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The Contemplative Journey, Volume 1 Ineligible for Okendo the place of ritual inIn the darkest hour of the darkest age, Christian monks developed a meditation tradition unique in the Western world. A 14th century author described their profound mystical experience as entering the cloud of unknowing. Yet during the 500 years after this great monastic flowering, this precious tradition and the direct path to union with God it described was virtually lost. For decades Father Thomas Keating, together with other monks, examined this