Courses from the Wisdom Community
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Available for Purchase:
Online Courses and Learning with Cynthia Bourgeault
As Cynthia’s homebase community, Wisdom Waypoints is delighted to present our own learning opportunities. Find course listings with full details below, and watch for more learning opportunities with Cynthia coming from Wisdom Waypoints soon…
Courses for Purchase from Wisdom Waypoints:
The Wisdom Jesus Encounters Our Disordered World
This free course offering includes presentations, readings and discussions based on books by Cynthia Bourgeault and Richard Rohr The Word and Life team has chosen Cynthia Bourgeault’s The Wisdom Jesus –teaching the way of the heart as the transformer of human consciousness – to be the primary guidebook that will lead us on our pilgrimage…
A Journey Through Holy Week: The Passion Libretto
This is a Six Day free Holy Week offering on the Passion Libretto from Cynthia and Wisdom Waypoints. The idea to offer this gift to the Wisdom network came into being after an inquiry for leads on a Passion Libretto that Cynthia put together back in 2004. It was for a new choral piece, an original Holy Week…
The Mystery of Death: A Holy Isle Wisdom School with Cynthia Bourgeault
If you’re looking for an alternative pathway through Lent, Wisdom Waypoints is pleased to announce the release of THE MYSTERY OF DEATH, Cynthia’s teaching on Ladislaus Boros’s profound mystical text, recorded live in June 2022 on Holy Isle, in the Scottish Hebrides, and offering new windows into the teaching not aired before. The course includes over…
Integral Light Shining in the Dark: An Advent Teaching and Wisdom Retreat
In this groundbreaking teaching Cynthia Bourgeault draws on Jean Gebser’s Integral Evolutionary theory and practical exercises developed by G. I Gurdjieff to illuminate classic Advent themes. This offering includes over 15 hours of audio recordings as well as optional participation in four live, facilitated online sessions for group interactive discussion and practice. See full description…
Rebuilding Trust: Video Teaching by Cynthia Bourgeault
Rebuilding Trust includes over 10 hours of video teachings by Cynthia Bourgeault and supporting teacher Matthew Wright. Together they provide an illuminating, expansive approach to both encounter and generate trust, as an essential substance and offering, so needed in our world today.
Building Second Body: A Teaching Series with Cynthia Bourgeault
The recordings provided here were filmed live at a small Wisdom gathering in Stonington Maine in June 2022. This new teaching series has been curated from a selection of those recorded sessions, offering a unique and practical set of instructions for developing the spiritual substances and conscious presence so needed in our world today. The…
Other Online Courses with Cynthia Bourgeault
The Wisdom Way of Knowing hosts Cynthia’s Imaginal Wisdom School E-course, accompanying and expanding Cynthia’s groundbreaking book Eye of the Heart. This course, filmed live at the pilot Imaginal Wisdom School in North Carolina, August 2020, was carefully edited and produced by longtime collaborator Robbin Brent and is suitable for either individual or group use with a flexible starting date.
The Center for Action and Contemplation has produced three online courses: An Introductory Wisdom School, and its follow-up Wisdom course called “The Divine Exchange.” It also offers Cynthia’s highly popular course of Mary Magdalene: Apostle to Our Own Times. These courses are fully interactive and have set starting dates and registration periods. You’ll see the full details at Center for Action and Contemplation.
Spirituality and Practice has developed numerous e-courses featuring Cynthia’s work. Self-paced email lessons include written reflections, audio or video recordings, and contemplative practices. Learn more about the following courses at Spirituality and Practice, or by clicking on the specific item in the listing below.
In Shambhala Publication’s online course, The Way of the Wisdom Jesus, Cynthia shares Jesus’ teaching through the lens of nonduality and letting go. The course includes videos, readings, and downloadable PDFs.
Contemplative Life offered an updated version of Cynthia’s teaching on the Four Voices of Contemplative Discernment in January 2022. If you would like to be notified of future offerings of this eCourse you can sign up on the bottom of this page.
Online Learning from Wisdom Way of Knowing:
Imaginal Wisdom School with Cynthia Bourgeault
This eCourse includes over 40 sessions filmed live during a five-day Imaginal Wisdom School with Cynthia Bourgeault at the Valle Crucis Conference Center in North Carolina August 16-21, 2020.
Online Learning from CAC:
The Divine Exchange Wisdom School: 14-week online course by Cynthia offered by the Center for Action and Contemplation
This course is a continuation of Cynthia’s Introductory Wisdom School, delving deeply into the principle of exchange (“giving-is-receiving”), the spiritual foundation of The Christian Wisdom tradition. Cynthia Bourgeault is a long-time student of the Christian contemplative and Wisdom paths and is a core faculty member of the CAC and Living School. Christian Wisdom teachings have…
Mary Magdalene: Apostle to Our Own Times
Discover one of the most misunderstood and forgotten characters in the Gospels. Mary Magdalene is possibly one of the most misunderstood and forgotten characters in the Gospels. Who was this woman who earned the title “Apostle to the Apostles”? While history has often portrayed Mary Magdalene—incorrectly—as a prostitute, there is much to discover about this…
Introductory Wisdom School: A 14-week online course by Cynthia offered by Center for Action and Contemplation
This e-course includes 30 sessions filmed live during a five-day Wisdom School with Cynthia Bourgeault in North Carolina in November 2015. Cynthia Bourgeault is a long-time student of the Christian contemplative and Wisdom paths and is a core faculty member of the CAC and Living School. Christian Wisdom teachings have been around since the earliest…
Online Learning from Spirituality and Practice:
A Simple Immediacy: Desert Wisdom for Advent
Teachings from the Desert Fathers and Mothers on classic Advent themes.
Becoming Truly Human: Gurdjieff’s Obligolnian Strivings
A study of George Ivanovich Gurdjieff’s Five Strivings.
Centering Prayer with Cynthia Bourgeault
Learn this no-frills form of Christian meditation from one of its most potent teachers.
Coping and Thriving with Catastrophe
A benefit e-course about recovery from disaster given by six pioneers of InterSpirituality.
InterSpiritual Wisdom
Rare opportunity to learn from six pioneers of InterSpirituality.
Mystical Hope Today: An Online Lenten Deep Dive with Cynthia Bourgeault
While the course is anchored in the original Mystical Hope book, it is not simply a rehash of that book. It combines the best moments in the original book with the growth that has unfolded in Cynthia over the years with the circumstances in which we now find ourselves personally and planetarily. It is a…
Spiritual Gifts from the Imaginal Realm: Lenten e-Course with Cynthia
Cynthia explores the gifts of the imaginal realm that can help us adopt a larger perspective and make a difference today using the cosmic assistance available to us all. She introduces the teachings in her latest book, Eye of the Heart: A Spiritual Journey into the Imaginal Realm.
Spiritual Practices from the Gurdjieff Work with Cynthia Bourgeault
Plunges you right into the heart of these transformative practices.
The Gospel of Thomas for Advent with Cynthia Bourgeault
A way to prepare our hearts for a truly blessed Christmas.
The Gospel of Thomas with Cynthia Bourgeault
A complete “Thomas starter kit”: everything you need to know to get you up and running with this remarkable text.
The Mystery of Death – Spirituality & Practice Course with Cynthia Bourgeault
An introduction to a little known contemporary mystical gem, The Mystery of Death by Hungarian-born Jesuit theologian Ladislaus Boros, which has been a mainstay of Cynthia’s own spiritual work for more than forty years. She teaches against the backdrop of our own point in history, “where death has weighed so heavily on people’s hearts these…
The Wisdom Jesus with Cynthia Bourgeault
Presenting this universal cultural treasure whose extraordinary teachings and heart exemplify the highest consciousness.
Thomas Keating’s The Secret Embrace
A brand new course focusing on the eight poems in Thomas Keating’s ‘The Secret Embrace’, his final spiritual legacy to the world composed the last winter of his life.
Online Learning from Shambhala:
The Way of Wisdom Jesus
Going beyond the mind to the heart of Jesus’ teaching. Cynthia shares Jesus’ teaching through the lens of nonduality and letting go. The course includes videos, readings, and downloadable PDFs. If you put aside what you think you know about Jesus and approach the Gospels as though for the first time, something remarkable happens: Jesus…