12:15 PM

Matthew Fox:

Bringing Back the Sacred Through Dance

"...it happens whenever we Be In -- we create the potential to make ritual."

words by Julia Gilden

     "The main thing wrong with the world is that we've lost the sense of the sacred." Matthew Fox speaks over drumming, to a crowd shot with lasers. Behind him, women's voices harmonize in the Altar Room, where candles are burning low lighting magical rocks from underneath.

     "We change when we are moved. Bringing back trance dance is a new way of liberating consciousness. Dancing and playing with light, we use our whole bodies, as in the earliest days, moving from a lower mentality to a creative state, gaining the power to advance and to forgive." The floor throbs. Matthew Fox speaks relatively quietly, silver hair bouncing back light.

     "This is our destiny - we humans - and it happens whenever we Be In -- we create the potential to make ritual." Fire dancers twirling lit batons, bare chests gleaming with sweat and heat.

     "We're asleep. Anything that will wake us with a sense of wonder, of awe, is what we must do. What did people think of the first stained glass cathedrals? The Goddess energy that came in through those windows created a renaissance." Light patterns over his head, video surrealized portrait behind dancing colors.

     "People are returning to ancient indigenous ways of praying - which is dance. Yes, dance. On with the dance. And bring in the elders - otherwise all this will be trivialized." Matthew Fox's Center for Creation Spirituality offers techno mass on a regular basis. Call 510-835-4824 for information.

On with the dance!

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