Videos, Podcasts and Audio
Videos and Podcasts
Here you’ll find a rich feast of video and podcast resources from various sources and partnering organizations.
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…
Audio
Here you’ll find a rich feast of audio resources from various sources and partnering organizations.
Audio Recordings by Wisdom Waypoints
Gurdjieff for Christian Contemplatives: Audio Files for Wisdom School 2012
One of the best introductions to Gurdjieff and Fourth Way Work for Wisdom School students.
Gurdjieff and Teilhard in Conversation: Part II
Mr. Gurdjieff Meet Mr. Teilhard: A Wisdom School recorded by Bob Sabath at Claymont Seminars on October 26-31, 2020..
Stonington 2020 Audio Files: The Imaginal Realm
A small gathering of friends met with Cynthia in Stonington Maine September 6-10, 2020 to work with Gurdjieff’s contemplative exercises and Cynthia’s new book Eye of the Heart.
Recordings from the Contemplative Society
Find the full catalog of Audios for purchase from The Contemplative Society HERE
Recordings with Cynthia Bourgeault
Practicing Living Presence: Discovering the Mind of Christ Within, Part 1
“Since the Wisdom principle is imperishable in the human soul, it is built right into the blueprint of who we are as people.” (Living Presence, Chapter 1, Cynthia Bourgeault)
Conscious Love
In this newly revised teaching, Cynthia Bourgeault explores how conscious love flows from our deeper selves, beyond identification, craving, wanting, and needing. We discover that conscious love abides beyond all emotional states and polarities in a place where boundaries are diminished and our egoic perceptions dissolve. By living from this deep and ever present wellspring,…
Contemplative Remembering
How can ancient contemplative skills contribute to the needs of today’s world? In this teaching, Cynthia Bourgeault offers a compelling answer. In particular, she addresses the modern dilemma of how to end the cycles of violence between individuals, religions, and cultures without dishonouring or discounting those who have been victimized. Drawing on the seminal work…
Deepening the Practice of Centering Prayer
In this five-day deep immersion retreat, Cynthia moves beyond the scope of introductory Centering Prayer material to focus on the true self and its expression in the world around us. We discover that it is through spiritual non-possessiveness, surrender, and self-emptying that our essence becomes connected to the flow of Being Itself. This path is…
Desert Fathers and Mothers
Be prepared to discover in this set of teachings the original desert fathers and mothers in a whole new way—as Christian disciples and sages. Cynthia begins by exploring how the desert is a perfect setting both physically and metaphorically for the spiritual seeker. You are invited to recognize your own personal desert and to work…
Going Deeper into the Mystery of Christ
In this recording, Cynthia Bourgeault looks at some of the great mystical texts in the Christian tradition that speak, for example, of “all things being gathered into Christ,” and “the image of the unseen God.” She asks, “Is there a fundamental law, an organizing principle in this particular space time continuum, in this great relational…
Teilhard: A Visionary for Our Time
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (1881-1955) was a Jesuit priest, a mystic, and a well known paleontologist. He devoted his life to bridging the scientific and spiritual dimensions of human existence. In this recording, Cynthia presents Teilhard’s vision in a way that provides us with direction and hope for engaging with today’s local and global concerns.…
The Divine Exchange: Audio Teaching by Cynthia offered by The Contemplative Society
In this teaching, we learn how, in the great exchange of giving and receiving, we are fed by and feed other realms outside our earthly reality. We come to see the relationship among the visible and invisible realms not as a ladder of hierarchical steps to climb and escape lower states of being, but as…
The Holy Trinity and the Law of Three
In her book, The Holy Trinity and the Law of Three, Cynthia Bourgeault explores the hidden—or forgotten—nature of the traditional Christian symbol, the Trinity. She enriches Christian theology and history on the subject with G.I. Gurdjieff’s Laws of Three and Seven, discovering a guiding principle to help mend and evolve Christianity, humanity, and our relationship to the…
Through Holy Week with Mary Magdalene
Mary Magdalene is the apostle to the apostles, a wisdom teacher, a contemplative, a woman of spiritual purity, a bold and tenacious witness, and Jesus’ beloved companion—these views of the so-called healed prostitute are unfamiliar to most of us; nevertheless, they are views supported by growing evidence from biblical and ancient text scholarship. Cynthia Bourgeault…
Christophany: Experiencing the Fullness of Christianity
Delving deeply in Raimon Panikkar’s book Christophany: The Fullness of Man, Cynthia Bourgeault deftly illuminates this extraordinary cosmological vision, and boldly asserts “…these are ideas that could change the face of Christianity!”
Recordings with Matthew Wright
Eye of the Heart with Matthew Wright
In this set Matthew Wright guides us deep into the Jesus wisdom tradition, a heart-centered (rather than a purely mind-centered) journey toward being fully human while grounded in cosmic oneness. He ties together the wisdom gleaned from the Gospel of Thomas, the Gospel of Mary Magdalene, and Teilhard de Chardin’s writings. The main themes of…
The Way of Union: Teaching by Matthew Wright
In this retreat recording, Matthew Wright guides us through an insightful comparison of the two great mystical traditions of Christianity and Sufism. He describes the historic setting of Islam and introduces us to the teachings of Muhammad, Ibn al-Arabi and other Sufi writers. At the same time he draws parallels to the wisdom gospels of…