In the next several newsletters, I will share quotations and paraphrases from one of my root teachers, Thomas Keating, whose approach is at the heart of RCMR5 –
Now the practice of this tradition which we call Centering Prayer consists, oddly enough, in taking a vacation from ourselves.
If you go to Miami or Alaska or wherever you like to go for your vacation, you take yourself with you. And the self that we know best is the False Self System that has developed from early childhood into the age of reason.
The False Self has been somewhat damaged or distorted [and never healed] by the vicissitudes of early childhood. This is especially true of experiences of a traumatic emotional type.
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[Centering Prayer or “divine therapy” as Keating often called it, addresses these traumas and eventually heals them.]
-Thomas Keating
