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Summer Quarterly 2018, Unlearning Together.

Conversation Sacred Activism

The Deschooling Dialogues: Grief, Collapse, and Mysticism

By Alnoor Ladha, Martin Kirk, Martin Winiecki, Rhonda Fabian

Alnoor: ...There is no doubt that we are in the midst of unprecedented moment where there is no return to old certainties. Part of this pain that we are facing in the world is a pathway toward transformation. Or will we perish in the horror of the onslaught that we are facing?

Mixed Media Global Music

Sapient

By Steven Chesne

Composer Steven Chesne spent a year unearthing ancient, precious peace invocations and prayers from all over the world: words of the oneness of mankind, spoken by Buddha, Lao Tzu, Jesus, Mohammed, the Sikhs, the Hindu, the Jews, the Cheyenne, the Kikuyu, and the Baha’i.

Article Sociocracy

Dynamic Governance

By Pamela Boyce Simms

The 21st century is witnessing hundreds of millions of people caught up in cascading systemic transformation. Global society has crossed a threshold. We’ve entered the time of the Great Transition—a time when we hospice outworn ways of living that no longer serve us and the Earth, and give birth to an emergent, more compassionate, and resilient future.

Essay Healing

The Migrant Quilt

By Valarie Lee James

Each quilt represents countless lives lost on border ground, a hundred-mile strip of geography spanning two countries. The interstitial border region has morphed into a distinct culture of its own and the quilts, with their binational contributors, fly its flag.

Article Living Earth

Tending the Wild

By Charles Eisenstein

This section is named after a book by Kat Anderson that describes the relationship between the pre-colonial indigenous people of California and the land. Anderson demolishes the myth that hunter-gatherer people were mere occupants of pristine “nature[...]

Conversation Activism

Water and the Rising Feminine

By Judy Wicks, Pat McCabe, Li An Phoa

need bios Li An Phoa and Eve Miari Opening Prayer Pat | I reach out to the holy water of Life, the life blood, the milk of our mother, the one that sustains all life, that makes it possible for us to receive this holy gift [...]

Gallery Forests

Green Medicine

By Michael O’Brien

I use photography as a tool to explore the raw elemental power of the natural world by visiting and re-visiting places I’m drawn to in order to be touched by their spiritual essence. I try to receive images that convey this essence to share with others[...]

Music Art Activism

Healing Sound, with Jesse Paris Smith

By Kari Auerbach

On Healing Sound Kari | How did the ideas of healing and music come together for you? What is your first memory of the connection between music and sound therapy? Jesse Paris Smith | My personal experiences of healing and music/sound can go back longer[...]

Essay Oneness

Unity and the Power of Love

By Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee

UNITY holds the essential vision that we are one living, interconnected ecosystem, a living Earth that supports and nourishes all of its inhabitants. If we acknowledge and honor this simple reality we can begin to participate in the vital work of [...]

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Book Excerpt | The New Republic of the Heart: An Ethos for Revolutionaries

August 5, 2018

By Terry Patten, from Chapter 2 of 'The New Republic of the Heart' "The heart breaks to see the destruction of vulnerable people, living creatures,…

Editorial | Awake, Awakened, Woke!

June 12, 2018

by Rhonda Fabian in the premiere edition of Kosmos Quarterly, Summer 2018 In our collective dream, we are racing toward a precipice. Earth’s human…

Sacred Politics: Getting Past Collusion and Illusion in a Post-Truth World

June 5, 2018

by Glenn Aparicio Parry "We may feel we are living in a post-truth world; but the good news is that a larger truth is being gestated. Our American…

In Search of Lost Hope: Theatre Against All Odds in Afghanistan

June 4, 2018

By Hjalmar Jorge Joffre-Eichhorn, via HowlRound In the dark times, will there also be singing? Yes, there will be singing about the dark times.…

How Today’s Youth-Based Movements Are Breaking New Ground

May 29, 2018

By Mark Gerzon, for Kosmos As a veteran of a “youth movement” myself, a student of generationally-driven movements around the world, and now an…

INTERVIEW | Andreas Weber on ‘Matter and Desire’

May 8, 2018

"...I am convinced that every living being is able to understand on a very basic level what it means to be alive and that's being alive as a sentient…

Meet the Editorial Circle

Kosmos Quarterly, Inaugural Edition

Kosmos convenes a new Editorial Circle, each season. This intentional group of global thinkers, healers, activists and artists come together for 100 days to cross-pollinate ideas and share the fruits of their practice around the emerging theme of the Quarterly.

Nancy Roof

Kosmos Founder and Editor Emeritus

Rhonda Fabian

Editor, Kosmos Quarterly

Pamela Boyce-Simms

Advising Editor, Q/June

Martin Winiecki

Advising Editor, Q/June

Tamara Smiley Hamilton

Advising Editor, Q/June

Alnoor Ladha

Advising Editor, Q/June

Marie Goodwin

Advising Editor, Q/June

Ulysses “Butch” Slaughter

Advising Editor, Q/June

Mark Gerzon

Advising Editor, Q/June

"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."