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A Simple Immediacy: Desert Wisdom for Advent – 2023

Teachings from the Desert Fathers and Mothers on classic Advent themes – Revised for 2023!

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.

An introduction to a little known contemporary mystical gem, The Mystery of Death by Hungarian-born Jesuit theologian Ladislaus Boros, which has been a mainstay of Cynthia’s own spiritual work for more than forty years. She teaches against the backdrop of our own point in history, “where death has weighed so heavily on people’s hearts these past few years and our own individual and collective terror of it has been so brutally exposed.”

A brand new course focusing on the eight poems in Thomas Keating’s ‘The Secret Embrace’, his final spiritual legacy to the world composed the last winter of his life.