No Kings… Reinventing Education

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Daily Meditations with Matthew Fox

Week of 10/20-25/2005:

No Kings, Rabbi Arthur Waskow,

& Reinventing Education

By the Daily Meditation Team

10/26/2025

This is a weekly summary of the previous week’s Daily Meditations. Some are written by Matthew Fox (MF), and some by Gianluigi Gugliermetto (GG). You can click on the title of a DM in order to view the original piece in its entirety. Also, please note, we will continue to offer a video teaching by Matthew each Monday.

October 20, 2025: Beyond Kings—and Beyond Führers Too?

Over seven million Americans, fed up with the right-wing authoritarianism of the current administration, took to the streets to protest in the second great “No Kings” march.

Right-wing politics is also in evidence in the Supreme Court and in the Republican majority of both houses of Congress. All are falling sway to greed. Today, 80% of Americans believe campaign corruption is destroying America.

Meanwhile, the Speaker of the House has closed Congress for 28 days, doing everything he can to postpone a newly-elected Democratic representative from Arizona from taking the oath of office. Why? Her vote will guarantee the release of the Epstein Files.

1/17/12 Thousands protest the supreme courts citizens united decision. “Money is not free speech.”

“Money is not free speech.” Two years after the Citizens United decision, protesters occupy the Supreme Court steps. Video by EggsNoBacon11.

October 21, 2025: The New Fundamentalist Religion from Silicon Valley (MF)

A dangerous new religion is emerging from the bowels of Silicon Valley. It is rooted in right-wing politics and talk of the antichrist. But Peter Tiel’s antichrists are Greta Thunberg and Bill Gates–i.e., anyone who opposes unbridled capitalism or fossil fuels.

Unfortunately, he and other billionaires are given a big megaphone because they own so much of the media. Journalist Gil Duran (whom Matthew dialogued with last week; see below) said that these billionaires have kind of reached a point where they have so much wealth, and so much egomania…that they decide they’re going to rule the world and that democracy is an outdated form of software. A dangerous religion indeed.

October 22, 2025: Shamanism and the Goddess (GG)

Recently, GG surprised himself by stating in a class that the original religion was shamanism, from which Judaism as well as early Christianity derived a good deal.

Some thirty years ago, he went on a trip to Sardinia with two friends, where they explored a plethora of Neolithic sacred sites. In May of 2026, GG will return to Sardinia to offer a retreat where similar sites will be visited—specifically, sacred hot springs and deep fresh wells, a necropolis hewn in the rock, and a Neolithic temple.

In addition, practitioners of various sacred arts will join GG to help each participant relax into the womb of the Goddess. If you are interested, you may register HERE.

Two different representations of the Goddess point to a variety of cultures within the Sardinian Neolithic. Photos courtesy of Mario Bonfanti.

October 23, 2025: Rabbi Arthur Waskow: Friend, Brother & Jewish Prophet of Our Time (MF)

Prophet, activist, teacher Rabbi Arthur Waskow passed this past week at the age of 92. Over his lifetime, Arthur was arrested more than two dozen times and wrote more than two dozen books, including: Godwrestling, Torah of the Earth: Exploring 4,000 Years of Ecology in Jewish Thought, and Seasons of Our Joy.

He is credited with coining the term “Jewish Renewal” and co-founded ALEPH: Alliance for Jewish Renewal with Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi and others—a movement “grounded in ‘Judaism’s prophetic and mystical traditions.’”

Matthew’s benediction: Thank you, Arthur, for being the Godwrestler you always were right up to the end. May we follow in your holy footsteps and with what you called “holy chutzpah.”

October 24, 2025: Educating under the Shadow of Neo-Fascism (part one) (GG)

Years ago, GG translated into Italian one of the lesser-known books penned by Matthew Fox: The A.W.E. Project: Reinventing Education, Reinventing the Human. In Italian, it is simply called Educare alla Meraviglia (“Teaching through Wonder.”)

Now, as children get hooked on screens (phones, tablets, etc.) earlier and earlier, this book is needed more than ever. Vanna Iori wrote in Avvenire (the Italian Catholic bishops’ newspaper) that the time of early childhood is the time of the body… Children must be able to play without being interrupted, without each of their life-moments becoming digitalized and “shared.”

Furthermore: Children need time. They need slowness. Hands dirty with sand, collected rocks, invented stories….They need grown-ups who know how to wait, observe, and marvel….

Nature-Based Education Outdoor Preschool Forest Kindergarten | Samara Early Learning Rachel Larimore

Rachel Larimore of Samara Early Learning discusses nature-based education in the Outdoor Preschool Forest Kindergarten at Chippewa Nature Center. Froebel USA.

October 25, 2025: Educating under the Shadow of Neo-Fascism (part two) (GG)

For the past two weeks, GG has been teaching at a high school. He notices anxiety among both teachers and students. Teachers question their mission while students worry about performance.

GG reports that his students are wonderful, budding human beings, but that the educational system is soul-deadening. They are forced to sit at their desks for seven to nine hours a day, where they are fed an enormous amount of information from a dozen different subjects.

When they get back home, after 3 pm, they are supposed to read, study, and memorize. They are always tired. Many decades ago, Marie-Dominique Chenu spoke of “exhausted pedagogy.” What an accurate description. As Matthew has said, “We need wisdom schools and not just knowledge factories!” *

* Matthew Fox, Confessions: The Making of a Post-Denominational Priest, p. 356.

Banner image: Sign at No Kings protest in Doylestown, PA on October 18, 2025. Photo by Cynthia Greb. Used with permission.

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