The Naked Now: Learning to See as the Mystics See
About This Book
Rohr draws on Christian mysticism, contemporary science, and the perennial philosophy to argue that contemplative practice — "seeing with the whole self" — reveals a level of reality inaccessible to the ordinary dualistic mind. The "naked now" is the direct experience of the present moment before thought categorizes and judges it — and Rohr argues that all the great mystics of every tradition were pointing to exactly this same mode of perception.
What You'll Learn
The thinking mind categorizes everything as either/or — good or bad, sacred or profane. The contemplative mind sees the both/and — the coincidence of opposites — that is the actual structure of reality. Non-dual consciousness is not the absence of thought but the capacity to include thought in a larger field of awareness without being captured by it.
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