Overview of Richard Foster's Contemplative prayer

Imagination has many uses but one that it should not be used in is prayer or making contact with the Spirit, or to enter the spirit realm.

Foster teaches we go within and uses numerous methods to have us enter the spirit realm which he calls the Spirit within us. He thinks it is contained in everyone. He recommends many practices used in Roman Catholicism. Foster recommends Carl Jung, who had and listened to demonic spirit guides and based his psychological concepts on.

He recommends imagination being used to enter a place of silence- which is the Spirit, visualization is also used, as he learned from Agnes Sanford's unbiblical explanations. The same concepts and terminology are used in his writings.

His concepts and practices carry Bible words and terms but are changed from their Bible meanings, reinterpret to be more akin to the occult and new age.

 Those who were once practitioners of the Occult or involved in the New age movement will immediately recognize Foster's  practices regardless of him applying biblical terminology to persuade the reader or potential practioner.