What is Christian mystical experience, or contemplation?
• How does it relate to the life of prayer? • How does it relate to faith? • In what way is it a personal perceptible experience so that you know that you are receiving it? • What is the relationship between contemplation, and belief in the central mysteries of the Christian faith like the Trinity, and the divinity, death and resurrection of Jesus? • How does contemplation relate to spiritual experiences like visions, voices, prophecies and other extraordinary events? • How does contemplation relate to Eastern forms of enlightenment? • Do modern attempts to renew the Christian contemplative life like centering prayer and John Main’s Christian meditation aim at Christian mystical experience as you understand it? • How do you think the experience of no-self, expressed by someone like Bernadette Roberts, relates to the Christian contemplative life? • What do you think of the current state of spiritual direction when it comes to contemplatives? • What other questions would you like to see
