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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 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 3
Healing Wealth

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 Trinity of separation, materialism and rationalism at the core of the Western ontology."

Selected Features

Reparation

Cracks in the Wealth Extraction System

By Chuck Collins

In a world plagued by extreme wealth inequality, a surprising movement is stirring among the ultra-wealthy and their advisors. Chuck Collins explores the emergence of dissent within the ranks of the privileged, highlighting efforts to address the harms of concentrated wealth and racial capitalism.

Inheritance

Surrendering Wealth

By Justine Epstein

In this reflective essay, funder-activist Justine Epstein explores the moral and spiritual implications of inheriting wealth in the context of late-stage capitalism and ecological collapse, inviting us to contemplate the possibilities of healing, liberation, and reshaping wealth for a more post capitalist future.

DESCHOOLING

Ineffective Rationalism and Effective Alibis | Part 1

By Alnoor Ladha and Lynn Murphy

In this two-part essay, Ladha and Murphy track the rise of the Effective Altruism and Longtermism movements, and their current influence shaping philanthropy and policy. The essay reveals how the underlying logic and approaches of these “extreme rationalists” is structured to avoid addressing the root causes of social issues.

Worldview

Wealth as Responsiveness to Earth Wisdom

By Tiokasin Ghosthorse

A Lakota elder challenges the prevailing Western notions of ownership and wealth by advocating for a return to the holistic understanding of existence found in Indigenous cultures. He emphasizes the importance of unlearning Western ideologies of possession and relearning Indigenous ways of being, which prioritize community, reciprocity, and harmony with the Earth.

Solidarity

Redefining philanthropy’s purpose and role by centering social movements

By Chung-Wha Hong and Sara Mersha

This essay delves into the pivotal relationship between philanthropy and social movements, challenging traditional paradigms. Emphasizing the need for philanthropy to move beyond mere funding and engage in true allyship with movements, the authors envision a praxis of solidarity philanthropy rooted in liberation.

Degrowth

The Double Objective of Democratic Ecosocialism

By Jason Hickel

Delving into the systemic roots of capitalism contributing to the metacrisis, economic anthropologist Jason Hickel advocates for a revolutionary shift towards Democratic Ecosocialism, proposing the democratization of finance and production; universal access to essential services; and re-prioritizing well-being and ecology as the primary aims of the political economy.

Our Newest Podcast

Deschooling Dialogues
Episode 6 | Alnoor Ladha with Orland Bishop

In this far-ranging dialogue, elder Orland Bishop talks with Alnoor Ladha about what unlearning and de-schooling could look like for concepts such as wealth, money and reciprocity.

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.