The Creation Spirituality Lineage Calling All Social and Environmental Activists, Mystic Explorers, Justice Makers, Cosmic Thinkers, Earth Keepers Daily Meditations with Matthew Fox |
A Question from Lewiston,
Gaza, Israel, and
the Globe 10/28/2023 |
This morning I received from a friend in New England, a powerful essay from a man whose children were home because their school near Lewiston was shut down. His wife, a first grade teacher, was strategizing with fellow teachers about how one talks about these realities to
seven-year-olds. |
As a journalist he has covered many mass shootings, but this time his family is affected directly. He appropriately links his concerns with
families struggling in Gaza and in Israel and asks this question: Today—with a shelter-in-place order still in effect for large areas where I live—there’s one question |
“Tips to help children process the mass shooting events in Lewiston.” News Center Maine |
I find myself asking: What does it really mean to find safety when the world’s like this?* Of course, we could be talking about the globe, our planet, and what just happened in Cuernavaca, Mexico. All the fierce hurricanes, droughts, flooding, rising of seas and acid levels in the oceans-–“What does it really mean to find safety when the world’s like this?” It means we roll up our sleeves and do our
inner as well as outer work and commit to change our species for the better. This includes “defense departments” the world over thinking about more than making new, deadlier, faster weapons of destruction and posing questions like this: How do we defend ourselves against ourselves? Against hatred and strife and guns and mental sickness and access by civilians to military weapons? |
"How to Save Our Planet.” WWF International | AND, how do we defend our habitats, ecosystems, oceans, rivers, soil, forests, insects, birds and animals from our rapacious selves? How do we get nations to put money into examining the causes in homo sapiens that bring about destruction and self-hatred |
and hatred of others (fascism is born of self-hatred according to psychologist Erich Fromm) and hatred toward Mother Earth? Forces of matricide and ecocide,
therefore. The spiritual warrior dares to ask these questions. And denial is no option. |
* October 26, 2023, Common Dreams <commondreams@commondreams.org>
See Matthew Fox, The Hidden Spirituality of Men: Ten Metaphors to Awaken the Sacred Masculine, pp. 77-104, 19-32.
And Fox, Original Blessing: A Primer in Creation Spirituality. Banner image:
“Rally for Senate Action to Prevent Gun Violence” 5/26/2022. Victoria Pickering on Flickr |
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Queries for Contemplation Do you see your family as an Original Blessing? Do you see your life that way too? And our
planet? Do you see yourself as a spiritual warrior and Green man/woman called to make a difference? |
Responses are welcomed. To read the Comments or join in the conversation by adding your own, please click HERE and scroll down to the Comments field. |
Original Blessing:
A Primer in Creation Spirituality 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): 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 |
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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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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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