Community as Refuge and Path
November 13, 2018 Kosmos Community News
Dear Reader,
It will be remembered as a great irony that when we needed each other more than ever, our societies grew more divided. We long for answers to the world’s thorniest dilemmas and pray that this aching in our hearts will lead us to healing and change. Yet we see the rising tide of intolerance and indifference…and we wonder. Is it too late?
That is why community is so very important. We take refuge in beloved community so we can recharge and return to our vital work as activists, writers, caregivers, teachers, parents, mediators, leaders and servers of all kinds. Because whatever our gifts, whatever our privilege – these are urgently needed now in service to our collective future. Community is thus the path itself, community is the way forward. We hope you find refuge and strength in your communities and we feel so grateful to know you are part of the Kosmos community as well.
For nearly 20 years, without revenue from advertising, Nancy Roof and Kosmos have been beacons of transformational thinking, inspiring action, and hopeful spirit. Help us continue and expand the mission of Kosmos – transformation in harmony with all Life. In these troubling times, we are entering uncharted waters. And yes, we need you more than ever.
In the Light | Nancy Roof Named a Findhorn Fellow
We are thrilled to report that Kosmos founder and Editor Emeritus Nancy Roof has been invited by the Findhorn Foundation to serve as a Findhorn Fellow.
Findhorn Foundation is a Scottish charitable trust formed by the spiritual community at the Findhorn Ecovillage, one of the largest intentional communities in Britain. It has been home to thousands of residents from more than 40 countries and has been awarded UN Habitat Best Practice designation from the United Nations Centre for Human Settlements (HABITAT). They share their learning and way of life in experiential workshops, conferences and events that take place within their thriving community and ecovillage.
From the invitation:
“During recent years at the Findhorn Foundation, we have been fortunate to host a number of ‘transformation-oriented’ activists who have called our attention anew to the global context of the community’s continuing work, and particularly to the global situation which makes that work meaningful as a kind of ‘constructive counter example’. To formalise and deepen our association with such activists, to further our own contribution to ‘planetary transformation’ and nourish the community in the process, we have created the Findhorn Foundation Fellowship.”
As a Findhorn Fellow, Nancy will have the opportunity to coordinate in numerous ways with other Fellows whose work in the world is clearly aligned with the ‘person/planet’ transformational goals of the community. Nancy in Kosmos.
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FREE BOOK | The Divine Child
November 20 is Universal Children’s Day
The Divine Child is a collection of childhood experiences and interviews from children around the world that demonstrate their innate wisdom.
From the author, Dr. Emma Farr Rawlings:
“It is my hope that you will learn from my personal experience and from reading the children’s interviews from around the world that children are bright, creative, spiritual beings from birth, and have a knowing about the world. They are open spiritually and carry the magic of wonder from a very young age.
What I find particularly fascinating is the consistency in children’s answers from interviews conducted over five decades ago to interviews conducted in the present day. I hope that this book will raise awareness about the innate knowing that children possess so that we as a civilization might begin to care, honor, and cherish our dear children on this Earth in ways that they deserve.”
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80 Years Since the Holocaust Began: Can We Stop Fascism Today?
By Martin Winiecki, via Common Dreams
“Since the Brazilian election on October 28, Bolsonaro and his followers haven’t wasted any time. The day after the election, his militant supporters begun publicly denouncing leftist leaders and artists as “enemies of the people,” military police raided schools and universities for antifascist material and Indigenous groups in the Amazon were attacked and torched.”
By Victoria Price
In Kosmos Quarterly
Two Communities Stand Up for Pipeline Safety
“I’ve realized that, as a pretty well-educated, privileged person, I need to use my resources and skills more wisely and become more aware of how my actions and choices affect the ecosystem I’m a part of. When I started to see what was happening with Standing Rock in South Dakota in 2016, that was a wake-up call. I began to consider the safety risks associated with pipelines and the environmental destruction and water contamination that was happening near me in the Philadelphia suburbs with the Mariner East II. That was how the responsibility started to awaken in me.” – Mallory Rose Spencer