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A Healing Dream for a
Time of Apocalypse Like Ours 09/17/2024 |
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Because we are talking about apocalypse and revelation at this time of Climate Change and of a critical election in America, I found myself picking up my book on The Coming of the Cosmic Christ. |
It was born of a powerful dream I had that culminated in the statement: “Your mother is dying.” My literal mother was nowhere near death at the time I had the dream and so I examined the statement for its deeper meaning. |
“Earth currently experiencing a sixth mass extinction, according to scientists.” | 60
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I felt it was, as many dreams are, a wake-up dream not just for myself but for the larger community, indeed for our species. And I still believe that. The first chapter of the book accordingly lays out eight ways in which “our mother is dying” and all seem pertinent to today’s world 34 years later including
the 2024 election. In so many ways, our species is busy “killing the Mother.” The dream that your mother is dying might be spoken differently and more starkly and more apocalyptically today this way: “Your mother is dying and you (plural) are killing her.” |
A coal bucket wheel gouges the earth for fossil fuels in an open pit mine while wind turbines serenely spin above trees. Photographer unknown; photo on Pixabay. | This is why, as I wrote last week, I dedicated my latest book on Christ and antichrist to those who are committed to saving Mother Earth. Because to deny the suffering of Mother Earth today is to be actively killing her. It is to be participating in
evil or the work of antichrist. |
My book on The Coming of the Cosmic Christ is very much about us all being other Christs or mystics who recognize the holiness and sacred all around us in nature, in our existence, in the 13.8 billion years that have brought our amazing and lucky species into existence on this very graced planet that finds itself in dire straits because our species has lost its way. Allow me to list the varied ways in which I name the theme of “your mother is dying” and which I call a “crucifixion story for our times." Because it is when we name the darkness that light can break through anew. Mother Earth is dying.
The mystical brain is dying.
Creativity is dying. |
Wisdom is dying (knowledge alone is king). The youth are dying (suicide is the second leading cause of death among ages 10-34). Native people, their religions and cultures, are dying. Mother church is dying.. Mother love—compassion—is
dying. |
“Divest from Fossil Cruel NOW.” Paramilitary employees of North Dakota and Energy Transfer Partners fire upon unarmed water protectors in the frigid Cannonball River as they resisted the Dakota Access Pipeline in Standing Rock, ND. Photo by Alane Golden on Flickr. |
Yes, our mother is dying—but she is not yet dead. To be dying is not to be dead. And we can be part of the resurrection and turn apocalypse to revelation if we are willing to do the work, inner and outer, that is being asked of us today. To do so we have to wake up both to Evil (the antichrist) and to
its opposite, the Sacred. Christ and Cosmic Christ are two names for the sacred but there are many other names as well. To be continued. |
Adapted from Matthew Fox, The Coming of the Cosmic Christ: The Healing of Mother Earth and the Birth of a Global Renaissance, pp. 1-37.
See also Fox, Original Blessing: A Primer in Creation Spirituality.
And Fox, Passion For Creation: The Earth-Honoring Spirituality of
Meister Eckhart.
And Fox, Trump & MAGA as Anti-Christ: A Handbook for the 2024 Election |
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Queries for Contemplation |
Do you recognize a
dying earth and dying wisdom and a dying church and a dying youth, etc.—but also the possibilities of waking up and rising up and resurrecting? |
Trump & The MAGA Movement as Anti-Christ: A Handbook for the 2024 Election
Matthew Fox tells us that he had always shied away from using the term “Anti-Christ” because it was so often used to spread control and fear. However, given today’s
rise of authoritarianism and forces of democracide, ecocide, and christofascism, he turns the tables in this book employing the archetype for the cause of justice, democracy, and a renewed Earth and humanity.
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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.
"This book is a classic. " Thomas Berry, author of The Great Work and The Dream of the Earth. |
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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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Passion for Creation: The Earth-Honoring Spirituality of Meister Eckhart
Matthew Fox’s comprehensive translation of Meister Eckhart’s sermons is a meeting of true prophets across centuries, resulting in
a spirituality for the new millennium. The holiness of creation, the divine life in each person and the divine power of our creativity, our call to do justice and practice compassion–these are among Eckhart’s themes, brilliantly interpreted and explained for today’s reader.
“The most important book on mysticism in 500 years.” — Madonna Kolbenschlag, author of Kissing Sleeping Beauty
Goodbye. |
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In the Beginning There Was Joy: A Cosmic Celebration for Kids of All Ages
The first book in the Father Fox’s Fantastical Fables series tells the story of the big bang and how humans fit into the awesome, fantastical,
cosmic picture! With artwork curated from illustrators around the world, this book expresses the joy and wonder of all peoples and cultures, planting seeds of respect, cooperation and hope to work together for the healing of our planet. "Matthew Fox does it again, here for our young ones, who so need a positive, cosmic vision
to thrive, or even survive, in a sad time." - Father Richard Rohr, Author of The Universal Christ "Matthew Fox offers a resounding affirmation of what our souls have always suspected: we are made for joy." - Mirabai Starr, Author of God of Love and Wild Mercy |
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UPCOMING EVENTS See Matthew Fox's full calendar
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Join Matthew Fox Tuesday Sep 17 @ 2:00 pm Eastern, 11:00 am Pacific, for an interview with the Thom Hartman Program on his new book Trump and the MAGA Movement as Anti-Christ: A Handbook for the 2024 Election. See how to listen or watch live HERE. |
MONTHLY: Join Matthew Fox, Mariko Middleton, and Skylar Wilson of the Order of the Sacred Earth in a free virtual meeting for connection and networking with other mystic warriors. Last Tuesday of every month, 4:00-5:00pm PT.
Join Zoom Meeting: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88665302478
Meeting ID: 886 6530 2478 Learn more at www.orderofthesacredearth.org |
Matthew Fox will make a guest appearance during the Creation Spirituality
Communities course, Creation Spirituality in a Time of Apocalypse. He will talk about his new book on the antichrist, which is an apocalyptic archetype. Join Theodore Richards, founder of the Chicago Wisdom Project and editor of the online Magazine/Podcast ReImagining as he takes us through 4 sessions exploring how Creation Spirituality can give birth to
new stories during times of upheaval. Dates: Sept 9, 16, 23, 30 from 7-9 PM ET. Cost: $150 per student. Register HERE. |
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Join Matthew Fox as he discusses his book Occupy Spirituality: A Radical Vision for a New Generation in an Our Lady of the Prairie Retreat, Thursday, September 19, 4:00-5:30 pm PT.
Register HERE. |
ConvergenceCoLab hosts Matthew Fox, Margaret Wheatley, and Brian McLaren in an online conversation on “Post-Doom Spirituality," Wednesday, October 16, 6-8:30 PM ET. Register now with an EARLY BIRD rate of $30, HERE. |
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Join Matthew Fox as he discusses his two books, In the Beginning There was Joy and The Return of Father Sky, in an Our Lady of the Prairie Retreat, Thursday, October 17, 4:00-5:30 pm
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in part 1 of an in-depth interview titled "Trump and the MAGA Movement as Anti-Christ," where Fox asserts
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