Silent Music: the science of meditation: Way to Meditation - Hardcover

Johnston, William

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 000215773X ISBN 13: 9780002157735

Publisher: HarperCollins Distribution Services, 1974

Synopsis

The science of meditation. A brilliant synthesis which joins traditional religious insights with the discoveries of mdoern science to provide a complete picture of mysticism, its techniques and stages, mental and physical aspects and more. no dustjacket, 1974 inscrip frt end paper clean copy

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Review:

“In a simple, clear, engaging style that nicely balances necessary fact and edifying anecdote, [Johnston] propounds his belief that the greatest problem in the world today ‘is the imperfection of our love; that is to say, our lack of mysticism.’” (―Choice)

From the Back Cover:

The Inner Eye of Love offers a contemporary theology of mysticism that locates it at the very center of authentic religious experience. It provides as well a practical guide for meditation even as it maps out the oceanic experience toward which meditation points. Johnston begins with the mystical tradition itself, its roots and origins, its appearance and significance in the Gospels, the letters of Paul, and the early Church. He explains what mysticism is and is not, and how it is inextricably bound up with love. It is at the level of mysticism, he maintains, that the two traditions of East and West can at last understand one another and begin to work together to heal a broken world. The Inner Eye of Love escorts the reader through the stages of the mystical journey, from initial call to final enlightenment. Johnston compares and contrasts the Oriental and Christian experience, continually revealing new points of commonality The much discussed "dark night of the soul" is seen here in a positive way, as an emptying preliminary to the overbrimming of the soul with the knowledge and love of God. Finally, the author considers the often misunderstood relation between mysticism and practical action.

About this edition

• Publisher: HarperCollins Distribution Services
• Publication date: 1974
• ISBN 10: 000215773X
• ISBN 13: 9780002157735
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1