Sesto Castagnoli
Sesto Giovanni Castagnoli, Evolutant, World Citizen
Sesto Castagnoli has wide experience as an international entrepreneur, development consultant and spiritual bridge builder. He advises companies and individuals and gives lectures and workshops on issues of Spirituality in Business Life, Natural Economic and Financial Systems, Mutual Understanding of Cultures and Religions, Noosphere and…
David Nicol
David T. Nicol, PhD, is co-founder and Director of the Gaiafield Project (http://gaiafield.net) and the Institute for Subtle Activism. His recent book Subtle Activism: The Inner Dimension of Social and Planetary Transformation is the first comprehensive study of the idea that our focused collective intention can powerfully contribute to social change. He is also co-founder of BeThePeace, one of…
Julie Jordan Avritt
Julie Jordan Avritt is a writer, editor, and advisor, serving high-caliber, high-integrity cultural change agents on a mission to heal our world. With visionary thinker Seth Kahan, founder of Visionary Leadership in Washington, D.C., she is co-authoring the forthcoming graphic book: Grand Challenge: How Leaders Grow their Businesses by Addressing the World’s Most Intractable Problems.
Evolution of Kosmos
A recent question really got me thinking. Since 2001, Kosmos’ integral, evolutionary approach has informed, inspired, and engaged personal, institutional, and global transformation. How has the direction changed during those 16 years?
As I contemplated this question, I realized that our long-term vision has not changed over all these years. What has changed is how different aspects of the…
Unheard Invitations: Piercing the Veil Between Species
The wild animals are lonely for us.
We are lonely for them.
We have become disconnected from each other.
What if we expanded our sense of community to truly include all living beings? Included their perspectives, needs, and gifts? What would be the state of our environment then?
Runs-Like-the-Wind
In 2000, I founded Earthfire Institute, a wildlife sanctuary, and lived with rescued…
Open Group Practice: Eight Social Selves
In 2012, after retiring from my professional career, I was eager to participate in some of the practices I had read about that facilitated group practices aimed at realizing emergent capacities. My working hypothesis was that it could be possible for people to participate in ways that would catalyze new cognitive and conative capacities such as multi-perspectival awareness, sensory clarity,…
The Predicament of Knowledge: A Challenge for Culture Design
Imagine if we collectively knew all that is needed to solve the hardest social problems in the world. Whether it’s political corruption or mass poverty, ecological devastation or terrorism, the refugee crisis or structural racism, the root causes for all of these issues are deeply and systemically cultural.
So what if we already knew how to design changes in culture and solve problems like…
The Power of Wetiko: Looking in the Mirror to Solve the Global Crisis
In the last edition of Kosmos Journal, my brother-in-arms and I wrote about the Algonquin concept of wetiko.1 It was part of a campaign we were preparing at /TheRules2 to introduce the idea to a wider audience, a campaign that Kosmos has been graciously supporting by publishing that original article, then a wetiko themed newsletter, and now this piece.
The idea behind the campaign was to offer…
Imago Integralis: The Aesthetics of Integral Life
I. Longing for the Integral Life
This article introduces a new integral perspective on life and provides clues of what it might mean to live life as a contribution to the cultural renewal, aesthetic unfolding, and holistic development of self and society, community and institutions, people and planet.
It is rooted in over a decade of developing, together with Ronnie Lessem and a growing…
Theatre of Transformation
Time for a Paradigm Change
We aren’t here just to make a little noise.
We’re here to change the paradigm.
– Neema Namadamu, peacemaker, DR Congo
Today, the world appears to hurtle towards irreversible manmade disaster on all fronts. However, breakdowns are being accompanied by breakthroughs. Since 2000, as crises have multiplied, decision-makers have persisted in buttressing dysfunctional…