The Wisdom Way of Knowing has provided a sampling of videos and some related resources from the March 2018 Wisdom School “The Divine Exchange” held in Henderson, NC. View here, toward the lower part of the page.
At 2018’s Science and Nonduality conference, Cynthia Bourgeault gave a brief talk on the “higher” knowledge cultivated in contemplative practice and what it means to connect the mind with the heart, the nondual organ of perception.
This introduction to the second part of a two-part Mega Introductory Wisdom School serves to both introduce the topic of the Wisdom school and to introduce new contemplatives to the model of Wisdom Schools in general. (This Wisdom School took place March 11-16, 2018 in Kanuga, NC.)
This heartful interview begins with Cynthia Bourgeualt’s biography, then dives deep into her wealth of spiritual wisdom drawn from her personal contemplative practice and study of the Christian Wisdom path.
Festival of Faiths
Cynthia Bourgeault was part of the 22nd Festival of Faiths held in Louisville, KY, an interfaith event of music, poetry, art, and dialogue with internationally renowned spiritual leaders, thinkers, and practitioners. This year’s theme was “Compassion: Shining Like the Sun”. Below, Cynthia speaks to this topic, as well as teaches the practice of Centering Prayer.
The Heart of Compassion (Cynthia Bourgeault)
The Heart of Compassion (full program)
Centering Prayer
The Heart of Centering Prayer
As the year changed from 2016 to 2017, Aspen Chapel hosted Cynthia Bourgeault for a one-day workshop on her new book, The Heart of Centering Prayer: Christian Nonduality in Theory and Practice. Watch the videos they recorded during her time with them.
Workshop – part 1
Workshop – part 2
New Year’s Day service
Produced by The Wisdom Way of Knowing, Cynthia outlines what the Welcoming Practice is, how to use it, and what it can do for us as a tool for transformation in daily life.
Produced by The Wisdom Way of Knowing from the Tuscon Wisdom School (“Teilhard: Living in an Unfinished Universe”) in January 2017, Cynthia and Ilia discuss Teilhardian love, God as personal, and what it means to live from the depth of our own integrity.
Posted by Integral Life, a community dedicated to serving others by working on their own growth and evolution, Cynthia discusses her relationship to Jesus. Starting with her “First Communion”, she divulges what Jesus means to her and how this relationship, as guru-student, has impacted her life’s work.
The Heart of Centering Prayer: Christian Nonduality in Theory and Practice
Recorded on October 15, 2016 at Boston College in Chestnut Hill, MA (co-sponsored with Contepmlative Outreach Boston). Cynthia proposes that The Cloud of Unknowing‘s anonymous author describes the transition to unitive or nondual consciousness, and explains why Centering Prayer is so essential to the process.
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Interviewed by Renate McNay of Conscious.TV, Cynthia Bourgeault explains how she came to search for the missing message in Christianity. Her search led her to teachers such as Gurdjieff and Ouspensky, and the wisdom to bare suffering, God’s love, solitude, and silence.
In addition to Cynthia’s post-election blog post, she recorded a video for the Center for Action and Contemplation responding to the 2016 presidential election in the United Sates: “Now that the shake-up has occurred, it is our calling to use our heads and hearts in a broader, Teilhardian sort of way…”
A one-hour conversation on Wisdom Christianity featuring three Anglican/Episcopalian priests and a Baptist pastor: Cynthia Bourgeault (Wisdom Teacher), Porter Taylor (Episcopal Bishop), Matthew Wright (Episcopal Priest), and Mahan Siler (Retired Baptist Pastor).
In this short video series, five great teachers discuss how the future of humanity lies at the intersection of
contemplation and compassion. Cynthia Bourgeault discusses non-dual compassion: “… you are one undivided sphere of interchangeable consciousness in love … a concept which is really only accessible to the non-dual mind…”
StillPoint with Cynthia Bourgeault
“The Spiritual Life”
“A Universe Haunted with Thou-ness”
At the 2012 Science and Nonduality Conference, Cynthia Bourgeault speaks on Centering Prayer and the contribution it has to bring to the growing body of data confirming the neurological underpinnings of non-dual consciousness. What Christian mystics have long known as the practice of surrender, powerfully encapsulated in Centering Prayer’s distinctive method of meditation, proves itself to be a powerful foundation for the movement beyond the dualistic perception (with the subect/object dichotomy as its drive-shaft) into a unified — i.e., non-dual — field of perception.
In this remarkable and well-produced little thirteen minute video, Cynthia Bourgeault discusses how contemplative spiritual practice can be integrated into the contemporary educational program of young people in the Hong Kong International School. With clarity and insight, Cynthia presents principles that apply to many areas of life and illustrate the profound interface that can exist between spirituality and practical daily living.
The Ways of the Heart: Kenosis, Abundance, Singleness
Recorded on September 3, 2011, at Second Congregational Church in Greenfield, MA (produced and edited by Robert A. Jonas, Ed.D., www.emptybell.com).
Part 1 – Overview of the foundations and method of Centering Prayer
Part 2 – Attention of the heart
Part 3 – Putting the mind in the heart
Carole Crumley, Shalem’s Senior Program Director talks with Cynthia about Mary Magdalene in relation to her three primary roles as apostle, intimate friend of Jesus, and purveyor of wisdom. When these three roles are put together the implications for Christianity are profound and transformative.
Dr. Patricia Ann Hill from Seeking The Divine TV show interviews Cynthia on “The Meaning of Mary Magdalene: Discovering the Woman at the Heart of Christianity”.
Download the full interview on Grass Roots Community Network’s website.
Dr. Patricia Ann Hill from Seeking The Divine TV show interviews Cynthia on “The Wisdom Way of Knowing”. Cynthia discusses her understanding of the meaning of Wisdom, including the differences between information, knowledge and Wisdom, and Wisdom as an integration of mind, body, and spirit.
Download the full interview on Grass Roots Community Network’s website.
Seeking the Divine’s Conversations with Cynthia Bourgeault
Dr. Patricia Ann Hill and Lexie Potamkin from the Seeking The Divine TV show interviews Cynthia Bourgeault.
Download parts 2-8 on Grass Roots Community Network’s website (part 1 is missing).
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Part 8
Co-founder of Raising Consciousness NOW Veronika Tracy-Smith, PhD talks with Cynthia about Christian mysticism, releasing the go in daily life, becoming an agent of change, and raising consciousness.
Cynthia reflects on the nature of the early Christian communities: the role women played, how they informed the formation of the great monasteries of Europe, and what happened when only men were allowed to become priests and couldn’t marry.
Shambhala Publications’ senior editor with Cynthia Bourgeault
Dave O’Neil, of Cynthia’s home publisher, interviews Cynthia Bourgeault.
Part 1 – The unitive way
Part 2 – The future of Christianity
Part 3 – The Meaning of Mary Magdelene
Part 4 – Centering Prayer