Our Eastertide Wisdom Community Practice Half Day was hosted by Wisdom Waypoints and recorded live via Zoom on April 6, 2024.
Our thanks and appreciation to all who participated in and contributed to this event. A special thanks to our event co-facilitators, Heather Ruce and Jeanine Siler Jones, as well as Henry Schoenfield for leading us in chant and Tom Amsberry for Zoom assistance.
And deepest gratitude to our teacher, Cynthia Bourgeault, for offering us a Wisdom Eastertide teaching.
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The gathering began with three centered practices of simple gestures, silence, chanting with Henry Schoenfield, and a Gurdjieff Exercise. After Cynthia’s teaching, we concluded with a Gospel of Thomas Lectio Divinia, community sharing, a few more closing practices, and a final blessing.
Resources from our time together are shared below the video.
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Practice Day Resources
Gurdjieff Music: Bokharian Dervish & Easter Song
Body Prayer by Heather Ruce: A video of the prayer can be found here. Here I am, as I am Holy, Human In this world, as it is Sacred, Profane Ever connected, in this wondrous luminous web Ever abiding, in the Heart of God
Chants by Henry Schoenfield I am the resurrection. I am the life. You are the source of life and the radiance that shines in all Be right here in the heart of God
Lectio Divina from the Gospel of Thomas Yeshua says… If your spiritual guides say to you, “Look, the Divine Realm is in the sky,” well then the birds will get there ahead of you. If they say, “It is in the sea,” then the fish will precede you. No, divine Reality exists inside and all around you. Only when you have come to know your true Self will you be fully known—realizing at last that you are a child of the Living One. If, however, you never come to know who you truly are, you are a poverty-stricken being, and it is your “self” which lies impoverished. — Logion 3 Gospel of Thomas, translation by Lynn Bauman (no longer in print)
Beloved Is Where We Begin by Jan Richardson from Circle of Grace If you would enter into the wilderness, do not begin without a blessing.
Do not leave without hearing who you are: Beloved, named by the One who has traveled this path before you.
Do not go without letting it echo in your ears, and if you find it is hard to let it into your heart, do not despair. That is what this journey is for.
I cannot promise this blessing will free you from danger, from fear, from hunger or thirst, from the scorching of sun or the fall of the night.
But I can tell you that on this path there will be help.
I can tell you that on this way there will be rest.
I can tell you that you will know the strange graces that come to our aid only on a road such as this, that fly to meet us bearing comfort and strength, that come alongside us for no other cause than to lean themselves toward our ear and with their curious insistence whisper our name:
Beloved. Beloved. Beloved.
Other Resources Eye of the Heart by Cynthia Bourgeault offers a foundation for the many terms and ideas Cynthia spoke about in this gathering. What Happens in Mindfulness by John Teasdale A Different Way to Live Virtuously gives a simple breakdown of the Great Chain of Being map Cynthia referred to. Dr. Dan Siegel’s Work on Nervous System Regulation