Consciousness

Explore our archive of articles on Consciousness.

Delivering the UN Global Goals | The Consciousness Perspective

Journal Article

The largest impediment to improving the well-being of humanity is not in finding the funding to implement the Sustainable Development Goals; the largest impediment is the unwillingness of the part of the heads of state, senior government politicians, and business leaders to embrace higher order human values.

Published in Winter 2018 By Richard Barrett

Breaking Out of the Domination Trance

Journal Article

I have been asked to tell you about the findings from my research identifying the core components of a safer, more equitable, and caring world—especially one where women and children are finally safe—a goal that is very close to my heart.

Published in Winter 2018 By Riane Eisler

We Are All Global Citizens | Seeing Ourselves in the Advancement of All

Journal Article

Our Keynote authors represent the Coalition for Global Citizenship (CGC2030). The Coalition, based at the United Nations Headquarters in New York, advocates that governments, public and private sectors, and civil society, all work from a basis of values of just and fair treatment, inclusion and cooperation.

Published in Winter 2018 By Joni Carley and Daniel Perell

Evolving Toward Cooperation

Journal Article

Of course, the question was—after a century and a half of “Social Darwinism” claiming that it was all about competition, from the lowest to the highest—could our world now dominated by the shark-tank rubrics of business, economics, and politics adjust to this astounding news? Could it realize that because of this basic blunder about Darwin’s message, we had, in fact, ended up with dystopia instead of utopia?

Published in Winter 2018 By Kurt Johnson

The Practice of Global Citizenship

Journal Article

Global unity is our evolutionary destiny. This is what we believe at Kosmos, and why we continue.

Published in Winter 2018 By Rhonda Fabian

The Power of Community

Journal Article

‘Ecovillages’—communities that consciously regenerate life within and around them—start appearing when we notice that the world really needs us to wake up and come fully present now. 'Business as usual' is no longer an option. Then we find that we have an endless capacity to find intelligent and different solutions.

Published in Spring 2019 By Kosha Joubert

The Lie of the Land | Conversation and Essay

Journal Article

In this crisis to which we’ve brought ourselves, we can only change what is happening through transforming the way we imagine things. That happens through art. This is why I think stories and images are crucial if we’re to cope with our impending fate with kindness and dignity. The story may not actually be about our own survival, but it has to be about how we fit in.

Published in Spring 2019 By Margaret Elphinstone and Marie Goodwin

Paradise Lost | The Sequel

Journal Article

Just as we’ve mapped earth’s geography to the last square block, we need to do the same with its ecology. A new breed of global power brokers needs to create this new mapping with the goal of it becoming a planetary vital signs monitor that is easily accessible to us all.

Published in Spring 2019 By Said E. Dawlabani

Borders of Our Perception

Journal Article

A few centuries ago we woke up to the fact that the world was not flat, but a sphere; and we realized the earth had always been a sphere, even while we had thought it flat. So now we are awakening to the realization that humanity is one whole society, one global economy, one family of beings in a shared environment.

Published in Summer 2019 By Peter Wells

Sam Lee | Birdsong Hits the Charts

Journal Article

Sam Lee is a British singer of traditional folk songs, a collector, an archivist, a conservationist, and a radical re-interpreter of the British folk tradition.  He is the driving force behind the eclectic, award-winning folk club 'The Nest Collective', and an emerging figure in the Extinction Rebellion movement.

Published in Summer 2019 By Sam Lee and Kari Auerbach