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This is a file in the correspondence of Thomas Merton under the heading: "Hubbard, Barbara Marx".
Barbara Hubbard was a futurist scholar and, in 1992, became the President and co-founder of the Foundation for Conscious Evolution, whose vision is "the awakening of the spiritual, social, and scientific potential of humanity, in harmony with nature for the highest good of all life." Hubbard earned degrees from Bryn Mawr College, the Sorbonne and L’Ecole des Sciences Politiques in Paris. In addition, she was awarded the Emerson Theological Institute's first Doctor of Conscious Evolution degree. She was a nominee for Vice-President on the Democratic ticket in 1984 and had since advocated for a Peace Room in the White House. Her work in the futurist field began in the 1960's when she began a pioneering newsletter in evolutionary transformation entitled The Center Letter of the Center of American Living in New York. She writes to Merton from Lakeville, Connecticut. (Source: "About FCE’s Founder, Dr. Barbara Marx Hubbard". Foundation for Conscious Evolution. ‹https://www.barbaramarxhubbard.com/leadership›, Accessed 2020/04/15.)
Please click here for general restrictions concerning Merton's correspondence.
See published letters from Merton to Hubbard in Witness to Freedom, pp. 72-75.
If the person in correspondence with Merton has full text records in the Merton Center Digital Collections, there will be a numeric link to them below.
This Record Sub-Group is not divided into Series and is arranged chronologically.
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| # | Date | From/To | First Lines | Pub ✓ | Notes |
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1967/10/26 |
HLS to Merton |
I have for many years deeply admired your writing. It has that pure ring of truth. Just now I read |
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1967/11/20 |
TL[c] from Merton |
Many thanks for your personal letter, much appreciated, and for the copy of the Center Letter also. |
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1967/11/28 |
TLS to Merton |
I want to thank you for sending me The Sacred City, Blessed Are the Meek and |
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1967/12/23 (#01) |
TL[c] from Merton |
Thanks for your letter. In the midst of the welter of Christmas mail I'll try to get a few thoughts |
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1967/12/23 (#02) |
other from Merton |
1) There can be no question whatever that mankind now stands at one of the crucial thresholds |
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[published copy of Merton's letter to Hubbard of the same date - from The Center Letter?]
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1968/02/12 |
TLS to Merton |
I finally read your interesting article on Teilhard in Commonweal. I had not come across |
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1968/02/16 |
TL[c] from Merton |
Let me get these few thoughts on paper before I forget them. First, thanks for your letter. |
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[2 carbon copies]
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1968/02/18 (#01) |
HLS to Merton |
Thank you for your most interesting letter. I should certainly like to quote your approach - |
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1968/02/18 (#02) |
other |
1) There can be no question whatever that mankind now stands at one of the crucial threshholds |
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[signed newsletter, The Center Letter #3, 1968 - selection from Merton letter, page 7 - see also Sub-Section D.1, "Letter from Father Thomas Merton"]
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1968/02/18 (#03) |
other |
I detect two broad kinds of ethical consciousness developing: 1) a Millenial consciousness, 2 |
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[signed newsletter, The Center Letter #4, 1968 - selection from Merton letter, page 7 - see also Sub-Section D.1, "Letter from Father Thomas Merton"]
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