Bly and Kabir on Panentheism
Matthew Fox
November 28, 2021
In my first DM on Robert Bly’s passing two days ago, there was a video of his reading his poetry in which he cites this
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Bede Griffith on Balancing the Masculine & the Feminine
Matthew Fox
November 14, 2021
What price do we pay for this lack of balance and loss of intuition and the feminine? Father Bede says: The limitations of Western science
Meister Eckhart & Hinduism: East Meets West as We Face a Common Adversary
Matthew Fox
November 5, 2021
Meister Eckhart’s deep resonances with the Hindu tradition may partly be explained by the Celtic presence among the Middle Age Rhineland mystical movement, so evident
More Wisdom about Work from Deep Ecumenism
Matthew Fox
October 31, 2021
The Tao Te Ching underscores the importance of the inner work as non-action when it says: “Practice not-doing, and everything will fall into place.”
Merton on the Divine Feminine, continued
Matthew Fox
September 27, 2021
In a long prose poem entitled “Hagia Sophia” (Holy Wisdom), Merton reminds us of the “feminine principle” in the universe. He reminds us that within
Thomas Merton on the Divine Feminine
Matthew Fox
September 26, 2021
One man who celebrated the Divine Feminine and Sophia is the late Catholic monk Thomas Merton. Merton, like Julian of Norwich whom he praised
Some Thoughts on the 20th Anniversary of 9/11
Matthew Fox
September 11, 2021
All of us who are old enough have our memories of 9/11. Part of mine is that on 9/10 I boarded flight 93 from Boston
Race, Politics and Toxic Masculinity on January 6 and July 27
Matthew Fox
August 1, 2021
The four policemen on July 27 who bore witness to the horrors they faced on January 6 were racially diverse. A black man, a Latino
Darkness, Depth and Silence
Matthew Fox
June 14, 2021
We have been considering how the term “ground” implies darkness and depth. Whether we are speaking of the human soul, the depths of the earth,
Thomas Berry on Shamanism in Our Time
Matthew Fox
June 7, 2021
In yesterday’s DM we considered how the darkness of our times may provide a kind of shamanistic rupture or breakthrough that can lead to a
