Collective Awakening | ‘Aliveness’
How can we hasten our collective awakening and begin reversing the great harms done to our planet and its beings? Such an awakening requires transformation in ourselves, our communities, institutions and systems. This is the work of Kosmos, yet always begins with the Self. It begins when the superficial, material things that mattered before, start to lose their luster and when the habit energies…
Kosmos Quarterly | Now offered ‘in the Gift’. Pay $0-$60 – it’s up to you!
Wonderful news! We have decided to offer the new Kosmos Journal Quarterly 'in the gift' - that is, on a sliding scale that reflects your ability to pay and to decide what Kosmos means to you. It is now possible to subscribe at the standard rate of $30, pay a little less, or a little more, 'pay-it-forward' for someone who is unable to purchase a subscription, and even to receive the Quarterly as a…
INTERVIEW | Andreas Weber on ‘Matter and Desire’
by Rhonda Fabian
KOSMOS | So many times reading your book Matter and Desire: An Erotic Ecology, I'm reminded how nature speaks to us in every moment in a language both familiar and forgotten. How do you think nature is speaking to us in these troubled times?
WEBER | First, thanks for getting me so nicely. I really feel you nail what I want to say when you say it's language familiar and…
Encountering Beauty
The mountains are my bones, the rivers my veins.
The forests are my thoughts and the stars are my dreams.
The ocean is my heart, it’s pounding is my pulse.
The songs of the earth write the music of my soul.
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Aesthetic beauty is fundamental to human experience: a sunrise, a flower, the countenance of the beloved... However, beauty does not originate in such objects. Nor does it…
GALLERY | Wild and Beautiful Nature
Artist Statement
My daily work is a mix between creating visual effects and photographing nature. The two things are seemingly at odds and yet I find them to be a wonderful balance. Visual effects is about bringing someone's imagination to life, quite often creating things that are straight out of a dream. By definition, we are trying to create that which does not exist. For me, photographing…
Encountering A Flight of Birds
by Scott Lennox
A flight of birds, egrets, whiter than ice,
crossing a line of dark clouds.
Nothing more, but certainly nothing less.
A single glance, and I am lifted up.
Another time, I would have looked for some grand meaning,
a hidden design.
Today, seeing them is enough.
Un vuelo de los aves, garzas, más blanco que el hielo,
cruze de una línea de nubes oscuras.
Nada más, pero…
David Fleming, on ‘Encounter’
Extract from the late David Fleming’s Lean Logic: A Dictionary for the Future and How to Survive It chosen for Kosmos by the book’s editor Shaun Chamberlin
David Fleming
ENCOUNTER: The act of recognising something—a person, a practice, a system—on its own terms. The particular character and wholeness of the other is acknowledged. Encounter knows the limits to its understanding;…
Steven Chesne
Steven Chesne’s career has spanned symphonic, historical, and world music, as well as music for film and television.
Chesne has composed the scores for over 300 episodes of prime-time, network shows including “Batman: the Animated Series,” “Family Man,” “Family Matters,” “Getting By,” “Girls Across the Lake,” “Hangin’ with Mr. Cooper,” “The Hogan Family,” “Kirk,” “Life Happens,” “Perfect…
Standing in Paradox | Grief and Action
One of the great joys at Kosmos is the opportunity for deep connection with passionate, engaged lightworkers, those in service to a more-loving world. A question we sometimes ask is, ‘where is the edge for you in your practice at this moment?’ And that edge, it seems, is often somewhere on the border between clear-eyed awareness of the magnitude of converging crises we face, and an almost…
Youth Activists Who Are Changing the World
by Julia Pimentel, via complex.com
Excerpted from, 15 Young Activists Who Are Changing the World
When we hear of examples of the great activists of the world, whether that’s Martin Luther King Jr. or Mother Teresa, they can sound otherworldly. Their contributions to society were great, but they are venerated in a way that strips them of their humanity and makes us feel like we’ll never be able…