The Rev. Dr. Cynthia Bourgeault is the principal Teacher and Advisor to the Contemplative Society, an ecumenical, not-for-profit association that encourages a deepening of contemplative prayer based in the Christian tradition. She is a retreat and conference leader, teacher of prayer, writer on the spiritual life, and Episcopal priest. Cynthia is passionately committed to the recovery of the Christian contemplative path and has worked closely with Fr. Thomas Keating as a teacher of Centering Prayer, Fr. Bruno Barnhart, and other Christian contemplative masters, as well as in Sufism and the Christian inner traditions. She is the author of Mystical Hope, The Wisdom Way of Knowing, and Centering Prayer and Inner Awakening, and many articles on the contemplative life.

selected books

Centering Prayer and Inner Awakening
Cowley Publications, 2004
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other related websites

The Contemplative Society
http://www.contemplative.org

articles & interviews

	Broadcasts on WIE Unbound A Liberation Beyond Gender Silence is the Language of God Articles & interviews in What Is Enlightenment? magazine What Is Liberation for Women Today? (with Tenzin Palmo, Ma Jaya Sati Bhagavati, Vimala Thakar, Helen LaKelly Hunt, Juanita Brown, Elizabeth Lesser, Dadi Janki, Barbara Marx Hubbard) The Paradise We Seek