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24 Years of Conscious PublishingGrounded in Spirit...Sustained by Beauty

A warm welcome from Kosmos – the celebrated journal for transformation

Now in our third decade, Kosmos Journal informs, engages and inspires by sharing transformational thinking, practice and policy grounded in spiritual wisdom and aesthetic beauty. We believe a new consciousness is rising, no longer based on greed and competition, but on healing and cooperation in harmony with all Life. This profound Shift calls us to hospice the era that is passing away and participate in the birth of a new one, guided by principles of interbeing, collective intelligence, and sacred action.

We are heartened to see many signs of this Shift happening now and invite you to participate in its unfolding with Kosmos.

“In addition to examining and changing our personal inner lives and our cultural values, the conscious activist is challenged to apply this wisdom to strategies that affect the manifest world. We balance action and reflection, working with a fierce heart at all scales from the personal, to local, to national, to global and even kosmic levels.”

— Nancy Roof, Founder of Kosmos

Our Current Issue

Volume 24 Issue 5
Guided by Nature

Guided by Nature

Welcome to the newest issue of Kosmos, 'Guided by Nature'. Click here for the full list of features and to read the Editorial: "In the over-developed world, many of us mourn the Earth’s losses, yet feel unable to break free of modernity’s grip. This dependency impacts everything, from the food we eat to the ways we work, communicate, and raise our children. The more we consume, the more troubled we feel. Deep down, we know that something must change. The Earth can no longer sustain our overreach and is suffering. And yet, the Earth and we are part of a much bigger story..."

Selected Features

Earth Wisdom

The End of Human Supremacy

By Arkan Lushwala

The healing of the world will be created through the cooperation of everyone who lives on Earth...The Earth knows how to heal the Earth better than anyone. Remembering to listen to all the beings of nature that are not only asking for help but also offering their wise medicine will be the long-awaited end of human supremacy.

Biology

Nature’s Guide to Ending Our Diet Wars

By Elisabet Sahtouris, PhD

Can we agree to re-integrating plants and animals as they were evolved to live together? We can do this by promoting integrated organic farms, as well as by regreening desertified land. The clear energy efficiency of doing so will actually mitigate climate change much better than simply going vegan—and going vegan will still be just as available an option, side by side with other diets.

Oceans

Like Water and Wind | Resisting Massive Offshore Energy Projects in the Pacific Northwest

By Erica Shugart

The Pacific Ocean is the largest wilderness on the planet, home to millions of species. Life is most abundant near the shore: undersea reefs, kelp forests, seabirds, and whale migrations. Yet from Northern California to Alaska, the coast of the Pacific Northwest is increasingly threatened by industrial-scale offshore energy projects.

Beauty

A Wild Love for the World

By Betsey Crawford

From our limited point of view, the problem is that Earth’s evolutionary time frame is long, full of fits and starts, trending backward and forward. Given the arc of history, there are no assurances that we will be born into a peaceful time or place. This is very discomforting for the human race at this precarious point, especially for those starting in life, afraid their generation may see us out.

Animals

When Wolves Returned to Yellowstone – Twenty-five Years On

By Randall K. Wilson, PhD

How can it be that the return of wolves could somehow alter Yellowstone’s rivers and streams? Or that the presence of wolves would result in an increase in songbirds or amphibians? No one saw these things coming. Though still debated, the concept of the “trophic cascade” offers one explanation of what has transpired.

Nature

Reestablishing Kinship with All Life in a Time of Chaos

By Leah Rampy

"This powerful being, so seldom seen by most of us, leaves us breathless. I look at the faces, each one with huge smiles of pure joy. “Did you see that? Did you see that?” The sky, the sea, the birds, the humpbacks, all create a symphony of beauty and connection that captures us fully and completely. Everything exists only in this time, this place."

Our Newest Podcast

Deschooling Dialogues
Episode 7 | Alnoor Ladha with Vanessa Andreotti

Vanessa de Oliveira Andreotti, is a scholar, activist, organizer, and Dean of Education at the University of Victoria. She is author of Hospicing Modernity: Facing humanity’s wrongs and the implications for social activism

More Podcasts of Note

the way out is in

with JO CONFINO and BROTHER PHAP HUU

This podcast series is aimed at helping us to transcend our fear and anger so that we can be more engaged in the world in a way that develops love and compassion.

the beautiful question

with SCOTT LENNOX

As you listen to these intentionally brief podcasts, you can allow yourself the gift of Stillness, out of which Clarity will naturally arise. You will then be listening to the wisdom of your innate self.

kosmos live!

PREPARING FOR PROFOUND CHANGE

This podcast series, Preparing for Profound Change, explores the shifting global landscape. Economic collapse, climate chaos, political upheaval – these may seem like forces to fear, but in fact offer us deep opportunities for transformation.

sounds of sand

Science and Nonduality

Sounds of SAND is a podcast from Science and Nonduality which contemplates and reveres the beauty, complexity, pain, and great mystery that weave the infinite cycles of existence.

deschooling dialogues

with ALNOOR LADHA

A collaboration between Culture Hack Labs and Kosmos Journal, the first season explores some of the basics of deschooling, including decolonization practices, alternatives to traditional education, discoveries from the edges of social justice movements, and the deep time lessons of Indigenous wisdom and knowledge systems.