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This Editorial precedes Volume 15, Issue 1 of Kosmos. Scroll down to access featured content.

Life clothes itself in many forms. These many forms of life are gifts, if we are open to receiving them.

What comes to mind when you hear the phrase ‘Living Earth?’ How do you personally feel when you observe and honor the aliveness around you? Do you feel enveloped and enlivened by a nurturing life force that perhaps even defies words to describe it? How do you cultivate a more vibrant sense of your own inner aliveness? How is life calling you to evolve and with what degree of receptivity do you answer that call?

The story arc of Kosmos Journal, for 15 years, has been the ongoing narrative of life expanding and contracting at the global level. It is the record of how we are learning to live together as a global family. There have been, and will continue to be, some missteps along the way—evolution being a trial-and-error process—but I hope it is no hubris-guided misstep now to say that the path of our contributors represents the coming together that is what global life is seeking. Cutting through the chaos and noise, these stories are the signal that is becoming the new enlivened way.

By reaching out to feel more connected to the world and the people around us, we become more alive. The stories and images shared in this “Awakening to Life” issue stirred my heart and I hope they will stir yours too. These authors are students of life: how life cycles through rebirth, transformation, and death; how life can bloom at all levels in business, in economics, in education, and in all other institutions; how the bleakness of a dark night can bring more brilliant life than one can imagine; how life is reciprocity and reciprocity is life; and how Mother Earth is to be honored as the source of life for us all, every living creature.

Read more of the Introduction by Nancy Roof

Kosmos Journal Volume 15 Issue 1


Kosmos Journal publishes a diversity of voices that reflect the complexity of our time and the depth of our shared inquiry. The views expressed by individual contributors are their own and do not necessarily reflect those of the Kosmos editorial team, Board of Directors, or affiliated partners. We honor the freedom of expression as a path to deeper understanding, and we strive to hold space for perspectives grounded in compassion, truth-seeking, and the well-being of all Life.I am text block.