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Week of 6/16-21/2025:
Exploring Masculinity,
Walt Whitman, & Refugees By Daily Meditation Team 6/21/2025 |
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note: These Daily Meditations will be written by Matthew Fox (MF) on Mondays, Tuesdays, and Saturdays; and Gianluigi Gugliermetto (GG) on Wednesdays, Thursdays, and Fridays. Matthew will continue to offer a video teaching each Monday. |
June 16, 2025: Report From the “Healthy Masculinity” Summit Gathering (MF)
At this
summit, which featured Matthew, there was also an “Elders Panel” which included Matthew at 84 years old, Lee at 74, and Daniel at 71. There were also two hosts, 51- and 39-years-old respectively. In Matthew’s talk, he spoke to the seven archetypes of the Healthy Masculine that he refers to in his book The Hidden Spirituality of Men. Some points made by the panel include: How a binary way of seeing the world is “antiquated.” How men are cut off from their bodies and feelings. How men
obsess about war. How we can embrace aging by having older men as role models. A 51-year-old spoke to how there is an elder hunger in the world today. June 17, 2025: Four Bad Fathers & The Price Society Pays (MF)
This Father’s Day season, let’s meditate on bad fathers. Example #1: Daedalus, the father of Icarus. He was banished to Crete because he murdered his nephew out of envy. When he and his son, Icarus, had to put on
wings to escape prison, he didn’t communicate well how important it was not to go too close to the sun. #2: Hitler’s father was sadistic and violent with him on a daily basis. #3: Trump’s father was an active member of KKK, greed was his god, and he had no empathy for anyone. #4: Musk’s father and grandfather were so excited about apartheid that they moved their family from Canada to South Africa, where they could enjoy the fruits of tyranny and oppression in their business
dealings. |
Mary Trump tells the story of growing up in the Trump family with her uncle Donald Trump and grandfather Fred Trump. Democracy Now! |
June 18, 2025: The Male Toddler Archetype (GG)
“Monster boys” are running the world, and a male toddler archetype
is among them. You can recognize a male toddler by his tantrums and narcissism. Currently we have a toddler-in-chief in the White House. One of the great questions of our time is “Why is there so much violence in the world?” It seems the root is unhealthy masculinity, which is rampant not only in leadership positions, but among everyday people as well. In Italy, for instance, a young teenager smashed his ex-girlfriend with a rock, simply because she refused to continue the
relationship. Clearly we have a long way to go in teaching our young men how to be a healthy man. June 19, 2025: Walt
Whitman as a Spiritual Ancestor (GG)
The book by Matthew Fox and Adam Bucko, Occupy Spirituality: A Radical Vision for a New Generation, ends with an extended reference to Walt Whitman. Both Matthew and Adam note that Whitman “celebrated the diversity of sexuality in our species.” Whitman is a wonderful contrast to
the unhealthy racist, sexist, homophobic men currently in the White House. Whitman espoused a “spiritual democracy,” at the core of which is a daring, courageous and strong, big-hearted and tender masculinity. |
The wild, shamanic side of Walt Whitman is captured in the Arrow Park Cultural Project’s sculpture
by Bruno Lucchesi in Monroe, NY. Photo by Stanley Zimny on Flickr. |
June 20, 2025: Making Evil Conscious (GG)
Patriarchy as a social system is at least 4,000
years old. Jungian analyst Steven Herrmann said: The Puritan myth was based upon an unconscious projection of evil onto indigenous people, the life way of the two-spirits and a bi-erotic image of the soul’s wholeness.* Male Puritans, faced with alternate ways of living, as modeled by the indigenous people, decided instead to demonize their own feminine inner core. This ancestral refusal to embrace wholeness has informed American colonialism, sexual repression, and racism. If Walt
Whitman “makes evil conscious in the American self,” as Herrmann suggests, it is the normative male white heterosexual American self that is at stake. June 21, 2025: W. H. Auden, Jennifer Hereth on Refugees & Fascism (MF)
Following are excerpts from a moving poem called “Refugee Blues,” composed by W.H. Auden in 1939, when Europe was exploding with fascist fervor. The paintings are by Jennifer Hereth, a friend of Matthew’s
and former faculty member at UCS, from her latest book, my brush—my voice.** She says that “refugees will become the most prominent archetype of the 21st Century.” Say this city has ten million souls, Some are living in mansions, some are living in holes. Yet there’s no place for us, my dear, yet there’s no place for us.…The consul banged the table and said, ‘If you’ve got no passport you’re officially dead.’ But we are still
alive my dear, but we are still alive.… Thought I heard the thunder rumbling in the sky. It was Hitler over Europe, saying, ‘They must die.’ O we were in his mind, my dear, O we were in his mind. |
“Refugees Chaos,” “Refugees on the Move II,” and “Mother and Child Refugee,”
by Jennifer Hereth. From her website. |
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*Matthew Fox and Adam Bucko, Occupy Spirituality: A Radical
Vision for a New Generation, at page 214.
**The pictures here are used with permission from the artist. See Jennifer Hereth, my brush—my voice at www.jenniferhereth.com. All profits from her book are donated to “Global Refuge.” Banner image: "REFUGEES" in Atwater, CA, at the site of the former
Castle Air Force Base. Photo by David Meyer. Flickr. |
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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 |
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Occupy Spirituality: A Radical Vision for a New Generation
Authors Adam Bucko and Matthew Fox encourage us to use our talents in service of compassion and justice and to
move beyond our broken systems–economic, political, educational, and religious–discovering a spirituality that not only helps us to get along, but also encourages us to reevaluate our traditions, transforming them and in the process building a more sacred and just world. Incorporating the words of young activist leaders culled from interviews and surveys, the book provides a framework that is deliberately interfaith and speaks to our profound yearning for a life with spiritual purpose and for a
better world.
“Occupy Spirituality is a powerful, inspiring, and vital call to embodied awareness and enlightened actions.”
~~ Julia Butterfly Hill, environmental activist and author of The Legacy of Luna: The Story of a Tree, a Woman, and the Struggle to Save the Redwoods |
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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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Creativity: Where the Divine and Human Meet
Because creativity is the key to both our genius and beauty as a species but also to our capacity for evil, we need to teach creativity and to
teach ways of steering this God-like power in directions that promote love of life (biophilia) and not love of death (necrophilia). Pushing well beyond the bounds of conventional Christian doctrine, Fox’s focus on creativity attempts nothing less than to shape a new ethic.
“Matt Fox is a pilgrim who seeks a path into the church of tomorrow. Countless numbers will be happy to follow his lead.” –Bishop John
Shelby Spong, author, Rescuing the Bible from Fundamentalism, Living in Sin |
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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.
From the Foreword: If there was ever a time, a moment, for examining the archetype of the Antichrist, it is now…Read this book with an open mind. Good and evil
are real forces in our world. ~~ Caroline Myss, author of Anatomy of the Spirit and Conversations with the Divine.
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