The author's personal account of his struggles and discoveries on the way to mystical experience, first as a young Roman Catholic Seminarian, then as a Monk of the Roman Catholic Order of the Carthusians. The reflections continue to follow the journey from youthful dedication to the religious vocation, through genuine experiences of contemplation. These lead to full ecstatic breakthroughs and sometimes last for days on end. Theological thoughts are interspersed with the spiritual and mystical development that forms the core of these pages. Finally the book treats the nature of Enlightenment,...

This volume is the result of a lifetime of personal research into human wellness. It naturally considers all the implications of human illness as well. The chapters offer a kaleidoscope of training programs previously offered to thousands of healthcare professionals in hospitals, nursing homes and rehab centers in the New England Area. The topics range of nursing home placement to spirituality as life meaning, to depression and suicide in the elderly. It is meant to contribute to the modern challenge of longevity, living longer with greater meaning.

The purpose of this work is to provide new insights into the processes that make up our unconscious mind. New occurs not separate from the past or what is old, but as an extension of the past, a reaching out into the unknown, grounded in the known. Modern authors like J. Allan Hobson MD, have done some of this work in the study of dreams. Their viewpoint is constrained by the limitations of research, looking for information that is arguable, objective and observable. Their search naturally has to focus on the unconscious in its uncontrived state. What they object to in Freud and Jung is the...