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Daily Meditations with Matthew Fox
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Father Sky and the Sacred Masculine, continued
“Father Sky” is an ancient archetype for naming the Sacred Masculine.
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But the modern era by calling the universe a machine shut down “Father Sky”–indeed it left the term practically meaningless. Now, with post-modern scientific exploring of the universe, we have learned amazing stories about our origins over 13.8 billions years, stories that can awaken us and, in
Thomas Berry’s words, bring the sacred back to our lives.
It can also remake the way we understand masculinity and teach it to our boys and young men.
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Some seem to be dismissing the Webb Telescope’s accomplishments as “pretty pictures” but are missing entirely the meaning of a new story of creation and its potential for reinventing the human race.
AND its potential for cleaning up the toxic version of masculinity called patriarchy that has reigned for 6500 years and that manifests itself regularly in our culture by way of mass shootings and destruction of the planet and subjugation of women and “fatalistic self hatred” from men (a point made by Adrienne Rich). And historically as empire building and war making and violence
over others, the reptilian brain unchained.
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| Stories abound around the world about the sky being an abode for the Divine. Christians sing “Glory
to God in the highest” and “you alone are the Most High” in their Liturgies and recall the story of the “Transfiguration” when Jesus went to the top of a mountain with three of his friends and shown glorious. Thus, the “Cosmic Christ.”
Christians also tell the story of Jesus “ascending into heaven” after his death and resurrection and how Jesus taught his disciples to pray like this; “Our Father who art in heaven…” and “God’s will “be done on earth as in the heavens.”
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And for Paul, the first Christian theologian, Christ is “the pattern who connects” and unites “everything on earth, under the earth and in the heavens.”
Meister Eckhart makes consistent and fluid connections between the sky and the earth. He says the heavens “invade the earth, energize it and make it sacred.” The heavens “are continually running, running into peace.”
Eckhart recognizes the stretching that humans undergo in our search for the Divine. For the divine spirit in the human soul is not easily satisfied. It storms the firmament and scales the heavens trying to reach the Spirit that drives the heavens. Because of this energy everything in the world grows green, flourishes, and busts into
leaf. But the spirit is never satisfied. It presses on deeper and deeper into the vortex, further and further into the whirlpool, the primary source in which the spirit has its origin.
To be continued.
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Queries for Contemplation
Do you agree with Thomas Berry that “we will recover our sense of wonder and our sense of the sacred” only when we recognize that “the universe is the primary sacred reality”? What follows from
that? How does Webb Telescope assist us in this recovery?
Adapted from Matthew Fox, The Hidden Spirituality of Men, pp. 3f.;
The Coming of the Cosmic Christ; Matthew Fox and Bishop Marc Andrus, Stations of the Cosmic Christ.
Banner Image: Sunset at Clingmans Dome. Photo by Ivana Cajina on Unsplash.
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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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The Coming of the Cosmic Christ: The Healing of Mother Earth and the Birth of a Global Renaissance
In what may be considered the most comprehensive outline of the Christian paradigm shift of our Age, Matthew Fox eloquently foreshadows the manner in which the spirit of Christ resurrects in terms of the return to an earth-based mysticism, the expression of creativity, mystical sexuality, the respect due the young, the rebirth of effective forms of worship—all of these mirroring the ongoing blessings of Mother Earth and the recovery of Eros, the feminine aspect of
the Divine.
“The eighth wonder of the world…convincing proof that our Western religious tradition does indeed have the depth of imagination to reinvent its faith.” — Brian Swimme, author or The Universe Story and Journey of the Universe.
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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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