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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This Civilisation is Finished: a conversation with Rupert Read
March 04, 2020 09:00 - 31 minutes - 72.4 MBIf, as philosopher, Green party activist, University Professor and XR activist, Rupert Read is right, our civilisation is finished. We'll either collapse, or transform to the point of being unrecognisable. So... this being the case, what can we do? Rupert Read is one of our generation's greatest, and deepest green thinkers. Join us in this discussion of how we can move forward. Rupert Read is convinced that societal collapse is inevitable - and near. And that this is White S...
Healing Our Selves and the World: an Interview with Della Duncan
February 26, 2020 09:00 - 50 minutes - 115 MBIf we can open our eyes and look in the mirror of the world, we can open ourselves to the InterBeing that allows Active Hope as we face the chaos of our world. In this interview, Della Duncan, Renegade economist, host of the Upstream podcast, and practitioner of Joanna Macy's Work that Reconnects, explores the ways to a sustainable and equitable future. Podcaster, economist, and spiritual activist, Della Duncan is deeply integrated in the movement for human and planetary change....
Feelings: How to shape the ones we want
February 19, 2020 09:00 - 29 minutes - 67 MBFor most of us, falling in love with the absolute wonder of being alive is a distant dream. Nonetheless, changing how we feel is the goal of most self-help courses, a great deal of therapy and most of the routes that lead to alcohol and drug abuse. Suppose we could do it intelligently, with a generosity-of-spirit that allows us really to fall in love with the act of living. So that each moment of life becomes a wonder, however it is lived? In this final podcast of series 1, we tak...
Emerging from Complexity: This is how we become the change we need to see
February 12, 2020 09:00 - 24 minutes - 55.4 MBComplexity is all around us - in fact if we're looking for a distinction between complicatED things as opposed to comPLEX things, then it's that people make things complicated (but linear, and readily described) while the whole of the rest of the web of life makes things that are complex... from a cell to an organ to a human (or animal, or plant) body, to an ecosystem, to our climate, to the entire planetary biosphere... (which is why modern medicine doesn't get so far when it trie...
Emerging from Complexity: how we become the change we need to see with Manda Scott
February 12, 2020 09:00 - 24 minutes - 55.4 MBEmergence from Complex Systems is a thing. And the thing about it is, that there are only two options when a system reaches maximal complexity: collapse to chaos and extinction OR emergence to a new phase. We prefer the second option, so this is a look at complexity - and at the levers of change in any system. Complexity is all around us - in fact if we're looking for a distinction between complicatED things as opposed to comPLEX things, then it's that people make things complic...
Hacking our Habits:Letting go of the old stuff, to make way for something new
February 05, 2020 09:00 - 28 minutes - 66.2 MBWhat would our lives look like if we knew how to become the best of ourselves? If we could hack our way into a sense of authenticity that allowed us to live with integrity? Let’s find out…. As is clear by now, if large numbers of us are going to find a way to move towards conscious evolution, then we have to solve the problem of how ordinary, time-poor, stressed out people in a world hurtling towards chaos and calamity, can find the time, space and bandwidth actually to become t...
Changing our Minds: Mind hacks to shape our habits
January 29, 2020 09:00 - 35 minutes - 81.7 MB'Watch your character, for it becomes your destiny' - Lao Tsu mapped the progress from habits of thought (and we would add habits of feeing) towards the truth of what we become. In this episode, we map the core science of what makes our habits move from simply things we do once, to things that we do without thinking them... that then have a core impact on who we are and how we design our energy through the days, both as individuals and as a culture. We look at the absolute basic...
Changing our Minds: Mind hacks to shape our habits with Manda Scott
January 29, 2020 09:00 - 35 minutes - 81.7 MBWhy are some habits easy to form (immoral, illegal or bad for your health, as my dad used to say) - but the ones we actually want, are far harder to set up? 'Watch your character, for it becomes your destiny' - Lao Tsu mapped the progress from habits of thought (and we would add habits of feeing) towards the truth of what we become. In this week's podcast, we take a deep dive into the neuroscience of habits: how they form and how we can set ourselves up for maximal success wi...
Growing into Coherence 3 - Heart and Intent focused meditations
January 22, 2020 09:00 - 25 minutes - 57.6 MBThe entire aim of Accidental Gods is facilitating the routes toward conscious evolution. The early podcasts opened the concept of ReAwakening into Connection with the Other-than-Human world. The previous podcast opened the door to Growing into Coherence - the ways in which we can use the fact that 'what fires together wires together' to develop a practice of close and open focus meditations. This podcast explores the routes towards Heart Coherence - which develops outwardly as ...
The Route to Heart Coherence with Manda Scott (part 3)
January 22, 2020 09:00 - 25 minutes - 57.6 MBHow do you create heart coherence and inner resilience? This episode of the podcast explores the ways we can balance head-mind and heart-mind to create the kinds of inner equanimity that allow us to flourish, whatever the outer world throws at us. If we’re going to reach conscious evolution, we need to be able to stand in balance in the world – a key part of which is that we learn how to open the routes from head to mind to heart so that we can begin to feel what we choose to feel ...
Growing into Coherence - 2 - What is mindfulness?
January 15, 2020 09:00 - 18 minutes - 43.3 MBThere are four obvious types of meditation, mindfulness, contemplation… whatever you want to call it, there are four types that form the foundation of this work. All of them help us to build our focused attention into intention and then the rest of the practice changes the nature of the focus. As we've said already, the key to successful practice - to building enduring habits - is to evoke a background affective texture (that is, a feeling) that is intimately woven with the act of ...
Growing into Coherence: How to build focus & intent with Manda Scott (part 2)
January 15, 2020 09:00 - 18 minutes - 43.3 MBIn this episode, we look more closely at HOW to grow into coherence. There are four obvious types of meditation, mindfulness, contemplation – whatever you want to call it– and we explore how these four types form the foundation of this work. All of them help us to build our focused attention into intention. As we’ve said already, the key to successful practice – to building enduring habits – is to evoke a background affective texture (that is, a feeling) that is intimately woven...
Growing into Coherence
January 08, 2020 09:00 - 24 minutes - 56.8 MBOf the four steps to conscious evolution and the paradigm shift that we need, this is the one that most people have explored at some point. This is the place where we shift our brain patterns from beta pattens to theta, delta or - rarely so far, but I think it'll become more frequent - gamma. This is where we make the most of the fact that what fires together wires together so that we can begin to have more control over what we think and what we feel, so that in the end, we can re...
Growing into Coherence: What it means and why we need to do it with Manda Scott
January 08, 2020 09:00 - 24 minutes - 56.8 MBOf the four steps to conscious evolution and the paradigm shift that we need, this is the one that most people have explored at some point. This is the place where we shift our brain patterns from beta pattens to theta, delta or – rarely so far, but I think it’ll become more frequent – gamma. This is where we make the most of the fact that what fires together wires together so that we can begin to have more control over what we think and what we feel, so that in the end, we can r...
(Re) Awakening into Connection
January 01, 2020 09:00 - 25 minutes - 57.4 MBRe-Awakening into Connection is the core of what Accidental Gods is about - the return of our heritage, our birthright, our ability to live in context with the web of life. It's not long in evolutionary terms, since we were a part of the living world, able to ask questions, and answer the questions that were asked of us. Now, as we stand on the cusp either of catastrophe or extraordinary change, we need to regain that capacity: we need to re-awaken our innate abilities so that we...
(Re) Awakening into Connection with the Web of Life
January 01, 2020 09:00 - 25 minutes - 57.4 MBRe-Awakening into Connection is the core of what Accidental Gods is about – the return of our heritage, our birthright, our ability to live in context with the web of life. It’s not long in evolutionary terms, since we were a part of the living world, able to ask questions, and answer the questions that were asked of us. Now, as we stand on the cusp either of catastrophe or extraordinary change, we need to regain that capacity: we need to re-awaken our innate abilities so that we...
Conscious Evolution: ReWilding Humanity's Soul
December 24, 2019 15:00 - 18 minutes - 43.2 MBConscious evolution could be our next evolutionary step - a radical shift in what it means to be human. In this episode we outline the steps that we believe could lead us on the path to a co-creation of a new future for humanity. We are the accidental gods - all of us - we are the generational era that stands on the brink of species level extinction. For the first time in the history of evolution on this planet, one member of one species could conceivably wipe us all out. We didn...