Our Thought Partners

Our thinking is influenced by a growing family of inspiring organizations working at the glowing edge of positive change. Here is a partial list of those in service to the global transformation 'movement of movements'. The Global Ecovillage Network (GEN) catalyzes communities for a regenerative world. GEN is a growing network of regenerative communities and initiatives that bridge cultures,…

The Story of Kosmos

By Nancy Roof, Founder and Editor Emeritus | Kosmos Journal My Story: Changing Myself to Change the World You could say that it’s been a lifetime quest. As far back as I can remember I was asking, Who am I? What am I here for? Where did I come from? What should I be doing with my life? I am grateful to my family for not indoctrinating me with any particular religion or belief system. My…

KOSMOS LIVE Podcast | Andreas Weber, On Matter and Desire

KOSMOS LIVE PODCAST SERIES Preparing for Profound Change This podcast series, Preparing for Profound Change, explores the shifting global landscape and offers strategies for coping with what lies ahead. Economic turmoil, climate chaos, political upheaval – these may seem like forces to fear, but in fact offer us deep opportunities for transformation. JOIN KOSMOS COMMUNITY FOR FRESH INSIGHTS…

The Heart of Awakening

featured photo by Michael Krahn This Editorial precedes Volume 17, Issue 2 of Kosmos. Scroll down to access featured content. Many of us are confused, angry, fearful, grieving, insecure. We watch in disbelief as our world begins to crumble—torrential rains, tornado winds, mass shootings, threat of nuclear annihilation, breakdown of civil discourse, drug addiction, fake news, economic inequality,…

The Soul of Humanity and the New Civilization

The things we now esteem fixed shall, one by one, detach themselves like ripe fruit from our experience and fall... The soul looketh steadily forwards, creating a world before her, leaving worlds behind her. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson In the Ageless Wisdom teachings,* one of the names given to the soul is the Observer. It is the aspect of ourselves that allows us to step back from the turmoil of life…

The Heart of Awakening

Many of us are confused, angry, fearful, grieving, insecure. We watch in disbelief as our world begins to crumble—torrential rains, tornado winds, mass shootings, threat of nuclear annihilation, breakdown of civil discourse, drug addiction, fake news, economic inequality, paralyzed government, deniers of climate change, a broken justice system and the breakdown of infrastructure that is supposed…

KOSMOS LIVE Podcast | Deepak Chopra on Conscious Evolution

KOSMOS LIVE PODCAST SERIES Preparing for Profound Change This podcast series, Preparing for Profound Change, explores the shifting global landscape and offers strategies for coping with what lies ahead. Economic turmoil, climate chaos, political upheaval – these may seem like forces to fear, but in fact offer us deep opportunities for transformation. Episode 8 – Deepak Chopra on Conscious…

William Keepin

William Keepin, PhD is co-founder of the Satyana Institute and the Gender Reconciliation International project, which has organized more than 100 workshops and trainings in nine countries for social healing between women and men. Keepin has studied and practiced intensively in Eastern and Western spiritual disciplines for 35 years, and immersed himself in contemplative practices from the…

Liminal Leadership

“We live in a world in which distrust and greed and violence masquerade as common sense, and in which the pathways of distrust and greed and violence are rapidly becoming self-validating. By following those pathways, we create the social and international structures, the premises upon which we must live. By choosing the ‘common sense’ of distrust, we choose also the progressive truth of distrust.…

KOSMOS LIVE Podcast | William Ury on Mediation and the Middle Way

KOSMOS LIVE PODCAST SERIES Preparing for Profound Change This podcast series, Preparing for Profound Change, explores the shifting global landscape and offers strategies for coping with what lies ahead. Economic turmoil, climate chaos, political upheaval – these may seem like forces to fear, but in fact offer us deep opportunities for transformation. Episode 7 – William Ury, on Mediation and…