Alcyon Origins + Purpose
Cultural research, recovery and repair - for the sake of the world.
The Alcyon Center is a nonprofit spiritual and cultural research center on Seal Cove, ME. The vision for the Center is rooted in a desire for bold and practical ways to meet the spiritual hunger of our times. Providing a peaceful setting and an experience of living a daily rhythm of work, prayer, study, and rest constitutes the main way of bringing this vision to life. We welcome all who are willing to undertake the hard work of awakening,
Silence is our beloved ever-present teacher
Seal Cove is a sacred laboratory to experience stillness and cultivate a deepening relationship with the presence of Silence.
Traditions and streams form foundations for the future.
Alcyon founding directors Kathryn Booth and Joan Jordan Grant embody the teachings, posture, and spiritual hospitality of the Christian tradition. Other major streams flowing through Alcyon are experiences with contemplative prayer and spiritual direction, the work of Rudolf Steiner, Robert Sardello, the Twelve Steps, and in intentional communities with integrity and a practical approach to spiritual life that Alcyon itself seeks to model.
The Alcyon Center Labyrinth
Guests of The Alcyon Center are invited to participate in labyrinth walking as a tool to quiet the mind and open the soul to the spiritual world.
Alcyon: The Origin of Our Name
Hint: it has to do with a bird (Megaceryle alcyon) and a myth (Ovid’s Metamorphoses).
We are privileged participants in the rhythms of Seal Cove.
Seal Cove is on the “quiet side” across Mount Desert Island from Bar Harbor, a popular tourist destination - and working waterfront. The Alcyon Center is surrounded by land held in trust within walking distance to the trails of Acadia National Park.