[This reflection include a Spanish translation] Read this community commentary on Part IV of Centering Prayer and Inner Awakening, in which Cynthia takes us into “the heart” of Centering Prayer—and into our own hearts.
We enter into Advent. A season that holds up a stark mirror for the dual-natured being I am, and the culture I am within. I continue to walk the edges, standing in awe at the beauty of creation whilst in…
The following reflections are shared by two participants at Cynthia Bourgeault’s visit to London UK in November 2021. Thank you to Claire Carruthers and Emma Lanham for offering us this […]
Hello all — as some of you know we just finished up what I may as well call a “wisdom work weekend” at Claymont—an on-the-ground gathering for people who have […]
Hold fast the hope, friends. Despite everything being broadcast to us announcing a season of grim and impending planetary lockdown, I simply cannot bring myself to believe that this is […]
I am working strongly with two items: the “Rorate Coeli,” that ancient Gregorian Advent chant, plus the Gurdjieff Movement 39. Together they circumscribe a space whose qualities are repentance, comfort, and simple, unwavering presence. There is a distinctly feminine quality…
Cynthia Bourgeault continues her series of reflections upon Integral structures of consciousness and ideas brought forth in Jean Gebser’s book, Ever Present Origin (EPO). See below for related resources and […]
Yet another connecting link between the Gebserian and Gurdjieffian systems lies in the fruitful interplay between Gurdjieff’s three centers and their respective counterparts in the Gebserian structures of consciousness.
Laura Ruth provides her reflections on The Meaning of Mary Magdalene, as this inaugural Wisdom Practice Book Circle Foundational Series II gets underway.
When I look at the mountain sides covered in these majestic saguaro, I recognize that they stand as a large community revealing what it looks like to stand as they do with strength, stability, resilience, sturdiness, and dignity.
Awhile back one of my teachers Deborah Rose Longo lead J.G. Bennett’s version of the seated Gurdjieff Exercise “Lord Have Mercy.” This version of the exercise was called “Gospodi Pomiluj” which is “Lord Have Mercy” in Russian.
A couple of months ago, I had the privilege to lead 25 people through Cynthia’s latest book, The Corner of Fourth and Nondual – her contribution to Fortress Press’ My […]
In this very heartening account, Cynthia Bourgeault shares her personal experience having presented her teaching on “radical kenosis” at the annual meeting of the Episcopal House of Bishops in March […]
To all my beloveds, He is Risen! And has invited us now, in the spirit of St. Peter (“where I am going you cannot follow me now, but soon…”) to […]
We invite you into this contemplation on the Easter scene, provided by long-time practitioner of the Christian Wisdom path, Brian Mitchell. Cynthia describes Brian’s reflection as “….absolutely brilliant, the profound […]
Please enjoy this post offered in both Spanish and English, on the theme of ‘The Imaginal and the Kingdom’: “With a more awakened heart, we can perceive the more subtle energies of love, attention, prayer, and the deeper longing, within…
Please enjoy this post in both Spanish and English, offering ‘Reflections on Costly Love’: “….we are not just fallen creatures forced to suffer entropy and death for our sins; rather, we are active collaborators, invited to participate in the work…
Long-time Wisdom community leaders and enneagram teachers Jonathan Steele and Jeanine Siler-Jones share about their unique upcoming offering at Valle Crucis in North Carolina.
Twenty-nine brave souls gathered to explore Wisdom through the lens of the Enneagram. Locating our work within the framework of Gurdjieff’s five ‘Obligonian Strivings,’ we discovered that it is from the foundation of abundance, goodness and yearning, that we are…
It is Advent and I am making bread, ingredients already at hand, one free mind, one open heart, one body, sensing
In preparation for this deep dive together, I invite us all into a slow reading of The Wisdom Jesus, Lectio Divina style.
What did Jesus teach—”on the ground” as we say these days—and how? These chapters center on the living Jesus and his teachings.
This year marks my tenth anniversary with The Wisdom Jesus. It came to me when I’d just begun practicing Centering Prayer at a time of great need and personal crisis
Please consider this writing as a communiqué from out on the Wisdom path—a report on where one of your fellow travelers is currently located, how I got here, and what the terrain looks like.
If I have not yet publicly commented on the apparently now-imminent closing of St. Benedict’s Monastery, it is not because I have no feelings on the matter. Quite the contrary, it’s because my heart is so flooded with feelings that…
Welcome, this Holy Monday to the first of six emails you will receive, one per day from today through Holy Saturday. Every day will offer an invitation to each of us for reflection, prayer and meditation individually yet together in…
Passion Libretto Part I: The Farewell Discourse This is day two of a six day free Holy Week offering. On this Holy Tuesday, in the Passion Libretto Part I: The Farewell […]
How poignant to be leaning into [Cynthia’s] writing about Holy Week and the fifty days following Easter—as we enter Holy Week together. Ascension and Pentecost, yet to come.
Passion Libretto Part II: Gethsemane This is day three of a six day free Holy Week offering. On this Holy Wednesday, in the Passion Libretto Part II: Gethsemane, Cynthia brings us to […]
Passion Libretto Part III: The Prince of this World This is day four of a six day free Holy Week offering. On this Maundy Thursday and beginning of the Easter Triduum, […]
Passion Libretto Part IV: On the Cross This is day five of a six day free Holy Week offering. Cynthia speaks of this Holy Friday, in the Passion Libretto Part IV: On the […]
Passion Libretto Part V: Remembrance This is the final day of this six day Holy Week offering. On this Holy and still Saturday, in the Passion Libretto Part V: Remembrance, Cynthia reminds […]
As our book circles flow into this final section of The Wisdom Jesus and conclude this month, we are urged by heart to incarnate the above words of Simeon, not out of duty but out of the deepening relationship that…
The first Spanish language Wisdom School was held, as a pilot, on the afternoon of February 3, and ending the morning of February 6, 2023. Its location was Cornelia Serna’s farm in Sotaquirá, Boyacá , Colombia. Cornelia is a longtime…
I When Cynthia Bourgeault wrote The Corner of Fourth and Nondual, she was given the boundaries each My Theology series author was to adhere to: forty typewritten pages to be […]
I know that many of you are beginning to arrange your fall and winter schedules and are trying to figure out which on-the -ground CB retreats will work best with your particular interests and experience base. With that in mind,…
We are just about to begin our next Foundational Wisdom Practice Book Circle, Series I, in which people will gather to engage one of Cynthia’s principle books Centering Prayer and Inner Awakening. This Wisdom Practice Book Circle will be an opportunity…
This coming month we will be working with Part II in Cynthia Bourgeault’s Book Centering Prayer and Inner Awakening, entitled: The Tradition of Centering Prayer, Chapters 6, 7 and 8.
In this short section, Cynthia takes us through a brief history of the practice, exploring Centering Prayer as not only a devotional method but also a deep purification process for the unconscious psycho- spiritual detritus of a lifetime…
The directions were simple: when you have a thought, let it go. Cynthia Bourgeault calls Centering Prayer “a pathway of return”.
This communiqué will be posted to Wisdom Waypoints in three parts. The format is to offer a selection of Maurice’s teachings on several major ideas, many quoted directly, interspersed with Logia from the Gospel of Thomas—hoping that you too can…
Collective Autumn Triduum Vigil: It is the first day of the Autumn Triduum, October 31st, All Saints’ Eve or Halloween. As we join with one another in vigil across this passage way from death to life, it is important to…
Collective Autumn Triduum Vigil: Today we find ourselves in the middle of the the Autumn Triduum. November 1st, All Saints’ Day or All Hallow’s Day, has traditionally been a day of honoring and celebrating the saints of the Christian tradition.
Before moving forward, I’d like to pause and summarize what was covered previously. We have been talking about two sides of a human being. On the one side, which we call the outer person, are the familiar concepts of knowledge,…
Collective Autumn Triduum Vigil: Today we find ourselves in the middle of the the Autumn Triduum. November 1st, All Saints’ Day or All Hallow’s Day, has traditionally been a day of honoring and celebrating the saints of the Christian tradition.
[This reflection includes a Spanish translation] Read this community commentary on Part IV of Centering Prayer and Inner Awakening, in which Cynthia takes us into “the heart” of Centering Prayer—and into our own hearts.
In this third part of the series, we’ll continue putting together the building blocks discussed previously: the horizontal realm of personality, knowledge, and the forces of life; the vertical inner realm of Being, Essence, and Good; and the relational field…
I am in awe of earth’s majesty, intense dazzling vibrations. It’s earth’s party, a TREE PARTY, in gratitude for yet another YEAR OF LIFE – the gifts, all the gifts, that this year of foliage have brought – such richness, abundance…
In the last week of October, right before the Winter set in, the first Nordic Benedictine Wisdom School was led by Cynthia Bourgeault at Lia Gård in Norway.
As Wisdom students using our voices through chanting, we are sending into our atmosphere vital nutrients of hope, mercy, love and more. Frame drumming magnifies the resonance of our voices in addition to the beat, another powerful means of post-holding…