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. […]
Bruno Barnhart brought me right into life in the world when he opened the second chapter of The Future of Wisdom with the words, “Wisdom begins in wonder. Something profound […]
In the fall of this year, October 2o18, Bill Redfield, Lois Barton and Deborah Jane Welsh shared the post at their last Wisdom School together, the close of a six-year […]
This past weekend I spent time in a place of enormous beauty. The room was created for a group to enter into prayer and healing together for several days. I […]
How is it that we sense and participate in the larger movements at work in the world? What is this paradigm shift and how are we moving with it? How […]
How do we stand in ourselves in these times? What do we draw from? What do we have to give? What is our responsibility as humans, and to what? Twenty-five […]
In May of 2017, almost one year ago, Cynthia joined forces with Quaker singer chant creator Paulette Meier and Quaker studies author and scholar Marcelle Martin for a retreat that […]
“What do you do when you’ve attended a Wisdom school and you want to continue the practices that strengthen your capacity to open and ‘see with the eye of the […]
In Cynthia’s Note to the Northeast Wisdom fundraising letter, she exclaims, “We’re Here to Make Wisdom Happen!” And Wisdom, as it is born in its unique configuration through each and […]
Parts I and II of Stonington 2017, “Mornings With Teilhard” and “Celebrating Rhythm and Community” can be found in Growing! on the Breaking Ground page of this website. The reflections […]