Home December 2024

24 Years of Conscious PublishingGrounded 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, 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 happening now 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 25 Issue 2
What Water Can Teach Us

What Water Can Teach Us

Welcome to the newest issue of Kosmos. Click here for the full list of features and to read the Editorial: "In this time of accelerating climate crisis, social unraveling, and spiritual amnesia, water offers us more than survival. It offers us wisdom. This issue of Kosmos emerges from a simple but radical question: What can water teach us—if we listen? What if water is not just part of the story, but the story itself?"

Selected Features

Regeneration

Following Water’s Wisdom

By Martin Winiecki

Earth has an enormous capacity for regeneration. It’s possible to restore Earth’s natural climate regulating systems through decentralized rain water retention, reforestation and regenerative agriculture. We realized that in times of perpetual government failure to do something about the climate crisis, this good news needed to be spread, urgently.

Action

The Mycelial Art of Soft Rebellion

By Shannon Willis

Soft rebellion refuses urgency and exhaustion. It listens, weaves, and roots. It resists not by mirroring violence, but by embodying tenderness as strategy—disrupting systems with care, beauty, and the quiet cunning of the wild.

Species

Where the Water Waits

By Brooke Williams

I’ve been sitting at this pond for ten minutes and have seen only eight dragonflies: my young male, six other meadowhawks, and two great mossy darners. According to my journal, I observed eight different species here exactly a year ago. Although one hummingbird and two violet-green swallows are here hunting them, insects seem scarce.

Initiation

Flesh and Blood | On the Sacraments of Survival

By Chris Christou

Today, it is often only the presence of sustenance that gets acknowledged. The absence of such things is almost exclusively spoken of as poverty. But what if this contemporary poverty arises not from sustenance’s presence, but from having forgotten what is absent in that recognition?

Wholeness

The Gravity of Love | Water, Eros, and the Sacred Web of Life

By Glenn Aparicio Parry

We all came from the sea and grew up together. We are water beings, connected through water. This is a large part of what makes us relatives. We came from water, and we have never really separated from water. Water is our lifeblood. Our hearts are made of water.

Mind

The Unintelligent Age

By Matt Taylor

We have lost the perspective and humility to see ourselves as one very young species in the billion year timeline of life on earth. Through the arrogance of extraction, we have lost touch with collective humility. In the rush of rationalisation, we have lost touch with collective empathy.

Elements

The Way of Water

By Diana Badger

The water element partakes of the Divine Feminine, both astrologically and alchemically. In the psychology of alchemy, one strives towards a perfect balance between the elements within an individual. The alchemical term for water processes, solutio, means “transformation by water.”

Our Newest Podcast

Deschooling Dialogues
Episode 8 | Alnoor Ladha with Bayo Akomolafe

In this conversation, Bayo Akomolafe and Alnoor Ladha explore the entanglements of identity, activism, whiteness, and emergence in a time of planetary crisis. Subscribe to Deschooling Dialogues.

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.

Contributor Spotlight

PERSPECTIVES

Ideas that support our ethos

The system within: Addressing the inner dimensions of sustainability and systems transformation | Club of Rome

7 Steps Back and 7 Steps Forward (or Aside), Gesturing Toward Decolonial Futures

4th Person: The Knowing of the Field | Otto Scharmer and Eva Pomeroy

The Fourteen Mindfulness Trainings of Thich Nhat Hanh

Prefixing the World, Jonathan Rowson

Deep Adaptation: A Map for Navigating Climate Tragedy, Jem Bendell

Uncivilization: Dark Mountain Manifesto, The Dark Mountain Project

An Integral Theory of Consciousness, Ken Wilber

DEEPEN YOUR CONNECTION

Kosmos accepts no advertising or sponsored content.

Everything is offered freely.

We rely completely on the support of our Readers.

GO DEEPERDONATE TO KOSMOS

VIDEO SPOTLIGHT

AT WORK IN THE RUINS

Dougald Hine is a social thinker, writer and speaker. After an early career as a BBC journalist, he co-founded organisations including the Dark Mountain Project and a school called HOME. His latest book is At Work in the Ruins: Finding Our Place in the Time of Science, Climate Change, Pandemics & All the Other Emergencies (2023).

Conversations

Feature

Staff Selections

Technology

Art and Beauty

Voices

More from Kosmos

Journey

24

YEARS OF CONSCIOUS
PUBLISHING

14,000+

MEMBERS IN
OUR COMMUNITY

1,900

ARTICLES IN
OUR OPEN ARCHIVE

1.6m

ENGAGE WITH
KOSMOS