{"product_id":"human-ground-spiritual-ground-kess-frey-9780983198451","title":"Human Ground, Spiritual Ground","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA REFLECTION ON CENTERING PRAYER'S CONCEPTUAL BACKGROUND\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eInspired by Thomas Keating's conceptual background for Centering Prayer, this book begins by using the biblical story of Adam and Eve to describe four basic parameters that frame the universal human condition. These parameters or \"Fruits of the Fall\" are: death\/change, sex\/desire, good\/evil choices and our existential aloneness\/incompleteness apart from God. Within the framework of these parameters we experience our basic instinctual needs and their distortions into emotional programs for happiness--which happens when needs are wounded, unmet, or perceived as unmet.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eHuman Ground, Spiritual Ground\u003c\/i\u003e identifies our basic inborn needs as security\/survival\/safety; sensation\/pleasure; affection\/esteem\/approval; power\/control; and intimacy\/belonging. These needs pertain to both our human and spiritual growth. The book describes them in detail, giving examples of their healthy expressions as well as their pathological distortions into self-centered agendas for happiness that form the basis of the false-self system, the key to all of which is our inner motivation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn addition to describing the primary obstacles to human spiritual growth, \u003ci\u003eHuman Ground, Spiritual Ground\u003c\/i\u003e addresses how these unconscious obstacles are overcome through the daily practice of Centering Prayer and the divine action working in us and in our life. The ultimate fruit of this inner purification, healing and transformation process is the shifting of our inner center of identity from human ground into spiritual ground and our life in Christ--which is participation in the divine consciousness.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSee also Kess Frey's more recent work for Portal Books, \u003ci\u003eCentering Prayer and Rebirth in Christ on the Tree of Life: The Process of Inner Transformation\u003c\/i\u003e (2013).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Kess Frey, Kessler Frey\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0983198454\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780983198451\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Portal Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/03\/2012\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 184\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.61lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.42d","brand":"Kess Frey","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44063583830271,"sku":"9780983198451","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_fcd88074-60a6-43aa-9049-49ab608727d1.jpg?v=1685390427","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/human-ground-spiritual-ground-kess-frey-9780983198451","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}