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Animals, Our Sacred Earth, and Upcoming Elections |
We have been meditating on the spiritual dimensions of animals as well as the Order of the Sacred Earth in our recent DM’s. Such meditations can ground and sustain us as we gear up for a very important election at this precarious moment
when literally hundreds of candidates for positions from governor to senator to secretaries of state, and more, are committed to the false notion that the last election was fraudulent. |
Know that a Niagara of dark money is pouring
into coffers, thanks to the Supreme Court having instructed us in “Citizens United” that corporations are people—a reality that one would imagine “originalists” would balk at since corporations are not mentioned in the American Constitution. | “Many Republican midterm candidates keep pushing Trump’s stolen election claims.” Global News. |
This secret money guarantees that lies about lies will be spreading everywhere in the right wing media (Tucker Carlson on Fox news being one such example) and social media, also. I don’t disagree with those who are warning us how this election could be the last authentic American election if people do not vote and choose wisely. In stepping aside for a while to drink from some spiritual fountains that animals provide, we not only acknowledge the sacredness of the Earth but practice its sacredness. |
"From tigers to guinea pigs, saving Ukraine's animals from war." Originally posted to YouTube by ABC News. | Following are two recent reports on animals that underscore both their humor and beauty but also the suffering we share with them. It is moving that people are risking much in the Ukrainian War to include animals in their rescue efforts. The same can be said of the four-legged victims of the Florida hurricanes as well. |
First is this humorous but true story that was shared with me recently. Click HERE.
Second, watch a video below, regarding the suffering animals are undergoing in the Ukrainian war. |
Animals, too, undergo the Via Positiva and Via Negativa that life presents in their own way and according to their own
capacities, much of which we have yet to fully grasp. This, too, is some of the spiritual that we share with them. There are gifts of humor and laughter, as in story number one. And gifts of sharing of suffering and acts of compassion from humans, as in story number two. | A call to action for saving innocent animals prior to an anticipated onslaught of violence in the Ukraine. Originally posted to YouTube by Network For Animals. |
| To view today's video, please click the image. You will be taken to today's post on the Daily Meditations with Matthew Fox website, where you can see the meditation in a larger version and also view and post your Comments. In the sharing that follows, a kind of community is developing around the DM.
If you can't reach Matthew's video on the website, try his Vimeo channel HERE. |
See Matthew Fox, Original Blessing. And Fox, A Spirituality Named Compassion. And Fox, Skylar Wilson and Jennifer Listug, Order of the Sacred Earth: An Intergenerational Vision of Love and Action. Banner image: Our Sacred Earth. Photo by 光曦 刘 |
Queries for Contemplation Do you agree that animals are integral to the sacredness of our Sacred Earth? Do the links above teach you spiritual lessons worth remembering and practicing? |
Responses are welcomed. To add your comment, please click HERE
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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 | |
A Spirituality
Named Compassion: Uniting Mystical Awareness with Social Justice
In A Spirituality Named Compassion, Matthew Fox delivers a profound exploration of the meaning and practice of compassion. Establishing a spirituality for the future that promises personal, social, and global healing, Fox marries mysticism with social justice, leading the way toward a gentler and more ecological spirituality and an acceptance of our interdependence
which is the substratum of all compassionate activity. “Well worth our deepest consideration…Puts compassion into its proper focus after centuries of neglect.” –The Catholic Register | |
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. | |
See Matthew Fox's full calendar HERE Join Matthew Fox for the monthly online Our Lady of the Prairie Retreat, discussing Original Blessing. Thursday, October 20, 4:00pm-6:00pm PT. Register
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Join Matthew Fox for the monthly Our Lady of the Prairie Retreat, discussing Matthew Fox: Essential Writings on Creation Spirituality. Thursday, November 17,
4:00pm-6:00pm PT. Register HERE. Creation Spirituality in Conversation |
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scholars Matthew Fox and Thomas G. Hermans-Webster for Progressive Christianity's monthly “Things that Matter” discussion on eco-spirituality: “The Intersection of Faith and Climate Justice.” |
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