Living a number of years as a Trappist monk, George Fowler admits that practicing meditation the way he was "taught" by the Catholic church never worked for him. It wasn't until he began comparing other religious thought that he found the basis of meditation that finally made a difference.
That difference had less to do with meditation itself and more to do with a theology based in the principle that we are all a part of God and that God is not an autocrat living in the sky separate from us. Through meditation, he determined, we can achieve the blissful realization that we are all part of the whole of the universe, and we can commune properly with Divine energy when we are silent and fully present in any given moment.
The school of thought purported here mirrors much that is found in books by new age gurus like Neale Donald Walsh, Marianne Williamson, and Deepak Chopra. What makes Fowler's book unique is his own experience juxtaposed against the rhetoric of his monastic life.
Once you have a proper understanding of why you should meditate, Fowler emphatically says there are no rules, freeing the reader to discover how to dance to the beat of his own drum.