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Men and the Missing Nobility
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The first letter I received when my book The Hidden Spirituality of Men: Ten Metaphors to Awaken the Sacred Masculine came out fifteen years ago, was from a woman who told me that she was a feminist and in her home library she had
over 200 books on the divine feminine and not one on the sacred masculine. And she had two teenage boys. |
And that until she read my book she had not known how much men have suffered under patriarchy. And that she did not regret for one second the last 25 years of her life that she had spent in recovering the divine feminine in her life but that I was right—the next stage of feminism must be helping in the clean-up of the toxic masculine. |
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A second and very moving response I received about my book came at a conference on Earth and Spirit held in a large hotel in Santa Fe. After I spoke and took questions about my men’s book, a very tall and smartly dressed Native American man approached me. He had long white hair, was dressed very elegantly in black, came up to me and said this: “I have been working as a prison chaplain for over 12 years. It is very difficult to get men in prison to look at themselves—they are always projecting onto others. Yours is the first book I have ever used that got them to look and find the nobility inside.” |
“At a prison powwow, Indigenous inmates get in touch with their culture, find healing.” Report by King 5 Seattle | Is that what is wounding men and boys and
rendering them violent to themselves and others? Is that what is missing? Men (and women too) are out of touch with the nobility we carry inside us? |
Matthew Fox, Confessions: The Making of a Post-denominational Priest, pp. 417-420. See also: Matthew Fox, The
Hidden Spirituality of Men: Ten Metaphors to Awaken the Sacred Masculine. Banner image: “A Council of Elders by Ludwig Deutsch.” Wikimedia Commons – Public Domain. |
Queries for Contemplation How did you learn, man or woman, about the nobility inside?
How do you keep that knowledge alive? |
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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. “Every man on this planet should read this book — not to mention every woman who wants to understand the struggles, often unconscious, that shape the men they know.” — Rabbi Michael Lerner, author of The Left Hand of God |
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Confessions: The Making of a Post-Denominational Priest (Revised/Updated Edition)
Matthew Fox’s stirring autobiography, Confessions, reveals his personal, intellectual, and spiritual journey from
altar boy, to Dominican priest, to his eventual break with the Vatican. Five new chapters in this revised and updated edition bring added perspective in light of the author’s continued journey, and his reflections on the current changes taking place in church, society and the environment.
“The unfolding story of this irrepressible spiritual revolutionary enlivens the mind and emboldens the heart — must reading for anyone interested in courage, creativity,
and the future of religion.”
—Joanna Macy, author of World as Lover, World as Self |
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See Matthew Fox's full calendar HERE |
Join Matthew
Fox and a speaker’s panel for brief Creation Spirituality presentations, music, songs, prayer, and refreshments in a free online and on-site Celebration of Matthew Fox's donation of papers to the University of Colorado, Boulder. University of Colorado Boulder Libraries – Center for British & Irish Studies – 5th Floor Thursday, September 21, 4:00pm-6:00pm PT RSVP HERE
for on-site attendance only. Virtual attendance link will be forthcoming. Join Matthew Fox online as he lectures and responds to questions on his book on Meister Eckhart, A Spirituality Named Compassion. The event is hosted by the Weber Retreat and Conference Center. Thursday, October 12, 2023 , 4:00pm-5:30pm PT. Learn more HERE. |
Join Matthew Fox as he discusses “A New Reformation: Creation Spirituality and the Transformation of Christianity” in an Our Lady of the Prairie Retreat, Thursday, October 19, 4:00-6:00 pm PT. To register, click HERE. Join Matthew Fox for two days of learning and practice as he speaks at the online Stanford Medicine Contemplation by Design Summit, Wednesday and Thursday, November 1-2, 2023. Wed 4:00pm-5:30pm PT – Lecture, Q&A – Grounding & Expanding, Psyche & Cosmos, Friendship with Self, Others, the Universe: Toward a “Cosmic Religion” (Einstein) and Human/Planetary Survival Thu 7:30am-8:15am – Guided Practice – Finding the Divine (the “I am”, the Christ, the Buddha Nature, the Tselem or
Image of God) Within Thu 12:00pm-1:30pm – Workshop – Recovering the Sacred Masculine and the Divine Feminine Register HERE. |
Creation Spirituality Conversations |
Aaron Perry hosts Matthew Fox on the Y On Earth podcast, on “Hildegard von Bingen & Her “Viriditas,” sharing profound wisdom and deep insights about the essential
importance of our relationship with Mother Earth, our celebration of the Divine Feminine, and our connection with Creation Spirituality, drawing upon centuries of knowledge and wisdom from indigenous and mystical traditions world-wide… particularly from the Rhineland Mystic Movement of the medieval European Renaissance, and a most extraordinary woman at its helm: Hildegard von Bingen. |
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