Heartfulness: Transformation in Christ condenses the accumulated wisdom of Fr. Thomas Keating’s many years of teaching and practice into nine essential areas for study, reflection, and spiritual growth for our time.
The interviewer, Betty Sue Flowers, draws out of Fr. Thomas the importance of silence and contemplative practice as a means of opening the mind and heart and one’s whole being to God, or the Ultimate Reality.
Captured over a two-day period and in nine hours of interview sessions, Fr. Thomas guides the listener toward an understanding of the contemplative dimension of the Gospel and its extraordinary implications and applications for personal freedom and global peace. He explains that the inherent human quest for happiness is itself the greatest proof of God’s existence.
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Betty Sue Flowers, Ph D, is an Emeritus Professor of English at the University of Texas at Austin and the former Director of the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum. During her years at the University of Texas, she also served as Associate Dean of Graduate Studies and Director of the Plan II Honors Program. Her scholarly publications include a book entitled Browning and the Modern Tradition, and articles on Donald Barthelme, Adrienne Rich, Christina Rossetti, poetry therapy, writing, and other subjects. Dr. Flowers also edited Daughters and Fathers with Lynda Boose, as well as four books in collaboration with Bill Moyers Joseph Campbell and the Power of Myth; A World of Ideas; Healing and the Mind; and Genesis. She edited the book and acted as a consultant to the 1988 documentary and nationally televised series, The Power of Myth, a series of interviews between Joseph Campbell and Bill Moyers.Dr. Flowers was a host of the radio series 'The Next 200 Years.’ Her ten-part television series, 'Conversation with Betty Sue Flowers, ’ aired on the Austin PBS affiliate, KLRU. She has served as a moderator for executive seminars at the Aspen Institute for Humanistic Studies, consultant for NASA, member of the Envisioning Network for General Motors, member of the vision team for the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), and Visiting Advisor to the Secretary of the Navy. Dr. Flowers was the editor of global scenarios for sustainable development and scenarios for the future of biotechnology, both sponsored by the World Business Council in Geneva.