Inner Dimensions of Systems Transformation

At both individual and societal levels, it’s possible to develop the cognitive, emotional, and relational capacities to better comprehend and navigate complexity. Wisdom traditions have long advocated the societal benefits of cultivating heart and mind, and contemporary research is beginning to catch up. Science shows that adults develop psychologically throughout life, that practice can…

‘Fourth Person’ | Collective Sensing

The number one problem facing humanity today is our sense that we are powerless to change any of it. The old ways of knowing and acting in our world are no longer sufficient. Our systems are collapsing. If we are going to serve societal transformation in the face of this collapse, as we believe is fully possible, we need to draw on a new form of knowing—knowing for transformative action.

Kosmos Autumn 2020 Gallery of Poets

  Cynthia Anderson Becoming Sequoia To live for thousands of years,  you can’t be perturbed  by every insect or squirrel  or change in the weather.  When wildfire scorches your skin, you heal and keep  going. Your intention protects  you like an amulet – you push  upward according to plan,  knuckled base nestled  against earth like a fist. You  follow the ways of a shaman,…

Kosmos Fall 2021 Gallery of Poets

Kate Meyer-Currey Trailblazers: Opening the Doors of Neurodiverse Perception Welcome to the neurotypical world, neurodivergent changeling. It wasn’t your choice to be born this way, under such a wayward star.  You’ll find equality legislation hasn’t got with our different beat yet; the way is full of pitfalls like closed doors and glass ceilings.  So here are some of my tips to start you off…

Kosmos Winter 2022 Gallery of Poets

Gloria Heffernan The Navajo Way Dark eyes averted, tongues silent, the children listen as their grandmothers taught them to while the schoolteacher prods and pushes, demanding answers to validate her good intentions. Listening to the Earth they trust the answers to reveal themselves in the stories of the elders, the bird song at dawn. Listening to experts she dictates answers trusting in tests to…

Kosmos Gallery of Poets for the Sacred Season

Andrea Potos When the Consolation of a Word Comes to You Not detach, which sounds too much about the retina, and this is not about the eye but the heart, and its gates–– unlatch and allow yourself to roam beyond what is hurting you, further into the fields and meadows––there, find a spot to kneel down in the deep, fragrant grasses, make a bed for your body where the summer is still singing…

Ineffective Rationalism and Effective Alibis | Part 1

In this two-part essay, Ladha and Murphy track the rise of the Effective Altruism and Longtermism movements, and their current influence shaping philanthropy and policy. The essay reveals how the underlying logic and approaches of these “extreme rationalists” is structured to avoid addressing the root causes of social issues.

Other People’s Children

A poem by Colin Greer, President of the New World Foundation. He has published several social science books as well as numerous books of poetry. He was a founding editor of Social Policy Magazine and Change Magazine, and wrote a column for Parade Magazine for almost 20 years. He wrote this poem in response to the myriad, often silenced, crisis affecting children in the US and around the world.

The Double Objective of Democratic Ecosocialism

Delving into the systemic roots of capitalism contributing to the metacrisis, economic anthropologist Jason Hickel advocates for a revolutionary shift towards Democratic Ecosocialism, proposing the democratization of finance and production; universal access to essential services; and re-prioritizing well-being and ecology as the primary aims of the political economy.