Meditation is not only the privilege of the far east, but also the lever of all wisdom. The East reminds us of this forgotten truth in the West, if we open it up with prudence and distinguishing, following the example of church fathers who at that time could accept all the wealth offered by the Greek world. Alphons and Rachel Goettmann offer today's people not only very specific initiations into the learning of desert fathers, but also a spiritual path. This ancient tradition of Christianity, which is still very topical today, invites us to a spiritual life whose source is the heart in the sense that gives this word the Bible, the center of being, inseparably spiritual and physical.

The book Initiation into Meditation ranks into the stream of the great ethical reversal of the twentieth and twenty -first century. The law can no longer be dictated from outside, speaks to us from the depths of man.


Mr and Mrs. Alphons and Rachel Goettmann led the ethhanii, the center of spiritual meeting in Eastern France near Metz, and released a quarterly Le Chemin (path). Father Alphons was an Orthodox priest. Together they wrote several books: prayer of Jesus - prayer of the heart, what transcends us is in us - dedicated to Christian meditation, dialogue on the path of initiation: introduction to life and thinking of Karlfried Count Dürckheim, joy: God's face in us. >