Part I, Holy Week 2021, Maundy Thursday. Absence mills around the body like a guard dog pacing the fence line. Rigidly keeping off the night creatures, jealously defending its property. […]
All of nature with its forms and creatures exist together and are interwoven with each other. They will be resolved back to their own proper origin, for the compositions of […]
We see that at Christ’s death the whole world entered upon a cosmic spring the harvest of which will be the remaking of our universes in newness and splendor. At […]
Take Off Your Shoesby Adwoa Lewis-Wilson Take off your shoes,In fact, remove all your coverings –The cloak of achievement, adornments of knowledge, Every false veil of ‘self’.For the place you […]
In stillness nailed to hold all time, all change, all circumstance in and to love’s embrace Beloved One, creation longs to be held in the great hands of your heart; […]
The following update was recently posted by friends at The Contemplative Society, and provides a great summary of my recent and upcoming activities. What’s new with our Principal Teacher Cynthia […]
Are you a good listener? I confess that I am not. In conversation I get excited and barge in with a comment; or I get distracted and forget what the […]
As we curate life from the food in our atmospheres… Earlier in Lent, I set the stage for one of the greatest rites of Jesus’ initiation—the Transfiguration—by mentioning the gospel […]
There are two other things you should know about Gebser’s “aperspectival” time: it is non-exclusionary, and it is purposive. Linear or perspectival time, the time we’re used to, is exclusionary. Its linear, unidirectional […]
Thanks to a prompt from Cynthia, I have been looking again at Gurdjieff’s notion of the horse, carriage, driver and Master. In fact, it appears that this metaphor is much […]