Being Taught by Sacred Pain
"In an attempt to keep us feeling individualized and separate from the land-metabolism, modernity takes away our sense of the unquestionable value of life and instead creates a fundamental void that we associate with worthlessness. To feel a temporary sense of self-worth, we are made to produce stuff that modernity recognizes as valuable. To feel a sense of completion, we are made to accumulate…
Home April 2023
Volume 25 Issue 3The New Coherence
Healing Wealth
Welcome to a special issue of Kosmos, 'Healing Wealth', curated by guest editors Alnoor Ladha and Lynn Murphy.
"This issue includes a breadth and depth of perspectives and offerings towards the healing of wealth. We direct our lens at the global operating system of neoliberalism, and what we describe as the Unholy…
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…
Connecting for Change: Insights from an Emerging Global Transformation Movement
“The present convergence of crises–in money, energy, education, health, water, soil, climate, politics, the environment, and more–is a birth crisis, expelling us from the old world into a new.”
~ Charles Eisenstein
You might say it is the dark night of the planetary soul. Here we are in the midst of an ecological nightmare some are calling irreversible. The weight of war and human suffering…