A small gathering of friends met with Cynthia at Stonington, Maine in September 2020 to work on some of the Gurdjieff exercises in Joseph Azize’s new book and conduct a deep dive into Cynthia’s new book, Eye of the Heart: A Spiritual Journey into the Imaginal Realm. These are the rough recordings from most of the teaching and practice sessions during that week. They will be available at no cost, but your donation is welcome.
Sunday, September 6, 2020
Informal Gathering
Monday, September 7, 2020
- Introduction: Overview of our work together and Atmosphere Exercise (1 hour 28 minutes)
- First Morning Teaching: The Worlds (1 hour 4 minutes)
- Second Morning Teaching: Ray of Creation (52 minutes)
- Afternoon Web exercise led by Andrew Breitenberg (not recorded)
- Evening gathering: Parabola article by Lewellyn Vaughan-Lee, followed by conversation and dialogue (1 hour 27 minutes)
Tuesday, September 8, 2020
- Morning Meditation and Teaching: Atmosphere Exercise and Gurdjieff’s Creation Myth and Exchange Between the Worlds (2 hours 4 minutes)
- Morning Atmosphere Exercise led by Andrew Breitenberg (22 minutes)
- Afternoon Make Strong Exercise including Movement 39 led by Bob Sabath (not recorded)
- Afternoon Movements: Slow Obligatory (not recorded)
- Afternoon Teaching: COVID Discussion (1 hour 26 minutes)
- Zoom gathering with Eva Lee (not recorded)
Wednesday, September 9, 2020
- Morning Meditation and Teaching: Movement 39 and Teaching on Transformation of Energies/Fruits of the Spirit (1 hour 33 minutes)
- Morning Meditation and Teaching: Movement 39 and Teaching on Transformation of Energies/Fruits of the Spirit (24 minutes – continued)
- Late Morning Exercise and Teaching: Morninging Body Scan and Make Strong Exercise followed by Questions and Observations led by Heather Ruce and Cynthia (1 hour 8 minutes)
- Afternoon Exercise: The Four Prophets led by Cynthia Bourgeault (34 minutes)
- Afternoon Teaching: Reflections on Eva’a presentation and Transformation of Energies/Tonglen (1 hour 34 minutes)
- Late Afternoon Exercise: Movement 39 and Make Strong led by Heather Ruce (28 minutes)
Thursday, September 10, 2020
- Morning Teaching: Paschal Courage and Concluding Exhortations and Practices: Ingest Christ! (1 hour 33 minutes)
- Morning Teaching: Paschal Courage and Concluding Exhortations and Practices: Ingest Christ! (18 minutes – continued)
- Afternoon Exercise: Four Ideals – part 2 (38 minutes)
- Afternoon Exercise: Four Ideals – part 2 (34 minutes – continued)
- Afternoon Teaching: Conscious Circle of Humanity (1 hour 20 minutes)
- Concluding Worship: Celebration of the Eucharist (31 minutes)
Gurdjieff Music: