Composting Grief | Co-healing with the Earth

The concept of “composting grief’’ resonates as a way of transforming energy into a renewed sense of purpose and growth. I think of this as transmutation or snake medicine: sound, meditation, selfless service, praying, nature, movement. I propose that we explore the concept of a symbiotic relationship between human grief and its impact on the underground microbial life—the microbiome

Biodiversity is Biosecurity

Understanding how life creates a livable Earth radically alters our view of the world. It means that the material (abiotic) world does not simply shape the conditions for the living (biotic) world. The living world also actively shapes the material world in ways that enhances the vibrancy and livability of our planet as a whole. 

The Illusion of Individualism | Breaking Free

What does it mean to truly acknowledge our interconnectedness? In my experience, it involves not just an intellectual, but also an emotional process. Facing the reality of the part we’re playing in the larger organism of life can be both challenging and beautiful.

It’s Time for Beloved Community Circles

Beloved Community Circles is a network of small groups of 5-12 people, geographically local to each other, who make three commitments: to engage in spiritual practice and healing together so that healing and development are core; to come to care deeply for each other’s well-being; and to participate in mindful action of the group’s choosing.

4th Earth Letter on the One Home Journey

4th Earth Letter on the One Home Journey By Alexander Schieffer Published  | Comments 0       18 December 2024  Dear Friends and Co-Creators on the One Home Journey, The truly extraordinary first season of the One Home Journey in the home continent of our common origin, AFRICA, is culminating this 21 December 2024! We…

Deschooling Dialogues | Alnoor Ladha with Vanessa Andreotti

DESCHOOLING DIALOGUES Episode 7 – Alnoor Ladha with Vanessa Andreotti Alnoor Ladha | Welcome to the Deschooling Dialogues. This podcast is a co-creation between Culture Hack Labs and Kosmos Journal. Culture Hack Labs is a not-for-profit advisory that supports organizations, social movements and activists to create cultural interventions for systems change. You can learn more@culturehack.io.…

Guided by Nature

featured photo by Michael Krahn This Editorial precedes Volume 24, Issue 5 of Kosmos. Scroll down to access featured content. Dear Kosmos Reader, Modernity and Nature have reached a reckoning. 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,…

The End of Human Supremacy

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.

When Wolves Returned to Yellowstone – Twenty-five Years On

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.