Hello friends, here’s just a friendly reminder to pre-order your copy of Read the Bible Like a Mystic today.

Where to buy Read the Bible Like a Mystic:
Amazon • Barnes & Noble • Broadleaf Books
Bookshop.org • Books-a-Million
www.anamchara.com (autographed copy)

Pre-ordering books help with the publication launch. When the big retailers like Barnes & ( Read more... )

This weekend I had the honor of giving the closing talk at the 2025 Centering Prayer Summit, sponsored by Closer Than Breath. Since my talk was the last talk of the conference, I was asked to speak on how to bring the wisdom and energy of the conference into our daily lives. I called my talk “Making It Real: Integrating Mystical Wisdom into the ( Read more... )

Throughout 2024 I wrote and recorded twenty-four meditations, based on wisdom teachings from three spiritual traditions:

• The Eight Beatitudes from the wisdom teachings of Jesus;
• The Noble Eightfold Path from the wisdom teachings of Buddha;
• The Wheel of the Year, based on Celtic traditions.

These meditations were given live over Zoom, but each ( Read more... )

This video is an excerpt from a talk I gave recently on Patreon, as part of my new Practical Mysticism series of monthly Zoom calls. It’s simply my explanation of the four basic guidelines of Centering Prayer. Hope you enjoy it. (And if you’d like to participate in the Practical Mysticism monthly Zoom calls, join Patreon by clicking here).

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A reader of this blog recently wrote this message to me:
Hi Carl, I recently enjoyed your book Eternal Heart. I have a fundamentalist/Evangelical background and am relatively new to mysticism. Can you help me fit in the Bible passages of God’s judgment and wrath of God which seem very dualistic (Ephesians 5:1-7 comes to mind; Paul contrasts godly ( Read more... )

From time to time I like to spotlight on this blog books and authors that I am finding interesting and/or compelling. These days, one such author if Perry Schmidt-Leukel.

Schmidt-Leukel is Professor of Religious Studies and Intercultural Theology at the University of Münster in Germany, where he serves as the head of the Institute for Religious ( Read more... )

I recently was invited to be a guest on the “Radical Sacred” podcast, hosted by spiritual director Jenny Misslin and Methodist minister the Rev. Phillip Dieke. They had gotten their hands on a copy of Befriending Silence and began our conversation by reading an excerpt from that book where I talk about Thomas Merton’s famous street-corner epiphany ( Read more... )

N.B. I wrote this post for my new Substack publication,  Mystical Journey. But since the message is timely, I’m cross-posting it here.

Despite its significant flaws, Thomas Merton’s The Seven Storey Mountain is a modern classic of contemplative and mystical literature. But did you know that when it was published in England, it was given a new title ( Read more... )

Friends, I hope you’ll join me on Substack where I’m creating a new series of brief inspirational writings called Mystical Journey. Subscribers receive up to 3-4 emails from me each week, each one designed to support you in your ongoing contemplative practice.

The idea behind Mystical Journey is very simple: mystical spirituality thrives with ( Read more... )

I’ve started a Substack! If you’re not familiar with Substack, it’s like a blog that you read through email. My Substack is called “Mystical Journey” and will include a variety of posts, all designed to help you go deeper and further on your unique mystical passage. The Substack has both free and paid options, but you do need to subscribe to ( Read more... )