John J. Prendergast, PhD, is a spiritual teacher, author, psychotherapist, and retired adjunct professor of psychology who now offers residential and online retreats. For more, please visit listeningfromsilence.com.
"Prendergast lays out a strategy...to make 'a spiritual pilgrimage
from the head to the heart' and escape the ego's endless 'agenda
for self-improvement' in this inviting inquiry. Readers...will
appreciate (his) enthusiastic take on deconstructing self-imposed
limitations." --Publishers Weekly "The Deep Heart is an invitation
to discover our sacred calling and unveil the core of our very
being. Tapping into our natural curiosity and wisdom, John
Prendergast guides us on a transformational journey from head to
heart--and to the full and pure essence of love." --Tara Brach,
PhD, author of Radical Acceptance "With tender clarity, John
Prendergast draws us deeper on every page. A master teacher and
beautiful writer, he lays out a clear path to our true home, and
then walks it with us with practical heartfelt suggestions. This
book is profound, powerful, and true. What a gem." --Rick Hanson,
PhD, author of Buddha's Brain: The Practical Neuroscience of
Happiness, Love, and Wisdom and Hardwiring Happiness: The New Brain
Science of Contentment, Calm, and Confidence "The Deep Heart is a
beautifully written and masterful guidebook that eloquently shows
us how to recognize and embody our essential wholeness in everyday
life. Both profound and practical, this seminal work reveals the
road we all must travel to embody our potential as fully alive and
authentic human beings. A must-read!" --Richard Miller, PhD, author
of The iRest Program for Healing PTSD: A Proven-Effective Approach
to Using Yoga Nidra Meditation and Deep Relaxation Techniques to
Overcome Trauma; iRest Meditation: Restorative Practices for
Health, Resiliency, and Well-Being; and Yoga Nidra: A Meditative
Practice for Deep Relaxation and Healing "The Deep Heart is a
beautiful, wise, and practical guide to opening to our true nature,
guiding us toward waking up, as well as down and in. Integrating
and distilling wisdom teachings and his own insights and inner
explorations, John Prendergast has translated complex information
into a clear, accessible, and contemporary form. The meditations
and inquiries are wonderful invitations to explore the depths of
the heart for ourselves. I highly recommend The Deep Heart for
anyone who wishes to embody their true nature as loving awareness."
--Laurel Parnell, PhD, author of Rewiring the Addicted Brain with
EMDR-Based Treatment and Attachment-Focused EMDR: Healing
Relational Trauma "If, as you read this exquisite book, you feel
into the depths from which the author writes, you will find
yourself drawn into your own depths from which healing and wisdom
arise." --Roger Walsh, MD, PhD, professor of psychiatry,
philosophy, and anthropology, University of California at Irvine,
author of Essential Spirituality: The Seven Central Practices to
Awaken Heart and Mind "The Deep Heart leads us on a journey of
awakening from head to heart, where it becomes safe for the heart
to freely shine. This book is a deep dive into the heart of who we
really are. John Prendergast offers us beautiful words and unique
forms of meditative inquiry, so that we can directly experience the
Deep Heart, which is so needed in our world today." --Loch Kelly,
MDiv, LCSW, author of The Way of Effortless Mindfulness "This is a
wise, inspiring, beautifully written book. It points to our true
nature, and to the love, compassion and acceptance that naturally
arise in us when we experience who we really are. The deep love
that motivated the writing is present on every page and has the
gentle power to deepen and open the heart of the reader." --Judith
Blackstone, PhD, author of Belonging Here, Trauma and the Unbound
Body, and The Enlightenment Process "A book of great wisdom and
heart from an authentic and experienced teacher of Presence. John's
wise, loving, and deeply insightful words about meeting our raw
experience with honesty, courage, and grace will be of immense
benefit to people all over the world." --Jeff Foster, author of The
Way of Rest and The Joy of True Meditation "The Deep Heart carries
the taste and flavor of an author who has himself spent a lifetime
immersed in the Deep Heart where soul and spirit meet. This book is
a truly elegant and practical road map that seamlessly weaves soul
work into the timeless wisdom of spiritual practice." --Roger
Housden, author of the Ten Poems series, and Dropping the Struggle:
Seven Ways to Love the Life You Have "The Deep Heart is one of
those books that is more like a Friend or Guide that Sufi tradition
speaks of. While it is filled with deep clarity and insight, its
primary effect is not the conveying of information, but the
revelation of an inner landscape. This landscape is unique for each
of us, not one that we create, but that we attune to by way of our
own sensitivity. It is the Heart itself that is the organ of this
sensitivity, which John helps to awaken with his wise and skillful
invitation.
"Paragraph by paragraph, with empathy and kindness, John shares the
fruits of his decades-long exploration of the Heart and its
mysteries. By shining a light into the hidden and darkened places,
he offers us a guided tour of the Self in a way that is
contemporary, accessible, and practical.
"What is unique about John's writing is his ability to convey the
deepest realizations of the contemplative traditions while
remaining sensitive to the physical, energetic, and relational
dimensions of our human experience. Teachings on 'Presence' are
often taught from a narrow, limited viewpoint and 'from the neck
up.' But John reminds us that our bodies are alive with the divine
spark, that deep within the caverns of the Heart there is something
miraculous occurring.
"The Deep Heart is a warm, merciful invitation for each of us to
tend to this miracle and fully participate in it--in all of life's
glory and chaos--for the benefit of others as well as ourselves."
--Matt Licata, PhD, psychotherapist, teacher, and author of The
Path Is Everywhere: Uncovering the Jewels Hidden Within You and A
Healing Space: Befriending Ourselves in Difficult Times "The
spiritual journey does not end with awakening to the Infinite, but
begins a life lived more and more consciously from the loving and
immanent Presence that has awakened itself within. Writing with
exquisite clarity and compassion, John Prendergast explores these
two dimensions of the awakening process in his newest book, The
Deep Heart. His intimate knowledge of the human psyche through his
many years functioning as a gifted psychotherapist and educator
deeply informs his work and writing as a spiritual teacher.
"John writes from authentic experience of both the challenges of
being a conditioned human being and the freedom of simply Being.
Through numerous guided meditations and exercises, he invites the
reader to deeply inquire into the truth of experience, and to allow
the wounded heart to be touched and transformed by the Deep Heart
that is undivided and whole. John approaches with great sensitivity
the human experience through the single Eye that sees the
inseparability of the Heart of Awareness and its expressions as
life itself." --Dorothy Hunt, spiritual director of Moon Mountain
Sangha and author of Ending the Search: From Spiritual Ambition to
the Heart of Awareness "Psychotherapist and spiritual teacher John
Prendergast has devoted his life to exploring the intersection and
intermingling--indeed, the inherent inseparability--of the
psychological and spiritual dimensions of being. In this profound,
practical, and potentially life-changing meditation on the Heart in
all its subtlety and complexity, he guides us on the journey home
to our essential nature, with meditations and inquiry that lead us
into and through our trauma and pain to our deepest inner knowing.
If you read only one book on the spiritual journey this year, let
it be this one!" --Stephan Bodian, psychotherapist, spiritual
teacher, and author of Wake Up Now and Beyond Mindfulness
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