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Daily Meditations with Matthew Fox
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How Webb Can Light the Spark of Our Souls, continued
Cynicism and acedia, as we saw yesterday, are dangerous misdirections of our first chakras. What is the medicine for cynicism, sourness, uncaring and acedia?
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Another way to pose the question might be this: Do the four paths of creation spirituality name the human soul becoming lit up? (Remembering that Rumi reminds us that it is hard to ignite the human soul.)
Can Webb contribute to soul work therefore and light the sparks of our souls? Does it light the spark of our inner work such as the Via Positiva and Via Negativa?
| Cultural uncaring: shoppers pass by a homeless man trying to weather a cold Tokyo night. Photo by ilirjan rrumbullaku on Flickr
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Inner work is about Gratitude. Can meditating on the original galaxies and stars of the universe awaken gratitude? (hint: we would not be here nor would earth be here without them.)
Inner work is about Awe. Do Webb’s pictures bespeak Awe?
Inner work is about Reverence. Can reverence and respect for our existence follow from Webb’s revelations?
Inner work is about biophilia (love of life and evolution’s journey into life) and setting necrophilia aside (love of death).
Inner work is about Eros (not Thanatos).
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Webb Telescope Finds the oldest galaxy ever observed in the early Universe. Images from NASA, ESA; video by EXOPLANET.
| Inner work is about Wisdom (which includes Eros and embraces knowledge but is bigger than knowledge alone).
Inner work marries the divine feminine and sacred masculine and recognizes authentic power as transformation and craft and power-with, not power as control or domination or power-over).
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Inner work is about Silence including the silence that Awe brings.
Inner work is about Emptying (including emptying our minds about how we used to think about the age, size and journey of the universe and how we got here).
Inner work is about tasting Nothingness.
Inner work undergoes the Dark Night of the Soul and society and our species.
Inner work is about Black Holes, both physical and psychical.
Outer work born of inner work is about Creativity.
Outer work is about Birthing. Birthing ways of survival, participating in the birthing of the universe otherwise known as ‘evolution’ and contributing to it.
Father Sky is busy birthing and Mother Earth is busy birthing and humanity can be also, even birthing the Webb Telescope and so much more.
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Birthing a better version of human where co-operation, not competition is the norm.
Outer work means Birthing Compassion and Justice.
Outer work is about why we are here...
...and where here is
...and that the cosmos birthed us...
and that we can praise.
| This landscape of “mountains” and “valleys” speckled with glittering stars is actually the edge of a nearby, young, star-forming region called NGC 3324 in the Carina Nebula. Captured in infrared light by NASA’s new James Webb Space
Telescope, this image reveals for the first time previously invisible areas of star birth. Credits: NASA, ESA, CSA, and STScI. Video by thebhp.
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Only good people praise—evil people do not praise (Eckhart).
Outer work includes celebration therefore (back to via positiva).
Outer work includes passion for justice—eco, racial, economic, social, gender, gender preference, etc.
Outer work means caring about future generations—of humans surely –but of all children of Mother Earth.
Outer work is passing on the goodness of being.
“The first and primary meaning of salvation is this: To preserve things in the good.” (Aquinas)
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Queries for Contemplation
Do you think that Webb Telescope can assist us in recognizing our good origins and amazing 13.8 billion year journey and in preserving the good?
See Matthew Fox, Meister Eckhart: A Mystic-Warrior for Our Times, pp. 196-199.
Also see Fox, The Tao of Thomas Aquinas: Fierce Wisdom for Hard Times, pp. 45-52.
Banner Image: U.S. President Joe Biden previews the first full-color image from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, the highest-resolution image of the infrared universe in history, Monday, July 11, 2022, in the White House. On screen are NASA Associate Administrator for the Science Mission Directorate Thomas Zurbuchen, top, Deputy Director of the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) Nancy
Levenson, and NASA James Webb Space Telescope Program Director Greg Robinson, bottom. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)
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Tao of Thomas
Aquinas: Fierce Wisdom for Hard Times
A stunning spiritual handbook drawn from the substantive teachings of Aquinas’ mystical/prophetic genius, offering a sublime roadmap for spirituality and action.
Foreword by Ilia Delio.
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–Caroline Myss, author of Anatomy of the Spirit
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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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