Explorations of the intermediate world between material and spiritual reality, where transformation occurs. Also referred to as World 24, or the Kingdom of Heaven.
“It's the chance to play beyond your death in the Communion of Saints and still be a conscious participant. The demand for compassion remains unbroken throughout the realms.” Cynthia Bourgeault The Nature of Sainthood "Saints live the light, warmth and life of heaven....
Shock points are a cosmological thin place where exchange between the worlds occurs with particular intensity, according to the Law of Seven. Cynthia Bourgeault The Law of Seven and Hesitation Points "Gurdjieff's Law of Seven says basically there are two hesitation...
“Real miracles are brought about by attracting the laws of a higher world to act in a lower world." Maurice Nicoll Miracles as Divine-Human Collaboration "Miracles are fruits of the union of the whole, concentrated human being with cosmic truth, beauty and...
“With the engagement of this property of sympathetic resonance, being able to fully enter the insides of things, and a blind beholding into the naked being of God himself.” Cynthia Bourgeault Meaning as Resonance "Meaning is not explanation. Meaning is resonance."...
From our earth plane perspective, this manifests as a series of meaningful coincidences or striking synchronicity. And these features are indeed the primary hallmark of Imaginal causality at play. Cynthia Bourgeault Contrasting Forms of Causality "In World 48, it's...
"If you're yearning for God ... just pause right in the middle of that ache and feel it and understand it as the innate language of the divine love for you." Cynthia Bourgeault Yearning as Divine Reciprocity "As we enter the path of transformation, the most valuable...
Exploring one of Plato’s four cardinal virtues: Wisdom, Courage, Temperance (sobriety or hygiene), and Justice. [The image: The higher vessel exchanging with the lower, or perhaps the reverse—an unbroken circuit of transformation. Gurdjieff might call it a depiction...
"The long arc of evolution bends toward human consciousness." Cynthia Bourgeault The Nature of Consciousness "Consciousness and Conscience are similar in their respective spheres, one being in the Intellectual Center, the other in the Emotional Center. Consciousness...
"When Jesus said, in my father's house are many mansions, I think that the Great Chain of Being's maps allow us one way to imagine what he's talking about." Cynthia Bourgeault The Universal Teaching of Many Mansions "Virtually all the wisdom traditions of the world...
Time and consciousness, time and attention. “I’m more and more persuaded that attention is the new time in Gebser’s Integral [structure of consciousness].” Cynthia Bourgeault Traditional Views of Time "Time creates nothing; it only combines and recombines that which...
Intellectual presence decreases our alertness to present moment awareness. “The whole work is based on extending the diameter of the present moment through conscious awareness so that it spans the gap from your birth to your death. It is possible to become so...
You have to find something in yourself that already lives beyond death and begin to live out of it now: Second Body, Kesdjan Body. Cynthia Bourgeault The Essential Definition “You have to find something in yourself that already lives beyond death and begin to...