“Every time we make assumptions about what other people feel, do or think, we imprison them and us in a separate reality.” -Franco Santoro

Introduction Editorial

Are You Sure?

By Rhonda Fabian

Where does truth come from? Is truth “out there” to be discovered? Or is it “inside” to be revealed? A very hopeful answer is that truth presents itself in response to our individual and collective need, our yearning for its light. If so, the need is now.

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Article Misinformation

Marching Orders | Covid’s Attention War

By Sarah Hartman-Caverly

The fundamental strategy of information warfare is to sever you from your reality, to intercede in the intimacy between your senses and your sense of the world.

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Article Beauty

Seeing Truth in Van Gogh

By Cynthia Waldman

Van Gogh did not paint a mulberry tree, he painted the life force of the tree. He did not paint stars. He painted the turbulent energy of the cosmos.

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Article global consciousness

The Noosphere Is Here

By William E. Halal

The great Jesuit anthropologist, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, has long fascinated us with his vision that the world would evolve into a “noosphere,” [1] a great web of consciousness enveloping the Earth. It seemed a lovely but distant ideal, yet the Digital Revolution has now made that dream a reality.

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Conversation Transformation

‘Great Turning’ Visionaries | Part 1

By Mattie Porte, Joanna Macy, David Korten, Duane Elgin, Pat McCabe, Dr. Craig F. Schindler, Dr Chris Johnstone

What is the Great Turning? It's the turning away from our self-destruction toward a new era of human dignity, racial justice, environmental restoration, and peace within and peace without. - Craig Schindler

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Mixed Media Video

23 Million Trees Planted!

By One Tree Planted

"All our wisdom is stored in the trees." - Santosh Kalwar

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Credits

Staff and Advisors

Are You Sure? The Cultivation of Belief

Introduction

Editorial
Are You Sure?
Rhonda Fabian
Keynote
Watching River Otters
Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee

Articles

Misinformation
Marching Orders | Covid’s Attention War
Sarah Hartman-Caverly
epistemology
Post-truth Politics and Collective Gaslighting
Natascha Rietdijk
Awareness
Perceptual Intelligence
Brendan Myers
Beauty
Seeing Truth in Van Gogh
Cynthia Waldman
Mental Health
Red Brain, Green Brain
Chara Armon, Ph.D
global consciousness
The Noosphere Is Here
William E. Halal

Conversations

Transformation
‘Great Turning’ Visionaries | Part 1
Mattie Porte, Joanna Macy, David Korten, Duane Elgin, Pat McCabe, Dr. Craig F. Schindler, Dr Chris Johnstone
Transformation
‘Great Turning’ Visionaries | Part 2
Mattie Porte, Joanna Macy, David Korten, Duane Elgin, Pat McCabe, Dr. Craig F. Schindler, Dr Chris Johnstone

Galleries

Extinction
Earthjustice | Working at the Brink
Earthjustice.org
Beauty
Deep Winter
Pixabay

Essays

from a kosmos reader
The Juniper Tree
Trebbe Johnson
from a kosmos reader
Being Brave
Sheersty Stanton
from a kosmos reader
Searching for What We Already Know
Michael Gray
from a kosmos reader
Truth that Affirms and Regenerates All Life
Eric Hutchins

Poetry

Mixed Media

Music
Composer, David Crowe
David Crowe
Video
23 Million Trees Planted!
One Tree Planted