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Pandemic at Pentecost (letter from Cynthia)

Cynthia Bourgeault | June 1, 2020

Okay, y’all, God help me, here goes…Please note I am not speaking ex cathedra here, from my post as a Wisdom leader, but as a fellow human being speaking my own truth…

The Meeting of Christian and Taoist Wisdom

Allen Bourque | May 25, 2020

In May of 2020, Allen Bourque spoke with Laura Ruth on behalf of the Northeast Wisdom website, to talk about how his three decades of work in the Taoist tradition […]

Going Forward: Time, Tides, Benedict & Zoom

Cynthia Bourgeault | May 3, 2020

For most of March and April, as many of you know, I have been hanging out here on the edge of the known universe on Eagle Island, taking the time […]

“Atmosphere”: Commentaries on Elements of the Exercises Part IV

Cynthia Bourgeault | April 27, 2020

“Keep within! And when they say, ‘Look here’ or ‘look there is Christ,’ go not forth….” This beautiful gem of Quaker wisdom, set to music by Paulette Meier and well […]

Surrendering to the Flow of Grief and Love

Sue Houston | April 25, 2020

I am currently a participant in Bill Redfield’s virtual Easter Retreat and Practicum. Besides deeply appreciating all of Bill’s online offerings, I would like to draw the Wisdom community’s particular […]

Raised Cyber-Eyebrows: More on Internet Technology and the Pandemic Homework

Cynthia Bourgeault | April 1, 2020

As I expected, I am receiving plenty of raised cyber-eyebrows about the third instruction in Pandemic Homework to: radically decrease or discontinue altogether your use of internet technology to support […]

Living Waters and COVID-19

Paula Pryce | March 24, 2020

This blog was adapted from a sermon given at Christ Church Cathedral in Vancouver, BC, Canada on March 15, 2020, the Third Sunday in Lent. It drew from Exodus 17:1-7 […]

From the Eagle’s Nest…. (the background to the instructions)

Cynthia Bourgeault | March 24, 2020

This post follows quickly on the heels of “Pandemic Homework”, Cynthia’s previous post and her own “recommendation for inner work during this time of profound planetary readjustment.” It is the […]

Pandemic Homework

Cynthia Bourgeault | March 23, 2020

Dear Wisdom friends: Here is my own recommendation for inner work during this time of profound planetary readjustment. I will send you a fuller explanation as soon as I can, […]

Thoughts on Attention for 2020 and the Wisdom Trail

William Espinosa | February 7, 2020

In December I travelled to the Claymont Society for Continuous Education—the West Virginia home of a community based on the teachings of G.I. Gurdjieff—for Cynthia’s week-long retreat “Mr. Gurdjieff, Meet […]