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Fall Preview: “Rapids of Change” and a Kosmos Primer

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*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...

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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,
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David Abram, Charles Eisenstein, Vandana Shiva, Elisabet Sahtouris, and
other transformational thinkers.

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CRAZYWISE Shamanic Mysticism and Mental Wellness Reflections and Work of
Phil Borges

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over 50 years. 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.

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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.

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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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An Evolutionary Transition is Coming – Are You Ready? By Robert Cobbold

…When Darwin published the *Origin of Species*, a critical feedback loop
was connected: evolution became conscious of itself. Much like an
individual undergoing a spiritual awakening, the evolutionary process has,
through us, awoke to itself.

And that self-awareness represents a huge evolutionary leap forward. As any
therapist will tell you, the first step towards changing your patterns of
behaviour is to become aware of them. What unconscious triggers cause you
to get angry or reach for another glass of wine? If you can become truly
self-aware in those moments then you have given yourself a choice. You’re
no longer stuck in an automatic pattern of behaviour.

What I’m trying to describe here is analogous, except we’re talking about
the self-awareness not of individuals, but of the evolutionary process as a
whole. Because evolution too has its habits and patterns, and some of those
are conducive to humanity’s evolutionary flourishing, while others are
holding us back.

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