One of the more surprising revelations to grow out of our winter’s pilot “Civics for Wisdom Students” project has been the growing realization that while our Constitution pays lips service to “the Common Good,” it actually makes very little constitutional provision for it. The founding documents come down heavily on the side of individual rights (explicitly laid out in the Bill of Rights and subsequent amendments), while failing even to minimally define what the Common Good might be, let alone how it might carry the day in a legal challenge posed by any apparent infringement of these traditionally sacrosanct rights.

From a Gebserian/evolutionary standpoint, it is not hard to see why this is so. The founding documents emerge from the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, just at the highwater mark of the “rational” (a.k.a., “deficient mental”) structure of consciousness. Within this structure of consciousness, egoic consciousness is the principal vehicle of self-awareness, and the individual is the sacred expression of this self-awareness. Selves are individuals—and individuals are the building blocks of ...

Dear Wisdom Seekers,

These final chapters of “The Wisdom Jesus” is where the rubber really hits the road. Since January more than ninety of us have been traveling along together with this important book. We’ve been invited to imaginatively alter our paradigms of thinking, to really question the foundation on which we live our lives. In a sense, to reconsider Christianity, from a place of inner recognition, inner receptivity and inner authority. We’ve had an opportunity to deconstruct and reconstruct some of our perhaps outdated, unhelpful or fuzzy theology that we’ve been accustomed to living inside of. I love the questions Cynthia poses right at the beginning of the book: What do we even mean by Christianity? What is the filter we’re looking through? To what extent are we sleep-walking through our own version of Christianity, versus actually having a sense of direct knowing and lived experience of the Wisdom Jesus? Do we sense that mutual loving? Do we know who Jesus is? Do we experience that heart-to- heart connection, that inter-abiding?

It’s so interesting to me ...

There is a hunger for spiritual witness and integration as we travel the Wisdom path in community. Wisdom Waypoints is exploring ways we can support “living the work”, grounding in practice and integrating the rich teachings from Cynthia and others into our lives.

We at Wisdom Waypoints/Northeast Wisdom want to create spaces for the Wisdom journey to consciously unfold, no matter where in the process one may be entering the Wisdom stream.

We imagine various portals or entry points. Two such portals we are envisioning include:

Wisdom community members who are wanting to deepen and integrate their personal, spiritual and communal Wisdom journey and would value some one-on-one Spiritual companioning may request a Wisdom Spiritual Companion Directory.  A list of seasoned Wisdom practitioners trained in the art of Spiritual Companioning will be distributed. Wisdom Waypoints will simply serve as a bridge, sharing this Wisdom Spiritual Companion Directory with anyone in the Wisdom Community who expresses interest. From there, community members may ...

This eCourse includes over 40 sessions filmed live during a five-day Imaginal Wisdom School with Cynthia Bourgeault at the Valle Crucis Conference Center in North Carolina August 16-21, 2020. The Course materials have been formatted and organized for easy access and use in an eCourse format, while carefully preserving the daily rhythm and structure of the live event. The materials have been designed to empower and equip you with everything you need to reproduce the Wisdom School learning experience in your own setting and circumstances. And when you enroll in this eCourse you’ll be joining a vibrant community of committed students as you experience the profound and practical nature of these teachings.

In this unique online learning opportunity, Cynthia Bourgeault illuminates the particular qualities and gifts of the Imaginal realm as an accessible world just beyond our own, and available to us for spiritual nurturance and exchange. Furthermore, as Cynthia emphatically states, “we are counted on for our uniquely human contribution to this exchange—a ...