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It is Advent and I am making bread

Andrew Breitenberg | December 21, 2022

It is Advent and I am making bread, ingredients already at hand, one free mind, one open heart, one body, sensing

“Mystical Hope” Chapter Five

Paula Pryce | November 10, 2022

At the book’s beginning, Cynthia Bourgeault describes how mystical hope differs from an ordinary kind of hope. Mystical hope is not something that hinges on clambering aspiration and starry-eyed dreams, but is instead a way of being in relationship here and now with “a light-force that radiates objectively.

“Mystical Hope” Chapter Four

Laura Ruth | October 11, 2022

Each time I read Mystical Hope, I find myself struck in a new way by a turn of phrase or Cynthia’s genius relating poignant truth.

“Mystical Hope” Chapters Two and Three

Beth O'Neil | September 10, 2022

It is all that keeps us going at times–isn’t it? A cry of ‘Lord Mercy us’!! I am grateful to this pint-sized, potent book.

Reflections on a Wisdom School

Jonathan Steele | September 7, 2022

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 invited to wield agency through growing knowledge, being and presence in order to then take our posts as responsible stewards of energy and servants of the whole.

Introducing “Mystical Hope” Chapter One

Alan Krema | August 11, 2022

At a time when people are yearning for good news, Cynthia Bourgeault’s book, Mystical Hope, invites us to find our way to the hope that does not disappoint or fail. Alan Krema discusses Chapter One.

Enneagram and Christian Wisdom – by Jonathon Steele and Jeanine Siler-Jones

Wisdom Waypoints | June 30, 2022

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.

Reflexiones sobre el amor costoso – Reflections on Costly Love

Wisdom Waypoints | May 25, 2022

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 of manifesting the love of God in hues that can only exist here, in this world, under these conditions.”

Lo imaginal y el Reino – The Imaginal and the Kingdom

Wisdom Waypoints | May 25, 2022

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 us and around us.”

Chapter VIII and Epilogue of the ‘The Wisdom Way of Knowing’ ~ The Tools of Wisdom, with Susan Latimer

Susan Latimer | May 18, 2022

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”