Vows (part II)
Gianluigi Gugliermetto
September 25, 2025
Modern materialistic consciousness cannot understand that making a vow in a solemn way — be it private or public — makes an objective difference in
Archives
Ecstasies
Gianluigi Gugliermetto
August 22, 2025
There has been a resurgence of interest regarding the effects of lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD) on the brain, and particularly on its connection with spirituality,
Clouds – part 2
Gianluigi Gugliermetto
August 7, 2025
I might be able to drive up next week in the nearby Alps, just to lie on the grass and watch the clouds. Though I
Rupert Sheldrake on the Politics & Science of Resentment
Matthew Fox
October 17, 2024
I am asking these days how it is that Donald Trump, for all his obvious shortcomings, has so large a following among American voters and
Walking the Labyrinth: A Spiritual Practice with the Four Paths
Matthew Fox
August 31, 2022
Last week, in my class on the mystics with the Creation Spirituality Communities program, I met a woman doing a very useful thing, I believe.
In Memory of Malidoma Somé,
1956-2021
Matthew Fox
December 14, 2021
On December 9, we lost a great spiritual teacher, lover of ritual and of young people, Malidoma Patrice Somé, an ancestor from Dano, Burkina Faso
Ceremony and its Power, continued
Matthew Fox
April 16, 2021
Ceremony is, among other things, an occasion for our collective gratitude, a collective Via Positiva. It is utterly primal and primary. As Rabbi Heschel says,
Science & Ritual: Sheldrake and Fox in Dialogue
Matthew Fox
November 30, 2020
We are meditating today on a conversation I shared with biologist Rupert Sheldrake in our book Natural Grace. Sheldrake: The essence of the idea of morphic
Hinduism and Christian Mystics on Joy in Work and Ritual
Matthew Fox
November 29, 2020
The Bhagavad Gita speaks to joy when it declares that when one realizes the Supreme Brahman one becomes fully joyful. He never laments or desires to
Rituals among Hindus
Matthew Fox
November 23, 2020
Hinduism honors creativity, art, and ritual-making. The Chandogya Upanishad says: Where there is creating, there is progress. Where there is no creating, there is no
