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Week of 11/9-15/2025:
Greed & Democracide vs. Love
By the Daily Meditation Team 11/16/2025 |
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is a weekly summary of the previous week’s Daily Meditations. Some are written by Matthew Fox (MF), and some by Gianluigi Gugliermetto (GG). You can click on the title of a DM in order to view the original piece in its entirety. Also, please note, we will continue to offer a video teaching by Matthew each Monday. |
November 9, 2025: Peter Thiel, Democracide & The Authoritarian Stack: The Antichrist, cont’d (MF)
Billionaire Peter Thiel is kingmaker to the current administration. His company Palantir has taken in billions in defense and ICE contracts since 2015. He has declared that “freedom and democracy are no longer compatible.” “Freedom” for Thiel means freedom from regulation, as Palantir has been using AI to catapult spying to a new level. And regulation, to Thiel, constitutes the very essence of the antichrist in our time. Mussolini’s definition of fascism?
The marriage of government and industry. A particularly scary dimension to this alliance is the “Army’s Executive Innovation Corps” where Silicon Valley executives are being commissioned into military ranks. This feels like the antichrist, does it not? “Detachment 201,” a new division of the Army Reserve that is commissioning tech executives to be lieutenant colonels (a higher rank than captain or major). Historically, direct commission at this level has been reserved for doctors or lawyers. Video by FedScoop. |
November 10, 2025: No Regulation: A Government Replacing Democracy with Greed (MF)
While 42 million Americans were about to lose their SNAP benefits, the occupant of the White House was throwing an enormous Great Gatsby-themed party at Mar-a-lago. Disgraceful. What is a government without regulation of its richest and most powerful citizens? It is surely not a government “of the people, by the people, and for the people.” Most spiritual traditions talk about the sin of Greed or Avarice. Thomas Aquinas teaches that “the greed for gain knows no
limit and tends to infinity.” Author David Korten warns that some type of regulation is necessary for survival of the planet as we know it. “To accept the reality of physical limits is to accept the need to limit greed and acquisition in favor of economic justice and sufficiency.” November 11, 2025: Lady Love and Her Queen (GG)
Mechthild of Magdeburg is yet another beguine who lived in the 13th
century, like Hadewijch and Marguerite Porete (see DMs Nov. 6 and 7). Each of these women is remembered as the first woman to have written a book in the language of her people. But what especially unites them is that they consecrated their lives to God in ways that are very explicit and
were pretty scandalous to many. As Matthew Fox has remarked, it is not that the mystic women of the Middle Ages disavowed the Augustinian doctrine of original sin, but they reframed it. In her book, The Flowing Light of the Godhead, for instance, Love/God calls the soul “Queen” and desires only to embrace her. The patriarchal world managed to silence the voices of these three women by hiding their texts for quite a while. Fortunately, they’ve been rediscovered, and they speak volumes to a world desperately in need of love. |
November 12, 2025: Culling Flowers on a Bright Pathway? (GG)
Scholars of Dante agree that the character of
Matelda in Purgatorio is a person not weighed down by original sin. As Dante walks on the Other Side, he encounters Matelda joyfully culling flowers from a garden. When Dante asks about her joyful demeanor, she answers that her smile comes from always contemplating the works of God in the universe. Can we get any more via positiva than that? Meanwhile, in Mechthild’s works, we find a via negativa side. She talks about “sinking into the night!” Whenever we
can, having walked through all the dark valleys, we can have a life of gratitude, singing, and dancing. This is the message of Mechthild and Dante. November 13, 2025: The Sacred Heart (GG)
Mechthild found sanctuary at the Cistercian monastery of Helfta. The abbess, Gertrude of Hackeborn, welcomed her. Fortunately Mechthild’s wisdom was recognized and celebrated there and she subsequently became a teacher to two young women named,
amazingly, Gertrude and Mechtilde! Mechtilde of Hackeborn was a great musician as well as the author of a book called The Book of Special
Graces. And Gertrude of Helfta wrote a book called Herald of Divine Love, These two slightly younger
women are credited with originating devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus. Originally, the Sacred Heart had to do with how divine beauty pervades the universe, and how divine love keeps the universe alive. More via positiva! November 15, 2025: Billionaires Behaving Badly & Other Lessons from the Epstein Story (MF)
Headlines about Epstein and Trump abound. We are all discovering that those with concentrated wealth and power can, for many years, cover up the pedophilia committed by some of the richest and most powerful men in the world. These same billionaires are among those who own over 85% of the media in our country and who have bought the Supreme Court and 60% of the politicians in our country. Do we really want men like these to set the agenda for our media, for our
politics and policies, our schools and children, our companies and businesses, and our Supreme Court? Do we really want them to make decisions about war and peace and the future of our planet? As the emerging Epstein emails send Republicans into a frenzy, the prancing statues of the disgraced White House occupant and his pedophile friend reappear outside a DC café/bookstore. WUSA9 |
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