Kim Nataraja has been a contemplative since her youth and joined The World Community for Christian Meditation in 1993. In 1998 she became a Benedictine Oblate to the Community. From 1999 to 2016, Kim was director of The World Community for Christian Meditation School of Meditation.
Kim is a trained Spiritual Director and has held a variety of meditation days/weekends and retreats in the UK, Europe, the US, Canada and Singapore. Her particular interests are those inspiring figures from the Christian spiritual tradition, who guide us in the contemplative life, and the ways in which psychological insights can aid our progress. Kim is a retired College Lecturer and former Head of Department of Modern Languages.
Meditation leads to contemplative prayer by the faithful repetition of a prayer phrase or ‘mantra’ as John Main called it.  John Main rediscovered this way of prayer in the writings of the early Christians, the Desert Fathers and Mothers, who in the fourth century C.E. retired to the desert of Egypt to live an authentic Christian life based on the teaching of Jesus.
The Gospel of Thomas emphasizes that to see reality as it is, we need to let go off the unpurified aspect of the ‘ego’, the disordered drives/desires that are a product of our survival needs, upbringing and environment.
The Gospel of Thomas starts with the saying: “And he said, “Whoever discovers the interpretation of these sayings will not taste death.
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