Accidental Gods
267 episodes - English - Latest episode: 6 days ago - ★★★★★ - 73 ratingsAt this time of the Great Transition, we need new, fresh ideas, role models and narratives that show us how we can step forward into a future we'd be proud to leave to the generations that come after us.
What does it take for our great, great grand-kids to look back and say, 'It was hard, but they did it'? What changes are we already making that take us in the right direction? We talk to the people leading the way, offering interviews, conversations and radical new ideas from people who are living the change we need to see in the world.
We have the choice now, to transform - or to face the chaos of a failing system. Our Choice. Our Chance. Our Future.
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Building Soil: Healing the Earth: Feeding Humanity - Regenerative Farming with Navona Gallegos
December 30, 2020 05:38 - 1 hour - 139 MBWhat if we had a way to draw carbon out of the air, heal our ecosystems and feed the world? We do: It's called Regenerative Agriculture and the understanding of how we do this is key to a flourishing future. But we need to listen to the land first, as Navona Gallegos describes in this new Accidental Gods podcast. Navona Gallegos is an ecologist and farmer working to transition desert back into grassland in the arid Southwest of Turtle Island. She works and educates on the inters...
All the Best of 2020: Books and Podcasts that will lift you into the new year - and beyond.
December 23, 2020 06:00 - 30 minutes - 70.9 MBAn end-of-year round up of the best fiction and non-fiction books - and podcasts - of 2020. All are my opinion and this is only a tiny selection of the really good stuff out there - but it's good. Enjoy! We have to stop consuming stuff... but we never stop imbibing ideas. So here are some to choose from - all links to Blackwells. For obvious reasons. Non-Fiction 'From what is to what if' by Rob Hopkins The Trembling Warrior and others by Gill Coombs 'The Best of Times, the W...
Birthday/Solstice Celebration: a new Anniversary tradition, with Della Duncan and Nathalie Nahai
December 21, 2020 10:00 - 1 hour - 170 MBIt's our Birthday... and it's the December Solstice, the time of transition and potential transformation . In honour of which, we are crafting a new tradition: a PodBoom shared with Della Duncan of UPSTREAM podcast and Nathalie Nahai of THE HIVE. So, it's our Birthday - and it's that time of year when every pundit endeavours to look back at the year just gone and ahead to the one that is coming. And we thought we'd like to establish a parallel tradition, where we bring together...
Living to Learn: transforming education with Rachel Musson of ThoughtBox
December 16, 2020 06:00 - 1 hour - 143 MBHow can we make learning a genuinely transformational experience? One that's fun, and inspiring and that teaches us HOW to think, not WHAT to think? Rachel Musson had given her life to asking this question and ThoughtBox is her answer. Suppose we all learned three things at school: empathy, critical thinking and systems thinking... imagine how different the world would be. Suppose we learned how to think clearly, how to communicate, how to understand our own feelings and express t...
The Best of Times, The Worst of Times: Responding to Climate Change with Dr Paul Behrens
December 09, 2020 06:00 - 59 minutes - 137 MBHow bad are things really? Is it too late to avert the climate and ecological catastrophe? And if not, how do we pull ourselves back from the brink? Exploring answers with Paul Behrens, author of 'The Best of Times, The Worst of Times'. We live on the edge of change - the facts can be terrifying, but the creative potential of our times is inspiring and just as jaw-dropping as the horrors of the reality we inhabit. Paul Behrens is Assistant Professor of Energy and Environmental ...
Breaking the Rules to save the world: How to be More Pirate, with Alex Barker
December 02, 2020 06:00 - 1 hour - 142 MBHow can we take the radical, renegade, rule-breaking, revolutionary ideals of the golden age of Pirates and transmute them to gold in our world? Alex Barker, author of 'How to be More Pirate' lays out the maps to the treasure of change. The concept of radical, renegade, revolutionary insurgency based on the model created in the Golden Age of Pirates was given wings by Sam Conniff's best selling book, BE MORE PIRATE. In the wake of its success, Sam needed to find ways to help th...
Spiritual Activism, Raw Courage and Being the Change: Sophie Miller of the Red Rebel Brigade
November 25, 2020 06:00 - 54 minutes - 124 MBIn the midst of nonviolent direct action, is a red thread, holding the liminal space between the old and the new, between action and re-action, between hope and extinction. The Red Rebel Brigade is a distinctive feature of XR Actions and here we have a glimpse from the inside. More at Red is the colour of our life blood. It joins us to the land and all the web of life. It was chosen as the original colour of the silent life-dancers of Extinction Rebellion as an explicit symbol o...
Codes for a Healthy Earth: New rules for a flourishing world with Shelley Ostroff
November 18, 2020 06:00 - 57 minutes - 132 MBGreta Thunberg says that ‘We cannot save the planet by playing by the rules, so the rules have to be changed’. This is self-evidently true, but that leaves us with the question of what rules could we create that we could all live by. Polly Higgins has the Earth Protector law, but Shelley Ostroff has gone one step further with her Codes for a Healthy Earth and the World Water law. Together, these rules spell out our connection with the More than Human world, and leave us with agenc...
Adapting Business:Transforming our systems, careers -and the landscape of business with Mike Raven of AQai
November 11, 2020 05:00 - 1 hour - 156 MBHow do we shift the narratives of business so that it becomes part of the solution, not the core of the problem? Mike Raven of AQAI explores the ways business can adapt - and become part of a genuinely regenerative future. Mike is a Radical collaborator, rapid researcher, speaker, facilitator and entrepreneur. He's a holistic business graduate and practitioner. He's a qualified Naturopath, who has studied at Schumacher College and been a UN Global Goals Ambassador. He's co-Found...
City Repair: Planet Repair: Human Repair. Mark Lakeman on building regenerative cities to heal ourselves and the world.
November 04, 2020 06:00 - 1 hour - 143 MBHow can we rebuild our cities to become place of community, connection and coherence? How can we build multi-generational tribes that thrive and support each other in the hearts of our urban areas? Mark Lakeman of the City Repair project explains the changes he has made - and continues to make. Mark Lakeman is the founder of the City Repair Project, as well as the founder and Design Director at communitecture, architecture & planning. Both organizations are Portland, Oregon-based ...
The Path of the Trembling Warrior: Gill Coombs on activism, courage and resilience
October 28, 2020 05:00 - 59 minutes - 137 MBGill Coombs is a writer, coach, and facilitator. Her approach is rooted in her own long, colourful journey towards fulfilling work. In 2010, Gill left a corporate Learning and Development career to travel around the country on foot and public transport, leading workshops for communities on living in harmony with self, people and planet. She is now an elder visionary with Extinction Rebellion and her own experiences of street-level non violent direct action led to the writing of he...
Trauma, Politics and Empathy: re-democratising democracy with Eva Schonveld and Justin Kenrick
October 21, 2020 04:00 - 1 hour - 141 MBHow do we re-democratise democracy? Understanding that our current system is broken is the first step, but then we need to find ways to gather voices and give agency to those with wisdom, so that we re-create our systems of governance from the ground up. At the start of Lockdown, Eva and Justin set out to interview 100 people in Scotland - deep, wide, broad interviews across the widest range of opinions. Now, they are bringing those together, creating the foundations for a consu...
Dreaming a flourishing future: Rob Hopkins on radical creativity, activism and re-booting our imaginations
October 14, 2020 04:00 - 56 minutes - 128 MBIf Climate Change is a failure of the imagination and this is a time when we need to be at our most imaginative, how can we change the trajectory of our falling imaginations? Rob Hopkins of the Transition Town movement, has explored the depths of our imagination and creativity. Our society is a dis-imagination machine. But we can reverse it. Rob Hopkins, author of 'From What Is to What If?', offers an answer. In this podcast, we explore the ways that all of us could combine to...
Grief Walker and Fire Keeper: Medicine woman Fiona Shaw speaks of Trust, Grief and Emotional Authenticity
October 07, 2020 04:00 - 55 minutes - 128 MBIf we gather in ceremony, sitting on the land, with a fire-keeper who understands the holding and has trained in the ways of the fire, there is so much healing. Fiona Shaw is one of those people, trained in great depth and absolute integrity, to connect to the spirits of this land, and to hold the space for others to re-connect to the fire, the water, the land, the guides, gods and guardians of our ways. Here, she talks about the new depths and challenges - and, yes, opportunities,...
A New D.E.A.L: The Doughnut Economics Action Lab explained by Rob Shorter
September 30, 2020 04:00 - 1 hour - 141 MBThe imagination needs mental and emotional space to enable us to create a vision of the more beautiful world our hearts know is possible. Rob Shorter wrote his dissertation at Schumacher on how we cultivate our imagination and change the cultural narrative towards the thinking that Doughnut Economics embodies. In this podcast, we dive deep into the nature of imagination and how we can let it grow. We explore Doughnut Economics and how the model can transform our world. And we look...
The Doughnut Economics Action Lab explained by Rob Shorter
September 30, 2020 04:00 - 1 hour - 141 MBDoughnut Economics is a new, groundbreaking model that lets us see how we can embrace the needs of all within the means of a living, thriving planet. Rob Shorter, Communities Lead, of the Doughnut Economics Action Lab explains what it is, how it works and how we can embrace it at all levels in our communities of people and place and purpose. The imagination needs mental and emotional space to enable us to create a vision of the more beautiful world our hearts know is possible. Ro...
Hero, Sleepwalker or Manipulator? Our Choice in the Game of Life with Gill Coombs
September 23, 2020 04:00 - 1 hour - 147 MBIf we view life as a Game between Light and Dark, where do we stand at any given moment? Hero or Manipulator? Altruist or Cynic? Sleepwalker, Avoider, Traditionalist? We can each be any of these at any given moment. Knowing we have choice is what gives us the power to be different. What do you choose? Gill Coombs is a facilitator, coach, peripatetic counsellor and an elder of Extinction Rebellion. Of her three books to date, The Game is the second. In it, she outlines the p...
Communities of Earth Protection: embracing the law with Jozette Khimba
September 16, 2020 04:00 - 51 minutes - 118 MBWhat is the first, simplest and most profound change we can make in our lives? Sign up as an Earth Protector - and then encourage your local schools, hospitals, colleges, councils to sign too. Jozette Khimba of the Earth Protector Communities organisation, explores the ways we can have huge impact on our local communities. Jozette has been a lifelong activist, but it was her connection with activist Barrister, Polly Higgins that took her to Stroud and the Stop Ecocide campaign. ...
Fractal Flourishing in the Symbiocene: Building an Ecological Civilisation with Jeremy Lent
September 09, 2020 04:00 - 1 hour - 143 MBWhat are we here for? Where does our heritage step into our potential? How can we build a genuinely ecological civilisation that sees people and communities flourish within the means of the living planet? Jeremy Lent, author of 'The Patterning Instinct', explores the answers to life's biggest questions. Jeremy is an author whose writings investigate the patterns of thought that have led our civilization to its current existential crisis. His recent book, The Patterning Instinct:...
Hearing our Calling - exploring the world of our soul’s true calling with Gill Coombs.
September 02, 2020 04:00 - 58 minutes - 133 MBGill Coombs is a writer, facilitator, coach and activist. In 2011/12 Gill studied Holistic Science at Schumacher College, and then wrote her first book Hearing our Calling. In 2015 she stood as a Parliamentary Candidate for the Green Party, and the following year published The Game: Life vs the Dark Powers. Gill was arrested twice during 2019 with Extinction Rebellion, and as a member of the Visioning Circle, helped to establish XR’s Eldership Circle. She has written three life chan...
Hearing our Calling - exploring the world of our soul’s true calling with Gill Coombs
September 02, 2020 04:00 - 58 minutes - 133 MBHow can we shape a world where everyone has found and is following their soul’s calling? Gill Coombs, author of The Trembling Warrior and ‘Hearing your Calling’ on ways to discover our soul’s true path. Gill is a writer, facilitator, coach and activist. In 2011/12 Gill studied Holistic Science at Schumacher College, and then wrote her first book Hearing our Calling. In 2015 she stood as a Parliamentary Candidate for the Green Party, and the following year published The Game: Life...
Daring to be Wild: Mary Reynolds of 'We Are The Ark' on reWilding our lands and lives
August 26, 2020 05:00 - 1 hour - 167 MBHow would our world feel if we let ourselves follow the wild dreams of our hopes? And how can we reshape the land around us if we let it teach us. Former garden designer and founder of "We are the Ark" (Acts of Regenerative Kindness) explores the wild dreaming of the land that brought her to a place where regeneration is the heart of all she does. Mary Reynolds set her intent to win a gold medal at the Chelsea Flower show with her first (and only) exhibit. To do it, she created ...
Four steps to transformation - Manda Scott in a podcast Q&A
August 19, 2020 05:00 - 56 minutes - 130 MBHow can we heal ourselves and the world? So many people ask the question and yet the answers are simple. We know what we need to do, we just don’t know how to do it. In this race through the grounding of Accidental Gods, podcast host, Manda Scott explores the answers. We know that our healing depends on our re-connection with the web of life, with what we call ‘The Natural World’ until we stop seeing it as something other and start seeing it as an integral part of ourselves. Bu...
Growing into Relationship with the Earth: Mac Macartney, visionary, leader and teacher offers transformation
August 12, 2020 05:00 - 1 hour - 160 MBIf you could transform your life with three questions whose answers would bring you into right relationship with yourself, the Earth and the whole web of consciousness, would you ask them? Even if they took you to the full depths of yourself? In this profoundly moving podcast, Mac Macartney guides us through. "When a human embryo is in the mother’s womb, creation whispers into their being ‘I am placing a piece of my genius inside you’. Our task then is to find it, discover it, ...
Feeling for the Edges of Ourselves - talking empowerment, neuroscience and societal change with Adam Hamdy
August 05, 2020 03:00 - 1 hour - 153 MBWhat links the neuroscience of love, the embracing of failure and the pheromones of trees? Adam Hamdy, novelist, screenwriter and sense-maker in an increasingly non-sensical world shares ways to be the best of ourselves, and help others to reach the same place. Adam Hamdy is a novelist, screenwriter, advisor-to-ministers (not that they necessarily listen, but that's their loss) and soon-to-be author of a book on the neuroscience of empowerment - how we can do it and why it's esse...
ReBirthing Civilisation - Part 2: Elder Councils and the United Peoples' Coalition with Benjamin Ross
July 29, 2020 05:00 - 36 minutes - 83.8 MBHow can we reWeave the political governance, not just of individual nations, but of the world? In Part 2 of our conversation, Benjamin Ross outlines the ways in which One Nation Politics is creating Elder Councils, a United Peoples' Coalition and how the One Thousand Fractal shards of Burning Man might ignite change across the world As we awaken to an emergent planetary coherence, we rely on stories about our Cosmovisión or Ultimate Purpose to place ourselves within our bodies, ou...
ReBirthing Civilisation: a Pattern for a new governance with Benjamin Ross of One Nation
July 29, 2020 05:00 - 45 minutes - 104 MBHow could our entire political system be rewoven so that it met the needs of all humanity - and the More than Human world? How can we step beyond the tribal toxicity that is tearing us apart and find ways to build a future that work? The One Nation Party is a key to a radical new mode of governance. Here, Benjamin Ross describes how it arose, what draw him to it and how it can work to transform the world. As we awaken to an emergent planetary coherence, we rely on stories about...
What Humanity Wants - Stories of Radical Change with Phoebe Tickell
July 22, 2020 05:00 - 1 hour - 156 MBHow can we embody the change we need to see in the world? How can we find the new ways of being before we even have words to describe them? What is 'Warm Data' and how does it help us see the world as it really is? Phoebe Tickell, utopian, sense-maker and facilitator of radical change talks us through answers that will help us to change the world.
What Humanity Wants - Moral Imagination & a new kind of change with Phoebe Tickell
July 22, 2020 05:00 - 1 hour - 156 MBHow can we embody the change we need to see in the world? How can we find the new ways of being before we even have words to describe them? What is 'Warm Data' and how does it help us see the world as it really is? Phoebe Tickell, utopian, sense-maker and facilitator of radical change talks us through answers that will help us to change the world. Phoebe is embedded in, and embodies the new sense-making and change-making of the world. Founder of Moral Imagination and facilitat...
Imagineering 2: Weaving a flourishing future with Miki Kashtan
July 15, 2020 05:00 - 1 hour - 145 MBIn this second of two episodes, practical visionary, Miki Kashtan, lays out her visions of a flourishing, generative future based on providing for the needs of all - the human and More-Than-Human world. And how to get there. Miki Kashtan, co-founder of the Bay Area NVC and adept nonviolent communication practitioner, lays out the pathways she believes could take us towards a future where everyone flourishes. If we explore the flows of life - of need and resource, of how we intera...
Imagineering: ReWeaving the Human Fabric with Miki Kashtan - Part 1
July 08, 2020 07:00 - 58 minutes - 135 MBHow can we reweave the fabric of humanity to create a world where everyone's deepest needs are met? How do we even know what our deepest needs are - for security (physical and emotional), freedom, connection and meaning? In part 1 of 2, Miki Kashtan gives us answers - and a vision of the future. Practical visionary Miki Kashtan has devoted her life to the exploration and practice of non violent communication: to finding ways in which choice can become a central part of human exis...
Fierce Tenderness and White Horse Hill Woman: the teachings of Carolyn Hillyer
July 01, 2020 07:00 - 1 hour - 158 MBMusician, artist, maker-of-ceremony and guardian of the ancestors of the land, Carolyn Hillyer talks - and sings - about the three things that take care of this land: a deep honouring of the ancestors, a fierce guardianship, and the absolute heart-felt connection of tribe. Carolyn Hillyer lives on a 1,000 year old farm in the heart of Dartmoor. Her fierce, deeply spiritual guardianship of this place involves a heart-commitment to sharing the space with those who have been and th...
No More Rat Race. Creating a world without bullshit jobs - with renegade economist, Della Duncan
June 24, 2020 07:00 - 1 hour - 145 MBWhat if our work made our hearts sing every day? What if everyone were paid what they were actually worth? What if the profits went into the community, to build the better world our hearts know is possible? How would that actually work? Let’s find out! Renegade Economist and Right Livelihood coach, Della Duncan, has spent most of her professional life exploring the ideas that might transform our culture into the more beautiful, flourishing - fun, joyful, - safe - world our hea...
No More Business as Usual: A second interview with Rupert Read of XR
June 17, 2020 07:00 - 1 hour - 170 MBBusiness as usual has brought us to the edge of extinction. Can we switch off our complacency and turn towards life in time? Raw, honest thoughts from Professor Rupert Read of Extinction Rebellion. Professor Rupert Read, Green Party activist, XR speaker, and deep adaptation philosopher, speaks openly, deeply - and with a raw, almost unique honesty - about the dangers of the current time, and the need to turn away from ‘business as usual’ There are times when we need to shock...
Nurturing our bodies and souls: Talking to Abel Pearson of Glasbren
June 10, 2020 07:00 - 1 hour - 140 MBHow can we feed our bodies and our souls? Abel Pearson, founder of Glasbren community supported agriculture farm in West Wales shared his connection to the land, his spiritual practice - and his re-visioning of community, food and spirit. Abel Pearson is a poet, peasant farmer, permaculture educator & activist, tending soil in West Wales and listening for the stories we need to build community and culture, restore health and breathe new life into our connection to land, food a...
Humanity Rising: the global summit that will change the future
June 03, 2020 07:00 - 57 minutes - 132 MBIf we're on the edge of chaos, how can we bring all the good ideas together - the right people with the right skills at the right time - and craft an ecosystem of ecosystems to affect radical change? How can we save ourselves from extinction. Humanity Rising offers an answer. "What's the equivalent, by 2030, of putting humanity on the moon? What do we need to do that is bigger than life, worthy of human nobility, such that if it put into action around the world, we would be cred...
When we can't meet in person, how can we build connection? A second conversation with Sarah Schlote
May 27, 2020 07:00 - 1 hour - 148 MBIn the midst of lockdown, how can we find resilience and emotional balance? How can we make the connections we need to feel safe -- in our bodies, in our relationships, out in the world...and on our Zoom calls? How can we feel truly alive? Therapist Sarah Schlote has much-needed answers... Life is changing and we need to find ways to keep ourselves emotionally resilient. Sarah Schlote, therapist and Somatic Experiencing Practitioner, has spent her professional life exploring the p...
Activism in Service to the Earth: A conversation with Gail Bradbrook of Extinction Rebellion
May 20, 2020 08:00 - 1 hour - 170 MBDr Gail Bradbrook is best known as being one of the co-founders of Extinction Rebellion. But she's also a StreetSchool Economist and deeply passionate visionary and here, we explore the spirit of activism that underpins her work - and look forward to future Rebellions held in the trickster spirit of Fox and Crow. Dr Gail Bradbrook has a PhD in molecular biophysics. She was founder of a program called ‘StreetSchool Economics’. She’s a visionary, social and spiritual activist - an...
How do our deepest selves find balance? Part 1 of a conversation with Sarah Schlote
May 13, 2020 08:00 - 1 hour - 139 MBWhere does a true, deep sense of inner safety come from? How do we recognise safety in ourselves and our environment? And how can that sense of safety be undermined? Somatic Experiencing Practitioner, Sarah Schlote, explains how our deepest selves find balance. Recent advances in neuroscience have shed light on those things that are most precious to us - a sense of equanimity and inner safety, of balance, and of the capacity to relate in ways that leave us feeling nourished. A...
Death, Dead and Dying - ways of navigating our own mortality: an interview with Dr Judith Wester
May 06, 2020 08:00 - 59 minutes - 137 MBWe spend our lives squinting past the inevitable reality of our own death. But suppose we were able to talk about it openly, to shape it, to embrace it so that by contemplating a good death, we could become fully alive? Dr Judith Wester is a thanatologist: an academic who specialises in the study of death, dying and the cultural rituals of many nations. Her life is given to teaching others of all ages and in all walks of life how to broach this subject with themselves and so with...
Lockdown: A moment of death and rebirth - A conversation with Angharad Wynne
April 29, 2020 08:00 - 1 hour - 143 MBIf Lockdown is a moment of death and rebirth, what do we want to conceive? And how can we connect to the Web of Life in ways that will help us to conceive the best possible future? Angharad Wynne offers the wisdom of a life lived on the edge of being - and a close encounter with death - to this conversation of ancestors, Brythonic lore and red kites. Angharad Wynne is a visionary, land-walker and storyteller. She works to reconnect people from around the world with the wild lan...
Explorations of Being: a Conversation with Nathalie Nahai
April 22, 2020 07:30 - 1 hour - 148 MBWhat do we do with this time of lockdown? How can we use it in ways that will lead us to a more flourishing world, without guilt-tripping ourselves or adding pressure to an already-pressured time? Nathalie Nahai of The Hive podcast and Manda Scott of Accidental Gods, share thoughts, feelings and explore the edges of being. Nathalie's humanity, and her deep, broad grasp of psychology, particularly the psychology of online influences and the ethics around them, informs all of her ...
What If....? A journey through time and place
April 22, 2020 07:00 - 30 minutes - 68.7 MBAs discussed in episode 9, this is a thirty minute mediation focussed on the question of WHAT IF we got it all right from this moment forward. If we can really begin to feel the emotional reality as a physical thing, a felt-sense in our bodies, so that it suffuses all of us - then we can aim for this. If you want longer variations - or if you live in the Southern hemisphere and would prefer to go north, than south - you'll find more here: https://accidentalgods.life/what-if-imag...
Conscious Evolution: The time is now. A conversation with Rob Cobbold
April 15, 2020 08:00 - 1 hour - 166 MBRob Cobbold is founding editor of consciousevolution.co.uk. He's a critical thinker, a program manager for the Green Schools partnership and is studying for a Masters in Sustainable Leadership. He's a key mover in the world of conscious evolution and here, he describes why consciousness is the next evolutionary step and how we might get there. I haven't often had the pleasure of speaking with someone else whose life revolves around the concept of conscious evolution: what it is...
Shaman: A conversation with visionary and healer Chris Luttichau
April 08, 2020 08:00 - 1 hour - 147 MBVisionary, healer and author of two books on ancient indigenous and contemporary shamanic practice, Chris Luttichau is a beacon of grounded integrity in this time of upheaval. In this week's podcast, we explore how the indigenous peoples' view this time, and how we can respond to the challenges of the moment. This was recorded on the third day of lockdown in the UK. Our world is changing and we're feeling things we've never felt. Or feeling them more deeply. Or strangely. If eve...
Movement Medicine in the time of Corona Virus. A conversation with Ya'acov Darling Khan
April 01, 2020 08:00 - 1 hour - 174 MBAs our world turns over, we turn to the new-old ways to discover how we could do things differently. In this raw, deep, honest conversation with shamanic practitioner, Ya'acov Darling Khan, we talk about what we can do - and his new book. Ya'acov Darling Khan is an international teacher of Movement Medicine and a shamanic practitioner. His new book: 'Shaman: Invoking Power, Presence and Purpose in the Core of who YOU Are' is out on 30th of March - a clarion call for the new era wh...
Inner Resilience: finding clarity, courage and connection in a time of Corona Virus
March 25, 2020 09:00 - 31 minutes - 72.6 MBThe world is not as it was. Every one of us is touched by this. We are a global community now, striving to find sovereignty, balance - and a way forward that is healing for us all. In this podcast, Manda Scott explores the routes to inner resilience, without which, there can be no outer coherence. Joanna Macy calls this the Great Unravelling - a time when everything changes. And we are human, so most of us live somewhere on the spectrum between finding change unsettling, to findi...
Finding stillness, Finding wholeness: Sharing enquiry with Daniel Thorson of Emerge
March 18, 2020 09:00 - 1 hour - 142 MBDaniel Thorson, host of the ground-breaking, innovative - and hugely courageous - Emerge podcast is a Buddhist monastic, activist and meta-modern thinker. In this conversation, we dive deeply into what it means to be human - and how we can live as the best of ourselves. The Emerge podcast is a must-listen for anyone interested in exploring human potential as we surge into the anthropocene. Its host, Daniel Thorson is fearless in exploring the ways we can evolve, interviewing th...
Dreams of Divinity: Rabbi Jill Hammer on mysticism and the meaning of life
March 11, 2020 09:00 - 50 minutes - 116 MBRabbi Jill Hammer is committed to an earth based and a wildly mythic view of the world in which nature, ritual and story connect us to the body of the cosmos and to ourselves. In this conversation, we dive deep into the meaning of life, the role of dreams in a spiritual life and how we might find hope in the face of climate breakdown. Jill is an author, midrashist, mystic, poet, essayist and Hebrew Priestess. Director of spiritual education at the academy of Jewish Religion in N...
This Civilisation is Finished? - A conversation with Rupert Read
March 04, 2020 09:00 - 31 minutes - 72.4 MBRupert Read is convinced that societal collapse is inevitable - and near. And that this is White Swan effect - it's not remotely surprising or coming out of left field. So this being the case, we need to act - we have a choice between crashing into extinction OR moving forward to a transformation of our culture and society so profound that what transpires bears no resemblance to the current society. Given that this is the case, what can we do? In this lively, dynamic conversati...