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Cosmos & Psyche a la Meister Eckhart |
In a time of the Webb Telescope beaming light and pictures of the first galaxies into our living rooms, we might ask what would the mystics say and do? Eckhart would be
thrilled.
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He writes that the human spirit …storms the firmament, and scales the heavens until it reaches the spirit that drives the heavens. As a result of heaven’s revolution, everything in the world flourishes and bursts into leaf. The spirit, however, is never satisfied; it presses on ever further into the vortex (or whirlpool) and primary source in which the spirit has its
origin. | The James Webb Space Telescope has taken its largest image to date, for NASA’s Cosmic Evolution Early Release Science Survey. Photo Credit: NASA/STSCI/CEERS/TACC/S. Finkelstein/M. Bagley/R.
Larson/Z. Levay |
By speaking of the flourishing into leaf of everything in the world,
Eckhart is praising what we now call photosynthesis, which is indeed a marriage of the sun and plants. But he is saying more in this amazing passage, so filled with energy and verve. He declares, along with geologist Thomas
Berry, that ecology is functional cosmology. |
Trees linking Sky and Earth. Photo by jplenio on Pixabay. | To speak of the heavens is to speak of the life systems on earth. Earth is our hood in the universe, our local neighborhood. Ecological and cosmological awarenesses are in tandem. And the opposite is also true: to ignore the cosmos is to ignore ecology and Earth survival. |
Eckhart agrees with Aquinas’ observation that humans are capable of the universe: If God had made a thousand heavens and a thousand earths the human soul could well grasp them by its power. Eckhart thinks cosmologically. He frequently addresses the “all” of creation. |
With his love God gives all creatures their being and life, and maintains them with his love… Should anyone ask what God is, this is what I would say now: that God is love, and in fact so loveable that all creatures seek to love
His loveableness, whether they know it or not, and whether they wish to or not. | A new life starting before sunrise at Kuta Beach, Bali. Photo by Norbert Braun on Unsplash |
So much is God with love, and so loveable, that everything that can love must love Him, whether they will to do so or not. To be
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Queries for Contemplation
Does listening to Meister Eckhart assist you to find meaning and excitement in this time of the Webb Telescope? Does it also ground you in the struggle to resist climate change and the
diminution of the Earth and her marvels? SAdapted from Matthew Fox, Meister Eckhart: A Mystic-Warrior for Our Times, p. 17. See also, Matthew Fox, Meditations with Meister Eckhart. Banner Image: The Milky Way Galaxy, seen from the
Brule River in Judge C.R. Magney State Park, Grand Marais, Minnesota. Photo by Vincent Ledvina on Unsplash |
Meister Eckhart: A Mystic-Warrior For Our
Time While Matthew Fox recognizes that Meister Eckhart has influenced thinkers throughout history, he also wants to introduce Eckhart to today’s activists addressing contemporary crises. Toward that end, Fox creates
dialogues between Eckhart and Carl Jung, Thich Nhat Hanh, Rabbi Heschel, Black Elk, Karl Marx, Rumi, Adrienne Rich, Dorothee Soelle, David Korten, Anita Roddick, Lily Yeh, M.C. Richards, and many others. “Matthew Fox is perhaps the greatest writer on Meister Eckhart that has ever existed. (He) has successfully bridged a gap between Eckhart as a
shamanistic personality and Eckhart as a post-modern mentor to the Inter-faith movement, to reveal just how cosmic Eckhart really is, and how remarkably relevant to today’s religious crisis! ” — Steven Herrmann, Author of Spiritual
Democracy: The Wisdom of Early American Visionaries for the Journey Forward | |
Meditations with Meister Eckhart: A Centering
Book A centering book by Matthew Fox. This book of simple but rich meditations exemplifies the deep yet playful creation-centered spirituality of Meister Eckhart, Meister Eckhart was a 13th-century Dominican preacher who was a mystic, prophet, feminist,
activist, defender of the poor, and advocate of creation-centered spirituality, who was condemned shortly after he died. “These quiet presentations of spirituality are remarkable for their immediacy and clarity.” –Publishers Weekly. | |
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