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Working on the seven capital sins and the seven chakras has brought to my attention once again that spirituality is intensely personal and political at
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Working on the seven capital sins and the seven chakras has brought to my attention once again that spirituality is intensely personal and political at

Journeying up from the fourth to the seventh chakra, we have been dealing with lighter and subtler energies, it seems to me. If we follow

The sixth chakra concerns our “third eye,” intuition, and the bringing together of our left and right hemisphere of the brain in creativity. This is,

The fifth chakra, located at the level of the throat, can be naturally paired with the capital sin of gluttony, which in Latin is spelled

In the middle chakra, the energies of the other chakras converge. This notion is not peculiar to Matthew Fox, nor is the idea that the

Just as smoke indicates fire, so anger indicates love. Anger has a necessary and important role to play in response to our pain or abuse.

In his revisiting the seven deadly sins of the Catholic tradition, after speaking of sloth or acedia as the root-vice, Matthew Fox examines “lust” and

Acedia means essentially lack of interest and absence of passion. It is not the same as the sin of omission, which is the lack of

We live in very troubled times. The more we are aware of this, the more we realize that we cannot count on external events to

Dear brother Leo, welcome! You are one of us, a man in flesh and blood so you are entitled to a warm welcome. Just as
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