Category: Via Positiva

Surely play is part of the Via Positiva.  Yesterday we discussed the importance that the lack of play has in the making of murderers…including mass

Synchronicity happens.  Yesterday, while driving down the highway meditating on Julian of Norwich and her teachings on goodness along with Kristal Parks’ teachings on Joy

We are considering the contemporary American activist and mystic-prophet, Kristal Parks and her marvelous book Re-Enchanting the World: A Call to Mystical Activism* in which

We are, rightly I think, looking to our mystic-warriors or mystic-prophets from the past and the present in order to deepen our own callings to

The creation-centered mystics are all about immersing ourselves in the goodness of creation, the blessing of existence, thus immersing ourselves in the Via Positiva.  For

We are interrupting our meditations on the Via Positiva briefly to consider what role the Via Positiva plays in a time of grief and loss. 

With the anguish playing on nightly news and commentaries, and with hearts the country over broken by thirty-one unnecessary deaths in El Paso and Dayton,

Gratitude is another dimension to the Via Positiva experience.  In his encyclical “Laudato Si” Pope Francis calls for our expressing “gratitude for the gifts of

In his much acclaimed encyclical on the environment, “Laudato Si,” Pope Francis constructs his argument for a healthy interaction with the Earth on the Via

We are discussing how to nurture mystics (lovers) who become prophets (warriors) to fight for the environment and for future generations of humans and millions