Kosmos Seed Grant Awards 2015

In January 2015, Kosmos Journal invited open submissions for two Seed Grants in the amount of $2,500 each. We received more than 1,700 short proposals from all over the world. Fourteen years ago, Kosmos was honored to be the recipient of a $2,500 grant from Lifebridge Foundation to publish our first Journal. This generous act made Kosmos Journal possible. Today, we are privileged to extend this…

gallery three: beauty and harmony with all life

Dead Sea Salt, Jordan. photography | Hassacn Bushnaq, Wikimedia Commons Flourite crystals with pyrite. Photographed at the Natural History Museum, Milan, Italy.. photography | Giovanni Dali’ Orto, Wikimedia Commons Strokkur Geyser, Iceland. photography | Jerzy Strzelecki Wikimedia Commons Pahoehoe fountain. photography | courtesy US Geological Survey sunrise Bodrum Turkey. photography…

plants | beauty and harmony with all life

Two bees on a Creeping Thistle [Cirsium arvense]. Richard Bartz CC Wikimedia Rose Chaffer. Chrumps, CC Pancratium zeylanicum flower, indigenous to India and the islands of the IndianOcean. Uoaei1, CCWikimedia Great Masterwort (Astrantia major), found near Mitterbach am Erlaufsee, Lower Austria. Muhammad Mahdi Karim, CC Wikimedia Small Tortoiseshell (Aglais urticae) in the…

Deborah Frieze

Deborah Frieze is the Co-President Emerita of The Berkana Institute. She founded the Old Oak Dojo, a home and an urban learning center where neighbors gather to rediscover how to create healthy communitiies. She also founded the Boston Impact Innitiative, a place-based impact investing fund that partners businesses and organizations throughout Boston to create systematic shifts in opportunities…

plants | beauty and harmony with all life

Two bees on a Creeping Thistle [Cirsium arvense]. Richard Bartz CC Wikimedia Wing underside view of a Swallowtail [Papilio machaon]. Erdemli, Mersin, Turkey. Zeynel Cebeci CC Wikimedia Rose Chaffer. Chrumps, CC Pancratium zeylanicum flower, indigenous to India and the islands of the IndianOcean. Uoaei1, CCWikimedia Great Masterwort (Astrantia major), found near Mitterbach am…

Spring-Summer 2015

In this IssueThe Gift of Life - by Nancy B. RoofNature’s Living Intelligence - by David FidelerThe Living Universe - by Duane ElginEarth-Based Wisdom: Learning the Original Idea from the Living Earth - by J.E. WilliamsComing Back to Life | Chapter One: To Choose Life - by Joanna Macy→ Read more about this issue

We the People of Living Earth: An Authentic Story for Our Time

For people, generally, their story of the universe and the human role in the universe is their primary source of intelligibility and value. The deepest crises experienced by any society are those moments of change when the story becomes inadequate for meeting the survival demands of a present situation. ~ Thomas Berry, Dream of the Earth We humans live by stories that express the shared values…

Living Spirituality

There can be no doubt that we are living in a time of transition. A new human community is being born in us and through us—all 7 billion of us—as we respond to the challenges that flow from impressions of wholeness. In a transition time nothing is certain and the future is unclear. The wholeness vision disturbs as well as inspires; it leads some to want to move forward too fast into an idealized…

Releasing the Potential of Our Life Force Energy

It’s 1986. I’m 27 and I have travelled to a small island off of the west coast of Canada for a five-day seminar called Come Alive.1 The two main teachers have medical degrees, one with a specialty in psychiatry and the other in acupuncture. After watching them successfully work with many others in the group, I decide to trust them. I lie down in the center of the circle and breathe deeply and…

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…