2019 – Wisdom Waypoints

Contemplating Threeness

Bill Britten | December 18, 2019

Three Wisdom retreats in six weeks. The first was Teilhard and Gurdjieff in Conversation at Claymont, followed by a six-day silent Centering Prayer retreat in Hartford, and then back to […]

An Extraordinary Dialogue: Mr. Gurdjieff Meet Mr. Teilhard! Claymont Wisdom School

Marcella Kraybill-Greggo | December 18, 2019

…To be “a bit braver in the next hour…” ~ G.I.Gurdjieff At the Claymont Society for Continuous Education, in Charles Town W Va, October 28 through November 3, 2019, an […]

God’s Arms Wrapped Around Me: On Retreat With Thomas Keating’s Poems

Sharon Kowatch | November 22, 2019

Presence. Sadness. As I was gathering my belongings to make the trip back home at the end of the retreat “Reclaiming the Mystical Heart of Christianity: How Centering Prayer Can […]

Rounding Five Years: Northeast Wisdom is Coming of Age

Cynthia Bourgeault | November 20, 2019

Dear Wisdom Friends, As many of you know, one of my longstanding priorities has been to encourage a creative and empowered next generation of Wisdom teachers. A lineage only survives […]

Crafting a Virtual Retreat: Transacting in Community Online

Bill Redfield | November 11, 2019

How I have come to use this methodology? What might it offer to you? “The Consent of Advent,” a virtual Advent retreat, will begin on Sunday December 1 and continue […]

The Way of the Heart: An Interspiritual Exploration

Matthew Wright | November 2, 2019

Last November, nearly a year ago now, a large number of us gathered at the Garrison Institute in Garrison, NY to participate in Cynthia Bourgeault’s retreat on Centering Prayer and […]

Wisdom at the Thompson Cottage: Maine, September 2019

Bill Britten | October 25, 2019

This past September Sarah and I planned a contemplative retreat for our two-week stay at a cottage in Maine. This was an experiment, to see if we could use recordings […]

Bearing a Contemplative Homelessness

Joshua Tysinger | September 17, 2019

For Wisdom: this is an experiential piece I penned on what I refer to as the phenomenon of “contemplative homelessness.” As a longtime social justice advocate, I remain highly cognizant […]

Thomas Keating: An Interspiritual Celebration ~ and Online Public Video Archive

Cynthia Bourgeault | September 12, 2019

With extraordinary joy and gratitude I offer these words of welcome to the wonderful feast now laid before you: the complete video archive of our groundbreaking Thomas Keating interspiritual celebration, […]

With the Desert Fathers and Mothers: A Wisdom School Sung in Three Voices

Jo Taylor | August 28, 2019

What follows is an article on the Desert Fathers and Mothers retreat that Cynthia Bourgeault led in Tucson Arizona in the winter of 2018. Beautifully crafted by Jo Taylor for […]