From the Egoic Mind to the Mind of the Heart: The Teaching and Lived Experience of the Christian Contemplative Path

The great spiritual traditions unanimously affirm that beyond the boundaried egoic consciousness, typically identified along the psychological spectrum as 'myself ',lies a more spacious, unboundaried selfhood whose attainment (variously known as 'non - dual realization ', 'enlightenment ', or 'Christ consciousness ')com -prises the true fulfilment of our human journey. In this paper, Cynthia Bourgeault expounds that the way toward this state is through nurturing the heart in its foundational role as the seat of non-dual perception.