CYNTHIA BOURGEAULT

The first portrait of Thomas Keating's remarkable evolution, in the last decades of his life, into a fully realized modern-day Christian mystic. In the first four decades of his life as a Trappist monk, Thomas Keating created a comprehensive, unified psychospiritual pathway leading from healing to holiness and from contemporary psychological wellness to classic mystical sanctity and beatitude. In short, he fashioned a powerful new on-ramp to the Christian contemplative tradition. Yet, as beloved author and Keating disciple Cynthia Bourgeault shows, that was not the end of Keating's story. In this unique blend of biography, personal experience, and close reading of his late works, Bourgeault illuminates Keating's remarkable spiritual development from the late 1980s until his death in 2018. She explores: Keating's increasing commitment to the nondual practice of "objectless awareness" His contributions to interspiritual dialogue The evolution of his early teaching on the movement from "false self" to "true self," to that from "true self" to "no self" His final "dark night of the spirit" and passage through death New evidence that he never left Christianity but carried it with him to new places The profound final stages of Keating's spiritual journey may inspire you toward the ineffable experience of living as a modern mystic--fundamentally at home and at peace in the universe.

Hvis vi sætter alt det, vi mener at vide om Jesus, på pause og ser på evangelierne med friske øjne, vil vi få øje på en større Jesus – en mesterlig visdomslærer, hvis ærinde først og fremmest var at bryde vores vanetænkning og føre os ind i en radikal forvandling af bevidstheden.Cynthia Bourgeault giver i denne bog en tankevækkende og velunderbygget indføring i Jesu vision: At vi bliver forvandlet fra vores selvcentrerede liv og dualistiske vi-og-dem-tænkning – til et liv i kærlighed og barmhjertighed, når vi begynder at se verden, sådan som Jesus oplevede den.Bogen er langt mere end teori: I bogens sidste del gennemgår forfatteren en række øvelser fra den kristne visdomstradition, der kan befordre processen og give os en unik erfaring af en dybere enhed med Gud og verden omkring os.Cynthia Bourgeault er mystiker, episkopal præst, forfatter og international kendt retræteleder. Hun har udformet en retræteform, som kaldes en visdomsskole, og hun har organiseret og undervist i visdomsskoler siden 1999. Hun er forfatter til en række bøger, hvoraf foreløbig to, "Det va°gne hjerte" samt nærværende bog, er udgivet på dansk.Det er en stor gave, at denne bog nu udkommer på dansk! Den har været en bærende bog for mig siden 2009, for den er en mesterlig, velunderbygget og logisk udlægning af, hvad Jesus kan gøre ved os og vores måde at være i livet på.– Charlotte Rørth, journalist, forfatter til "Jeg mødte Jesus"Der findes kun ganske få åndelige lærere, som evner at give os ny og ægte indsigt – og endnu færre, som evner at give os redskaber til at kunne tilegne os denne indsigt. Cynthia Bourgeault evner begge dele på bedste vis.– Richard Rohr, præst og retræteleder, forfatter til "Den uforgængelige diamant"

We exist in a highly interwoven quantum field: a cosmic web. To see this is to better understand how to live. This enlightening book weaves together current physics, in easy-to-grasp descriptions, with the words of Wisdom teacher Jesus and the writings of many other mystics from the world's spiritual traditions. The author shows how, with an open contemplative heart, you might access cosmic assistance so needed in these chaotic times. With an engaged spirituality, in alignment with science, you will begin to see the oneness of all things, and how you might change the world.Using personal experience and narrative, as well as research from top scientific journals, the author uses images and humor to encourage you to see how science and spirituality both provide lenses to help you participate in a dynamic, creative, and relational reality. You will be encouraged to open your mind and think about what all of this might mean. A deeply feminine, personal, and invitational book, The Cosmic Web is a roadmap to help recognize resources, anchor yourself in embodied wisdom, and encourage you to come together with others with synergetic wholeness.

In The Corner of Fourth and Nondual, a title inspired by Thomas Merton's moment of revelation 'at the corner of Fourth and Walnut' in his celebrated essay 'A Member of the Human Race', Cynthia Bourgeault--internationally renowned retreat leader, and a practitioner and teacher of centering prayer--describes the foundations of her theology: a cosmological seeing with the eye of the heart, and classic Benedictine daily rule informed and enlightened by wisdom from the Asian traditions. She explains the influence of the author of The Cloud of Unknowing, Teilhard de Chardin, Boehme, Barnhart, Keating, and Gurdjieff, among others in a philosophy built on the cornerstones of the Incarnation and the Paschal Mystery, tied by the Trinity as a cosmogonic principle, the fundamental generative mechanism through which all things came into being. In the My Theology series, the world's leading Christian thinkers explain some of the principal tenets of their theological beliefs in concise, pocket-sized books. There are sixteen titles total.

In The Corner of Fourth and Nondual, a title inspired by Thomas Merton, Cynthia Bourgeault describes the foundations of her theology: a cosmological seeing with the eye of the heart, and classic Benedictine daily rule informed and enlightened by wisdom from the Asian traditions.

When the global pandemic struck in the spring of 2020, spiritual teacher Cynthia Bourgeault sensed an invitation to go deeper than a continuous round of Zoom calls. She turned to Joseph Azize's newly published collection of spiritual exercises from the Gurdjieff teaching, exercises that for decades had been kept apart from the general public. She invited members of her Wisdom School Community to join her in a rigorous practice with six of these exercises. What emerged over a six-week collective journey was a remarkable series of revelations and reflections encompassing not only the Gurdjieff tradition but her own deep insights into the Christian mystical and wisdom traditions, together with sagacious tips on practice and a prophetic vision of a post-pandemic future. The fruit of that alchemy-presented here-is a profoundly renewed vision of Mystical Courage, a hope and strength emerging from beyond our own making that is available right now to guide our way.