Finding the Still Point: A Spiritual Response to Stress

by Tom Harpur

Tom Harpur shows how ancient wisdoms, together with exciting new scientific findings, are combining to show why mere coping techniques are not enough for meeting the stress crisis. Divorced from their spiritual underpinnings and/or religious understanding, such techniques lack the potency which they originally had. Central to a spiritual response to stress is the practice of spiritual meditation in its various forms. While many within traditional Christianity still view meditation with suspicion, Harpur shows it to be one of the lost jewels of a historic treasury of Christian gifts designed for healing. More than that, it is a revitalizing gift, which the church can reclaim for its own sake, and offer the outside church who are seeking identity, meaning and purpose.

Genres: Spirituality

256 pages, Paperback

First published February 7, 2002

About the author

Tom Harpur, columnist for the Toronto Star, Rhodes scholar, former Anglican priest, and professor of Greek and the New Testament, is an internationally renowned writer on religious and ethical issues. He is the author of ten bestselling books, including For Christ’s Sake and The Pagan Christ. He has hosted numerous radio and television programs, including Life After Death, a ten-part series based on his bestselling book of the same name.

Reviews

[Ebony · Rating 2 out of 5]

i didn't read the whole book. maybe that's why the stress reduction part isn't as clear. i like the idea of labyrinths, though, but since i've never even seen one, i don't know how calming walking one would be. i read the god within part. his arguments were pretty convincing--even jesus claimed the god withing as opposed to being god. that idea is pretty provocative. not sure how feeling god within is supposed to reduce my stress. jesus got stressed and he had god within. need more time to digest that. it would be cool to learn to see the god in other people in the midst of an evil world, though. that alone could reduce stress i suppose.

[Cheryl]

Repeated by accident

[Cheryl · Rating 3 out of 5]

I didn't find too much different from other books I have read about meditation.