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Following the Path Laid Down for Me – A Letter from Cynthia

Cynthia Bourgeault | May 1, 2021

Dear wisdom friends, By now the word is out that I am officially stepping back from active duty as a core faculty member at the Center for Action and Contemplation. […]

What’s New with Cynthia

Wisdom Waypoints | March 25, 2021

The following update was recently posted by friends at The Contemplative Society, and provides a great summary of my recent and upcoming activities. What’s new with our Principal Teacher Cynthia […]

Further to Time: Exploring Jean Gebser, Lesson XII

Cynthia Bourgeault | March 2, 2021

There are two other things you should know about Gebser’s “aperspectival” time: it is non-exclusionary, and it is purposive. Linear or perspectival time, the time we’re used to, is exclusionary. Its linear, unidirectional […]

The Faces of Time: Exploring Jean Gebser, Lesson XI

Cynthia Bourgeault | February 25, 2021

Whatever you may take Gebser’s Integral structure of consciousness to be, its most striking characteristic is that it entails a radically different approach to time. Time presents in a strikingly […]

Afterword to Lesson X: Jean Gebser

Cynthia Bourgeault | February 9, 2021

In Beelzebub’s Tales, in the chapter on Beelzebub’s Fourth Sojourn on the Planet Earth, Gurdjieff describes the founding of the original Wisdom School in Atlantis, under the inspired conscience of Belcultassi. […]

The Horse, The Carriage, and the Driver: A Gurdjieffian Slant on a Gebserian Conundrum, Exploring Jean Gebser, Lesson X

Cynthia Bourgeault | February 9, 2021

In my last post I invited us all to begin thinking more specifically in terms of the gifts and strengths contributed to the whole by the magic and mythic structures […]

Online Options to Study with Cynthia Bourgeault: Available Now!

Cynthia Bourgeault | February 7, 2021

It occurred to me that people may want a little guidance as to how to pick and choose among the sudden embarrassment of riches of Cynthia Bourgeault online course options […]

The Baton Has Been Passed: Now Can We Run With It? Exploring Jean Gebser, Lesson IX

Cynthia Bourgeault | January 27, 2021

The Baton Has Been Passed. Can We Now Run With It? No, dear friends, I didn’t send you off on a wild goose chase to immerse yourself in 450 pages […]

Integral as Theotokos: A Western Take on Origin: Exploring Jean Gebser, Lesson VIII

Cynthia Bourgeault | January 22, 2021

Gebser names his book The Ever Present Origin, and Origin is indeed the center point around which everything else in his in his magisterial teaching revolves. But his vision of Origin […]

Practice: As We Enter the Feast of Epiphany

Cynthia Bourgeault | January 7, 2021

Dear Wisdom Friends, As we enter this Feast of Epiphany, celebrating the arrival of Holy Wisdom at the stable, I invite you all to join me over the next twenty-four […]