2020 - Wisdom Waypoints

What Integral is Not: Exploring Jean Gebser, Lesson VII

Cynthia Bourgeault | December 29, 2020

Sometimes I wish we could all just declare a temporary moratorium on the term “Integral!!!” What Gebser intended when he chose that name for his emerging fifth structure of consciousness […]

The Future Coming Toward Us: A Conversation on Gebser with Cynthia Bourgeault and Marcella Kraybill-Greggo

Marcella Kraybill-Greggo | December 23, 2020

On Monday December 21, 2020 Cynthia Bourgeault sat down with Marcella Kraybill-Greggo on zoom to have a conversation about the work of Jean Gebser. This conversation came into being through […]

A blessed Christmas, one and all!

Wisdom Waypoints | December 22, 2020

Our wholeness is seen, known, and cherished. There is a fullness, a coherence, underlying all the seeming brokenness and randomness. Despair does not have the final word. On this festival […]

Points Along the Way: Wisdom Waypoints and The Echo of The Lord Have Mercy

Laura Ruth | December 17, 2020

The Jesus Prayer has been part of my practice for a number of years now, and recently it has taken a deeper dive into the body with the introduction of […]

Offering to The Earth

William Espinosa | December 16, 2020

In this post Bill Espinosa shares from the Wisdom Practice Circle in Virginia where they chose to read together a piece of Llewelyn Vaughan-Lee’s current writing and act upon his […]

The Mythic and Magic Structures: Exploring Jean Gebser, Lesson VI

Cynthia Bourgeault | December 11, 2020

I know that a number of you, in growing awareness of the of the blind spots and shadow elements in the mental structure of consciousness, have been casting a fond […]

The Deficient Mental Structure: Exploring Jean Gebser, Lesson V

Cynthia Bourgeault | December 6, 2020

Structures of consciousness have their own life cycles. When a new structure bursts definitively onto the stage of history, it is typically at its most vital and creative, filled with […]

The Perspectival Mainspring: Exploring Jean Gebser, Lesson IV

Cynthia Bourgeault | December 3, 2020

All structures of consciousness have at their center of gravity, a core value or “moral mainspring” around which all else is ordered. Often unstated and even unrecognized, it nonetheless establishes […]

Kindred Spirits: Listen to a Conversation Between Brother David Steindl-Rast and Dr. John England

Jennifer England | December 2, 2020

I discovered last year that Brother David Steindl-Rast, a spiritual mentor that I have long admired, and my father lived together in a tiny trailer near Boulder, Co in the […]

The View from the Periscope: Exploring Jean Gebser, Lesson III

Cynthia Bourgeault | November 27, 2020

Gebser’s brilliant unpacking of the structures of consciousness in terms of PERSPECTIVE (as it is understood in the art world rather than in philosophy) gives us a powerful new visual […]