David M Odorisio Saturday December 710 – noon, 2 – 4 pm Throughout the final year of his life, Trappist monk and celebrated spiritual author, Thomas Merton (1915-1968), wrote and spoke of a “universal consciousness” as one possible goal of the spiritual life. Following the influence of Sufi psychoanalyst, Reza Arasteh, and his notion of … Continue reading Going “Beyond God”: Thomas Merton’s Universal Vision