Book | The One Life We’re Given
By Mark Nepo, from his new book:
THE ONE LIFE WE'RE GIVEN
FINDING THE WISDOM THAT WAITS IN YOUR HEART
Atria Books, 2016
A Kosmos featured book for the Sacred Season
During the summer, I was staying in a lodge near the foot of the Rocky Mountains. Every morning I’d stroll along the path behind the lodge, watching the tufts of grass stretch to meet the dew. The sun hitting the wet grass seemed…
Pope Francis on an “Ethics of Ecology”
By Pope Francis, from his Encyclical Letter, Laudato Si
ON CARE FOR OUR COMMON HOME
Educating for the Covenant Between Humanity and the Environment
An awareness of the gravity of today’s cultural and ecological crisis must be translated into new habits. Many people know that our current progress and the mere amassing of things and pleasures are not enough to give meaning and joy to the…
The Loss of the Sacred and a Prayer for the Earth
By Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee, Working with Oneness
The sacred is all around us, woven with stories and starlight, in the rich texture of the soil, and in certain dreams that come on certain nights. And yet it is also hidden, fading from sight, forgotten, lost in the dramas of daylight, in the harsh light of a civilization with its ever-present smartphones and computers. This is the strangest story…
Healing the Earth, Healing Ourselves
Dear Reader,
In the last edition of Kosmos Online, we spoke about the need for collective healing from historical trauma. Lasting peace may not be possible until we acknowledge and process the pain of past harms, whether in families, communities or societies. The same is true of our most fundamental connection - our relationship with the Earth.
In this edition of Kosmos Online we are so…
Fear of a Living Planet
By Charles Eisenstein
KOSMOS JOURNAL, FALL | WINTER 2013
"Our discomfort with New Age-sounding concepts like “The planet is alive” is not entirely rational, but comes in large part from a wound of betrayal, cloaked in the pervasive ideology of our culture. Is it true though? We might play with various definitions of life and come up with logical, evidence-based arguments pro and con, just as…
Genesis Farm | Restoring Paradise: One Watershed at a Time
A Kosmos Interview with Sister Miriam MacGillis
Editor's note: On September 3, 2016 I had the great honor of enjoying a day with Sister Miriam MacGillis and our mutual friend, social activist Judy Wicks, at Genesis Farm in northern New Jersey. Walking the land with two remarkable women, I had a pervasive sense of being in both a physical space and a metaphysical one. Over a lovely and simple…
Lessons from the Buffalo
By Edward Tick,from his book, Warrior's Return: Restoring the Soul After War, via SoldiersHeart.net
The Plains Indians provide an exemplary model of the proper relationship between the warrior and society.
To the Plains Indians the buffalo was a totem, a spirit, a god. It was the source of food, clothing, shelter, tools and weapons, personal, sacred and religious items — all that…
Four Steps for Transforming Historical Harms
Excerpts from a framework by David Anderson Hooker and Amy Potter Czajkowski
The THH Framework
The Transforming Historical Harms (THH) manual articulates a Framework for addressing the historical harms mentioned above as well as the many others present in societies around the world. The framework looks at historical injustices and their present manifestations through the lens of trauma and…
Thomas Hübl on Working with Collective Trauma
Via The Pocket Project
The Pocket Project works to stop the vicious cycle of recurring collective trauma and ultimately integrate and reduce its effects in our global culture.
On June 28, 2016, Thomas Hübl met with the Pocket Project working group in Israel. Below is a partial transcript of their conversation, in which Thomas discusses the resources that we can develop and draw upon when…
Book | Subtle Activism: The Inner Dimension of Social and Planetary Transformation
Subtle Activism: The Inner Dimension of Social and Planetary Transformation, David Nicol. State University of New York Press (http://www.sunypress.edu), 2016. 246 Paper, Foreword by Christopher Bache
A Kosmos featured book for the Sacred Season
by Elizabeth Jennings
What if consciousness-based practices—meditation, ritual, prayer—could do more than induce calm or “charge the batteries”…