June 23, 2025: Artwork, Artist & Work in a Time of a Collective Darkish Night time
The By way of Transformativa is all about our work, how we usher the spirit into the world. It’s about our vocation, our calling, our function. At this time we honor, as soon as once more, the work of Jennifer Hereth. In her guide my brush—my voice can also be a bit of work entitled “How Laborious Ladies Work within the World.” The artist inside every certainly one of us additionally calls us to dwell in our deepest values. All that is honored within the apply of artwork as meditation. As Meister Eckhart put it, “what’s true can not come from exterior in however should come from inside out and move by an internal kind.”
June 24, 2025: Ethical Creativeness, Immoral Creativeness & An Vitality Breakthrough
Creativity is a strong power that can be utilized for good or for evil. Artists and dancers may help rework society for the higher. However what about those that design weapons of mass destruction? What about those that make use of manipulation and sadism? What about those that are masters of propaganda? This is the reason Thomas Aquinas mentioned that one human being is able to doing extra evil than all the opposite species put collectively. Potter, M. C. Richards, insists {that a} “major objective” of training is to develop creativeness and “ethical creativeness.” To think about and create “what shouldn’t be but.” Are we giving creativeness the eye it deserves in our instructional programs? Poet, Denise Levertov, insists that the fullness of creativeness is Compassion. God bless human creativeness. And will it’s steered from evil to the true frequent good.
June 25, 2025: Etty Hillesum on Oneness in Laborious Instances
With a lot horror on this planet, it’s simple to sink into despair, however then we discover inspiration within the type of Etty Hillesum, the Dutch Jewish creator killed in Auschwitz in 1943. What is totally superb about her is that she was in a position to “keep human” within the midst of essentially the most unspeakable struggling. She was already interned on the Westerbork transit camp when she wrote the next: The sky is filled with birds, the purple lupins rise up so regally and peacefully, two little outdated girls have sat down for a chat, the solar is shining on my face – and proper earlier than our eyes, mass homicide… The entire thing is solely past comprehension. She additionally wrote: Residing and dying, sorrow and pleasure, the blisters on my ft and the jasmine behind the home, the persecution, the unspeakable horrors: it’s all as one in me. Etty was by some means in a position to maintain each extremes in her consciousness.
June 26, 2025: Etty Hillesum and Peace-Making
Etty Hillesum volunteered to be among the many first Jews rounded up by Germans to go to the Westerbork transit camp. There, she was a counselor and good friend to many. Additionally, we now know, she and a colleague helped smuggle many kids out of the camp. At one level in her diary she writes: Finally, we’ve got only one ethical obligation: to reclaim massive areas of peace in ourselves, increasingly more peace, and to mirror it towards others. Which means as soon as we’ve got achieved all we will do, in essentially the most inventive methods we will, we must always not fall into despair as a result of our motion has not achieved the outcomes we hoped for.
June 27, 2025: Etty Hillesum on Actual Males
‘Boys play with troopers; women play with dolls.’ The affiliation of males with violence and females with homemaking has gone on for a really, very very long time. So, too, has the notion that what males do is extra essential. The ramifications of this sort of socialization is apparent for all to see—i.e., an immature chief taking part in real-life battle video games, oblivious to the struggling his actions may trigger others. A reader responded to final week’s DM on Walt Whitman and quoted Etty Hillesum (which in flip impressed GG’s DMs this week). Hillesum mentioned: Ladies’s historic process for the longer term [is] to indicate the person the street to his personal soul by her soul.
June 28, 2025: Resistance: Assist Kill the Billionaire Welfare Invoice!
The price range being proposed proper now displays the values of the present administration and of Undertaking 2025. And these values are the precise reverse of those who Christ taught. If this invoice have been to move, it will hurt most the poorest 1/3 of People whereas billionaires would acquire trillions of {dollars} in advantages. Is that ethical? Is that America? Do Elon Musk, Invoice Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, Jeff Bezo, the Trump household, et al really want tax cuts that may end in 16 million People shedding their medical insurance? Invoice Gates doesn’t suppose so. Nobody with an oz. of ethical integrity would suppose so. Write and cellphone susceptible Republican congresspeople and inform them the reality about this invoice. Maintain their ft to the hearth. Attend city halls. (Learn the DM in full to seek out the names of susceptible Republicans to contact.)
Banner picture: “We Want Leaders Not in Love with $” mural in Omaha, Nebraska. Picture by Shelby L. Bell on Flickr. Inventive Commons
Creativity: The place the Divine and Human Meet
As a result of creativity is the important thing to each our genius and wonder as a species but additionally to our capability for evil, we have to train creativity and to show methods of steering this God-like energy in instructions that promote love of life (biophilia) and never love of loss of life (necrophilia). Pushing effectively past the bounds of standard Christian doctrine, Fox’s deal with creativity makes an attempt nothing lower than to form a brand new ethic.
“Matt Fox is a pilgrim who seeks a path into the church of tomorrow. Numerous numbers will probably be comfortable to observe his lead.” –Bishop John Shelby Spong, creator, Rescuing the Bible from Fundamentalism, Residing in Sin
The Reinvention of Work: A New Imaginative and prescient of Livelihood For Our Time
Thomas Aquinas mentioned, “To reside effectively is to work effectively,” and on this daring name for the revitalization of every day work, Fox shares his imaginative and prescient of a world the place our private {and professional} lives are celebrated in concord–a world the place the self shouldn’t be sacrificed for a job however is sanctified by genuine “soul work.”
“Fox approaches the extent of poetry in describing the reciprocity that have to be current between one’s internal and outer work…[A]n essential street map to social change.” ~~ Nationwide Catholic Reporter
Sins of the Spirit, Blessings of the Flesh: Reworking Evil in Soul and Society
Visionary theologian and best-selling creator Matthew Fox provides a brand new theology of evil that basically modifications the standard notion of excellent and evil and factors the best way to a extra enlightened therapy of ourselves, each other, and all of nature. In evaluating the Jap custom of the 7 chakras to the Western custom of the 7 capital sins, Fox permits us to suppose creatively about our capability for private and institutional evil and what we will do about them.
“A scholarly masterpiece embodying a greater imaginative and prescient and depth of notion far past the grasp of anyone single science. A breath-taking evaluation.” — Diarmuid O’Murchu, creator of Quantum Theology: Religious Implications of the New Physics
Trump & The MAGA Motion as Anti-Christ: A Handbook for the 2024 Election
Matthew Fox tells us that he had all the time shied away from utilizing the time period “Anti-Christ” as a result of it was so usually used to unfold management and worry. Nonetheless, given right this moment’s rise of authoritarianism and forces of democracide, ecocide, and christofascism, he turns the tables on this guide using the archetype for the reason for justice, democracy, and a renewed Earth and humanity.
From the Foreword: If there was ever a time, a second, for inspecting the archetype of the Antichrist, it’s now…Learn this guide with an open thoughts. Good and evil are actual forces in our world. ~~ Caroline Myss, creator of Anatomy of the Spirit and Conversations with the Divine.
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The Hidden Spirituality of Males: Ten Metaphors to Awaken the Sacred Masculine
To awaken what Fox calls “the sacred masculine,” he finds ten metaphors, or archetypes, starting from the Inexperienced Man, an historic pagan image of our elementary relationship with nature, to the Religious Warrior….These timeless archetypes can encourage males to pursue their greater calling to hook up with their deepest selves and to reinvent the world.
“Each man on this planet ought to learn this guide — to not point out each lady who needs to know the struggles, usually unconscious, that form the lads they know.” — Rabbi Michael Lerner, creator of The Left Hand of God
