Explorations of the intermediate world between material and spiritual reality, where transformation occurs. Also referred to as World 24, or the Kingdom of Heaven.
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...
“Act as a true human being. And that's your legacy and gift, the practical sacrifice you make back into the planet.” Cynthia Bourgeault “What is required of us at this point? I believe the highest work that we can undertake with full confidence is to sow into the...
"The Fruits of the Spirit are all alchemical byproducts of conscious labor and intentional suffering." Cynthia Bourgeault The Calling of Human Beings "My own take, simply in a nutshell, is that what we human beings are called to produce in this planet are what have...
Balanced spiritual awareness through attention in the intellect, the emotions, and body sensation. “The foundation of my own understanding of Wisdom and Wisdom work is that it's not knowing more, it's knowing with more of you, more of your being engaged. That means...
Seeing the chiastic pattern as the higher arc of meaning in life beyond the linear events of temporality. “Because of the fundamentally spatial aspect of Imaginal causality, the bits and pieces inside the frame do not usually hook up in a linear fashion. More often,...
Cynthia Bourgeault talks of causality meaning in the Imaginal Realm. “Because of the fundamentally spatial aspect of imaginal causality, the bits and pieces inside the frame do not usually hook up in a linear fashion. More often they appear as simultaneous,...
Cynthia Bourgeault characterizes the Imaginal Realm, or World 24, as the spiritual, interpenetrating Kingdom of Heaven within. Defining the Imaginal "A realm is not fundamentally a place; it is more like a set of governing conventions that make possible a certain kind...
Spiritual heart, eye of the heart, as the gateway to higher realms. “Attachment to matter gives birth to passion without an Image of itself because it is drawn from that which is contrary to its higher nature. The result is that confusion and disturbance...
Quotes from Cynthia Bourgeault and Maurice Nicoll on Imaginal Seeing, or seeing from the eye of the heart. “It takes a higher seeing to spot a lower seeing that you’re trapped in.” Cynthia Bourgeault, Holding Our Planet Wisdom School, May 2024 “With...