Cynthia Bourgeault

September 8, 2022 Videos and Podcasts

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. Imaginal Inspirations is hosted ... Read More

June 13, 2022 Videos and Podcasts

Cynthia Bourgeault on The Common Good

In this video interview Cynthia Bourgeault joins Garrison Institute founder Jonathan F.P. Rose for a conversation on the common good. Cynthia has worked extensively on understanding the common ... Read More

April 18, 2022 Cynthia's Blog

Cynthia’s Eastertide Message and Invitation

To all my beloveds, He is Risen! And has invited us now, in the spirit of St. Peter (“where I am going you cannot follow me now, but soon…”) to hit the trail. The bushwhacking is done. The path ... Read More

April 5, 2022 Cynthia's Blog

My Sojourn with the Episcopal House of Bishops

In this very heartening account, Cynthia Bourgeault shares her personal experience having presented her teaching on “radical kenosis” at the annual meeting of the Episcopal House of Bishops in ... Read More

January 9, 2022 Cynthia's Blog

BALANCING CENTERS, INTEGRATING STRUCTURES, LESSON 16

Cynthia Bourgeault continues her series of reflections upon Integral structures of consciousness and ideas brought forth in Jean Gebser’s book, Ever Present Origin (EPO). See below for ... Read More

January 6, 2022 Cynthia's Blog

The Courage to Show Up

This is not the New Year’s message I might have chosen to share with you all, my beloved Wisdom community. But it is the only message that rings true in me this year, that speaks from my own ... Read More

January 4, 2022 Cynthia's Blog

THREE CENTERED AWARENESS, LESSON 15

Cynthia Bourgeault continues her series of reflections upon Integral structures of consciousness and ideas brought forth in Jean Gebser’s book, Ever Present Origin (EPO). See below for ... Read More

December 22, 2021 Cynthia's Blog, News & Updates

New Book: The Corner of Fourth and Nondual by Cynthia Bourgeault

In The Corner of Fourth and Nondual, a title inspired by Thomas Merton’s moment of revelation ‘at the Corner of Fourth and Walnut’ in his celebrated essay ‘A Member of the Human Race’, Cynthia ... Read More

November 17, 2021 News & Updates

Letters to the Wisdom Community from Cynthia and Wisdom Waypoints

Dear friends, I am just back from European travels where I had the pleasure of guiding a few retreats and events, and feel re-invigorated as in-person gatherings are once again opening up. If you ... Read More

September 12, 2021 Videos and Podcasts

Back on the Ground: Interview with Cynthia Bourgeault

In this podcast interview with Len Edgerly, host of the Kindle Chronicles, Cynthia Bourgeault shares what she has been doing and considering through the Pandemic shutdown period, and what is on ... Read More

September 5, 2021 Cynthia's Blog

Constraint and the Common Good

For prior blogs in this series exploring the common good and the potential of an emerging Integral structure of consciousness, please refer to the links included below this post. From everything ... Read More

September 1, 2021 Cynthia's Blog

REIMAGINING THE COMMON GOOD: The Common Good as Good, Part 2

For prior blogs in this series exploring the common good and the potential of an emerging Integral structure of consciousness, please refer to the links included below this post. This is the ... Read More

August 30, 2021 Cynthia's Blog

REIMAGINING THE COMMON GOOD: The Common Good as Good, Part 1

For prior blogs in this series exploring the common good and the potential of an emerging Integral structure of consciousness, please refer to the links included below this post. The third aspect ... Read More

August 20, 2021 Cynthia's Blog

Autopoiesis: A Continuing Blog Series on the Common Good

For other blogs in this series exploring the common good and the potential of an emerging Integral structure of consciousness, please refer to the links included below this post. The ... Read More

August 18, 2021 Cynthia's Blog

The Common Good from an Evolutionary Perspective

The following provides further reflections on the “Civics for Wisdom Students” theme, as introduced in the prior post EVOLUTIONARY THEORY AND THE COMMON GOOD: The Beginnings of a Wisdom Inquiry ... Read More

July 1, 2021 Videos and Podcasts

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 ... Read More

June 27, 2021 Cynthia's Blog

EVOLUTIONARY THEORY AND THE COMMON GOOD: The Beginnings of a Wisdom Inquiry

One of the more surprising revelations to grow out of our winter’s pilot “Civics for Wisdom Students” project has been the growing realization that while our Constitution pays lips service to ... Read More

June 4, 2021 Cynthia's Blog

IMAGINAL SYSTEMATICS – Eye of the Heart Book Review

The following review of Cynthia’s book Eye of the Heart: A Spiritual Journey into the Imaginal Realm is provided by David Lorimer from Paradigm Explorer, the journal of The Scientific and ... Read More

May 23, 2021 Cynthia's Blog

ENSTASY, LESSON 14

Cynthia Bourgeault continues her series of reflections upon Integral structures of consciousness and ideas brought forth in Jean Gebser’s book, Ever Present Origin (EPO). See below for ... Read More

May 18, 2021 Cynthia's Blog

Go Beyond the Mind, LESSON 13

Cynthia Bourgeault continues her unfolding series of reflections upon Integral structures of consciousness and ideas brought forth in Jean Gebser’s masterful book, Ever Present Origin. If ... Read More

May 1, 2021 Cynthia's Blog, News & Updates

LEANING IN – A letter from Cynthia

The following letter is offered by Cynthia Bourgeault, May 1, 2021 Dear wisdom friends, By now the word is out that I am officially stepping back from active duty as a core faculty member at the ... Read More

April 13, 2021 Cynthia's Blog, News & Updates

Mystical Courage by Cynthia Bourgeault

Now available to purchase. MYSTICAL COURAGE Commentaries on Selected Contemplative Exercises by G.I. Gurdjieff, as Compiled by Joseph Azize By CYNTHIA BOURGEAULT When the global pandemic struck ... Read More

March 29, 2021 News & Updates

Holy Week Events and Resources

The following are offered to guide and deepen your Pascal journey through Holy Week, Easter, and beyond: We need to hear the word “love” mentioned as we go into Holy Week. As we stand here in a ... Read More

March 25, 2021 News & Updates

What’s New with Cynthia

The following update was recently posted by friends at The Contemplative Society, and provides a great summary of my recent and upcoming activities. What’s new with our Principal Teacher ... Read More

February 27, 2021 Cynthia's Blog

FURTHER TO TIME, LESSON 12

There are two other things you should know about Gebser’s “aperspectival” time: it is non-exclusionary, and it is purposive. Linear or perspectival time, the time we’re used to, is exclusionary. ... Read More

February 21, 2021 Cynthia's Blog

THE FACES OF TIME, LESSON 11

Whatever you may take Gebser’s Integral structure of consciousness to be, its most striking characteristic is that it entails a radically different approach to time. Time presents in a strikingly ... Read More

February 9, 2021 Cynthia's Blog, Videos and Podcasts

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 ... Read More

February 5, 2021 Cynthia's Blog

THE HORSE, THE CARRIAGE, AND THE DRIVER: A GURDJIEFFIAN SLANT ON A GEBSERIAN CONUNDRUM, LESSON 10

In my last post I invited us all to begin thinking more specifically in terms of the gifts and strengths contributed to the whole by the magic and mythic structures of consciousness. By now we’ve ... Read More

February 5, 2021 Cynthia's Blog

THE BATON HAS BEEN PASSED. CAN WE NOW RUN WITH IT? LESSON 9

No, dear friends, I didn’t send you off on a wild goose chase to immerse yourself in 450 pages of some of the most dense and intellectually challenging prose ever crafted on this planet. That was ... Read More

February 3, 2021 News & Updates

Cynthia’s Guidance on Upcoming Course Offerings

If you’re considering the multiple online course opportunities with Cynthia that are coming up, she provides this message to the Wisdom community and offers some additional input for ... Read More

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