Cosmos & Psyche a la Meister Eckhart
Matthew Fox
August 19, 2022
In a time of the Webb Telescope beaming light and pictures of the first galaxies into our living rooms, we might ask what would the
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Merton & Eckhart on Nothingness & Solitude
Matthew Fox
August 12, 2022
Merton expounds on the experience of nothingness: But to each of us there is a point of nowhereness in the middle of movement, a point
Merton & Eckhart on Nothingness, continued
Matthew Fox
August 11, 2022
In yesterday’s poem, composed from his hospital bed, Merton addresses “Eckhart’s castle.” Eckhart’s talk about the soul as a “castle” relates to the Biblical phrase,
On Human Nothingness and Extinction, continued
Matthew Fox
August 1, 2022
To meditate on one’s own mortality is not always an easy thing to do—but it is very necessary in order to live life fully and
Humanity: Facing Our Own Extinction, Our Own Nothingness
Matthew Fox
July 31, 2022
There are religious orders in both the East and West that make a great point about meditating on death. Often they make it a practice to
Nothingness, continued
Matthew Fox
July 30, 2022
Last week I saw a Nova program on PBS television called “Universe Revealed: Milky Way.” It was about the coming to be of our solar system
Experiencing Nothingness
Matthew Fox
July 29, 2022
One thing I love about the mystics is that they take us to the edge of consciousness. They talk about the “All” and how “isness is
How Webb Can Light the Spark of Our Souls, continued
Matthew Fox
July 22, 2022
Cynicism and acedia, as we saw yesterday, are dangerous misdirections of our first chakras. What is the medicine for cynicism, sourness, uncaring and acedia? Another way
Exploring Nothingness: Teachings from the Mystics, continued
Matthew Fox
July 9, 2022
There is such a thing as political nothingness and today, with a politicized SCOTUS, a supreme court nothingness. A Supreme Court reducing American jurisprudence to nothing, pulverizing the
July 4th, 2022 and the Spark of the Soul in Medieval Jewish Mysticism
Matthew Fox
July 4, 2022
This year’s 4th of July Celebration feels more like Hong Kong’s 50th anniversary remembrance this weekend than it does like previous fourth of July celebrations over the
