Interview | Megan McFeely, “As She Is, Restoring Sacred Balance”
Image: Stacey Lawson, entrepreneurship thought-leader, in 'As She Is'
A Kosmos Interview with Filmmaker, Megan McFeely
As She Is, Restoring Sacred Balance is a film that explores the personal and collective journey towards wholeness – to value and reclaim the feminine aspect of ourselves.
I started with a simple question that guided my journey. What is the feminine? I ask some remarkable…
Life in the Between: The Beauty and Importance of the Two-Spirit People
By Katie Redmiles, via First Peoples Worldwide
(Kosmos Note: It has come to our attention that the contributions of Zachary Pullin to this article may not have been properly cited. Kosmos has published Mr. Pullin's article, in its entirety, here: http://www.kosmosjournal.org/news/two-spirit-the-story-of-a-movement-unfolds/
Kosmos regrets any inconvenience that may have been caused to our…
Money and the Divine Masculine
By Charles Eisenstein, via his website
I recently attended a ceremony at the Tamera village in Portugal in which the officiant invoked “the healing of money.” Immediately a vivid image popped into my head of a man, vast and muscular, bound to the earth with stakes and tethers, straining with every atom of his strength to free himself and rise up. Finally, in a desperate, colossal effort, he…
The Sacred Feminine Today
By Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee, via Working with Oneness and The Huffington Post
The return of Persephone, by Frederic Leighton (1891)
Today there is a resurgence of interest in the sacred feminine. The immense popularity some years ago of Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code spoke not just to our enjoyment of a good thriller but also to the mystery of the divine feminine in Western…
The trouble with equality: feminism and the forgotten places of power
By Bayo Akomolafe, via his blog
As if in jest of the overwrought standards of ‘debating’ we were subjected to as school-going kids, whereby we would be made to curtsy before an animated audience of wide-eyed parents at end-of-year school events – telling them why teachers were ‘better’ than farmers (or vice versa), my friends and I often came up with our own equally silly corollaries. After…
Feminine | Masculine, the Cosmic Dance
Dear Reader,
Lately, we hear a lot about the transformational rise of the divine feminine or the rediscovery of the sacred masculine, archetypical principles viewed through the lens of spirit. In this discourse, ‘feminine’ is typically viewed distinct from female gender, and usually from issues of feminism. Are these distinctions – divine male from divine female, spirit from body, the personal…
Balanced Feminism
By Anja Beerepoot, via the author's blog
How can we save mankind and our planet, improve the position of women and abolish financial, social and cultural inequalities between men and women, and live a joyful and fulfilling life?
A better world is a balanced world
A balanced world embraces multiplicity of perspectives and ‘ways of doing things’ and is informed by the diverse histories,…
18 Human Qualities to Advance Global Awakening
Dylan Charles, Editor of Waking Times has crafted an interesting list of 18 Human Qualities Most Needed to Advance the Global Awakening.
Reality is anything but fixed, it is created again and again, re-defined from moment to moment as a product of the behavior and choices of all sentient beings. For certain, we are more powerful than we yet know, and each one of us is indeed an actor on the same…
Call for Essays | Emerging Models Transforming Our Lives
Dear Reader,
Twice a year Kosmos invites our readers to submit an 800-word essay. We choose 2 or 3 essays to publish in our hard copy journal and publish several others in our newsletter and on our website. This is an opportunity for you to share your work and expertise with an engaged international audience.
The Spring/Summer 2016 issue of Kosmos explores many themes, yet what is capturing…
Film Trailer | An Enquiry into a New Story for Humanity
via New Story Hub | Findhorn Foundation
Kosmos is delighted to share the news of a new film coming soon. An Enquiry into a New Story for Humanity, is the resulting documentary film of an extraordinary gathering that took place in the Autumn of 2014. The New Story Summit at the Findhorn Foundation was attended by change makers and activists from over 50 countries, including a delegation from…