Cynthia Bourgeault

Love in the Lower Forty-Eight

Our human world, known on Gurdjieff’s Ray of Creation as World 48, traditionally marks the boundary between what the ancient metaphysical roadmaps…

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Love Across the Ray of Creation

Part I: Love in the Higher Realms

Jun 5

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April 2026

Fourth Way Benedictine

Honestly, I did not set out to create a Gurdjieff/Christian contemplative hybrid.

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March 2026

“And the darkness has not vanquished it…”

Becoming seed for the future

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The Long Arc of Evolution Bends Toward Consciousness….

A Teilhardian view of our present turmoil

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February 2026

“His Face Set like Flint Toward Jerusalem…”

When I look at our current political scene through the Gebserian lens, I am impelled to consider that the best use of my spiritual skillset might…

Feb 21

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The Gebserian Take

Viewed through the lens of cultural philosopher Jean Gebser (1905-1973), the source of our present social turmoil becomes immediately apparent: we are…

Feb 20

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The Road Not (yet) Taken

The question is not whether I am to respond to the malignant evil steadily engulfing our country: this evil systematically destroying a hallowed system…

Feb 16

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January 2026

Naming It for What It Is

Moving Beyond the Madman Archetype

Jan 28

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December 2025

Awakening from the Dream of “Awakening:”

The Work as a Literary Genre

Dec 27, 2025

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Five Loaves and Two Fishes

Rethinking Mesoteric

Dec 4, 2025

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November 2025

“Sleepers Awake!”

An accidentally Advent reflection on Three-centered Awareness and the Esoteric Path

Nov 29, 2025

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