Prospect Citizens of the New World
This is the continuation of the first topic “To be a citizen of the new world” that emphasize to become humble like a foot. Now I would like to introduce another nature bible, which I obtained from my teacher Suksun, to “Become a root”. Among all the trees in the world, it’s the branches that fight each another to take charge of high places. Greedily they try, day and night, to be above the…
The 2015 Spring | Summer issue of Kosmos Journal is here
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The 2015 Spring | Summer edition of Kosmos Journal is here! We are so happy to share this gorgeous 'Awakening to Life' issue with you. It is bursting with life's beauty, wisdom and inspiration in images and essays. You can click on the Table of Contents below to see what is in store for you.
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Excerpt | The Living Universe
by Duane Elgin
A Living Systems Paradigm for Viewing Big History
‘Big History’ is the name given to an emerging field of study that describes the evolution from the big bang up to the modern era. This is an enormous span of time—nearly 14 billion years—so it is understandably called ‘big’ history. However, it is also a shallow view of history because it leaves out themes and ideas such as…
Excerpt | Coming Back to Life
by Joanna Macy and Molly Brown
We Can Still Opt for a Life-Sustaining World
Excerpted from Chapter One
We can choose life. Even as we face global climate disruption, world-encompassing nuclear contamination, hydro-fracking, mountaintop removal mining, tar sands extraction, deep sea drilling, and the genetic engineering of our food supply, we can still choose life. We can still act for…
Excerpt | We the People of Living Earth: An Authentic Story for Our Time
By David Korten
A Living Universe Cosmology
As contemporary science observes the behavior of subatomic particles, the inner life of living cells, the self-regulation of complex ecosystems, and the scale of the universe, we witness a grand, complex, and wondrous reality far beyond the imagination of previous human generations. The more science reveals of these mysteries, the more evident the…
Lifecycle of Emergence: Using Emergence to Take Social Innovation to Scale
Despite current ads and slogans, the world doesn’t change one person at a time. It changes as networks of relationships form among people who discover they share a common cause and vision of what’s possible.
This is good news for those of us intent on changing the world and creating a positive future. Rather than worry about critical mass, our work is to foster critical connections. We don’t…
Spring | Summer 2015 Digital Edition
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The 2015 Spring | Summer issue of Kosmos Journal is here
The 2015 Spring | Summer edition of Kosmos Journal is here! We are so happy to share this gorgeous 'Awakening to Life' issue with you. It is bursting with life's beauty, wisdom and inspiration in images and essays. You can click on the Table of Contents below to see what is in store for you. Here are a few highlights:
The Living Universe, by Duane Elgin,
Coming Back to Life by Joanna Macy…
Venita Ramirez
Venita Ramirez is a partner with Pacific Integral where she co-designs and teaches conscious leadership programs in Africa, Australia and the U.S. She brings thirty years of experience in body-oriented psychology, meditation practices and integral theory to her coaching and consulting practice, and collaborates internationally on global and social transformation.
Venita’s early training…
Steven Lovink
Steven Lovink is a visionary entrepreneur, peace builder, whole system thinker, and outside of the box change maker. Committed to accelerating wholes greater than the sum of their parts, he continues his life’s journey sensing humanity’s emerging future, assembling its building blocks a piece at a time. Steven’s passion is to ‘connect the dots’ by developing path breaking projects, partnerships,…