First Thursdays: Kosmic Vespers
Kosmic Vespers
Thursday, July 2nd at 4 pm EDT.
A New Generation of Rituals
Special Guest: Carol Kilby and Steve Martin, Authors of Becoming the Change
Kosmic Vespers is pleased to welcome back recent authors and good friends of CSC, clergy and ritualist Carol Kilby and astronomer and cosmologist Steve Martin; “two highly respected leaders in the world of evolutionary cosmology who have drawn upon decades of experience to teach you the ritual magic that will change our world.” -Brian Thomas Swimme
Join us in a deep-time centered, contemplative ritual, The Dance of H-OM-E, from their newly released book, Becoming the Change: Evolutionary Rituals and Practices for Everyday Emergence. No dance expertise necessary.
Join our Kosmic Vespers engaged contemplation community of practice to celebrate another unfolding of the spiral as we learn new ways of bringing the cosmic to our communities and ourselves.
Book Availability: Becoming the Change is available starting May 15 via Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and independent booksellers.
“If you have a sense of being called to some kind of action in this time of polycrisis and if your most fundamental intuition is that ritual open up powerful spiritual pathways, then Becoming the Change is your new bible.” -Brian Thomas Swimme
Why Kosmic Vespers with a “K”?
“Kosmos” is the ancient Greek word for the whole of reality, not just the physical universe, but matter, life, mind, and spirit together. Kosmic Vespers honors that wholeness, weaving the insights of modern science with the wisdom of spiritual tradition.
Awe Is Not in the Distance. It’s a Remembrance.
Kosmic Vespers is a space of reverent inquiry—a coming-together where we bow before the vast unfolding of the Universe…. as we remember: the bowing body is stardust, gathered into breath and bone. And this vastness isn’t something we look at from afar, but something that pulses through our daily lives—
To be in awe of the Universe is to feel its immensity.
To be of it is to remember we are made of its very unfolding.
Living Awe: A Practice of Entanglement
Kosmic Vespers invites us to ask: How do we bring the sacred back into the ordinary?
How do we live as if everything is miracle— not in abstraction, but in the compost, the coffee cup, the quiet act of repair?
How do we carry cosmic awe into daily entanglement—in our justice=making, our grief, our becoming?
Kosmic Vespers is a practice of metabolizing this way of knowing. Not transcendence, but a return to relational presence.
Awe, not as escape—but as remembrance.
Wonder, not as spectacle—but as intimate knowledge.
You, not as spectator—but as stardust, constellated and co-weaving.
