---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Kosmos Journal <[email protected]> Date: Tue, Sep 15, 2020 at 7:04 PM Subject: Fall Preview: “Rapids of Change” | and a Kosmos Primer To: michel <[email protected]> Making Sense of the Polycrisis *KOSMOS COMMUNITY * [image: Facebook] <https://kosmosjournal.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=a2e6f01f29f00e615c1467a04&id=3ee978159c&e=1714399d97> [image: Twitter] <https://kosmosjournal.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=a2e6f01f29f00e615c1467a04&id=1d3008c6e8&e=1714399d97> [image: Website] <https://kosmosjournal.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=a2e6f01f29f00e615c1467a04&id=f45f1b72e4&e=1714399d97> [image: Instagram] <https://kosmosjournal.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=a2e6f01f29f00e615c1467a04&id=f5f45b40c5&e=1714399d97> Fall Preview: “Rapids of Change” and a Kosmos Primer *Read this newsletter on our website* <https://kosmosjournal.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=a2e6f01f29f00e615c1467a04&id=c73ff51c4d&e=1714399d97> *Dear Reader, * Many *Kosmos* friends are reporting mental confusion and unusual physical fatigue after months of confinement from the pandemic. Devastating fires and floods, the struggle for racial justice, and harsh partisan rhetoric surrounding the upcoming elections, all add to feelings of upheaval and loss. There is also a kind of anticipatory fear as we wonder, “what next?”. Yet, many also believe this is a time of breakthrough and rebirth, even as we mourn the great suffering. We recognize the extraordinary potential in what is emerging, the sacred responsibility of being alive in these times. And we wonder where to turn our attention, how to best serve this evolutionary moment. The changes are breathtaking, our journey shared... *READ MORE* <https://kosmosjournal.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=a2e6f01f29f00e615c1467a04&id=3fc9a9ba93&e=1714399d97> Special Preview Rapids of Change | Our Collective Journey The Autumn edition of *Kosmos* arrives September 19th! We have focused on ways of being and doing that matter most to us right now: developing our empathy and solidarity, decolonizing our views and our institutions, increasing local self-reliance, protecting and defending Mother Earth. This is a very special issue, created in collaboration with #CuraDaTerra (Cure of the Earth) and guest co-editor Alnoor Ladha, <https://kosmosjournal.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=a2e6f01f29f00e615c1467a04&id=07f8edd34f&e=1714399d97> featuring David Abram, Charles Eisenstein, Vandana Shiva, Elisabet Sahtouris, and other transformational thinkers. *We want to make sure you can easily access the 20+ features and articles in the edition. In the past, there may have been some confusion about how to do so. 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She told us "everything in the natural world has consciousness, and if you are given energy, be sure to pass it on - give it away - don't keep it to yourself." * For over twenty-five years Phil Borges has been documenting indigenous and tribal cultures. He often saw these cultures identify “psychotic” symptoms as an indicator of shamanic potential and was intrigued by how differently psychosis is defined and treated in the West. Phil’s recent project, CRAZYWISE, explores the relevance of Shamanic traditional practices and beliefs to those of us living in the 'modern' world. Through interviews with renowned mental health professionals including Gabor Mate, MD, Robert Whitaker, and Roshi Joan Halifax, PhD, Phil explores the growing severity of the mental health crisis in America and discovers a growing movement of professionals and psychiatric survivors who demand alternative treatments that focus on recovery, nurturing social connections, and finding meaning. Members have full access September 19, 2020 / Create a free account <https://kosmosjournal.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=a2e6f01f29f00e615c1467a04&id=89c6cda078&e=1714399d97> Humanity and the Microbe: A Soul Agreement? A Humanity Rising Conversation with Elisabet Sahtouris and Jim Garrison *Elisabet Sahtouris:* Suppose we made a mass agreement of souls to lock ourselves up because it would be the only way for us to get the necessary breather to make a real shift. For the maturation to happen at a global level we had to do the lockdown globally, and the ‘health crisis’ was the only way to do it. So we created a soul level agreement about this pandemic and we locked ourselves up and look what we did very quickly. We had a whole new view of what heroism is, who we look up to as role models. And they were the caregivers, the doctors the nurses the ambulance drivers the mask-makers, everybody who was caring. We have to go universally as humans into caring and sharing, into understanding our oneness, that the crisis affects all of us equally. And the first thing that took us into a different kind of ‘new’ was recognizing that racism had to end, that we are all one, that it is ridiculous to fight each other. We are finally learning the lessons. Members have full access September 19, 2020 / Create a free account <https://kosmosjournal.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=a2e6f01f29f00e615c1467a04&id=53f04a0d6c&e=1714399d97> Creaturely Migrations on a Breathing Planet, by David Abram From: Living Earth Community | Multiple Ways of Being and Knowing …Perhaps it would be useful, now and then, to consider the large, collective migrations of various creatures as active expressions of the earth itself. To consider them as slow gestures of a living geology, improvisational experiments that gradually stabilized into habits now necessary to the ongoing metabolism of the sphere. For truly: are not these cyclical pilgrimages — these huge, creaturely hegiras — also pulsations within the broad Body of earth? Are they not ways that divergent places or ecosystems communicate with one another, trading vital qualities essential to their continued flourishing? Think again of the salmon, this gift born of the rocky gravels and melting glaciers, nurtured by colossal cedars and by tumbled trunks decked with ferns, fungi, and moss, an aquatic, muscled energy strengthening itself in the mossed and forested mountains until it’s ready to be released into the broad ocean. Pouring seaward, it adds itself to that voluminous cauldron of currents spiraling in huge gyres, shaded by algal blooms and charged by faint glissandos of whale song… Until, grown large with the sea’s abundance, this ocean-infused life flows back up the rivers and tributaries and spreads out into the wooded valleys, gifting the hollows and the needled highlands with new minerals and nutrients, feeding bears and osprey and eagles, ensuring that the glinting gift will be reborn afresh from a lump of luminous eggs stashed beneath a layer of pebbles. This circulation, this systole and diastole, is one of the surest signs that this earth is alive — a rhythmic pulse of silvery, glacier-fed brilliance pouring through various arteries into the wide body of the ocean, circulating and growing there, only to return by various veins to the beating heart of the forest, gravid with new life. 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