December 30, 2024: Holy Work: Critiquing Addictive Social Media, continued
We proceed to replicate on an article written by commentator Thom Hartmann referred to as “Is Social Media This Technology’s Heroin?” He talks about how social media followers the flames of worry and rage. Hartmann reminds us that social media billionaires make enormous income on these ways. Worry sells. Sure politicians prefer to fire up worry and anger as effectively. Additionally billionaires like Elon Musk, on X (previously Twitter) and Murdoch. Is that this partly why the world seems crazier than ever?
December 31, 2024: Jimmy Carter: Mannequin of Refirement as Holy Work
Jimmy Carter might not essentially have been the most effective president, however most can certainly agree that he was an excellent human being. By that, we imply he lived his values. He was an unapologetic Christian and walked the speak, utilizing his place and station to do good on this planet. Matthew has written about the necessity to transfer from a retirement consciousness to a refirement consciousness after one steps away from one’s common job. Jimmy Carter did that, and he set a excessive bar for the remainder of us.
January 1, 2025: My Quantity One Want for Humanity on New Yr, 2025
Matthew requested himself this query on New Yr’s Eve: If I may have one want for humanity this yr, what would it not be? He determined that it might be for us to rediscover a way of marvel, awe, gratitude, and reverence for the cosmos. He realized that, by and huge, humanity has misplaced its sense of the sacred. That sense must be rekindled if we’re to develop into sufficiently impressed to save lots of our Mom Earth. Eco-prophet Thomas Berry tells us: We are going to get better our sense of marvel and our sense of the sacred provided that we admire the universe past ourselves. Matthew desires “of a world crammed with knowledge colleges and never simply information factories.” Knowledge and information may be realized facet by facet, and rituals may be employed to reconnect psyche with the cosmos. Even Einstein reminded us that “an important operate of artwork and science is to awaken the cosmic spiritual feeling and preserve it alive.”
January 2, 2025: A Want for Humanity within the New Yr 2025, continued
Years in the past, a dream advised Matthew that there’s just one factor fallacious with our species: that we’ve misplaced our sense of the sacred. The excellent news is that there’s a resolution. Reconnecting with the cosmos is how we reawaken that sense. Artist Robert Henri mentioned: Every thing that’s lovely is orderly, and there may be no order until issues are of their proper relation to one another. If the world appears “out of order” recently; if greed and envy and power-over has taken precedence over the seek for magnificence and orderliness and justice, possibly we’ve to reconnect extra totally with our origins, the cosmos. “Perhaps,” says Matthew, “We want a civilization that begins with the cosmos and never with us.”
January 3, 2025: A Sense of the Complete and the Holy vs. a Rampaging Oligarchy
Bringing a way of the sacred again to humanity includes a renewed relationship with the cosmos. This explains why creation tales are so vital to individuals the world over. These tales are a method to awaken awe and educate each youngsters and adults about our place and duty within the universe. But when we “forfeit the sense of awe,” Rabbi Heschel tells us, “the universe turns into a market….” A tradition and not using a dwelling consciousness of the cosmos that births us is a narcissistic tradition and is ready up not just for oligarchy however for consumerism. “I purchase subsequently I’m.”
January 4, 2025: Universe Classes: Extravagance, Generosity & Growth
How can we take classes from the universe to fortify ourselves on this generally chaotic world? Author Annie Dillard talks in regards to the “extravagance” of nature. And Sufi mystic Hafiz speaks of the extravagance and generosity of the solar: Even in spite of everything this time, the solar by no means says to the earth, ‘You owe me.’ Look what occurs with a love like that. It lights up the entire sky. Poet Ernesto Cardenal believes that “the best discovery of the 20th century is the increasing universe.” Are we increasing, too? If not, we’re contracting and shrinking into worry. We have to keep in mind that enlargement means Love. And it’s one thing the world clearly wants extra of.
Banner picture: Galaxy M8s: a composite of multi-wavelength photos of the lively galaxy M82 from the three Nice Observatories: Hubble House Telescope, Chandra X-Ray Observatory, and Spitzer House Telescope. Credit NASA, ESA, CXC, and JPL-Caltech. Picture by NASA Hubble House Telescope on Unsplash
Beneficial Studying
Meister Eckhart: A Mystic-Warrior For Our Time
Whereas Matthew Fox acknowledges that Meister Eckhart has influenced thinkers all through historical past, he additionally needs to introduce Eckhart to at this time’s activists addressing modern crises. Towards that finish, Fox creates dialogues between Eckhart and Carl Jung, Thich Nhat Hanh, Rabbi Heschel, Black Elk, Karl Marx, Rumi, Adrienne Wealthy, Dorothee Soelle, David Korten, Anita Roddick, Lily Yeh, M.C. Richards, and lots of others.
“Matthew Fox is probably the best author on Meister Eckhart that has ever existed. (He) has efficiently bridged a spot between Eckhart as a shamanistic character and Eckhart as a post-modern mentor to the Inter-faith motion, to disclose simply how cosmic Eckhart actually is, and the way remarkably related to at this time’s spiritual disaster! ” — Steven Herrmann, Writer of Religious Democracy: The Knowledge of Early American Visionaries for the Journey Ahead
The Reinvention of Work: A New Imaginative and prescient of Livelihood For Our Time
Thomas Aquinas mentioned, “To dwell effectively is to work effectively,” and on this daring name for the revitalization of each day work, Fox shares his imaginative and prescient of a world the place our private {and professional} lives are celebrated in concord–a world the place the self shouldn’t be sacrificed for a job however is sanctified by genuine “soul work.”
“Fox approaches the extent of poetry in describing the reciprocity that should be current between one’s interior and outer work…[A]n vital highway map to social change.” ~~ Nationwide Catholic Reporter
The Hidden Spirituality of Males: Ten Metaphors to Awaken the Sacred Masculine
To awaken what Fox calls “the sacred masculine,” he reveals ten metaphors, or archetypes, starting from the Inexperienced Man, an historic pagan image of our basic relationship with nature, to the Religious Warrior….These timeless archetypes can encourage males to pursue their larger calling to connect with their deepest selves and to reinvent the world.
“Each man on this planet ought to learn this e book — to not point out each lady who needs to know the struggles, typically unconscious, that form the boys they know.” — Rabbi Michael Lerner, writer of The Left Hand of God
Unique Blessing: A Primer in Creation Spirituality
Matthew Fox lays out a complete new path for Christianity—a path that’s in reality very historic and really grounded in Jewish considering (the truth that Jesus was a Jew is commonly uncared for by Christian theology): the 4 Paths of Creation Spirituality, the Vias Positiva, Negativa, Creativa and Transformativa in an prolonged and deeply developed means.
“Unique Blessing makes out there to the Christian world and to the human group a radical remedy for all darkish and derogatory views of the pure world wherever these might have originated.” –Thomas Berry, writer, The Dream of the Earth; The Nice Work; co-author, The Universe Story
The Coming of the Cosmic Christ: The Therapeutic of Mom Earth and the Start of a World Renaissance
In what could also be thought-about essentially the most complete define of the Christian paradigm shift of our Age, Matthew Fox eloquently foreshadows the way through which the spirit of Christ resurrects when it comes to the return to an earth-based mysticism, the expression of creativity, mystical sexuality, the respect due the younger, the rebirth of efficient types of worship—all of those mirroring the continued blessings of Mom Earth and the restoration of Eros, the female facet of the Divine.
“The eighth marvel of the world…convincing proof that our Western spiritual custom does certainly have the depth of creativeness to reinvent its religion.” — Brian Swimme, writer of The Universe Story and Journey of the Universe.
“This e book is a traditional.” Thomas Berry, writer of The Nice Work and The Dream of the Earth.
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