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Can the Webb Telescope Help to Awaken Sacred Masculinity?
It seems to me that the Webb Telescope and what it will reveal to us about our 13.8 billion year journey opens up a whole new chapter on “Father Sky.” If so, then it
offers the potential for remaking our understanding of masculinity.
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There is a reason why the archetype of “Father Sky” leads off the ten archetypes that I propose for moving beyond Patriarchy’s distortions of masculinity–distortions that are everywhere evident in today’s news from Putin to Trump to un supreme court judges to assaulting Mother Earth and making matricide a priority.
| “Father Sky” by Native Heart on The Spirit of the North American Indian. Video by Lydi´s Style.
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When the modern era shut down “Father Sky,” it left the male heart bereft and potentially more violent for men had no place to invest their sky-sized hearts and souls. D. H. Lawrence sensed this when he wrote:
What a catastrophe, what a maiming of life when it was made a personal, merely personal feeling, taken away from the rising and setting of the sun, and cut off from the magic connection of the solstice and equinox!
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Mariupol Drama Theater, bombed by Russia on 16.03.2022. Six hundred civilians, mostly women, children, and elders, died. Photo by Maxar Technologies (CNN). Wikimedia
Commons
| This is what is the matter with us, we are bleeding at the roots, because we are cut
off from the earth and sun and stars, and love is a grinning mockery, because poor blossom, we plucked it from its stem on the tree of life, and expected it to keep on blooming in our civilized vase on the table.
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What happens when cosmology is replaced by psychology? When cosmic connections are displaced by shopping malls and social media? The heart easily shrivels. Souls shrink. And untold violence can become unleashed.
In celebrating the ecstasy we undergo vis-à-vis the universe, Aquinas is also talking about ecology since “ecology is functional cosmology.”
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In calling us back to the wonder, beauty, and ecstasy of the universe, we are being offered profound medicine and healing for the rupture of psyche and spirit that has haunted modern men and women and opened the door to anthropocentrism and forgetfulness and destruction of the planet, and to what Pope Francis
has rightly called our narcissism as a species.
| The official 2019 50th anniversary/ memorial music video for David Bowie – Space Oddity, mixing 1969 and 1997 footage of Bowie
singing with his younger self, presaging his 2016 death.
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Furthermore, eco is the Greek word for “home”—and clearly the cosmos and creation are our home and God’s home. Are we at home in the universe? In the cosmos? Are we stepping back from our computers or our shopping trips often enough to look into our home, the universe, to study it? Or have we succumbed completely to the disastrous modern
era that began with the divorce of science and spirituality, cosmos and psyche?
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Queries for Contemplation
Do you agree with Lawrence that a catastrophe and maiming of life happens when we lose our connection to the cosmos?
Adapted from Matthew Fox, The Hidden Spirituality of Men: Ten Metaphors to Awaken the Sacred Masculine, pp. 3f.
Banner Image: Earth’s night lights and the Milky Way galaxy while the International Space Station passes over the Pacific island of Kiribati and a lightning flash illuminates a large mass of clouds, reflecting off the ISS solar arrays. Image Credit: NASA, M. Justin Wilkinson, Texas State U., Jacobs Contract at NASA-JSC and Mark Matney, NASA-JSC
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The Hidden Spirituality of Men: Ten Metaphors to Awaken the Sacred Masculine
To awaken what Fox calls “the sacred masculine,” he unearths ten metaphors, or archetypes, ranging from the Green Man, an ancient pagan symbol of our fundamental relationship with nature, to the Spiritual Warrior….These timeless archetypes can inspire men to pursue their higher calling to connect to their deepest selves and to reinvent the world.
–“A gutsy, courageous book, one that confronts the terrible isolation in which men live with archetypal images that once nurtured, guided, and connected our ancestors and that still course within the depths of each of us.” –Dr James Hollis, author of What Matters Most
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Creation Spirituality in Conversation.
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Victor Fuhrman of Destination Unlimited on OMTimes interviews Matthew Fox on Essential Writings on Creation Spirituality. Navigate to the podcast page by clicking the image on the left.
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Announcing Matthew Fox's Newest Book!
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Matthew Fox: Essential Writings on Creation Spirituality
Selected with an introduction by Charles Burack
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—Mirabai Starr, author, God of Love and Wild Mercy
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