Philoxenia: The Art of Expressing Love and Friendship to Strangers

Disguised as poor travellers, Zeus and Hermes visited many villages in search of refuge for the night. Residents repeatedly turned the gods away. Everyone regarded them as uninvited guests except a poor elderly couple—Baucis and Philemon. The couple welcomed them as guests in their home and generously served them food and wine. After refilling her guests’ cups many times over, Baucis noticed that…

New Paradigm Medicine

“You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.” – Richard Buckminster Fuller In the 20th century, medicine developed in an environment of infectious disease, the most common ailments of the day. Mankind made significant progress against eradicating these diseases, from battlefield scars that would turn…

Evolution of Kosmos

A recent question really got me thinking. Since 2001, Kosmos’ integral, evolutionary approach has informed, inspired, and engaged personal, institutional, and global transformation. How has the direction changed during those 16 years? As I contemplated this question, I realized that our long-term vision has not changed over all these years. What has changed is how different aspects of the…

An Integral Worldview

In 2011, while studying for a master’s degree in Integral Theory at John F. Kennedy University, I started researching businesses and organizations with an integral approach, and that’s when I found this amazing journal. As I read through the pages filled with powerful images and new meanings, I felt hopeful that humanity was already in a process towards a more integral view of the world, of our…

The Power of Wetiko: Looking in the Mirror to Solve the Global Crisis

In the last edition of Kosmos Journal, my brother-in-arms and I wrote about the Algonquin concept of wetiko.1 It was part of a campaign we were preparing at /TheRules2 to introduce the idea to a wider audience, a campaign that Kosmos has been graciously supporting by publishing that original article, then a wetiko themed newsletter, and now this piece. The idea behind the campaign was to offer…

Rama Mani

Dr. Rama Mani is an expert in international peace and security, a poet and performance artist. Based on her extensive experience in governance and security over the past 25 years, she developed ‘Theatre of Transformation' as an innovative vehicle to address critical global crises. Theatre of Transformation is the art of creative co-evolution. It engages people of diverse backgrounds to transform…

Bruna Kadletz

Bruna Kadletz is a humanitarian worker who serves displaced communities across the globe—in Turkey, Greece, South Africa, Brazil, and remote regions of the Amazon. a In commentary series titled “Displaced and Disposable” on newsdeeply.com, she argued that current laws and social attitudes disenfranchise refugee populations to the point of dehumanizing them as expendable commodities.

Ecopsychology and Our Personal Economy

We are in a time of crisis in which connection to self, other, earth, and numinous has been severed for many and severely disconnected for most. Our industrious and material culture developed over the last few centuries has driven us to consume in such a way that we are left unfulfilled and ever-searching for more, resulting in high rates of crime, violence, and addiction. The dominant…