“When the field of vision has been unified, the inner being comes to rest, and that inner peaceableness flows into the outer world as harmony and compassion.”
— Cynthia Bourgeault, The Wisdom Jesus
Cynthia Bourgeault is a modern day mystic, Episcopal priest, writer, and internationally acclaimed retreat leader. She divides her time between solitude in her seaside hermitage in Maine and a demanding schedule traveling globally to spread the recovery of the Christian contemplative and Wisdom paths. She is a faculty member emeritus of the Center for Action and Contemplation and the founding director of an international network of Wisdom schools, uniting classic Christian mystical and monastic teaching with contemporary practices of mindfulness and embodied presence. She has been honored as one of the 100 most spiritually influential living people in 2021.
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An unexpected Eastertide gift, this four-part series by Cynthia Bourgeault offers a profound reclaiming of Christ’s death and resurrection as a cosmogonic event. Recorded at her home during Holy Week, these intimate talks are now available to the entire Wisdom Waypoints community.
Holy Week: A Cosmic Seeing
Amplify your practice. Join our global collective in meditation sits and online chants. Explore inner work practices to keep you present throughout each day.
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How does one engage “voluntary acceptance of constriction and diminishment?” Our newest course explores Christian mystical perspectives on aging and the Gurdjieffian second body. An all new teaching that follows seamlessly upon our earlier course Building Second Body.
Nurturing Second Body
Recent Book
Holy Week Liturgies
In 2010, Cynthia Bourgeault, with assistance from Ward Bauman and Darlene Franz, composed a series of liturgies for use during the Holy Week retreat at the Episcopal House of Prayers in Collegeville. This series of simple chants, readings, rituals and prayers can be used by individuals and groups. The book is an excellent resource for liturgists or those writing contemplative liturgies and a wonderful point of reflection for all of those walking the way of the cross.
This book is available as a downloadable 90 page PDF from Wisdom Waypoints
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Blogs
Cynthia’s published articles cover a breadth of topics that take us on a journey toward a deeper embrace of our human frailty, messiness, and limitations as the very path and locus of transformation. Read up on Cynthia’s theological insights on the cutting edge between contemplation and “ordinary” life.
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Courses
E-courses provide an easy way to dive in deeper to some of Cynthia’s most powerful teachings without having to leave home! There are numerous opportunities to participate in a variety of online formats, as offered by partnering organizations and course providers.
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Videos & Podcasts
Here you’ll find Cynthia in lively conversation with some leading-edge spiritual commentators on topics of both perennial and current interest…
