The Contemplative Society is an inclusive non-profit association that encourages a deepening of contemplative prayer based in the Christian tradition while also welcoming and being supportive of other meditation traditions.
We offer a consistent and balanced path for spiritual growth and transformation rooted in prayer, silence, mindful work, and in the 1500-year-old wisdom of our Benedictine contemplative heritage.
The Society supports the work of Cynthia Bourgeault in her role of Principal Teacher and Advisor for the Contemplative Society and her vocation as a hermit and writer. We do so by sponsoring retreats, wisdom schools, and workshops led by Cynthia and other distinguished teachers of the Christian contemplative path, and through the sales of instructional and inspiration materials, in both textual and audio format, supportive of the contemplative life.
The Contemplative Society actively nurtures local teachers of the contemplative way and maintains an office to communicate with members and to provide a regular and balanced schedule of retreat, teaching and workshop opportunities.
Book Launch! - Cynthia's new book "The Wisdom Jesus" is now available from Shambhala.
 "If you put aside what you think you know about Jesus and approach the Gospels as though for the first time, something remarkable happens: Jesus emerges as a teacher of radical wisdom and compassion, whose aim is nothing less than the transformation of human consciousness."
"Deepest gratitude to you, Cynthia for giving voice to the spirit of the Living Christ".
- Rita Marsh, Director of the Davi Nikent Center for Human Wellness, Aspen, Colorado.
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Letter from Cynthia
June 15, 2008
Dear friends in the Contemplative Society,
As some of you may know, this spring has served up a cornucopia of opportunities for spiritual pilgrimage. This March it was India; in May (after a week of Centering Prayer teaching in England), I was privileged to be able to spend two weeks in Turkey and on the Greek islands of Paros and Patmos.
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TCS Launches a NEW 10 CD set
Mary Magdelene & the Path of Conscious Love
 Join Cynthia Bourgeault as she takes us on a vivid in-depth journey through the Canonical and Gnostic Gospels to reclaim the highly esteemed Mary Magdalene of the early church, and to reveal her role as principal teacher and apostle. Learn to see both Mary Magdalene and Jesus with new eyes and to understand Jesus' teaching on 'relationship' with others as a tool for transformation. Through this CD set, Cynthia leads us to uncover a "vision of Christianity based on transformative and redemptive love, versus renunciation and judgment -- a Christianity based on what connects us rather than what separates us".
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 On Thomas Merton 2 CD set - Live Recording Includes teachings from A Thomas Merton Reader , edited by Thomas P.
McDonnell. Topics include: true self/false self, purification by friction,
compassion, shadow work, love, life between the tensions, & integration. Click on album cover to order
 The Contemplative Journey
2 CD set - live recording Topics include: psychology & contemplation, unloading of the unconscious, the web of woundedness, depression & the dark night, fearfulness, effort & rest, walking meditation and why Christian meditation?
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