Rhonda Fabian
Rhonda Fabian is Editor of Kosmos Quarterly. She is an ordained member in the Order of Interbeing, an international Buddhist community founded by her teacher, Thích Nhất Hạnh. Rhonda is also a founding partner of Immediacy Learning, an educational media company that has impacted millions of learners worldwide.
Beginning her career as a video-journalist for CNN and Public Broadcasting, Rhonda achieved Press Club recognition for chronicling the desegregation of Louisiana and spent years immersed in the musical traditions of New Orleans. She studied Anthropology, and completed her masters studies at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania.
Ms. Fabian lives and is active in Transition Town Media, Pennsylvania. She is a mother, court-appointed special advocate (CASA) for abused and neglected children, and an NGO Representative to the United Nations for Kosmos Associates.
The Four Freedoms and Artificial Intelligence
Introduction
The Four Freedoms and Artificial Intelligence may seem disconnected, yet each is a litmus test for our era. How we develop and implement each of them is a measure of our commitment to ethical and responsible decision-making. Both the Four Freedoms and AI can also be seen as sources of tension and debate, as they raise complex and often competing values and interests that must be balanced. Each reflect our collective will and priorities and the capacity for enormous impact on lives.
Masculine/Feminine | A Non-Binary View
Introduction
How can men and women connect to the vibrant, life-affirming, problem-solving, creative energy of the Sacred Masculine? That is what we set out to learn in this edition.
Are You Sure?
Introduction
Where does truth come from? Is truth “out there” to be discovered? Or is it “inside” to be revealed? A very hopeful answer is that truth presents itself in response to our individual and collective need, our yearning for its light. If so, the need is now.
Waters of Spirit
Introduction
These abundant collective resources also include ancestral wisdom, feelings of gratitude, wonder and awe, appreciation for beauty, our powers of concentration and insight, our capacity to awaken, spiritual traditions, and personal practices such as prayer and meditation. I see our spiritual commons as a river of pure life-giving waters that each of us can draw from freely. In this edition of Kosmos, we examine and explore these rich inner resources.
Realigning with Earth Wisdom
Introduction
In this edition of Kosmos, you will find the wisdom of the elephant and the hummingbird, indigenous wisdom, the knowledge of the farmer, the mystic, the scientist. Tree wisdom. Ocean wisdom. Glacier wisdom.
Century of Awakening
Introduction
We resacralize something by treating it with respect and reverence. Even the simple act of drinking tea can be a profound act.
Our Struggle Is with Illusion
Article
Einstein called the misinterpreted self “an optical illusion of consciousness”, the incessant stream of chatter in our heads we call “me, mine, I.”
The Role of the Visionary
Introduction
Resilience starts with vision. Hope is grounded in it. Transformation is nourished by it. And survival depends on it.
Year’s End and the Kosmos Winter Edition Preview
News Item
Dear Reader, 2020…this remarkable and challenging year will soon come to a close. We hope you have weathered these exceptional […]
Our Collective Journey
Introduction
Our quest to find purpose requires conscious alignment with our evolving, living Earth. When we allow Earth’s purpose to guide us, we know how to act in harmony with Life, and hope can blossom anew.
Walking the Labyrinth
Introduction
“This is a time of sorrow and wonder. Many hard and painful truths are there for us to see, as well as stories of great human courage and healing…”
Learn more about the Summer Edition of Kosmos, ‘In the Labyrinth | Healing Pathways’.
The Evolutionary Potential of Wealth
Introduction
Right now, the greatest generational wealth transfer in human history is underway. Over the next 25 years, 45 million U.S. households will pass a mind-boggling $68 trillion to their children. Can Brian Swimme’s cosmological model point young inheritors toward a new vision for giving during this pivotal evolutionary moment?
A Story Still Unfolding
Introduction
“Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.” ― Søren Kierkegaard
New Spirit, Wise Action
Introduction
The times we live in ask much of us. How can we know the best ways to respond to the converging crises we face? How can we live lives of deep meaning and joy in the midst of confusion and pain, and be catalysts for positive change?
The Earth is Doing Her Best
Introduction
This stuff of creation we are made from requires something from us now. Animals of the world, trees and flowers, minerals deep in the earth, already know their true nature, how to be. We have forgotten. The species with the most gifts, the most to give back, has forgotten its place in the order of things, has forgotten about stewardship, awe, and grace.
On Elevating the Human Narrative
Conversation
Judy Rodgers | …I think decisions about things like governance or institutions source from our awareness. We can’t build something if it’s outside the scope of our awareness. We can’t design a true commons if we’re in a very limited consciousness.
The Practice of Global Citizenship
Introduction
Global unity is our evolutionary destiny.
This is what we believe at Kosmos, and why we continue.
The Deschooling Dialogues | Ayahuasca and Other Pathways of Perception
Conversation
Daniel | Since I started this whole journey…it’s felt to me that there is the potential that we, in this lifetime, can somehow make a kind of quantum, mutational leap into another dimensional realization.
The Deschooling Dialogues: Grief, Collapse, and Mysticism
Conversation
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?
Editorial | Awake, Awakened, Woke!
News Item
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 children have lost their way, propelled by swift currents of mindlessness and greed. The more we struggle against the current and try to cling to passing debris, the more exhaustion and panic we feel. And yet…and yet, we somehow know another reality is still possible, if only we can shift our awareness and change the story.
Preparing for Profound Change | Four Key Lessons
Article
We know profound change is coming. We feel it in our bodies. The converging crises have been named, like hurricanes […]
An Interview with Sister Miriam Therese MacGillis at Genesis Farm
Article
If the dynamics of the universe from the beginning shaped the course of the heavens, lighted the sun, and formed […]
The Power of Three | Awakening New Energy in Group Work
Article
A person living today in a modern city or a suburb can be surrounded by others yet feel deeply, dangerously […]
Unleashing the Learner: Massive Open Online Courses and the Decolonization of Education
Article
There is a sea change under way in higher education, and it’s not in the ways that traditional universities think […]
Engaged Ecology: Seven Practices to Restore Our Harmony with Nature
Article
It has rained steadily through the night, a gentle hushing sound in the thick tree canopy. In the morning light, […]
Connecting for Change: Insights from an Emerging Global Transformation Movement
Article
“The present convergence of crises–in money, energy, education, health, water, soil, climate, politics, the environment, and more–is a birth crisis, […]