Three Poems
As a spirit traveling through matter on a journey towards an unknown event horizon, poetry has been a record and exploration of the inner experience, thoughts, and feelings of this human voyage in a world that is beautiful, mysterious, radiant, and at times terrifying.
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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…
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 attention, the closing of your heart?
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Editorial
A Story Still Unfolding
By Rhonda Fabian
“Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.” ― Søren Kierkegaard
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Keynote
Holding a Seed for the Future…
Kosmos Quarterly Winter 2019
Real social and environmental work, like real spiritual work, involves facing the darkness…accepting the truth that the journey will be hard and long, as well as full of unexpected miracles and unexplained magic.
– Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee
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Holding a Seed for the Future
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Freedom to Make Music
The Pros and Cons Program in Canada mentors inmates in a music program that focuses on rehabilitation and restorative justice. The program was founded by Hugh Christopher Brown. He and the inmates write, arrange and record songs entirely within the confines of the prison walls.
Healing the Wounded Mind
To have inner strength requires that we carry vision within us. Also, that we learn, or at least accept responsibility for, transmitting that vision.
A Cry for Help
By Michael Gray
I like to consider myself a helper, but when our son, Jon, took his life on Easter weekend of 2019, I could no longer think of myself as a successful helper. In my own eyes, I instantly became a failed one.
Ephemera
In China they understand what a blink a century is...
Thomas Berry and the Rights of Nature
By Mary Evelyn Tucker and John Grim
One of Thomas Berry’s major contributions to what he called the Great Work was his articulation of the principles and philosophy of Earth Jurisprudence.

