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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. 

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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.

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"As I watch the full moon rise above the dark skies of Gaza, all I can think of is the state of moral bankruptcy in the world that has allowed this genocide to go on for more than a year. Amid all of this, how do we – Palestinians still surviving in Gaza – preserve our humanity? How do we maintain our moral compass when everything around us is urging us to let it go?"

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24 Years of Conscious Publishing Grounded 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, [...]

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What are the fundamental questions that humans alive at this particular moment in time should ask of themselves? What conjectures should we spend time pondering in order to realize a framework by which we may live hopeful, meaningful lives in the Anthropocene? By finding the right questions, we can inoculate ourselves to despair and focus our energy on the more productive pastures of vision and method.

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Trickster mythologies often teach us about the necessity for human culture to embrace and maintain a relationship with the marginal wilds of the natural world and the soul itself. In countless fairy tales, an ailing kingdom is revived by a heroine or hero taking a journey beyond its boundaries. The medicine needed most is almost always found in the dark forest, not in the comforting lights of home.

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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.

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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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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