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Mirabai Starr on the Order of the Sacred Earth |
Mystical writer Marabai Star was invited to contribute her answer to the question, “What might a new, inclusive, spiritual order contribute to our world?” and we share a portion of her essay
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I had a significant dream when I was endeavoring to write this essay and asked my Beloved for guidance. I dreamed that I was being forced to sleep with a man’s dead body in my loft bed. Three days had gone by and it
was starting to stink. A young woman lived with me, but she was not strong enough to help me remove the cadaver. I managed to roll the body off the bed and lift it into my arms. | Screengrab of Mirabai Starr speaking. Photo originally found on Mirabai's website
homepage. |
I lurched out of the house with the putrid face pressed against my face, and was swept up in a line of people walking down the road. A young man walking ahead of me must have noticed my struggle and turned to ask if I
needed any help. My eyes filled with tears and I nodded. He lifted the corpse from my arms and easily carried it for me. When I woke I realized that the man’s dead body represented the religious patriarchy I have inherited, which is devoid of life. But my
younger sisters and I cannot dismantle this system by ourselves. We need the emerging family of men—who also know that the existing religious institutions are obsolete and toxic—to lend their strength and assist us in shifting the paradigm toward the feminine model of cooperation, compassion, and creativity. It is, of course, the balance of the Sacred Feminine and the Holy Masculine that will restore wholeness to the soul of the world. We may hope to strike this harmonious chord by placing
special emphasis for now on the feminine attributes that emanate from the goddesses and women mystics of all spiritual traditions. |
| It is with great joy that I discover this vision of an Order of the Sacred Earth, flowering from Matthew Fox’s decades of spiritual activism and
groundbreaking theology, nourished by the fresh insight and extraordinary dedication of the youth who are drawn into his sphere. Everywhere I go now, as I travel and teach, I am seeing these seeds bursting through the ravaged landscape. |
The youth I meet are hungry for meaningful spiritual practice and are wary of organized religion. They embody a beautiful blend of intellectual rigor and openhearted vulnerability that fills me with hope. I want to be part of this revolutionary effort to build a holy container in which to access and express the deepest truths of love echoing
from the heart of the world’s wisdom communities in honor of “Our Sister, Mother Earth,” who sustains us. |
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Queries for Contemplation Do you agree with Mirabai Star that moving beyond the reality of patriarchy is integral to saving “Our Sister, Mother Earth,” and that men as well as women must make that move beyond patriarchy? |
Responses are welcomed. To add your comment, please click HERE
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Order of the Sacred Earth: An Intergenerational Vision of Love and Action
By Matthew Fox, Skylar Wilson, and Jen Listug
In the midst of global fire, earthquake and flood - as species are going extinct every day and national and global economies totter - the planet doesn't need another church or religion. What it needs is a new Order, grounded in the Wisdom traditions of both East and West, including science and indigenous. An Order of the Sacred Earth united in one sacred vow: “I promise to be the best lover and defender of the Earth that I can
be.”
Co-authored by Matthew Fox, Skylar Wilson, and Jennifer Listug, with a forward by David Korten, this collection of essays by 21 spiritual visionaries including Brian Swimme, Mirabai Starr, Theodore Richards, and Kristal Parks marks the founding of the diverse and inclusive Order of the Sacred Earth, a community now evolving around the world. “The Order of the Sacred Earth not only calls us home to our true nature as Earth, but also offers us
invaluable guidance and company on the way.” ~~ Joanna Macy, environmental activist and author of Active Hope. | |
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. Matthew Fox's book is a magnificent
masterpiece, one that every man gay or straight, should read immediately. Anyone who wishes to understand the healing secrets of sacred masculinity and of the path to becoming a humble spiritual warrior for peace and justice in an endangered world will find in this book both exalted inspiration and practical guidelines . Nothing like this book has ever been written. For the first time, Fox has brought together not only all the major historical and spiritual archetypes of the
sacred masculine, but also richly detailed and poetic accounts both of how they interrelate, and how they empower. And he has done so within the overarching embrace of a potent vision of the Sacred Marriage, of an union within each being, male or female, gay or straight, of the opposites of transcendence and immanence, masculine and feminine, inner spiritual wisdom and prophetic outer action that birth a divine new human being. --Andrew Harvey, author of Son of Man, The Return
of the Mother and The Hope: A Guide to Sacred Activism. | |
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