A benediction on Integral consciousness May the hush of this hour gather all that stirs in you.May you release the day's divided time, its metronomic beat.May you bestill and still movinginto another intensity.May you radiate divine presence within your finite form,...
The teachings contain many insights into awakened awareness and the journey from mechanical to conscious living.
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Mystical Hope and Love
“A new sense of hope—a hope that's grounded in the faith, hope and love of consciousness." Cynthia Bourgeault Characteristics of Mystical Hope "Mystical Hope has three characteristics. First of all, that it's not tied to outcome. It's not an optimistic feeling based...
Centering Prayer and the Spacious Self
“In Centering Prayer, your attitude towards life becomes more spacious, more unboundaried, more present.” Cynthia Bourgeault The Nature of Spaciousness "Think for a minute and go inside yourself and see if you can find the difference between that part of you that is...
Joy and Blissfulness
“Blissfulness is the state of the human being where spirit, soul and body are united in a comprehensive rhythm.” "What is joy? What is it in its deeper sense? "Seen in the light of the Arcanum 'The World'—the Arcanum of rhythmic movement or dance—joy is the harmony of...
Tension, Struggle, and the Law of Three
The Law of Three: from the primordial ground of arising to accepting the tensions of daily life. “Third force has its genesis in bearing the tension of emergence.” Cynthia Bourgeault Origins of Manifestation "Tensioning both for Teilhard de Chardin and for Boehme is...
Spiritual Discernment
“It's very, very good to be a hanged man vis-a-vis a spiritual discernment, because the head is going to be the last to catch on.” Cynthia Bourgeault The Nature of Spiritual Discernment "An exploration of Plato's Four Cardinal Virtues: wisdom (prudence, discernment),...
Contemplation
"The states or stages of the soul corresponding to concentration, meditation and contemplation are those of purification, illumination and union." Meditations on the Tarot The Nature of Contemplation "What is the gnostic sense? It is the contemplative sense....
Obedience
“These laws of the Work cannot remain forms of blind external obedience but become things that you acknowledge and understand and eventually will for yourself.” Maurice Nicoll The True Nature of Obedience "Obedience means ob-audere, listen to the depths, or listen...
Spiritual Justice
The idea of justice on this Earth is illusion. All of sleeping humanity belongs to a tiny planet which is a kind of lunatic asylum. There is no justice, no spiritual justice. The Classical Understanding of Justice "Plato's four cardinal virtues: wisdom, courage,...
Prison or Freedom
All those who have evolved have left memorials behind them in teachings, parables, and other directions for those still in prison on earth. These constitute the map and compass, the chart, the secret instructions for freedom in spirituality. The Nature of Our Prison...
Consciousness
"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...
Bearing the Beams of Love
“What may be called the ‘astral body’ is obtained by means of friction, by the struggle between yes and no in man.” Ouspensky The Nature of Divine Love "Divine love is not about sentimentality. It is fire. And when it touches you, it transforms you." Cynthia...












