Intimacy and the Hungers of the Heart maintains this we can be no closer to God than we are to our true selves, to other people, and to the created world about us. Using the best insights of modern psychology, science and spirituality, it explores how contemporary Christians can move from alienation to a sense of intimate connection with the whole of created reality. Part one shows how to be intimate with oneself by means of growing self-awareness. Part two describes how one can be intimate with nature and other people by means of honest self disclosure and loving attention. Part three shows how the first two forms of intimacy can lead to an intimate relationship with the Mysterious Other who is 'published and made known' as the Beyond in the midst of our everyday lives.