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INTERVIEW Shaun Chamberlin on ‘Dark Optimism’ and the power of grief
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INTERVIEW Shaun Chamberlin on ‘Dark Optimism’ and the power of grief

December 16, 2014 Newsletter

Dark Optimism is the not-for-profit public interest research, activism and writing of Shaun Chamberlin, author of The Transition Timeline. This is an excerpt from a longer video interview Rhonda Fabian conducted at the New Story Summit in Findhorn, Scotland as part of a Findhorn Foundation documentary initiative.

Fabian:          Shaun, please tell me what Dark Optimism means to you.

Chamberlin:          Dark Optimism is a widely misunderstood term. I get a lot of people coming up to me saying, “Are you feeling dark today, or optimistic?” That’s not quite what I mean.  Dark optimism means being unashamedly positive about the kind of world we could create, but unashamedly realistic about how far we are from doing that right now.

So it’s not that sort of bright shiny optimism, which I can find quite frustrating.  It’s more like, “Well everything isn’t fine actually, you know?” It’s an ability to look at the more difficult aspects of where we are and what we’re doing, whilst also retaining a sort of deep faith in human potential. And also drawing on the deeper questions of why we’re really here. And does the state of the world in any way challenge our purpose in being here, or make that impossible? I don’t think it does.

Even if we are into a world of unstoppable, runaway climate change, for example. There’s still love to do, there’s still positive change to make in the world.

Fabian:          How does it compare with the Dark Mountain movement?

Chamberlin:          Obviously they stole my darkness. (laughs) Actually, that comes from the Robinson Jeffers poem, The Dark Mountain. Dark Mountain plays an incredibly important part enabling us to ask the questions that we’re often not allowed to ask. You know, maybe it is all too late. And if it is, what does that mean?

There’s a logical flaw at the heart of a lot of arguments that we make in “the movement” – whichever movement label you want to put on it – which is that we tend to look at things and say, “Well that won’t work, so we need this.” An example might be people saying, “Well renewable energy can’t ramp up fast enough to solve our energy crisis, so we need nuclear.” Or, “The mainstream parties aren’t going to give us what we need, so we need the Green Party.” Or to not vote…or whatever.  The premise isn’t the conclusion – they don’t join up! You might just as well say, “Renewable energy can’t ramp up fast enough to deal with our energy crisis, so we need sardines.” You’ve not said anything about the alternative. You’ve just said, “This doesn’t work, so that.”

And I think Dark Mountain addresses that to an extent. The argument we hear again and again in environmentalism is, “Should we be working for radical change, or should we be working within the existing paradigms?”  So, people will say, “Well, you know, we don’t have time to wait for a revolution. Everything has to happen now, so we’ve got to work within the existing  paradigms.” And then other people say, “Well, you know, if we don’t have a radical, fundamental revolution, then what’s the point, because we’re just addressing symptoms.” And both of those arguments, I think, are completely valid. Yet, you hear people arguing back and forth and back and forth about this and never finding resolution. They can’t admit that they’re actually both right.

There isn’t time for radical change, AND we need radical change. And so, if you can never accept that actually maybe they’re both right, and that we have to ask some really deeper questions about what that means, then you just end up with people over here having a nice career saying this, and people over there having a nice career saying that.  And you never actually get to the deeper truth.

For me, Dark Mountain is a venue where we can ask those kinds of questions. Well, what if this doesn’t work AND that doesn’t work? And what if we don’t actually know of an alternative. Can we sit with that? Can we actually sit with that together? And can we have a conversation about what that means? To me that’s a really potent and fertile space.

Fabian:          It says to me that there’s a place for sorrow in optimism?

Chamberlin:          Yes. Part of my journey over the last few years is that David Fleming, who was my mentor and very close friend passed away very suddenly at the end of 2010. And actually, we were just a few weeks away from launching a big project that we’d co-authored. So it was a very difficult and busy time. To try and hold that – deal with the work and bring it to the fruition we were both hoping for, whilst also trying to process the grief of the sudden loss of my – my good friend. And then just three weeks after he passed, my fiancée passed away very suddenly as well.

That was a profoundly challenging time. And I’m quite happy with how I moved through that. Yet, I don’t think grief is a process that ends. I think it’s a relationship that continues throughout your life. I sort of found over the past few years that when I reflect on and write about my personal grief, there’s a very strong correlation between that and the grief that many of us carry, maybe all of us carry, for the state of the world and the state of nature and the state of our society.

I think grieving, as opposed to loss, is a process of opening ourselves. When we suffer a loss that’s overwhelming, we shut down. Your body just says, “That’s too much”, right?  “I’m gonna shut it down.” We shut down part of ourselves and that keeps us from being completely overwhelmed, but it also keeps us from being fully alive.

And so the process of grieving is the process of – of coming back to life. On a societal level, on a collective level, that’s true as well. Part of the reason we fail collectively right now to face up to the kind of damage that we’re doing in the world, is because the grief of it is so overwhelming, that the process of opening those doors again is incredibly difficult. Because behind them is a huge, overwhelming bunch of pain. So every time you open one of them again, there it is waiting for you.

And so you have to have the space to do that – to work through that pain. And it’s only by doing that that you come back to life and you start to be able to respond to these problems in a way that is more open, to look at it all in the round and say, “Okay. What is the most appropriate way of acting here?” Rather than, “Oh god, I can’t look at that. I’m just gonna keep my head down and work really hard at this thing, because I can’t look at the bigger questions.” Because the grief is still there.

Fabian:          So if grief is a process, what about despair?

Chamberlin:         Well there’s a really interesting thing about despair, I think. It has spark in it of deep motivation. I think despair can be described as looking at every possible scenario and seeing no hopeful one. But what that means is, that if you can present someone in despair one scenario that looks hopeful – that looks like a real possibility – there’s this immense wealth of motivation to drive toward it, because despair is not a nice place to be.

If you can actually present someone with a possibility, even if it’s just a narrow possibility, then despair becomes this huge driver, this huge motivation that can achieve incredible things.

Fabian:          Is this despair at the heart of Dark Optimism? Does that drive your activism?

Chamberlin:          For me, becoming whatever I am, whether that’s an activist, or whatever, was about selfishness really. It was about the perspective I hold that in a very real and important sense – we’re all one. And our well-being is completely interdependent.

From that sort of spiritual perspective, the suffering of others and the suffering of the world is my suffering. Consequently, you know, sitting on the sofa, watching TV, selfishly consuming, wasn’t very selfish because it – it didn’t satisfy me. It left me with this – this sort of pain about what was happening. And it was really uncomfortable for me as an individual.

And the only thing that could make me more comfortable, was to feel like I was facing up to these challenges, trying to engage with them in some impactful, positive way. That was the only way I as an individual could feel happier, more content, and more whole. And so, yes, that process of opening to the pain that we feel at the state of the world; the anger, or dissatisfaction, or sense of injustice, or whatever it might be that we feel when we look at how things are;

if we don’t try and face what we feel, and hear the call that it might give to us, then we’re shutting ourselves down. Then we’re becoming less alive.

The one piece of advice I would give to young people is to remember that you cannot NOT change the world. Whatever you do will change the world. If you take the most default option, you follow the most mainstream, down the line, ‘just keep your head down and get on with what they’re telling you to do’, approach, then that’s the world that you’re helping to create. There is no way that you cannot change the world.

And so open yourself to everything that you feel about the state of the world. Don’t let anyone tell you what to do. But just ask yourself, “How do I want to respond to this in a way that isn’t shutting me down; that is opening me up; that is helping me be fully who I am.” And that will lead you for the rest of your life.

This is an excerpt from a longer video interview conducted by Rhonda Fabian at the New Story Summit in Findhorn, Scotland in October, 2014.

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Leadership
Leading In Unknown Terrain
Audrey Eger Thompson and Jakob van Wielink
A Memory
Wisdom from the Flood
Alain Ruche
Credits

Staff and Advisors

True Wealth 

Introduction

Editorial
The Evolutionary Potential of Wealth
Rhonda Fabian
Keynote
True Health | What if the Virus is the Medicine?
Julia Hartsell and Jonathan Hadas Edwards

Articles

Commons
The Treasure of Our Living, Relational Commons
David Bollier
Investment
Soil Wealth and a Regenerative Green New Deal
Ronnie Cummins
Cosmology
The Power of Allurement
Betsey Crawford
activism
How We Win | Divestment and Nonviolent Direct Action
George Lakey
Economy
Advertising and Trading | The Markets’ Problem Twins
Hazel Henderson
Peacebuilding
Vision for a City of Hope Near Auschwitz
Nina Meyerhof

Conversations

Whole Systems
Bioregions and Regeneration | Honoring the Places Where We Live
Daniel Wahl and Kosha Joubert
Revolution
Mystical Anarchism, a Spiritual Biography
Alnoor Ladha and Michael Lerner

Essays

Civilization
Economic Justice and Ecological Regeneration
Jeremy Lent
Inheritance
Wrestling with Wealth and Class
Simon Mont
Bioregions
Joy and Value of Connection to Place and Community
Malinda Clatterbuck
Mindfulness
Breakfast Table Revelation
Hai-An (Sister Ocean)
From a Kosmos Reader
Safe Houses | Giving Refuge
Carolyn Brigit Flynn
From a Kosmos Reader
Good Fortune
Marilyn DuHamel

Poetry

Two Poems by Joy McDowell
Joy McDowell
Two Poems by Diane Kendig
Diane Kendig
Blaxit
Joanne Godley
Two Poems by Ellen Waterson
Ellen Waterston

Galleries

Interbeing
Love Letters from Seaweed
Katherine Minott
Identity
In the Hands of Alchemy
Jerry Wennstrom

Mixed Media

Podcasts
greenplanet-blueplanet | Sacred Economy and Caring
Julian Guderley
New Cosmology
Fragile Gold
Sam Guarnaccia
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Staff and Advisors

Possible Futures Regeneration, Connection and Values

Introduction

Editorial
A Story Still Unfolding
Rhonda Fabian
Keynote
Holding a Seed for the Future
Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee

Articles

Transition
From What Is to What If
Rob Hopkins
Earth Law
Thomas Berry and the Rights of Nature
Mary Evelyn Tucker and John Grim
Future Economics
Ten Economic Insights of Rudolf Steiner
C. Otto Scharmer
Service
The Unexpected Journey of Caring
Donna Thomson and Zachary White
Future Democracy
Re-Imagining America
Christopher Schaefer
New Paradigm
The Alchemy of Power
Joni Carley

Conversations

Worldview
The Next Civilization, with Jeremy Lent
Jeremy Lent
Presencing
Collective Trauma and Our Emerging Future 
C. Otto Scharmer and Thomas Hübl

Music

Restorative Justice
Freedom to Make Music
Hugh Christopher Brown
Love
Sacred Season Gathering of Songs
Kari Auerbach

Essays

Responsibility
Global Social Witnessing
Adrian Wagner and Lukas Herrmann
Caring
A Cry for Help
Michael Gray
From a Kosmos Reader
Hopeful Essay Penned by Firelight
Cornelia Reynolds
From a Kosmos Reader
Active Hope | Time with Joanna Macy
Betsey Crawford
Consciousness
Healing the Wounded Mind
Kingsley L. Dennis
Beauty
Art in a Time of Catastrophe
Peter Reason and Sarah Gillespie

Poetry

Three Poems
Lee McCormack
Ephemera
Carrie La Seur
Two Poems
Laurel Radzieski
Our Scarlet Blue Wounds
Emmett Wheatfall

Gallery

Reflection
Kito Mbiango | The Power of Art to Drive Action
Jill Van den Brule
Science and Art
Closer Looking | Microscopy and Aboriginal Art
Jenny Whiting
Credits

Staff and Advisors

Possible Futures Regeneration, Connection and Values

Introduction

Editorial
A Story Still Unfolding
Rhonda Fabian
Keynote
Holding a Seed for the Future
Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee

Articles

Transition
From What Is to What If
Rob Hopkins
Earth Law
Thomas Berry and the Rights of Nature
Mary Evelyn Tucker and John Grim
Future Economics
Ten Economic Insights of Rudolf Steiner
C. Otto Scharmer
Service
The Unexpected Journey of Caring
Donna Thomson and Zachary White
Future Democracy
Re-Imagining America
Christopher Schaefer
New Paradigm
The Alchemy of Power
Joni Carley

Conversations

Worldview
The Next Civilization, with Jeremy Lent
Jeremy Lent
Presencing
Collective Trauma and Our Emerging Future 
C. Otto Scharmer and Thomas Hübl

Music

Restorative Justice
Freedom to Make Music
Hugh Christopher Brown
Love
Sacred Season Gathering of Songs
Kari Auerbach

Essays

Responsibility
Global Social Witnessing
Adrian Wagner and Lukas Herrmann
Caring
A Cry for Help
Michael Gray
From a Kosmos Reader
Hopeful Essay Penned by Firelight
Cornelia Reynolds
From a Kosmos Reader
Active Hope | Time with Joanna Macy
Betsey Crawford
Consciousness
Healing the Wounded Mind
Kingsley L. Dennis
Beauty
Art in a Time of Catastrophe
Peter Reason and Sarah Gillespie

Poetry

Three Poems
Lee McCormack
Ephemera
Carrie La Seur
Two Poems
Laurel Radzieski
Our Scarlet Blue Wounds
Emmett Wheatfall

Gallery

Reflection
Kito Mbiango | The Power of Art to Drive Action
Jill Van den Brule
Science and Art
Closer Looking | Microscopy and Aboriginal Art
Jenny Whiting
Credits

Staff and Advisors

New Spirit, Wise Action 

Introduction

Editorial
New Spirit, Wise Action
Rhonda Fabian
Keynote
Beyond ‘Sacred Activism’
Gary Horvitz

Articles

Interbeing
Fourteen Recommendations When Facing Climate Tragedy
Jem Bendell
Stewardship
Restoring the Housatonic River Walk
Suzanne Fowle
Grass Roots
Shut It Down: Stories From a Fierce, Loving Resistance
Lisa Fithian
Mindfulness
Thich Nhat Hanh’s Code of Global Ethics
Gary Gach
Intention
Every Act a Ceremony
Charles Eisenstein
Peacebuilding
Inner Work Makes Our Outer Work Massively More Effective
Scilla Elworthy, PhD
The Simulacrum
The Sun of Darkness
Daniel Pinchbeck
RECONCILIATION
White Men and Native America
Lev Natan

Galleries

Culture
Burning Man | What We’ve Learned
Caveat Magister and Photography, Scott London
Expression
Kathy Thaden | An Inner Fire
Kathy Thaden

Music

Soundscape
Big Lazy | Music for Unsettling Times
Kari Auerbach
Off-Grid
Kendra Smith | The Disappearing Art of Living
Kari Auerbach

Conversations

Group Work
Holacracy | an Emergent Order System
Brian Robertson
Mind
The Practice of Liminal Dreaming
Jennifer Dumpert

Poetry

God Becomes a Hairdresser
Penelope Scambly Schott
Men at the End of Their Strings
Tim Kahl
What You Cross the Street to Avoid
Bill Ayres
A Long Convalescence
Judith Skillman

Essays

Media Literacy
Decoding the Trump Virus
Christopher Schaefer
Integral
Seven Practices of ‘Holistic Activism’
Alan Levin
Thought Forms
Memes, Mantras, and Modern Illusions of the Eternal
Kit Storjohann
Oneness
Including the Earth in Our Prayers
Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee
Radical Hope
The Paradox of Wise Activism
Jennifer Browdy
Openness
Living In Flow
Sky Nelson-Isaacs
From a Kosmos Reader
Fluency in the Language of Stillness
Diana Turner-Forte
From a Kosmos Reader
Values as a Means to Invite Greater Depth
Christine Locher
Credits

Staff and Advisors

New Spirit, Wise Action 

Introduction

Editorial
New Spirit, Wise Action
Rhonda Fabian
Keynote
Beyond ‘Sacred Activism’
Gary Horvitz

Articles

Interbeing
Fourteen Recommendations When Facing Climate Tragedy
Jem Bendell
Stewardship
Restoring the Housatonic River Walk
Suzanne Fowle
Grass Roots
Shut It Down: Stories From a Fierce, Loving Resistance
Lisa Fithian
Mindfulness
Thich Nhat Hanh’s Code of Global Ethics
Gary Gach
Intention
Every Act a Ceremony
Charles Eisenstein
Peacebuilding
Inner Work Makes Our Outer Work Massively More Effective
Scilla Elworthy, PhD
The Simulacrum
The Sun of Darkness
Daniel Pinchbeck
RECONCILIATION
White Men and Native America
Lev Natan

Galleries

Culture
Burning Man | What We’ve Learned
Caveat Magister and Photography, Scott London
Expression
Kathy Thaden | An Inner Fire
Kathy Thaden

Music

Soundscape
Big Lazy | Music for Unsettling Times
Kari Auerbach
Off-Grid
Kendra Smith | The Disappearing Art of Living
Kari Auerbach

Conversations

Group Work
Holacracy | an Emergent Order System
Brian Robertson
Mind
The Practice of Liminal Dreaming
Jennifer Dumpert

Poetry

God Becomes a Hairdresser
Penelope Scambly Schott
Men at the End of Their Strings
Tim Kahl
What You Cross the Street to Avoid
Bill Ayres
A Long Convalescence
Judith Skillman

Essays

Media Literacy
Decoding the Trump Virus
Christopher Schaefer
Integral
Seven Practices of ‘Holistic Activism’
Alan Levin
Thought Forms
Memes, Mantras, and Modern Illusions of the Eternal
Kit Storjohann
Oneness
Including the Earth in Our Prayers
Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee
Radical Hope
The Paradox of Wise Activism
Jennifer Browdy
Openness
Living In Flow
Sky Nelson-Isaacs
From a Kosmos Reader
Fluency in the Language of Stillness
Diana Turner-Forte
From a Kosmos Reader
Values as a Means to Invite Greater Depth
Christine Locher
Credits

Staff and Advisors

Summer 2019 

Introduction

Editorial
Resonance and Relationship
Rhonda Fabian
Keynote
To All My Relations
Martin Winiecki

Articles

Reversing Desertification
The Holy Grail of Restoration
John D. Liu
Extraction Economy
Freeing the Dragon
Barbara Kovats
Social Justice
Developing a Mindful Approach to Earth Justice Work
John Bell
Causes and Visions
Rhino Conservation
Heather Smith
Restoration
Bringing Reefs Back to Life
Sam Teicher
Book
Farming While Black
Leah Penniman
Social Justice and Health
Selfcare Freedom
Pamela Boyce Simms
Living Earth
The Stones Will Cry Out
Mark Wallace

Conversations

Global Commons
Sacred Headwaters of the Amazon
Belén Paez and Bill Twist
Mindfulness
Eating as if Life and the Planet Mattered
Joaquin Carral, Marge Wurgel, Aurora Leon

Music

Living Traditions
Sam Lee | Birdsong Hits the Charts
Sam Lee and Kari Auerbach
Inter-species Collaboration
Among the Nightingales in Berlin
David Rothenberg

Essays

Resisting Monoculture
Reforestation in Portugal
Laura Williams
Ceremony
Dancing with Animals
Dinali Devasagayam
Coexistence
Cooperation with Wild Boars in Palestine
Saad Dagher
Reverie
Killing Us Softly
Gregg Kleiner
The New Cosmology
Where Are We in the Story of the Universe?
Keith Mesecher
Consciousness
Borders of Our Perception
Peter Wells
Reader's Essay
The Gift of Tears
Margaret Miller
Reader's Essay
A Song of Pause
Kirsi Jansa

Poetry

Two Poems
Sarah Brown Weitzman
Three Poems
Lois Marie Harrod
Two Poems
Sharon Hilberer
Three Poems
Marnie Heenan

Galleries

Conscious Consuming
Captives of Our Desire
Cally Whitham
Mountain-Top Removal
Documenting Land Trauma
Vivian Stockman
Credits

Staff and Advisors

Summer 2019 

Introduction

Editorial
Resonance and Relationship
Rhonda Fabian
Keynote
To All My Relations
Martin Winiecki

Articles

Reversing Desertification
The Holy Grail of Restoration
John D. Liu
Extraction Economy
Freeing the Dragon
Barbara Kovats
Social Justice
Developing a Mindful Approach to Earth Justice Work
John Bell
Causes and Visions
Rhino Conservation
Heather Smith
Restoration
Bringing Reefs Back to Life
Sam Teicher
Book
Farming While Black
Leah Penniman
Social Justice and Health
Selfcare Freedom
Pamela Boyce Simms
Living Earth
The Stones Will Cry Out
Mark Wallace

Conversations

Global Commons
Sacred Headwaters of the Amazon
Belén Paez and Bill Twist
Mindfulness
Eating as if Life and the Planet Mattered
Joaquin Carral, Marge Wurgel, Aurora Leon

Music

Living Traditions
Sam Lee | Birdsong Hits the Charts
Sam Lee and Kari Auerbach
Inter-species Collaboration
Among the Nightingales in Berlin
David Rothenberg

Essays

Resisting Monoculture
Reforestation in Portugal
Laura Williams
Ceremony
Dancing with Animals
Dinali Devasagayam
Coexistence
Cooperation with Wild Boars in Palestine
Saad Dagher
Reverie
Killing Us Softly
Gregg Kleiner
The New Cosmology
Where Are We in the Story of the Universe?
Keith Mesecher
Consciousness
Borders of Our Perception
Peter Wells
Reader's Essay
The Gift of Tears
Margaret Miller
Reader's Essay
A Song of Pause
Kirsi Jansa

Poetry

Two Poems
Sarah Brown Weitzman
Three Poems
Lois Marie Harrod
Two Poems
Sharon Hilberer
Three Poems
Marnie Heenan

Galleries

Conscious Consuming
Captives of Our Desire
Cally Whitham
Mountain-Top Removal
Documenting Land Trauma
Vivian Stockman
Credits

Staff and Advisors

Spring 2019 

Introduction

Editorial
The Earth is Doing Her Best
Rhonda Fabian
Convening CCC19
Dancing with Gaia
Stephanie Mines

Articles

Great Turning
The Community Awaiting Us
Joanna Macy
Mythos
Turtles Among Us
Robin Wall Kimmerer, PhD
Preparedness
Resilience, the Global Challenge, and the Human Predicament
Michael Lerner
Abundance
Book | Trees of Power
Akiva Silver
Global Data
Paradise Lost | The Sequel
Said E. Dawlabani
Vocation
Cultivating Right Livelihood
Della Duncan and Mark Phillips
Nature
Quiet Places Initiative
Gordon Hempton
Nonduality
Rising Earth Consciousness
Alfredo Sfeir-Younis (Dzambling Cho Tab Khen)

Conversations

Voices | CCC19
Consciousness and the Combustion Engine
Stephanie Mines and Robert E. Yuhnke
Voices | CCC19
The Lie of the Land | Conversation and Essay
Margaret Elphinstone and Marie Goodwin

Essays

Awe
Look Up!
Valerie Brown
Anima Mundi
Rejoining the Great Conversation
Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee
Quantum
Physics and Spirituality
Claudius van Wyk
Gratefulness
A Vision for the World
Br. David Steindl-Rast, OSB
Transition
Chama River Revelations
Marilyn DuHamel
Law
Rights of Nature
Betsey Crawford
Ecosystem
Council of the Wild Gods
Geneen Marie Haugen
Ecovillages
The Power of Community
Kosha Joubert

Galleries

Emergence
Gallery 1 | In the Realm of the World’s Heart
Dianne Grob
Hues
Gallery 2 | Flower Flourescence
Craig Burrows
Deep Ecology
Gallery 3 | Guardians of the Sacred in Tibet
Diane Barker

Music

Cosmology
Emergent Universe Oratorio
Kari Auerbach and Sam Guarnaccia
Indigenous
A Conversation with Alanis Obomsawin
Kari Auerbach and Alanis Obomsawin

Poetry

Three Poems from Reverberations from Fukushima
Leah Stenson
Three Poems
Jake Sheff
Two Poems
John Grey
Dear Reed Canyon
Sage Cohen
Two Poems
Judith Arcana
Three Poems
Jan Chronister
Credits

Staff and Advisors

Spring 2019 

Introduction

Editorial
The Earth is Doing Her Best
Rhonda Fabian
Convening CCC19
Dancing with Gaia
Stephanie Mines

Articles

Great Turning
The Community Awaiting Us
Joanna Macy
Mythos
Turtles Among Us
Robin Wall Kimmerer, PhD
Preparedness
Resilience, the Global Challenge, and the Human Predicament
Michael Lerner
Abundance
Book | Trees of Power
Akiva Silver
Global Data
Paradise Lost | The Sequel
Said E. Dawlabani
Vocation
Cultivating Right Livelihood
Della Duncan and Mark Phillips
Nature
Quiet Places Initiative
Gordon Hempton
Nonduality
Rising Earth Consciousness
Alfredo Sfeir-Younis (Dzambling Cho Tab Khen)

Conversations

Voices | CCC19
Consciousness and the Combustion Engine
Stephanie Mines and Robert E. Yuhnke
Voices | CCC19
The Lie of the Land | Conversation and Essay
Margaret Elphinstone and Marie Goodwin

Essays

Awe
Look Up!
Valerie Brown
Anima Mundi
Rejoining the Great Conversation
Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee
Quantum
Physics and Spirituality
Claudius van Wyk
Gratefulness
A Vision for the World
Br. David Steindl-Rast, OSB
Transition
Chama River Revelations
Marilyn DuHamel
Law
Rights of Nature
Betsey Crawford
Ecosystem
Council of the Wild Gods
Geneen Marie Haugen
Ecovillages
The Power of Community
Kosha Joubert

Galleries

Emergence
Gallery 1 | In the Realm of the World’s Heart
Dianne Grob
Hues
Gallery 2 | Flower Flourescence
Craig Burrows
Deep Ecology
Gallery 3 | Guardians of the Sacred in Tibet
Diane Barker

Music

Cosmology
Emergent Universe Oratorio
Kari Auerbach and Sam Guarnaccia
Indigenous
A Conversation with Alanis Obomsawin
Kari Auerbach and Alanis Obomsawin

Poetry

Three Poems from Reverberations from Fukushima
Leah Stenson
Three Poems
Jake Sheff
Two Poems
John Grey
Dear Reed Canyon
Sage Cohen
Two Poems
Judith Arcana
Three Poems
Jan Chronister
Credits

Staff and Advisors

Winter 2018 Global Citizen, Global Spirit

Introduction

Editorial
The Practice of Global Citizenship
Rhonda Fabian
Keynote
We Are All Global Citizens | Seeing Ourselves in the Advancement of All
Joni Carley and Daniel Perell

Articles

Partnership Society
Breaking Out of the Domination Trance
Riane Eisler
Interspirituality
Evolving Toward Cooperation
Kurt Johnson
Diversity
On Edge Work, Migration Flows, and Glocalization
May East
Indigenous
Returning to Indigenous Worldview
Wahinkpe Topa (Four Arrows), aka Donald Trent Jacobs
Governance
Liquid Democracy and the Future of Governance
Andrew Petrisin
New Economy
BOOK | Farming for the Long Haul
Michael Foley
Psychology
Delivering the UN Global Goals | The Consciousness Perspective
Richard Barrett
Commons
The Insurgent Power of the Commons in the War Against the Imagination
David Bollier

Conversations

Consciousness
On Elevating the Human Narrative
Judy Rodgers, Gayatri Naraine, Rhonda Fabian
Refugee Crisis
FILM | LIFEBOAT, Refugees Adrift at Sea
Skye Fitzgerald
Values
For Love of Place | Reflections of an Agrarian Sage
Wendell Berry and Allen White

Essays

Systems
Sacred Diplomacy in the Emerging Ecozoic Era
Merle Lefkoff
Political Identity
Globalism-Nationalism, the New Left-Right
Jordan Pittman
New Economy
The Economics of Solidarity, Spirit, and Soul
Shaun Chamberlin
Pedagogy
Global Citizenship | An Emerging Agenda in Education
Ambassador Choonghee Hahn
Reader's Essay
Caring for the Soul of Humanity
Bruna Kadletz
Reader's Essay
A Pocket Full of Stones
Vivienne Hull

Galleries

Human Displacement
The Most Important Thing
Brian Sokol
Energy
Being and Becoming in a Field of Resonance
Loren Olson

Poetry

Three Poems
Willa Schneberg
An Overcast Morning, I Sit Down To Write
Melanie Green
Almost Bethlehem
Maria Robinson
The Rebel’s Silhouette
Faiz Ahmed Faiz
Razbliuto
Darlene Pagán
Las Vegas
Brandon Marlon

Music

Young Change Agents
Xiuhtezcatl Martinez | Break Free
Kari Auerbach
World Harmony
Playing for Change
Kari Auerbach

Documents

Primary Resource
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Human Rights Commission
Interspirituality
Toward a Global Ethic
Dr. Hans Küng, et al
Disarmament
Statement on the Unique Challenge of Nuclear Weapons
Jonathan Granoff
Primary Resource
The Earth Charter
Earth Charter International
Credits

Staff and Advisors

Winter 2018 Global Citizen, Global Spirit

Introduction

Editorial
The Practice of Global Citizenship
Rhonda Fabian
Keynote
We Are All Global Citizens | Seeing Ourselves in the Advancement of All
Joni Carley and Daniel Perell

Articles

Partnership Society
Breaking Out of the Domination Trance
Riane Eisler
Interspirituality
Evolving Toward Cooperation
Kurt Johnson
Diversity
On Edge Work, Migration Flows, and Glocalization
May East
Indigenous
Returning to Indigenous Worldview
Wahinkpe Topa (Four Arrows), aka Donald Trent Jacobs
Governance
Liquid Democracy and the Future of Governance
Andrew Petrisin
New Economy
BOOK | Farming for the Long Haul
Michael Foley
Psychology
Delivering the UN Global Goals | The Consciousness Perspective
Richard Barrett
Commons
The Insurgent Power of the Commons in the War Against the Imagination
David Bollier

Conversations

Consciousness
On Elevating the Human Narrative
Judy Rodgers, Gayatri Naraine, Rhonda Fabian
Refugee Crisis
FILM | LIFEBOAT, Refugees Adrift at Sea
Skye Fitzgerald
Values
For Love of Place | Reflections of an Agrarian Sage
Wendell Berry and Allen White

Essays

Systems
Sacred Diplomacy in the Emerging Ecozoic Era
Merle Lefkoff
Political Identity
Globalism-Nationalism, the New Left-Right
Jordan Pittman
New Economy
The Economics of Solidarity, Spirit, and Soul
Shaun Chamberlin
Pedagogy
Global Citizenship | An Emerging Agenda in Education
Ambassador Choonghee Hahn
Reader's Essay
Caring for the Soul of Humanity
Bruna Kadletz
Reader's Essay
A Pocket Full of Stones
Vivienne Hull

Galleries

Human Displacement
The Most Important Thing
Brian Sokol
Energy
Being and Becoming in a Field of Resonance
Loren Olson

Poetry

Three Poems
Willa Schneberg
An Overcast Morning, I Sit Down To Write
Melanie Green
Almost Bethlehem
Maria Robinson
The Rebel’s Silhouette
Faiz Ahmed Faiz
Razbliuto
Darlene Pagán
Las Vegas
Brandon Marlon

Music

Young Change Agents
Xiuhtezcatl Martinez | Break Free
Kari Auerbach
World Harmony
Playing for Change
Kari Auerbach

Documents

Primary Resource
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Human Rights Commission
Interspirituality
Toward a Global Ethic
Dr. Hans Küng, et al
Disarmament
Statement on the Unique Challenge of Nuclear Weapons
Jonathan Granoff
Primary Resource
The Earth Charter
Earth Charter International
Credits

Staff and Advisors

Fall 2018 All Consuming!

Editorial

The Four Nutriments
Rhonda Fabian

Articles

Keynote
un-pick-apart-able
Nora Bateson
Living Earth
Tending the Wild
Charles Eisenstein
Governance
Making Politics Sacred Again
Glenn Aparicio Parry
Media Literacy
From the Unreal to the Real
World Goodwill
Theology
The Problem with “More”
Mark Longhurst
Worldview
The Galileo Project
David Lorimer
Interbeing
Eager: The Surprising, Secret Life of Beavers and Why They Matter
Ben Goldfarb
Joyfulness
Do We Really Want to Be Happy?
Pamela Boyce Simms

Conversations

Consciousness
The Deschooling Dialogues | Plant Medicine and the Coming Transition
Alnoor Ladha, Daniel Pinchbeck, Rhonda Fabian
Archetypes
Eldering in the Age of Consumption
Sharon Blackie and Stephen Jenkinson
Activism
Water and the Rising Feminine 
Judy Wicks, Pat McCabe, Li An Phoa, Eve Miari
Case Study
A Tale of Two Pipelines
Victoria Price

Essays

Oneness
Unity and the Power of Love
Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee
Nonduality
Between the Inner and Outer Worlds
Michael Gray
Travels
Wind | A Letter to My Daughters
Theodore Richards
Higher Power
Healing the Hunger
Lyla June
Book
The Selling of the Soul
Rick Haltermann
Book
Nourishment
Fred Provenza
Reader's Essay
Are We Addicted to Fear?
Victoria Hanchin
Reader's Essay
What the Wind Taught
JoAnne O'Brien-Levin

Galleries

Waste and Beauty
The Prophecy
Fabrice Monteiro
Forests
Green Medicine
Michael O’Brien

Poetry

Three Poems
Annie Lighthart
Three Poems
John E. Vérin
The Fairy Begs for Bacon
Becca Menon
finals time
Climbing Sun
How Love Builds a Home
Shawn Aveningo Sanders
May Everything Flower
Liliana Torpey

Music

Art Activism
Healing Sound with Jesse Paris Smith
Kari Auerbach
Meditation
Consumption As The Path
Jeff Finlin

In Brief

Essential Reading
Books in Brief
David Lorimer
Anthropocene
Climate News
Victoria Price
Credits

Staff and Advisors

Fall 2018 All Consuming!

Editorial

The Four Nutriments
Rhonda Fabian

Articles

Keynote
un-pick-apart-able
Nora Bateson
Living Earth
Tending the Wild
Charles Eisenstein
Governance
Making Politics Sacred Again
Glenn Aparicio Parry
Media Literacy
From the Unreal to the Real
World Goodwill
Theology
The Problem with “More”
Mark Longhurst
Worldview
The Galileo Project
David Lorimer
Interbeing
Eager: The Surprising, Secret Life of Beavers and Why They Matter
Ben Goldfarb
Joyfulness
Do We Really Want to Be Happy?
Pamela Boyce Simms

Conversations

Consciousness
The Deschooling Dialogues | Plant Medicine and the Coming Transition
Alnoor Ladha, Daniel Pinchbeck, Rhonda Fabian
Archetypes
Eldering in the Age of Consumption
Sharon Blackie and Stephen Jenkinson
Activism
Water and the Rising Feminine 
Judy Wicks, Pat McCabe, Li An Phoa, Eve Miari
Case Study
A Tale of Two Pipelines
Victoria Price

Essays

Oneness
Unity and the Power of Love
Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee
Nonduality
Between the Inner and Outer Worlds
Michael Gray
Travels
Wind | A Letter to My Daughters
Theodore Richards
Higher Power
Healing the Hunger
Lyla June
Book
The Selling of the Soul
Rick Haltermann
Book
Nourishment
Fred Provenza
Reader's Essay
Are We Addicted to Fear?
Victoria Hanchin
Reader's Essay
What the Wind Taught
JoAnne O'Brien-Levin

Galleries

Waste and Beauty
The Prophecy
Fabrice Monteiro
Forests
Green Medicine
Michael O’Brien

Poetry

Three Poems
Annie Lighthart
Three Poems
John E. Vérin
The Fairy Begs for Bacon
Becca Menon
finals time
Climbing Sun
How Love Builds a Home
Shawn Aveningo Sanders
May Everything Flower
Liliana Torpey

Music

Art Activism
Healing Sound with Jesse Paris Smith
Kari Auerbach
Meditation
Consumption As The Path
Jeff Finlin

In Brief

Essential Reading
Books in Brief
David Lorimer
Anthropocene
Climate News
Victoria Price
Credits

Staff and Advisors

KOSMOS Summer Quarterly, 2018

Unlearning Together

Editorial

Unlearning Together
Awake, Awakened, Woke!
By Rhonda Fabian

Articles

Transformation
Unlearning Together
By Martin Winiecki
Social Justice
Change the Worldview, Change the World
By Drew Dellinger
Authenticity
Presence at the Edge of Our Practice
By Helen Titchen Beeth
Sociocracy
Dynamic Governance
By Pamela Boyce Simms
Spiritual Origins
Roots and Evolution of Mindfulness
By Joel and Michelle Levey
First People
Indigenous Worldview Is a Source We Now Urgently Need
By Eva Willmann de Donlea
Life Cycle
The Wanderer’s Preparation in the Death Lodge
By Bill Plotkin

Conversations

Sacred Activism
The Deschooling Dialogues: Grief, Collapse, and Mysticism
By Alnoor Ladha, Martin Kirk, Martin Winiecki, Rhonda Fabian
Consciousness
Social Breakdown and Initiation
By Charles Eisenstein and Orland Bishop
Book Discussion
Forgive: The new practice and mantra for Black Men
By Ulysses 'Butch' Slaughter and Tamara S. Hamilton

Essays

Healing
The Migrant Quilt
By Valarie Lee James
Encountering
The Connection
By Jerrice Baptiste
Encountering
Resilience
By Nathalie Legros
Healing
Healing Into Consciousness
By Mada Dalian
Unlearning
Wealth and Abundance
By Nadia Colburn
Unlearning
Confessions of a Recovering Catholic
By Lauri Ann Lumby
Unlearning
The Habits of Schooling
By Marie Goodwin
Encountering
An Uncommon Song
By Joe Brodnik
Healing
Purposeful Memoir as a Path to Alignment
By Jennifer Browdy

Poetry

Two Poems
By Anne Haven McDonnell
Being Human
By Climbing PoeTree
Three Poems
By Carolyn Martin
Falling
By Larry Robinson
Glide
By Andrea Hollander
The Night I Didn’t Stand Up
By Tricia Knoll

Galleries

absence presence
By Barbara Schaefer
Identity
Humanæ
By Angélica​ ​Dass

Mixed Media

Global Music
Sapient
By Steven Chesne
Meditation
Vessels
By Colors in Motion

Music

World Music
Yorkston/Thorne/Khan
By Kari Auerbach
Credits

Staff and Advisors

KOSMOS Summer Quarterly, 2018

Unlearning Together

Editorial

Unlearning Together
Awake, Awakened, Woke!
By Rhonda Fabian

Articles

Transformation
Unlearning Together
By Martin Winiecki
Social Justice
Change the Worldview, Change the World
By Drew Dellinger
Authenticity
Presence at the Edge of Our Practice
By Helen Titchen Beeth
Sociocracy
Dynamic Governance
By Pamela Boyce Simms
Spiritual Origins
Roots and Evolution of Mindfulness
By Joel and Michelle Levey
First People
Indigenous Worldview Is a Source We Now Urgently Need
By Eva Willmann de Donlea
Life Cycle
The Wanderer’s Preparation in the Death Lodge
By Bill Plotkin

Conversations

Sacred Activism
The Deschooling Dialogues: Grief, Collapse, and Mysticism
By Alnoor Ladha, Martin Kirk, Martin Winiecki, Rhonda Fabian
Consciousness
Social Breakdown and Initiation
By Charles Eisenstein and Orland Bishop
Book Discussion
Forgive: The new practice and mantra for Black Men
By Ulysses 'Butch' Slaughter and Tamara S. Hamilton

Essays

Healing
The Migrant Quilt
By Valarie Lee James
Encountering
The Connection
By Jerrice Baptiste
Encountering
Resilience
By Nathalie Legros
Healing
Healing Into Consciousness
By Mada Dalian
Unlearning
Wealth and Abundance
By Nadia Colburn
Unlearning
Confessions of a Recovering Catholic
By Lauri Ann Lumby
Unlearning
The Habits of Schooling
By Marie Goodwin
Encountering
An Uncommon Song
By Joe Brodnik
Healing
Purposeful Memoir as a Path to Alignment
By Jennifer Browdy

Poetry

Two Poems
By Anne Haven McDonnell
Being Human
By Climbing PoeTree
Three Poems
By Carolyn Martin
Falling
By Larry Robinson
Glide
By Andrea Hollander
The Night I Didn’t Stand Up
By Tricia Knoll

Galleries

absence presence
By Barbara Schaefer
Identity
Humanæ
By Angélica​ ​Dass

Mixed Media

Global Music
Sapient
By Steven Chesne
Meditation
Vessels
By Colors in Motion

Music

World Music
Yorkston/Thorne/Khan
By Kari Auerbach