Fall | Winter 2016

Designing the Future Together

Functional Medicine, Cultural Design, Transpartisan Politics, Integral Living, Collective Healing, Species Reciprocity


Evolution of Kosmos

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Our long-term vision has not changed over all these years. What has changed is how different aspects of the vision come and go into awareness.

Can We Harness Conflict?

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Notice that the question in the title is not can we ‘end’ conflict, or even ‘manage’ or ‘contain’ it. These […]

Millennials and the Shifting Political Climate: A Chance for Libertarianism to Emerge

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The 2016 presidential election has been a disaster for young people. Between the dishonest pandering of Hillary Clinton and the […]

America’s Dirtiest Secret: How to Take Your Power Back

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I’ve got a dirty secret that almost nobody in America knows. You see, Americans have this very popular notion that […]

Polarized America. Polarized Self: A Call for Collaboration

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I live in a polarized body. My very being is compromised by competing characteristics. Mexican-American heritage–bilingual, bicultural. College-educated millennial on […]

Finding Political Understanding with a Single Question

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Disruption. Innovation. Disruptive innovation. These oft-cited drivers of sustained and meaningful change will not lead Americans to a better democracy. […]

Conscious Evolution: A Metaphysical Task

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The worldwide transformational movement has gained enough critical mass to ensure meaningful impact on our future. But conscious evolution doesn’t […]

gallery one – Monument to Forgiveness

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As a Dutch-born immigrant and artist, one of my Spirit-driven endeavors is to acknowledge the perpetration of violence by my […]

Theatre of Transformation

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Time for a Paradigm Change We aren’t here just to make a little noise. We’re here to change the paradigm. […]

Imago Integralis: The Aesthetics of Integral Life

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I. Longing for the Integral Life This article introduces a new integral perspective on life and provides clues of what […]

The Power of Wetiko: Looking in the Mirror to Solve the Global Crisis

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In the last edition of Kosmos Journal, my brother-in-arms and I wrote about the Algonquin concept of wetiko.1 It was […]

Wetiko and Its Antidotes

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Seeing Wetiko. “The climate is changing, but it’s always changing and there’s nothing we can do about it. Its changes […]

The Predicament of Knowledge: A Challenge for Culture Design

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Imagine if we collectively knew all that is needed to solve the hardest social problems in the world. Whether it’s […]

Open Group Practice: Eight Social Selves

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In 2012, after retiring from my professional career, I was eager to participate in some of the practices I had […]

Hunters and Shamans of Mongolia

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Artist Statement My journey as a photographer and as an ethnographer has been a personal pilgrimage. I am in search […]

Update: The Dukha Tribe, December 2015

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The nomadic reindeer-herding Dukha tribe of northern Mongolia is struggling to survive after being banned from hunting in the name […]

Unheard Invitations: Piercing the Veil Between Species

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The wild animals are lonely for us. We are lonely for them. We have become disconnected from each other. What […]

Confessions of a Hypocrite: Utopia in the Age of Ecocide

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I confess! I love eating Magnum ice creams!! But surely as a good, responsible eco-citizen, I must be aware that […]

Turning Around the Anthropocene: Unleashing the Potentials of Abundance

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In recent years, ecological thinkers have increasingly popularized the notion of the Anthropocene. It is said to be our current […]

New Paradigm Medicine

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“You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing […]

The Expanding Potential of Aging

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“As I age I become more me.” – May Sarton … More like me, but more unlike anyone else. I […]

Philoxenia: The Art of Expressing Love and Friendship to Strangers

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Disguised as poor travellers, Zeus and Hermes visited many villages in search of refuge for the night. Residents repeatedly turned […]

World Press Photo Awards 2016

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The World Press Photo Foundation is a major force in developing and promoting the work of visual journalists with a […]

The Power of Three | Awakening New Energy in Group Work

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A person living today in a modern city or a suburb can be surrounded by others yet feel deeply, dangerously […]

An Integral Worldview

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In 2011, while studying for a master’s degree in Integral Theory at John F. Kennedy University, I started researching businesses […]