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The Earth is sacred yet we are despoiling it for ourselves and for the children to come. Climate Emergency is happening all around us—Australia’s burning
Previously we have noted that one fights evil in many ways but one essential way, as Howard Thurman insists, is to connect to the bigger
In our daily meditations lately we have been discussing evil and its presence among us and within us. In 1987 the Reagan administration erased the
Having meditated on evil for two weeks, we are now invoking gifts that the mystics give us to combat evil. Yesterday we considered the primal
For two weeks or so—interrupted by several meditations on generosity—we have been meditating on Evil. That is an important meditation for Evil is possible wherever
Looking back on Hitler’s project—which as we have been noting was very much wrapped in religious language and pseudo religious rituals disguised as rallies. In
Hitler invoked religious rituals on a grand scale along with religious propaganda in his impassioned preaching at his rallies. Indeed, he was Germany’s favorite preacher.
Hitler’s work was pseudo-religious—there lay its power. Rituals of purgation, purging, cleansing, uniting, chanting, processing, bowing, adulating, invoking cosmic powers of hatred and battling—all of
We are meditating on Evil and how it succeeds so often: how it is that Hitler prevailed in his malevolent dreams so successfully. What forces
In yesterday’s daily meditation I stressed that we ought not to project all evil on to someone else—not even Hitler. We need to look deeper
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