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Holy Monday: A Journey Through Holy Week

Cynthia Bourgeault | April 3, 2023

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 the heart of God. These daily emails will include written text, music, and a video commentary by our teacher Cynthia Bourgeault focusing on a five part libretto she put together back in 2004.

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Farewell, beloved Snowmass…Adiós, Amado Snowmass

Cynthia Bourgeault | March 26, 2023

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 I find myself really, for once, at loss for words. What can be said, except in the language of tears?

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Balancing Centers, Integrating Structures, Lesson XVI

Cynthia Bourgeault | January 20, 2022

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.

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