How To Stand As much as a Mad King & His Mad Hatter

In Saturday’s and Monday’s DMs, we meditated on whether or not a selected wannabe king is a Mad King and whether or not his co-president is a form of Mad Hatter.  In such circumstances, it’s good to withstand properly. 

What are we resisting?  This explicit article names seventeen causes and I like to recommend it as a worthy abstract. 

So as to add additional perception, the next smart and sensible recommendation was discovered circulating on-line and was despatched me, about learn how to stand as much as the present political chaos and insanity to be discovered within the new Republican administration.  I’ve added a couple of ideas of my very own. 

1.    Don’t use the wannabe king’s identify.

2.    Bear in mind it is a regime and he’s not appearing alone.

3.    Don’t argue with those that help him – it doesn’t work and it makes them really feel vital. It makes them really feel they’ve received one thing.

4.    Concentrate on his insurance policies. Don’t deal with his persona traits, his bodily look, or his psychological state.

5.    Preserve your message constructive; they need the nation to be indignant and fearful as a result of that is the soil from which their darkest insurance policies will develop.

6.    No extra helpless/hopeless discuss. The numbers don’t lie: there are extra of “us” than there are of “them.” Really feel that help.

7.    Help artists and the humanities.

8.    Watch out to not unfold pretend information. Reality verify it.

9.    Maintain your self.  (We’ll tackle this extra in tomorrow’s DM.)

10. Resist! Preserve demonstrations peaceable. Within the phrases of John Lennon: When it will get right down to having to make use of violence, then you’re enjoying the system’s sport. The institution will irritate you – pull your beard, flick your face – to make you struggle. As a result of as soon as they’ve bought you violent, then they know learn how to deal with you. The one factor they don’t know learn how to deal with is non-violence and humor.

11. If you submit or discuss him, don’t assign his actions to him; assign them to “the Republican Administration.” It will have a number of results: the legislators will both need to take accountability for his or her affiliation with him or get up for what a few of them don’t like; he won’t get the main target of consideration he craves. His representatives will develop into very involved about their re-elections. 

12.  Use humor (at occasions).

To be continued. 

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See Matthew Fox, Trump & The MAGA Motion as Anti-Christ.

And Fox, Sins of the Spirit, Blessings of the Flesh: Reworking Evil in Soul and Society.

And Fox, A Spirituality Named Compassion: Uniting Mystical Consciousness with Social Justice.

And Fox, Creation Spirituality: Liberating Items for the Peoples of the Earth.

And Fox, Authentic Blessing: A Primer in Creation Spirituality.

And Fox, “Religious Warriors” in Fox, The Hidden Spirituality of Males: Ten Metaphors to Awaken the Sacred Masculine, pp. 77-104.

And Fox, “Religious Warriorhood,” in Fox, One River, Many Wells: Knowledge Springing from Religion Traditions, pp. 404-422.

See Matthew Fox, Skylar Wilson, Jen Lustig, Order of the Sacred Earth: An Intergenerational Imaginative and prescient of Love and Motion.

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Queries for Contemplation

Do you discover these practices helpful and useful?  What would you add to this listing primarily based by yourself expertise?

Advisable Studying

Trump & The MAGA Motion as Anti-Christ: A Handbook for the 2024 Election

Matthew Fox tells us that he had all the time shied away from utilizing the time period “Anti-Christ” as a result of it was so typically used to unfold management and worry. Nevertheless, given in the present day’s rise of authoritarianism and forces of democracide, ecocide, and christofascism, he turns the tables on this e-book using the archetype for the reason for justice, democracy, and a renewed Earth and humanity.
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Sins of the Spirit, Blessings of the Flesh: Reworking Evil in Soul and Society

Visionary theologian and best-selling creator Matthew Fox affords a brand new theology of evil that essentially adjustments the standard notion of excellent and evil and factors the way in which to a extra enlightened remedy of ourselves, each other, and all of nature. In evaluating the Jap custom of the 7 chakras to the Western custom of the 7 capital sins, Fox permits us to assume creatively about our capability for private and institutional evil and what we will do about them. 
“A scholarly masterpiece embodying a greater imaginative and prescient and depth of notion far past the grasp of anyone single science.  A breath-taking evaluation.” — Diarmuid O’Murchu, creator of Quantum Theology: Religious Implications of the New Physics

A Spirituality Named Compassion: Uniting Mystical Consciousness with Social Justice

In A Spirituality Named Compassion, Matthew Fox delivers a profound exploration of the that means and apply of compassion. Establishing a spirituality for the long run that guarantees private, social, and international therapeutic, Fox marries mysticism with social justice, main the way in which towards a gentler and extra ecological spirituality and an acceptance of our interdependence which is the substratum of all compassionate exercise.
“Nicely price our deepest consideration…Places compassion into its correct focus after centuries of neglect.” –The Catholic Register

Creation Spirituality: Liberating Items for the Peoples of the Earth

Fox’s spirituality weds the therapeutic and liberation present in North American Creation Spirituality and in South American Liberation Theology. Creation Spirituality challenges readers of each spiritual and political persuasion to unite in a brand new imaginative and prescient by which we be taught to honor the earth and the individuals who inhabit it because the present of a superb and simply Creator.
“A watershed theological work that provides a typical floor for spiritual seekers and activists of all stripes.” — Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat, Spirituality and Observe.
“I’m studying Liberating Items for the Folks of the Earth by Matt Fox.  He’s one which fills my coronary heart and thoughts for brand new life regardless of a lot that’s violent in our world.” ~ Sister Dorothy Stang.

Authentic Blessing: A Primer in Creation Spirituality

Matthew Fox lays out an entire new course for Christianity—a course that’s in actual fact very historical and really grounded in Jewish considering (the truth that Jesus was a Jew is usually uncared for by Christian theology): the 4 Paths of Creation Spirituality, the Vias Positiva, Negativa, Creativa and Transformativa in an prolonged and deeply developed means.
“Authentic Blessing makes out there to the Christian world and to the human group a radical treatment for all darkish and derogatory views of the pure world wherever these could have originated.” –Thomas Berry, creator, The Dream of the Earth; The Nice Work; co-author, The Universe Story

The Hidden Spirituality of Males: Ten Metaphors to Awaken the Sacred Masculine

To awaken what Fox calls “the sacred masculine,” he reveals ten metaphors, or archetypes, starting from the Inexperienced Man, an historical pagan image of our basic relationship with nature,  to the Religious Warrior….These timeless archetypes can encourage males to pursue their larger calling to connect with their deepest selves and to reinvent the world.
“Each man on this planet ought to learn this e-book — to not point out each girl who needs to grasp the struggles, typically unconscious, that form the lads they know.” — Rabbi Michael Lerner, creator of The Left Hand of God

One River, Many Wells: Knowledge Springing from World Faiths

Matthew Fox calls on all of the world traditions for his or her knowledge and their inspiration in a piece that’s way over an inventory of theological place papers however a brand new method to pray—to meditate in a worldwide non secular context on the knowledge all our traditions share. Fox chooses 18 themes which can be foundational to any spirituality and demonstrates how all of the world non secular traditions supply knowledge about every.“Studying One River, Many Wells is like getting into the wealthy silence of a masterfully directed retreat. As you learn this textual content, you mirror, you pray, you embrace Divinity. Actually no phrases can absolutely specific my respect and awe for this magnificent contribution to up to date spirituality.” –Caroline Myss, creator of Anatomy of the Spirit

Order of the Sacred Earth: An Intergenerational Imaginative and prescient of Love and Motion
By Matthew Fox, Skylar Wilson, and Jen Listug

Within the midst of worldwide hearth, earthquake and flood – as species are going extinct each day and nationwide and international economies totter – the planet doesn’t want one other church or faith. What it wants is a brand new Order, grounded within the Knowledge traditions of each East and West, together with science and indigenous. An Order of the Sacred Earth united in a single sacred vow: “I promise to be one of the best lover and defender of the Earth that I could be.”
Co-authored by Matthew Fox, Skylar Wilson, and Jennifer Berit Listug, with a ahead by David Korten, this assortment of essays by 21 non secular visionaries together with Brian Swimme, Mirabai Starr, Theodore Richards, and Kristal Parks marks the founding of the various and inclusive Order of the Sacred Earth, a group now evolving all over the world.
“The Order of the Sacred Earth not solely calls us house to our true nature as Earth, but in addition affords us invaluable steering and firm on the way in which.”  ~~ Joanna Macy, environmental activist and creator of Energetic Hope.