Cynthia bourgeault jacob boehme biography

Cynthia Bourgeault is a modern-day mystic, Episcopal priest, writer, and internationally known retreat leader.

Cynthia Bourgeault writes a short guide to Jacob Boehme's work.

Jakob Böhme was a German philosopher, Christian mystic, and Lutheran Protestant theologian.

Jacob Boehme, the great German mystic, is renowned for his obscurity.

Jacob Boehme has one very much like it.

Cynthia Bourgeault.

She divides her time between solitude and sailing the waters around her seaside hermitage in Maine and a demanding schedule traveling globally to teach and spread the recovery of the Christian contemplative and Wisdom paths. Cynthia is a core faculty emeritus at the Center for Action and Contemplation in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

She has been honored by the annual Watkins Review as one of the most spiritually influential living people in

Cynthia grew up in the rolling countryside just west of Philadelphia and experienced her first tastes of silence and mystical presence during the weekly Meeting for Worship at the Quaker school she attended.

She went on to earn a Ph.D. in Medieval Studies, where she specialized in early music and liturgical drama: training that would prove to serve her well in her later work as a spiritual teacher. She studied at the Ph