Kali Takes the World: Dark Night of the World Soul
By Vera de Chalambert
Kosmos Journal, FALL | WINTER 2017
"The Mother sees she is losing the battle for the world. “Not on my watch,” she roars. And, in the last hour from her third eye, the deepest, darkest, most terrifying form of the feminine rises, and that is Kali."
Liminal Leadership
By Nora Bateson
Kosmos Journal, FALL | WINTER 2017
"Most of what matters now won’t matter later. Coming generations will shake their heads at the sacrifices their ancestors made for material wealth. They will not care how much prestige you gathered, how many bitcoins you bought, who considered you famous, or even what widget or vaccination you invented. If humanity makes it to the next…
Kosmos Journal | the Five Most-Read Articles of 2017
Dear Reader,
Reflecting on this year's five most popular articles from Kosmos Journal, what common thread connects this grouping and the year 2017? What emerged for me was the theme of healing. Where our bonds with other beings and the Earth have been broken, our need for deep, restorative mending is very great.
Collective Healing, Culture Design, Species Awareness, Transformational…
ESSAY | Through the Dark Night
By Marisa Handler via Transformation
Inside ourselves and in the world at large, more darkness brings more light rising in response.
In Buddhism, the lotus flower is often used as a metaphor for awakening, with its roots in the mud and its blossom exquisite. A fully bloomed lotus represents enlightenment, the bud everything that comes before. At first, the bud is tight, solid, a single dense…
Preparing for Profound Change | Four Key Lessons from the Podcast Series
By Rhonda Fabian and Victoria Price
In Kosmos Journal, FALL | WINTER 2017
The Kosmos Live podcast series “Preparing for Profound Change” is a continuing effort to gather wisdom to help us cope with what lies ahead. We have turned to trusted friends for insight and guidance. How did we get here and what is happening now? What can we do to brace ourselves and our families for the impacts to…
The Beautiful Question | Deep Roots
By Scott Lennox, transcribed from his podcast.
It’s been said that good questions naturally lead to better answers. And that it’s in not knowing that we find the doorway to knowing.
Our subject today, staying rooted and well-grounded in challenging times. I’ll begin by sharing a poem that I wrote over a decade and a half ago.
In the Live Oaks
After twenty years of watching from the…
Dark Night of the Soul
Dear Reader,
The days are short and cold here as we await the return of the light. When I tune into the news, or social media, I can't help but wonder if the whole world hasn't entered a 'dark night', a crisis of the soul. And if true, in such uncertain times, how do we keep hope alive? What purpose or lessons might this dim passage in our collective story hold for us?
The other day, a…
The Deeper Meaning of the Dark Night of the Soul
By Peter Holleran, via his website
This is an edited version of the longer essay, found here.
When your grief transcends all bounds, it becomes its own cure. - Ghalib
St. John of the Cross was described by Thomas Merton as “the greatest of all mystical theologians", and his writing stands at the pinnacle of the Christian esoteric tradition. The Dark Night of the Soul, his best-known work, is…
Savage Grace: Living Resiliently In The Dark Night Of The Globe
By Andrew Harvey and Carolyn Baker
- from the Introduction to Savage Grace: Living Resiliently In The Dark Night Of The Globe
Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack…
REVIEW | The Inner Life of Animals: Love, Grief and Compassion
The Inner Life of Animals: Love, Grief and Compassion—Surprising Observations of a Hidden World by Peter Wohlleben
Greystone Books, ISBN: 978-1-77164-301-6, 277 pages
by Julie Morley, for Kosmos Online
Our increasingly disenchanted world with its looming dystopian scenarios makes German forest ranger Peter Wohlleben’s series of enchanted naturalist tales a welcome palliative respite. In…