Community Writing Archives - Wisdom Waypoints

Greetings to Our Wisdom Community: A Letter From the Chair of the Board

Jeanine Siler Jones | October 16, 2024

Dear beloved friends, I’m writing to you from the back porch of dear friends in Raleigh, North Carolina, where I have set up a temporary home. My husband and I […]

Connecting the Metaphysical Dots: Cynthia Bourgeault & Jonathan Rowson

Wisdom Waypoints | October 13, 2024

Across every major sector, changemakers are coming to realize we will need more than just action plans and policies to stabilize our home planet and enact a vision of the […]

Returning

Kerri P | August 13, 2024

Kerri P reflects on two rich Wisdom School experiences as she now tries to integrate them into body, heart and practice.

From Positional Power to Relational Power

Wisdom Waypoints | July 23, 2024

I am advocating a re-frame of that moment of retiring from a recognized role of positional power. I see it as the ending of one form of agency and the beginning of another source of influence that I am naming relational power. Within that frame is the call for elders.

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 […]