COLLECTION NAME:
Matthew Fox Collection
Record
Collection Name:
Matthew Fox Collection
Title:
A Spirituality for the 21st Century
Title Type:
Proper
Name:
Fox, Matthew, 1940-
Name Role Term Text:
Priests
Resource Type:
Audio
Genre:
sound recordings
Genre:
lectures
Date Created:
Undated
Language Term:
English
Extent:
1 audiocassette (1 hour, 9 min., 39 sec.)
Form:
magnetic tapes
Abstract:
Recording of a talk Matthew Fox gave. Topics include spirituality, ecological collapse in the 21st century, wisdom, community, meditation, cosmology, and the warrior spirit.
Note:
00:00:00 Audo begins in the middle of Matthew Fox thanking the audience for bringing spirit into the room and thanking presumably the organizers of the event at which he is speaking. 00:01:28 Fox discusses the "question of our time": is the human species sustainable? He connects saving the planet and the species with spirituality. 00:03:06 Fox introduces the topic of spirituality in the 21st century. 00:04:26 Fox discusses [epicureanism?]. He quotes Meister Eckhart, discusses science and wisdom, and explains a little about his methodology for the talk. 00:06:11 Fox quotes Howard Thurman to discusses spirituality and the essence of humanity. 00:07:24 Fox discusses that spirituality and wisdom is bringing the heart and cosmos together. He mentions the Bhagavad Gita, the Upanishads, Indigenous American teachings of Black Elk, the Victorian Era, Ibn al-?Arab?, and Thomas Aquinas to express spirituality and wisdom as heart and cosmos. 00:14:49 Fox discusses the significance of reconnecting to enhance spirituality despite the struggles people have delt with. 00:16:15 Fox discusses ecological destruction and how spirituality can wake humanity up through science and a New Cosmology. 00:19:57 Fox discusses the significance of community and how the West suffers from loneliness. Fox discusses the connection between community and creation. 00:23:00 Fox expands on science as an ally in spirituality through discussions regarding the flesh, matter, and light particles. 00:24:20 Fox quotes Mahatma Gandhi and continues to discusses the body and spirituality. 00:24:59 Fox shifts the talk from the body and spirituality to ecology, kinship, and spirituality. 00:26:18 Fox discusses repairing the connection between the animals and humanity through wisdom. 00:27:11 Fox continues to discuss cosmology, wisdom, ecology, grief, and community. 00:28:54 Fox discusses his university and how he wants it to help people find universe and wisdom and wake up. 00:30:57 Fox discusses mediation as tool for controlling the reptilian brain and connecting it to the mammal brain. He also discusses how meditation is a key survival mechanism. 00:38:17 Fox expands on meditation and discusses creativity as another facet for connecting to spirituality. 00:43:19 Fox quotes Francis Bacon to discuss change as it relates to forms and the way things are done. 00:45:25 Fox discusses art and imagination from the perspective of an African American philosopher. 00:46:45 Fox discusses abuses by the American government against indigenous people mainly outlawing the sun dance, as well as the crimes done to black people enslaved in the United States and connects this back to the need for community and creativity. 00:48:28 [Audio cuts out] The recording begins in the middle of Fox discussing a quote by Hafez about art and light. Fox connects this quote about art and creation to birth. 00:51:08 Fox discusses The Zohar to build on the significance of science and art to creativity and spirituality. 00:52:24 Fox discusses compassion as integral to spirituality. 00:57:03 Fox discusses couch-potato-itis as a unique Western obstacle to spirituality and how generosity is an anecdote. 00:59:09 Fox discusses spiritual warriorhood, letting go, the inner struggle, love, and courage. 01:06:34 Fox closes his talk discussing the necessity of the warrior spirit, with wisdom, creativity, art, and spirituality to tackle the challenges in the 21st century. 01:09:39 End of recording.
Note Type:
Segment sequence
Subject Topic:
Spiritual life--New Age movement
Subject Topic:
Spirituality
Subject Topic:
Indigenous peoples--Culture
Subject Topic:
Ecology
Subject Topic:
Communities
Subject Topic:
Meditation
Subject Topic:
Cosmology
Subject Topic:
Warrior spirit
Subject Name:
Fox, Matthew, 1940-
Subject Name:
Eckhart, Meister, -1327
Subject Name:
Thomas, Aquinas, Saint, 1225?-1274
Identifier:
U183071283786_narv_foxMatthew_61-18_spiritualityForThe21stCentury_a.mp3
Physical Location:
University of Colorado Boulder Libraries Rare and Distinctive Collections
Internet Media Type:
audio/mp3
Digital Origin:
reformatted digital
Access Condition:
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