Fully Alive

A book of John Main's talks, edited by Laurence Freeman and published in 2013 by Canterbury Press as Fully Alive: The Transforming Power of Prayer, and in the United States by Orbis Books in 2014 as Fully Alive: The Daily Path of Christian Meditation. Its publishers describe it as a previously unpublished book drawn from the talks Main gave to help people enter the experience of silence, to the groups who came to his monastery to learn meditation. A review in the Church Times describes it as bringing together twenty-four introductory talks to such weekly groups, and quotes Freeman calling it a demanding yet realistic call to see meditation, twice a day, as a spiritual discipline and asceticism for the present century. It is one of the posthumous volumes of his transcribed talks.