---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Kosmos Journal <[email protected]> Date: Tue, Aug 12, 2014 at 7:00 PM Subject: Slower, Deeper, More Simple To: [email protected] Click here <http://kosmosjournal.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=a2e6f01f29f00e615c1467a04&id=4a23ba3581&e=60482295ca> to read this newsletter on our website. [image: Kosmos Newsletter] <http://kosmosjournal.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=a2e6f01f29f00e615c1467a04&id=9734ba210e&e=60482295ca> DECEMBER 31, 1969 NEWSLETTER Slower, Deeper, More Simple Faster, bigger, more complex, more powerful. This is the vocabulary of modern life we often draw upon to describe our science, technology and human interactions. But maybe the very way we language our world separates us from living more integrally in connection with these fields. If something is so big and fast and complicated, how can we have a relationship to it that is useful or enduring? Each of the articles we have gathered for you addresses a shift that needs to take place so we can take ownership of our science, technology and communication at a more personal and local level. A shift from fast science to slow science, from big data to deeper data, from ‘defining’ our world to ‘characterizing’ it, and a shift to an international relations based not on the hegemony of a single nation or group of nations, but on regional interdependence. We hope you find these essays encouraging. At Kosmos we believe the more beautiful, equitable world we long for is within our reach and we see the signs of transformation everywhere and at every level: personal, local, regional and global – in our ways of thinking and acting, within our social institutions, and in alignment with an emerging, living and intentional universe.We admire the authors in this newsletter greatly: Otto Scharmer, Craig Holdrege, Douglas Rushkoff, Amitav Acharya – true visionary thinkers. *Your voice is equally valuable! We want to remind you the deadline for reader’s essays is in a few days – August 15. Please use the form at the website to send your submisions <http://kosmosjournal.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=a2e6f01f29f00e615c1467a04&id=2c6fc66345&e=60482295ca>.* And lastly, check out a special global concert event for the International Day of Peace, September 21. We will have a full listing of events for this day, which is sure to be historic, in our next newsletter. Until then, we at Kosmos send you deepest peace and joy. ------------------------------ <http://kosmosjournal.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=a2e6f01f29f00e615c1467a04&id=cae8802084&e=60482295ca> Subscribe to Kosmos Journal Become a subscriber to Kosmos Journal today. As a subscriber you will have access to the latest issue of Kosmos Journal. Click here for more information <http://kosmosjournal.us3.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=a2e6f01f29f00e615c1467a04&id=91bfa2ffdc&e=60482295ca> . ------------------------------ <http://kosmosjournal.us3.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=a2e6f01f29f00e615c1467a04&id=9dadeee0c3&e=60482295ca> Donate to Kosmos We depend greatly on the generosity of donations from our readers to continue publishing this unique and timely Journal, website and bi-weekly newsletter. 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If we can bring students into this way of knowing, we are preparing them for a life in a world that will not offer them pat solutions, but demand from them the ability to grow and form new ideas in relation to new and unforeseen demands.” -Craig Holdrege READ MORE → <http://kosmosjournal.us3.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=a2e6f01f29f00e615c1467a04&id=1ed9d6abf6&e=60482295ca> ------------------------------ <http://kosmosjournal.us3.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=a2e6f01f29f00e615c1467a04&id=c7b5c6f900&e=60482295ca> Why We Need a Slow Science <http://kosmosjournal.us3.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=a2e6f01f29f00e615c1467a04&id=6fdcb05783&e=60482295ca> In the inaugural edition of The Technologist, Douglas Rushkoff offers a brief essay about shifting our thinking away from ‘present shock’ interventions to preventions: “…it’s an emphasis on obvious fixes to calamity, rather than long-term approaches to prevention. So in medicine, for example, we have developed some terrific chemotherapies for cancer, while refusing to grant serious attention to the role of nutrition, herbs or, dare I even mention them, chiropractic and homeopathy on a patient’s wellness. The real abhorrence of such modalities may have less to do with unscientific foundations than with their paucity of dramatic results. A patient population that is less likely to contract cancer or diabetes may be a statistical victory, but it’s hardly as dramatic as a cure.” – Douglas Rushkoff READ MORE → <http://kosmosjournal.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=a2e6f01f29f00e615c1467a04&id=b34df5d326&e=60482295ca> ------------------------------ <http://kosmosjournal.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=a2e6f01f29f00e615c1467a04&id=7848756ef8&e=60482295ca> From Big Data to Deep Data <http://kosmosjournal.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=a2e6f01f29f00e615c1467a04&id=dfc61d8afe&e=60482295ca>

From his blog, Otto Scharmer, Senior Lecturer at MIT, and founding chair of the Presencing Institute writes about the value of Deep Data over Big Data:

“The one thing that I have learned from all these projects is that the key to transformative change is to make the system see itself. That’s why deep data matters. It matters to the future of our institutions, our societies, and our planet.” – Otto Scharmer READ MORE → <http://kosmosjournal.us3.list-manage2.com/track/click?u=a2e6f01f29f00e615c1467a04&id=49a8a104d7&e=60482295ca> ------------------------------ <http://kosmosjournal.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=a2e6f01f29f00e615c1467a04&id=4ba29641c0&e=60482295ca> New World order emerges, one that requires cooperation and ability to build regional ties <http://kosmosjournal.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=a2e6f01f29f00e615c1467a04&id=7c10e2ec61&e=60482295ca> Amitav Acharya is an Indian-born Canadian scholar and professor of international relations at American University, Washington, D.C., where he holds the UNESCO Chair in Transnational Challenges and Governance at the School of International Service, and serves as the chair of the ASEAN Studies Center. “Stability of a multiplex world would be attained through shared leadership among the rising and established powers as well as regional and civil society groups. This G-Plus World requires a genuinely reformed system of global governance and greater recognition by the West of the voices and aspirations of the Rest.” – READ MORE → <http://kosmosjournal.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=a2e6f01f29f00e615c1467a04&id=47b420e1d3&e=60482295ca> ------------------------------ <http://kosmosjournal.us3.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=a2e6f01f29f00e615c1467a04&id=1c8e3f4694&e=60482295ca> Global Concert Event: Music above fighting <http://kosmosjournal.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=a2e6f01f29f00e615c1467a04&id=37842e7ec0&e=60482295ca> MasterPeace in Concert is a series of global concert events to be held in over 60 countries on the International Day of Peace, September 21, 2014. Artists from all over the world will perform to fuel dialogue and celebrate diversity. The concert will focus the world’s attention on the universal longing for a sustainable world, → READ MORE → <http://kosmosjournal.us3.list-manage2.com/track/click?u=a2e6f01f29f00e615c1467a04&id=105be6f206&e=60482295ca> ------------------------------ Kosmos Associates Inc. | 413-637-0077 | [email protected] | http://www.kosmosjournal.org <http://kosmosjournal.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=a2e6f01f29f00e615c1467a04&id=3fd4e9a867&e=60482295ca> PO Box 2102 Lenox, MA 01240 Copyright © 2014 Kosmos Associates Inc. All Rights Reserved. This email was sent to [email protected] *why did I get this?* <http://kosmosjournal.us3.list-manage.com/about?u=a2e6f01f29f00e615c1467a04&id=ae1ddf5599&e=60482295ca&c=83261054c0> unsubscribe from this list <http://kosmosjournal.us3.list-manage.com/unsubscribe?u=a2e6f01f29f00e615c1467a04&id=ae1ddf5599&e=60482295ca&c=83261054c0> update subscription preferences <http://kosmosjournal.us3.list-manage1.com/profile?u=a2e6f01f29f00e615c1467a04&id=ae1ddf5599&e=60482295ca> Kosmos Associates · PO Box 2102 · Lenox, MA 01240 · USA -- *Please note an intrusion wiped out my inbox on February 8; I have no record of previous communication, proposals, etc ..* P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net <http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation>Updates: http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens #82 on the (En)Rich list: http://enrichlist.org/the-complete-list/