Our Next Collective Awakening
June 12, 2018 Kosmos Community News
Dear Friends,
I encountered this quote and it reminded me of Kosmos and our founder, Nancy Roof.
It’s been a tradition to share Nancy Roof’s editorial prior to publication of the Journal. To me, she and Kosmos embody ‘wakeful’ publishing. Nancy’s insight- that we must transform our worldview, not just ‘fix’ our existing one- is at the heart of the Kosmos mission. Now it is my turn to share the editorial and I feel humbled to do so. I wrote about collective awakening and this quote turned up unexpectedly afterwards. I’m grateful for the synchronicity!
In just a few days, Kosmos Quarterly will be here. It reflects the loving work of many hands. Subscribers will receive an email when it is ready. Many of you know, we offer the Quarterly ‘in the gift’- you pay the right price for you, from $0 to $60. In case you are wondering how that is working out, I’m happy to say that the median subscription so far is $30, our standard subscription fee! This has been a lesson for all of us at Kosmos in letting go of fear and trusting our community. It teaches us that more just ways of exchange are possible.
We had a ‘malicious code’ attack on our website, so it has not been possible to subscribe for a few days. That is fixed! Please subscribe here. If you have any further problem at all, please contact me at rfabian@kosmosjournal.org.
Small setbacks do not discourage us. We know that together, transformation is possible!
In the Light | Kosmos Advising Editor, Tamara Hamilton
On Unlearning…
“What do we need to unlearn– about people, about reconciliation, about what we think we know for sure? Unlearning is a pilgrimage into our own inner landscape to see where we might need to prune our assumptions and clear a less treacherous path through this complex time. What might we unlearn in community, in communication and in solidarity with others? This idea is very fluid, but also holds the potential to shift mindsets and to open new vistas.” – Tamara Hamilton
Tamara Smiley Hamilton MA, is a professional speaker dedicated to giving voice to the voiceless. She is the CEO of Audacious Coaching LLC and facilitates workplace conversations on conflict, race and implicit bias.
Tamara has taught courses in race relations at Loyola Marymount University and served as assistant dean of students at Occidental College. From 1985-91, she lived with her family in the Rhineland Phalz region of Germany to experience life as an immigrant. That experience helped shape her as a citizen of the world, a dream her father espoused since the day she was born in segregated Montgomery, Alabama.
A lifelong learner, she is a graduate of Scripps College, Howard University and the University of Southern California. In 2017, she returned to higher education to study race, conflict and peace at the School for Conflict Analysis and Resolution at George Mason University. She is the 2017 recipient of the James H. Laue Scholarship Endowment in recognition of her contributions to human and civil rights.
Her coming of age story, Diary of a Watts Princess: A Memoir of Hopes and Dreams, is published in Kosmos Journal. And her recent podcast with Valerie Brown is linked below.
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.
Hosted by Tamara Hamilton
“Very often a pilgrimage is referred to as a thin place. A thin place, meaning that the distance between the material world and the spiritual world is very narrow, so the Camino de Santiago is the quintessential thin place. When one walks that pilgrimage, you just feel the spirit of a thousand years of people who have also walked that path, and that’s a very, very powerful experience.” – Valerie Brown