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Toward a Regenerative Civilization

Kosmos Journal | Volume 15 Issue 2

This Editorial precedes Volume 15, Issue 2 of Kosmos. Scroll down to access featured content.

The world is going through a systemic transformation from an empire to a planetary era as we create history by the life choices that we are making every day. As a citizen of the world, my care and concern has been for all human beings. Why would I limit my caring, concern, and responsibility for only Americans when my heart beats for friends in many countries—known and unknown.

If we are truly transforming and not just reforming it means achieving a delicate balance. It is, indeed, an art to let go of old personal habits, old institutional structures, and old stories that inhibit the growth of life that wants to flow freely and create anew. It requires skills we are just beginning to learn.

How do we liberate from the past while not judging it ‘bad’ but instead seeing its rightness within the context in which it occurred? When things break down, the personality tends to view this as a problem that needs to be solved—someone or something is wrong or guilty. The soul sees it as a new possibility trying to emerge. This is transformation.

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Kosmos Journal Volume 15 Issue 2

Mystical Anarchism: A Journey to the Borderlands of Freedom

By Alnoor Ladha

How could I continue to legitimize the structures of this world while holding true to my spiritual ideals? How could I subtly regurgitate the premises of Cartesian dualism when I knew they had no model to explain the torment and anguish and heartache that existed all around me? This tension awakened my political sensibilities. I started to understand that one’s politics are simply their morality put into action. I could no longer not act.

Regenerative Development: Going Beyond Sustainability

By Medard Gabel

Sustainable Development is a half-vast approach to vast problems. Its purpose, to make life on this planet sustainable, is a noble disguise for the maintenance of the status quo. When the status quo includes hundreds of millions of acres of degraded to destroyed farmland and leveled rainforest, depleted to exhausted fisheries and aquifers, toxic-choked streams, decreasing biodiversity, and a changing climate, sustainability is simply not acceptable.

Regenerative Economies for a Regenerative Civilization

By John Fullerton

“There is nothing more difficult to plan, nor more dangerous to manage, than the creation of a new system. For the creator has the enmity of all who would profit by the preservation of the old system and merely lukewarm…

Engaged Ecology: Seven Practices to Restore Our Harmony with Nature

By Rhonda Fabian

It has rained steadily through the night, a gentle hushing sound in the thick tree canopy. In the morning light, crickets thrill and every leaf trembles and gleams. Soft mist gently rises as the creek gushes along its deep habitual…

Integral Spirituality

By Ken Wilber

This article is a Kosmos-edited version of a talk given at the Interspiritual conference From Self Care to Earth Care, July 2015. Developmental Levels of Growing Up The specific stages or levels of growing up have been given many different…

They Sang with a Thousand Tongues: The Poetry of Diversity

By Báyò Akómoláfé

Now we can no longer abide economic structure and ideological monologue that considers our wellbeing an afterthought, our lands a lifeless mass of dirt awaiting capitalist redemption, and our cultures a cosmetic distraction from the more serious business of making more money. We cannot listen for too long to the boastings of a pixel pretending to be the entire picture.

Kosmos Journal publishes a diversity of voices that reflect the complexity of our time and the depth of our shared inquiry. The views expressed by individual contributors are their own and do not necessarily reflect those of the Kosmos editorial team, Board of Directors, or affiliated partners. We honor the freedom of expression as a path to deeper understanding, and we strive to hold space for perspectives grounded in compassion, truth-seeking, and the well-being of all Life.

Coming Soon

The Village Way

Practices for Belonging in a Fragmented World

For thousands of years, we lived according to the principles of village life. Then, around the 14th Century, our lives were reorganized by rulers around growth and accumulation – often at the cost of community, equity, and the living Earth. What would it mean to return to simplicity, and mutual care?

Join us for a 9-month inquiry into this question, exploring how we participate together in a time that calls us back to community, resilience, and shared life,