The Way of Unitive Knowledge
Seven essays on the knowledge the contemplative traditions put above all others: what it is, why we lack it, and the path they describe toward it, from the first turning to the return to ordinary life.
What this knowledge is: not knowing about, but knowing by becoming.
Why we do not already know what is said to be so close.
Metanoia itself: longing, disillusion and the first step.
The Purification
Why every path is moral before it is mystical.
The Practice of Attention
Contemplation, prayer, meditation and inquiry, and the place of grace.
Darkness and Unknowing
The passage beyond concepts, its dangers, and the need for discernment.
Union and Return
What the traditions say is found, and the return to the world.