Hildegard as Shaman, continued
Matthew Fox
April 27, 2021
A shaman lives in two worlds at once. Poet Bill Everson speaks of the link shamans have with the Animal Powers and recognizes Christ’s relationship
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Berry, Hildegard and Estes on Wildness and Shamanhood
Matthew Fox
April 26, 2021
Berry defines what he means by wildness that shamans possess calling it “something primordial, a realization that humans are not here to control but to
Green Men and Women according to Thurman and Hildegard, continued
Matthew Fox
March 1, 2021
Hildegard, like Thurman, calls out about our “pillaging of nature.” She thunders: Now in the people who were meant to green there is no more
Thurman & Hildegard on being Green Men and Women, continued
Matthew Fox
February 28, 2021
Yesterday we saw how Thurman underscores our inherent need for cosmology — the “curiosity of our race” includes curiosity about our origins, our beginnings, where
Howard Thurman as a Green Man, Hildegard as a Green Woman
Matthew Fox
February 27, 2021
For Howard Thurman our feeling that we are part of our “total environment” is part and parcel of holiness. He was ahead of many theologians
Howard Thurman and Hildegard, continued
Matthew Fox
February 26, 2021
We are meditating on the likenesses between Howard Thurman’s theology and that of Hildegard of Bingen. Yesterday we focused on their common teachings about the
Howard Thurman and Hildegard of Bingen: Brother & Sister in Creation Spirituality
Matthew Fox
February 25, 2021
One might ask what unites a twelfth century Benedictine abbess and a twentieth century African American prophet and philosopher? It is the sacredness of creation
Julian, Hildegard, Love and the Divine Feminine
Matthew Fox
February 8, 2021
One thing that follows from bringing back the divine feminine is the primacy of love. Julian connects motherhood and compassion. “Compassion is a kind and
Julian, Hildegard, and the Fourth (Feminine) Side of Divinity
Matthew Fox
February 7, 2021
Julian teaches that “in our coming into being, God All-Wisdom is our natural Mother, supported by the boundless Love and Goodness of the Holy Spirit.
Julian, Hildegard, and the Search for Wisdom, continued
Matthew Fox
February 6, 2021
Yesterday we meditated on how Julian and Hildegard are sisters calling us to wisdom. Wisdom is feminine. She is missing in a patriarchal culture. And
