Thomas Merton Center

Manuscripts in Sub-Section D.1:

Inner experience, The

Item 1 - L'expérience intérieure. Notes sur la contemplation.

First Lines:  I. Avertissement préliminaire [-] La pire chose qui puisse arriver à une personne qui est déjà

Sub-Type:  Published material

Draft:  

Copy Type:  Printed material

Date:  no-month no-day, 2000

Number of pages:  40

Additional authors/contributors:  Simon, Monique; translator

Language:  French

Notes:  Selections from The Inner Experience. Collectanea cisterciensia 62.1: 13-52.

Location:  Archive - File Cabinet 7

Item 2 - Próba

First Lines:  Ogólne zasady maja tylko wówczas jakies znaczenie, jezeli zastosuje sie je do poszcze gólnych

Sub-Type:  Published material

Draft:  

Copy Type:  Printed material

Date:  no-month no-day, 1983

Number of pages:  1

Additional authors/contributors:  

Language:  Polish

Notes:  Clipping lacking full reference for selections from The Inner Experience. Seems to be from Tygodnik Powszechny (Krakow, Poland), date unknown.

Location:  Archive - File Cabinet 7

Item 3 - The Inner experience: Christian contemplation (III)

First Lines:  The story of Adam's fall from Paradise says, in symbolic terms, that man was created

Sub-Type:  Published material

Draft:  

Copy Type:  Offprint

Date:  no-month no-day, 1983

Number of pages:  16

Additional authors/contributors:  

Language:  English

Notes:  2 copies from Cistercian studies 18.3: 201-216.

Location:  Archive - File Cabinet 7

Item 4 - The Inner experience: infused contemplation (V)

First Lines:  In the loose and perhaps somewhat confusing description of contemplative experience on its different

Sub-Type:  Published material

Draft:  

Copy Type:  Offprint

Date:  no-month no-day, 1984

Number of pages:  12

Additional authors/contributors:  

Language:  English

Notes:  Cistercian studies 19.1: 62-78.

Location:  Archive - File Cabinet 7

Item 5 - The Inner experience: kinds of contemplation (IV)

First Lines:  Strictly speaking contemplation is an immediate and in some sense passive intuition of the inmost

Sub-Type:  Published material

Draft:  

Copy Type:  Offprint

Date:  no-month no-day, 1983

Number of pages:  12

Additional authors/contributors:  

Language:  English

Notes:  2 copies from Cistercian studies 18.4: 289-300.

Location:  Archive - File Cabinet 7

Item 6 - The Inner experience: notes on contemplation (I)

First Lines:  The worst thing that can happen to a person who is already divided up into a dozen different

Sub-Type:  Published material

Draft:  

Copy Type:  Printed material

Date:  no-month no-day, 1983

Number of pages:  13

Additional authors/contributors:  

Language:  English

Notes:  Cistercian studies 18.1: 3-15. Other full issues of Cistercian studies can be found in the Merton Center archives with a copy of the first installment in offrint format.

Location:  Archive - File Cabinet 7

Item 7 - The Inner experience: problems of the contemplative life (VII)

First Lines:  1. Contemplative Formation in Monasteries [-] We have seen something of the nature

Sub-Type:  Published material

Draft:  

Copy Type:  Offprint

Date:  no-month no-day, 1984

Number of pages:  16

Additional authors/contributors:  

Language:  English

Notes:  2 copies from Cistercian studies 19.3: 267-282.

Location:  Archive - File Cabinet 7

Item 8 - The Inner experience: prospects and conclusions (VIII)

First Lines:  The most significant development of the contemplative life "in the world" is the growth of small

Sub-Type:  Published material

Draft:  

Copy Type:  Offprint

Date:  no-month no-day, 1984

Number of pages:  10

Additional authors/contributors:  

Language:  English

Notes:  Cistercian studies 19.4: 336-345.

Location:  Archive - File Cabinet 7

Item 9 - The Inner experience: society and the inner self (II)

First Lines:  So far, many of the texts we have quoted on the interior self give the false impression that this

Sub-Type:  Published material

Draft:  

Copy Type:  Offprint

Date:  no-month no-day, 1983

Number of pages:  14

Additional authors/contributors:  

Language:  English

Notes:  2 copies from Cistercian studies 18.2: 121-134.

Location:  Archive - File Cabinet 7

Item 10 - The Inner experience: some dangers in contemplation (VI)

First Lines:  The one great danger that confronts every person who takes spiritual experience seriously,

Sub-Type:  Published material

Draft:  

Copy Type:  Offprint

Date:  no-month no-day, 1984

Number of pages:  12

Additional authors/contributors:  

Language:  English

Notes:  2 copies from Cistercian studies 19.2: 139-150.

Location:  Archive - File Cabinet 7