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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 3, 4 & 5

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.

The Wisdom Jesus Book Circles launching January 31, 2023

Jeanine Siler Jones | January 24, 2023

In preparation for this deep dive together, I invite us all into a slow reading of The Wisdom Jesus, Lectio Divina style.

It is Advent and I am making bread

Andrew | December 21, 2022

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

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.