Dancing With Your Shadow
BY KIM NATARAJA
NOW AVAILABLE at www.mediomedia.org $12.99US / £7.99*
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An insightful and revealing book about meditation
and accepting in joy and fearless love all the aspects of
the Self and
integrating them into a harmonious, cooperative whole –
thus becoming part of the Dance of the Universe.
To read an overview of Dancing
With Your Shadow, written by Kim Nataraja for an Australian
newsletter on her recent book tour, please click
here.
Please
click here to download a flyer for this book.
To read the foreword, written
by Laurence Freeman OSB, please click
here.
To read the introduction, please
click here.
To read a newsletter article
on Dancing, please click
here.
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Kim Nataraja has been a contemplative since her
youth and joined The World Community for Christian Meditation in
1993. In 1998 she became a Benedictine Oblate to the Community and
since 1999 her service has been to help Laurence Freeman OSB guide
and coordinate the International School.
She is a trained Spiritual Director
and has held a variety of meditation days/weekends and retreats
in the UK, Europe, the US, Canada and Singapore. Her particular
interests are those inspiring
figures from the Christian Spiritual Tradition, who guide us in
the contemplative life, and the ways in which psychological insights
can aid our progress. Kim is a retired College Lecturer and
former Head of Department of Modern Languages.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
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Foreword by Laurence Freeman
OSB
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Introduction
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Prologue
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CHAPTER ONE: Meditation –
the art of arts
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CHAPTER TWO: Stilling the body
and the mind
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CHAPTER THREE: Conditioned
thoughts
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CHAPTER FOUR: The interplay
of the ego and the deeper self
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CHAPTER FIVE: The worldview
– old and new
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CHAPTER SIX: Purifying the
emotions by watching the thoughts
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CHAPTER SEVEN: The spectrum
of consciousness
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CHAPTER EIGHT: Ultimate Reality
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Epilogue: The Roots of Christian
Meditation
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Appendix I
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Appendix II
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Bibliography
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About The World Community of
Christian Meditation
REVIEWS
“In these pages anyone….
will find a guide, a friend and a teacher to walk - and to dance
- with.”
LAURENCE FREEMAN (Spiritual Director of the World Community for
Christian Meditation)
"'Dancing with your shadow'
is written by an experienced teacher of meditation, who not only
describes the practice of the "art of arts", giving due
weight to stilling the mind and dealing with such problems as distractions
and restlessness, but looks at it from the point of view of the
whole person, body, mind and spirit. This wide-ranging and comprehensive
book will be of great interest to all meditators, but especially
to those following Christian meditation discovered by John Main.
And the stories and quotations from various traditions with which
the author illustrates her points are a joy in themselves"
SHIRLEY DU BOULAY (Author of 'The
Cave of the Heart')
"I really like your book.
It is deep, and easy to read. Thank you for writing it."
BARBARA HAZZARD
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