Videos
Here you’ll find a rich feast of video resources from various sources and partnering organizations.
A Journey Through Holy Week: A 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 oratorio,…
AI: Bridging the Gap or Bridge Too Far
Weaving together teachings by mid-century mystic Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, reflections from modern Teilhard scholar, theologian, author and scientist Ilia Delio, and historical precedent in interpreting the US Constitution, Buddy discusses the possibilities of artificial intelligence as a tool or manifestation of human consciousness, as well as its regulation. This talk was originally presented on…
Centering Prayer: A Brief Introduction
Hello, I’m Cynthia. Welcome to my quick and dirty introduction to centering prayer.
Conscious Practices for Advent with Marcella Kraybill-Greggo
Pam Rotelle Roberets and Wisdom teacher, Marcella Kraybill-Greggo discuss four conscious prayers for Advent on Pam’s Talking Joy podcast.
Cultivating an Attitude of Entrusting
Cynthia Bourgeault joined Richard Rohr and William Paul Young for the Center for Action and Contemplation’s Trinity: The Soul of Creation conference in April 2017. The Trinity—fully experienced and enjoyed—has the capacity to change everything. When we consciously engage in loving communion, we open ourselves to being transformed at the deepest levels.
Cynthia addresses the Wisdom Community
Wisdom Waypoints (formerly Northeast Wisdom) hosted its first Wisdom Practice Day on August 28, 2021. This video contains Cynthia’s opening remarks about the state of the Wisdom Community.
Cynthia at the 2019 Festival of Faiths
Cynthia participated in the 24th Annual Festival of Faiths, filmed in Louisville at the Kentucky Center for the Arts Bomhard Theater, April 25-27, 2019. Both of Cynthia’s sessions are now available to watch on YouTube. The Festival of Faiths is a sustained series of annual events and programs, whose mission is to promote interfaith understanding,…
Cynthia Open Us About Her New Book Eye of the Heart on the Goop Podcast
Are we all just irrelevant specs? Does our life actually have meaning? Listen to Cynthia Bourgeault discuss her newest book, Eye of the Heart, on the latest goop Podcast. Eye of the Heart investigates the mystical depths of the imaginal realm.—an energetic realm well known to the mystical traditions but often forgotten in our own times. Though invisible to…
Cynthia’s ATA Presentation: Enstatic Personhood and the Teilhardian Evolutionary Vision
The video below is generously shared by the American Teilhard Association (ATA), recorded at their annual general meeting on June 12, 2021. The ATA explores and builds on the life and work of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, and aims to make his visionary thinking more widely available. To learn more, or to become a member…
Cynthia’s ATA Presentation: Enstatic Personhood and the Teilhardian Evolutionary Vision
The video below is generously shared by the American Teilhard Association (ATA), recorded at their annual general meeting on June 12, 2021. The ATA explores and builds on the life and work of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, and aims to make his visionary thinking more widely available. To learn more, or to become a member…
Cynthia’s Eastertide Invitation: More Questions and Responses – Event Recording
Cynthia Bourgeault provides further reflections and responds to a number of questions arising from her Eastertide practice challenge.
Cynthia’s Eastertide Invitation: The Community Conversation Continues – Event Recording
In conversation with the Wisdom Community, Cynthia Bourgeault provides further reflections and responds to a number of questions arising from her Eastertide practice challenge.
Eastertide Wisdom Community Practice Half Day Recordings 2023
Here are the recordings from the Eastertide Wisdom Practice Half Day held on Saturday, May 20th. This day was situated in one of Cynthia’s favorite thin times of the liturgical year, the holy hush between Ascension and Pentecost when the resurrected Christ has ascended but the Pentecost not yet descended. It was a day was for anyone wanting…
Encountering the Heart of Silence: A Conversation with Cynthia Bourgeault in Two Parts
When people gather in silence, a deeper kind of collective, synergistic, numinous knowing unfolds. And that’s the only knowing that’s worth a damn, particularly when you’re working with the infinite. ~ Cynthia Bourgeault On February 25, 2019 Cynthia was interviewed for a podcast on the Encountering Silence website, hosted by Carl McColman with Cassidy Hall…
Exploring the Encounter with Evil from a Wisdom Perspective – Video Conversation with Cynthia Bourgeault
In this recorded conversation, Cynthia introduces us to a Wisdom perspective and approach for exploring ‘evil,’ a topic she with expand on over the coming year.
Holding our Planet, a Presentation by Cynthia Bourgeault
How do we cultivate the wisdom needed to navigate the challenges our planet is facing? These are the themes Cynthia addresses in this evening lecture.
Metis Teaching by Cynthia Bourgeault
Cynthia offers a teaching on “metis” or the capacity to take skillful, decisive, appropriate action in a moment based on three-centered awareness.
Mystical Hope Wisdom Community Practice Day – Event Recording
This Wisdom Practice Day was hosted by Wisdom Waypoints and recorded live on Zoom September 24, 2022. We are delighted to share with you the event recordings and related resources.
Oneness: The Secret Embrace – Thomas Keating’s Poetry, with Cynthia Bourgeault
Cynthia Bourgeault presents “Oneness: The Secret Embrace,” Thomas Keating’s final gift to the world, as expressed through the poetry of his later years. This is the first of three Zoom calls held April 30 – May 2, 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic, sponsored by Contemplative Outreach of South Africa and Contemplative Outreach International, with support…
Pilot Colombian Wisdom School with Cynthia Bourgeault
An interview with Cynthia Bourgeault from the first school of Wisdom in Colombia.
The Future Coming Toward Us: A Conversation on Gebser with Cynthia Bourgeault and Marcella Kraybill-Greggo
On Monday December 21, 2020 Cynthia Bourgeault sat down with Marcella Kraybill-Greggo on zoom to have a conversation about the work of Jean Gebser. This conversation came into being through the desire to share with the larger Wisdom Community how the Gebser teaching has come “toward us from the future” for such a time as…
The Gateway to Freedom
Cynthia Bourgeault joined Richard Rohr and William Paul Young for the Center for Action and Contemplation’s Trinity: The Soul of Creation conference in April 2017. The Trinity—fully experienced and enjoyed—has the capacity to change everything. When we consciously engage in loving communion, we open ourselves to being transformed at the deepest levels.
The Heart of Centering Prayer: Christian Nonduality in Theory and Practice (2016)
Cynthia delivered a four-part series on The Heart of Centering Prayer: Christian Nonduality in Theory and Practice at Boston College School of Theology and Ministry in November, 2016.
The Method and Practice of Centering Prayer
Centering Prayer is a Christian contemplative form of meditation practice developed in the 1970s by three Trappist monks, Fathers William Meninger, Basil Pennington and Thomas Keating. The practice method draws upon the contemplative heritage found within biblical scripture and Christian mystical writings such as the medieval classic The Cloud of Unknowing. Centering Prayer is a growing form meditation…
The Welcoming Practice
Cynthia speaking on the “Welcoming Practice” and “Waking Up” “In the Welcoming Prayer the energy normally bound up in identification is suddenly vitally freed—sometimes so dramatically you almost hear a “whoosh”— and the influx of this new energy is immediately experienced as a deepening and vitalization of your innermost being.” – Cynthia Bourgeault Cynthia recommends and…
Threats to the Common Good: Cultural and Social Evil in America with Buddy Parker
Originally recorded on May 2, 2023, this free online program focuses on the history of evil in our civil structures, current efforts to misrepresent and conceal this history, and their effects on the Common Good. Thanks to a generous grant, this program is offered free of charge at Mary and Martha’s Place. FREE- Click Here…
Trinity: The Soul of Creation
Cynthia Bourgeault joined Richard Rohr and William Paul Young for the Center for Action and Contemplation’s Trinity: The Soul of Creation conference in April 2017. The Trinity—fully experienced and enjoyed—has the capacity to change everything. When we consciously engage in loving communion, we open ourselves to being transformed at the deepest levels.
What About Evil: A Video Conversation with Cynthia Bourgeault
In this conversation recorded February 23, 2023, community leader Mary Ann Evans speaks with Cynthia Bourgeault on the topic What About Evil, summarizing the Encounter with Evil Wisdom School held in California earlier that week.
Wisdom Community Equinox Pause – March 2022 Event Recording
Marcella Kraybill-Greggo and Penny Joy Day gently guide us through a contemplative PAUSE to honor the Equinox in both the northern and the southern hemisphere, March 2022
Wisdom Community Equinox Pause – March 2024 Event Recording
This Wisdom Practice Day was hosted by Wisdom Waypoints and recorded live on Zoom September 24, 2022. We are delighted to share with you the event recordings and related resources.
Wisdom Community Equinox Pause – Sept 2022 Event Recording
Watch the recording of the September 2022 online contemplative PAUSE, hosted by our Spanish Community Leaders to honor the Equinox.
Wisdom Community Equinox Pause – September 2023 Event Recording
Watch the recording of the September 2023 online contemplative PAUSE, hosted by our Spanish Community Leaders to honor the Equinox.
Wisdom Community Practice Day: Finding Our Feet, Holding Our World
Here is the recording from the Wisdom Practice Day: Finding Our Feet, Holding our World, held on Friday, September 29, 2023. With everything that the planet is facing at this time, war, fires, hurricanes, racism, hatred, and so much more, we as Wisdom students are called to find our feet and hold our world. This Wisdom…
Wisdom Community Practice Half Day – Eastertide 2024
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…
Wisdom Community Practice Mini Series – Session Recordings
Community leaders, Heather Ruce, Marcella Kraybill-Greggo, and Elizabeth Combs, provide instruction and guidance through three foundational Wisdom practices.
Wisdom Community Solstice – December 2021 Event Recording
Susan Cooper and Beth O’Neil guide us through a 90 minute event – recorded on the December 2021 Solstice.
Wisdom Community Solstice Pause – Dec 2022 Event Recording
Through chant, poignant readings, practice, and silence Susan Latimer and Beth O’Neil guide us through a connective, contemplative experience of a Wisdom-infused Solstice gathering for our global community.
Wisdom Community Solstice Pause – Dec 2023 Event Recording
Through chant, poignant readings, practice, and silence Susan Latimer and Beth O’Neil guide us through a connective, contemplative experience of a Wisdom-infused Solstice gathering for our global community.
Wisdom Community Solstice Pause – June 2022 Event Recording
Elizabeth Combs and Marcella Kraybill-Greggo gently guide the community with an online contemplative PAUSE to honor the Solstice on June 21, 2022
Wisdom Practice Day Recordings
This is a compilation of the recordings of all the Wisdom Practice Days sponsored by Wisdom Waypoints.
Wisdom Practice Day: Centering Prayer and Inner Awakening
This Wisdom Practice Day was hosted by Wisdom Waypoints and recorded live on Zoom August 28, 2021.
Wisdom Solstice Pause – June 2024 Event Recording
This Wisdom Pause was hosted by Wisdom Waypoints and recorded live on Zoom June 2024. We are delighted to share with you the event recordings and related resources.