It is often from the depths of desperation, from a sense of abject isolation, that we beg to know how to pray. How can we truly contact god, the power behind this world that we inhabit, but do not understand? Joel goldsmith explains what prayer is, how topractice it, and how the true understanding of prayer will shift our experience. All prayer, he asserts, is a preparation to receive and to recognize the grace of god, the power and fulfillment of the divine that is already within us.