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What About Evil: A Video Conversation with Cynthia Bourgeault

In this conversation recorded February 23, 2023, community leader Mary Ann Evans speaks with Cynthia Bourgeault on the topic What About Evil, summarizing the Encounter with Evil Wisdom School held in California earlier that week.

While the course is anchored in the original Mystical Hope book, it is not simply a rehash of that book. It combines the best moments in the original book with the growth that has unfolded in Cynthia over the years with the circumstances in which we now find ourselves personally and planetarily. It is a whole new course, rooted in the old, but directed toward the present and future.

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

In this recorded conversation, Cynthia introduces us to a Wisdom perspective and approach for exploring ‘evil,’ a topic she with expand on over the coming year.

The Gurdjieff Movements provide a unique opportunity to explore the difference between attempting to change who we are and the nature of transformation.

From J.G. Bennett’s Sunday Talks at Coombe Springs: Today I want to speak about the idea of resurrection of the body dying and being raised from the dead. It is a wonderful idea, but it seems to belong to another world than ours. It is possible to take it literally, and possible to take it some other way, but it is not usually taken as something concerning ourselves immediately- as a significant factor in our everyday lives.

In this groundbreaking teaching Cynthia Bourgeault draws on Jean Gebser’s Integral Evolutionary theory and practical exercises developed by G. I Gurdjieff to illuminate classic Advent themes. This offering includes over 15 hours of audio recordings as well as optional participation in four live, facilitated online sessions for group interactive discussion and practice.

Rebuilding Trust includes over 10 hours of video teachings by Cynthia Bourgeault and supporting teacher Matthew Wright. Together they provide an illuminating, expansive approach to both encounter and generate trust, as an essential substance and offering, so needed in our world today.

The recordings provided here were filmed live at a small Wisdom gathering in Stonington Maine in June 2022. This new teaching series has been curated from a selection of those recorded sessions, offering a unique and practical set of instructions for developing the spiritual substances and conscious presence so needed in our world today.

Find some of our suggested starting points and recommendations for both newcomers to the Wisdom path, and for more seasoned students ready to take their learning and practice to a deeper level.

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What About Evil: A Video Conversation with Cynthia Bourgeault

Mystical Hope Today: An Online Lenten Deep Dive with Cynthia Bourgeault

It is Advent and I am making bread

Exploring the Encounter with Evil from a Wisdom Perspective – Video Conversation with Cynthia Bourgeault

The Gurdjieff Movements: The Mystery of Being

Death and Rebirth

Integral Light Shining in the Dark: An Advent Teaching and Wisdom Retreat

Rebuilding Trust: Video Teaching by Cynthia Bourgeault

Building Second Body

Getting Started and Deepening on the Wisdom Path