Cynthia Bourgeault offers an overview of the Welcoming Practice, a powerful companion to Centering Prayer when encountering strong or disturbing emotions.
Learn what made Mary Magdalene one of Jesus’ most important and beloved disciples. Discover her legacy as an apostle to our times—revealing a path of conscious love that we too are invited to walk.
“One might say, then, that contemplation happens when interior silence morphs into presence.” – Thomas Keating, From the Mind to the Heart In this Silent...
This teaching retreat is aimed at mature contemplatives of all spiritual pathways who are deeply concerned about the global crisis (cultural, ecological) imperiling our continued human existence on the planet and who wish to deepen their capacity to bring “skillful means” to the situation: forbearance, strength, compassion, right timing, spiritual generativity, and personal mettle.
This will be the usual fall gathering of the core group that has been working together at Claymont for the past three years. The theme will be “The Care and Nurture of Second Body,” and the work will have its usual Gurdjieffian flavor, featuring conscious labor, intentional suffering, movements, Gurdjieff exercises, plus a deeper dive into the Building Kesdjan body.
Hosted by the World Community for Christian Meditation at the Abbey of Bonnevaux, France September 11-14: Why Practice Does Not Make Perfect – Pre-Seminar Meditation...