Integral Spirituality
Integral spirituality is the experience of a Sacred, embodied,
evolutionary “now”, speaking through us in multiple voices. It
incarnates all facets of our lives, inviting past and future into one
moment. Integral spiritual practice, then, seems to be a consummate,
persistent inquiry of many shades and shadows extending throughout life.
Though our assumptions about reality restrict and…
Interest Rates and Climate Change: Realigning our Incentives through the Power of the Commons
False Choices: Cap and Trade Vs. Carbon Tax
During the past several decades, humanity has emerged as a perilous
force of nature. Through its technological, economic and political
choices and activities, modern civilization has produced destructive
economies of scale, powered by exponential growth and fossil fuels. Our
consumption of vital resources is already exceeding the carrying…
Living Leadership
The purpose of life is…to know oneself. We cannot do so unless we
learn to identify ourselves with all that lives."
Mohandas K. Gandhi
At the heart of a new global civilization is the movement toward
wholeness and forms that support global emergence. ‘Integral
leadership’ is an important component powering this move.
Integral leadership reflects a sphere of leadership where interior…
Media Between Citizens and Power | A World Political Forum Seminar
I am suffering from information insecurity. I am concerned about the integrity of the news I am getting. Are you? How do you know what is truth and what is spin? How can we make intelligent decisions if our news is biased? Why isn’t there more public outcry over the consolidation of global media? If freedom of the press is key to democracy, why doesn't civil society demand freedom from government…
People Sharing Resources | Toward a New Multilateralism of the Global Commons
The Limits to Private and Public Goods
The opening decades of this century are a pivotal time in which many
of our current beliefs and practices will be reexamined. During the last
century, the economic and political catastrophes that befell the world
inspired an earlier generation to create a multilateral system defined
by an unprecedented vision of cooperation and security for the
international…
Salons and the Practice of Conversation
The critical challenges we face today are increasingly understood as
interrelated and as global, spiritual and material in nature. Climate
change and related human activities, including development and human
migrations, have created a planetary crisis that no nation or region can
solve on its own. We are an Earth community. However, making sense of
all this in a time when more powerful tools for…
Slouching Towards Global Transformation | Waking up in Time
By James O'Dea
Great changes are blowing through the world: it is, as the ancients
understood, “all things change.” Yet even the Greek philosophers would
have been more than a little startled to witness our current planetary
hyper-acceleration. Five thousand years ago humans were carving their
best wisdom in words and symbols into rocks, today we can take their
words and symbols and transmit…
The Alfredo Sfeir-Younis Story
KOSMOS SALUTES ALFREDO SFEIR-YOUNIS
Kosmos is honored to salute Alfredo Sfeir-Younis, a
beloved member of the Kosmos Advisory Board and deeply respected and
dedicated Global Citizen. Recently retired from twenty-nine years at the
World Bank, he has devoted his life to alleviating the misery of
poverty on a macro-scale and to embracing each individual who crossed
his path with compassionate…
The Commons and Integral Capital
"The global economic crash is very big news. But what the media
headlines and reports do not mention is how deeply this crisis is rooted
in our history. During the past several centuries, businesses and
government have become enmeshed in a single system. State capitalism now
exists in virtually every sovereign nation. These Market States
distribute the benefits of a decent quality of life,…
The Commons of Mind, Life and Matter: Toward a Non-Polar Framework for Global Negotiations
The Market State and the Liquidation of Biophysical Capital
The term commons was first used during the
enclosure period in Britain when people were removed from their communal
lands. Since then, commons have come to represent areas of
co-governance and co-production that lie outside of the market and state
sectors (or Market State), including food, water, clean air,
energy, information, internet,…