Kosmos Global Ambassador Report from Australia
Connecting with Kosmos
In 2008, I spent some time at Pearl Beach with my very dear friend, Jan Lee Martin, an Australian business futurist, having one of those interesting intellectual conversations about the state of the world, the 21st century challenges to humanity, what needs to be done to answer the challenges, and what all of this means for our children and grandchildren. What legacy are…
The New Being of Human Being: New Emergent Cognitive Capacity
Early on, we lived in a mesh of power sources that whirled around and through us and we rode the currents, enmeshed in the mesh.
Then we introjected the power, took it as ours, and lived the power we had become.
From this seat of power we set boundaries, put things in order, defended ourselves and our property, all the while looking back to our ancestors and heroes.
Then we introjected…
Excerpt | Harmony with Nature
By Robin Wall Kimmerer, PhD, Spring | Summer 2016
Fifth Annual Conference at the United Nations on Harmony with Nature
Shaapodaske Gizhgokwe, my name in my ancestral language, refers to light shining through sky onto the face of Mother Earth and I carry the responsibility for that name, but I never would have dreamed that responsibility would lead me here. For you see, a little more than one…
Excerpt | A Glimpse into the More Beautiful World Our Hearts Know is Possible: The Art of Hosting Conversations that Matter
By Helen Titchen Beeth, in the 2016 Spring | Summer edition of Kosmos Journal
The quality of our conversations makes our world what it is. How we talk to each other determines whether we walk away from each other and prepare to fight for our separate interests, or hold fire, stay together, and open up into a future of mutual understanding and brighter possibility. Conversation is an art that…
Excerpt | Transformative Media: From the Hero’s Journey to Our Collective Journey
By Maya Zuckerman, Spring | Summer 2016
Breaking Free of The Hero Myth
We humans and the way we interact with narrative, we’ve come a long way. We’ve evolved from the days of stories round a campfire, epic tales of heroes fighting monsters in far away lands, the gods playing tricks with the mortals, the hubris of humanity, and legends of beautiful and scary creatures who filled the oceans,…
Excerpt | Mirror Flourishing: The New Business North Star
By David Cooperrider, Spring | Summer 2016
The purpose of this article is to join with what I’m now sensing as the most important business-for-good movement in the world today. Its message, paradoxically, is to declare that it’s time to abandon the language, the cultural meme, and the vision of a ‘sustainable’ economy. Just at the historic inflection moment when it seems like the whole world…
Special Preview | Kosmos Journal 2016 Spring/Summer Edition
Dear Readers,
The 2016 Spring | Summer edition of Kosmos Journal has arrived! Print and digital subscribers can access all content online right now, and the beautiful keepsake print journal is in the mail. The new edition celebrates the joy of co-creation as we explore 'models and practices for the emerging planetary civilization'. The way is not always clear! The path is made by walking…
Excerpt | The Enlivenment Manifesto: Politics and Poetics in the Anthropocene
By Andreas Weber, Hildegard Kurt, Spring | Summer 2016
A ground-breaking new vision of humankind is quickly spreading into the mainstream of our self-understanding. We are no longer standing apart from nature, so the new belief goes: We are enmeshed in it. Some authors even assert that nature and humans are one and the same. This comes not just as a philosophical claim but rather as an…
Falling in Love with Nature
Artist Statement
I am not a macro or nature photographer so when I photograph a flower, it's because I find it remarkable. The flower literally captivates me wherever I may be at that time. If I am fortunate enough to translate its delicate beauty to others through a photograph, then I feel blessed. Not only was I present and able to enjoy that beauty, but I also successfully shared it through…
Are you an Everyday Citizen?
by Lindsay Fahey and Beverly Winterscheid
What does citizenship look like in your daily life?
Is it showing up at the polls to cast your vote? Or is it the small actions you take to make the communities you live and work in a little bit better each day like attending a town meeting? Or brainstorming ideas to turn an abandoned lot into a city park?
How is your view of civic engagement the…