{"product_id":"human-ground-spiritual-ground-paradise-lost-and-found-paperback-1","title":"Human Ground, Spiritual Ground: Paradise Lost and Found - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eKess Frey\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eCarl J. Arico\u003c\/b\u003e (Foreword by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA REFLECTION ON CENTERING PRAYER'S CONCEPTUAL BACKGROUND\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eInspired by Thomas Keating's conceptual background for Centering Prayer, this book begins by using the biblical story of Adam and Eve to describe four basic parameters that frame the universal human condition. These parameters or \"Fruits of the Fall\" are: death\/change, sex\/desire, good\/evil choices and our existential aloneness\/incompleteness apart from God. Within the framework of these parameters we experience our basic instinctual needs and their distortions into emotional programs for happiness--which happens when needs are wounded, unmet, or perceived as unmet.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eHuman Ground, Spiritual Ground\u003c\/i\u003e identifies our basic inborn needs as security\/survival\/safety; sensation\/pleasure; affection\/esteem\/approval; power\/control; and intimacy\/belonging. These needs pertain to both our human and spiritual growth. The book describes them in detail, giving examples of their healthy expressions as well as their pathological distortions into self-centered agendas for happiness that form the basis of the false-self system, the key to all of which is our inner motivation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn addition to describing the primary obstacles to human spiritual growth, \u003ci\u003eHuman Ground, Spiritual Ground\u003c\/i\u003e addresses how these unconscious obstacles are overcome through the daily practice of Centering Prayer and the divine action working in us and in our life. The ultimate fruit of this inner purification, healing and transformation process is the shifting of our inner center of identity from human ground into spiritual ground and our life in Christ--which is participation in the divine consciousness.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSee also Kess Frey's more recent work for Portal Books, \u003ci\u003eCentering Prayer and Rebirth in Christ on the Tree of Life: The Process of Inner Transformation\u003c\/i\u003e (2013).\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 184\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.42 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 24, 2012\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42615919476832,"sku":"9780983198451","price":34.65,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0598\/1922\/9280\/files\/VlpjTXl3eXJrRitvVVJLU3NSb2hXUT09.webp?v=1772340932","url":"https:\/\/bijoucc.myshopify.com\/products\/human-ground-spiritual-ground-paradise-lost-and-found-paperback-1","provider":"CARIBBEAN CONNECT","version":"1.0","type":"link"}