Category: Transforming Evil

One wonders if the coronavirus crisis that our species is facing today might be an ultimate example of the Via Negativa in practice—one that leads

In our daily meditations lately we have been discussing evil and its presence among us and within us. In 1987 the Reagan administration erased the

For two weeks or so—interrupted by several meditations on generosity—we have been meditating on Evil.  That is an important meditation for Evil is possible wherever

Looking back on Hitler’s project—which as we have been noting was very much wrapped in religious language and pseudo religious rituals disguised as rallies.  In

Hitler invoked religious rituals on a grand scale along with religious propaganda in his impassioned preaching at his rallies.  Indeed, he was Germany’s favorite preacher. 

Hitler’s work was pseudo-religious—there lay its power. Rituals of purgation, purging, cleansing, uniting, chanting, processing, bowing, adulating, invoking cosmic powers of hatred and battling—all of

We are meditating on Evil and how it succeeds so often: how it is that Hitler prevailed in his malevolent dreams so successfully. What forces

In yesterday’s daily meditation I stressed that we ought not to project all evil on to someone else—not even Hitler.  We need to look deeper

We have been meditating on Evil recently in our Daily Meditations but also on our human capacity for generosity. We have seen that the word