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Hello Contemplatives! We’re very excited to announce the publication of our latest recording: Practicing the Living Presence: Discovering the Mind of Christ Within (Part One), by Cynthia Bourgeault In this teaching, Cynthia is accompanied by a group Christian contemplatives in Victoria BC over a 4 year period from 1999 – 2003 and 30 sessions, as they worked their way through Kabir Helminski’s practical, ground-truthed Sufi text “Living Presence: A Sufi Way to Mindfulness & the Essential...

Hello contemplative friends! In our part of the world, we’ve bid farewell to summer heat, and now feel the cool of fall settling on the west coast. The familiar turning of the seasons again reminds us of the never-ending rhythms of Sacred Presence. With the turn comes the shift of creative energy that is so needed to plan and implement the pieces that will see us through the winter months. Now is a good time to update you on the new movements here at The Contemplative Society, and how these...

Dear contemplative friends, Rumi’s words are a reminder that in 2020 we’ve felt deep wounds in the body of the world. Just like we await the birth of the Christ light in this shadow time of year, the world is aching for healing Light amid its myriad wounds. The Light is manifested as radical hope in each of us and shines as divine love in all our global body. Cynthia Bourgeault reminds us: “Hope’s home is at the innermost point in us, and in all things. It is a quality of aliveness. It does...

Writing just after the November 2020 US election, Cynthia Bourgeault shares this: “Well, the oasis of grace miraculously opened, and now it’s time to roll up our collective sleeves and get on with the healing work! I know that my own first assignment has something to do with helping to expose— and hopefully defuse— some of the reactivity and sanctimoniousness that boils just below the surface in my immediate peer group, the spiritual liberal intelligentsia.” What unfolds is a series of...