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Worldview
The Web of Meaning
By Jeremy Lent and Nicholas Joyce
Jeremy Lent | What I call animate intelligence, and Earth wisdom, is a very similar take on the same thing, which is this recognition that life itself has spent billions of years here on Earth, evolving…
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Consciousness
Emerging Renaissance | The Art and Wisdom of Leigh J McCloskey
By Leigh J McCloskey
A new world mind is growing, like so many blades of grass through the concrete of human tyrannies old and new. The post 9-11 world is proving that it cannot solve its problems and so…
Emerging Renaissance | The Art and Wisdom of Leigh J McCloskey
A new world mind is growing, like so many blades of grass through the concrete of human tyrannies old and new. The post 9-11 world is proving that it cannot solve its problems and so we must begin to plant seeds of creative possibility for future generations.
Kosmos Quarterly Summer 2021
“To believe is to reflect, to know is to penetrate” -Robert Fludd
Introduction Keynote
Indigenous to Life
By Daniel Christian Wahl
The central lesson of many Earth wisdom traditions is about alignment with life as a process, living in right relationship and letting life’s regenerative patterns…
Jahnavi Pandya
Jahnavi Pandya is a Psychologist with a specialization in counseling and holds the National Eligibility Test Qualification for Assistant Professorship by University Grants Commission, Ministry of Education, India.
She has been a national award-winning archer, singer, musician, composer, YouTuber, and social worker. She was awarded the ‘Nari Ratna’ (Jewel among Women) by Gujarat Chief…
Thomas Lane
Growing up in Connecticut, Thomas Lane was drawn to spaces where street, sky, and spirit intersect. His art takes many forms: a CD of his songs (Hotel Earth), a nonfiction book (The Artists’ Manifesto) and poetry. He has also written a spiritual thriller (The Karma Factor), optioned by Hollywood. It is currently being adapted for a feature film.
Thomas is the Founder/President of a 501c3 that…
Lory Widmer Hess
Lory Widmer Hess is a writer, editor, English language teacher, and passionate reader who blogs about life, language, and literature at Entering the Enchanted Castle (enterenchanted.com). She considers her work with adults with developmental disabilities to have been her greatest learning experience. She currently lives with her family in Switzerland.
Stephanie Krzywonos
Stephanie is a Mexican-American writer who has spent six austral summers and one polar winter living and working among glaciers in Antarctica. She holds a degree in Philosophy and is currently a student of contemplative mysticism at the Center for Action and Contemplation in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Her essays on Antarctica have appeared in The Dark Mountain Project, Behemoth Magazine, and The…
Leigh J McCloskey
Leigh J McCloskey is a modern Renaissance man; he is an artist, author, well-known actor and visual philosopher. His highly creative life has been devoted to exploring the symbolical, archetypal and hidden aspects of the psyche and inner self through his art, scholarship, books and experiences as a professional actor for many years. He has hosted weekly discussion groups in his home, Olandar, for…
Kiley Arroyo
Established in 2007, the Cultural Strategies Council (CSC) is a vehicle for interdisciplinary research, collaborative learning, and justice-led systems transformation. Our primary expertise lies in supporting equitable cross-sector and cross-cultural collaboration on complex global issues.
This work is rooted in an intercultural understanding of how complex systems adapt, drawing upon Western…


