The Creation Spirituality Lineage Calling All Social and Environmental Activists, Mystic Explorers, Justice Makers, Cosmic Thinkers, Earth Keepers Daily Meditations with Matthew Fox |
No Vengeance: Words from a
Mother Who Lost a Child to Hamas 10/023/2023 |
I invite you to partake of the moving YouTube video in this daily meditation from Michal Halev, mother of a young man slain by the Hamas invasion of Israel. It is called “No vengeance in my name - the call of Michal
Halev.” |
She speaks eloquently from her broken heart to the question I posed last week: Can humanity survive without
compassion? Can humanity survive without forgiveness? Can humanity survive without justice? |
A grieving mother begs for the fighting to stop — not only in Israel/Palestine, but all over the world. Video by Yael Deckelbaum.
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Can humanity survive with an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth? Can humanity survive by putting its
reptilian brain out front and first? Can humanity survive in a context of “I win and you lose”? |
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| Can humanity survive by war and more wars? Can humanity survive without love? Can humanity
survive with strongmen dictating political decisions in the name of society?
Can humanity survive on vengeance?
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Listen to this mother who lost her son who, in her grief, begs that vengeance not be done in her name. Listen to
her speak on behalf of the mothers in Gaza, who are losing their children also. This is a spiritual warrior. |
This is inner strength. This is the sacred masculine and sacred feminine at work. This is compassion. This is the future, if we have one and deserve one as a species. |
David Lorimer, MA, PGCE, FRSA, author of two poems that Matthew is reading in today’s video below. Picture taken from his website. |
I thank David Lorimer for forwarding me this video, and for the two poems he wrote in response to it and the events going on in Palestine and Israel today. |
See Matthew Fox, A
Spirituality Named Compassion: Uniting Mystical Awareness with Social Justice.
And Fox, The Hidden Spirituality of Men: Ten Metaphors to Awaken the Sacred Masculine.
Banner image: Jews pray at the Wailing Wall in Jerusalem. Photo by stinne24. Pixabay. |
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Queries for Contemplation What is your response to watching and praying this video? What can be the response of the Israeli government? Of the people of Gaza? Of the American government? Of the United Nations? |
Responses are welcomed. To add your comment, please click HERE
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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 |
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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
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______________________________________________________________________________________ UPCOMING EVENTS See Matthew Fox's full calendar 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. |
Join Matthew Fox as he delivers a Lecture and Q&A: “Towards a New Mythology: New & Ancient Names for God from Mystical Ancestors and Contemporary Science (& Fit for Some Atheists too)” as part of the Unitarian Universalist of Berkeley Lawrence Lecture Series. Friday, November 10, 2023, 7:00pm-8:30pm PT. 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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