27a. What is the Divine Therapy? Part 1, with Thomas Keating

Fr. Thomas Keating unpacks the process of Divine Therapy which involves disassociating with a false sense of self and over identification with one’s particular groups. As personal wounds heal, one realizes a true sense of identity and relates to the Divine in all its manifestations. This Divine Therapy, enabled by a consistent practice of Centering Prayer, leads to a letting go of over-identification with one’s body, feelings, family, roles, etc., and an experience of one’s basic goodness.
This is one video in a series of 31 hour-long talks by Thomas Keating that make up his foundational video teachings, “The Spiritual Journey with Fr. Thomas Keating.” All of these talks are now available on TH-cam, and are listed below with links. Fr. Thomas was an internationally renowned theologian, speaker and author of dozens of books including “Open Mind, Open Heart.”
To access condensed highlights of this video series plus more recent series by Fr. Thomas as part of a free online course, go to www.contemplat... for the complete course, or to • The Spiritual Journey ... for just the videos.
Fr. Thomas co-founded Contemplative Outreach, which offers this series and supports Centering Prayer. Along with Fr. William Meninger and Fr. Basil Pennington, Fr. Thomas began the Centering Prayer movement in the 1970’s to renew the Christian tradition of contemplation. An overview of Contemplative Outreach is at • Contemplative Outreach... .
Go to www.contemplati... for more information on Centering Prayer, including retreats and local chapters that offer support to practitioners at all levels in the U.S. and around the world. An online store offers books, streaming and downloadable videos and mp3 audios, DVDs, and CDs. An online course, “The Spiritual Journey - Formation in the Christian Contemplative Life,” draws upon the series of talks offered here and also includes newer teachings of Fr. Thomas, within a year-long curriculum.
“The Spiritual Journey with Fr. Thomas Keating” consists of a Prologue and five parts. Each part has up to six talks in it. Each talk has a separate video for the first half (a) and the second half (b).
Prologue
• Prologue to The Spirit...
(A basic introduction to Centering Prayer)
• The Method of Centering Prayer (2 videos)
• The Psychological Experience of Centering Prayer (3 videos)
Part One: Developing Centering Prayer
• Part 1 of The Spiritua...
(Centering Prayer grows out of a prayerful relationship with God that ideally includes prayerful reading of Scripture - the practice of Lectio Divina)
0a & 0b. Introduction
1a & 1b. Prayer as Relating to God
2a & 2b. Four Levels of Scriptural Experience
3a & 3b. Toward Resting in God
4a & 4b. Centering Prayer as Method
5a & 5b. Progress in Centering Prayer
Part Two: Model of the Human Condition
• Part 2 of The Spiritua...
(The heart of the teaching on the practice of Centering Prayer)
6a & 6b. The Human Condition: The Evolutionary Model
7a & 7b. Formation of the Homemade Self: The Existential Model
8a & 8b. The Pre-Rational Energy Centers
9a & 9b. Frustrations Caused by the Emotional Programs
10a & 10b. Dismantling the Emotional Programs
11a & 11b. The False Self in Action
Part Three: Paradigms of the Spiritual Journey
• Part 3 of The Spiritua...
(Practical examples of Centering Prayer in daily life)
12a & 12b. The Four Consents
13a & 13b. The Human Condition: The Philosophical Model
14a & 14b. Anthony as a Paradigm of the Spiritual Journey
15a & 15b. Liberation from the False Self System
16a & 16b. Liberation from Cultural Conditioning
17a & 17b. Spirituality in Everyday Life
Part Four: Contemplation: The Divine Therapy
• Part 4 of The Spiritua...
(The Christian contemplative roots for Centering Prayer)
18a & 18b. Night of Sense: The Biblical Desert
19a & 19b. Night of Spirit: Toward Transformation
20a & 20b. The Beatitudes: Healing the Emotional Programs
21a & 21b. The Spiritual Senses
22a & 22b. What Contemplation is Not
23a & 23b. From Contemplation to Action
Part Five: Divine Love: The Heart of the Christian Spiritual Journey
• Part 5 of The Spiritua...
(The fruits of the Centering Prayer practice)
24a & 24b. The Most Excellent Path
25a & 25b. The Divine Banquet an Dance
26a & 26b. Prayer in Secret: Matthew 6:6
27a & 27b. What is the Divine Therapy?
28a & 28b. Contemplative Outreach: A Response to the Divine Invitation

[@mattstone1603]

Obviously a great saint. Thank you Thomas Keating for sharing your humanity with us. You have enlightened us with your prodigious intellectual gifts of wisdom, knowledge and understanding. You are among one of my greatest teachers.

[@kussmannjv]

Thank you dear Lord for bringing so much truth and beauty and love through Father Keating...

[@jenniferstrong6161]

Thank you so much!❤

[@Laharnaman]

Brings hope, comfort and possibility to our troubled hearts. Thanks and blessings to Father Keating

[@patrickgouveia3890]

Thanks Fr. Keting

[@johncross4497]

One of the true masters of spirituality who really became NOTHING so God could fully shine through him!

[@eileenmann5322]

Thank you ,thank you ,thank you . I’m moves beyond words by Fr. Keating teaching.

[@cliffordforonda6705]

Wow! Fr Keating, what an enlightening discourse. God bless you. Thank you!

[@billietrinidad436]

Thank you, Father Thomas...🌹

[@rosannefernando]

Awesome vision of where we can be and how we can be In God and God in us. Thank you Fr. Keating ....💖💕 🙏🙏🙏

[@raouldegendre2571]

Thank youdear father Keating, i am lrarning so much, ❤ Raoul ,

[@federicoramirez8175]

A true teacher! Now he is guiding us in spirit.

[@MrWrite-bg3hb]

Thank you for all your work. May you rest in peace. If people in the after life can be on TH-cam. I am your brother’s son’s daughter’s son.

[@victor1963]

Thank you.

[@bon47ful]

Thank you. 💕

[@rocharafael11]

I hope someday have subtitles in brazilian portuguese for all the videos of this series.

[@twac750]

I can’t believe it took until the 1970s for the Church to start teaching contemplative prayer. Sort of unbelievable.

[@lizafield9002]

Totally. The Philokalia is a great huge resource of Desert Father writings. There's Teresa of Avila, Julian of N, & the Cloud of Unknowing from the west, middle ages. The Way of a Pilgrim from Russia. So there were these resources mainly ignored. But even now it's rare to find any church hosting contemplative prayer days & urging a practice. We're in a Martha culture. Sister Mary, like all of silent Nature, the indigenous people, the great forests, & our dying noise clobbered plundered oceans, gets run over by Mary's version of Useful.

[@twac750]

@@lizafield9002 You mean Martha’s version of useful?

[@eve--lynnciverolo5392]

Mahalo for the teaching’s Father evie❤

[@HNCS2006]

21:39

[@jimmykeating2029]

I am therefore I think

[@John-iq2zt]

Stop thinking

[@GHEBLA]

you're perfectly in line with eastern philosophies and "religions" and their practices, nothing new, then