Kosmos Response to Ferguson: Restorative Justice – The Way Through
by Dorothy J. Maver, Ph.D.
As people all over the country take to the streets following the Grand Jury decision in Ferguson, one thing is imminently and painfully clear. There is serious unrest and dissatisfaction at the heart of the US citizenry regarding the very system that was designed to keep people safe and secure. And the USA is not alone. All over the world we are recognizing the need…
The Emerging Story of Community
Dear Readers,
All subscribers should be receiving the new Fall/Winter edition of Kosmos this week with amazing 4-color visuals gracing its pages. You will find that it has much to say about the New Story, or what many also refer to as the Transition, Great Turning and New Paradigm By any name, it is a movement of many movements. This newsletter is dedicated to a key theme of the New Story:…
VIDEO: Nick Joyce on Intentional Community
We met Nick Joyce at the New Story Summit. He spoke briefly and we realized we wanted to hear more from this remarkable young man. Kosmos Project Director, Dot Maver, asked him if he would be willing to meet in the Original Garden at Findhorn Ecovillage and discuss his views on youth, intentional community, and social change.
Nick Joyce, On Intentional Community
Inspired youth from…
Ecovillages: Design at the Edge
Some day, after we have mastered the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness the energies of love. - Teilhard de Chardin
by May East
Ecovillages are laboratories of human relations, in which we test the power of new systemic thinking to bring about necessary changes in the local and global economic, social and ecological environments. Ecovillages provide conditions for…
“If You Want to Go Fast, Go Alone. If You Want to Go Far, Go Together.” And If You Want to Transform…?
Sometimes we meet a young person who continues to hold a deep place in our minds and hearts long afterwards. I met Shaun Chamberlin briefly at the New Story Summit. It felt as though I had known him forever. The future of humanity and the hope of the world is with such talented and dedicated youth. I want to honor his work by sharing one of his essays.
~ Nancy Roof
By Shaun Chamberlin
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Connecting for Change: Insights from an Emerging Global Transformation Movement
The Shift, Great Turning, and New Story are words used to describe what many are experiencing as a growing movement or awareness worldwide of the need to examine and restructure political, economic, and social systems to align more closely with the needs of humanity and the Earth.i The threats to life brought by climate change coupled with global economic crises are entering mainstream discourse…
An Interview with Satish Kumar at the New Story Summit
Kosmos: Satish, what is your perspective on the New Story?
Satish Kumar: The New Story will be a story of reunion, reconnection. In the last couple of hundred years, we have come to believe that nature is separate from us and we are separate from nature. Nature is out there, and we can do what we like to it. We can cut down the rain forest. We can put animals in factory farms and slaughter…
Search For Purpose And Meaning: A Global Quest
While studying at the University of Puerto Rico in the late 1960s, I jumped at a life-altering opportunity when I learned that Dr. Viktor Frankl had traveled from his home in Austria to offer a series of seminars. Dashing between classes on the hibiscus-laden campus, I paused to scan some ads on a cluttered bulletin board. A hand-written note caught my eye:
Dr. Viktor Frankl
Author of…
A Metaphysical View
There is misunderstanding of the conditions on this planet. It is not only materialistic or solely related to the changing conditions in the earth’s cycles. It is also spiritual.This humanity is spiritually bankrupt and has only been prevented from teetering over the edge into the forces of negativity which would have killed us all . In the nineteen sixties we were saved by the sacrifices of…
‘REFLEXIONS’ of a dyslexic mind and the IDEA that it is possible to START ALL OVER
Compassion, Collaboration & Cooperation IN TRANSITIONThe entirety of our species - homo sapiens sapiens - now 7 billion individuals and counting - through the process of evolution and as a consequence of the actions of others and the events of history - have found themselves established as members of a diverse and complex arrangement of…