Author: Matthew Fox

Howard Thurman, the spiritual elder and genius behind the civil rights movement, was a profound mystic as well as a prophet.  From his childhood days,

Meister Eckhart teaches that “a good person praises good people.”  A cynic praises no one.  A cynical view of life banishes goodness, is not even

The other day we saw two visions from Hildegard of the Via Positiva.  We ended that meditation with her naming the struggle to keep the

Today marks the 100th Daily Meditations in our series.  Thanks to all those who are assisting and all those who are reading and meditating!  A

Hildegard shares an amazing vision she had in which she ascribes the work of creation to a woman named Love. In doing this she is

Mechtild of Magdeburg (1210-c.1280) was a Beguine, which is to say a member of the women’s movement of the middle ages.  Beguines were neither nuns

Surely play is part of the Via Positiva.  Yesterday we discussed the importance that the lack of play has in the making of murderers…including mass

Synchronicity happens.  Yesterday, while driving down the highway meditating on Julian of Norwich and her teachings on goodness along with Kristal Parks’ teachings on Joy

We are considering the contemporary American activist and mystic-prophet, Kristal Parks and her marvelous book Re-Enchanting the World: A Call to Mystical Activism* in which

We are, rightly I think, looking to our mystic-warriors or mystic-prophets from the past and the present in order to deepen our own callings to