Vision statement

The time has come for humanity to dig deep into its infinite reservoir of creative and spiritual potential in order to address the unprecedented challenges—and opportunities for growth—that are unique to this extraordinary moment in human history.

 Jazz Cosmos responds to this moment through an arts-inspired transformative vision, and corresponding educational programs, that are informed by jazz—a quintessentially American cultural achievement and contribution to world culture—and an emergent consciousness-based worldview called Integral Theory.

 Jazz’s robust improvisatory core has invited organic infusion of influences from across the globe, spawned new thinking about creativity across fields, as well as catalyzed powerful episodes of transcendence in artists and listeners alike to yield a spirituality that transcends, yet also embraces, denominational boundaries. 

 It would thus be a small step for a long legacy of jazz innovators—with Turiyasanghitananda Alice Coltrane a primary exemplar—to ground their creative excursions and overall lives in meditation and related consciousness-based practices and studies.

 Embodying principles of Integral Theory, a transformative template emerges that unites age-old spiritual wisdom, cutting-edge scientific advances and the creative vitality of the arts within a noetic, or soul-based understanding of consciousness that moves far beyond the materialist approaches that dominate much academic consciousness studies and research.   

 A new, arts-driven story of the sacred emerges to re-enliven humanity’s connection to its transcendent core—the level of soul, or atma—that is the source of interconnectedness among individuals and cultures, between human beings and the natural world, and most foundationally, with the eternal, cosmic source from which the infinite diversity of creation unfolds.

 Jazz Cosmos thus brings together thought leaders from a broad sector of society—including business, government, education, arts, humanities, medicine, sciences, religion, and social and environmental activism—to engage in jazz-inspired, integral visioning about the biggest questions of human and cosmic creation and ramifications for practical application in response to the extraordinary possibilities that define the current juncture in human history. 

 The primacy of consciousness in the universal wholeness, embrace of the sacred or divine feminine, improvisation as a cosmic process and the principle of global consciousness—a nonlocal, intersubjective sphere of mind that can be enlivened through collective creative and spiritual practice for transformative impact on society and environment—will factor prominently in Jazz Cosmos deliberations and action.

 Please consider joining the Jazz Cosmos movement!

 The world is waiting.