Are We Choosing Collective Suicide?
Dear Reader,
A young man I love took his life last week by plunging from a bridge. Seven hundred people attended his funeral. Despite his enormous gifts – privilege, wit, intelligence, talent – his despair consumed him. However, his suffering was not extinguished by the choice he made in the early dawn. It was transferred to all of us who love him. We must carry his pain now, and transform it.…
Jem Bendell
Dr Jem Bendell is a Professor of Sustainability Leadership and Founder of the Institute for Leadership and Sustainability (IFLAS) at the University of Cumbria (UK).
He focuses on leadership and communications for social change, as well as approaches that may help humanity face climate-induced disruption.
A graduate of the University of Cambridge, he had twenty years of experience in…
Finding Wisdom at the Edges
by Alain Ruche, Kosmos Ambassador
Mindset is our established set of attitudes, and worldview our particular philosophy of life or 'picture' of the world. Even minimal self-awareness will reveal to us how constrained our personal range of vision truly is. This is why looking at things from another angle is so critical in our complex, interconnected, unpredictable and rapidly changing world. If…
Alan Levin
Alan Levin became licensed as a psychotherapist in1985, integrating the wide scope of his work with individuals and groups. His studies and teaching have included meditation and shamanic practices for over 45 years. In 1990, he founded Holos Institute, a California non-profit corporation, in which he trained and supervised intern therapists focusing on bringing together spirituality and…
Kit Storjohann
Kit Storjohann studied Creative Writing at Binghamton University. In addition to photography and teaching meditation, he enjoys being a proud member of The North Fork Writers’ Group, and enjoys a continual exploration of human nature through all places and epochs.
Christine Locher
Christine Locher is a London-based cosmopolitan, Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and the Learning and Performance Institute. Christine, in the 5th half of her 20s, has experience on the corporate side and with startups, and over a decade of experience in high-pressure environments (3 of the top 5 consulting companies). She has done lots of work in tech and is unapologetically #TeamHuman.…
Sky Nelson-Isaacs
Sky Nelson-Isaacs is an author and physics educator building a foundation for a scientific understanding of synchronicity in our modern world.
Sky has a masters degree in physics from San Francisco State University, has had careers in education, in the software industry, and in music, and has spent the past twenty years studying synchronicity, with the last 12 years publishing academic papers on…
Diana Turner-Forte
DIANA TURNER-FORTE is a Teaching Artist in Dance and Movement with a foundational and
professional performing background in Classical Ballet. She is the Founder and Artistic Director
of Choreographic Institute of North Carolina, an organization which trains young people (boys
and girls) in the art of classical ballet. She is licensed to teach Silver Swans © a program aimed at
older adults…
Gary Horvitz
Gary is retired, a writer and activist in Durham, NC. Dancing and grieving at the ever-whirling edge of creation and destruction is the best he can do these days. Rilke helps:
What batters you becomes your strength.
Move back and forth into the change.
What is it like, such intensity of pain?
If the drink is bitter, turn yourself to wine.
Featured Poet | Nanette Lashuay
An Unexpected Heaven
I once went nose-to-nose with a snake, a red-specked garter
basking on the path, too content—it seemed—to flee at my approach.
I seized the invitation, bellied-down, and inched over on my elbows
to contemplate the rightness of a snake’s life.
Up close, silicate particles glitter star-size in the dust, many shining
shades of green compose the grass. Skimming shadows…