The Welcoming Practice
Cynthia speaking on the “Welcoming Practice” and “Waking Up” “In the Welcoming Prayer the energy normally bound up in identification is suddenly vitally freed—sometimes so dramatically you almost hear a “whoosh”— and the influx of this new energy is immediately experienced as a deepening and vitalization of your innermost being.” – Cynthia Bourgeault Cynthia recommends and…
Cynthia Open Us About Her New Book Eye of the Heart on the Goop Podcast
Are we all just irrelevant specs? Does our life actually have meaning? Listen to Cynthia Bourgeault discuss her newest book, Eye of the Heart, on the latest goop Podcast. Eye of the Heart investigates the mystical depths of the imaginal realm.—an energetic realm well known to the mystical traditions but often forgotten in our own times. Though invisible to…
Wisdom Practice Day Recordings
This is a compilation of the recordings of all the Wisdom Practice Days sponsored by Wisdom Waypoints.
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 holy hush between Ascension and Pentecost when the resurrected Christ has ascended but the Pentecost not yet descended. It was a day was for anyone wanting…
A Journey Through Holy Week: A Passion Libretto
This is a Six Day free Holy Week offering on the Passion Libretto from Cynthia and Wisdom Waypoints. The idea to offer this gift to the Wisdom network came into being after an inquiry for leads on a Passion Libretto that Cynthia put together back in 2004. It was for a new choral piece, an original Holy Week oratorio,…
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.
WISDOM COMMUNITY SOLSTICE PAUSE – Dec 2022 – Event Recording
Through chant, poignant readings, practice, and silence Susan Latimer and Beth O’Neil guide us through a connective, contemplative experience of a Wisdom-infused Solstice gathering for our global community.
Exploring the Encounter with Evil from a Wisdom Perspective – Video Conversation with Cynthia Bourgeault
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.
Mystical Hope Wisdom Community Practice Day – Event Recording
This Wisdom Practice Day was hosted by Wisdom Waypoints and recorded live on Zoom September 24, 2022. We are delighted to share with you the event recordings and related resources.
WISDOM COMMUNITY EQUINOX PAUSE – SEPT 2022 -Event Recording
Watch the recording of the September 2022 online contemplative PAUSE, hosted by our Spanish Community Leaders to honor the Equinox.
Imaginal Inspirations: An Interview with Cynthia Bourgeault
In the podcast series Imaginal Inspirations, David Lorimer talks to Cynthia Bourgeault about the experiences, people and books that have shaped her life and work.
Wisdom Community Practice Mini Series – Session Recordings
Community leaders, Heather Ruce, Marcella Kraybill-Greggo, and Elizabeth Combs, provide instruction and guidance through three foundational Wisdom practices.
WISDOM COMMUNITY SOLSTICE PAUSE – June 2022 -Event Recording
Elizabeth Combs and Marcella Kraybill-Greggo gently guide the community with an online contemplative PAUSE to honor the Solstice on June 21, 2022
Cynthia Bourgeault on The Common Good – Video Interview
In this video interview Cynthia Bourgeault joins Garrison Institute founder Jonathan F.P. Rose for a conversation on the Common Good…
Cynthia’s Eastertide Invitation: More Questions and Responses – Event Recording
Cynthia Bourgeault provides further reflections and responds to a number of questions arising from her Eastertide practice challenge.
Cynthia’s Eastertide Invitation: The Community Conversation Continues – Event Recording
In conversation with the Wisdom Community, Cynthia Bourgeault provides further reflections and responds to a number of questions arising from her Eastertide practice challenge.
Wisdom EQUINOX PAUSE – Event Recording
Marcella Kraybill-Greggo and Penny Joy Day gently guide us through a contemplative PAUSE to honor the Equinox in both the northern and the southern hemisphere, March 2022
Wisdom Solstice – Event Recording
Susan Cooper and Beth O’Neil guide us through a 90 minute event – recorded on the December 2021 Solstice.
Introduction to Sacred Chanting by Cynthia Bourgeault
Cynthia Bourgeault introduces the practice of sacred chant for Wisdom practice.
Conscious Practices for Advent with Wisdom Teacher Marcella Kraybill-Greggo
Pam Rotelle Roberets and Wisdom teacher, Marcella Kraybill-Greggo discuss four conscious prayers for Advent on Pam’s Talking Joy podcast.
Wisdom Practice Day: Centering Prayer and Inner Awakening
This Wisdom Practice Day was hosted by Wisdom Waypoints and recorded live on Zoom August 28, 2021.
Cynthia addresses the Wisdom Community
Wisdom Waypoints (formerly Northeast Wisdom) hosted its first Wisdom Practice Day on August 28, 2021. This video contains Cynthia’s opening remarks about the state of the Wisdom Community.
Centering Prayer: A Short Video Introduction
Hello, I’m Cynthia. Welcome to my quick and dirty introduction to centering prayer.
Cynthia at the 2019 Festival of Faiths
Cynthia participated in the 24th Annual Festival of Faiths, filmed in Louisville at the Kentucky Center for the Arts Bomhard Theater, April 25-27, 2019. Both of Cynthia’s sessions are now available to watch on YouTube. The Festival of Faiths is a sustained series of annual events and programs, whose mission is to promote interfaith understanding,…
Cynthia’s Interview on Buddha at the Gas Pump – February 2021
Help flows to us of its own volition…It doesn’t help the cosmos for a human being to fall apart and die and give up. The fact that we’re here at all is a consecration and we are sacred simply from the fact of being born. Because we have this chance to be a conscious pixel…
Oneness: The Secret Embrace – Thomas Keating’s Poetry, with Cynthia Bourgeault
Cynthia Bourgeault presents “Oneness: The Secret Embrace,” Thomas Keating’s final gift to the world, as expressed through the poetry of his later years. This is the first of three Zoom calls held April 30 – May 2, 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic, sponsored by Contemplative Outreach of South Africa and Contemplative Outreach International, with support…
Cynthia Open Us About Her New Book Eye of the Heart on the Goop Podcast
A different way to live virtuously: a Goop Podcast discussing Cynthia’s Eye of the Heart.
Cynthia on the “State of Emergence” Podcast with Terry Patten
Spiritual Mettle and the Good Company of the Holy: A conversation with Cynthia Bourgeault In September 2020, Cynthia joined Terry Patten to explore what it is to live and imagine from the “eye of the heart” in a seemingly apocalyptic world. They reflected on how each of them is relating to death and also discovering…
The Future Coming Toward Us: A Conversation on Gebser with Cynthia Bourgeault and Marcella Kraybill-Greggo
On Monday December 21, 2020 Cynthia Bourgeault sat down with Marcella Kraybill-Greggo on zoom to have a conversation about the work of Jean Gebser. This conversation came into being through the desire to share with the larger Wisdom Community how the Gebser teaching has come “toward us from the future” for such a time as…
Encountering the Heart of Silence: A Conversation with Cynthia Bourgeault in Two Parts
When people gather in silence, a deeper kind of collective, synergistic, numinous knowing unfolds. And that’s the only knowing that’s worth a damn, particularly when you’re working with the infinite. ~ Cynthia Bourgeault On February 25, 2019 Cynthia was interviewed for a podcast on the Encountering Silence website, hosted by Carl McColman with Cassidy Hall…
Cynthia’s ATA Presentation: Enstatic Personhood and the Teilhardian Evolutionary Vision
The video below is generously shared by the American Teilhard Association (ATA), recorded at their annual general meeting on June 12, 2021. The ATA explores and builds on the life and work of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, and aims to make his visionary thinking more widely available. To learn more, or to become a member…
Cynthia’s ATA Presentation: Enstatic Personhood and the Teilhardian Evolutionary Vision
The video below is generously shared by the American Teilhard Association (ATA), recorded at their annual general meeting on June 12, 2021. The ATA explores and builds on the life and work of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, and aims to make his visionary thinking more widely available. To learn more, or to become a member…
The Heart of Centering Prayer: Christian Nonduality in Theory and Practice (2016)
Cynthia delivered a four-part series on The Heart of Centering Prayer: Christian Nonduality in Theory and Practice at Boston College School of Theology and Ministry in November, 2016.
The Heart of Centering Prayer: Christian Nonduality in Theory and Practice – Video Trailer
Cynthia delivered a four-part series on The Heart of Centering Prayer: Christian Nonduality in Theory and Practice at Boston College School of Theology and Ministry in November, 2016.
The Roots of Hope Run Deep
Cynthia Bourgeault speaks with Science and NonDuality (SAND) hosts, providing an overview of the Imaginal Roadmap, offering a much broader perspective on our planetary situation at this point: a map which renews hope while at the same time ratcheting up the demand for personal spiritual transformation.
The Gateway to Freedom
Cynthia Bourgeault joined Richard Rohr and William Paul Young for the Center for Action and Contemplation’s Trinity: The Soul of Creation conference in April 2017. The Trinity—fully experienced and enjoyed—has the capacity to change everything. When we consciously engage in loving communion, we open ourselves to being transformed at the deepest levels.
Cultivating an Attitude of Entrusting
Cynthia Bourgeault joined Richard Rohr and William Paul Young for the Center for Action and Contemplation’s Trinity: The Soul of Creation conference in April 2017. The Trinity—fully experienced and enjoyed—has the capacity to change everything. When we consciously engage in loving communion, we open ourselves to being transformed at the deepest levels.
Trinity: The Soul of Creation
Cynthia Bourgeault joined Richard Rohr and William Paul Young for the Center for Action and Contemplation’s Trinity: The Soul of Creation conference in April 2017. The Trinity—fully experienced and enjoyed—has the capacity to change everything. When we consciously engage in loving communion, we open ourselves to being transformed at the deepest levels.