| 1967 |
Dedication in the religious life. |
| 1967 |
Poetry. |
| 1967 |
Renewal. Camus - realist humanism. |
| 1967/01 |
Thomas Merton's lectures to the Gethsemani Abbey community on William Faulkner: "The Bear," A Pattern of Development in Hunting and in the Spiritual Life; Classical values in Faulkner; and "The Wild Palms," theme of the Deluge. |
| 1967/01/01 |
End of a previously recorded conference [Faulkner's "The Bear": Spiritual Formation and Mystical Union continued.] |
| 1967/01/01 |
The Bear: A pattern of development in hunting and in the spiritual life. [Faulkner's "The Bear": Spiritual Formation and Mystical Union.] |
| 1967/01/15 |
Faulkner: Classical values in Faulkner. |
| 1967/01/22 |
The Wild Palms: Theme of the deluge. [The Wild Palms: Man Against Destiny.] |
| 1967/01/27 |
Cosmic order is a dance. Romanticism and classicism contrasted. [The Classical Outlook.] |
| 1967/01/29 |
Readings: Faulkner. "The Deluge" and "The Wild Palms." [The Wild Palms: Theological Reflections.] |
| 1967/03/05 |
Is monasticism Christian? - A lay theologian's attack. Time in "The Sound and the Fury." [The Sound and the Fury: The Sense of Time.] |
| 1967/03/19 |
Resurrection service in "The Sound and the Fury." [The Sound and the Fury: Resurrection.] |
| 1967/03/27 |
Community life. |
| 1967/04/16 |
Community life. LSD and youth culture. Marshall McLuhan. |
| 1967/04/22 |
Experimental jazz meditation. |
| 1967/04/22 |
Merton reads his own poetry - The Originators; A Round and a Hope for Smith Girls; A Carol; What Troubles I have Seen in Birdlegged Spring. |
| 1967/04/22 |
Merton sings Eastertide chants. |
| 1967/04/22 |
Rites for the ejection of a leper. |
| 1967/04/22 |
Short segment of talk by Thomas Merton. |
| 1967/04/23 |
Notes on Sufi Ibn Al Arabi and Shoshonean Indians. |
| 1967/04/23 |
Notes on Sufi Ibn Al Arabi. |
| 1967/04/23 |
Sufism: Introduction. Various branches of Islam and Muslim society. |
| 1967/04/24 |
Ideas on use of audio tape. |
| 1967/04/24 |
Merton on birds. Experimental reading - Samuel Beckett. Reads some of his own new poetry. |
| 1967/04/30 |
Relation of God to nature in Ibn Al Arabi. Union with God. Masao Abe and the dialogue between Buddhists and Christians. Martin Buber. |
| 1967/04/30 |
Sufism: Knowledge of God. |
| 1967/05/02 |
Madness and civilization.(Repeats tape #212:3) |
| 1967/05/03 |
Baptized in life (Ibn Al Arabi). Madness and civilization. Camus and Augustine. |
| 1967/05/03 |
Camus and Augustine. (Repeats tape #212:3) |
| 1967/05/14 |
Creation of man in Ibn Al Arabi. |
| 1967/05/14 |
Reads from his journal for May 14, 1967 - Pentecost Sunday - and May 18. Eschatology. |
| 1967/05/14 |
Sufism: God in creation. |
| 1967/05/19 |
Madness and civilization by Michel Foucault. Cargo cults. |
| 1967/05/20 |
Secular Signs, Ceremony for Edward Dahlberg and other poems. Thoughts for Trinity Sunday sermon. Listen to an excerpt. |
| 1967/05/21 |
The Straight way - Sufism. |
| 1967/05/21 |
Trinity Sunday sermon by Thomas Merton. Mass continues. |
| 1967/05/21 |
Trinity Sunday thoughts continued. |
| 1967/05/29 |
Asceticism, celibacy and eschatology. |
| 1967/05/29 |
Rites for the extrusion of a leper. (Finished version.) |
| 1967/06/03 |
Chastity and celibacy. (First 6 minutes) Poems for hospital. (Repeats tape #175a:1) Readings from journals about Niels Bohr, genetics, evolution, war, Nietzsche. (Repeats tape #175a:2) |
| 1967/06/03 |
Poems for hospital. |
| 1967/06/03 |
Poems for hospital. (Repeats tape #175a:1) |
| 1967/06/03 |
Readings from journals about Niels Bohr, genetics, evolution, war, Nietzsche. |
| 1967/06/03 |
Readings from journals about Niels Bohr, genetics, evolution, war, Nietzsche. (Repeats tape #175a:2) |
| 1967/06/03-04 |
Comments on Nietzsche. |
| 1967/06/04 |
Continuation from track #1. |
| 1967/06/04 |
Continues from Merton archive tape 175a. |
| 1967/06/04 |
Need of modern man to be "turned on". LSD. |
| 1967/06/12 |
Monastic renewal, monastic reform. Taize. |
| 1967/06/15 |
Ideas on virginity. The Castle by Kafka. |
| 1967/06/17 |
Camus and Kafka. Comments on general chapter. Second part repeats 217:4 - Comments on book by Brian Wicker, Toward a Contemporary Christianity. |
| 1967/06/17 |
Comments of general chapter. |
| 1967/06/17 |
Religious renewal. Comments on book by Brian Wicker, Toward a Contemporary Christianity. |
| 1967/06/18 |
Sufi principles for a time of change. |
| 1967/06/21 |
More on Kafka. |
| 1967/06/22 |
Notes on Brian Wicker and on Leslie Dewart's book The Future of Belief |
| 1967/06/23 |
Decision in the religious life and in the Christian life. |
| 1967/07/02 |
Satisfaction, the end of the ascetical life. |
| 1967/07/16 |
Repentance and conversion throughout the spiritual life. |
| 1967/07/29 |
Address to Sisters of Loretto about the religious life following on from discussions (Includes section on Camus). Part 3 of 4. |
| 1967/07/29 |
Address to Sisters of Loretto about the religious life following on from discussions. Part 1 of 4. |
| 1967/07/29 |
Address to Sisters of Loretto about the religious life following on from discussions. Part 2 of 4. |
| 1967/07/29 |
Address to Sisters of Loretto about the religious life following on from discussions. Part 4 of 4. |
| 1967/07/29 |
Merton reads his poetry from the prologue to The Geography of Lograire - The Endless Description - and from the North Canto - Queens Tunnel. |
| 1967/08/20 |
Readings from The Geography of Lograire continued: Selections from "Queens Tunnel" (draft of Part I, 31-50). |
| 1967/08/20 |
Readings from The Geography of Lograire: "Notes for a New Liturgy" and selections from "Queens Tunnel" (draft of Part I, 1-30). |
| 1967/09 |
Contemplative life today. Poverty continued from the library. |
| 1967/09 |
Contemplative life today. Poverty continued from the library. |
| 1967/09 |
Contemplative life today. Poverty continued from the library. |
| 1967/09 |
Contemplative life today. Poverty continued. |
| 1967/09 |
Continuation of renewal and prayer. |
| 1967/09 |
Easter homily. |
| 1967/09 |
Monastic education. Prayers - letters. |
| 1967/09 |
Poverty. |
| 1967/09 |
Poverty. Eschatological movement. |
| 1967/09 |
Poverty. Eschatological movement. Cloistered living. |
| 1967/09/10 |
Private cells: finding a place in spiritual life. |
| 1967/09/13 |
Contemplative life today. Part 1 of 2. |
| 1967/09/13 |
Contemplative life today. Part 2 of 2. |
| 1967/09/15 |
Contemplative life today. |
| 1967/09/16 |
Continuation of #1: Contemplative life today. |
| 1967/09/17 |
Theology of dialogue. Sufi: poverty. |
| 1967/09/22 |
Merton sings Gregorian chant. |
| 1967/09/22 |
Merton sings Gregorian chant. |
| 1967/09/22 |
Merton sings Gregorian chant. |
| 1967/09/22 |
Merton sings Gregorian chant. |
| 1967/09/22 |
Merton sings Gregorian chant. |
| 1967/09/22 |
Merton sings Gregorian chant. |
| 1967/09/22 |
Merton sings Gregorian chant. |
| 1967/09/22 |
Merton sings Gregorian chant. |
| 1967/09/22 |
Merton sings Gregorian chant. |
| 1967/09/22 |
Merton sings Gregorian chant. |
| 1967/09/22 |
Merton sings Gregorian chant. |
| 1967/09/22 |
Merton sings Gregorian chant. |
| 1967/09/22 |
Merton sings Gregorian chant. |
| 1967/09/22 |
Merton sings Gregorian chant. |
| 1967/09/22 |
Merton sings Gregorian chant. |
| 1967/09/22 |
Merton sings Gregorian chant. |
| 1967/09/22 |
Merton sings Gregorian chant. |
| 1967/09/22 |
Merton sings Gregorian chant. |
| 1967/09/22 |
Merton sings Gregorian chant. |
| 1967/09/22 |
Merton sings Gregorian chant. |
| 1967/09/22 |
Merton sings Gregorian chant. |
| 1967/09/22 |
Merton sings Gregorian chant. |
| 1967/09/22 |
Merton sings Gregorian chant. |
| 1967/09/22 |
Merton sings Gregorian chant. |
| 1967/09/22 |
Merton sings Gregorian chant. |
| 1967/09/22 |
Merton sings Gregorian chant. |
| 1967/09/22 |
Poem in cargo movement. |
| 1967/09/22 |
Readings on monastic life. |
| 1967/09/25 |
Contemplative life today. Part 1 of 2. Monasticism and Contemplation. |
| 1967/09/26 |
Contemplative life today. The Contemplative Life So-Called. |
| 1967/09/26 |
Contemplative life today. Part 2 of 2. |
| 1967/10/08 |
Sufi: patience. |
| 1967/10/15 |
Reading from Geography of Lograire: The Ranters and Their Pleads (London); Fragments from South (Mexico) [8 min mark]; Fragments from East (South Seas), Cargo Cults [17]; Prologue to Boom! [52]; new poems [57]; Cables to the Ace Prologue-#22 [65 min-]. |
| 1967/10/15 |
Reading from Reading from Cables to the Ace continued: #30, 32, 35-69 (French), 74, 85. |
| 1967/10/15 |
Sufi - sense of loss in one's way, in one's identity. |
| 1967/10/29 |
Jewish Hasidism - mysticism, existentialism. (Tension.) |
| 1967/11 |
Cargo movements. (cults) |
| 1967/11 |
Message of contemplatives to modern men. "Man to man." Part 1 of 2. |
| 1967/11 |
Message of contemplatives to modern men. "Man to man." Part 2 of 2. |
| 1967/11/11 |
Cargo movements. (cults) |
| 1967/11/11 |
Cargo movements. (cults) |
| 1967/11/12 |
Sufism - mystical life. |
| 1967/11/19 |
Sufism - mystic life, also Christian mysticism. Things interfering with prayer. Awareness. |
| 1967/12/00 |
Gethsemani meetings: Contemplative life and the resurrection. Non violence. Part 1 of 2. |
| 1967/12/00 |
Gethsemani meetings: Contemplative life and the resurrection. Non violence. Part 2 of 2. |
| 1967/12/00 |
Gethsemani meetings: peace movements continued. Community life and renewal, hermits. Part 1 of 2. |
| 1967/12/00 |
Gethsemani meetings: Prophetic life. Part 1 of 2. |
| 1967/12/00 |
Gethsemani meetings: Prophetic life. Part 2 of 2. |
| 1967/12/00 |
Gethsemani meetings: Renewal and contemporary issues. Part 1 of 2. |
| 1967/12/00 |
Gethsemani meetings: Renewal and contemporary issues. Part 1 of 2. |
| 1967/12/00 |
Gethsemani meetings: Renewal and contemporary issues. Part 1 of 2. |
| 1967/12/00 |
Gethsemani meetings: Renewal and contemporary issues. Part 2 of 2. |
| 1967/12/00 |
Gethsemani meetings: Renewal and contemporary issues. Part 2 of 2. |
| 1967/12/00 |
Gethsemani meetings: Renewal and contemporary issues. Part 2 of 2. |
| 1967/12/00 |
Gethsemani meetings: silence - peace movements. Part 1 of 2. |
| 1967/12/00 |
Gethsemani meetings: silence - peace movements. Part 2 of 2. |
| 1967/12/00 |
Gethsemani meetings: Thoughts and reflections. Part 1 of 2. |
| 1967/12/00 |
Gethsemani meetings: Thoughts and reflections. Part 2 of 2. |
| 1967/12/00 |
Merton's reflections on the meetings. |
| 1967/12/03 |
Sufism - love of God. |
| 1967/12/17 |
Abbatial election. Sufism - heart. |