Spring | Summer 2015
The Gift of Life
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Awakening to life and becoming such a channel can often ask unexpected things in our own evolution. Along the way, somewhat like the butterfly in metamorphosis, we cannot yet see what we are becoming.
Nature’s Living Intelligence
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In our consumer society, we are taught to see the world as a collection of objects to be transformed, sold, […]
The Living Universe
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A Living Systems Paradigm for Viewing Big History ‘Big History’ is the name given to an emerging field of study […]
Earth-Based Wisdom: Learning the Original Idea from the Living Earth
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Traditional cultures “are what shaped us and caused us to be what we are now,” writes Jared Diamond in The […]
Coming Back to Life | Chapter One: To Choose Life
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To Choose Life Excerpted from Chapter One We live in an extraordinary moment on Earth. We possess more technical prowess […]
The Biology of Wonder | Finding the Human in Nature
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Of course, the animals need humans. They need us like old parents, against whom we have revolted for a while […]
We the People of Living Earth: An Authentic Story for Our Time
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For people, generally, their story of the universe and the human role in the universe is their primary source of […]
On Living Business
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What is a ‘living business?’ Using these words both as a search term and as a mirror of our collective […]
Lifecycle of Emergence: Using Emergence to Take Social Innovation to Scale
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Despite current ads and slogans, the world doesn’t change one person at a time. It changes as networks of relationships […]
Releasing the Potential of Our Life Force Energy
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It’s 1986. I’m 27 and I have travelled to a small island off of the west coast of Canada for […]
The Phenomenology of the Self: Revealing the Universal Life Force at the Heart of Human Experience
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There are times when we feel most fully alive, and we yearn to live like that all the time. There […]
gallery three: beauty and harmony with all life
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In this serene night skyscape, the Milky Way’s graceful arc stretches over prominent peaks in the Italian Alps known as […]
Living Spirituality
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There can be no doubt that we are living in a time of transition. A new human community is being […]
A Dark Night of the Soul and the Discovery of Meaning
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By Thomas Moore A dark night of the soul is a kind of initiation, taking you from one phase of life into another. You may have several dark nights in the course of your life because you are always becoming more of a person and entering life more fully.
Igniting the Life Force at our Creative Core
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Re-Uniting Spirit and Matter, Bringing Spirituality into Action Called forth by the enormous challenges of our times, a powerful new […]
Living Human Living Earth: A Super-Ordinate Goal
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How do we collectively transform ourselves, our communities, and our civilization to move toward a future of our highest collective […]
The Luminous Ground
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A few days ago as I sat to write, I glanced out the window towards the marina on Lake Washington. […]
Fully Alive Through Connection
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I used to think the feeling of being fully alive only came in exceptional moments: A near-death experience, a triumphant […]
Kosmos Seed Grant Awards 2015
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In January 2015, Kosmos Journal invited open submissions for two Seed Grants in the amount of $2,500 each. We received […]