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A Report from an
Interspirituality Symposium By Matthew Fox 2/25/2026 |
This weekend Kurt Johnson and other editors of the two-volume work on Interspirituality: The Heritage and The Future sponsored a very rich Unity Earth Symposium bringing together many of the 200+ authors who contributed to the books. |
The Dalai Lama offered an “Opening Message” for the volumes, I wrote a Foreword and Ken Wilber wrote an Afterword. The contributors represent “a dynamic, convergence of the world’s wisdom traditions rounded in shared values of compassion, justice unity, and love.” I was invited as keynote speaker
for the beginning and closing of the three-hour Sunday morning conference. Its theme was “The Future of Interspirituality: From Awareness to Action.” My term for “interspirituality” is of course “deep ecumenism” and I was introduced as being the oldest interspirituality pioneer still around. To |
Cover of the book. “INTERSPIRITUALITY: THE HERITAGE brings together more than 100 global contributors…with an introduction by His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama (and a) foreword by Matthew Fox." |
me, “Deep Ecumenism,” like “deep ecology,” represents the spiritual dimension to interfaith. “Launch out into the deep,” urges John of the Cross. Brother Wayne Teasdale, whom I met on several occasions, inspired the term “interspirituality” defining it as forging “a coming ground and actual
impetus” toward realizing a “dream of a new civilization based on the heart.” Brother Wayne was close to Father Bede Griffiths who was a good friend and supporter of creation spirituality. |
Father Bede Griffiths was a Benedictine monk, author, and leader of
Saccidananda Ashram, South India. Photo taken in the garden of the home of Johannes Aagaard, Elsdyrvej, Højbjerg, Aarhus. Photo by Dialog Center Images via Flickr (Creative
Commons) | Three organization were represented in our sessionL the Bede Griffiths Trust, the Temple of
Understanding, and Holomovement & Prosocial Spirituality. Among the eleven persons speaking were scientists, psychologists, activists, and artists. The gathering was so rich that I heartily recommend you watch. Here are two links, the first of which features my talk: HERE and HERE. No doubt the second Sunday and Saturday and opening Friday sessions were equally impactful. I will share teachings from one speaker from our session, Rocky Dawuni. Rocky is from Ghana and a four-time Grammy-nominee. He moved me with his
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presentation on what I can only call a creation-centered spiritual consciousness coming from Mother Africa. |
He began with a stirring video of his singing a song called “Jerusalem” while walking amidst the neighborhoods and religious history of the holy city. Then he spoke of how the current reality he sees is the opposite of peace. That we manifest God not through isolation but through
"spiritual activism" and emphasizing how all peoples are children of God. While he has visited the Holy Land and played in the Vatican, as a “child of Africa,” he recognizes the first temple or church to be “Nature itself.” |
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(How often I have heard Native Americans tell me the same thing!) Our relationship to nature, said Rocky, is fundamental. His culture used to emphasize how trees and rivers were considered sacred and each was assigned a personal name. All this nourished a deep spirituality. But now corruption rules and economic exploitation of nature is everywhere. People are falling away from our responsibilities and from our “first church.” Experiencing earth as a garden in touch with God as in the Garden of Eden story in Genesis, no longer prevails—”reverence for the earth has eroded.” |
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| “Drill, drill, drill!” is what one hears instead. The message is to subdue the gifts of nature to make money.
Acquiring more wealth is key and deception is everywhere. No longer are we being taught “to see God in everything.” The oneness of nature ties us together but the grasping for wealth overshadows it. We need “an Age of Reawakening, prophetic |
awareness and visions from the Holy Spirit.” A celebration of the word, of speaking, an epiphany of a worldview that we can share together. How can we manifest this energy, how can we recover the sense of “God walking among us” in the garden, our Earth? Ghana, he explained, is about 20% Muslim, 70% Christian, and heavily tribal as well. |
Queries for Contemplation Do you also recognize the first temple or church as Nature itself? What
follows from that? |
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Matthew Fox offers a keynote at the Unity Earth Symposium V on The Future of
Interspirituality: From Awareness to Action, exploring the maturation of interspirituality and how shared spiritual awareness becomes structured, embodied action in the world. |
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