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Centering Prayer and Inner Awakening Book Circle, Part III

Elizabeth Combs | October 14, 2023

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…

Centering Prayer and Inner Awakening Book Circle, Part II

Alan Krema | September 13, 2023

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.

Centering Prayer and Inner Awakening Book Circle, Part I

Heather Ruce | August 18, 2023

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 to anchor us amidst the growing intensity of current conditions in the psychological, biological, and spiritual atmosphere individually and collectively.

Four Songs, and a Poem: To the Core at the Center of the Last Chapter of Fourth and Nondual

Laura Ruth | May 26, 2023

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 […]

The First Pilot Spanish Wisdom School

Wisdom Waypoints | May 24, 2023

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 Wisdom student and Contemplative Outreach leader.

The Wisdom Jesus Book Circles: The Final Chapters

Tom Amsberry | May 15, 2023

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 is opening within.

The Wisdom Jesus Book Circles: Holy Week and the Great Easter Fast

Laura Ruth | April 4, 2023

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.

Living from Good, Living Between Worlds

Bill Britten | March 20, 2023

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.

The Wisdom Jesus Book Circles: Becoming Real—Chapters 6, 7, 12

Liz Keller Whitehurst | March 13, 2023

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

The Wisdom Jesus Book Circles: Chapters Three, Four & Five

Laura Ruth | February 21, 2023

What did Jesus teach—”on the ground” as we say these days—and how? These chapters center on the living Jesus and his teachings.