Aspects of the Spiritual Life

David Wood is a retired Anglican priest.  Most of his life, he lived and worked amongst declining industrial communities in Northern England organizing and leading prayer workshops, retreats, and vigils of prayer, always exploring silence and solitude.  When he found John Main's teaching in 1988, after searching wilderness years, he just knew he was 'home'.  With his wife Sheila he then started and developed the Christian Meditation Community in Cumbria.

"These introductions to meditation", he writes "are like aspects of the spiritual life and mystery I want to reveal more for myself, knowing that is is the same for many people I meet.  We need to bring all things into our silence and let the silence work"

CD1

1 Turning Up  ......................06:42
2 Waiting.........05:59
3 New Beginnings............08:00
4 Telling It As It is....................4:46
5 Forgetfulness.........................6:27
6 Right-way-up World...............5:50
7 Indifference............................7:28
8 Annihilate...............................4:54
9 Our Original Goodness............6:49
10 Intercession..........................7:45
11 Running on Empty.................6:55
12 Beauty - A Gift of Emptiness..7:25

CD2

1 The Dark Night............................6:22
2 The Royal Road - Belonging ...........7:26
3 The Royal Road - This New Age............6:42
4 On Being My True Self..................6:18
5 Death and Dying...........................5:44
6 The Qualities of Silence................5:22
7 Meditation and Sleep....................5:30
8 The Present Moment- Distractions.....6:55
9 The Present Moment- The Mantra......7:05
10 Violence........................................6:46
11 You Just Have to Laugh................5:39
12 The Gentleness of God..................5:41
3 Love of Self, Love of Others, Love of God..............7:30
4 Aspects of Love...........................9:26
5 Emptiness is Fullness..................6:18
6 Prayer and Relantionships...........9:35
7 Growth and Change in Community.......................6:19