The Other Side of Silence: A Guide to Christian Meditation

This updated book by Morton Kelsey is easy to read and well documented. It is geared to anyone who is starting to develop their spiritual journey. Rather than include only a single method of meditation, the author speaks of the various methods available. He is careful to indicate that each person has a method which is best suited to them. It is a book which one will turn to time and again as they mature in their spiritual journey. It is an excellent book for spiritual advisers as well as for spiritual seekers.

Good author and comprehensive book on meditation, separated into five distinct parts.

This book really changed my focus in life. It satisfied the craving that I had as a Christian for a deeper understanding of my relationship with God. I think that many Christians shy away from the unknown, like meditation and yoga, and as a result, cut out an essential part of our sprituality. Kelsey explains that this is why so many people today are turning to Eastern religions. Through this book, I found a way to incorporate silence and meditation into my life, and as a result, have found a deep peace, the peace that passes all understanding.

I was first introduced to Morton Kelsey and his wonderful books in 1975. All of his books have come at a time when I was looking for confirmation of my lived experiences, expecially the inner life. What a blessing to have this author give of himself in this way. I will be eternally grateful for his passion for the spiritual. In his book The Other Side, one very important point has stayed with me all these years and that would be the focus on dreams. Morton Kelsey does justice to dreams in the christian life when so many other christian authors avoid this means of communicating with God. Morton Kelsey explains that dreams are the safest and least threatening way to visit the other side. God only goes where he is wanted, He will not intrude. MT 7:7 "Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you.