Our Digital Archive
A new and exciting development for the Fellowship in 2023 is our Marian Dunlop Legacy Project - the beginnings of a complete digital archive of more than 900 meditation papers from 1938 to the present day. This is available not only to our members for their use but also via the internet as a searchable database.
Follow this link to see the beginnings of this archive.
Our Library
The Library of the Fellowship currently holds some 1000 titles. The core of the collection was Marian Dunlop’s personal library. This has been augmented by donations from members and a small number of titles are purchased each year.
The focus of the collection is on spirituality, religious experience and mysticism. It includes the experience and practice of other faiths.
The library is open to members at any time when Marian Dunlop House is open. Books are freely available on loan and may be requested by post. Non–members need to seek permission in advance and will be asked for a £25 deposit.
Recent Additions to the Library - January 2024
Title Author
Made for goodness Desmond and Mpho Tutu
Mastering Sadhana Carlos Valles
The Wounded Stag William Johnston Christian mysticism begins and ends with the mystery of the Cross and the mystery of God's Love. The Wounded Stag examines the Old and New Testaments, the Christian mystical tradition, the Eucharist and mystical prayer, and explains how these can lead to the resolution of the conflict within men's hearts. Without inner peace, we cannot hope for peace in our world. This is a book with a message for today.
Rough Ways in Prayer - How can I pray when I feel spiritually dead? Paul Wallis Sometimes the life of prayer is fulfilling and refreshing. Sometimes it seems dry and irrelevant. This is a book for anyone who is bored and disillusioned with prayer, but who longs to break out of the rut into a new way of being with God. Paul Wallis provides a lively and practical guide to these hard times, full of realistic suggestions for deeper ways of prayer.
Love Looks Deep W. Norman Pittenger The author, an American scholar, now of King's College, Cambridge, writes on the meaning of love in the Christian sense in the modern world. It is essential to man's wholeness to love and be loved. The nature of human love is only to be understood in the light of God's love for mankind. It is far deeper than the superficial equation with conventional standards of respectability which has at times been made. Sometimes love finds its expression in unusual guises. Dr. Pittenger is radical in his views, and in this he has much appeal to the younger generation; but he is by no means endorsing licence. He points out that the responsibilities, often sacrifices, which are entailed in loving are as radical as love itself. Interesting and challenging conclusions are drawn which will provide excellent material for study and discussion.
Truth of the Heart ~ An anthology of George Fox. Selected and annotated by Rex Ambler Rex Ambler's collection of passages from the writings of George Fox (1624 - 1691) is intended to make available his clearest and most profound writings from the whole range of his works, and to display them in such a way as to show the connections between them. It should therefore be possible, reading the text through, to gain a picture of Fox's whole vision. The anthology is presented in parallel with a translation into modern English, a glossary and a concluding essay 'Making sense of Fox'. This edition has some minor revisions.
A complete index of the Marian Dunlop Collection is available as a pdf, please click on this link to download.
See Publications for booklets and pamphlets based on the Fellowship’s method of meditation, available from the Office Manager, including stories of how lives have been changed through practising meditation.