The Creation Spirituality Lineage Calling All Social and Environmental Activists, Mystic Explorers, Justice Makers, Cosmic Thinkers, Earth Keepers
Daily Meditations with Matthew Fox
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Mystics on the Wonder of Our Universe, Part II
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We are calling on mystics of old to sit with us as we drink in the first stars and first galaxies arriving from our universe over 13.8 billions years ago. We are calling on them for their response.
The universe is the primary revelation of the divine, the primary scripture, the primary locus of divine-human communion. (Thomas Berry)
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Humanity participates by nature in all cosmic events, and is inwardly as well as outwardly interwoven with them. (Richard Wilhelm on the Chinese concept of Tao)
| The Webb Space Telescope sends back new images and discoveries, 7/25/2022. Video by The Space Wind; images by NASA – European Space Agency (ESA) – SpaceX –
Wikipedia.
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Ecstatic love is an ocean, and the Milky Way is a flake of foam floating on it. (Rumi)
By the word of the Lord his works come into being.
As the shining sun looks on all things,
so the work of the Lord is full of his glory. (Sir. 42: 15f)
In music, in the sea, in a flower, in a leaf, in an act of kindness….I see what people call God in all these things. (Pablo Casals)
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““Mountain Valley at Sunset” Photo by Sonja Wilkinson on Unsplash
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was the word.
The word was with God
and the word was God….
And the word became flesh
And dwelt among us. (Jn 1:1,14)
My Beloved is the mountains,
And lonely wooded valleys,
Strange islands,
And resounding rivers,
The whistling of love-stirring breezes,
The tranquil night
At the time of rising dawn,
Silent music,
Sounding solitude,
The supper that refreshes and deepens love. (John of the Cross)
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God is love and anyone who lives in love lives in God and God in her. (1 Jn 4:16)
God created all things in such a way that they are not outside himself, as ignorant people falsely imagine. Rather, all creatures flow outward, but nonetheless remain within God. (Meister Eckhart)
The day of my spiritual awakening was the day I saw—and knew I saw—all things in God and God in all things. (Mechtild of Magdeburg)
We are in God and God whom we do not see is in us. (Julian of Norwich)
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Make your home in me, as I make mine in you,
I am the vine, you are the branches.
Whoever remains in me, with me in him,
bears plentiful fruit. Fruit that remains. (Jn 15: 4f)
For Gandhi, to become divine is to become attuned in thought, feeling and act to the whole of creation... Dharma or morality cannot be ultimately divorced from rta or cosmic order. (Raghavan Iyer)
| "I am the Vine." Pottery plaque by M.C. Richards, from the Stations of the Cosmic Christ Meditation Cards.
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The most important function of art and science is to awaken the cosmic religious feeling and keep it alive. (Albert Einstein)
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Queries for Contemplation
Which teachings here most speak to you at this special moment in human and planetary and cosmic awareness?
Adapted from Matthew Fox, Original Blessing, pp. 35f., 88f., 66f.
Also see Matthew Fox and Bishop Marc Andrus, Stations of the Cosmic Christ and Stations of the Cosmic Christ Meditation Cards.
Banner Image: In the deepest and sharpest infrared image of the universe so far, the Webb Telescope shows galaxy cluster SMACS 0723 as it appeared 4.6 billion years ago, with many more galaxies in front of and behind it. Image credit: NASA,
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Original Blessing: A Primer in Creation Spirituality
In this book Matthew Fox lays out a whole new direction for Christianity—a direction that is in fact very ancient and very grounded in Jewish thinking (the fact that Jesus was a Jew is often neglected by Christian theology). Here Fox lays out the Four Paths of Creation Spirituality, the Vias Positiva, Negativa, Creativa and Transformativa in an extended and deeply developed way.
“Original Blessing makes available to the Christian world and to the human community a radical cure for all dark and derogatory views of the natural world wherever these may have originated.” –Thomas Berry, author, The Dream of the Earth; The Great Work; co-author, The Universe Story
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Stations of the Cosmic Christ
This is a book of meditations on the Cosmic Christ, accompanying the images of 16 wonderful clay tablets by Javier Ullrrich Lemus and M.C. Richards. Together, these images and meditations go far beyond the traditional Stations of the Cross to inspire a spirit awakening and understanding of the cosmic Christ Consciousness, Buddha consciousness, and consciousness of the image of God in all
beings, so needed in our times.
“Stations of the Cosmic Christ is a wonderful book. It’s a journey to a profound awareness of what Christ, and what love, really mean.” — Marianne Williamson, author of A Return to Love and A Year of Miracles
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Beautiful full-color cards from Stations of the Cosmic Christ to aid in your meditations on the Cosmic Christ, featuring the images of 16 wonderful clay tablets by Javier Ullrrich Lemus and M.C. Richards. Step beyond the traditional Stations of the Cross and experience a spirit awakening and understanding of the cosmic Christ Consciousness, Buddha
consciousness, and consciousness of the image of God in all beings, so needed in our times. Includes an instruction booklet containing suggestions on how to use the cards.
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Join Matthew Fox for the monthly Our Lady of the Prairie virtual retreat, discussing One River, Many Wells: Wisdom Springing from Global Faiths. Thursday, August
18, 4:00-6:00pm PT. Learn more HERE.
Join Matthew Fox in a 6-week virtual course on “Mystics, Mysticism and Ourselves as Mystic-Prophets,” hosted by Creation Spirituality Communities. Wednesdays, 8/24, 8/31, 9/7, 9/14,
9/21, and 9/28, 4:00pm-6:00pm PT. Register HERE.
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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
“This collection of Fox’s most life-giving insights blesses the connection between caring for our Mother-the-Earth and lifting up marginalized voices, between waking up from the dream of separation and stepping up to mend the net of creation.”
—Mirabai Starr, author, God of Love and Wild Mercy
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