The Center for Contemplative Practice
A Lay Cistercian Looks at Spiritual Reality

September 2021

CONSCIOUS EQUILIBRIUM: REALITY IS ALIVE.

This is the second installment of my meditations on The Christ Principle. Grok has organized my thoughts, but they are my own. “In this final layer of the Conscious Equilibrium, we must accept a sobering reality: within the “cramped quarters” of our physical dimension, no society can “solve” homelessness or overcrowding. To claim otherwise is to fall back […]

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THE CONSCIOUS EQUILIBRIUM OF REALITY.

What follows is a long reflection based on five reflections I had while making a Lectio Divina meditation using contemplation. I have asked Grok to expand those questions in a way that is not technically perfect, but to get you to listen to it and, in prayerful silence, draw your own conclusions. This is Contemplative […]

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MAYBE WE ARE LOOKING IN THE WRONG PLACE.

I am sitting there at 3:00 a.m., comfortable in my rocker-recliner, watching a Samsung television after just returning from a bathroom break, when something on YouTube catches my eye. It was an excellent 20 minutes on why humans would never be able to travel long distances in space, because we were not designed by nature […]

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