Imaginal Activism: Exploring Cynthia Bourgeault’s Charge to Occupy the Essential Human Post
Thu, May 08
|Zoom
As humans, we exist intertidally within this earthly realm and the imaginal realm, also known as the Kingdom of God coarising within the Ray of Creation. Our task as True Humans, should we choose to accept it, is to responsibly navigate this intracoastal territory as, in the words of Cynthia Bourgea
Time & Location
May 08, 2025, 6:00 PM – 8:30 PM
Zoom
About The Event
“Imaginal Activism:
Exploring Cynthia Bourgeault’s Charge to Occupy the Essential Human Post.”
An online evening retreat, with Heather Ruce.
Thursday, May 8th, 2025
6:00pm to 8:30pm Pacific Time
(To accommodate diverse time-zones, this retreat is being recorded for its availability for later playback.)
Participation Fee: $45 or pay-from-the-heart.
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As humans, we exist intertidally within this earthly realm and the imaginal realm, also known as the Kingdom of God coarising within the Ray of Creation. Our task as True Humans, should we choose to accept it, is to responsibly navigate this intracoastal territory as, in the words of Cynthia Bourgeault, “surrendered beings who can exert force.” Call it the death of modernity, the Second Axial Age, the emerging Integral Structure of Consciousness, or something else, the disorientations humans are experiencing in an exponentially complex and intense set of outer and inner conditions calls for a reminder of our essential human post. Through practice, teaching, and reflection, this evening retreat will be a time of strengthening our Whole True Human Selves to continue to say yes to this task.
Materials Needed:
Comfortable seating (a cushion, chair, or blanket);
A journal and pen for reflection;
A quiet space free from distractions; and
Optional: a candle or sacred object to create a space of reverence.
Schedule (subject to change):
6:00 Session I: Welcome & Opening Practices followed by Wisdom Teaching.
7:10 Break.
7:20 Session II: Space for Reflection, Question & Response, Closing Practices.
8:30 End.
Heather Ruce facilitates Wisdom practice circles, groups, retreats, and schools. She offers teaching and guidance in various embodied Wisdom, contemplative and mindfulness practices including Centering Prayer, Christian meditation, sacred chanting, lectio divina, conscious work, Gurdjieff Exercises and Movements in service of seeing through the heart. Her approach is especially informed by her Masters education in family systems therapy and depth psychology and the teachings of Cynthia Bourgeault in the Christian Wisdom Tradition, Deborah Rose Longo in sacred movements, and Steve Hoskinson in the integration of trauma healing and complexity science through his model Organic Intelligence. Find out more about her at heatherruce.com