Silent Music: The Science of Meditation - Softcover

Johnston, William

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0060641967 ISBN 13: 9780060641962

Publisher: HarperCollins, 1979

Synopsis

Covers are slightly grubby and creased, small bump to back cover at bottom tip, leaves tanned, internally clean.

About this title

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
• Publication date: 1979
• ISBN 10: 0060641967
• ISBN 13: 9780060641962
• Binding: Paperback