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.

I Am Not a Space that God Does Not Occupy: Part II – Panentheism

Cynthia Bourgeault | January 15, 2020

This is Part II of an eight-part Northeast Wisdom Home Page Blog series that began with “Part I. The Light Within” posted Sunday January 12, 2020. Cynthia introduced the series […]

I Am Not a Space that God Does Not Occupy – Part I: The Light Within

Cynthia Bourgeault | January 12, 2020

Dear Wisdom Friends, As the new decade gets underway, it feels like an appropriate moment to share one of my earlier essays, which is still to my mind one of […]

A Personal Invitation from Cynthia Bourgeault

Cynthia Bourgeault | January 8, 2020

Dear Wisdom Friends, Our FOURTH annual Maine Wisdom InGathering is now officially open for registration. The dates are May 30 through June 5, 2020. Mark it on your calendar! Once […]

Rounding Five Years: Northeast Wisdom is Coming of Age

Cynthia Bourgeault | November 20, 2019

Dear Wisdom Friends, As many of you know, one of my longstanding priorities has been to encourage a creative and empowered next generation of Wisdom teachers. A lineage only survives […]

Thomas Keating: An Interspiritual Celebration ~ and Online Public Video Archive

Cynthia Bourgeault | September 12, 2019

With extraordinary joy and gratitude I offer these words of welcome to the wonderful feast now laid before you: the complete video archive of our groundbreaking Thomas Keating interspiritual celebration, […]

Anointing Jesus: How Mary Magdalene Initiated the Love at the Heart of Christianity

Cynthia Bourgeault | April 16, 2019

A response by Cynthia Bourgeault to the release of Mary Magdalene, the movie.

Is The Imaginal Realm Real?

Cynthia Bourgeault | December 3, 2018

Part 3 of a three-part blog series by Cynthia Bourgeault. See below for links to the full series. ***** I cannot emphasize strongly enough that the word imaginal does not […]

“Where” is The Imaginal Realm Located?

Cynthia Bourgeault | November 18, 2018

Part 2 of a three-part blog series by Cynthia Bourgeault. See below for links to the full series. Traditional metaphysical maps based on “the great chain of being” will […]

Introducing the Imaginal

Cynthia Bourgeault | November 13, 2018

Part 1 of a three-part blog series by Cynthia Bourgeault. See below for links to the full series. As many of you know, I have been breaking ground on […]

“WHUR WE COME FROM…”

Cynthia Bourgeault | February 26, 2018

“Teachers of contemplative Christianity, who acknowledged the limitations of human knowledge and the inconstant nature of human sentiment, instead encouraged a commitment to practice. A scripturally grounded commitment to practice […]