Meditations for InterSpiritual Wisdom: Practices and Readings Drawn from the World’s Spiritual Traditions is a collection of articles on meditation and prayer in different spiritual traditions as taught by authentic teachers of those traditions. In each article, the author gives context for a foundational practice of their tradition and follows it with instructions for carrying out this practice.  In addition to the practices in this volume are a carefully chosen selection of verses on different themes from the Buddhist, Christian, Hindu, Indigenous, Islamic, Jewish, and Taoist traditions.

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The book is edited by Netanel Miles-Yepez with contributions by Swami Atmarupananda, Dr. Edward W. Bastian, Ozer Bergman, Tessa Bielecki, Kenneth Cohen, Fr. David Denny, Four Arrows, Dr. John Allen Grimes, Camille Adams Helminski, Kabir Helminski, Zia Inayat-Khan, Muhammad Jamal al-Jerrahi, Yogi Nataraja Kallio, Dr. Michael Kearney, Fr. Thomas Keating, Jeff Roth, Zalman Schachter-Shalomi, Grace Alvarez Sesma, Dr. Judith Simmer-Brown, Dr. B. Alan Wallace.

Editor, Netanel Miles-Yepez describes the book in this way:

“The purpose of this particular volume is to provide the InterSpiritually inclined meditator with resources for further exploration. Whether they would like to take a second look at the practices of their own tradition, explore the practices of another tradition, or simply find what suits them best, or compare practices, I believe this book will have something that will be of use.

As a companion to Edward Bastian’s InterSpiritual Meditation, this volume has another, more specific purpose. Because the InterSpiritual Meditation process does not impose a specific meditation technique, but rather recommends the use of an appropriate technique of your own choosing, we felt it was necessary to gather a useful selection of meditative and contemplative practices from different traditions from which to choose. And as all seven steps in the process allow for the possibility of introducing a meditation or prayer practice of some kind, I have chosen at least three practices from each of the world’s major religious traditions.

Moreover, I have also included verses from these same traditions on seven meditation themes that parallel the seven steps of the InterSpiritual Meditation process. Most of these are taken from the scriptures of the world’s traditions, though some come from oral sources, and a few from later traditions.

Though some people may consider it a stretch to call all of the practices suggested in this book, ‘meditations,’ it was done for the sake of inclusivity, to broaden the narrow notion of meditation many people have today, and to deepen our understanding. Thus, we have prayer practices, discursive meditations or contemplations, and non-discursive, centering practices, all in the same book, and all considered meditations of one variety or another.

In this way, we hope to give the user a wide range of resources, and good idea of the way similar practices are uniquely nuanced in different spiritual traditions.”

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