The Dream World—which is to say the inner world of all peoples—has lost a Giant, a true Leader of wise teachings around the wisdom of our dreams and therefore of our souls, our consciousnesses, our unconscious, our shadows, whether dark or bright, all that which often remains hidden but wants to be revealed and unveiled.  Jeremy Taylor is known worldwide for his books and his teachings and his workshops on Dreams.  A student of Jung but also a witness operating from his own soul and always face to face with the pain of our troubled world, a Unitarian Universalist minister, a deep co ..read more

He has been called the “real president,” and “the person really pulling the strings,” the “mind of Donald Trump,” “his ideological guru,” “the power behind the throne,” “Trump’s Karl Rove,” “the second most powerful man in the world,” “the world’s most dangerous man,” a “white supremacist Svengali,” a “stone cold racist and a white supremacist sympathizer” and much more.  His name is Stephen Bannon and he is Trump’s number one man and, by his own chicanery, now a member of the National Security Council.  Having overseen the far right and race-baiting, women-hating, anti-semitic, whi ..read more

January 28, 2022 Feast of Saint Thomas Aquinas  Dear Cardinal Ratzinger, Secular, humanist and human rights groups gathered to protest the state visit of Pope Benedict XVI to the United Kingdom, 2010. Photo by Jason on Flickr. You have been in the news lately, and it has not been good news either for you or for the many victims who have been reminded of the suffering they are dealing with at the hands of the church over the past decades.  I write this letter because I am concerned about you as you face your last years and some unpleasant truths are coming out about your protecting p ..read more

It’s been a long time since Matthew Fox posted to this blog…but he has been far from silent! For the past two years he has been posting his thoughts to his Daily Meditations with Matthew Fox site, on topics ranging from living Creation Spirituality, to Wisdom Education, to new cosmology and deep ecology, the questions of evil and sin, the dangers of acedia (apathy) and much more. Visit the site, and subscribe to the daily email and video meditations ..read more

Dear Mr Limbaugh, Here we are at a low point in the history of American democracy and on the eve of the acquittal of Mr Trump from wrongdoing by a compliant Senate that seems as married to the god Chronos (who ate his children as all climate-deniers are doing) and to the idolatry of power.  And the news comes out that you are facing a showdown with cancer.  Rush Limbaugh speaks at the American Conservative Union Foundation. Photo by Jeick at English Wikipedia. As human being to human being, I feel for your struggle ahead but of course we all live our lives and do our work in the kno ..read more

David Koch. Wikipedia Following the death of Charles Koch it seems fitting to share the article about his life's work that I wrote last year for Progressing Spirit. It is good to remember the past in order hopefully not to repeat it and to better understand what ails us as a nation. A Sobering Tale of the Demise of American Democracy (Part I) Historian Nancy MacLean’s book, Democracy In Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right’s Stealth Plan for America, is scarier than a Stephen King novel or a movie such as “The Exorcist.”  Yet the former is non-fiction through and through!  ..read more

The psychologist and genius Otto Rank, author of the classic work Art and Artist, said that if you want to know the soul of a nation go to its architecture first.  Notre Dame de Paris and the entire gothic revolution of the 12th century Renaissance that it encapsulates (along with Chartres Cathedral 30 miles beyond Paris), tells us much about the soul of France.  And our own souls. It was my privilege to live and study and undergo some searing history in the shadow of Notre Dame during my three years at the Institute catholique de Paris studying the history and theology of spirituali ..read more

Dear Friends, Like others I am horrified and deeply saddened by the murders at two mosques in your nation.  Know that many are grieving with you, praying with you, and thinking of you.  I saw this story of Omar Nabi in the paper just now and offer a response in the final paragraph. "Omar Nabi, whose father was gunned down while protecting a friend at the mosque, said simply: 'There's no words.  People were praying, people were praying at their mosque. They got shot in the back.  This is not...this is not what humans do.'"  Yes, our humanity is on trial.  There ar ..read more

Monday, December 10th marks the 50th anniversary of Thomas Merton’s death—which has now been confirmed as a martyr’s death by the recent solid and important investigative study, The Martyrdom of Thomas Merton by Hugh Turley and David Marin (as well as by my own encounters over the years with three CIA agents who were in Southeast Asia at the time). Photo of Thomas Merton by John Lyons, from Merton.org A martyrdom (consider the recently canonized Archbishop Romero or the martyrdom of Sister Dorothy Stang, an eco-saint) is not about a death any more than Jesus’ martyrdom on the cross of the emp ..read more

Photo: Associated Press. There were two very distinct and contrasting events on Thursday in the Senate Judicial Committee hearings considering Judge Kavanaugh’s nomination to the Supreme Court and concerning Dr. Christine Blasey Ford’s recounting of her sexual assault as a teen ager. The first event was Dr. Ford’s testimony, which occupied the morning.  She was amazing for her poise and clarity and strength in recalling such a sordid trauma which she was “100%” certain happened to her when Brett Kavanaugh and his sidekick, Mark Judge, locked her in a room, turned up the radio, and assaul ..read more