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Your Comments to My Post-Apocalyptic Blog Post

ByCynthia BourgeaultDec 12, 2016

I am still on low to non-existent solar power on Eagle Island, but I want you to know that I am moved, encouraged, and overjoyed by this outpouring of response. In proper Advent fashion, I’m pondering all of this in my heart,…

Year-end Report and a Heads-up about What’s on the Docket for 2016

ByCynthia BourgeaultJan 5, 2016

Almost exactly this time one year ago, I launched my “Teilhard Challenge,” inviting as many of you as felt so moved to join me in diving into the magnificent, challenging writings of Teilhard de Chardin. I know that many of you have…

Year-End Reflection

ByBill RedfieldDec 28, 2017

As this year draws to a close, I am deeply aware of a pervasive sense of gratitude in my heart. I am thankful to have been exposed to Cynthia and the Wisdom teachings. I cannot tell you how profoundly she and these…

Words Formed East of Eagle Island

ByWilliam EspinosaDec 15, 2016

I would like to set out a cautionary expansion of Cynthia’s words. I was spared being in the United States for the election. Despite best efforts I wasn’t able to reschedule teaching a graduate seminar on peace agreements at the Bethlehem (Occupied…

With the Desert Fathers and Mothers: A Wisdom School Sung in Three Voices

ByJo TaylorAug 28, 2019

What follows is an article on the Desert Fathers and Mothers retreat that Cynthia Bourgeault led in Tucson Arizona in the winter of 2018. Beautifully crafted by Jo Taylor for the Northeast Wisdom website, with experiential notes from Heather Ruce’s retreat journal…

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Eastertide Wisdom Community Practice Half Day Recordings

Eastertide Wisdom Community Practice Half Day Recordings

Here are the recordings from the Eastertide Wisdom Practice Half Day held on Saturday, May 20th. This day was situated in one of Cynthia’s favorite thin times of the liturgical year, the…

Obligolnian Strivings: Week Nine of Inner Task Series by Heather Ruce

Obligolnian Strivings: Week Nine of Inner Task Series by Heather Ruce

This week we add in, again cumulatively, the fifth and final striving: the striving always to assist the most rapid perfecting of other beings (remember striving one), both those similar…

Obligolnian Strivings: Week Eight of Inner Task Series by Heather Ruce

Obligolnian Strivings: Week Eight of Inner Task Series by Heather Ruce

This week we will stay with the Fourth Striving: the striving, from the beginning of one’s existence, to pay as quickly as possible for one’s arising and individuality, in order…

Obligolnian Strivings: Week Seven of Inner Task Series by Heather Ruce

Obligolnian Strivings: Week Seven of Inner Task Series by Heather Ruce

We know that these being Obligolnian Strivings are the conscious work and intentional suffering of a lifetime, with ever deepening possibilities to lean into and live out of. This week…