Thomas Merton: On Silence and Burning
Matthew Fox
July 13, 2019
In the following poem Merton names the spiritual practice of silence and the fire that is enkindled in the deep silence of meditation, the via
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Chanting the Psalms
Matthew Fox
July 12, 2019
We are talking about tactical ecstasies or practices and strategies for experiencing the divine. Catholic monk Thomas Merton wrote a powerful poem about his experience
Thomas Merton and the Cosmic Christ
Matthew Fox
July 11, 2019
The Cosmic Christ theology was important to Thomas Merton. His famous mystical experience on crossing Walnut Street in downtown Louisville during noon rush hour, when
The Cosmic Christ and Hildegard
Matthew Fox
July 10, 2019
The word of God is everywhere and in everything, for “without the Word of God no creature has being. God’s Word is in all creation,
Time for the Cosmic Christ?
Matthew Fox
July 9, 2019
I think it may be time that Christians put the Nicene Creed on the shelf for a while and start paying attention more to the
Doxa or “Glory,” Signs of
the Presence of the Cosmic Christ
or Image of God
Matthew Fox
July 8, 2019
The term “glory” or doxa is prominent in texts that celebrate the Cosmic Christ in the Scriptures. Glory and its synonym “beauty” are cosmological categories.
The Cosmic Christ and Our Experiences of the Divine
Matthew Fox
July 7, 2019
To speak of our experiences of the Divine, as we are doing in the current Daily Meditations, is to speak of the Cosmic Christ. The
Science on Natural and Tactical Ecstacies
Matthew Fox
July 6, 2019
British scientist Rupert Sheldrake is applying science to the subject of natural and tactical ecstasies in two recent books. The first is called Science and
Tactical Ecstasies
Matthew Fox
July 5, 2019
In addition to our common experience of natural ecstasies, the human race has devised other means for forgetting ourselves, for getting high, for experiencing divinity. The
Additional Natural Ecstasies
Matthew Fox
July 4, 2019
In talking about Ecstasies as experiences of the Divine we find ourselves talking about “forgetting oneself,” for that is what ecstasies do—they take us to
