Contemplative Revolution Podcast
1) The Well of Being - Monte Oliveto Retreat 2021 (First Talk)
"By understanding the nature of matter, matter is energy, we're beginning to be prepared for a major shift in the way we look at ourselves and the world. Meditation is at the heart of that shift of co...Show More
2) Paul: A Contradiction like us?
In this episode, Laurence Freeman identifies what we may feel about St. Paul. Is his complex personality so different from ours? In his historical context, we can get past our first reactions to some...Show More
3) Attention: The Middle Way, the Narrow Path, Levels of Consciousness Series
In this episode, Laurence Freeman reflects on the challenge of the attention deficit in the human mind. An especially acute problem of our time. Early Christian teachers saw the attention deficit as b...Show More
4) Reconciling Opposites in a Polarised World with Sarah Bachelard
Always deepening her insight into what ‘contemplative Christianity’ means and what the options for the church of the future are, Sarah Bachelard tackles the dilemma of modern discourse – how to be com...Show More
5) The Healing Response: A Conversation with Tim Kelly
Tim is an oblate of the WCCM and works with a US federal agency which provides care for refugees and survivors of torture. In this talk he describes how meditation helps him – and those he trains to w...Show More
6) Herman Van Rompuy — Politics and the Management of Division
Herman Van Rompuy speaks about the crisis of democracy and what habits leaders need to be learned in order to give people some hope in the future of democracy. Herman Van Rompuy is a Belgian politici...Show More
7) Sunrise At Midnight with Martin Laird OSA (Part 1)
In this podcast, Martin Laird OSA explores what the great saints and sages of the Christian tradition claim about the constant presence of God - God does not know how to be absent. We may feel God’s ...Show More
8) The Spirit in the Desert (Talk 1 & 2) with Rowan Williams
In this podcast, Rowan Williams, former Archbishop of Canterbury, reflects on questions that deeply touch our modern lives. Drawing on the wisdom of the 4th century Desert Fathers and Mothers, he enco...Show More
9) The Tightrope of Moderation - 2020 Bonnevaux Lent Retreat Talk 1
In this podcast, you’ll listen to the first talk of the retreat The Tightrope of Moderation which was held during Bonnevaux 2020 Lent Retreat by Laurence Freeman & Giovanni Felicioni. The first talk'...Show More
10) Who am I? Dancing with your Shadow (online retreat) with Kim Nataraja
Listen to Kim Nataraja in her first talk from Who am I? Dancing with your Shadow online retreat in which she explored the images we have of ourselves and what stops us from seeing the true Image that...Show More