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Ways to Ground Oneself in Fierce Times of Apocalypse & Antichrist 2/26/2025 |
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It is no secret that we are living in a time of apocalypse and antichrist. Hildegard of Bingen painted such times as an unraveling of order. But also how Christ arrives to challenge Evil and bring peace. |
Thus, breakthroughs and revelations occur amidst the darkness. “Apocalypse” also means “Revelation.” I reproduce her painting and commentaries on it in my book, Illuminations of Hildegard of Bingen and in my recent book on Trump and MAGA as Anti-Christ. How turn Apocalypse into Revelation? How stay grounded during such fierce times? I offer here some practices for surviving |
Images of the antichrist by Hildegard of Bingen. Found in Illuminations of Hildegard of Bingen by Matthew Fox |
spiritually during times like these. 1. Do not deny the darkness in you or the darkness of the times. Denial is not a healthy response. “God is the denial of denial.” (Eckhart) 2. Ground yourself in the Via Positiva, i.e. the goodness and beauty of life, nature and cosmos that birthed us and the Earth that feeds us and cares for us like the Mother she is. 3. Call on
Father Sky for the vastness of soul and imagination and heart and courage (“big heart”) and the truly healthy masculine virility (i.e. virtue) that the times require. 4. Listen to your conscience, connect to it and act from it. |
With the country at a breaking point, Mary Trump lays out what’s at stake, what must be done, and how to stay strong in the fight for democracy. Mary Trump Media | 5. Demand that your political representatives search and find their conscience, connect to it and make decisions based on it. 6. Call on the spiritual warrior in you–we all have one in us. The biblical word for spiritual warrior is “prophet”—one who speaks out and
interferes. |
7. Find other spiritual warriors both living and dead to link up with as allies. 8. Reach out to Jesus as spiritual warrior and discover why the church chose Scriptures to read at the Christmas liturgy on the holiest night of the year that call him
“the most powerful Word” and “stern warrior” who “leapt” to earth (Wis 18. 15). 9. Find or birth community, whether online or in person or both. |
10. Read and study with an open heart the mystic-warriors of the past and present. 11. As I wrote in the conclusion to my antichrist book: Become a camel and return often to the oasis and watering hole of the Via Positiva. Fill up there on your
love of life |
The musical Marsh Family performs a dystopian spoof of Dolly Parton’s song “Here You Come Again” marking the 2025 inauguration. |
–the fountain of biophilia–as you cross the desert of the Via Negativa. Drink in the simple miracle of existence, the wonder of the 13.8 billion years that have brought you and the Earth and all her wondrous creatures into existence. 12. Be grateful—full of thanks. Carl Jung writes: “If our
religion is based on wonder, our chief emotion will be gratitude.” 13. Practice silence, contemplation, emptying, letting go (The Via Negativa). 14. Find a grief
practice. Beating a drum daily for 15 minutes allowing sounds from the third chakra to emerge unedited is one such practice. |
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| 15. Practice art as meditation: Draw, paint, garden,
dance, sing, do clay, chant, journal—let the depths of your soul out. 16. Practice protesting or boycotting or contacting politicians and attending town halls with them, calling their offices. Let your search for the common good be felt. |
17. Take care of yourself. Laugh, listen to music, be with friends, get rest, read and pray the news but not overly much. Get into nature, let nature into you, make friends with the more-than-human. “Look to the skies, look to the mountains,” the psalmist says. 18. Create and
do rituals with self or others that connect your soul to the cosmos. 19. Resist and protest wisely and passionately but non-violently (see yesterday’s DM). |
See Matthew Fox, Illuminations of Hildegard of Bingen.
And Fox, Trump & The MAGA Movement as Anti-Christ.
And Fox, Sins of the Spirit, Blessings of the Flesh: Transforming Evil in Soul and Society.
And Fox, A Spirituality Named Compassion: Uniting Mystical Awareness with Social Justice.
And Fox, Creation Spirituality: Liberating Gifts for the Peoples of the Earth.
And Fox, Original Blessing: A Primer of Creation Spirituality
See Matthew Fox, Skylar Wilson, Jen Lustig, Order of the Sacred Earth: An Intergenerational Vision of Love and Action.
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Queries for Contemplation |
Which of these practices work best for you? What others would you add? |
Illuminations of Hildegard of Bingen
An introduction to the life and work of Hildegard of Bingen, Illuminations reveals the life and teachings of one of the greatest female artists
and intellectuals of the Western Mystical Tradition. At the age of 42, she began to have visions; these were captured as 36 illuminations–24 of which are recorded in this book along with her commentaries on them.
“If one person deserves credit for the great Hildegard renaissance in our time, it is Matthew Fox.” – Dr Mary Ford-Grabowsky, author of Sacred Voices. |
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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. For immediate access to Trump & The MAGA Movement as Anti-Christ: A Handbook for the 2024 Election, order the e-book with 10 full-color prints from Amazon HERE. To get a print-on-demand paperback copy with black & white images, order from Amazon HERE or IUniverse HERE. To receive a limited-edition, full-color paperback copy, order from MatthewFox.org HERE. Order the audiobook HERE for immediate download. |
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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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A Spirituality Named Compassion: Uniting Mystical Awareness with Social Justice
In A Spirituality Named Compassion, Matthew
Fox delivers a profound exploration of the meaning and practice of compassion. Establishing a spirituality for the future that promises personal, social, and global healing, Fox marries mysticism with social justice, leading the way toward a gentler and more ecological spirituality and an acceptance of our interdependence which is the substratum of all compassionate activity.
“Well worth our
deepest consideration…Puts compassion into its proper focus after centuries of neglect.” –The Catholic Register |
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Creation Spirituality: Liberating Gifts for the Peoples of the Earth
Fox’s spirituality weds the healing and liberation found in North American Creation Spirituality and in South
American Liberation Theology. Creation Spirituality challenges readers of every religious and political persuasion to unite in a new vision through which we learn to honor the earth and the people who inhabit it as the gift of a good and just Creator.
“A watershed theological work that offers a common ground for religious seekers and activists of all stripes.” — Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat, Spirituality
and Practice.
“I am reading Liberating Gifts for the People of the Earth by Matt Fox. He is one that fills my heart and mind for new life in spite of so much that is violent in our world.” ~ Sister Dorothy Stang. |
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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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Order of the Sacred Earth: An Intergenerational Vision of Love and Action
By Matthew Fox, Skylar Wilson, and Jen Listug
In the midst of global fire, earthquake and flood – as species are going extinct every day and national and global economies totter – the planet doesn’t need another church or religion. What it needs is a new Order, grounded in the Wisdom traditions of both East and West, including science and indigenous. An Order of the Sacred Earth united in one sacred vow: “I promise to be the best lover and defender of
the Earth that I can be.”
Co-authored by Matthew Fox, Skylar Wilson, and Jennifer Berit Listug, with a forward by David Korten, this collection of essays by 21 spiritual visionaries including Brian Swimme, Mirabai Starr, Theodore Richards, and Kristal Parks marks the founding of the diverse and inclusive Order of the Sacred Earth, a community now evolving around the world.
“The Order of the Sacred Earth not only calls us home to our true nature as Earth, but also offers us invaluable guidance and company on the way.” ~~ Joanna Macy, environmental activist and author of Active Hope. |
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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 HERE |
As we enter this Lenten season—a time of reflection, reckoning, and renewal—we find ourselves
at a crossroads unlike any other in recent history. Join Matthew Fox and fellow thought-leaders and activists Andrew Harvey, Mirabai Starr, Yvette Flunder, Adam Bucko, and Cameron Trimble in From Darkness to Dawn: Spiritual Courage and Political Action in the Age of MAGA, a 4-part series of transformational conversations, exploring the deep spiritual roots of this political moment and uncovering pathways toward collective action, resilience, and renewal. Tuesdays, March 4, 11,
18, 25, 4-5:30 pm PT. Enroll HERE. |
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Join Matthew Fox as he offers a guest lecture in the Creation Spirituality Communities course “Sins of the Spirit, Blessings of the Flesh: An Exploration of Evil” led by instructor Carolyn Million. Wednesdays, March 12– April 16, 4-6 pm PT. Register HERE. Join Matthew Fox in a free video event hosted by The Shift Network: “The Mysticism of Christ: Experiencing the Sacred Teachings of Jesus for Spiritual Awakening,” Saturday, March 15 at 10am PT. Register for free HERE . Join Matthew Fox as he discusses his book, Creation Spirituality: Liberating Gifts for the People of the Earth, in an online Our Lady of the Prairie Retreat. Thursday, March 20, 4:00pm-5:30pm PT. Register HERE. MONTHLY: Join Matthew Fox 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 |
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Matthew was recently interviewed by Sandie Sedgbeer on her program “What is Going OM,” about his book, “Trump and the MAGA Movement as AntiChrist.” Watch or listen HERE. |
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