The Great Transition: Journey of an Idea

The jury is still out on whether the Great Transition Initiative’s hoped-for Great Transition will be realized; its achievement rests on the emergence of a planetary movement of concerned citizens buoyed by the conviction that together they can change the world. Read full article as a PDF.

Caring for a World with a Soul

Spiritual Ecology: The Cry of the Earth Edited by Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee Publisher: The Golden Sufi Center, July 1, 2013 There is now a single issue before us: survival. Not merely physical survival, but survival in a world of fulfillment, survival in a living world, where the violets bloom in the springtime, where the stars shine down in all their mystery, survival in a world of meaning. —…

Fall | Winter 2013

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Carolyn Raffensperger

Carolyn Raffensperger, M.A., J.D. is executive director of the Science and Environmental Health Network. In 1982 she left a career as an archaeologist in the desert Southwest to join the environmental movement. She first worked for the Sierra Club where she addressed an array of environmental issues, including forest management, river protection, pesticide pollutants, and disposal of radioactive…

Dot Maver

Dorothy J. Maver, Ph.D. is an educator and peacebuilder whose keynote is inspiring cooperation on behalf of the common good. Dot is Project Director with Kosmos Associates, a Founding Trustee of the National Peace Academy USA, and is a founder and board member of the Global Alliance for Ministries and Infrastructures of Peace, and the River Phoenix Center for Peacebuilding. Her work in education,…

Molly Rowan Leach

Molly Rowan Leach is an American-born Peace Activist and Restorative Justice expert and is the Global Restorative Justice Fellow of The Peace Alliance. She is co-producer and host of Restorative Justice on The Rise, a national platform and live series in its second year featuring key voices in the justice movement and poignant conversations with Internationally acclaimed leaders such as Michelle…

Norie Huddle

Norie Huddle has written seven published books (three bestsellers) on environmental issues and on transforming humanity.  Growing up in the woods of northern Virginia, Norie's background is eclectic and international.  She was an exchange student in Italy, a Russian language graduate of Brown University, a Peace Corps Volunteer in Colombia, and spent four years in Japan working with the…

Join the Kosmos Global Ambassador Program

Dozens of us hand-carry Kosmos to grassroots and high-level organizations, bringing hope for a new future that works for all. A report from one of our Global Ambassadors included sending it to 15 friends, to ambassadors in China, Korea, Japan, Thailand, to a library, placing it in a café, giving it to think tanks, lending it to colleagues and more. Won’t you join us? Become a part of…

Photo Tao I | An Experience of Oneness

I did not choose this vision. It chose me. It’s bred into my own nature. I feel I’m just a vehicle, through which a certain type of perception gets recorded. All that is required is to let go. The transformation of global consciousness starts with the transformation of each individual. Photo Tao is a practice that lets you experience this shift, allowing you to connect to other dimensions…