‘5 Minutes a Day’ – a meditation for receiving global news
A special practice developed and offered by Thomas Hübl and Medium.com.
How can I learn to receive the world as it is? How can I become more responsible as a consumer, citizen, human being? To support the building of a growing interior space in us, we’re setting up a small but regular feed of news designed to let the world touch us and take place when it is difficult, cruel, and challenging.…
Finding Awe in the Ordinary
Awe enables us to perceive in the world intimations of the divine, to sense in small things the beginning of infinite significance, to sense the ultimate in the common and the simple, to feel in the rush of the passing the stillness of the eternal. —Abraham Joshua Heschel
by Roselle Kovitz, from the Fetzer Institute blog
As I stepped out of Seattle’s Asian Art Museum recently, I found…
Kosmos Co-sponsored Event | Anchoring the Spirit of Peace
by Dot Maver, PhD
Each year on September 21st, the UN International Day of Peace (IDP) calls for a ceasefire around the world as we recognize our shared responsibility to build infrastructures for peace – in our hearts and in our world - in order to live in harmonious relationship with self, others and all life.
United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon
Secretary General Ban Ki-moon’s…
Reader’s Essay | Three Ways to Tell You’re Part of a Global Transformation
by Chris Taylor
How do you know you’re living through a major global transformation - possibly the greatest that humanity has ever seen? Let me try three very different explanations - and see which you find most compelling.
1. Take the Historical View
The history of the last five hundred years has been about establishing empire, conquering territory by force and establishing a single…
Opening Up to the World as It Is
Dear Readers,
We are awash in difficult news stories: the refugee crisis, drought, earthquakes, brutality. Sometimes it seems our mind can't take any more in - the news is like the runoff from heavy rain - we are deluged rather than filled. How can we open ourselves to the world as it is, to receive the important stories of our time, without feeling overwhelmed?
In this edition of Kosmos…
Earth-Based Wisdom: Learning the Original Idea from the Living Earth
Traditional cultures “are what shaped us and caused us to be what we are now,” writes Jared Diamond in The World Until Yesterday.1 All the necessities of modern living—electricity, store-bought food, pharmaceuticals, cars and planes—are relatively new. But much of yesterday is still with us, and we might take a lesson from those traditional cultures that remain indigenous to relearn how to live…
Releasing the Potential of Our Life Force Energy
Over time, emotional and energetic blockages of our life force influence the shape and posture of our body, the sound of our voice, and our subtle energy field, thus affecting our relationships and the ways in which the world responds to us. We stop knowing what brings us joy. We hardly notice that we are in pain, whether physically or emotionally. Over time, repeatedly holding back, holding in,…
Living Spirituality
"At its core, the challenge to embody wholeness is producing a new kind of spirituality, a ‘living spirituality.’ I tend to think of this as a resurrection of the Spirit in the mind and heart of the human. It is as if Life itself—abundant, universal Life—is flooding into and through all the pores of our humanness. For those of us who sense that this is happening, the challenge is to align…
A Dark Night of the Soul and the Discovery of Meaning
Faced with a dark night, many people treat it like an illness, like depression. They may take medication or go into counseling looking for a cause. It can be useful to search for the roots of a dark night, but in my experience the best way to deal with it is to find the concrete action or decision that it is asking for.
Igniting the Life Force at our Creative Core
The vision that is emerging today is one, above all, of a living spirituality. Spirituality can no longer afford to divorce itself from life and stand idly by while our systems are collapsing. Spirituality must be applied directly to revolutionize our life systems—infusing its power and wisdom, as only the deepest connection with the Source of Creation can—into a living Universe, a living Earth,…