Conscious Evolution: A Metaphysical Task
The worldwide transformational movement has gained enough critical mass to ensure meaningful impact on our future. But conscious evolution doesn’t come by way of just transforming thoughts and behaviors. It emerges through cultural transfiguration—through metaphysically changing our very ground of being by setting a paradigmatically new fulcrum point for the pendulum of time and space. There is…
Can We Harness Conflict?
Notice that the question in the title is not can we ‘end’ conflict, or even ‘manage’ or ‘contain’ it. These are old and usually unproductive approaches. The more useful question about conflict today is: Can we harness it?
After studying and working directly with conflict around the world for the last quarter century, and now witnessing my home country of America bitterly divided, this question…
Francis Jansen
Francis Jansen was born in 1946 in a small fishing village in the North of Holland. Her father, who was part of the Resistance Movement in war torn Europe, chose to emigrate with his family to Australia when she was 6 years old, settling in Wollongong, N.S.W. Francis completed her formal education in Australia and then, as an adult, moved back to Europe with her family in 1964.
After working…
Susan Eirich
Susan B. Eirich, Ph.D. is Founder and Executive Director of Earthfire Institute, a wildlife sanctuary with a mission to change how humans see and therefore treat wildlife, for all our sakes. The sanctuary lies just west of Grand Teton National Park, where she lives with rescued bears, wolves, bison and other animals native to the Rocky Mountains. She uses her background as a biologist and…
Rama Mani
Dr. Rama Mani is a transformative performance artist, and an artisan of integral peace, justice and education, who is passionate about nurturing an inclusive and regenerative future for all life on Earth.
Dr. Mani is the Co-Founder of Home for Humanity movement for planetary regeneration, together with Professor Alexander Schieffer, her husband. Both are also co-initiators of the new One Home…
New Models and Practices
One cannot merely follow the timetable we have set for our influence on the world, we must also honour and respect the infinitely more complex timetable the world has set for itself. That timetable is the sum of the thousands of independent timetables of an infinite number of natural, historical, and human actions.
~ Vaclav Havel
The new normal is transformation, but what does that really mean?…
Mirror Flourishing: The New Business North Star
David Cooperrider describes how the Appreciative Inquiry Summit—multi-stakeholder planning with a thousand people in the room—brings out the best in human systems: "What we appreciate appreciates—we become what we study—so let's study the concept of full spectrum flourishing."
“We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We…
New Models and Practices
This Editorial precedes Volume 16, Issue 1 of Kosmos. Scroll down to access featured content.
One cannot merely follow the timetable we have set for our influence on the world, we must also honour and respect the infinitely more complex timetable the world has set for itself. That timetable is the sum of the thousands of independent timetables of an infinite number of natural, historical, and…
The Enlivenment Manifesto: Politics and Poetics in the Anthropocene
Rambunctious garden: Red plastic bags and a lone poppy turn the untended lot between two Berlin traffic lanes into a contemporary wasteland.
Key Concepts
The current ideology of dead matter, mechanical causality, and the exclusion of experience from descriptions of reality in ecology and economy are responsible for our failure to protect aliveness in our world.
The challenge of the…
Harmony with Nature
Mr. President, Excellencies, Distinguished Delegates, Ladies and Gentlemen, I am grateful to be able to join today’s fifth dialogue of the General Assembly on “Harmony with Nature” to commemorate International Mother Earth Day as I believe that transformation of our relationship to the Earth is among the greatest challenges and responsibilities of our time.
Bozho. Shaapodaske Gizhgokwe…