My Unlearning Journey: An Interview with Manish Jain
By Claude Alvares, via Shikshantar.org
Could you briefly trace out for us how a Harvard educated person eventually ended up fighting Harvard type of education all over the world? What triggered the change? Was it gradual or was it sudden, caused by some event?
When I was a kid in high school, I was bounced back and forth between honors classes and…
In Practice: Manish and Vidhi Jain, on living, innovating and unlearning
By Leonie Shanks/Peace Boat
When Manish Jain and his wife Vidhi give their lectures and workshops, they are captivating. Partly this is because the learning activists speak in a way that is incredibly considered, eloquent and poetic, but also it is because their words are filled with a passion and conviction that is infectious. Their arguments are not dry or academic, but rather full of…
Purposeful Memoir as a Path to Alignment
Most people think of memoir as a recounting of what we already know about our lives. But, in fact, what we already know is only the beginning of the journey of what I call purposeful memoir.
The Habits of Schooling
...One part of me was urging the other part of me to get up, go to the professor, and seek clarity. The more fearful side of myself was anxious about being judged a fraud for being accepted to grad school at all; apprehensive of being yelled at or belittled.
Change the Worldview, Change the World
Gender, like race, is a social construction, which is to say, a story. And the stories of sexism and racism that have cast such a pall over our history and our present illustrate the power of worldview and narrative in generating and maintaining systemic oppression.
Dynamic Governance
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.
Mystical Anarchism, a Spiritual Biography
By Alnoor Ladha and Michael Lerner
Alnoor | When people ask me, "what’s the most important thing I can do," I often say to people, especially in the spiritual community: to understand how neoliberalism works. We must understand how capitalism works because it is the very oxygen in which we are breathing. It has intermediated every aspect of our lives.
Deschooling Dialogues | Alnoor Ladha with Tiokasin Ghosthorse
DESCHOOLING DIALOGUES
Episode 4 – Alnoor Ladha with Tiokasin Ghosthorse
Alnoor Ladha | (LA) Welcome to the Deschooling Dialogues. This podcast is a co-creation of Culture Hack Labs and Kosmos Journal. Culture Hack Labs is a not-for-profit consultancy that supports organizations, social movements and activists to create cultural intervention for systems change. You can learn…
New Kosmos! Summer Issue, podcast and more
Dear Reader,
Lots to share. Our second issue of Kosmos in its new format is here, The Gift of Grief. Our constant exposure to distressing news can lead to a sense of overwhelm or desensitization. Emotional detachment becomes a way to protect ourselves from the constant barrage of painful information. Yet, this numbing can prevent the radical shifts and healing most needed. Most of us are cut off…
Being Taught by Sacred Pain
"In an attempt to keep us feeling individualized and separate from the land-metabolism, modernity takes away our sense of the unquestionable value of life and instead creates a fundamental void that we associate with worthlessness. To feel a temporary sense of self-worth, we are made to produce stuff that modernity recognizes as valuable. To feel a sense of completion, we are made to accumulate…