Change Yourself to Change the World

Many of us have discovered that as we participate in solving the world's most challenging problems, inner resistance can block our progress. There is an increasing need to turn inward to master our own emotions and reactions and to tap into available interior resources if we are to serve the collective most effectively.

In addition, our worldviews and values determine our expression in the world. This section will include personal development, collective intelligence, worldviews such as religious, spiritual, integral, and evolutionary along with the fundamental impact of personal and cultural values.

	New Monasticism: An Interspiritual Manifesto for Contemplative Life in the 21st Century by Adam Bucko and Rory McEntee		Issue Article Type
	As we look out at the world today, we take inspiration from what is happening around the globe, from young people participating in movements like the Arab Spring and Occupy Wall Street; to the new monastic movement among evangelical Christians dedicated to prayer and radical service to the poor; to the conversation among Protestants of an ‘Emerging Church’ (“. . . not a new religion, but a new way of being religious”); to small groups of Muslims who are gathering together, allowing women to lead worship, and reinventing what it means to answer God’s call; to ‘engaged Buddhism,’ blending the sublime practices and compassion of the Buddhist path with social activism; to the ‘spiritual but not religious’ youth who are beginning to take responsibility for their own spiritual lives outside the walls of our traditional religious institutions. Read Article		Spring | Summer 2013 Kosmos

	The Circle of Presence: Building the Capacity for Authentic Collective Wisdom by Ria Baeck and Helen Titchen Beeth		Issue Article Type
	Our first article (Kosmos, Spring / Summer 2012) gave an overview of the new human capacity we are starting to articulate—that we call Collective Presencing, the purpose of which is to allow us to systematically achieve collective wisdom. We described the two distinct phases that we see unfolding as a collection of individuals learns to become a collective capable of employing this capacity on behalf of the whole: firstly, becoming a circle of presence, then becoming a circle of creation. Read Article		Fall | Winter 2012 Kosmos

	Collective Presencing: A New Human Capacity by Ria Baeck and Helen Titchen Beeth		Issue Article Type
	This is the first in a series of articles introducing the phenomenon and practice of Collective Presencing, a new capacity evolving in humanity at this time. Great thinkers have foreseen its coming—we recognise it in Aurobindo’s descent of the supramental and Teil-hard de Chardin’s noosphere. But what exactly do those terms mean? Where these gifted individuals intuited and envisioned the birth of this new collective capacity at the dawn of the last century, we are now starting to be able to describe it from experience. While many might recognise the phenomenon from transpersonal group work and other such practices, so far as we are aware, this is the first attempt to articulate it as a path and a set of capacities that can be intentionally developed. Read Article		Spring | Summer 2012 Kosmos

	A Spirituality for the 21st Century: Inevitabilities and Possibilities by Kurt Johnson and David Robert Ord		Issue Article Type
	In a forthcoming book, The Coming Interspiritual Age,1 we offer a responsible survey of the global factors that might influence and contribute to the possible emergence of world change based on a significant input from the reservoir of collective human wisdom available in the world’s perennial Great Wisdom Traditions. Read Article		Fall | Winter 2012 Kosmos

	Another Turn on the Axis: Religious and Spiritual Evolution in the 21st Century by Jim Kenney		Issue Article Type
	In 1798, the German cleric Friedrich Schleiermacher gave in to the urgings of a circle of prominent friends—every one contemptuous of religion—and began to write. Eight months later, he completed the manuscript of On Religion: Speeches to Its Cultured Despisers, his compelling attempt to reconcile the human religious intuition with the rationality so prized by the philosophers of the Enlightenment (and by his skeptical friends). Read Article		Fall | Winter 2011 Kosmos

	Contemporary Leaders of Courage and Compassion: Competencies and Inner Capacities by Monica Sharma		Issue Article Type
	Nothing short of a new level of worldwide leadership and commitment for sustainable and equitable change will suffice to create a better world today and for future generations. For the first time technologies and resources exist to transform our situation and generate lasting results. The choice is ours. Read Article		Spring | Summer 2012 Kosmos

	Embodied Spirituality, Now and Then by Jorge N. Ferrer		Issue Article Type
	Embodied spirituality regards the body as subject, as the home of the complete human being, as a source of spiritual insight, as a microcosm of the universe and the Mystery, and as pivotal for enduring spiritual transformation. Read Article		Fall | Winter 2012 Kosmos

	The Future of Religion: Four Scenarios, One Dream by Jorge N. Ferrer		Issue Article Type
	Religious globalization, new religious movements, transnational religions, global proselytism, multiple religious identities, ecumenical services, religious syncretism, secular and postsecular spiritualities—all these are among the many remarkable trends that shape the religious landscape of the beginning of the twenty-first century. Read Article		Fall | Winter 2012 Kosmos

	Charter for Engaged Spirituality in the 21st Century by Kosmos Journal		Issue Article Type
	Scholars of religion point to “the Axial Age” (roughly the first millennium BCE) as the period of the dawn of the great classical religions that we know today. These days, it’s often suggested that we have entered a second great “turning on the religious axis,” a Second Axial Age. If the first brought the individual to the fore, the latter shifts our focus to the global dimension of ethical, religious, and spiritual awareness and action. Read Article		Other Articles Other

	The Oneness Declaration: Sixteen Hallmarks of the New Consciousness by Ervin Laszlo		Issue Article Type
	THE ONENESS DECLARATION: Sixteen Hallmarks of the New Consciousness, by Ervin Laszlo with Gyorgyi Szabo Read Article		Other Articles Other

	Bridging the Feminine and Masculine in Business: One Woman's Journey by Amber Chand		Issue Article Type
	The journey began with a dream. In it I am running away from a burning city, clutching a candle, looking back, wanting to desperately return to what was once familiar, safe and comfortable. But I cannot. As I run, I come to the edge of a cliff. Too terrified to jump, I find myself gently pushed off by an unseen hand, spiraling slowly through the air and—in slow motion—landing on a soft grassy knoll. A voice speaks to me from the depths of my awareness. “Amber, you have arrived in a new kingdom. Here the rules are different. Here we live and breathe from a place of love. The old kingdom you came from burned from fear and greed.” Read Article		Spring | Summer 2012 Kosmos

	Taking Root: An Unbroken Intimacy with Life by Anne Hillman		Issue Article Type
	How do we cooperate with life’s gradual shaping of the human mind—its painstaking work of drawing us towards the light of greater wisdom? Read Article		Fall | Winter 2012 Kosmos

	Transformational Leadership in the Arab Region by Khadija Moalla		Issue Article Type
	On November 26, 2010, HE Mr. Joseph Diess, the President of the 65th session of the UN General Assembly, delivered to me the world renowned 3rd Annual Global South-South Development Award for the CHAHAMA initiative (Network of Multi-Faith Based Organizations in response to HIV). Receiving this award affirmed to me that large scale change in the Arab region depended on the active engagement of religious leaders, the guardians of values and cultural norms. Read Article		Spring | Summer 2012 Kosmos

	Cultivating Peace: An Excerpt by James O'Dea		Issue Article Type
	We are witnessing a tidal shift in consciousness. Some see it as a great planetary awakening of awareness accompanied by an extended capacity for empathy and collaboration. The burgeoning networks of people who share these new values, along with the accelerating global communications environment, are creating an unprecedented planetary resonance. We are collectively beginning to shed the skin of humanity’s dysfunctional consciousness. Read Article		Other Articles Other

	My Experience in the Slums of Kibera, Nairobi by Mary Davidson		Issue Article Type
	Several years ago I made a critical decision in my life to leave my comfortable home in the suburbs of New York City and travel to Kenya with an organization called Cross Cultural Thresholds for a five-day work trip in the slums of Nairobi. Read Article		Spring | Summer 2012 Kosmos

	Explosive Wisdom: What Landmines Teach Us About Liberation and Leadership by Jerry White		Issue Article Type
	I had never thought much about landmines until I stepped on one in 1984, when I was twenty years old. I was camping in northern Israel with two friends and suddenly the earth exploded around me. I looked down at my shredded bloody legs in confused horror, wanting to know where my right foot had gone. Our hike had led us through an unmarked minefield left from the 1967 Arab-Israeli War. Read Article		Spring | Summer 2012 Kosmos

	Archetypes of Humanity's Collective Future by Duane Elgin		Issue Article Type
	The first step in building a promising future for humanity is to visualize it together. As the bible says, "Where there is no vision, the people perish." Although many people can visualize a future of catastrophe and ruin, far fewer can imagine a future of opportunity and renewal. Read Article		Spring | Summer 2008 Kosmos

	The Universe Story and Planetary Civilization by Multiple Authors		Issue Article Type
	As we see our present interconnected global challenges of widespread environmental degradation, climate change, crippling poverty, social inequities, and unrestrained militarism, we know that the obstacles to the flourishing of life's ecosystems and to genuine sustainable development are considerable. Read Article		Spring | Summer 2011 Kosmos

	Values in the Contemporary World by Nancy B. Roof		Issue Article Type
	At the United Nations World Summit on Sustainable Development in Copenhagen in 1995, (UNWSSD), daily experiential workshops and seminars on framing global issues around underlying values were conducted by the Values Caucus on such topics as the new visionary leadership and values—to standing room only crowds. Read Article		Other Articles Other

	Caring for the Soul of the World by Robert Sardello		Issue Article Type
	Too often, spiritual imagination takes flight from the world and cannot seem to hold together the realm of being with the realm of doing. I once had a dream that showed me this necessity of holding contradictories without seeking resolution. Read Article		Fall | Winter 2010 Kosmos

	Personal to Planetary Transformation by Monica Sharma		Issue Article Type
	We are living in a time of whole system transition on a personal and planetary scale that affects every aspect of life as we know it. Patterns of possibility are emerging that have never before been available to all the earth’s people and to the whole planet. Two million organisations are working toward ecological sustainability and social justice, according to Paul Hawken. Read Article		Fall | Winter 2007 Kosmos

	Positive Possibilities for a World in Crisis by Tom Atlee		Issue Article Type
	We join with everyone and everything—past, present and future —in sharing our influence on what happens. We are neither guilty nor innocent. Rather, we are consciously or unconsciously involved in everything. Right here and right now. Our actions matter. Our awareness matters. Because we are a factor in the Life of Everything. Read Article		Spring | Summer 2011 Kosmos

	Positive Possibilities for a World in Crisis (Serbian) by Tom Atlee		Issue Article Type
	U životu se pridružujemo raznim ljudima i priklanjamo raznim konceptima – nekim prošlim, nekim sadašnjim i ili budućim – zajedno deleći uticaj koji imamo na sve što nas okružuje. U tome nismo ni zašta krivi niti smo potpuno nevini. Pre bi se reklo da smo svesno ili nesvesno deo svega oko nas. I to baš ovde i sada. Sve što radimo je važno. Naša svest o tome je važna. Jer mi igramo ulogu u Životu Svega. Read Article		Spring | Summer 2011 Kosmos