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Daily Meditations with Matthew Fox
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In response to the Kansas voters, I choose to share some teachings about the divine mother that I initially gathered for the opening of my book on the Cosmic Christ, a book that was born of a
dream that said to me, “Your Mother is Dying.” I called the dream a “crucifixion story for our times”--and it is. |
We are crucifying mother earth and mothers in general when we allow extremist judges and politicians and religious figures to pass laws that coerce and curse women in order to control their bodies, an aspiration as old as patriarchy itself. We belong to the ground It is our power And we must stay close to it Or maybe we will get lost. (Narritjin Maymuru Yirrkala, an Australian Aborigine) | Mother Goddess birthing, Madhya Pradesh or Rajasthan, India, 6th – 7th centuries, National Museum of Korea, Seoul. Photo by Richard Mortel. Wikimedia Commons. |
The earth is at the same time mother. She is the mother of all that is natural mother of all that is human. She is the mother of all, for contained in her are the seeds of all. (Hildegard of Bingen) True religion is the original umbilical cord that binds our individual selves back to our larger universal source. |
| That source, in women’s religion, is the Great Mother, who is the great cosmic weaver, the divine potter, the carrier of the heavenly water jar; we participate in her substance, her nature, her processes, her play, and her work.
(Monica Sjoo and Barbara Mor) Wisdom is seen as the all-encompassing divine ground of being out of which the Trinity emerges. It creates the world, guides it to perfection, and unites the creation
with its Creator….Wisdom is the ground of being of the three persons of God.
(Rosemary Ruether) |
Before creation a presence existed Self-contained, complete, formless, voiceless, mateless Changeless Which yet pervaded itself With unending motherhood. (Lao Tzu) |
The mother’s battle for her child—with sickness, with poverty, with war, with all the forces of exploitation and callousness that cheapen human life—need to become a common human battle, waged in love and in the passion for survival. (Adrienne Rich) | "She Who Hears the Cries of the World" by Jennifer Berezan, with Olympia Dukakis and Starhawk. Produced by Unanimous. |
A maternal theology will affirm those qualities symbolized by the Great Mother—an assertive, whole motherhood—in all human beings. And it
will affirm the ‘maternal’ reality—the material reality –as continuous with the spiritual reality, and vice versa.
(Glenys Livingstone) We enter into this life with the total knowledge we have learned to help the Mother
Earth. Our purpose is to protect the Earth. This is why our children must be born to this world in warmth and love, and raised with such. They must be allowed to keep their Spirit memories and use them to aid the Mother.
(Buck Ghosthorse, Lakota teacher) |
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Queries for Contemplation
Which of these several poems speak most deeply to you and to our times do you think? Why is that so? See Matthew Fox, “Your Mother is Dying,” in Fox, The Coming of the Cosmic Christ, pp. 12f. And Matthew Fox, Julian of Norwich: Wisdom in a Time of Pandemic—and Beyond, pp. 45-58. Banner Image: “Earth
Goddess.” Photo by Jen Gallardo on Flickr. |
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. | |
Julian of Norwich: Wisdom in a Time of Pandemic-And Beyond Julian of Norwich lived through the dreadful bubonic plague that killed close to 50% of Europeans. Being an anchoress, she ‘sheltered in place’ and developed a deep wisdom that she shared in her book, Showings, which was the first book in English by a woman. A theologian way ahead of her time, Julian develops a feminist understanding of God as mother at the heart of
nature’s goodness. Fox shares her teachings in this powerful and timely and inspiring book. “What an utterly magnificent book. The work of Julian of Norwich, lovingly supported by the genius of Matthew Fox, is a roadmap into the heart of the eco-spiritual truth that all life breathes together.” –Caroline Myss Now also available as an audiobook 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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