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Chanting the Psalms: An Invitation

Wisdom Waypoints | May 28, 2024

This blog offers a brief overview of the sacred practice of chanting the psalms and reflects on its place in one’s daily Wisdom toolbox.

Wisdom Book Practice Circle: The Wisdom Way of Knowing | Chapter 8: The Tools of Wisdom

Susan Latimer | May 6, 2024

Cynthia reminds us of the tools we have to awaken our hearts, the task to which we were born: “…only with awakened hearts are we actually able to fulfill our purpose within the cosmos and take our place in that great dance of divine manifestation”

Wisdom Book Practice Circle: The Wisdom Way of Knowing | Chapter 7: Seeing with the Eye of the Heart

Heather Ruce | April 10, 2024

Each morning we wake to find ourselves on a river upon which we have never been, we proceed in uncharted waters, and we do not know where we are headed.

Wisdom Book Practice Circle: The Wisdom Way of Knowing | Chapter 6: The Foundational Gesture to Enter the Divine Dance Is Surrender

Nan Delach | April 9, 2024

Chapter VI describes the necessary soul gesture of surrender, which requires the willing deconstruction of our small self, or the passage of the acorn self into the oak tree

Sacred Wounds and The Sea of Mercy

Beth O'Neil | March 24, 2024

As we enter into Holy week, I offer a personal account of a teaching by Cynthia and a sea eagle on remorse of being and sacred wounds. Remorse. It’s […]

Mary Magdalene Is a Living Teacher

Heather Ruce | February 20, 2024

Mary Magdalene is a living teacher, available to us now, showing us how to stand in the midst of our embodied lives and the cosmos. We can learn to occupy […]

A Delighted Acceptance of Chaos

Jenn Hughes | February 20, 2024

Reflections on Cynthia Bourgeault’s Talk at the Spanish Wisdom School As a new member to the Wisdom Waypoints ecosystem, I was grateful and excited to be invited to listen to […]

Reflections Between Worlds: The Spanish Wisdom School

William Espinosa | February 19, 2024

Bill Espinosa, an organizer of and participant in the February 2024 Spanish Wisdom School, has generously offered his first hand perspective of the Wisdom School experience at a farm just […]

Wisdom Book Practice Circle: The Wisdom Way of Knowing | Chapter 4, 5: A Call to Depth and Action, Individually and Collectively

Heather Vesey | February 19, 2024

These two chapters, written more than two decades ago, are more relevant and pertinent than ever. And it’s no coincidence that they are preceded by an explanation of the three centers of knowing. It seems to me that the more poised we are in those three centers, the more we will be able to understand, embody and live out the important truths laid out in Chapters Four and Five.

Wisdom Book Practice Circle: The Wisdom Way of Knowing | Chapter 3: Three Centered Knowing

Marcella Kraybill-Greggo | February 18, 2024

[This reflection include a Spanish translation] This chapter lays out for us the ‘how’ of being more fully present and open to higher meaning and the physiology of transformation.