Centering Prayer or Contemplative Prayer as handed down from the days of Jesus (or before), has survived mainly in the monasteries as a practice reserved only for those who had the natural urge to be contemplatives. This practice was passed on generation after generation until the anonymous author wrote “The Cloud of Unknowing”, and on until 1970 when Fr. Thomas Keating, Wm. Meninger, and Fr. Basil Pennington put the process into a more modern format.
This approach to intimacy with God is as old as at least our Christian beginnings. Perhaps it is an application of knowledge acquired in Jesus’ travels.
