A Vision of Global Healing

Imagine, for a moment, living in a world born from spirituality. Visionary Matthew Fox embraces a concept of a creation-centered spirituality, in which all that exist are a blessing and bring ancient wisdom to solve current issues.

In the October 2019 issue of Science of Mind magazine, writer Kathy Juline examines Fox’s vision and how he embraces a sacred relationship between humanity and the Earth.

“Fox’s prophetic vision of good for all people everywhere, combined with an experience of mystical unity, became the hallmark of his work,” Juline writes. He embraces the ancient wisdom of Creation Spirituality, adapted to present-day concerns.

Creation Spirituality affirms a common ground among all the world’s faith traditions. Juline explains: “It is a theology that respects the sacredness of nature and the holy relationship humanity has with it. Centuries-old mysticism melds with current concerns about damage to the environment, social injustice, and all forms of destruction and exploitation.”

Matthew Fox received the New Thought Walden Award for Lifetime Achievement, as announced earlier this month. With this award, New Thought adherents recognize him as a fellow worker in the field — where the harvest is compassion, unity, love, inclusion, creativity and good for everyone.

Celebrate the Harvest

“What we plant in the soil of contemplation,
we shall reap in the harvest of action.”
— Mesiter Eckhart

In her blog, Michele Tracy Berger offers both writing prompts and meditation guides for this, the season of the harvest. She writes, “Autumn requests our attention in a way that feels different than the other seasons. Autumn invites us to reflect on the nature of our harvest and make sense of a way forward. We know the fallow period of winter is not far away".

She invites her readers to contemplate the connection between the words autumn and authenticity. She encourages her readers to contemplate what they will harvest this season, what fruits their summer labors bore. She asks that we remember gratitude in the time of the harvest.

She quotes Alan Jones and John O’Neil, from Seasons of Grace — The Life-Giving Practice of Gratitude: “The fruits of the harvest are gathered and stored. The trees shed their leaves and reveal their true forms. The days grow shorter and darker, reminding us of how brief our time on Earth really is. It’s autumn: a season for reflecting on what it means to be truly alive, and for giving thanks for the gifts an authentic life bestows.”

Learn more at https://micheleberger.wordpress.com/2013/09/23/autumn-writing-prompts-and-harvest-meditation/.

Loving Use of Creation

— by Ernest Holmes

Spiritual awareness will make us all better, giving us a tranquility, happiness and a sense of well-being, so that we shall no longer be afraid of the universe or of the past, present or future. Knowing this can heal. The Bible says that the invisible things of God are made manifest through the visible. Our word in the Law in action. It is the motivation of It.

Effective prayer gives definite proof that God is an active agent in His own creation and that it is given to man to use the agency of that creation lovingly, justly and kindly, dispassionately in a sense, because It is a Law, but with certainty of getting a result.

Our own lives may impart to their environment something that enabled the woman by touching the seamless garment to be made whole, and the words of our mouth speak forth some teaching which others may use.

And down the pathway of our experience again shall the deaf hear, the blind see, the lame walk and those who suffer from fear and stupefaction and intoxication of the race mind in which we are immersed shall arise and sing.

— Excerpted from “Ideas for Living” by Ernest Holmes, as reprinted in the October 2019 issue of Science of Mind magazine