Daniel Fox | The Wild Image Project

One way or another, we all have to find what best fosters the flowering of our humanity in this contemporary life, and dedicate ourselves to that. ~ Joseph Campbell Ever since I was a young boy, I found my inspiration and comfort in nature. It taught me about life and death, about change and evolution, about challenges and perseverance. Most importantly, it taught me about perspective and…

The Evolution Of Human Consciousness Ten Years After

The "EVOLUTION OF HUMAN CONSCIOUSNESS" IS AN IDEA THAT HAS TO BE CLARIFIED, especially after 10 years of our Integral activism. We need to update. This is about how our consciousness can take mental perspectives which are more inclusive; how consciousness can be possessed by a diminishing degree of intolerant duality. It is our capacity of our greater levels of perspective-taking also ABLE TO…

The Emerging New Paradigm

Kosmos is for those who want to participate in the global transformation from industrial society to the new civilization. It is for all of us who have been disillusioned with the greed, materialism, disrespect and deep suffering caused by inequities in harnessing the world’s resources and wealth. It is for those who want to hear the finest, most noble voices of the future. It is for those for…

Experiments in Democracy and Diversity within the Occupy Movement(s)

Horizontal democracy attempts to ensure equality by embracing diversity and conflict. Within these political structures, diversity is not a problem that needs to be resolved: there is no narrative of uniformity, no shared identity (national or otherwise) and no predetermined ideology. Since the start of the Occupy movement, many commentators have offered their critique. The movement has no…

InterOccupy: Toward a Democratic Global Communications Commons

The world is in need of adopting a radical new operating system. The challenges are vast. The sobering reality is that not a single person knows the best way through to greener pastures, or even if such a world is attainable.   Most of us readily give our own personal power over to bosses, colleagues, family, governments, corporations and the mainstream media, or we tend to marry our own…

Toward a Common Theory of Value | Part Four: Common Need

Common Goods: A New Look at Things This series of articles looks at the meaning of value in economics. We are pondering the idea of a thing, a common object. Our guidepost is Aristotle’s division of basic kinds of things into C (commodities as a means to household satisfaction) and M (things as a means to making money). In terms of the human actions involving things, we have identified C-M-C’…

Michael Badger

Michael Badger is a founding member of InterOccupy, and is primarily engaged in developing the technical vision and implementing communications strategies. He currently works with Glocal, a worker-owned cooperative that evolved from InterOccupy, where he contributes to designing, building and facilitating organizing platforms for groups and organizations focused on social and climate justice.…

Global Aging And Dying With Consciousness

Global Aging and Dying with Consciousness As an American specialist in senior assisted living and senior care, I am especially interested in the changing cultural changes effecting our global aging population as we honor and recognize cross-cultural differences in respecting elders, caring for seniors and recognizing dying as a part of life. In the United States today, we are faced with the…

A Changemaker Profile of Michel Bauwens

Michel Bauwens is a co-founder and leading activist of the P2P Foundation (Foundation for Peer-to-Peer Alternatives), which works in collaboration with a global group of researchers exploring peer production/governance/property and the open/free, participatory, and commons-oriented modes of human cooperation. He is a member of the Advisory Board of Kosmos Journal. To read…

A Nobel Prize for Business

“One thing was clear from all the buzz after the prototyping session: this Nobel-like prize for business as an agent of world benefit will be so much more than a prize,” David tells Axiom News. “It will be a world-changing global learning process, spreading and scaling ‘up-building’ and ‘up-worthy’ news, helping create a new grand narrative about the…