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	The Cloud of Unknowing - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Cloud of Unknowing is a practical spiritual guidebook thought to have been written in the 14th century by an anonymous English monk who counsels a young student to seek God not through knowledge but through love.
		The practical prayer advice contained in The Cloud of Unknowing formed the basis for the practice of centering prayer, a form of Christian meditation developed by Trappist monks William Meninger and Thomas Keating in the 1970s.
		The Cloud of Unknowing is also the title of an unrelated theatrical film directed by Richard Sylvarnes and released in the autumn of 2004.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Cloud_of_Unknowing (381 words)

	The Yoga-Sutras of Patanjali and The Cloud of Unknowing: A Preliminary Step in Assessing the Ontological Accuracy of ...
		It is true that both the Yoga-Sutras and The Cloud of Unknowing consider that with which one becomes unified in the mystical union as the ultimate basis of all that exists.
		The Cloud of Unknowing seems to represent the mystical union as the highest happiness because in the union one experiences directly the incomparable love and power of God, which, although the mystic is unaware of his own existence, nevertheless has an extremely pleasurable effect on him.
		One suggestion is that the author of The Cloud of Unknowing actually experienced a monadic union with ultimate reality in the same way Patanjali did, but his upbringing in the context of Christianity prevented him from having the vocabulary and conceptual apparatus necessary to describe the union in anything other than dualistic terms.
	www.infidels.org /library/modern/mark_vuletic/myst.html (3441 words)

	The Cloud of Unknowing: Introduction
		The Cloud of Unknowing, by contrast, is essentially apophatic in its emphasis and focuses almost entirely on the "silencing" described by Augustine: it collapses the meditation on nature to brief allusion, and discusses the soul's activities only in the most practical manner.
		Together with love, this unknowing, or negation of knowledge in the ordinary sense, is the main activity of the apophatic method, although affirmation, the kataphatic movement, is frequently present.
		Having looked summarily at the whole Cloud of Unknowing, we might note in conclusion the remarkable fact that in the Middle Ages, mysticism is one of the most important sources for aesthetics, the analysis of the nature and manifestations of beauty.
	www.lib.rochester.edu /camelot/teams/clunintr.htm (7196 words)

	Spirituality: Questions on The Cloud
		Cloud seems to be suggesting that a God separate from creation is necessary for experiencing transcendance.
		Clifton Wolters, in his introduction to the Penguin Classics translation of The Cloud of Unknowing, talks about it as the reality of God being so full and so beyond our language, that it is better not to try to speak of him or to use language,images or ideas.
		The language of The Cloud of Unknowing mostly speaks of God as external, but the experience he describes is an inner one.
	www.watershedonline.ca /roots/mystics/Cloud/CloudQuestions.html (2525 words)

	Cloud of Unknowing
		The mystic who seeks the divine Cloud of Unknowing is to be surrendered to the direction of his deeper mind, his transcendental consciousness: that "spark of the soul" which is in touch with eternal realities.
		This is the "Divine Darkness"--the Cloud of Unknowing, or of Ignorance, "dark with excess of light"--preached by Dionysius the Areopagite, and eagerly accepted by his English interpreter.
		The Cloud of Unknowing was known, and read, by English Catholics as late as the middle or end of the 17th century.
	www.twolisteners.org /Cloud.htm (10753 words)

	The Cloud of Unknowing
		This darkness and cloud is always between you and your God, no matter what you do, and it prevents you from seeing him clearly by the light of understanding in your reason, and from experiencing him in sweetness of love in your affection.
		If ever you come to this cloud, and live and work in it as I bid you, just as this cloud of unknowing is above you, between you and your God, in the same way you must put beneath you a cloud of forgetting, between you and all the creatures that have ever been made.
		You are to smite upon that thick cloud of unknowing with a sharp dart of longing love.
	people.bu.edu /dklepper/RN413/cloud.html (4295 words)

	The Cloud of Unknowing (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Wolters mentions Dionysius as being influential on the author of ‘the Cloud’.
		Cloud stresses clearly the concept that nothing in or from the spiritual experience can be perceived by the Rational Brain (which he calls the ‘intellect’).
		Cloud sees in Paul's reference to ‘the wisdom of the world’ (I Cor 3.19) vs ‘the wisdom of God’, as meaning the Rational Brain vs Feeling Brain.
	lastusas.com /books/cloud.htm (605 words)

	Buddhaghosa dn the Cloud of Unknowing
		…the purification of consciousness (Buddhist) is equivalent to the attainment of nakedness of being (the Cloud).
		…the Cloud was written within a medieval cultural context in which scholastic philosophy was the norm, and with it came the whole substance-metaphysics of Aristotle as modified somewhat by the negative theology of Dionysius the Areopagite.
		The description that the Cloud gives of the cloud itself and the highest experience is consistent with there occurring a nondual experience, which is naturally enough seen ex post facto as being oned with God.
	phoenixandturtle.net /excerptmill/smart.htm (1035 words)

	Contemplative (Centering) Prayer and The Cloud of the Unknowing (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		As he read it he was delighted to discover that this anonymous 14th century book presented contemplative meditation as a teachable, spiritual process enabling the ordinary person to enter and receive a direct experience of union with God.
		The Cloud was written, not in Latin but in Middle English - which means that it was intended primarily for laymen rather than for priests and monks.
		His book, The Loving Search For God is an effort to bring the message of The Cloud of Unknowing to men and women of the 21st Century.
	www.contemplativeprayer.net (398 words)

	"The Cloud of the Unknowing" by Frederick Rustam
		"The Cloud of the Unknowing" by Frederick Rustam
		The Temple of the Holy Cloud was a rambling, white building that sprawled across the knob of the hilltop with its attached annexes at different levels.
		When one enters the Cloud, he becomes detached from worldly concerns and is free to seek his personal form of the Infinite, untroubled by previous knowing.
	www.etext.org /zines/ASCII/Planet/pm30/cloud.html (3343 words)

	The Cloud of Unknowing by Edited by William Johnston
		For in the beginning it is usual to feel nothing but a kind of darkness about your mind, or as it were, a cloud of unknowing.
		Try as you might, this darkness and this cloud will remain between you and your God.(2) You will feel frustrated, for your mind will be unable to grasp him, and your heart will not relish the delight of his love.
		Excerpted from The Cloud of Unknowing by Edited by William Johnston Copyright © 2005 by William Johnston.
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	The Cloud of Unknowing
		They are, first, The Cloud of Unknowing--the longest and most complete exposition of its author's peculiar doctrine -- and, depending from it, four short tracts or letters: The Epistle of Prayer, The Epistle of Discretion in the Stirrings of the Soul, The Epistle of Privy Counsel, and The Treatise of Discerning of Spirits.
		AND, therefore, if thou wilt stand and not fall, cease never in thine intent: but beat evermore on this cloud of unknowing that is betwixt thee and thy God with a sharp dart of longing love, and loathe for to think on aught under God, and go not thence for anything that befalleth.
		And therefore she hung up her love and her longing desire in this cloud of unknowing, and learned her to love a thing the which she might not see clearly in this life, by light of understanding in her reason, nor yet verily feel in sweetness of love in her affection.
	www.tphta.ws /TPH_CLUN.HTM (18290 words)

	Amazon.com: The Cloud of Unknowing : and The Book of Privy Counseling (Image Book Original): Books: William ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		This is William Johnston's summary of the message of The Cloud of Unknowing.
		The Cloud of Unknowing (The Classics of Western Spirituality) by James Walsh
		Hold on to The Cloud of Unknowing until you are ready for it.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0385030975?v=glance (1747 words)

	Selections from the Cloud of Unknowing
		For it is a darkness of unknowing that lies between you and your God.
		Walter's reference was to holiness (the practise of perfect charity), where the Cloud's author is referring to a degree of mystic union which is not universal.
		In another chapter, the author of the Cloud reminds his reader not to "rest in" consolations for fear of growing weak, for the consolations expend a great deal of energy.
	www.gloriana.nu /selectionscloud.html (4634 words)

	Cloud of Unknowing The Cloud of Unknowing - Edited By: James Walsh - Christianbook.com
		Cloud of Unknowing The Cloud of Unknowing - Edited By: James Walsh - Christianbook.com
		Written by an anonymous English monk during the late fourteenth century, The Cloud of Unknowing holds an important place in the history of both Western literature and spirituality.
		The Cloud puts forth a method of contemplation that stresses the impotence of the understanding to break through the cloud of unknowing that separates God and humanity.
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	The Cloud of Unknowing
		I first read the Cloud when I was about 20 years old – which action was concurrently one of the most enriching and stupid of my entire life.
		The author of the Cloud of Unknowing is puzzlement for the same reason Teilhard de Chardin was for the geniuses of my own era.
		The Mysticism of the Cloud of Unknowing - William Johnston
	www.gloriana.nu /cloud.html (1948 words)

	Anchoress and Cardinal: Textual Communities and Gendered Audiences (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		THE CLOUD OF UNKNOWING AND JULIAN OF NORWICH
		All of The Cloud of Unknowing 's editors and commentators have assumed that these texts were written to a young man.(47) Yet the same had occurred not with the audience, but with the writer, in the case of Marguerite Porete's Mirror of Simple Souls.
		Julian is most close to The Cloud of Unknowing's Dionysianism in her 1368 Westminster Text, growing away from its apophatic Quietism in her 1393 Long Text, and being deeply anxious about it in her 1413 Short Text.
	www.umilta.net /exempl.html (8808 words)

	The Cloud of Unknowing (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		It appears to have been written for a young person beginning a life devoted to contemplation, either as a monk or a solitary.
		The author may have been a priest, or may have been a monastic, but unfortunately we know virtually nothing about him (or her).
		The author of The Cloud also wrote or translated several minor works, including a translation of a work by Pseudo-Dionysius, a fifth-century Greek theologian.
	www.carlmccolman.com /wsu-cloud.htm (176 words)

	Amazon.ca: The Cloud of Unknowing : The Classic of Medieval Mysticism: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		This fourteenth-century manual was written by an unknown monastic as a guide for a young person starting on the path to a contemplative life.
		It states that a "cloud of unknowing" separates people from God, and that this cloud cannot be penetrated by the intellect--only by love.
		Unabridged republication of A Book of Contemplation the Which is called The Cloud of Unknowing, in the Which a Soul is Oned with God, originally published by J. Watkins, London, 1912.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0486432033 (620 words)

	Underworld - Part 3 - The Cloud of Unknowing
		A long time ago, years ago, I read a book called The Cloud of Unknowing.
		Written by an anonymous mystic, I'm not sure, fourteenth century maybe, whenever the Black Death was -- he was writing in the days of the Black Death.
		Marvin Lundy is in San Francisco, trying to meet Chuckie Wainwright, to confirm the last link in the chain.
	perival.com /delillo/underworld_3.html (483 words)

	The Cloud of Unknowing
		Had she joined the department back last fall, my financial and emotional recovery of this past year would have been made difficult if not impossible.
		With The Cloud of Unknowing it is quite otherwise.
		Time was, when I might have approached The Cloud of Unknowing with intellectual interest, or even with a keen personal fascination.
	www.paulburgess.org /cloud.html (1424 words)

	Amazon.com: Cloud of Unknowing: Books: Evelyn Underhill (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Dark Night of the Soul : A Masterpiece in the Literature of Mysticism by St. John of the Cross by E.
		The Mysticism of the Cloud of Unknowing by William Johnston
		This very gently edited version of The Cloud of Unknowing is a must read for aspiring mystics or those who seem to be becoming mystics through little intent of their own.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0766102823?v=glance (962 words)

	The Cloud of Unknowing by An Anonymous Author - Primer on Contemplative Prayer
		The Cloud of Unknowing by An Anonymous Author - Primer on Contemplative Prayer
		Often quoted by evangelical contemplatives such as Richard Foster and Henri Nouwen, this 14th century book of contemplation is described this way:
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	www.lighthousetrailsresearch.com /cloudofunknowing.htm (224 words)

	The Cloud of Unknowing and the Book of Privy Counseling
		The title comes from the author's metaphor of contemplative prayer as struggling to get beyond a "cloud of unknowing" which separates us from experiencing God's presence.
		He dismisses the idea of using understanding as a means of reaching God, since God is unfathomable; instead, he suggests, we embrace God with our love.
		Having established that love is the means of going through "the cloud," the author urges the reader to "beat upon the cloud of unknowing with the hammer of your love," and to "pierce the cloud of unknowing with the arrow of your love." The author's passion for God is contagious, and his prose is inspirational.
	www.frimmin.com /books/cloudunknow.html (574 words)

	Arts for Soaking - SOAKING.NET
		God has revealed Himself as a relational being through the very nature of His Creation, through the very act of the Incarnation, and He continues, to this day, to pursue us passionately, longing for a holy relationship with the human race.
		Therefore it is of the utmost importance for us to find ways to emerge from the fog of the world and gaze into the infinite intent of His revelation, "like a sharp dart of longing love..." as the author of The Cloud of Unknowing says.
		As we "drink in" the present moment, gradually moving away from concepts and words, the silence of God unfolds His embrace; therein lies our ultimate quest and the womb of our destiny: contact, communion.
	www.soaking.net (480 words)

	TheoCenTriC BooKShoP: Cloud of Unknowing (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Knowledge of God is possible, but only by admitting and embracing the complete inadequacy of knowledge to know God fully.
		Only love can embrace God's fullness and pierce the cloud of unknowing -- a cloud of darkness that arises from human limitations and God's unfathomable greatness.
		In many ways, The Cloud of Unknowing is a very helpful corrective in our day.
	www.theocentric.com /bsarchives/000255.html (176 words)

	Christian Leadership Books’ Great Cloud of Unknowing (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Adapting the Jesus of the Gospels for the purpose of restating basic maxims of personnel management and human relations not only trivializes the Savior but also makes a hash of leadership properly understood.
		If we had genuine truth-in-advertising laws, most of these books would be called The Cloud of Unknowing.
		Steven Hayward, Ph.D., is a senior fellow with the Pacific Research Institute in San Francisco, the author of Churchill on Leadership: Executive Success in the Face of Adversity (Prima Publishing), and a contributing editor to Religion and Liberty.
	www.acton.org /publicat/randl/article.php?id=351 (1597 words)

	Definitions at The Zoo Fence
		THE CLOUD OF UNKNOWING: The author of this extraordinary
		The "cloud of unknowing" in the title is that which forever hides perception of the One, God, from our every separative, egoic faculty.
		That is, however clever we may become, as long as we think, in effect, "I am me, and God is an other," there must exist an invisible, impassable boundary between us.
	www.zoofence.com /define01.html (2148 words)

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	THE CLOUD OF UNKNOWING AND OTHER WORKS - A. Spearing - Penguin UK
		THE CLOUD OF UNKNOWING AND OTHER WORKS - A. Spearing - Penguin UK home
		This collection includes The Cloud of Unknowing, The Mystical Theology of Saint Denis, The Book of Privy Counselling, and An Epistle on Prayer.
		Against a tradition of devotional writings which focussed on knowing God through Christ's Passion and his humanity, these texts describe a transcendent God who exists beyond human knowledge and human language.
	www.penguin.co.uk /nf/Book/BookDisplay/0,,9780140447620,00.html (135 words)

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