Kosmos has selected three exceptional books this year we believe will enhance your sacred season. We arranged to have them signed by the author and delivered to your door when you join Kosmos Community at the ‘Jubilant Member’ level or higher.

(image) Subtle Activism: The Inner Dimension of Social and Planetary Transformation, by David Nicol

State University of New York Press (http://www.sunypress.edu), 2016. 246 Paper, Foreword by Christopher Bache 

Review by Elizabeth Jennings

What if consciousness-based practices—meditation, ritual, prayer—could do more than induce calm or “charge the batteries” before you head out into the “real world”? What if these practices themselves can influence reality, and on a mass scale?

This is the case David Nicol makes in Subtle Activism: that inner work can affect whole societies’ physical and inner reality. “Subtle activism” holds that non-local causality works, that a hundred people sitting on zafus can influence a thousand that never would. As secular societies continue to marginalize spiritual experience, some fearing abuse of spiritual power, material powers continue to consume and destroy a disenchanted Earth for comfort and money.

What if vast resources, within the deeper and higher aspects of reality, are available to satisfy us? What if there is much greater potential for human beings to heal the world, than through what little we can accomplish physically? If so, aren’t all people of conscience responsible to seriously consider the possibilities?”

David Nicol thinks so. And his book is a call to action—but a different kind of action than many are used to.  READ MORE…

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(image) The One Life We’re Given, By Mark Nepo (Atria Books, 2016)

Excerpt

During the summer, I was staying in a lodge near the foot of the Rocky Mountains. Every morning I’d stroll along the path behind the lodge, watching the tufts of grass stretch to meet the dew. The sun hitting the wet grass seemed an illumination. In that crisp early light, I was reminded that everything in life has an inner quality that emanates from its center.

That emanation of life-force coming out of everything is Spirit. And the sensation of that lifeforce moving out of us into the world is the sensation of being fully alive.

The sun gives flowers light, but what makes them grow to the light comes from within. In the same way, aspects of nature stir us until the life-force within us moves into the world. When we blossom this way—when we come alive and open—we are awakening. As the sun spilled over the face of the mountain, I realized that just as gravity will always pull things to the Earth’s center, the life-force of the Universe will always emanate from its center into the world.  READ MORE…

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The new expanded edition of Spiritual Ecology: The Cry of the Earth, Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee, Editor

The first edition of this book (published in 2013) fostered the emergence of the “Spiritual Ecology Movement,” which recognizes the need for a spiritual response to our present ecological crisis. It drew an overwhelmingly positive response from readers, many of whom are asking the simple question, “What can I do?”

This second expanded edition offers new chapters, including two from younger authors who are putting the principles of spiritual ecology into action, working with their hands as well as their hearts.

Bringing together voices from Buddhism, Sufism, Christianity, and Native American traditions, as well as from physics, deep psychology, and other environmental disciplines, this book calls on us to reassess our underlying attitudes and beliefs about the Earth and wake up to our spiritual as well as physical responsibilities toward the planet.

Contributors include: Chief Oren Lyons, Thich Nhat Hanh, Sandra Ingerman, Joanna Macy, Sister Miriam MacGillis, Satish Kumar, Vandana Shiva, Fr. Richard Rohr, Bill Plotkin, Jules Cashford, Wendell Berry, Winona LaDuke, Mary Evelyn Tucker, Brian Swimme, and others. READ MORE…

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