The Other Side of the Mountain: The End of the Journey, The Journals of Thomas Merton, Volume Seven: 1967-1968: 1967-68 - The Other Side of the Mountain: The End of the Journey v. 7 Book + PRICE WATCH * Amazon pricing is not included in price watch

The Other Side of the Mountain: The End of the Journey, The Journals of Thomas Merton, Volume Seven: 1967-1968: 1967-68 - The Other Side of the Mountain: The End of the Journey v. 7 Book

The Other Side of the Mountain is the seventh and final volume of Thomas Merton's journals, covering the last two years of his life. In this book, Merton finally makes peace with his ambivalent relationship to the Church: his civil rights and anti-nuclear work, his interest in Eastern spirituality, and his love for Catholic orthodoxy coalesce into a mature voice that avoids the frosty pieties to which he was often partial in his younger years. This volume takes its title from an entry made during his final travels in India and the Far East. In this entry, he relates a dream about gazing at the mountain Kanchenjunga: I heard a voice saying--or got the clear idea of: "There is another side to the mountain." ... There is another side of Kanchenjunga and of every mountain--the side that has never been photographed and turned into postcards. That is the only side worth seeing. The next month, Merton died from accidental electrocution in a hotel room in Bangkok. --Michael Joseph GrossRead More

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    With the election of a new Abbot at the Abbey of Gethsemani, Merton enters a period of unprecedented freedom, culminating in the opportunity to travel to California, Alaska, and finally the Far East - journeys that offer him new possibilities and causes for contemplation. In his last days at the Abbey of Gethsemani, Merton continues to follow the tumultuous events of the sixties, including the assassinations of Martin Luther King, Jr., and Robert Kennedy. In Southeast Asia, he meets the Dalai Lama and other Buddhist and Catholic monks and discovers a rare and rewarding kinship with each. The final year is full of excitement and great potential for Merton, making his accidental death in Bangkok, at the age of fifth-three, all the more tragic.

  • 0060654872
  • 9780060654870
  • Thomas Merton
  • 2 August 1999
  • HarperSanFrancisco
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 368
  • New edition
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