William Espinosa, Author at Wisdom Waypoints

Reflections Between Worlds: The Spanish Wisdom School

William Espinosa | February 19, 2024

Bill Espinosa, an organizer of and participant in the February 2024 Spanish Wisdom School, has generously offered his first hand perspective of the Wisdom School experience at a farm just […]

Peace and Unity: Honoring the Passing of Abdul Aziz Said

William Espinosa | February 14, 2021

It seems fitting that Abdul Aziz Said should have passed at a time when our nation cries out for an elusive unity. Professor Said affected thousands as an educator. For […]

Offering to The Earth

William Espinosa | December 16, 2020

In this post Bill Espinosa shares from the Wisdom Practice Circle in Virginia where they chose to read together a piece of Llewelyn Vaughan-Lee’s current writing and act upon his […]

Thoughts on Attention for 2020 and the Wisdom Trail

William Espinosa | February 7, 2020

In December I travelled to the Claymont Society for Continuous Education—the West Virginia home of a community based on the teachings of G.I. Gurdjieff—for Cynthia’s week-long retreat “Mr. Gurdjieff, Meet […]

Reading in The Piedmont: Musings on John and Mary Magdalene

William Espinosa | February 13, 2019

There is a richness we are discovering in the intimacy of small group readings. Some time ago a few of us in Virginia chose to supplement our weekly Centering Prayer […]

Strivings and Growth

William Espinosa | November 22, 2017

This spring Cynthia took us back to the five Obligonian strivings set out in Beelzebub’s Tales to His Grandson. The strivings are the work that Gurdjieff insisted was required for […]

Words Formed East of Eagle Island

William Espinosa | December 15, 2016

I would like to set out a cautionary expansion of Cynthia’s words. I was spared being in the United States for the election. Despite best efforts I wasn’t able to […]