William C. Menninger

Dr. Raynes learns of the secretary's suicide attempts from Lovell and Eberstadt, but refuses to see or examine their friend, insisting that he cannot until the family psychiatrist of record arrives.

Dr. Raynes has already learned that Forrestal's wife and/or his brother Henry have chosen the renowned Dr. William C. Menninger.

Regrettably, Dr. Menninger will not be arriving until the following day, and Raynes feels duty-bound to wait until the famous clinician is present.

Lovett can only lock his guest in a bedroom for the night after cleaning out its medicine cabinet.

Yeah.

But she, but I learned from that, of learning Bible verses, that y- you know how Father Thomas Keating and William Menninger and Basil Pennington started doing in the '70s the centering prayer, and they were, you know, consulting with TM experts and practitioners?

Yeah, they, I think-

Right

Yeah.

Right.

I know 'cause William Menninger and I, we used to email each other at the end of his life, which was really a, a gift to me.

But And he sent me a card he made out of flowers once, but it was ...

They formally documented it, yes.

Colonel William Menninger noticed that certain soldiers were resisting orders, but not through open court martial worthy defiance.

How were they resisting?

They were resisting through intentional inefficiency, chronic procrastination, sulking, and feigned misunderstanding.

And to gnaw on.

And that is, I think, one of the things that William Menninger, he and I emailed the last few years of his life, Father William Menninger, the Trappist monk, who was part of the beginning of Centering Prayer, along with Father Thomas Keating and others.

He said every time they taught Centering Prayer, they would always teach Lectio Divina first.

And the Cloud of Unknowing author says the basic exercise for contemplation is Lectio Divina.