God in Nature, continued
Matthew Fox
May 31, 2021
California poet Bill Everson affirms that “most people experience God in nature—or experience God not at all.” Not only do we experience God in nature
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Nature Expands the Soul—We in it, It in Us
Matthew Fox
May 30, 2021
It inspires me to be meditating on the importance of the whole, the cosmos, creation, nature, and realize how central this awareness is to human
Aquinas, Sanders, Goodall on Cosmos & Soul Expansion
Matthew Fox
May 29, 2021
If the greatness of the human person consists in our being “capable of the universe,” (Aquinas) doesn’t that mean that in a time like ours,
Aquinas on Expanding Human Consciousness
Matthew Fox
May 28, 2021
We are considering how resurrection and waking up in this life time are about an expansion of consciousness and how one way to expand consciousness
Aquinas on Awe and the Expansion of Consciousness
Matthew Fox
May 27, 2021
Aquinas did know one very important dimension to the universe that modern peoples have easily forgotten—namely, that the facts of our home, the universe, are
Resurrection as Expansion of Consciousness in Dickinson, Aquinas, and Us
Matthew Fox
May 26, 2021
In his study on Emily Dickinson, Steven Herrmann reminds us that expansion of consciousness is a deep part of resurrecting in this lifetime.* Part of
More from Aquinas on Dying and Resurrecting in this Lifetime
Matthew Fox
May 25, 2021
About resurrection, Aquinas says: There is a double resurrection, one of the body, when the soul rejoins body, the other spiritual, when soul reunited to
Thomas Aquinas and Emily Dickinson as Resurrected Shamans
Matthew Fox
May 24, 2021
We have been discussing how shamans like David Paladin and also Emily Dickinson undergo a rupture or a breakdown/breakthrough experience, most often directed to their
Death and Resurrection as Shamanic Experiences, continued
Matthew Fox
May 23, 2021
In yesterday’s DM, we shared some of Emily Dickinson’s experiences of death and resurrection. Artist-shaman David Paladin tells us that the warrior-shaman rises above his
Ecstasy, Dying, and Resurrecting in Dickinson’s Shamanic Worldview
Matthew Fox
May 22, 2021
The experience of the Divine is at the heart of spirituality and any effort to renew religion itself. Mystics undergo such experiences and attempt to
