COLLECTION NAME:
Matthew Fox Collection
Record
Collection Name:
Matthew Fox Collection
Title:
An Introduction to Creation Spirituality Tape #3
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, 18 min., 43 sec.)
Form:
magnetic tapes
Abstract:
Recording of a lecture Matthew Fox gave on Creation Spirituality and Original Blessing. Topics include Eckhart, Via Positiva, Via Negativa, Via Creativa, Feminism, pain, justice, consumerism, politics, and unselfconsciousness.
Note:
00:00:00 Audio begins in the middle of Matthew Fox speaking about "is-ness," divinity, and nothingness. 00:03:46 Fox discusses women's spirituality and Feminism's relationship to nothingness. 00:05:34 Fox discusses experiencing the Via Negativa through meditation, suffering, and pain. He mentions polio, addiction, and deaths and separations. He criticizes the idolization of God particularly by politicians. 00:10:43 Fox shares with the audience an exercise for letting go - laughter. 00:12:20 Fox begins an activity where he shares the Silence Haikus by Ken F. as he encourages the audience to pray together. Fox brings the prayer exercise back to laughter and letting go. 00:17:12 Fox invites the audience to partake in another activity involving creating an image of their Via Negativa. He discusses letting go and Eckhart. 00:22:58 Fox takes audience commentary. Fox, prompted by audience comments discusses pain, anger, letting go/forgiveness, and guilt. 00:28:17 Fox quotes Rilke and discusses Via Negativa. 00:31:12 [Audio cuts out] Fox continues taking audience comments and questions. Prompted by audience comments he discusses the paths and their implication for justice. He connects justice to the discussion of God as the King of the universe. 00:38:00 Fox asks audience what the implications for justice are in the Via Negativa (path two) and comments on their discussion. Topics in the discussion are racism, pain, consumerism, depression, politics, and reverence. 00:48:48 Fox discusses Gregory Bateson quotation and the idea that humanity could be poisoned by a sick religion and the waste of religious power. Fox discusses indigenous people and feminists teaching him how to reclaim the word power. 00:52:27 Fox discusses non-violence, or absorption, in relationship to power. Fox uses his own and others personal anecdotes to express why the ocean and mysticism is the great absorber. 00:58:12 Fox begins discussing path three the Via Creativa or the creative way. He differentiates aestheticism from creativity and unselfconsciousness. 01:05:08 Fox takes audience contributions to the discussion of creativity, passion, and surrender. 01:06:41 Fox connects clowns and fools to the Via Creativa and their necessity to developing unselfconsciousness. 01:10:45 Fox discusses the film Fools for Christ by Ken F. featuring the Royal Lichtenstein Quarter-Ring Sidewalk Circus which is in Creation Spirituality's catalogue. 01:14:35 Fox brings the discussion back to the Via Creativa. He quotes Eckhart discussing ecstasy and the cosmos. 01:18:43 End of recording.
Note Type:
Segment sequence
Subject Topic:
Spiritual life--New Age movement
Subject Topic:
Spirituality
Subject Topic:
Anger
Subject Topic:
Feminism
Subject Topic:
Consumption (Economics)
Subject Topic:
Politics and government
Subject Topic:
Pain
Subject Name:
Fox, Matthew, 1940-
Subject Name:
Hildegard, Saint, 1098-1179
Subject Name:
Eckhart, Meister, -1327
Subject Name:
Bateson, Gregory, 1904-1980
Identifier:
U183071283396_narv_foxMatthew_60-20_introductionCreationSpirituality3_a.mp3
Related Item:
An Introduction to Creation Spirituality Tape #1
Related Item Type:
constituent
Related Item Identifier:
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Related Item:
An Introduction to Creation Spirituality Tape #2
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constituent
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U183071283304_narv_foxMatthew_60-19_introductionCreationSpirituality2_a.mp3
Related Item:
An Introduction to Creation Spirituality Tape #4
Related Item Type:
constituent
Related Item Identifier:
U183071283485_narv_foxMatthew_60-21_introductionCreationSpirituality4_a.mp4
Related Item:
An Introduction to Creation Spirituality Tape #5
Related Item Type:
constituent
Related Item Identifier:
U183071283574_narv_foxMatthew_60-22_introductionCreationSpirituality5_a.mp3
Physical Location:
University of Colorado Boulder Libraries Rare and Distinctive Collections
Shelf Locator:
COU: 5082 | box 60 | item 20
Date Captured:
Spring, 2024
Internet Media Type:
audio/mp3
Digital Origin:
reformatted digital
Access Condition:
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