EcoActivism

If scientists are correct about climate change, industrial civilization as we’ve known it for several generations will have to morph into something more sustainable, but if history is any indication, such transformations come with hellish transition periods, where the old guard clings to the familiar while battling the avant-garde for supremacy. Thus, evolution staggers forward, convulsed by…

The Future of Leadership in Politics and Business… and Life

Our prevailing, patriarchal worldview of hierarchal “leadership” has reached its limits and is coming apart. This is the chaos that we see and feel. The Organization Man (W. H. Whyte, Jr., 1956) described this paradigm of a transactional mindset focused on compliance and conformity, competition and domination, with people used as objects for gratification of wealth and power. We are awakening…

How to be Fearless (and even Happy) in Frightening Times

For decades I’ve worked to shift the world toward peace and environmental harmony. It’s uphill work, and this past year I’ve seen the biggest setbacks yet. So, I created what I needed: a list of strategies for overcoming compassion-resistance fatigue. 1. Be thankful. That you are here on the planet at this time, that this challenge has been given you. My mother used to say that God won’t give…

Is life as we know it just an amazing accident?

Is life as we know it just an amazing accident or is there are greater, intentional design behind it all? Listening to the birds in my garden and sensing all the vibrant livingness of the natural world in its rich, cyclic patterns, it seems as though a greater Life is breathing through all our little momentary doings. On a busy city street, life can appear to operate in a series of…

Coming American Spring

Our unavoidable entanglement with our culture of isolation, division and violence is so deep that to attempt to extricate ourselves from it is emotionally painful and terrifying. By not talking about our feelings and by endless distracted attention to external things, we keep ourselves numb to the fear and depression that lingers just below our superficial emotions. The greatest challenge for…

ARCHITECTURE, ALCHEMY AND GLOBAL TRANSFORMATION

Does architecture have a transformative component to it that can not only impact our lives in meaningful ways but act as a catalyst in global transformation? The answer is most definitely, yes! The architect Louis Kahn known for his metaphysical ideas about space said good architects are “form-givers”, meaning that architects can tap into the livingness of the materials, geometry and order to…

gallery two | Silence | Shape

These photographic artworks present themselves as natural landscapes in which we see ‘exploded’ and spreading coloured smoke, jarring both thematically and visually with the context and the setting. The noise of the world fades, urging us to consider that while we are immersed in deafening shouts and obsessive information around the clock, a mysterious pink smoke that explodes without sound in a…

KOSMOS LIVE Podcast | Deepak Chopra on Conscious Evolution

KOSMOS LIVE PODCAST SERIES Preparing for Profound Change This podcast series, Preparing for Profound Change, explores the shifting global landscape and offers strategies for coping with what lies ahead. Economic turmoil, climate chaos, political upheaval – these may seem like forces to fear, but in fact offer us deep opportunities for transformation. Episode 8 – Deepak Chopra on Conscious…

Prayer | The Consecrated Hour

Do you not see them the ashen ones, the grey ones the starving orphans, the seduced innocents, the decimated specters of conflagration, all the beings trampled in degradation crowding our collective shadow field? Go find them. In this, this consecrated hour of human becoming find your estranged, your lost and abandoned family and embrace them into the vital marrow of your life. Kiss…