“Centering Prayer is drawn from ancient prayer practices of the Christian contemplative heritage, notably the Fathers and Mothers of the Desert, Lectio Divina, (praying the scriptures),The Cloud of Unknowing, St. John of the Cross and St. Teresa of Avila. It was distilled into a simple method of prayer [from Transcendental Meditation] in the 1970’s by three Trappist monks - Fr. William Meninger, Fr. Basil Pennington and Abbot Thomas Keating at the Trappist St. Joseph’s Abbey in Spencer, Massachusetts.”
http://www.pghcenteringprayer.org/Page_2.html http://www.pghcenteringprayer.org/Page_2.html ---In [email protected], <[email protected]> wrote: Centering Prayer description and instructions. This seems to pretty much cover the TM and mindfulness marketplace.
