inklings
The first part of a teaching on building a picture of the world you can actually stand in, instead of borrowing one.
Spirits in Spacesuits
Bourgeault connects centring prayer to a non-dual reading of the Christian contemplative tradition.
A psychologist who was once a Trappist on where to stand when things come apart.
Center for Action and Contemplation
A long teaching on matter as something the spirit is already in, rather than something it has to escape.
On the Christian journey as the Fathers describe it, which runs the other way round from what people expect.
Institute for Orthodox Christian Studies
His complete session at the 2015 Gaelic Psalm Singing and American Music conference, an hour in English on the tradition and its kinship with other call-and-response singing.
ScottishPartnershipfor ArtsandEducation
Nearly two hours on the tradition he spent his life inside, and on what it asks of a person.
Commonweal
A talk for the Iona Community on heartfulness: what it asks for beyond attention, and what it does to the way a person meets others.
Iona Community
Noah Samarkand sets out what he means by the Christic path and how the practice he teaches is shaped by it.
A more recent talk on imagination as a key to change, representative of her current voice.
A lecture at Durham on where care, spirituality and research meet, given by a nurse who became a contemplative teacher.
Durham University
One of the Lost Lectures found in the Morehouse College archives: three quarters of an hour of him on love as the only workable politics.
Morehouse College Archives
A long session from Embodied Philosophy's Radical Theology series in which Fox presents creation spirituality and takes questions.
Embodied Philosophy
A short talk on the relationship between contemplative practice and physical and mental health.
meditatiowccm
The full recording of Lars Muhl and Naleea Landmann's New Year gathering, closing with a guided meditation.
Lars Muhl
A short introduction in her own words to how she works and who she works with.
Georgette Star
A podcast conversation on making mystical texts accessible beyond specialist circles.
Finley on bringing non-dual, contemplative awareness into ordinary daily life.
An hour on Orthodoxy outside the countries it came from, and what that asks of it.
The Augustinian friar and scholar of the desert fathers on what happens when a person keeps sitting still long enough.
Festival of Faiths
A lecture on the twelve steps of humility in the Rule of Benedict, read as a way out of the self rather than a way of shrinking it.
Benedictine Living Communities
Freeman reflects on the resurrection scene in which Mary Magdalene mistakes Jesus for the gardener.
Rohr introduces the central idea of his book The Universal Christ, from a Franciscan contemplative view.
Rohr on presence as the core practice underlying all contemplative work.
A satsang on peace: not as a mood that comes and goes, but as what is there when the fight stops.
Kosi
A satsang of nearly two and a half hours on sadhana, the daily practice that carries a person between one meeting and the next.
On the body as the place where a second axial spirituality has to land, rather than as something to rise above.
Science and Nonduality
A lecture in German on finding silence, on meditation and on the rituals that make room for it in an ordinary week.
Peter Samuel Jost
A lecture at Yale on how Teilhard read the traditions of the world into one unfinished whole.
Yale Forum on Religion and Ecology
A Franciscan theologian at Durham on what evolution does to a classical Christian doctrine.
Centre for Catholic Studies, Durham University
Brian Thomas Swimme with Dr. Michael Ben-Eli on cosmology and the noospheric imagination.
The Sustainability Laboratory
Half an hour on what it costs to commit to anything, and what it costs not to.
archival sermon recording
An hour and a half on how the contemplative tradition changed hands between the desert and the present.
Contemplative Outreach
Eleven minutes on real questions, the kind that are not looking for an answer.
Jacob Needleman
Lars Muhl recounts an apparition of Yeshua he experienced in a Copenhagen church, and Naleea Landmann reflects on a saying attributed to Yeshua about not hiding your light.
A talk on the two images he kept returning to when describing what silence is for.
Freeman takes the gospel image of the inner room as a description of what happens in silent prayer.
An evening at Boston College on Ignatian spirituality and what it offers someone outside the order.
Church in the 21st Century Center
What the desert fathers and mothers did with the thoughts that will not leave, and why they did not treat them as failure.
Church of the Ascension and Saint Agnes
A talk on contemplative hope, grounded in the Christian Wisdom tradition.
A lecture on what the Abrahamic traditions share at their contemplative core and what that asks of them now.
Charis Foundation
A recorded sermon on being undivided, in the voice people describe as the quietest in any room he was in.
His address to the graduating class of Spelman College on 4 May 1980, a year before he died: how to hear your own sound in a world full of noise.
Howard Thurman Digital Archive, Emory
Five minutes, and his clearest image: every tradition is a window, and no window is the view.
Stillpoint: The Center for Christian Spirituality
Two hours with the Irish priest and psychologist on what he sees at stake now, and on where he thinks the work lies.
A core theme in her work: personal power and responsibility as the starting point for healing and growth.
Brother David's widely watched TED talk on gratefulness as a practice, not just a feeling.
A short Daily Meditation from Fox's own channel explaining what he means by deep ecumenism.
Matthew Fox
An hour-long WCCM+ session in which Laurence Freeman discusses writing as a contemplative discipline.
The Benedictine on the death and resurrection of Jesus, in German, read psychologically as much as theologically.
Katholisch-Soziales Institut
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