Page |117 are clear that some kind of practice Some people experience God speaking effects can be seen. directly to them in an easy relationship. Conclusion Others do not. P 5 5 a rayer is basically training in As aresult of my involvement absorption, at least the kind of prayer in with the Templeton group, I decided to which the person praying focuses carry out some quantitative and inwardly and disattends to the everyday experimental work to see whether we world in order to engage with God. It could figure out the differences between would be hard to over-estimate the those who found it easy to do this work, importance placed on prayer and prayer and those for whom it was difficult. That experience in a church like this and work suggests that there is a indeed, in Christian America today. psychological capacity that makes the Many of the best-selling Christian books process of knowing this kind of God are books on prayer technique, and they easier, though its absence does not sell in the millions. Such books often prevent religious experience, and its begin by presenting the concrete sensory presence does not predict it. It is the experience of God described in the capacity for absorption, which is at the Hebrew Bible as the everyday heart of imagination. Absorption is the relationship for which the ordinary capacity to focus one’s attention on a believer should strive. In these manuals, non-instrumental (and often internal) the act of praying is understood as a skill object while disattending to everyday that has to be deliberately learned. I exterior surrounds. Absorption is related discovered that these evangelical to hypnosis and dissociation, but not congregants assumed that prayer was a identical to either. All of us go into light skill which had to be taught, that it was absorption states when we settle into a hard, that not everyone was good at it, book and let the story carry us away. and that those who were naturally good There are no known physiological