Nancy B. Roof

Nancy Roof, Ph.D. is Founder and Editor Emeritus of the award-winning Kosmos Journal: Global Transformation in Harmony with all Life, based on evolving interior development and cultural values as they impact globalization and world community.

Nancy won the 2009 Images and Voices of Hope award for journalism as a tool to inform, inspire and engage individual and collective participation in a global shift to higher-level thinking. In 2004, Kosmos was nominated by Utne for excellence. Her testimony on the human dimension of the United Nations was distributed to the US President and Congress. She addressed 184 governments at the UN conference on Social Development on values.

As a founder of Transpersonal Psychology (late 70s), she served as a spiritual guide to individuals for 20 years. In the late 80s, she began to define the field of global transformation at the United Nations, where she successfully lobbied for elevated global standards in international treaties and co-founded the Values Caucus (1994) and the Spiritual Caucus (2000).

Working with 78 international organizations in war zones for over two years, she recognized the traumatic effect of war, not only on military personnel, but on their families, communities and service providers. She then designed the first global training programs and workbook on secondary traumatic stress, implemented initially during the Balkan wars and now used internationally.

She is a founding member of the Global Commons Initiative, World Wisdom Council, Creating the New Civilization Initiative, 2020 Climate Leadership Campaign, Ken Wilber’s Integral Institute, WorldShift 2012 (Ervin Laszlo), Global Alliance for Transformational Entertainment, a fellow of Findhorn, a Board member of Integral Review, Lifebridge Sanctuary, a member of the Research Advisory Board of Ethical Markets and Living Earth TV, and a speaker at Mikhail Gorbachev’s World Political Forum.

Her beloveds are three children, six grandchildren, three great grandchildren, and two very special dogs.

www.kosmosjournal.org

Nancy B. Roof in Kosmos

The Ageless Wisdom of Nancy Roof

"Those who study the ageless wisdom are aware that the universe is organized around cycles and rhythms of transformation. Dark times precede transformative breakthroughs. We are called to dig deeper to understand and address the metacrisis. This means letting go of belief systems that sustain the dysfunctional society we live in."

Published in Volume 2023 Issue 5

10 Years Ago | A Reflection on the Purpose of Kosmos

Kosmos is for those who want to participate in the global transformation from industrial society to the new civilization. It is for all of us who have been disillusioned with the greed, materialism, disrespect and deep suffering caused by inequities in harnessing the world’s resources and wealth. It is for those who want to hear the finest, most noble voices of the future. It is for those for whom heart is as central as mind. It is for those burning with passion to make a difference.

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The Heart of Awakening

When we understand our interdependence with all of life, love-wisdom and global consciousness become natural.

Published in Fall | Winter 2017, Volume 17 Issue 2

Silence is Not an Option

Silence is not an option! 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.

Published in Spring | Summer 2017

Evolution of Kosmos

Our long-term vision has not changed over all these years. What has changed is how different aspects of the vision come and go into awareness.

Published in Fall | Winter 2016

New Models and Practices

Our Mission calls us to develop new skills and capacities—to make practices such as mindfulness central to mastery over our emotions and thoughts, not only for peace of mind, but as a responsibility to others who are affected by our moods and thoughts, as neuroscience research now affirms.

Published in Spring | Summer 2016

Activists for the Evolution of Life

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.

Published in Fall | Winter 2015, Volume 15 Issue 2

The Gift of Life

Awakening to life and becoming such a channel can often ask unexpected things in our own evolution. Along the way, somewhat like the butterfly in metamorphosis, we cannot yet see what we are becoming.

Published in Spring | Summer 2015, Volume 15 Issue 1

The Emerging New Story

Published in Spring | Summer 2014

High-Level Forum on the Culture of Peace

We are new humans with a new consciousness and capacity for peaceful and non-violent change. We realize that we must change ourselves to change the world.

Published in Fall | Winter 2013

The Emerging New Paradigm

Published in Spring | Summer 2013

Reflective Approaches to Social Activism

In a world aflame with greed, corruption, inequality and environmental devastation, the quiet victories happening worldwide often go unnoticed.

Published in Fall | Winter 2012

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,