Spring-Summer 2017

Conscious Activism In this IssueSilence is Not an Option - by Nancy B. RoofDealing With the Darkness of What Humans Do to Humans - by Scilla Elworthy, PhDNew Approaches to Healing Collective Conflict and Trauma: Our Responsibility as Global Citizens* - by William UryThomas Hübl’s The Pocket Project: Facilitating the Integration of Collective Trauma - by Julie Jordan AvrittRestoring Humane…

Restoring Humane Values through Activism

In 2012, I went to the Sahara Desert seeking a spiritual experience. In my wild imagination, the emptiness of the desert would transplant me to a transcendental plane beyond my limited self. Clearly, it never happened. At least, not in the way I had imagined. The experience I was seeking came in the most mundane and unusual way—in the midst of a local hammam in Fez, Morocco. Back then, I…

Thomas Hübl’s The Pocket Project: Facilitating the Integration of Collective Trauma

Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation… ~ Exodus 20:5 They transmitted only the wound to their children, to whom the memory had been refused. ~ Nadine Fresco Imagine for a moment a couple, perhaps one you once knew intimately. They’re just…

Spiritual Activism, Together

Deconstructing Assumptions When I say ‘activism,’ it almost certainly brings a particular picture to mind. Perhaps it’s people peacefully assembled with picket signs; maybe it’s masked members of a protest movement throwing rocks at cops; or maybe it’s making a monthly donation to an organization that does wonderful work. How many of you think of a monk meditating on a mountaintop? How about a…

gallery two | Resistance and Protests

Overpass Light Brigade. photography | joe brusky, ccpl Vets stream into Standing Rock. photography | joe brusky, ccpl Ferguson protest for shooting unarmed Michael Brown expanded nationwide. Portland, Oregon. photography | sarah mirk, cc Black Lives Matter. photography | ella, flickr, cc2…

Pilgrimage: A Path of Practice for the New Activism

It was a long day on El Camino, The Way of Saint James, the famed thousand-year old pilgrimage route across the north of Spain. I set out at daybreak and now the sun was setting low on the dusty hills. As I rounded the final bend of the day, my backpack and boots heavy, feeling leaden, a local man walking his dog greeted me from the far side of the field, ‘Ultreia!’ he said, ‘Ultreia!’1…

gallery three | Engaging Through Beauty

My Aqueous work, color and ink underwater, started out as a personal project in 2005. At that time, I was a fashion and portrait photographer and it was originally just a bit of fun during some downtime. The images were so nice and so well received that I decided to do another series about a year later. With the help of the Internet, it all went crazy, and since then I have become known for doing…

The Spiritual Foundations of Activism in the World Today

Nila shares Kosmos Journal with her spiritual group. If the urge to satisfy desire is the basic urge of the form life of men, the urge to serve is an equally basic urge of the soul of man. ~ D.K. Twelve years ago, a package arrived to my home in Bolivia. A dear friend from New York sent me a gift: various editions of Kosmos Journal. I don’t think she knew what this really meant to me. From…

Claudia Welss

Claudia’s projects are at the nexus of consciousness, technology, human-earth energetics, and large-scale social change. She’s board Chair for the Institute of Noetic Sciences and advises the IONS Innovation Lab, is on the steering committee of the Global Coherence Initiative, and is cofounder and Chair of the Invest in Yourself program at Nexus Global Youth Summit and Network, building the…

An Interview with Sister Miriam Therese MacGillis at Genesis Farm

If the dynamics of the universe from the beginning shaped the course of the heavens, lighted the sun, and formed the earth, if this same dynamism brought forth the continents and seas and atmosphere, if it awakened life in the primordial cell and then brought into being the unnumbered variety of living beings, and finally brought us into being and guided us safely through the turbulent centuries,…