KOSMOS LIVE Podcast | Ma’ikwe Ludwig on Intentional Community

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 6 – Ma'ikwe Ludwig on Intentional…

KOSMOS LIVE Podcast | Joe Brewer on Cultural Design and Midwifing a New Era

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. Balancing a sober understanding of the of the…

KOSMOS LIVE Podcast | Judy Wicks, Engaged Business, Activism, and Local Economy

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. Balancing a sober understanding of the of the…

Kosmos Live! | Mark Gerzon, Mediation in a Time of Division

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. Balancing a sober understanding of the of the…

Dealing With the Darkness of What Humans Do to Humans

This article shows how in response to thuggish forces the qualities of feminine intelligence—available to men as to women—can enable us to take a significant leap in consciousness and demonstrate what anyone can do to build a beautiful future. What we encounter now—in Europe and the Middle East, as in the US—is an upsurge of primitive, brutish forces employing threat, superior power, trickery,…

Silence is Not an Option

“Silence is not an option,” said Martin Luther King while war raged in Vietnam. Now as wars proliferate on every front—political, economic, social, environmental, and in our own psyches, our hearts are breaking. We see the values we cherish and fought for being tossed aside for material gain. We long to create the enlightened society we envision. And we know that action is the way forward.…

Conscious Activism

This Editorial precedes Volume 17, Issue 1 of Kosmos. Scroll down to access featured content. “Silence is not an option,” said Martin Luther King while war raged in Vietnam. Now as wars proliferate on every front—political, economic, social, environmental, and in our own psyches, our hearts are breaking. We see the values we cherish and fought for being tossed aside for material gain. We long to…

Returning Home to Our Place in the Cosmos

The first time I wept for the Earth I was alone in the woods in late summer after a long run. It was, I believe, the combination of runner’s high, a sense of connection to the beautiful natural setting, and the culmination of several months’ personal awakening to the gravity of our ecological crises. I just stood there with my hands on my knees, crying in shock. It was a rare and surprising…

An Interview with Sister Miriam Therese MacGillis at Genesis Farm

If the dynamics of the universe from the beginning shaped the course of the heavens, lighted the sun, and formed the earth, if this same dynamism brought forth the continents and seas and atmosphere, if it awakened life in the primordial cell and then brought into being the unnumbered variety of living beings, and finally brought us into being and guided us safely through the turbulent centuries,…

Subtle Activism: A Way Forward through Chaotic Times

Subtle Activism One of the characteristics of our strange new post-US election world is that things are in such flux that it is difficult to orient ourselves to the new environment and know what actions to take. It is as though many of the established pathways of thought have been blown open, leaving us scrambling to make sense of our new reality. We are being required to re-evaluate our most…