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The First Daily Meditation: Mother's Day 2019 05/15/2023 |
This being Mother’s Day season and our marking the fourth anniversary of the DM, I felt it would not hurt to share the original DM. After all, many current readers were not with us when we began.
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It is significant and fitting that we are launching these Daily Meditations from
the Creation Spirituality lineage on Mother’s Day. While we are celebrating our mothers and | Mother's Day 2019, our very first Daily Meditation. |
grandmothers today we also see in this holiday a powerful call to move beyond the anthropocentric limits of mother’s day to the larger vision, that of Mother Earth or Gaia, who is our Mother because she nurtures and nourishes all plants, animals and humans so abundantly. |
She is being sorely abused in our time with untold extinction of species, global warming, poisoning of air and water, forests and soil. Just this week a new UN Report describes how a
catastrophic environmental crisis is destroying ecosystems more rapidly than earlier thought. One million species are on the verge of extinction.* |
The monarch butterfly is one of many magnificent species whose populations have seen a precipitous decline. To find out more, click HERE. Photo by rod m on Unsplash | Earth is in crisis as was pointed out to me in a dream 30 years ago that became the springboard for my book The Coming of the Cosmic Christ. The dream said to me: “Your mother is dying.” But my (literal) mother
was not dying, in fact she lived another twenty years or so. So I realized the message I was being given was about the dying of the archetypal Mother and I began the book with an exegesis of that dream, proposing 8 dimensions of matricide that are afoot in our time: First, “Mother Earth is dying;” then, the “mystical brain;” Creativity; Wisdom; the |
Youth; Native Peoples, their religions and cultures; Mother church; Mother love or Compassion were all dying. |
But the last word was that “Mother is dying, but not dead”–we could still recover the Sacred Feminine and resurrect the archetype of the Mother. The rest of the book was about resurrecting mysticism and the archetype of the Cosmic Christ (or Buddha Nature or Image of God) and thus heal the dying Mother principle. |
Not only the indigenous traditions celebrate “Mother Earth” but 12th century abbess, saint and doctor of the church, Hildegard of Bingen, did the same. She
wrote: “The earth is at the same time mother, she is 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.” | Seeds. Mother Nature has an amazing capacity to proliferate and regenerate if only we would get out of her way. Photo by Tim Dresser on Flickr. |
Happy and Blessed Mother’s Day, everyone! Let us get to work out of a passion for Mother Earth and her wonderful accomplishments, humans
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Queries for Contemplation
Do you feel the 8 dimensions
of matricide named here still going on? Do you feel we have made progress both interiorly and externally dealing with some of them? |
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The Coming of the Cosmic Christ: The Healing of Mother Earth and the Birth of a
Global Renaissance 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 of
The Universe Story and Journey of the Universe. | |
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Join Matthew Fox as he discusses “The Physics of Angels – Exploring the Realm Where Science and Spirit Meet” in an Our Lady of the Prairie Retreat.
Thursday, May 18, 4:00-6:00 pm PT. Register HERE. Join Matthew Fox as he discusses “The A.W.E. Project – Reinventing Education, Reinventing the Human” in an Our Lady of the Prairie Retreat, Thursday, June 15, 4:00-6:00 pm PT. Register HERE. |
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