Courses
Each of our online courses are available to begin immediately and are offered as a self-paced journey allowing you to move through the sessions at a speed which works best for your learning style. Your purchased courses will always be available in your Wisdom Waypoints Account Dashboard for ongoing review and reflection. Our courses feature the teachings of Cynthia Bourgeault and focus on:
- interweaving the Wisdom path with G.I. Gurdjieff’s Fourth Way material
- accessing Wisdom in the modern world
- creating an understanding of Wisdom Christianity
- exploring Wisdom teachings for Advent and Holy Week
Wisdom and the Fourth Way
Gurdjieff for Christians
In this foundational course, Cynthia Bourgeault offers a Gurdjieffian immersion inviting students into a vital body of teaching which still remains largely hidden in our culture. Across 10 sessions, Cynthia shares insights and applications on Gurdjieff’s key topics while weaving the thread into “dialogue with Jesus’ vision in extraordinarily powerful ways.”
Nurturing Second Body: Building the Higher Collectivity
How does one engage “voluntary acceptance of constriction and diminishment?” Exploring Christian mystical perspectives on aging and the Gurdjieffian second body, this course follows seamlessly on Building Second Body and includes a guest lecture by Gurdjieffian scholar Michael Pittman.
Building Second Body
How do we develop the spiritual substances and conscious presence needed in our world today? In building our second, or Kesdjan, body we begin to have a vessel to hold and enact higher and finer dimensions of consciousness. Cynthia considers these our foundational ”technologies for transformation.”
Wisdom and the Modern World
Holding Our Planet
This Wisdom School is aimed at contemplatives of all spiritual pathways who are deeply concerned about the global, cultural, and ecological crises imperiling our continued human existence on the planet. Join us as we come together to deepen our capacity to bring “skillful means” to the situation.
Becoming a Wisdom Elder: A Teaching on Conscious Aging
What does it mean to age consciously? A three-hour teaching on the deep spiritual possibilities coiled within the aging journey. Expanding on her “10 Guidelines for Conscious Aging,” Cynthia explores how one can become a Wisdom Elder.
Wisdom and Evil
As our world continues to reel in what feels like a thickening pandemic of evil, the need for a Wisdom perspective is urgent. What is a useful understanding of evil? How do we effectively deal with evil and move into enlightened action? This course offers teachings and practices from the Wisdom Christian tradition.
Rebuilding Trust
Collective trust has fallen to a catastrophic low. In this course, Cynthia Bourgeault, with Matthew Wright, provides a deep immersion into another way of approaching and working with trust. Drawing on the experience of revered mystics and martyrs, she offers teachings and practices to access a potent, hidden wellspring of trust.
Wisdom Christianity
The Wisdom Jesus Encounters Our Disordered World
A free course offering presentations, readings and discussions based on Cynthia Bourgeault’s The Wisdom Jesus and Richard Rohr’s The World, The Flesh, and the Devil.
The Mystery of Death: A Holy Isle Wisdom School
Cynthia invites us into an exploration of the moment of death, from both a personal and Christological perspective. In this evocative teaching, Cynthia Bourgeault invites us to consider life and death through the illuminating lens of Hungarian-born Jesuit Ladislaus Boros, drawing from his mystical classic The Mystery of Death.
Advent Teachings
Integral Light Shining in the Dark: An Advent Illumination
Working with Jean Gebser’s core ideas around time, transparency, spiritual generativity, and “intensification of the present,” Cynthia Bourgeault offers a new window of insight on classic Advent themes.
Holy Week Teachings
Holy Week: A Cosmic Seeing
Recorded at her home during Holy Week, these intimate talks were a “bucket list” teaching opportunity for Cynthia — now available to the entire Wisdom Waypoints community on a donation basis. In the four-part series, Cynthia offers a profound reclaiming of Christ’s death and resurrection as a cosmogonic event.
A Journey Through Holy Week: The Passion Libretto
A free gift to the Wisdom community, the Passion Libretto is an invitation to journey through the heart of Holy Week. Each day in this free five-day course offers a reflection, music from the Libretto, and a video commentary by Cynthia Bourgeault.