Posted by:
caffiend
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Date: October 30, 2014 09:06PM
She may have unwittingly fallen into a mode of self-mesmerism.Reading the Bible itself should help break that.
I recommend the ESV Study Bible. Good balance between modern English and the accepted texts, and has good notes with lots of excellent maps, charts, and diagrams. Suggest that she take one book at a time and read straight through it, perhaps starting with Luke's Gospel, the most detailed.
Incidentally, Thomas Merton was probably leaving Catholicism when he died. My take is that he had become obsessed with the physiology (endorphins, etc.) of highly intense meditation techniques.
Is she on-line? There are lots of good meditations out there, and some I would avoid, such as "Daily Word," which comes from "Unity," a soft cult akin to Christian Science.
Check out "Our Daily Bread," provided by many Protestant churches in pamphlet form, and also on line. It has a single verse, an excerpt to expand on that from the Bible, and a down-to-earth meditation on it. Is she on-line? Consider sending her this link:
http://odb.org/?tz=-04