Art in a Time of Catastrophe
By Peter Reason and Sarah Gillespie
At such a time, are the arts irrelevant, a luxury? To the contrary, they have an essential place both in grieving for what is lost and in imagining new human possibilities.
From What Is to What If
By Rob Hopkins
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.
Two Poems
There is hazard in being nameless and this warning is for you...
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…
Holding a Seed for the Future
The future will not be as we have planned—our world is already too far out of balance. But this may be our most important gift to future generations—a belief in living Oneness.
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?
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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.
Active Hope | Time with Joanna Macy
She is close to ninety, and I wanted to be able to work with her before she completely passes the baton to others.
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?

