Kosmos Quarterly Fall 2018

So what then might the opposite of consume be? I might have suggested, fasting, ‘getting rid of’, or a form of austerity. But the definition, “destruction by separating into parts”, is all too appropriate, so the opposite must be something like ‘reassembling toward life.’ – Nora Bateson

Article Keynote

un-pick-apart-able

By Nora Bateson

Bringing a morsel of food to your lips or to the lips of another is an act of intimacy. It is a personal contact point with the seasons and the generations...It is in this intimacy that I suggest a possibility for system change lies.

Article Living Earth

Tending the Wild

By Charles Eisenstein

What looked to European settlers like untamed wilderness was actually the product of millennia of intentional human influence. Calling it wilderness, or “virgin territory,” gave them license to occupy it, cultivate it, “develop” it, and “improve” it.

Article Theology

The Problem with “More”

By Mark Longhurst

Our globalized world lures us to crave more. The culture of “more” is a culture of not enough, accumulation and conquest, and sought but constantly deferred satiety. Every time we text message or update Instagram, researchers tell us that our brains loop in a dopamine cycle of neurological yearning.

Conversation Consciousness

The Deschooling Dialogues | Ayahuasca and Other Pathways of Perception

By Alnoor Ladha, Daniel Pinchbeck, Rhonda Fabian

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.

Gallery Waste and Beauty

The Prophecy

By Fabrice Monteiro

Through his stunning work, Belgian-Beninese photographer Fabrice Monteiro challenges us to examine issues of fashion, race, consumerism and exploitation.

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.