Aside from our unique interdisciplinary philosophical ideals, commitment to academic excellence, and integrity in scholarship, Kosmos Institute also addresses the economic inequities plaguing higher education. To us, the two most important elements in any educational situation are the teacher and the student. As far as we can tell, the educational institution exists only to uphold, support, and cultivate the dignified delivery of this relationship and its consequent contributions to the ever-growing cosmos of knowledge and free inquiry.

Running Kosmos Institute has its perks, and topmost among these is having a seat in all the classes. This perk turned out to be invaluable. Even on day one, as I attended The Near Death Experience, followed immediately by Alchemy East and West, I clearly observed a thread of light connecting the two and illuminating what I now perceived as their shared field—consciousness.