Cynthia Bourgeault

Cynthia Bourgeault is an Episcopal priest, writer, and internationally known retreat leader. She is the original creator of the Wisdom School and has been organizing and teaching schools since 1999. Founding director of the British Columbia-based Contemplative Society and the Aspen Wisdom School, she has now returned home to the East Coast to divide her time between Wisdom teaching, writing, and solitude at her small hermitage on Eagle Island in Maine. To find out what Cynthia's up to, you can view her master teaching calendar.

“Atmosphere”: Commentaries on Elements of the Exercises Part IV

Cynthia Bourgeault | April 27, 2020

“Keep within! And when they say, ‘Look here’ or ‘look there is Christ,’ go not forth….” This beautiful gem of Quaker wisdom, set to music by Paulette Meier and well […]

Raised Cyber-Eyebrows: More on Internet Technology and the Pandemic Homework

Cynthia Bourgeault | April 1, 2020

As I expected, I am receiving plenty of raised cyber-eyebrows about the third instruction in Pandemic Homework to: radically decrease or discontinue altogether your use of internet technology to support […]

From the Eagle’s Nest…. (the background to the instructions)

Cynthia Bourgeault | March 24, 2020

This post follows quickly on the heels of “Pandemic Homework”, Cynthia’s previous post and her own “recommendation for inner work during this time of profound planetary readjustment.” It is the […]

Pandemic Homework

Cynthia Bourgeault | March 23, 2020

Dear Wisdom friends: Here is my own recommendation for inner work during this time of profound planetary readjustment. I will send you a fuller explanation as soon as I can, […]

I Am Not a Space that God Does Not Occupy: Part VIII – The Eye of the Heart

Cynthia Bourgeault | February 5, 2020

This is the last in an eight-part Northeast Wisdom Home Page Blog series that Cynthia prepared from what she calls “one of the best things I have ever written.” It […]

I Am Not a Space that God Does Not Occupy: Part VII – Seeing

Cynthia Bourgeault | February 2, 2020

This is Part VII of an eight-part Northeast Wisdom Home Page Blog series that began on Sunday January 12, 2020, with posts every Sunday and Wednesday during the season of […]

I Am Not a Space that God Does Not Occupy: Part VI – A Brief History of Consciousness, Continued

Cynthia Bourgeault | January 29, 2020

This is Part VI of an eight-part Northeast Wisdom Home Page Blog series that began on Sunday January 12, 2020, with posts every Sunday and Wednesday during the season of […]

I Am Not a Space that God Does Not Occupy: Part V – A Brief History of Consciousness

Cynthia Bourgeault | January 26, 2020

This is Part V of an eight-part Northeast Wisdom Home Page Blog series that began on Sunday January 12, 2020, with posts every Sunday and Wednesday during the season of […]

I Am Not a Space that God Does Not Occupy: Part IV – Jesus Was Not a Monotheist (!?)

Cynthia Bourgeault | January 22, 2020

This is Part IV of an eight-part Northeast Wisdom Home Page Blog series that began on Sunday January 12, 2020, with two posts weekly, Sundays and Wednesdays, during the season […]

I Am Not a Space that God Does Not Occupy: Part III – Panikkar

Cynthia Bourgeault | January 19, 2020

This is Part III of an eight-part Northeast Wisdom Home Page Blog series that began on Sunday January 12, 2020. Cynthia introduced the series with this message: “Dear Wisdom Friends, […]