Your Deepest Ground
A guide to connecting with your deepest ground―a rootedness that supports authentic psychological healing and embodied spirituality
AVAILABLE MARCH 11, 2025
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Your Deepest Ground
A Guide to Embodied Spirituality
We all have a subtle yet profound pull to live more from our hearts—our center of love, compassion, gratitude, freedom, and silent wisdom—and less from our heads, the primary source of our critical judgments and core limiting beliefs. Yet to live a truly heart-centered life, we must feel safe. As a result, to live from the heart in a deep and steady way, we must take the time to discover our deepest ground.
I have been exploring the relationship between the heart and the ground for decades, both as a depth psychotherapist, now retired, and as a spiritual teacher. I once thought I could write a single book about both, but I found that the richness of each subject deserved books of their own. I’ve devoted chapters to the theme of the ground in my previous books In Touch and The Deep Heart, but here I’ve taken the space to fully unpack this critically important subject.
Adyashanti, author of Falling Into Grace
“Your Deepest Ground is a book of wise and subtle guidance through the intricate process of embodying our greatest spiritual insights and transformations.”
Tara Brach, author of Radical Acceptance and Radical Compassion
“This beautiful and deeply insightful work invites us to reconnect with our true ground—a place of inner stability and peace that lies beyond fear. Drawing on decades of experience as both a psychotherapist and spiritual teacher, John Prendergast offers practical wisdom for connecting with a deep, unshakable sense of well-being. This book is a gift—a tender companion for those who wish to live with an open heart and find freedom in the simple, steady presence of being.”
Loch Kelly, M.Div, LCSW, author of Shift into Freedom
“In this pioneering book, John Prendergast brings us a lifetime of exploration, teaching and insights into how to heal suffering at its root. Your Deepest Ground offers a beautifully written and masterful guidebook that provides us with a clear, contemporary, and exquisitely practical path of nondual wisdom and psychology for embodying our innate wholeness in our daily lives. The unique addition is the bringing together not just of the mind and heart but also connecting to our gut and the ‘the ground beneath our body.’ If this intrigues you, read this book and enjoy the true gems that will enrich your life.”
Roger Housden, author of Dropping the Struggle
“This book is both a lyrical and a knowing guide into the foundational mystery of who we are, the ground of being beyond any identity—lyrical because of Prendergast's intimate, personal voice, knowing and wise in its crystal clarity. The combination makes it a profound pleasure to read, and gives a direct contact with the author's own insight rather than with any particular dogma.”
Stephan Bodian, author of Wake Up Now and Beyond Mindfulness
“Most teachers of nondual wisdom in the West these days point directly to awakened awareness but neglect to offer guidance on the lifelong journey of embodying this awareness in everyday life. Your Deepest Ground points in the other direction: down from the transcendent through the deeper dimensions of our being and ultimately to the groundless ground of connectedness and stability that make spiritual awakening possible. As both a seasoned psychotherapist and a spiritual teacher, the author has the expertise and experience to lead you on this essential journey, and his ground-breaking new book is a practical, accessible guidebook for the path.”
Lama Palden, author of Love on Every Breath
“Your Deepest Ground is a profound exploration of the connection between spirituality and the physical body. Drawing on decades of experience as a psychotherapist and spiritual teacher, Prendergast emphasizes the importance of grounding the spiritual path in our lived, bodily experience. He invites readers to tune into the wisdom of the body as a gateway to deeper awareness and awakening. He explains grounding in the body and on the earth, as well as in the groundless ground, the vast empty expanse of pure being. This book is important for anyone on the spiritual path.”
Judith Blackstone, author of The Fullness of the Ground
“This is a clear, beautifully written guide to the ground in its many meanings, as our connection to our lower body and to the earth, as our sense of personal safety, and as the boundless spaciousness that encompasses and illuminates our whole being. At the vanguard of both psychological and spiritual understanding, John offers the mature insight of a life dedicated to realizing and teaching the deepest ground. His writing is infused on every page with his deep compassion as a healer, and his integrity and wisdom as a spiritual teacher. Highly recommended!”
Ken Bradford, PhD, author of Opening Yourself
“Once again, John masterfully introduces an integrative view of ‘inner work’ and poses several fertile self-inquiry questions as forms of practice. Questions that can both open one to the deeply personal, often hidden holdings of one’s fabricated self-ground as well as inquiries that open to the inconceivable, unfabricated ground of being. Which is to say, openness—groundlessness—as such. For those seeking a deeper release of sticky emotional reaction habits and access to the wonderful freedom and ease of embodied groundlessness, this book presents a well-seasoned, easy-access psycho-spiritual approach I whole-heartedly commend.”
Dorothy Hunt, author of Ending the Search
“You are holding in your hands a book that can open your heart, unearth the psychological veils that may seem to obscure your deepest knowing, and invite your attention to drop into different dimensions of the ground. Though the deepest Ground is a timeless mystery that cannot be known by thought, John invites us, through various meditative inquiries, to open to however this mystery may reveal itself experientially. Your Deepest Ground is a beautiful companion to John’s earlier books, In Touch, and The Deep Heart.”
Matt Licata, PhD, author of A Healing Space
“In his new work, Your Deepest Ground, John Prendergast invites readers into a multilayered, living experience of what it means to be a full human being. In a contemporary spiritual landscape that can too easily become scattered and surface-level, Prendergast opens a portal into depth and the inner chambers of the heart. From the basic ground of safety and somatic sensitivity, and all the way through to the liberating majesty of nondual Unity consciousness, his guidebook serves as a wise mentor and loving companion into the mysteries of the sacred world. Enter its inner courtyard and you will find a jewel awaiting you, the radiance of your own Being.”
Richard Miller, PhD, author of Yoga Nidra
“This is not just a book—it's an experiential guide that encourages us to touch our deepest fears and transform them into sources of enduring strength. John’s approach weaves together depth psychology, spiritual insight, and a lifetime of personal experience. His reflections on the ‘ground’ offer a compelling reminder of how deeply we need to connect with our core to live with authenticity and love. This book is a beautiful, insightful companion for anyone seeking to live from a place of profound inner security, resilience, and well-being. I find John’s work timely, refreshing, and deeply resonant. Your Deepest Ground is a gift for all those who are ready to delve into and awaken to the mystery of their true inner ground and foundation.”
Peter Russell, author of Letting Go of Nothingand From Science to God
“Compassionate and wise. Profound yet clear. From the lofty heights of the transcendental self, to the deep ground of our bodily being and the tensions we hold there, John Prendergast brings together a lifetime’s exploration into the human psyche in a very approachable, down-to-earth style. Best book on the subject I have ever seen. Definitely a keeper. And essential reading for anyone seeking to awaken to their true nature.”
Roger Walsh, MD PhD, professor of psychiatry, University of California, and cohost of the podcast, Deep Transformation
“This beautiful book comes from and gently invites us into the depths of our humanity, from which flow the healing, well-being, and awakening we have always longed for. John Prendergast lives in these depths, and is a master guide to them and their riches.”
James Baraz, co-founder of Spirit Rock Meditation Center, co-author of Awakening Joy
“Your Deepest Ground takes the reader on a profound journey through all levels of awakening. John Prendergast shows us the way to an ever-deepening connection starting with embodiment, then to the deepest dimensions of human consciousness and, ultimately, to discover who we really are beyond all form. It’s an ambitious undertaking presented effectively by the perfect guide. Prendergast is a master therapist and respected spiritual teacher who shows us a road to genuine freedom.”
Caverly Morgan, author of A Kids Book About Mindfulness and The Heart of Who We Are