In Mornings with Teilhard, the first collection of reflections from the June 2017 Wisdom Ingathering in Stonington, a number of people shared their experiences of Cynthia’s morning teachings. Ultimately these […]
The clear, simple truth: Nothing can fall out of God. Where would it go? God is not “somebody” (not me)—“somewhere else” (not here.) God is the ALL, the now, the […]
As we come down the home stretch in this extended Wisdom inquiry into the abortion issue, I’ve tried to draw together here some of the most important implications and “business […]
A brisk, early morning – the bus I had hoped to take to Eucharist drove by me as I was seconds late to the stop. I felt helpless, frustrated, bracing, […]
Parts I and II of Stonington 2017, “Mornings With Teilhard” and “Celebrating Rhythm and Community” can be found on Breaking Ground, where participants share their reflections on the […]
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 […]
For almost thirty years the standing joke has been “What enneagram type is Cynthia?” Leading teachers in all the various schools have typed me variously (frequently categorically) as a Four, […]
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 […]
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 […]
My soul doth magnify the Lord, and my spirit hath rejoiced in God my Savior… he hath showed strength with his arm; he has put down the mighty from their […]
“We intend to celebrate the Eucharist continually in our lives as well as in the liturgy, to offer ourselves in all that we do or suffer to God…” — from […]
Reflecting on our days in community at Hallelujah Farm, what shimmers for me is the creative essence of all who gathered to share, to contribute, work, worship, rest and play, […]
“Gate, Gate, Paragate…” “Gone, gone, gone beyond, gone utterly beyond…” We used to chant this ancient Hindu Chant in our small contemplative circle in Snowmass, Colorado, back in the early […]
“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 […]
Palm Sunday morning’s sun found us parading through patches of New Hampshire snow, waving cedar branches as we sang our Hosannas for Jesus’ entry into Jerusalem. Our procession ended in the […]
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 Cynthia has initiated is nothing short of remarkable. By crisscrossing this continent (as well as planting seeds all over the world) in a couple of short decades Cynthia has […]
Dear Wisdom Community, I was asked by our own dear Laura Ruth if I’d share my Pentecost sermon from St. Gregory’s in Woodstock with our community here. Of course! I’m […]
An earlier version of this article first appeared at Contemplative Journal Happy Feast of the Holy Trinity, Wisdom Community! Today is the day the Christian calendar dedicates to the Dance […]
Tucked away in the charming lobster fishing town of Stonington, Maine, a group of about 100 students gathered this past week for this year’s Wisdom Ingathering, exploring together with Cynthia […]
The last bell bowl gong has sounded. The last chant echoes in the Stonington Town Hall meeting room. The Lupine and Solomon Seal blooms begin to shrivel in the vase. […]
Please note: we encourage you to click on each of the images to appreciate the full quality of the photographs. Stonington, Maine, June 2018. The small village welcomes us to […]
As members of the Wisdom community and the Glastonbury Abbey community prepare to meet with Cynthia Bourgeault for a weekend retreat entitled, “Stabilitas: That Forgotten Virtue,” Marcelle Martin shares about […]
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 […]
It is now closing in on the 2nd anniversary of my transfer of private documents into the Beatrice Bruteau archive at Emory University’s Pitts Library. My prior article for Northeast […]
Here is a wonderful new blog post from Dr. Rudy Hwa — an emeritus professor of Physics at the University of Oregon as well one of my one of my […]
“I would like to attend your Spiritual Direction Training program, Marcella, but your program is located in Bethlehem, PA and I live in Georgia. I urge you to kindly consider […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
We are at a turn of time. For those of us sculpted by the cycles of Christian liturgy, we have come again to the beginning, to Advent – the Preface […]
Christophany and Advent: A Broader, Deeper Incarnation There are probably many ways to know Jesus, but there are two general approaches. The first is from the outside, as an object […]
Dear Wisdom community, In January 2015 we launched “The Year of Teilhard de Chardin” and tasked our network with becoming more and more acquainted with Teilhard’s expansive body of writing. […]
An Ode to the Small Hours It IS a new day but before first ray has christened it or first bird’s song proclaimed it In this moment, the […]
There was an inner and outer reunion that occurred while I was in Africa last December, 2017. Many had warned me ‘not to expect the same Nairobi, Kenya’ as I […]
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 […]
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 […]
“I was delighted to receive this wonderfully creative exploration of imaginal reality by my student Josh Tysinger. Aside from simply his completely singular and wondrous mind itself, Josh’s claim to […]
Each month, a Northeast Wisdom voice is offering a reflection on a chapter from Bruno Barnhart’s The Future of Wisdom. This month, it’s my turn with Chapter 3, “Movement II: […]
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. […]
A response by Cynthia Bourgeault to the release of Mary Magdalene, the movie.
Not a mistake. Not a disaster. Not over. This summarizes my reflection on Bruno’s analysis of the Western Turn in the re-emergence of Christian Wisdom in our time. I begin […]
Plant your feet firmly in the abyss. These were the words that I heard inwardly as I awoke one morning in December 2015, during a dark and chaotic time in my […]
Thousands of questions are silenced as if dissolved. There are neither doctrines nor heresies. The possibilities are endless, [living] creatively in me. ~ Paul Klee, 1916 Chennai, the city […]
God is in full solidarity with the created world, form poses no impediment to divinity. Surrender is connected to generativity, the Sacrament of Incarnation. ~ Cynthia Bourgeault In February of […]
The light is changing now, and it is true, the day has just passed into ‘civil twilight.’ I have been tracking this on and off this spring, and am consistently […]
I loved this chapter!—particularly the way it weaves together and synthesizes the voices of Teilhard de Chardin, Ewert Cousins, and Karl Rahner—each of them pointing in their own way (planetization, […]
Carol Jackson, a member of the The Future of Wisdom Northeast Wisdom Study Group, shares her work bringing her experience with the enneagram to Bruno Barnhart’s book. Looking specifically at […]