“The rule of every serious esotericist should be to be silent—often for a length of years—concerning every new spiritual illumination.” Will-to-Serve “The will-to-serve underlies the fundamental Hermetic attitude. Instead of putting forward the hand to take, the human...
The teachings contain many insights into awakened awareness and the journey from mechanical to conscious living.
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Morning Intention for a New Year: The Emerging
A Morning Intention from the teachings of Cynthia Bourgeault In this hour between darkness and dawn, when the shell fractures and new life pushes into light, grant me eyes to see the breaking-through as well as the breaking.Let trust recognize the birth...
Sacred Service
Night Prayers for Sacred Servants May you rest, knowing your faithful inner work today rippled through consciousness you cannot see.May the moments of presence, choosing love over fear, and small acts of forgiveness serve the healing of the whole.May you trust:...
AI as Announcer of Jean Gebser’s Integral Consciousness
A Contemplative Meditation on Jean Gebser’s Map and the Wisdom Territory The Flash I'll cut right to the chase: I had an insight that artificial intelligence may be the announcer of the Integral Structure of Consciousness. May be the enabler of the Integral. This...
Formlessness into Form
"There is something in the heart of Divine purpose that impels it to manifest outwardly, to recognize its own wholeness. All part of the revelation of the divine immense formlessness coming into form." Cynthia Bourgeault The Divine Imperative to Manifest "There is...
Wellsprings of Life
“The wellsprings of life are bubbling up anew each moment.” Thomas Kelly, Quaker mystic and scholar, from A Testament of Devotion (1941) Disowning the False Self to Find the Wellspring "[Meister Eckhart] writes, that after a time of kind of disorder and searching and...
Still and Still Moving
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,...
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),...












