Our Intuitive Capacity for Deep Collaboration
Twenty-four of us are crammed into the kitchen, trying not to tread on each others’ toes. We have a box of vegetables dug fresh from the allotments at Cloughjordan Ecovillage, County Tipperary, Ireland. Our task, should we choose to accept it, is to feed ourselves using only these veg and the utensils in our host Stephen’s kitchen. Stephen lives alone; his pans are not huge!
Brian volunteers a…
Who Do We Choose To Be?
Opening Chapter - Who Do We Choose to Be?
Let your wisdom as a human being
connect with the power
of things as they are.
~ Chögyam Trungpa, Buddhist teacher
An Invitation to the Nobility of Leadership
It is possible, in this time of profound disruption, for leadership to be a noble profession that contributes to the common good. It is possible, as we face the fearful complexity of…
We Are Bio-Cosmic Beings Learning to Live in a Living Universe1
By Duane Elgin
“We are pilgrims together, wending through unknown country, home.”
~ Father Giovanni (1513)
Humanity’s Most Urgent Challenge
Evening sun in the Andes, Chile | photography ©Yuri Beletsky
For at least 50,000 years, humanity has been on a journey of separation—pulling back from nature and becoming ever more differentiated, individuated, and empowered. In recent decades, we have become so…
Victoria Price
Victoria Price is associate editor of Kosmos Journal. She has a bachelor's degree in sociology from Tufts University with a concentration in globalization, transnationalism, and immigration. She is co-author of the chapter "Social-Emotional Competence: Vital to Cultivating Mindful Global Citizenship in Higher Education" in the book Engaging Dissonance.
Special Preview | Kosmos Journal, Fall/Winter Edition 2017
Dear Reader,
How do we look at the world with clear eyes and live most authentically? There are no quick fixes for the kind of brokenness many are feeling. A crazed sniper, raging fires, cities leveled by war, or flooded by climate chaos - the atmosphere feels thick and it's hard sometimes to catch our breath. Yet breathe we must, and lean in to the winds of change. An inner practice is…
Excerpt | Who Do We Choose to Be?
By Margaret Wheatley, in Kosmos Journal, FALL | WINTER 2017
This needs to be stated clearly at the outset: we can no longer solve the global problems of this time at large-scale levels: poverty, economics, climate change, violence, dehumanization. Even though the solutions have been available for a very long time, they require conditions to implement them that are not available: political…
Editorial by Nancy Roof
by Nancy Roof, in the upcoming edition of Kosmos Journal
Many of us are confused, angry, fearful, grieving, insecure. We watch in disbelief as our world begins to crumble—torrential rains, tornado winds, mass shootings, threat of nuclear annihilation, breakdown of civil discourse, drug addiction, fake news, economic inequality, paralyzed government, deniers of climate change, a broken justice…
Excerpt | The Soul of Humanity and the New Civilization
by Nancy Seifer, in Kosmos Journal FALL | WINTER 2017
The things we now esteem fixed shall, one by one, detach themselves like ripe fruit from our experience and fall... The soul looketh steadily forwards, creating a world before her, leaving worlds behind her. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
In the Ageless Wisdom teachings, one of the names given to the soul is the Observer. It is the aspect of…
Excerpt | Liminal Leadership
By Nora Bateson, in Kosmos Journal, FALL | WINTER 2017
Whatever leadership used to be—it used to be. Now, it has to be something different. Now, we all have to be more than we were.
Leadership models come in many flavors. Strategic leadership, leadership from behind, organizational, innovative, creative leadership, collective leadership, transformational leadership, cross-cultural…
Excerpt | The Soul of Education
by Rachael Kessler, in Kosmos Journal FALL | WINTER 2017
"In the United States, we have had a series of ‘prevention wars’ on drugs, teen pregnancy, youth suicide, and violence (Shriver & Weissberg, 1996). But the spiritual void—the emptiness, meaningless, and disconnection many students feel—is a root cause long left out of the analysis and the cure. Only recently, and particularly after…