RETREATS
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From Bernadette Roberts
NEW - Bernadette's next retreat - The Essence of Christian Mysticism
The retreat will be held on October 19-21, 2012, at the Catholic retreat center in Fullerton, California. For more information, read below.
This retreat is geared for practicing Christian contemplatives as a time to deepen and share their spiritual journey. It is geared for those who have read her first three books (Experience, Path, and What is Self?) and seen the DVD, A Passage Through Self.
The retreat occupancy is 13 people and the cost is $325.
For more information and to register, please write to Pat Masters at 1101 Prospect Avenue, #40, Santa Rosa, CA 95409, or email her at pmasters@sonic.net, and let her know you are interested. Send (or email) your mailing address and she will mail the information and registration instructions to you.
NEW CD Available: Recorded interview of Bernadette
Bernadette was interviewed by Michael Toms of New Dimension Radio in 1987. The interview is now available on CD. It is about 1 hour in length and is a lively discussion between Michael and Bernadette, regarding her own life with God, her writing work and the Christian path.
If you are interested in purchasing this recording, the cost is $12 (which includes postage and handling) for those in the U.S., and $15 for those outside this country.
You may purchase it by sending a check made out to Bernadette Roberts to Pat Masters, 1101 Prospect Avenue, #40, Santa Rosa, CA 95409. For convenience you can also pay through PayPal at pmasters@sonic.net . If you do pay through PayPal please add 3% to cover the PayPal fees, and email your mailing address to Pat at pmasters@sonic.net. All CD's will be sent 1st class mail in the U.S. and by regular airmail for those outside the country.
DVD: "A Passage Through Self"
An Overview of the Spiritual Journey in Terms of Consciousness
Recorded in 1987 (3 hours, NTSC)
This talk uses a series of circles to illustrate the journey in terms of consciousness--defined as the whole self-experience and medium of the Divine’s revelation to man. Particular emphasis is given to the journey’s major milestones: first, transcendence of the ego-self and revelation of the True Self in its oneness with God (the Unitive State). Second, the further movement into the marketplace that ultimately ends with the falling away of the True-self and the Unitive State. An overview of this passage reveals how and in what way the ultimate fulfillment of self or consciousness is no-Self or no-Consciousness.
COST (including shipping) is:
$35: within the United States
$45: outside the United States (Please remember to make check or money to Bernadette Roberts - and in US currency only.)
BOOK: "Contemplative: Autobiography of the Early Years"
Unpublished, 2004: 200 page spiral-bound manuscript
(Available here)
Bernadette has written an account of her early contemplative life. Here is a brief description of the book taken from the introduction:
"This book is an account of my spiritual journey from birth to seventeen. Since my book The Path to No-Self, begins at age seventeen, the present book covers the earlier years and my initial steps in the contemplative path. The purpose of this writing is both to give this background and give witness to God’s work in a single soul. Since God is at work in every soul, it is up to each of us to give our own account, no one else can do this for us."
COST (including shipping) is:
$45 within the United States
$55 for mailing outside the United States
BOOK: "Essays on the Christian Contemplative Journey"
Unpublished, 2007: 170 pages, spiral bound manuscript
(Available here)
Essays include:
The Spiritual Journey Recapitulates the History of Religion; Cessation of Self; Nonduality; Mystical Theology and No-Self; Image and Likeness; Apatheia; Means-End; An Interview; Women and Mysticism; The Eucharist, A Christian Path
COST (including shipping) is:
$35 for regular media mail
$45 outside the U.S.
NEW ESSAY: "Forcing-The-Fit"
Unpublished, 2008: 116 page spiral-bound manuscript
Bernadette has written a commentary on the interpretations of her works by three authors: A.H. Almaas, James Marion and Jim Arraj. The commentary is available as a 116 page, spiral bound manuscript.
COST (including shipping) is:
$25 within the U.S.
$35 outside the U.S
Excerpt from the Preface:
Although these papers were written years ago, it only now dawned on me the particular vision of spirituality that these authors represent. This version is a combination of Western psychology and Hindu philosophy, more especially, its Advaitic, nondual school of thought. Sooner or later people seeking a spiritual life will come across authors whose psychological paradigm culminates in Hinduism’s Advaitic realization. There is no underestimating the wide-spread influence of this new spirituality, its influence is such you can hardly talk to anyone about the spiritual journey who has not already bought into this popular way of thinking. Converts have not only bought into this particular view of the spiritual life, but bought into its same belief system. This is what accounts for much of the West’s present Advaitic understanding of man’s spiritual journey. No guru promotes this as well as those who have adopted this modern paradigm of spirituality.
The advantage of this paradigm is that it by-passes the traditional spirituality of the West’s monotheistic religions, thus it has particular appeal to its disenfranchised members. Now they no longer have to deal with the spiritual “soul” (it’s just the “self”), or with any “Transcendent” (“self” turns out to be the Transcendent), or deal with anything “supernatural” (an inherent psychic phenomena). In short this new spirituality boils down to a focus on self alone.
Bernadette has written a commentary on the interpretations of her works by three authors: A.H. Almaas, James Marion and Jim Arraj. The commentary is available as a 116 page, spiral bound manuscript.
COST (including shipping) is:
$25 within the U.S.
$35 outside the U.S
Excerpt from the Preface:
Although these papers were written years ago, it only now dawned on me the particular vision of spirituality that these authors represent. This version is a combination of Western psychology and Hindu philosophy, more especially, its Advaitic, nondual school of thought. Sooner or later people seeking a spiritual life will come across authors whose psychological paradigm culminates in Hinduism’s Advaitic realization. There is no underestimating the wide-spread influence of this new spirituality, its influence is such you can hardly talk to anyone about the spiritual journey who has not already bought into this popular way of thinking. Converts have not only bought into this particular view of the spiritual life, but bought into its same belief system. This is what accounts for much of the West’s present Advaitic understanding of man’s spiritual journey. No guru promotes this as well as those who have adopted this modern paradigm of spirituality.
The advantage of this paradigm is that it by-passes the traditional spirituality of the West’s monotheistic religions, thus it has particular appeal to its disenfranchised members. Now they no longer have to deal with the spiritual “soul” (it’s just the “self”), or with any “Transcendent” (“self” turns out to be the Transcendent), or deal with anything “supernatural” (an inherent psychic phenomena). In short this new spirituality boils down to a focus on self alone.
A Christian Commentary on the Ten Ox Herding Pictures
This is a brief commentary on the Ten Ox Herding Pictures, as requested by Bernadette's friend, Jeff Shore. The cost, including postage and handling, is $8 for those in the U.S., and $10 for those outside this country.
Special Ordering Information for the Ten Ox Herding Pictures booklet: If you are ordering this booklet only, make the check out to Pat Masters (not to Bernadette) and mail it to her at 1101 Prospect Avenue, #40, Santa Rosa, CA 95409, USA. However, if you wish to order other books as well, make out the check for your entire purchase to Bernadette Roberts, and send it to Pat at the Santa Rosa address.
For your convenience you may also pay for this, and all orders, through PayPal at pmasters@sonic.net . If you do pay through PayPal please add 3% to cover the fees, and send your mailing address to Pat at pmasters@sonic.net.
ORDERING INFORMATION
Pat Masters
1101 Prospect Avenue #40
Santa Rosa,
California 95409, USA
If you include an e-mail address, we will send you confirmation of the order having been received.
You can also pay through PayPal at: pmasters@sonic.net . If you do pay through PayPal please add 3% to cover the fees, and email your mailing address to Pat at pmasters@sonic.net. If you are using PayPal from outside the U.S., the PayPal fee is 6%, rather than 3%.
You can also pay through PayPal at: pmasters@sonic.net . If you do pay through PayPal please add 3% to cover the fees, and email your mailing address to Pat at pmasters@sonic.net. If you are using PayPal from outside the U.S., the PayPal fee is 6%, rather than 3%.
