Tasting the Nothingness of Our Times
Matthew Fox
July 7, 2022
Part of the Via Negativa and the Dark Night of the Soul is a deep tasting of Nothingness. I think many of us are tasting Nothingness today
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Rumi, Hafiz, Spark of the Soul & Service in Sufi Mysticism
Matthew Fox
July 6, 2022
Eckhart attests to learning the “spark of the soul” from Muslim philosopher Avicenna who lived 300 years before his time. Rumi too, great mystic and Sufi
“Spark of the Soul” in Jewish Mystical Teachings, continued
Matthew Fox
July 5, 2022
When things came into being as mineral, vegetable, animal, or human, “some of the sparks remained hidden within the varieties of existence.” The Zohar has been
July 4th, 2022 and the Spark of the Soul in Medieval Jewish Mysticism
Matthew Fox
July 4, 2022
This year’s 4th of July Celebration feels more like Hong Kong’s 50th anniversary remembrance this weekend than it does like previous fourth of July celebrations over the
Are Angels “Announcers of Divine Silence?”
Matthew Fox
July 3, 2022
Aquinas tells us that “angels are always announcers of divine silence.” Silence is surely one of the deep ways into the human heart and into
Aquinas on Angels, Love and Intuition
Matthew Fox
July 2, 2022
According to Aquinas, “angels cannot help loving, by force of nature. The will of angels is by nature loving.” The universe, inhabited by angels, is neither
Aquinas, Quanta & Angels; Darwin, Wallace & Evolution
Matthew Fox
July 1, 2022
Rupert Sheldrake posits that if one substitutes the word quanta for “angels,” Aquinas’s angelology addresses many of the same questions that today’s quantum physics asks. “When Aquinas
Some Teachings from Thomas Aquinas on the Angels
Matthew Fox
June 30, 2022
We have been meditating on angels of late because, ever since the January 6th commission began its hearings we have been exposed to very dark messages
Supreme Court Judges Sharing an Opus Dei Seal of Approval
Matthew Fox
June 29, 2022
To understand the goings on in SCOTUS today, you must understand Opus Dei, a fascist organization in the Roman Catholic Church. Why? Because the person who
Evil & the Dobbs Decision to Wipe Out Roe, continued
Matthew Fox
June 28, 2022
We spoke yesterday of the first chakra and arrogance inherent in the recent declaration of the once supreme court. It is arrogant to discount the
