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Whee! We, Wee All the Way Home: A Guide to Sensual Prophetic Spirituality Paperback – June 1, 1980

by Matthew Fox (Author)
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This practical book leads us into a spirituality of passion that leads to compassion--coming to our senses in every meaning of the phrase.
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    264 pages
  2. Language
    English
  3. Publisher
    Bear & Company
  4. Publication date
    June 1, 1980
  5. Dimensions
    5.5 x 0.5 x 8 inches
  6. ISBN-10
    0939680009
  7. ISBN-13
    978-0939680009
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Matthew Fox is a Dominican scholar, a popular speaker, and an innovative educator whom one commentator has called a "crusader and a smasher of chains." He is the past director of the Institute in Culture and Creation Spirituality at Holy Names College, Oakland, California, and the author of Original Blessing, and Meditations with Meister Eckhart, and many other titles.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Bear & Company; First Edition (June 1, 1980)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 264 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0939680009
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0939680009
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 12.8 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.5 x 0.5 x 8 inches
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Matthew Fox is an internationally acclaimed spiritual theologian, Episcopal priest, and activist. He holds a doctorate, summa cum laude, in the History and Theology of Spirituality from the Institut Catholique de Paris and has devoted 45 years to developing and teaching the tradition of Creation Spirituality, which is rooted in ancient Judeo-Christian teaching, inclusive of today’s science and world spiritual traditions; welcoming of the arts and artists; wisdom centered, prophetic, and committed to eco-justice, social justice and gender justice.

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ceetee
5.0 out of 5 stars Whee We Wee
Reviewed in the United States on November 19, 2013
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This book arrived in perfect shape in a timely manner. It is all that I expected, well written and easy to understand.
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Steven Herrmann
5.0 out of 5 stars A great book on Ecstasy
Reviewed in the United States on June 28, 2012
Review of Whee! We Wee All the Way Home
By Steven B. Herrmann, Ph.D., MFT

For anyone who has been interested in the evolution of Matthew Fox's views on Creation Spirituality and may have been wondering about the antecedents of his thoughts Whee! We Wee All The Way Home: A Guide to Sensual Prophetic Spirituality is a must read. One might initially be put off by the title as sounding somewhat puerile, yet as Fox explains in his autobiography Confessions, he chose the title from the well known nursery rhyme to serve a useful function: it kept the inquisitional minds off his trail for many years. First published in 1976, Whee! begins with a look at C. G. Jung's masterful overview of the 2,000 year transitional history in the evolution of the archetype of the Self, as seen through the astrological transition from the Age of Pisces, the fishes (which Matthew dates 1 A.D.-1997 A.D.) and was dominated by the central figure of Christ, to the new Age of Aquarius we have recently entered into. Fox's aim in writing such a simple handbook was to offer practical guidance to readers and to begin his personal search for a definition of a term to connote genuine renewal in the new era. As a psychologically informed theologian, Fox distinguishes between what he calls natural and tactical ecstasies--his original differences (distinctions he came up with himself) between, for example, experiences in nature and meditation techniques to bring about altered states of consciousness. Here Fox is tapping into what I have termed the "shamanic archetype" in previous essays and books, for as Mircea Eliade cogently defined it: shamanism=technique of ecstasy. So the basic thrust of Whee! as I experience it is American as it sounds deeply into the tradition of American spirituality. It breaks through to the archetype and opens up new ground in the history of religious ideas. Following is a brief overview of Whee!'s contents. In Part 1, Fox asserts the book's central thesis: every person is a bearer of ecstasy and therefore of God. He means the New God-image, the archetype of wholeness, or completeness, and therefore: his call for a sensual-spirituality includes by necessity the body, bisexuality, and the bierotic. Part 2 suggests that in the new era of Aquarius one must make room for passing from a literal, ego or "I" consciousness to a symbolic "We" consciousness. Part 3 suggests that to set things right, politically and spiritually, we need to assert ourselves in relation to repressive institutions (or "dragons"). This is a quick read, and one that it is filled with wisdom and compassion from some of the best passages in the Hebrew and Christian dispensations, yet, I would especially like to highlight the sequencing of several seed-notions we can see emerging as anticipatory kernels of Matthew's mature thoughts, prior to his defining of what he is now famous for: the four paths of Creation Spirituality, seeded in his first two works on Meister Eckhart: an essay on Eckhart and the Four Paths in Western Spirituality and Breakthrough (now called Passion for Creation). These seed-notions that anticipate the future growth of his spirituality in Whee! are: 1) "Ecstasy," which anticipates his work at ICCS with Indigenous healers and more recently, his interest in North American shamanism; 2) "Spiritual democracy," his prospective glimmer into what he would later call "deep ecumenism" in One River, Many Wells; and 3) "Prophetic re-incarnation," which is, in my view, a prospective glimpse into what he would later outline for us in The Coming of the Cosmic Christ. In Chapter 9, "God as a Panentheistic God and Ourselves in that Image" Fox gets to the heart of the book by asserting the God within each of us is a "truly democratic God... That is spiritual democracy... (Whee, 121). Note that this was written in the second centennial of these States, 1976! Fox actually names the God of Ecstasy that was also Walt Whitman's God, transcendent of all cultures, and all religions of the world, a democratic God of spiritual democracy. This, along with his use of the term "prophetic re-incarnation" reveals the seed-nature of his thoughts: his theological tendency to find useful metaphors during his quest for a language that can revolutionize and reform Christianity, and prospectively: foresee its developments. (I use the Jungian term "prospective" in outlining my sketch of Fox's intellectual evolution because he does not so much predict, prophetically his path ahead, as to anticipate it; this is his intuition working). Whee! may surprise readers who expect a Christian theologian to neglect the senses, but Fox actually liberates them by becoming far more Jewish than Augustinian in his celebrations of sublimation via Freud, Marcuse, and perhaps especially Normon O. Brown on the "resurrection of the body." By reminding us that we are all bearers of ecstasies and therefore carriers of a New God-image in the Age of Aquarius' God, and highlighting the obstacles (or dragons) we may meet along the way, and by not neglecting to mention the suffering such encounters may initiate; whether through Chance, necessity, destiny or Fate; Fox succeeds in opening the doors to a compassionate spirituality that is alive and meaningful and ready to be enjoyed by anyone.
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MKC FLEMING
5.0 out of 5 stars A Life Changer!
Reviewed in the United States on November 23, 2011
In 1976 I read this book and it changed my theological focus dramatically. I moved from the concept of "Original Sin" to that of "Original Blessing" and so brought a much more positive dynamic to my ministry. I also learned of how believers become Euchrist, thereby moving from the constraints of the cultic priesthood. Matthew Fox changed my life and continues to do so. It all began with this book.
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Carl McColman
5.0 out of 5 stars The Role of Ecstasy in the Spiritual Life
Reviewed in the United States on June 10, 2001
One of Matthew Fox's earliest books, this title explores the importance of ecstasy in the spiritual life. Fox considers the distinction between "natural" ecstasies (like sex) and "tactical" ecstasies (like meditation); he goes on to consider that a truly authentic mysticism must be sensuous in its orientation, so to cultivate the maximum amount of ecstasy for the maximum amount of people. From there he spins out to consider how we need a communal mysticism -- in his words: "We shall become ecstatic together or else we'll become extinct together." Few spiritual authors are so honest about the importance of ecstasy/sensuality in life--or in mysticism. Years ahead of its time when first published in 1976, this book is still bold and relevant today. Perfect for anyone who thinks mysticism needs to get out of the head and into the body.
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Thomas B. Roberts
5.0 out of 5 stars Entheogens: Professional Listing
Reviewed in the United States on May 3, 1999
"WHEE! We, Wee" has been selected for listing in "Religion and Psychoactive Sacraments: An Entheogen Chrestomathy." [...]
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