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A Wish for Humanity in the New Year 2025, continued 1/2/2025 |
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We are meditating on our most powerful wish for humanity in this upcoming year, 2025. I named mine in yesterday’s DM this way: “That we could rediscover our relationship to the cosmos.” Why? Because it is from that that our generosity, our gratitude, our wonder, our sense of reverence and of the sacred are rediscovered and energized anew. |
And because a dream told me years ago that there is only one thing wrong with our species, that we have lost the sense of the sacred. And connecting to the cosmos is how we reawaken that sense. I closed yesterday’s DM citing both Einstein and artist Robert Henri on what Einstein himself called the |
“The Night’s Long Moments.” A long exposure of the Milky Way and the earth’s rotation yield the illusion of a cosmic vortex. Photo by Jordan Condon on Wikimedia Commons. |
most important function of art and science, namely to awaken the cosmic religious feeling. Let us invite Henri into the discussion again. Says he: Everything that is beautiful is orderly, and there can be no order unless things are in their right relation to each other. Of this right
relation throughout the world beauty is born. Of course “right relation” is another term for justice and balance and fairness. And ultimately, for compassion. Henri continues: Art is the noting of the existence of order throughout the world and so, order stirs imagination and inspires one to reproduce
this beautiful relationship existing in the universe, as best one can. |
“Garden of Eden” Detail of a painting by Navajo shaman/artist David Paladin. Published with permission. | Does the Webb Telescope feed us today and
stir our imaginations by its discoveries of order through 13.8 billion years of cosmic happenings in the universe beamed into our living rooms and onto our computers and arousing new scientific debates? Henri continues: Everywhere I find that the moment order
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nature is understood and freely shown, the result is nobility—the Irish peasant has nobility of language and facial expression; the North American Indian has nobility of poise, of gesture; nearly all children have nobility of impulse. This orderliness must exist or the world could not hold together.* Nobility is key to Jesus’ teaching of the coming of the kingdom/queendom of God and of democracy, according to Meister Eckhart. |
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world seems not to be holding together—if greed and envy and power-over is taking priority over the search for beauty and orderliness and justice–maybe we have to reconnect more fully with our origins, the cosmos. |
The California Revels perform an arrangement of St. Patrick’s Breastplate at the César Chávez Memorial
Solar Calendar in Berkeley, CA, as a plea for healing in time of COVID, March 17, 2021. |
Maybe we need a civilization that begins with the cosmos and not with us. This is the primary meaning of ritual, ceremony or liturgy: To connect the community to the Whole. Connect psyche to cosmos. And the cosmos, with its inestimable beauty and creativity, to the psyche. To bring
heaven and earth together as Jesus prayed in his “Our Father-Mother" prayer. And as Mahatma Gandhi observed, “earth and heaven are in us.” |
* Robert Henri, The Art Spirit, p. 144.
Adapted from Matthew Fox, Chapter 4: Cosmic, Universalist: Harmony, Beauty, Justice as Cosmic Energies, in Fox, Original Blessing: A Primer in Creation Spirituality, pp. 79f., 68.
And Fox, Christian Mystics:
365 Readings and Meditations, p. 361.
See Fox, “Jesus and Democracy,” in Fox, Trump & The MAGA Movement as Anti-Christ: A Handbook for the 2024 Election, pp. 31-51.
See also: Fox, The Coming of the Cosmic Christ: The Healing of Mother Earth and the Birth of a Global
Renaissance.
And Matthew Fox and Bishop Marc Andrus, Stations of the Cosmic Christ.
And Fox, The A.W.E. Project: Reinventing Education, Reinventing the Human.
Banner Image: Envisioning the spirits of creation: “Blue
Winter Kachinas.” Painting by Navajo shaman/artist David Paladin. Published with permission. |
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Queries for Contemplation |
Do you agree that Nobility is the result of rediscovering the order of things and the proper relationships of humanity to the cosmos? How important is it to rediscover a sense of nobility in self and others including those different from ourselves? How might that change history for the good? |
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 thought (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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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.
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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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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
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Stations of the Cosmic Christ
By Matthew Fox and Bishop Marc Andrus.
This is a book of meditations on the Cosmic Christ,
accompanying the images of 16 wonderful clay tablets by Javier Ullrrich Lemus and MC Richards. Together, these images and meditations go far beyond the traditional Stations of the Cross to inspire a spiritual awakening and understanding of the cosmic Christ Consciousness, Buddha consciousness, and consciousness of the image of God in all beings, so needed in our times.
“A divinely inspired book that
must be read by every human being devoted to spiritual and global survival. It is cosmically brilliant.” — Caroline Myss, author of Anatomy of the Spirit |
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The AWE Project: Reinventing Education, Reinventing the Human
The AWE Project reminds us that awe is the appropriate response to the unfathomable wonder that is creation… AWE is also the acronym for Fox's proposed
style of learning – an approach to balance the three R's. This approach to learning, eldering, and mentoring is intelligent enough to honor the teachings of the Ancestors, to nurture Wisdom in addition to imparting knowledge, and to Educate through Fox's 10 C's. The 10 C's are the core of the AWE philosophy and process of education, and include: compassion, contemplation, and creativity. The AWE Project does for the vast subject of “learning” what Fox's Reinvention of Work did for
vocation and Original Blessing did for theology. Included in the book is a dvd of the 10 Cs put to 10 video raps created and performed by Professor Pitt.
“ An awe-based vision of educational renewal. ”— Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat , Spirituality and Practice. |
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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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Join Matthew Fox and cosmologist Brian Thomas Swimme in a new 7-week live video course hosted by The Shift Network: “The 4 Paths of Creation Spirituality: Embracing Awe, Chaos, Creativity & Transformation With the Universe as Your Guide.” Tuesdays, December 3 –
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Creation Spirituality Conversations |
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