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For Hildegard, as for Einstein, awe and knowledge, intuition and intellect, aren’t at odds but are companions on the journey. When she says “there is
It seems to me that Rabbi Abraham Heschel offers a deep insight into this most important question: “What does it mean to be human?” Heschel
Dualism is the basis of all war. It creates either/or thinking. Subject/object thinking is necessary for carrying on wars. Mysticism is non-dualism. Julian of Norwich invented the word oneing. How
Hildegard calls Christ “green wood” and green man. We are all called to be green men and women today. If we are not, we are neither
In their classic work, The Green Man: The Archetype of Our Oneness with the Earth, English photographer Clive Hicks and poet William Anderson teamed up to bring
To talk of divinization and the Cosmic Christ is to talk of the numinosity in all things. And meaning. And creativity. The inherent creativity and “intelligence” of
One way to grasp a spiritual concept is to consider its opposite first. What constitutes the opposite of joy? Sadness is an opposite of joy
Two days ago in our daily meditations, we spoke of how winter and the darkness “contain their own wisdom and lessons, one of which is silence
Yesterday we considered some teachings from the Jewish tradition about how animals are teachers of spirituality. We need wisdom and spiritual teachings today as individuals and as communities. So
Those who dismiss Webb Telescope as “pretty pictures” ought to explore its meaning more deeply. First, they should consider what Thomas Aquinas says about nature
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