Ask Cynthia

Hi Cynthia! What is your recommended translation of the Bible?

I have been working with the Gurdjieff exercises for the last year or so. Recently I’ve begun to experience a hazy sleepiness. Any ideas with what might be going on and how to work with this?

Do I have "some fluency in inner observation" to be able to attain the Inner Observer or Witness Practice level of spiritual development?

Do I have to use the Word in Centering Prayer? To me saying the word seems like an extra, unnecessary step.

Does "Am I happy?" exist or even matter in an awakened state?

I'm very grateful for my Buddhist and Vedic knowledge and experiences but I can’t find, and long for the I-Thou relationship with God. Any advice very gratefully received.

Feeling confused and seeking clarification on what sounds like a loss of identification between us and God once we let go of our false self, and how this relates to non-dualistic monism or modalism.

I have a history of depression and want to use the Welcoming Practice. But I find it hard to find any physical signs of it? Any advice?

To what extent did Teilhard miss the mark? Ditto for Vigano. The "Truth" lies somewhere in between? Or does it?

When the Gurdjieff exercises were first introduced I tried out a few of them. How do you work with them?

Greetings Cynthia, I just completed your online course, Introduction to Wisdom School (excellent!) and have a question about the concept of oneness. Why do you...

Reverend, I’m a 60 something spiritual wanderer who is now considering becoming involved with Centering Prayer. I recently discovered a CP group that meets at...

Dear Cynthia, A friend is doing a 10-day Vipassana retreat right now, and I wondered what your take is on this kind of intensive retreat...

Hi Cynthia, This morning I listened to your Cosmic Campfire interview, and as happens so often, I felt deeply grateful for your clarity and willingness...

Is a sexual relationship between a teacher and student harmful or beneficial from a spiritual perspective?

Hello Cynthia, If you were to run through your path again would you pursue the oblate path, and where… near your home or one that...

Cynthia, I’m a former Buddhist & I’m a newcomer to contemplative Christianity. Came to it by way of Richard Rohr’s videos. To live in a...

Do internet EMF fields are facilitating the spread of the contagion?

In your view, was the historical Jesus of Nazareth physically resurrected from the dead three days after his death on the cross, as the Gospels...

Dear Cynthia, I have a question about Centering Prayer and attention. In your books, you make a distinction between “attention” and “intention”-based practice. Coming from...

G’day, Having read your articles on the Developmental Soul (and related), I have struggled to understand how this flows with Richard Rohr’s (and many others)...

My journey into evolutionary Christianity and centering prayer has felt like a prolonged version of Neo’s (The Matrix, 1st movie) departure from the matrix and...

Dear Cynthia, I recently enjoyed listening to the interview with you on “Buddha by the Gas Pump,” but you said one thing that keeps coming...

Our centering prayer group has been watching your dvd on the divine feminine and the divine masculine. You mentioned someone whose first name is Raymond...

May I add my thanks to dozens of others’ for our last Wisdom School. A question which has excersized my mind for years (and which...

Dear Cynthia, I will be attending your wisdom school at Casa de Maria in September. I was wondering if you would kindly suggest which of...

During the Trinity retreat I think I heard you say Donald Trump was the third force. I have been working with Law of Three to...

Dear Cynthia, In my Systematics Theology class in seminary, the professor has asked us to write on the following question, and I would love your...

I have been reading your books for years and have been deeply comforted and guided in my inner life and trying to take your teachings...

Dear Cynthia, Thank you for your unique way of including seekers in your teachings. It tells a lot about the core of the Work. I...

I wonder if you’ve come across Sam Alibrando’s book: The 3 Dimensions of Emotion. After reading your guest posts for CAC this week on the...

You speak of the physiological understanding and acceptance in our centering prayer practice, Cynthia. I am occasionally experiencing strong physical reactions in my sitting practice....

Cynthia, I’m considering asking if there’s still room left in your next centering prayer retreat, March 24-29. I’m very attracted to silence, although my mind...

Thank-you so much for these opportunities, Cynthia. I have a question about intercessory prayer. Before my launch into centering prayer and study of the Wisdom...

Cynthia, I, along with a group of our sisters, recently finished listening to Non duality, seriously? They loved it and so did I. During your...

Hi Cynthia — I’m writing to you here because the comments section to your most recent blog doesn’t seem like the right place. I’m neither...

Hello Cynthia, just finished experiencing “the heart of centering prayer, (non-dual christianity)” or as my spell check keeps reminding me “entering prayer”…. i had given...

Hello Cynthia, Thank you for doing this Q&A service it a wonderful opportunity.. x My question is…i am beginning to realise that i don’t really...

Hello Cynthia, I was at your Cloud London talk last month. A question if I may. Contemplative Prayer and going into the silence is a...

Dear Cynthia, I echo a previous comment here that it is truly fantastic to have this Q and A with you, so thanks for this...

Dear Cynthia, A scholarly man in the Centering Prayer group I lead has been reading the Jesus Seminar material. I know only the edges of...

Cynthia, Thank you so much for this opportunity to ask you questions. I am in seminary, and yesterday I preached a sermon for my preaching...

Cynthia, I’m having trouble moving through everything you have taught me in books and in the wisdom school and reconciling it with the words in...

Hi Cynthia, First I’d like to thank you for your contributions, The Wisdom Jesus, Way of Knowing and Centering Prayer. All three, for me, have...

Hi Cynthia, I heard a sermon preached on Luke 16, the parable of the Dishonest Steward on Sunday in a church in Hanoi, and I...

Dear Cynthia, Your book “The Meaning of Mary Magdalene” was a game-changer for me. Having been close friends with numerous women who’ve been victims of...

Dear Cynthia, Hello from Hong Kong! Now with a bit more decorum . . . It’s taken me about six years of reading your work,...

Hi Cynthia – As our human consciousness evolves and we hopefully become better cosmic servants, living with objectless awareness, are we then a-theistic? What/who are...

Hi Cynthia – I hope this Lent finds you well and thriving. I am teaching a class at the Episcopal Cathedral here in Kansas City...