Part 1 Silent music: meditation - the meditation movement, the new science, brainwave and biofeedback, the science of mysticism; consciousness - initiation, the road to ecstasy, return to the market-place, a perilous journey; healing - meditation therapy and passive energy, the healing of the mind, the deeper healing, cosmic healing; intimacy - meditation and intimacy, mystical friendship, friendship the cosmic dimension; epilogue - convergence. Part 2 The wounded stag: the desert; Christian mysticism; Moses the mystic; presence and absence; conflict; covenant and conversion; Jesus mysticism; Eucharistic mysticism; mysticism and life; mysticism and poverty; mysticism and peace; the Irish conflict; the woman; epilogue.