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A warm welcome from Kosmos – the celebrated journal for transformation

Now in our third decade, Kosmos Journal informs, engages and inspires by sharing transformational thinking, practice and policy grounded in spiritual wisdom and aesthetic beauty. We believe a new consciousness is rising, no longer based on greed and competition, but on healing and cooperation in harmony with all Life. This profound Shift calls us to hospice the era that is passing away and participate in the birth of a new one, guided by principles of interbeing, collective intelligence, and sacred action.

We are heartened to see many signs of this Shift happening now and invite you to participate in its unfolding with Kosmos.

“In addition to examining and changing our personal inner lives and our cultural values, the conscious activist is challenged to apply this wisdom to strategies that affect the manifest world. We balance action and reflection, working with a fierce heart at all scales from the personal, to local, to national, to global and even kosmic levels.”

— Nancy Roof, Founder of Kosmos

Our Current Issue

Volume 25 Issue 3
The New Coherence

The New Coherence

From the subatomic to the cellular, resonance appears to be the thread that weaves order into matter. Long before the first cells emerged, quantum resonance guided particles into coherent structures—quarks forming protons, atoms becoming molecules, and eventually, life itself. This underlying coherence is not a metaphor but a measurable property of nature: from stable quantum states to DNA helices, forests, brains, and galaxies. Coherence is the invisible architecture of becoming.

Spring Features

Wisdom

Smart As a Rock | Reframing Our Relationship to Intelligence

By Vanessa Machado de Oliveira

This deeply embodied essay invites readers to shift from a human-centered, extractive model of intelligence toward a wide-boundary, relational understanding rooted in entanglement. By engaging AI, collapse, and the wisdom of rocks through a posthuman lens, it calls us to metabolize modernity’s delusions and participate in a shared, emergent intelligence—one that listens, learns, and co-creates with all of life.

Resonance

Quantum Consciousness: The Symphony of Existence

By Colin Harrington

This essay explores the possibility that consciousness is not merely a product of the brain, but a resonant phenomenon—an orchestration of wave patterns echoing across quantum fields, cultural traditions, and neural networks. Drawing from physics, music, and sacred practice, the piece invites readers to perceive mind and universe as intertwined in a grand symphony of coherence.

Perception

The Fractured Fractal | Meaning Making in the Psychedelic Multiverse

By Austin R. Pick

This expansive essay explores the multiverse as both scientific theory and cultural metaphor, weaving together threads from quantum mechanics, psychedelic neuroscience, religious cosmology, and pop culture. Pick argues that the multiverse—a model of infinite, interconnected realities—mirrors the fragmented yet richly pluralistic nature of modern consciousness in the age of digital hyperconnectivity.

Citizenship

Attunement as Governance: A New Political Possibility

By Arabella Thaïs

In this sweeping essay, the author explores a post-hierarchical vision of political order grounded in resonance, individuation, sacred space, and nonlinear time. Drawing from mysticism, complexity science, and poetic metaphysics, it proposes a new ontological architecture for civilization—one not ruled by force, but attuned to the self-organizing intelligence of a conscious cosmos.

Consciousness

Field Notes on Mind, Matter, and Machine

By Daniel Pinchbeck

In his personal report from Deep Tech Week, Daniel Pinchbeck outlines emerging theories at the intersection of consciousness and technology—from quantum microtubules to cyber-animism. Engaging thinkers like Hameroff, Bach, and Theise, he traces a shifting paradigm where spirituality and science begin to speak a common, if uncanny, language.

Interdependence

Toward an Eco-Social Contract for Regenerative Futures

By Fan Yang

This essay introduces the eco-social contract as a visionary governance framework that integrates power, transaction, and care across state, market, and commons. In contrast to fragmented, transactional development approaches, it emphasizes relational processes, civic agency, and bioregional stewardship.

Spaceship Earth

Design Science: Thinking Like a Planet

By Medard Gabel and David Heeney

Design science is different from other problem-solving and planning methodologies in its comprehensive, anticipatory, inclusive, and transparent approaches to the development of solutions. It takes a ‘whole to particular’ approach that is both global in perspective and in its examination of options. It seeks to build capacity rather than merely solve problems and to develop solutions that are transformative rather than merely the reforming of already inadequate systems.

Our Newest Podcast

Deschooling Dialogues
Episode 8 | Alnoor Ladha with Bayo Akomolafe

In this conversation, Bayo Akomolafe and Alnoor Ladha explore the entanglements of identity, activism, whiteness, and emergence in a time of planetary crisis. Subscribe to Deschooling Dialogues.

More Podcasts of Note

the way out is in

with JO CONFINO and BROTHER PHAP HUU

This podcast series is aimed at helping us to transcend our fear and anger so that we can be more engaged in the world in a way that develops love and compassion.

the beautiful question

with SCOTT LENNOX

As you listen to these intentionally brief podcasts, you can allow yourself the gift of Stillness, out of which Clarity will naturally arise. You will then be listening to the wisdom of your innate self.

kosmos live!

PREPARING FOR PROFOUND CHANGE

This podcast series, Preparing for Profound Change, explores the shifting global landscape. Economic collapse, climate chaos, political upheaval – these may seem like forces to fear, but in fact offer us deep opportunities for transformation.

sounds of sand

Science and Nonduality

Sounds of SAND is a podcast from Science and Nonduality which contemplates and reveres the beauty, complexity, pain, and great mystery that weave the infinite cycles of existence.

deschooling dialogues

with ALNOOR LADHA

A collaboration between Culture Hack Labs and Kosmos Journal, the first season explores some of the basics of deschooling, including decolonization practices, alternatives to traditional education, discoveries from the edges of social justice movements, and the deep time lessons of Indigenous wisdom and knowledge systems.