Healing Ecology | Finding the Human in Nature
Actor Albert Hall visits Kosmos
Albert Hall, in Apocalypse Now
Veteran actor Albert Hall, paid an extended visit to Kosmos Headquarters in July. Mr. Hall's most famous film role was in 1979, when he played Chief Phillips in Francis Ford Coppola's award-winning Apocalypse Now. He has appeared in many other films and television programs; as the stern judge Seymour Walsh, a recurring guest-role on TV shows Ally McBeal and The…
Art’s Power to Transform Us
Dear Reader,
Art has the power to transform consciousness. It can show us where we have degraded life, yet also uplift us and reflects our deepest aspirations. And, through the expression of universal archetypes and emotions, the arts bridge cultural divides.
Kosmos Seed Grant 'Project of Promise', the Seattle-Havana-Tehran Poster Show, demonstrates our deep commonality through art. Artists…
Spiritual Ecology Fellowship | Midwifing a New Story
By Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee
I belong to the generation whose spiritual story was about bringing spiritual traditions and their practices from the East to Europe and America. These practices, such as meditation or mindfulness, have now taken root in the West, and the traditions, for example Buddhism, Sufism, Yoga and others have opened doors for many, many people, giving us access to rich and…
Kosmos ‘Project of Promise’ | Seattle-Havana-Tehran Poster Show Set to Open
An Interview with show curator, Daniel R. Smith
A 2015 Kosmos Seed Grant 'Project of Promise', the Seattle-Havana-Tehran Poster Show is a city-to-city collaborative exhibit featuring over 60 recent contemporary arts and culture posters. The show serves as a survey of contemporary popular culture and cutting-edge design from the U.S., Cuba and Iran. Posters are organized into “triplets”—one…
Joni Carley | Our Essential Commons
By Joni Carley, DMin
Essential Commons is a field for negotiating what James Quilligan calls “…our mutual commons – the dynamic interrelationship of human subjectivity and material substance,” (Kosmos Journal. Spring/Summer 2013).
As policies and practices are beginning to better account for the commonality of our materiality, it’s critical that we also account for the intangible drivers of…
Helen Camakaris | Why We Ignore Climate Change
By Helen Camakaris
Humankind has much to celebrate. Our intellect has taken us to the moon, deciphered the code that defines us and created sublime works of art and music. But our intellect has also delivered us the means of our own destruction.
In the last few hundred years we have not only invented the means of exploiting fossil fuels, but we have also developed the economic and political…
Beauty | A Poem by Laura Weaver
By Laura Weaver
Writing has been an integral part of my life for as long as I can remember. I am a chaser of light, a stalker of beauty, a lover of the ephemeral blooms of the eternal, a diver to the underworld, a moth to the flame of truth, a child at play in the deep woods. My writing is not only a conversation with my own soul, but with the Global Soul as well. Through my dance with…
Geri Portnoy | Yoga of Aliveness
by Geri Portnoy
I feel truly alive when I surrender and let go into the evolutionary invitation of life beckoning me to step out of hiding and come closer – to touch reality in a new sensual way. Beyond my ego’s insistence on completing my to-do-list, out beyond the edges of living in the safety of my conceptual mind thinking about life. Aliveness happens when my body softens -- I let down my…
Adam Rubel | Living Lineages: Natural Wisdom of the Ancestors
Communities around the planet are dealing with crises resulting from the complicated and complex web of problems that have emerged out of our modern society. Whether viewed through the lens of climate change, wealth disparity, food security or any other inter-related issue, we have an opportunity to address the fundamental cause: the disconnect between our human designs and the wisdom of nature.…