Description: This chapter is a blow-by-blow description and exploration of the two sets of rules for discernment found in the Spiritual Exercises using contemporary examples. These examples also offer cautions about the possibility that the movements may also have psychological roots that need to be explored. The point of the latter is that every movement may be brought to prayer for greater healing an clarity.
Orientation I (First Set)
Orientation II (Second Set)
Consolation
Desolation
Change
Doing What We Can (Go-Against)
Hope and Surrender
Negotiating Desolation with Patience
Desolation as Stuckness
Savor Consolation
Consolation and Surrender
Setting Boundaries on Interior Bullies
Sssecrets
Ssseducer
Self-Knowledge and Achilles Heel
Anatomy of a Movement
Conscience
Pure Inspiration
Discerning True Consolation
“Angel of Light”
Train of Thought
Catch a Thought by Its Tail
The Sound of Water
Afterglow
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