Cynthia Bourgeault – Bob Sabath

May 5, 2021 News & Updates, Wisdom School

Imaginal Wisdom School eCourse with Cynthia Bourgeault

This eCourse includes over 40 sessions filmed live during a five-day Imaginal Wisdom School with Cynthia Bourgeault at the Valle Crucis Conference Center in North Carolina August 16-21, 2020. The ... Read More

February 9, 2021 News & Updates

Cynthia honored as one of the 100 most spiritually influential living people of 2021

By the skin of her teeth (the way she always seems to do things), Cynthia has made it onto the prestigious Watkins List, honoring the hundred most spiritually influential people of 2021. This ... Read More

January 18, 2021 Cynthia's Blog

Towards a Citizenship of Conscience

Note from Cynthia: Jonathan Steele is one of the younger members of Cynthia’s Wisdom network—but in chronological age only! The following reflection, posted on the day following the assault on ... Read More

January 18, 2021 Cynthia's Blog

INTEGRAL AS THEOTOKOS: A WESTERN TAKE ON ORIGIN: GEBSER, LESSON 8

Gebser names his book The Ever Present Origin, and Origin is indeed the center point around which everything else in his in his magisterial teaching revolves. But his vision of Origin is unique, ... Read More

January 7, 2021 Cynthia's Blog

Practice: As We Enter the Feast of Epiphany

Dear Wisdom Friends, As we enter this Feast of Epiphany, celebrating the arrival of Holy Wisdom at the stable, I invite you all to join me over the next twenty-four hours in keeping Wisdom vigil ... Read More

December 28, 2020 Cynthia's Blog

WHAT INTEGRAL IS NOT: GEBSER, LESSON 7

Sometimes I wish we could all just declare a temporary moratorium on the term “Integral!!!” What Gebser intended when he chose that name for his emerging fifth structure of consciousness is ... Read More

December 22, 2020 Cynthia's Blog, Videos and Podcasts

Advent 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 ... Read More

December 9, 2020 Cynthia's Blog

THE MYTHIC AND MAGIC STRUCTURES: GEBSER, LESSON 6

“You Can’t Go Home Again…” I know that a number of you, in growing awareness of the of the blind spots and shadow elements in the mental structure of consciousness, have been casting a fond ... Read More

December 1, 2020 Cynthia's Blog

THE DEFICIENT MENTAL STRUCTURE: GEBSER, LESSON 5

Structures of consciousness have their own life cycles. When a new structure bursts definitively onto the stage of history, it is typically at its most vital and creative, filled with powerful ... Read More

November 23, 2020 Cynthia's Blog

THE PERSPECTIVAL MAINSPRING: GEBSER LESSON 4

All structures of consciousness have their center of gravity, a core value or “moral mainspring” around which all else is ordered. Often unstated and even unrecognized, it nonetheless ... Read More

November 17, 2020 Cynthia's Blog

THE VIEW FROM THE PERISCOPE: GEBSER – LESSON 3

Gebser’s brilliant unpacking of the structures of consciousness in terms of PERSPECTIVE (as it is understood in the art world rather than in philosophy) gives us a powerful new visual tool ... Read More

November 14, 2020 Cynthia's Blog

UNPERSPECTIVAL, PERSPECTIVAL, APERSPECTIVAL: GEBSER, LESSON 2

Gebser’s cultural home base was the world of art. He was a personal friend of Pablo Picasso’s, and examples culled from art history dot the landscape of his THE EVER-PRESENT ORIGIN, ... Read More

November 12, 2020 Cynthia's Blog

STAGES VERSUS STRUCTURES: EXPLORING JEAN GEBSER, LESSON 1

If you’ve cut your teeth on the Ken Wilber roadmaps, the Gebser terrain will at first look reassuringly familiar. The familiar levels of consciousness are all right there, even designated by ... Read More

November 9, 2020 Cynthia's Blog

AN INVITATION TO BEGIN THE HEALING WORK

Well, the oasis of grace miraculously opened, and now it’s time to roll up our collective sleeves and get on with the healing work! I know that my own first assignment has something to do with ... Read More

October 30, 2020 Audio, Wisdom School

Gurdjieff and Teilhard in Conversation, Part II

A Wisdom School at Claymont Seminars was recorded on October 26-31, 2020. This was part two of a Wisdom School hosted last year: Mr. Gurdjieff Meet Mr. Teilhard which focused on the congruence ... Read More

October 2, 2020 Videos and Podcasts

CYNTHIA ON THE “STATE OF EMERGENCE” PODCAST WITH TERRY PATTEN

Spiritual Mettle and the Good Company of the Holy: A conversation with Cynthia Bourgeault Cynthia joins Terry Patten to explore what it is to live and imagine from the “eye of the heart” in a ... Read More

September 23, 2020 Videos and Podcasts

CYNTHIA OPENS UP 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 ... Read More

September 10, 2020 Audio, Wisdom School

Stonington 2020 Audio Files: The Imaginal Realm

A small gathering of friends met with Cynthia at Stonington Maine September 6-10, working on some of the Gurdjieff exercises in Joseph Azize’s new book and doing a deep dive into ... Read More

May 2, 2020 Videos and Podcasts

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 ... Read More

March 1, 2020 Cynthia's Blog

I AM NOT A SPACE THAT GOD DOES NOT OCCUPY: PART VIII – THE EYE OF THE HEART

This is Part VIII of an eight-part Blog series that began on Sunday January 12, 2020. Cynthia introduced the series with this message: Dear Friends, As the new decade gets underway, it feels like ... Read More

February 23, 2020 Cynthia's Blog

I AM NOT A SPACE THAT GOD DOES NOT OCCUPY: PART VII – SEEING

This is Part VII of an eight-part Blog series that began on Sunday January 12, 2020. Cynthia introduced the series with this message: Dear Friends, As the new decade gets underway, it feels like ... Read More

February 16, 2020 Cynthia's Blog

I AM NOT A SPACE THAT GOD DOES NOT OCCUPY: PART VI – A BRIEF HISTORY OF CONSCIOUSNESS, CONTINUED

This is Part VI of an eight-part Blog series that began on Sunday January 12, 2020. Cynthia introduced the series with this message: Dear Friends, As the new decade gets underway, it feels like ... Read More

February 9, 2020 Cynthia's Blog

I AM NOT A SPACE THAT GOD DOES NOT OCCUPY: PART V – A BRIEF HISTORY OF CONSCIOUSNESS

This is Part V of an eight-part Blog series that began on Sunday January 12, 2020. Cynthia introduced the series with this message: Dear Friends, As the new decade gets underway, it feels like an ... Read More

February 2, 2020 Cynthia's Blog

I AM NOT A SPACE THAT GOD DOES NOT OCCUPY: PART IV – JESUS WAS NOT A MONOTHEIST

This is Part IV of an eight-part Blog series that began on Sunday January 12, 2020. Cynthia introduced the series with this message: Dear Friends, As the new decade gets underway, it feels like ... Read More

January 26, 2020 Cynthia's Blog

I AM NOT A SPACE THAT GOD DOES NOT OCCUPY: PART III – PANIKKAR

This is Part III of an eight-part Blog series that began on Sunday January 12, 2020. Cynthia introduced the series with this message: Dear Friends, As the new decade gets underway, it feels like ... Read More

January 19, 2020 Cynthia's Blog

I AM NOT A SPACE THAT GOD DOES NOT OCCUPY: PART II – PANTHEISM

This is Part II of an eight-part Blog series that began on Sunday January 12, 2020. Cynthia introduced the series with this message: Dear Friends, As the new decade gets underway, it feels like ... Read More

January 12, 2020 Cynthia's Blog

I AM NOT A SPACE THAT GOD DOES NOT OCCUPY: PART I – THE LIGHT WITHIN

Dear Friends, As the new decade gets underway, it feels like an appropriate moment to share one of my earlier essays, which is still to my mind one of the best things I’ve ever written. It was ... Read More

June 12, 2019 Videos and Podcasts

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 ... Read More

April 16, 2019 Cynthia's Blog

ANOINTING JESUS: HOW MARY MAGDALENE INITIATED THE LOVE AT THE HEART OF CHRISTIANITY

A response by Cynthia Bourgeault to the release of Mary Magdalene, the movie After hearing about the release of the movie Mary Magdalene overseas last year, I have been waiting with some ... Read More

April 12, 2019 Videos and Podcasts

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 ... Read More

November 13, 2018 Cynthia's Blog

INTRODUCING THE IMAGINAL

A three-part blog series by Cynthia Bourgeault As many of you know, I have been breaking ground on a new book on the Imaginal Realm. While “breaking ground” may be a bit of an overstatement, I at ... Read More

March 1, 2018 Cynthia's Blog

WHUR WE COME FROM…

“Teachers of contemplative Christianity, who acknowledged the limitations of human knowledge and the inconstant nature of human sentiment, instead encouraged a commitment to practice. A ... Read More

September 18, 2017 Cynthia's Blog

HEALING THE ELEPHANT IN THE WOMB

This piece by Cynthia Bourgeault is the seventh in a series beginning with “A Surprising Ecumenism,” her response to “Evangelical Fundamentalism and Catholic Integralism in the ... Read More

September 11, 2017 Cynthia's Blog

FULLNESS OF LIFE

This piece by Cynthia Bourgeault is the sixth in a series beginning with “A Surprising Ecumenism,” her response to “Evangelical Fundamentalism and Catholic Integralism in the ... Read More

September 7, 2017 Cynthia's Blog

TEILHARD, THE PERSONAL, AND THE DEVELOPMENTAL SOUL

This piece by Cynthia Bourgeault is the fifth in a series beginning with “A Surprising Ecumenism,” her response to “Evangelical Fundamentalism and Catholic Integralism in the ... Read More

August 28, 2017 Cynthia's Blog

THE DEVELOPMENTAL SOUL

This piece by Cynthia Bourgeault is the fourth in a series beginning with “A Surprising Ecumenism,” her response to “Evangelical Fundamentalism and Catholic Integralism in the ... Read More

August 23, 2017 Cynthia's Blog

WHEN DOES LIFE BEGIN?

This piece by Cynthia Bourgeault is the third in a series beginning with “A Surprising Ecumenism,” her response to “Evangelical Fundamentalism and Catholic Integralism in the ... Read More

July 26, 2017 Cynthia's Blog

ABORTION, PRO-LIFE, AND THE SECULAR STATE: A MODEST PROPOSAL

This piece by Cynthia Bourgeault is the second in a series beginning with “A Surprising Ecumenism,” her response to “Evangelical Fundamentalism and Catholic Integralism in the ... Read More

July 17, 2017 Cynthia's Blog

A SURPRISING ECUMENISM…

Both my spirits and my hopes have been raised by the recent appearance of an important and already game-changing new article in the most recent edition of La Civiltà Cattolica. This is a ... Read More

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