Lectio Harmonia I offer the term ‘Lectio Harmonia’ to describe a contemplative practice of discovering resonance among Wisdom teachings. In Greek philosophy, Harmonia referred to the underlying order and unity of the cosmos—the patterns that connect apparently...
My personal exploration of Wisdom spirituality. May 2024 There is a sense that life is like a Parable or a Gospel of Thomas Logion or Desert Saying—these ancient forms that were meant to deliver Wisdom through different levels of meaning and truth. There is the lower...
“A relational field occurs when there is an exchange of information or spiritual energy between two points … any kind of finite unit in which information is being exchanged across structural levels creates a relational field.” Cynthia Bourgeault The Source of Selfhood...
A contemplative meditation on alignment with Good. Good Speaks Like Silence May you hearwhat does not raise its voice. May the Good meet youthe way light meets an open hand—without insistence,without demand. May its warmth gather in youbefore you name it,before...
“You are the veil that hides the paradise you seek” The spiritual veil is our tendency to make everything external or transactional. The Paradox of Finite Being Not sin, but the weight and density of created finite being-ness itself. "[Rafe] was the one who was...
Incarnational cosmogonic Christian mysticism: The divine fragrance requires both manifest and unmanifest in mutual embrace. The Core Question Why does anything exist at all? "What in the world is cosmogonic mysticism? When we put that title on it, it's like, huh? You...
"When you move into Imaginal causality and into Integral consciousness, time takes on the dimension of an intensifying factor, rather than a linear metronome." Cynthia Bourgeault Not Collapsed Into Same-As “Is integral consciousness the same as the imaginal realm? And...
A new voice for ancient Wisdom as mystical folk music. Something new has been quietly growing from the same root as the Living From Good website. The poems you've been reading here within Impressions have become song, and gathered into a YouTube channel called Keeper...
a Consent Cycle poem from the teachings of Valentin Tomberg's Meditations on the Tarot Breath of God: a Consent Cycle ORIENTATION The breath arrives whether I notice or not. I did not earn the wind. I cannot hold it. What if my yes is the offering met....
“Unless you cancel your debts, nothing in you can grow. It is said in the Lord's Prayer: ‘Forgive us our debts as we forgive our debtors.' Feeling you are owed, feeling debts, stops everything.” Maurice Nicoll Debts and Debtors The Heaven-Earth Balance Grace operates...
“When the mind comes into the heart, the new operating system of nonduality kicks in.” Cynthia Bourgeault The Multiplicity of Ordinary Being "Not one of you here has a real permanent, unchanging 'I'. Not one of you here has real unity of being. All of you are nothing...
A daily intention from the Wisdom teachings: May you walk into this morning,treating every interruptionas unlikely ground,where presence might take root.Go gently. Logion 113His students asked him,"On what day will the kingdom arrive? ""Its coming cannot be perceived...
Wise poetry from the teachings of Cynthia Bourgeault CONSENTI.Unbearable stillness of unredeemed love. Waiting, before consent. Great wealth aching toward poverty.Love with no vessel. Fullness without form. Stuck in dull, dead latency.II.The wilderness. Seven...