This can be a abstract of the earlier week’s each day meditations. Some are written by Matthew Fox (MF) and a few are written by his colleague, Gianluigi Gugliermetto. (GG) You’ll be able to click on on any title to view the DM in its entirety. Additionally, keep in mind that every Monday DM continues to incorporate a video instructing by Matthew Fox. Thanks in your loyal readership.
March 16, 2025: Our Sacred Air: An Authentic Blessing We Dare Not Take For Granted (MF)
Within the wake of the bombing of oil depots in Iran and the next horrific poisoning of our sacred air, we mirror on this necessity of life. A number of years in the past Matthew learn the ebook, Caesar’s Final Breath by Sam Kean. Kean tells us that The air we breathe bears traces of Cleopatra’s perfumes, German mustard gasoline, particles exhaled by dinosaurs or emitted by atomic bombs, even remnants of star mud from the universe’s creation. Earth made our air. We don’t often take into consideration air as being created—it looks as if it simply is—however all planets need to manufacture their atmospheres from scratch. Every little thing—even mountains, and the ground beneath us—began as a gasoline—you’re an ex-gas.… Oak bushes, birds of paradise, cyanobacteria, we’re all on this collectively.*
March 17, 2026: Knowledge From José Argüelles and the Mayan Thoughts (MF)
In instances of disaster like ours, it’s good to name on historical knowledge. One indigenous knowledge keeper who touches Matthew deeply is José Argüelles, Ph.D. His ebook on The Transformative Imaginative and prescient: The Nature and Historical past of Human Expression has been for me a Bible of artwork as meditation. Argüelles says: “When a person is disadvantaged of the facility of expression, he’ll categorical himself in a drive for energy.”** In his remaining ebook, Manifesto for the Noosphere: The Subsequent Stage within the Evolution of Human Consciousness, Argüelles writes about how humanity is transferring from biosphere to the noosphere and, in doing so, is “actually passing from one time to a different.” The “outdated mechanistic time” will give solution to “the Galactic Maya” time, which he characterizes as “the pure time of common synchronization.”***
March 18, 2026: From ‘Time Means Cash’ to ‘Time Means Artwork’: A Mayan Perspective on Time (MF)
At present we proceed to mirror on the teachings of Mayan scientist José Argüelles. The Mayan sense of Time contains the cycles of the completely different life kinds, the rotation of the seasons, the oceanic instances, and the waxing and waning of the moon…. The Mayan Regulation of Time maintains every thing in synchronous relation to every thing….*** By naming synchronization as central to the time of noosphere, Argüelles is emphasizing the necessary function of mysticism. Our deep, unitive and mystical experiences happen in a synchronistic sense of time. Matthew notes that pre-modern mystics like Hildegard, Aquinas, Eckhart, Julian of Norwich, and so on. all lived earlier than mechanistic time dominated.
March 19, 2026: Deep Sources of Creativity (GG)
Gianluigi exhorts: I imagine that we’re referred to as to ideas and actions equal in depth to the disaster that we live by way of. Within the first chapter of his ebook Creativity: The place the Divine and the Human Meet, Matthew elucidates who we’re as a species. The record he presents might assist us to determine these areas that deserve consideration and deep religious work: We Are Not Shoppers. We Are Not Addicts. We Are Not Passive. We Are Not Boring, and We Want Not Be Bored. We Are Not Cogs in a Machine. We’re not Lazy. We’re not destroyers.
March 20, 2026: Anima Christi (GG)
“Anima Christi,” a Catholic hymn composed by Msgr. Marco Frisina, touches the soul of the listener. Stuffed with references to the Ardour of Christ, it might simply be used to instill a fake piety primarily based on the glorification of struggling. However a cosmic ingredient is current on this textual content, because the devoted particular person hopes to be referred to as after loss of life to the corporate of the saints and Christ himself. The believer is not invited to imitate the struggling of the person Jesus. Somewhat, the believer asks to be saved, sanctified, washed, inebriated, comforted, and sheltered throughout the wounds of Jesus. There may be ecstasy right here, along with a deep craving for peace. Gianluigi sees this prayer as a deeply religious model of the Christological dogma. We’d like individuals who perceive our ache, and this could solely come from those that have travelled by way of their very own ache. There’s something in this type of compassion that’s really divine.
March 21, 2026: The Wound Giving Beginning (GG)
Within the late Center Ages, a mandorla form was usually used to depict each Christ in glory, and the breast wound of Jesus. The latter unmistakably recollects the form of a vulva. Within the medieval thoughts, particularly within the writings of Julian of Norwich, Jesus was seen as each a person and a mom. If one juxtaposes the pictures of the 2 mandorlas — Christ in glory and the Christ wound — one thing fairly highly effective occurs. Deep pleasure (by way of positiva) and deep struggling (by way of negativa) are conjoined. The result’s a bi-gendered picture of the Savior, whose physique offers beginning to the devoted by way of the water and blood that movement out of the wound.
* Sam Kean, Caesar’s Final Breath: Decoding the Secrets and techniques of the Air Round Us.
** José Argüelles, The Transformative Imaginative and prescient: The Nature and Historical past of Human Expression.
*** José Argüelles, Manifesto for the Noosphere: The Subsequent Stage within the Evolution of Human Consciousness.
Banner picture: “Maya Village Daykeeper Burning Copal.” Photograph by Ann Wuytz on Flickr.
Associated Readings by Matthew Fox
Order of the Sacred Earth: An Intergenerational Imaginative and prescient of Love and Motion, by Matthew Fox, Skylar Wilson, and Jennifer Listug
Ardour For Creation: The Earth-Honoring Spirituality of Meister Eckhart
Meister Eckhart: A Mystic-Warrior For Our Time
The Tao of Thomas Aquinas: Fierce Knowledge for Laborious Occasions
Christian Mystics: 365 Readings & Meditations
Creativity: The place the Divine and the Human Meet
The A.W.E. Mission: Reinventing Schooling, Reinventing the Human
