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Holy Week Liturgies

In 2010, Cynthia Bourgeault, with assistance from Ward Bauman and Darlene Franz, composed a series of liturgies for use during the Holy Week retreat at the Episcopal House of Prayers […]

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.

These are the commentaries that Cynthia and Rave worked with over many months at the monastery. They are essential and practical commentaries on fourth way inner work.

This is a difficult but primary resource for those who who are working with Gurdjieff’s fourth way inner work exercises.

Cynthia’s recent teaching has drawn heavily from this book by Jean Gebser. Many of her wisdom school students are actively studying this volume.

This is the source book that Cynthia used for her Mystical Courage exercises. Many of Cynthia’s wisdom school students are working regularly with Gurdjieff’s fourth way contemplative exercises described by Joseph Azize.

This is an insightful and groundbreaking study of evil, used by Cynthia in her Wisdom Schools on Evil, but has some challenging and problematic aspects.

In The Corner of Fourth and Nondual, a title inspired by Thomas Merton’s moment of revelation ‘at the Corner of Fourth and Walnut’ in his celebrated essay ‘A Member of […]

Cynthia Bourgeault has described the Gospel of Thomas as a “long-missing puzzle piece whose importance to revealing the full picture of our own spiritual times is becoming more and more obvious …”

When the global pandemic struck in the spring of 2020, spiritual teacher Cynthia Bourgeault sensed an invitation to go deeper than a continuous round of Zoom calls. She turned to […]

Books

Holy Week Liturgies

Death and Rebirth

Psychological Commentaries on the Teaching of Gurdjieff and Ouspensky: Volumes 1-6

Beelzebub’s Tales to His Grandson

The Ever-Present Origin

Gurdjieff: Mysticism, Contemplation, and Exercises

People of the Lie by Scott Peck

The Corner of Fourth and Nondual

The Gospel of Thomas

Mystical Courage: Commentaries on Selected Contemplative Exercises by G.I. Gurdjieff, as Compiled by Joseph Azize