Natural Ecstasies, part 2
Matthew Fox
July 3, 2019
A second ecstasy familiar to us all is friendship. The mutual attraction and sharing that reaches a point of forgetfulness of self is an experience
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Ecstacies in Nature as Our Experiences of the Divine
Matthew Fox
July 2, 2019
In upcoming Daily Meditations we will be discussing for a while our experiences of the Divine. Early in my writings I wrote about ecstasies as
About Experiencing the Divine
Matthew Fox
July 1, 2019
Since we launched our Daily Meditations on Mother’s Day we have been treating three categories of Creation Spirituality to assist us in saving Mother Earth
More Thoughts and Thinkers on Art as Meditation and Our Prophetic Vocations
Matthew Fox
June 30, 2019
What if Ornstein and Naranjo were right forty years ago when they informed us that art as meditation is the way of the prophets? And
The Role of Art as Meditation in the Beautiful Life of Sister Dorothy Stang, Eco-Martyr
Matthew Fox
June 29, 2019
In this series of Daily Meditations we have been attempting to lay down the groundwork for what constitutes true practice and true training for making
Art as Meditation in Our Schools
Matthew Fox
June 28, 2019
Along with contemplation and emptying comes play, fantasy, and creativity. Creativity is utterly natural to our species—indeed it is the very working definition of humanity
Walter Brueggemann and Art As Meditation
Matthew Fox
June 27, 2019
Walter Brueggemann, one of the great Hebrew Bible scholars of our time, in his important book on The Prophetic Imagination, speaks to the prophet Jeremiah’s
David Paladin and Art As Meditation
Matthew Fox
June 26, 2019
Navajo painter David Paladin was put in a Nazi concentration camp at the age of fifteen during WWII. When he was liberated two and a
Meister Eckhart and
the Rapid River
Matthew Fox
June 25, 2019
Today I offer reflections from one of Meister Eckhart’s sermons, which I title: “The Holy Spirit, Like a Rapid River, Divinizes Us.” Eckhart writes:
The Power of Art to Melt Ideologies and Hearts
Matthew Fox
June 24, 2019
We are discussing ” Art as Meditation: the Way of the Prophets.” Following is a personal story that woke me up to the power of
