Origins of Evil
Matthew Fox
March 25, 2022
Origins of evil can be found in our capacity for creativity and the vastness of our imaginations. This is why Thomas Aquinas can predict, 700
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Amidst Evil in Ukraine, Good News from Father Sky
Matthew Fox
March 24, 2022
Evil is often defined as “privation of the good.” It would seem then that keeping the good before our eyes is one way to ground oneself
The Evil of War 2.0
Matthew Fox
March 22, 2022
If the Ukrainian invasion by Mr. Putin has meant anything, it has meant bringing into our living rooms a live show daily about humanity’s capacity
Letting Go, continued
Matthew Fox
March 22, 2022
Meister Eckhart talks about letting go of our intellect and entering into a “transformed knowledge” that includes an “unknowing.” Does this mirror Otto Rank’s invitation to
Eckhart & Rank on the Via Negativa: Undergoing Letting Go & Separation
Matthew Fox
March 21, 2022
Meister Eckhart says, “we sink eternally from letting go to letting go into the One.” Letting Go never ends, it is a continuous element to living,
Rank and Eckart on Creativity and The Now
Matthew Fox
March 20, 2022
Rank praises our mystical one-ing experiences or the experience of union with thecosmos as beingone of the suspension of time—“present, past and future are dissolved”
Rank on “The Beyond”
Matthew Fox
March 19, 2022
“The Beyond” features prominently in mystic Otto Rank’s understanding of the human condition. Says Rank: “The individual is not just striving for survival but is reaching for
Rank on Wisdom and the Need for a Whole New Civilization
Matthew Fox
March 18, 2022
Wisdom might be defined as the bringing together of the rational (knowledge) and the irrational or more-than-rational (awe and love and values). Or the bringing together
Rank on the Marvel of Creation vs. a Culture of Rationality
Matthew Fox
March 17, 2022
Otto Rank, the Austrian psychoanalyst and mystic, praises religion “because it admits the Unknown, indeed recognizes it as the chief factor instead of pretending an omniscience
Indigenous Wisdom, Otto Rank, & a Search for the “Deeper Sources”
Matthew Fox
March 16, 2022
In a recent DM I shared Dr. Kramer’s and my appreciation for Otto Rank’s teachings and invoked Kramer’s recent article that utilized Rank’s teachings on
