| | 'the cloud of unknowing', written anonymously in what is estimated to have been the 14th century in england, recommends a practice that is kind of a cross between 3 characteristics-style noting and a zen-ish 'know nothing' approach. instead of suffering characteristic, the author recommends using the momentary impulse to love god (or words to that effect) over and over as the object of relentless contemplation, as quickly as possible, day and night as long as the body is able to take it, to suspend all things of the world into a cloud of forgetting, and to penetrate, using that momentary impulse, into the cloud of unknowing.
not much of a map there but the author does discuss how piercing the veil between you and god is possible and will happen with enough practice and, if i remember correctly, a bit of grace. |