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Art as a Spiritual Process |
08/11/2023
by Rick Reich-Kuykendall |
Today, all of the quotations are from Matthew’s
book, Creativity: Where the Divine and the Human Meet. Try to meditate on each quotation and see what comes to you. |
Note how Matthew says he uses art-as-meditation to help him be more productive
as a writer and lecturer: I often ‘get lost’ and get calmed while writing or while preparing a lecture, or while lecturing. I have deep spiritual experiences while working. This is art as meditation
also. | |
Experiment with this practice of study as meditation and contemplation. Our creativity is so powerful,
so without precedent in the history of evolution,
that it is literally taking over the planet. “Study,”
which I define as
the disciplined pursuit of our holy curiosity,
is a necessary part of remaining alive
and remaining creative
and
resisting cynicism. |
The Heaven and Earth Show’s Alice Beer interviews Sinéad O’Connor about singing, vocation, the Catholic Church, and the prophetic nature of an artist’s job. BBC Archive, 2002 | The artist is to the community
or body politic
what the liver is to the human body:
a cleanser
and recycler
of waste
and toxins. |
Art as meditation is
simply entering into the artistic process
not to produce a work of art
but to be with the process. The
artist has realized
that the alternative to creativity
is worse than death.
It is boredom.
A death of the Spirit.
A soul-death.
A concealment of one’s truth.
Hell. |
See Matthew Fox, Creativity: Where the Divine and the Human Meet, pp. 191-192, 10, 76, 89, 191,
128. Banner Image: Artist alone on ocean jetty. Photo by Oatsy40 on Flickr. |
Queries for Contemplation Pick one of the quotations that really spoke to you, and share what came to you. |
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Creativity: Where the Divine and Human Meet Because creativity is the key to both our genius and beauty as a species but also to our capacity for evil, we need to teach creativity and to teach ways of steering this God-like power in directions that promote love of life (biophilia) and not love of death
(necrophilia). Pushing well beyond the bounds of conventional Christian doctrine, Fox’s focus on creativity attempts nothing less than to shape a new ethic. “Matt Fox is a pilgrim who seeks a path into the church of tomorrow. Countless numbers will be happy to follow his lead.” –Bishop John Shelby Spong, author, Rescuing the
Bible from Fundamentalism, Living in Sin | |
See Matthew Fox's full calendar
HERE |
Join Matthew Fox for a Cosmic Mass and Panel Forum at the 2023 Parliament of the World’s Religions - A Call to Conscience: Defending Freedom & Human Rights, August
14-18 in Chicago, IL Wed., 8/16, 7:00pm CT - The Cosmic Mass - Honoring Gaia, Solidarity for Our Earth Thurs., 8/17, 1:00pm CT – Panel and Response to The Cosmic
Mass Register HERE. |
Join Matthew Fox as he discusses “Sins of the Spirit, Blessings of the Flesh: Transforming Evil in Soul and Society” at an online Our Lady of the Prairie Retreat, Thursday, August 24, 4:00pm-6:00pm 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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