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The VP Debate & The
Scream from Helene 10/1/2024 |
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I write this on the eve of the vice-presidential debate, and you will receive it on the day thereof. Hurricane Helene has spoken—no, screamed—to our world about what really matters in this presidential election and in the spiritual and moral life of our nation and species today. |
As I wrote 35 years ago in the opening chapter of my book on the Cosmic Christ, our mother Earth (as we know her) is dying. And our species and Western culture and religion and economic system and media and education and narcissism (Pope Francis’ word) is largely responsible for it. |
Helene is expected to be one of the costliest hurricanes in U.S. history and was fueled by abnormally warm water in the Gulf of Mexico, but most of the media coverage has failed to connect the devastation to the climate crisis. Democracy Now! |
Now people from Florida to Virginia are paying the price for our neglect and denial and perversely narcissistic politics. Here are some of the ways Mother Earth is trying to get our attention. The Scream from Helene includes the reality that at least 130 people are dead and up to 1,000
people are missing. Hundreds of people from six states are trying to find their loved ones and piece their lives back together, while at the same time, a new storm is developing in the Gulf of Mexico and two more in the Atlantic. |
ABC News reports on the impact of Helene from Florida to Virginia, as the death toll continues to
rise. | I hope that the moderators of the vice-presidential debate will ask authentic questions of both
candidates and the presidential nominees they speak for, about this pressing issue. Anything less is to participate in the lies and cover-up and folly |
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opposed to wisdom) that the antichrist is famous for. The number one question to pose is this: What are the presidential actions they and their running mates will take to respond to the Scream of Helene? And I do not mean the incalculable amount of money needed to clean up the disaster. I mean the rethinking of our time and place on Earth—our attitude toward Mother Earth—that can prevent more and more and more frequent Helenes. How much more screaming must Mother Earth do
in order to wake our species up? To move from war against our fellow humans and war against Mother Earth to making peace with Earth and our limits as a species? |
The only answers I recall hearing from candidate Trump are these three: 1. “Climate Change is a hoax.” 2.
“Drill, baby, drill.” 3. Leaked from behind a closed door session with CEO’s of fossil fuel |
The Morning Joe panel discusses the First Felon’s claim this weekend that climate change is “one of the greatest scams of all time.” MSNBC |
companies is the pledge made by Mr. Trump: “Give me $1 billion and I will gut all the current laws from the Biden administration about defending the environment.” Perhaps vice-presidential candidate Vance can improve on this response to the most important moral issue of our time. To be continued. |
If you would like to help the survivors of Helene, these organizations are providing assistance on the ground: |
See Matthew Fox, Trump & The MAGA Movement as Anti-Christ: A Handbook for the 2024 Election.
And Fox, The Coming of the Cosmic Christ.
And Fox, Sins of the Spirit, Blessings of the Flesh: Transforming Evil in Soul and Society.
And Fox, Original Blessing: A Primer in Creation Spirituality
Banner Image: NOAA charts Hurricane Helene’s path across the central US. Learn Project 2025 plans for NOAA services HERE. |
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Queries for Contemplation |
What is humanity’s attitude toward Mother Earth that you think needs most changing the world over so that climate change can be slowed down or reversed? |
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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Sins of the Spirit, Blessings of the Flesh: Transforming Evil in Soul and Society
Visionary theologian and best-selling author Matthew Fox offers a new theology of evil
that fundamentally changes the traditional perception of good and evil and points the way to a more enlightened treatment of ourselves, one another, and all of nature. In comparing the Eastern tradition of the 7 chakras to the Western tradition of the 7 capital sins, Fox allows us to think creatively about our capacity for personal and institutional evil and what we can do about them.
“A scholarly
masterpiece embodying a better vision and depth of perception far beyond the grasp of any one single science. A breath-taking analysis.” — Diarmuid O’Murchu, author of Quantum Theology: Spiritual Implications of the New Physics |
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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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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. |
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UPCOMING EVENTS See Matthew Fox's full calendar
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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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Free Virtual Event: Join Matthew Fox and the Creation Spirituality Communities' Global Kinship monthly Zoom meeting on Thursday, October 3, 1:00-2:30 PM PT. Matthew will discuss a Call To Action regarding his new book, Trump & The MAGA Movement as Anti-Christ: A Handbook for the 2024 Election. In this lecture, discussion, and Q&A, together we will brainstorm about how to use this book to keep Trump out
of the White House, and put Harris/Walz in. Call will be recorded. Register HERE. |
Join Matthew Fox and others in a panel discussion on “Mysticism, Spirituality and Psychedelics” at the Portland 2024 Psychedelic Symposium: Illuminating Visions, a hybrid virtual/on-site event. Panel discussion (online): Friday, October 4, 10:30 am - 12:00 noon PT; Symposium (on-site): Friday, October 4 - Sunday, October 6. Register HERE. |
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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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Register HERE. |
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Creation Spirituality Conversations |
Bannon, former Trump advisor and former Executive Chairman at Breitbart News. He explains how Cardinal Burke and other neofascists in the Catholic Church opposed the Second Vatican Council, which sought to update the Catholic Church. He then explains how both Leonard Leo (co-chairman of the Federalist Society board of directors, who drew up lists of potential conservative judges who were then appointed to the Supreme Court) and Kevin Roberts from the Heritage
Foundation, share a right-wing Catholic ideology. |
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