The Academy and the Collegium

The two-week Academy at the Praxis Retreat and Learning Center has been completed, and its members have now dispersed into their work as a part of the Collegium—that larger network of practitioners of Perennial Wisdom found in multiple places across the planet. The work of the Texas Academy was strong, covering two important topics: an early Christian wisdom recorded in the Gospel of Philip, recovered at Nag Hammadi, and the Wisdom of the Tao, a gift from the Chinese. To read and work with these two traditions under the superb guidance of Ward Bauman and David Stringer was a privilege for us all—widening our understanding of world wisdom in two important contexts.

At the Academy our work is focused in an intense way. As we disperse into the Collegium we practice and transmit the fruits of the Academy’s work. Many of you reading this will have been (or will be) at one of the Academies this summer, but the extended work in groups throughout North America and the world are the real life-blood of this endeavor: to make wisdom available, at the level of the heart in the life-stream of world spirituality. We work together always as colleagues (the purpose of the collegium) to accomplish a goal far wider than any individual or local region. Our task is to add the crucial element of theosophia (divine wisdom) to the energetic flow necessary for our life and future survival. This website is dedicated to providing as much of that nutrient as possible.