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11/30/2024

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If women truly love the men in their lives, they will want to assist men in their own liberation. Similarly, healthy men who love women are not threatened by the gains women have made thanks to the women’s movement but want to see fairness, equal- ity and liberation succeed. 

Women have a role--as

“How Women Can Support Men’s Mental Health//Rahaf Kobeissi." Mo Gawdat Official

wives, lovers, friends, mothers, sisters, grandmothers, daughters, granddaughters, co-workers and more—to assist the liberation of their brothers. Detoxing a pseudo or sick or diseased masculinity is everybody’s business.

Furthermore, if it is true that every woman carries a masculine side in their soul just as every man carries a feminine side to his soul, then women are directly implicated in the struggle to clean up our under- standing of the masculine. Women themselves may be carrying around a toxic masculinity in their minds and imaginations to the extent that they have uncritically lived in a matrix for thousands of years that distorts what masculine energy can and might be. 

Just because men carry more testosterone does not mean that only men overreact with reptilian brains or an “I vs. You,” “Win/Lose,” “let’s make war” mentality, or even a dominator instead of partnership perspec- tive. Plenty of women are cheering on Trump’s patriarchal ideology after all. Women are fully capable of toxic behavior also. To clean up their sense of the healthy masculine is important. It allows their healthy feminine to flourish and to achieve great things. 

“Comet NEOWISE photographed in Summer of 2020.” Photo by Cristofer Maximilian on Unsplash

“Father Sky” and a new cosmology, so much a part of the good news of our time, can excite both women and men, girls and boys. It awakens heart and soul to look beyond the local and see our lives as individ- uals, as families, as communities in the broader context of an amazing fourteen-billion-year journey that has brought us this far. 

The archetype of the “Green Man,” is ideal for an age when mother earth is suffering so much from global warming, rising seas, the destruction of rainforests and millions of species. Our diseased planet affects the health of our own 

bodies and minds and souls. So much beauty is being lost. The Green Man archetype and the goddess were consorts the last time a grass roots renaissance occurred in the West, that is, in the twelfth century. Can that happen again?

The return of the “spiritual warrior” (not the same as soldier), wherein both men and women develop their inner strength and courage and willingness to stand up for values that matter at this time in history, is another necessary masculine archetype for our times. 

A new sense of "intergener- ational wisdom” is possible whereby young men and women and elders can profit from improved communication and listening to each other.  This carries deep implications for women in their role as grandmothers and elders to both granddaughters and grandsons, and in encourag- 

“The Power of Intergenerational Stories.” Tobin Short

ing the eldership of the men in their lives.

Thus it is that a perspective on the Hidden Spirituality of Men resonates with women as well as men. We are in this together. Together we rise or fall, resurrect or fail, survive or thrive, act or submit to despair, heal or carry toxins around with us wherever we go.

Adapted from Matthew Fox, The Hidden Spirituality of Men: Ten Metaphors to Awaken the Sacred Masculine.

And Fox, Christian Mystics: 365 Readings and Meditations

And Fox, Original Blessing: A Primer in Creation Spirituality

And Fox, Julian of Norwich: Wisdom in a Time of Pandemic—and Beyond.

And Fox, Hildegard of Bingen: A Saint for Our Times

And Fox, Father Sky: A Cosmic Mystery for Kids of All Ages.

Banner image: “A Woman’s Place Is in the Resistance.” Photo by Josh Howard on Unsplash

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Queries for Contemplation

As a woman, can you agree that men’s liberation is important to both the women and men in your life? As a man, can you agree to the same? If so, what is stopping us?

Recommended Reading

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

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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Order the audiobook HERE for immediate download.

Christian Mystics: 365 Readings & Meditations

As Matthew Fox notes, when an aging Albert Einstein was asked if he had any regrets, he replied, “I wish I had read more of the mystics earlier in my life.” The 365 writings in Christian Mystics represent a wide-ranging sampling of these readings for modern-day seekers of all faiths — or no faith. The visionaries quoted range from Julian of Norwich to Martin Luther King, Jr., from Thomas Merton to Dorothee Soelle and Thomas Berry. 
“Our world is in crisis, and we need road maps that can ground us in wisdom, inspire us to action, and help us gather our talents in service of compassion and justice. This revolutionary book does just that. Matthew Fox takes some of the most profound spiritual teachings of the West and translates them into practical daily mediations. Study and practice these teachings. Take what’s in this book and teach it to the youth because the new generation cannot afford to suffer the spirit and ethical illiteracy of the past.” — Adam Bucko, spiritual activist and co-founder of the Reciprocity Foundation for Homeless Youth.

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

Julian of Norwich: Wisdom in a Time of Pandemic–and Beyond

Julian of Norwich lived through the dreadful bubonic plague that killed close to 50% of Europeans. Being an anchoress, she ‘sheltered in place’ and developed a deep wisdom that she shared in her book, Showings, which was the first book in English by a woman. A theologian way ahead of her time, Julian develops a feminist understanding of God as mother at the heart of nature’s goodness. Fox shares her teachings in this powerful and timely and inspiring book.
“What an utterly magnificent book. The work of Julian of Norwich, lovingly supported by the genius of Matthew Fox, is a roadmap into the heart of the eco-spiritual truth that all life breathes together.”  –Caroline Myss
Now also available as an audiobook HERE.

Hildegard of Bingen, A Saint for Our Times: Unleashing Her Power in the 21st Century

Matthew Fox writes in Hildegard of Bingen about this amazing woman and what we can learn from her.
In an era when women were marginalized, Hildegard was an outspoken, controversial figure. Yet so visionary was her insight that she was sought out by kings, popes, abbots, and bishops for advice.
“This book gives strong, sterling, and unvarnished evidence that everything – everything – we ourselves become will affect what women after us may also become….This is a truly marvelous, useful, profound, and creative book.” ~~ Andrew Harvey, author of The Hope: A Guide to Sacred Activism.

The Return of Father Sky: A Cosmic Mystery for Kids of All Ages

The second book in the Father Fox’s Fantastical Fables series, The Return of Father Sky helps boys and girls to celebrate a new relationship with the masculine by way of Father Sky, whose return excites joy and wonder and possibility that enlarge the soul to welcome others and all creation. Written in a rhyming Dr. Seuss-like style, this full-color, beautifully illustrated book, written by world- renowned theologian Matthew Fox weaves together modern science and classic spirituality in a whimsical, entertaining format to illustrate important truths to readers aged 4 and up. 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.

UPCOMING EVENTS

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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. 
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Join Matthew Fox, Rev. Nóirín Ní Riain, and celebrated Irish performers Owen Ó Súilleabháin, and Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin in an Interfaith Advent celebration of Irish sacred music and storytelling to honor the varied Festivals of Light and explore the mysteries they reveal. Saturday, December 7, 9:00am – 11:00am PT. Register HERE.

Join Matthew Fox for an on-site and online Advent Retreat titled “A Great Coming: Creation Spirituality and the Renewal of Religion, Humanity and Holy Mother Earth,” hosted by Immaculate Heart Community, Los Angeles. Saturday, 12/14, 9 AM -5 PM; Sunday, 12/15, 9-11 AM. 
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