From What Is to What If

Given the state of the world, the message of despair is pretty convincing. Things look grim. But something about that doesn’t sit quite right with me. In fact, there’s evidence that things can change, and that cultures can change, rapidly and unexpectedly.

Staff and Advisors

KOSMOS WINTER 2019  > STAFF AND ADVISORS Staff and Advisors Founding Editor NANCY B. ROOF Editor RHONDA FABIAN Webmaster | Art Director KAREN ANDERSEN Associate Editors CATALINA LASSEN VICTORIA PRICE Kosmos Associates Board of Directors NANCY B. ROOF, Chair TARA STUART RHONDA FABIAN, Vice Chair, Treasurer STEPHANIE SHORTER JUDY WICKS JERRY BABER Poetry Editor CAROLYN MARTIN Music Editor…

Essays

EssaysInsights from our community Responsibility Global Social Witnessing By Adrian Wagner and Lukas Herrmann You swipe through your favourite news site while sitting in a train, and you enter the typical bombardment of information. Can you feel the contraction of your chest, the narrowing down of your…

Conversations

ConversationsConscious Dialogue on our theme Worldview The Next Civilization, with Jeremy Lent By Jeremy Lent These received ideas that we have about meaning, how do they actually arise? Whose word are these ideas from? Read more…

Kito Mbiango | The Power of Art to Drive Action

Kito Mbiango’s work speaks nostalgically to our primal intelligence, engaging us in a conscious reflection about our collective evolution. His “Climate Change Collection” is a response to the accelerating environmental degradation we are facing and have imposed upon nature and all wildlife.

Re-Imagining America

We are individually and collectively in the same boat; how do we become more caring, loving human beings while creating a society which fosters equality, relationship, opportunity, freedom and love?