In Loving Memory of Nancy Roof
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Nancy B. Roof, Ph.D., Founder and Editor Emeritus of Kosmos Journal, passed away peacefully at the age of 96 on September 29th, 2025. Nancy’s presence continues through the ongoing work of Kosmos Journal, the communities she helped inspire, and the countless hearts she awakened.
Consciousness Is Irreducible
Physicist and microprocessor pioneer Federico Faggin contends that consciousness is the ground of being, not a by-product of matter. By centering subjective experience and self-knowing, he envisions a science aligned with life’s interiority—one that honors awareness, responsibility, and our capacity to serve the unfolding of life itself.
The UN’s Next Role
By Jem Bendell
Jem Bendell reflects on the disillusionment of UN staff confronting ecological, economic, and political breakdown. Rather than propping up failing systems, he urges a shift toward “collapse-aware” integrity: naming the storm, fostering resilience, and reclaiming the UN’s spirit of service as truth-telling, solidarity, and courage in darkening times.
The Great Enamorment
In this deeply personal reflection, Lauren de Boer traces humanity’s spectacular evolutionary lineage—from stardust to photosynthesis, respiration, and the human hand—toward a renewed faith in life’s creative unfolding. Drawing on Teilhard de Chardin, he names “the great enamorment” as the universe’s love-in-action, calling us to live as conscious ancestors serving future…
Original Politics and the Future of Love
This essay recalls the roots of ecological politics in Indigenous traditions, contrasts them with Western thought, and links them to the modern environmental movement. Recalling ancestral wisdom and women’s knowledge, it envisions a revolution of love, wisdom, and compassion—recovering what was lost to guide humanity toward a more harmonious, life-serving future.
From Leadership to Healership
This co-authored essay proposes a radical evolution of leadership—from directing others to healing the whole. Drawing on science, spiritual wisdom, and the urgency of the polycrisis, the authors frame leadership as a sacred act of stewardship across generations.
Negotiating Fluidity
In this immersive and vividly detailed essay, a visiting artist joins a team of wildlife biologists in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to study common eiders amid a rapidly melting seascape. What begins as a fieldwork adventure unfolds into a deep contemplation of perception, disorientation, and ecological unraveling.
Thorns and Candy
By Hannes Schumacher and Juliet Gómez
A raw post-ceremony dialogue between philosopher Hannes Schumacher and Colombian ayahuasca guide Juliet Goméz. This exchange navigates terror, tenderness, and transformation, revealing how sacred medicine strips illusions, confronts suffering, and reorients us toward balance, humility, and love. A meditation on control, surrender, and the grace of healing.
The Practice of Ecological Mentalizing
Blending the insights of Carl Jung, Iain McGilchrist, and indigenous knowledge systems, the piece articulates a path forward that honors both the analytical mind and the symbolic heart. Ecological mentalizing is framed not as regression to a past worldview, but as the integration of ancient intuition with modern awareness.
The Mythology of Abuse
This essay breaks cultural silences surrounding childhood sexual abuse, revealing how myths of spectacle obscure everyday harm. Through personal truth and somatic practice, Abigail Testaberg explores pathways from fragmentation toward embodied safety and communal care—reminding us that healing is slow, relational work, a form of visible repair in a wounded world.