Imago Integralis: The Aesthetics of Integral Life
By Alexander Schieffer
In the Current Edition of Kosmos Journal
This article introduces a new integral perspective on life and provides clues of what it might mean to live life as a contribution to the cultural renewal, aesthetic unfolding, and holistic development of self and society, community and institutions, people and planet.
It is rooted in over a decade of developing,…
Monument to Forgiveness | A Soul’s Invitation to All Our Ancestors
By Francis Jansen
Kosmos Journal, FALL | WINTER 2016
As a Dutch-born immigrant and artist, one of my Spirit-driven endeavors is to acknowledge the perpetration of violence by my forefathers, other Europeans, and non-Native ancestors through the inspired visionary sculpture that I call the Monument to Forgiveness. The image of the Monument and the messages engraved on its base are a…
Tulsa Family Enables Kosmos to Give an Extra Seed Grant – One Year Later
Last year at this time, we were so thrilled when the Bailey J & Kellner Siegfried family contacted us with amazing news. They had learned that Kosmos awards Seed Grants of $2500 each year to people and organizations working at the glowing edge of transformation. They wanted to offer an entire Seed Grant on behalf of their family! Their generosity enabled us to give an extra Seed Grant last…
Kosmos Seed Notecards | Our Gift when You Support Our Grant-giving Campaign
Every year Kosmos gives grants of $2500 to individuals and organizations working at the edge of transformation. People have asked how to help! We created a Seed Grant Campaign for those who wish to get involved and we wanted to offer a gift for anyone who donates $30 or more to make more Seed Grants possible this year.
We created a set of five Seed Notecards. Each simple unfolded card is…
Kosmos Community News | January 2017
Dear Community.
Welcome to a fresh New Year and a growing Kosmos Community! Here's what you need to know about your community for the month of January:
A VERY SPECIAL GIFT
Ken Wilber, Integral Theorist and writer on transpersonal psychology, has written and shared with us, a 90-page paper titled Trump and a Post-Truth World: An Evolutionary Self-Correction. We are sharing this unpublished…
America’s Dirtiest Secret: How to Take Your Power Back
By Erik Fogg
Kosmos Journal, FALL | WINTER 2016
I’ve got a dirty secret that almost nobody in America knows. You see, Americans have this very popular notion that we can’t agree on anything politically. It’s so pervasive that to suggest otherwise seems like a bit of a fairy tale. Americans of each party look upon the other with ever-increasing antipathy—so much so that almost a third of…
Millennials and the Shifting Political Climate: A Chance for Libertarianism to Emerge
The 2016 presidential election has been a disaster for young people.
Between the dishonest pandering of Hillary Clinton and the perceived boorishness of Donald Trump, many millennials are stuck in no man's land.
But the future of politics may not be as bleak as it seems. Libertarian views will likely shape the ideologies of tomorrow, and as this shift occurs, millennials will become…
Finding Political Understanding with a Single Question
By Sean Long
Kosmos Journal, FALL | WINTER 2016
Disruption. Innovation. Disruptive innovation.
These oft-cited drivers of sustained and meaningful change will not lead Americans to a better democracy. We do not need to call upon an external agent, an ‘Uber for American politics,’ to save us. Rather, we need to take it upon ourselves to be better communicators. It starts with asking a…
Polarized America. Polarized Self: A Call for Collaboration
By Rebecca Mendoza Nunziato
Kosmos Journal, FALL | WINTER 2016
I live in a polarized body. My very being is compromised by competing characteristics. Mexican-American heritage–bilingual, bicultural. College-educated millennial on need-based scholarship. Latina social justice leader in white evangelical conservative communities. Independent voter in hyperpartisan America. I have no tribe…
Activism in the New Climate | Kosmos Panelists Share Insights
Kosmos offered a live online panel event for the Kosmos Community on January 10 2017. History-making activists from three countries and wide experience joined to discuss the outlook for activism in 2017. How does the new political climate, as well as the increasing pressures of climate chaos and exploitative and extractive practices, impact the attitudes and tactics of changemakers in the times…