Chapter 10

Clues Unearthed During the Last Century by Scientists From Various Fields

Who Discerned the Larger Body Within which We Live..............................................................116


  1. • Some Outstanding 20th Century Explorers     116

  2. • A New Kind of Interiority for Human Beings    120

  3. • Growing into a New Habit Within Your Own

  4. •  Body’s Knowing     122

  5. • An Old Fashioned Lesson from a

        Pre-Digital Darkroom     124

  1. • Learning the Body-Language of Agápe     125

  2. • A Prayer Based on Ephesians 3: 14-19    130

  3. • Personal Notes     132


Chapter 11

Agápe in the Light of Carl Rogers’ Research............................................................................133


  1. • Ed’s Reflection on Experiencing Dr. Carl Rogers 133

  2. • Agápe Love as an Expanding Sense of Identity   136

  3. • Three Psychological Characteristics of Agápe    137

  4. • An Example of Companioning Presence    143

  5. • An Exercise You Can Often Return To    145

  6. • Personal Notes    146

Chapter 12

Exploring Agápe Love from Inside Your Body’s Knowing.......................................147


  1. • The Body-Life of Agápe Love    147

  2. • Helping Our Children Recognize God’s Presence as They Grow in the Gift of Agápe Love    148

  3. • Our Violent World Cries Out for an Experience of God-with-us in our Hurting Bodies    154

  4. • Another Pauline Prayer from Inside Your Body’s Knowing Based Upon Ephesians 1: 18-19 156

  5. • A Brief Reminder—An Exercise After Reading This Chapter    156

  6. • Personal  Notes     157


















Chapter 13

Loving God or Loving as God Loves?....................................................................159


  1. • A Special Little Boy    159

  2. • Things are not What They at First Appear to Be What Does it Really Mean—to be Human?    162

  3. • A Compelling Realization of Who You are “in Christ”    164

  4. • Christ’s New Commandment     167

  5. • One Woman’s Journey into Loving as God Loves    173

  6. • A Brief Reminder Exercise After Reading This Chapter    178

  7. •Personal Notes    179

















Chapter 14

What is Process-Skipping and How do

We Grow Beyond it into Loving as God Loves? ....................................................181


  1. • Pete’s Process-Skipping Story    181

  2. • Why Have We Placed Process-Skipping Toward the End of Our Programs?    185

  3. • Repairing the Relationship to Our Difficult Feelings    188

  4. • Deliberately Noticing Your Process-Skipping Patterns    190

  5. • Growing Beyond Process-Skipping—An Exercise    191

  6. • Personal Notes    196



Chapter 15

Paul’s Astonishing Discovery “in Christ”—

“When I am Weak Then I am Strong ...”  (2 Cor 12: 7-10) ....................................197


  1. • Opening a Door on “Inner Dwelling”     197

  2. • Puzzling Interactions   199

  3. • Paul’s Process-Skipping Experience    200

  4. • “... When I am Weak, Then I am Strong ...” (2 Cor. 12:7-10)     203

  5. • Five Questions that Will Help You Evaluate the Psychological Health

  6.   of Spiritual and Growth Practices     208

  7. •Personal Notes     211



Chapter 16

The Habit of Noticing and Nurturing Your Important Feelings “in Christ”

Enables You to Mature Beyond Addictive Spiritualities .........................................212


  1. • The Origins of Addiction in Spirituality     213

  2. • Areas of Addictive Behaviors     218

  3. • Some Characteristics of an Addictive use of Spirituality and Religion     220

  4. • The Road to Recovery     227

  5. • Beyond the Stumbling Block of Fear and Pain Lies Hope-Filled Paradox     229

  6. • A Closing Exercise     236

  7. • Personal Notes     237


















Chapter 17

Recovering the Lost Biology of Christian Spirituality .............................................239


  1. • Looking Back Over Your Body’s Journey into Finding God in All Things     239

  2. • Bringing Change to the Serious Systemic Problem of Process-Skipping

  3. —by Creating Small Groups of “Companions in Christ”     244

  4. •A Closing Exercise     250

  5. • Personal Notes     251



Afterword ...........................252


Notes ..................................255

  1. Rediscovering the

  2. Lost Body-Connection

  3. within Christian Spirituality

  4. by Edwin M. McMahon, Ph.D.

  5. and Peter A. Campbell, Ph.D.




  9. TABLE OF CONTENTS: Part Two

A Fourth Body-Learning

—  LIVING CHRIST’S NEW COMMANDMENT  —

OF LOVING AS GOD LOVES

Maturing into the Gift and Freedom of

Loving as God Loves Transforms Our

Self-Awareness of Who Christ Really is Today

and Who We are in Christ

A Fifth Body-Learning

—  PROCESS-SKIPPING  —

Growing Beyond Process-Skipping Habits

Which Lock In Addictive Patterns,

Blocking the Body-Feel of Grace and

The Experience of Living

Within the Larger Body “In Christ”

A Sixth Body-Learning

CREATING FAMILIES AND GROUPS

OF COMPANIONS IN CHRIST

—  AS CELLULAR MODELS FOR LIVING  —

CHRIST’S NEW COMMANDMENT

TO LOVE AS GOD LOVES

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