Spring | Summer 2017 Digital Edition
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An Interview with Deepak Chopra: You Are the Universe
Claudia Welss: Welcome, Dr. Chopra. As you know, I’m with the Institute of Noetic Sciences, and we have for many years been investigating the idea that consciousness is primary and causal in the universe, as well as in our personal and shared realities.
That’s had us a bit on the scientific fringe because so much of mainstream science still excludes consciousness. Your new book is pivotal…
Special Preview | Kosmos Journal 2017 Spring/Summer Edition
Dear Reader,
In just a couple weeks, our Subscribers will be enjoying the 2017 Spring | Summer edition of Kosmos Journal. This is always a joyful time for us. Nancy Roof, along with the Kosmos team, works so diligently to create an offering of wisdom, depth and aesthetic beauty. If you have held a copy of the journal in your hands, you know this.
The new edition asks us to reexamine our…
Excerpt | Reflections on Our Pilgrimage Into Society
by Gabriele Castagnoli and Sesto Giovanni Castagnoli
In February 2016, we started out on a pilgrimage—one with no time limit. Beforehand, we had given away all our possessions except the contents of our two rucksacks. The wish to do so came up when we were planning our first pilgrimage from October to December 2015 from our home in Switzerland to the World Climate Conference in Paris.
There’s…
Excerpt | Returning Home to Our Place in the Cosmos
by Mark Phillips
The first time I wept for the Earth I was alone in the woods in late summer after a long run. It was, I believe, the combination of runner’s high, a sense of connection to the beautiful natural setting, and the culmination of several months’ personal awakening to the gravity of our ecological crises. I just stood there with my hands on my knees, crying in shock. It was a rare…
Excerpt | An Interview with Deepak Chopra: You Are the Universe
by Claudia Welss and Deepak Chopra
Welss: Would you please address what visionary quantum pioneer Wolfgang Pauli meant when he said, “The science of the future reality will neither be psychic nor physical, but somehow both and somehow neither.” And, if it fits with your response, please say more about what you mean when you say in the book that the universe is actually a mirror of the human…
Excerpt | Spiritual Activism, Together
by Nicholas Joyce
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…
Excerpt | Walking Into Sacred Spaces of the Wild
by Eleanor O’Hanlon
These bonds between male elephants can be astonishingly tactile and affectionate. In Namibia a few years ago, I saw two young male desert elephants break off a bout of sparring to make a ritual greeting to a much larger and older male. They caressed his forehead, his jaw, and the top of his head with their trunks, then leaned into him to lay their trunks across his…
Excerpt | New Approaches to Healing Collective Conflict and Trauma: Our Responsibility as Global Citizens
by William Ury and Thomas Hübl
Ury: Many years ago, I was facilitating (very quietly and confidentially) a conversation between Turkish and Kurdish leaders about a war that had been going on for decades. Thousands of villages had been devastated by this conflict. It was hard for some of the people to even sit in the same room together. A retired Turkish admiral stood up and said, “As a member of…
Activism from an Undivided Mind
4Q8L Map - from Don Beck & Ken Wilber
What is a healthy approach to activism in the 21st century? Does my activism “resist” the expressions by President Trump and others that I deem to be unhealthy for myself, my family, my country and the planet? From the lens of Spiral Dynamics integral (SDi), a person’s activism (defined as “vigorous actions to pursue a social or political end”) are…