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Any Human Power - Manda Scott talks about her new Thrutopian Mytho-Political thriller

Accidental Gods - May 15, 2024 05:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 73 ratings
This week the tables are turned and Maddy Harland, editor of Permaculture Magazine interviews Manda about her new 'seismic' Mytho-Political thriller, Any Human Power, which will be available from 30th May. "From a bestselling storyteller who brings together myths and speculative futur...

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No such thing as Waste, No such place as 'Away'! - Composting our way out of the meta-crisis with Nicky Grady Scott

Accidental Gods - May 08, 2024 05:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 73 ratings
Join us on a deep dive into the transformative world of composting with Nicky Grady Scott, a master composter and educator whose expertise is revolutionizing our approach to waste and regenerative cycles. In this enlightening episode, Nicky shares his journey from a passionate 16-year-o...

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Writing the Deluge: Dark nights, Apocalypse and Hope with author Stephen Markley

Accidental Gods - May 01, 2024 05:00 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 73 ratings
Author Stephen Markley opens the doors to The Deluge, his ground-breaking, world-changing Climate/MetaCrisis thriller- 900 pages that absolutely squarely rips into the current system in all its deficiencies - and offers a route through to a future that might work.  This week's guest is...

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Eco-Spirituality - Exploring Deep in the Woods of the Divine with Woodford Roberts and Rupert Read

Accidental Gods - April 24, 2024 05:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 73 ratings
In this deep, thoughtful conversation, two of the men at the heart of the Climate Majority Project discuss their own journeys into eco-spirituality - what they believe it to be and why it's a core, foundational bedrock of their lives.  If you follow anything else that Faith and I do to...

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What do we really think about Food? Revolutionising what we eat with Sue Pritchard of the Food, Farming and Countryside Commission

Accidental Gods - April 17, 2024 05:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 73 ratings
We're told so often that people 'don't want the nanny state to intervene' in what we eat or drink or smoke - and often the people saying this are those who employ literal nannies to raise their children.  But is it true?  What would we learn if someone courageous, with vision, depth and...

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How do we live, when under the surface of everything is an ocean of tears? With Douglas Rushkoff of Team Human

Accidental Gods - April 10, 2024 05:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 73 ratings
Our guest this week is Douglas Rushkoff, a man whose insights and intellect have earned him a place among the world's ten most influential intellectuals by MIT. As the host of the acclaimed Team Human podcast and author of numerous groundbreaking books, including "Survival of the Riches...

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Evolving Education: Building a Doughnut School with Jenny Grettve of When!When!

Accidental Gods - April 03, 2024 05:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 73 ratings
This week's guest is one of those people whose breadth and depth is an inspiration.  As you are about to hear, Jenny Grettve is an author, a philosopher, a systems thinker who takes her ideas and brings them alive in the world. She's the founder and director of When! When!, a design stu...

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Building Trust - One Conversation at at Time: Cooperation Hull with Gully Bujak

Accidental Gods - March 27, 2024 06:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 73 ratings
Today we venture into the heart of Hull, where the seeds of change are being sown by the hands of ordinary people. Gully Bujak, our guest this week, is a force of nature who, since her awakening to the climate crisis in 2018, has channeled her energy into the creation of Cooperation Hul...

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Vulture Capitalism - Exposing the toxic system and how to outgrow it with Grace Blakeley

Accidental Gods - March 20, 2024 06:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 73 ratings
This week's guest is one of those who understands the nuts and bolts - the iniquities - of the current system - and has ideas of how we can shape something better from the hot mess of corruption and greed in which we're mired.  Grace Blakeley is a staff writer at Tribune Magazine and a...

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Accidental Gods Spring Equinox Meditation 2024

Accidental Gods - March 19, 2024 06:00 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 73 ratings
"Consciousness creates Matter Language creates Reality Ritual creates Relationship" - Oscar Mira-Quesada quoted by Nina Simons in podcast #218 Part of our moving towards a healed and healthy culture for humanity is rewilding our relationships with ourselves, each other and the earth. ...

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Seeds of Hope: Cultivating a Future of Flavour and Resilience with Sinead Fortune and Kate Hastings of the Gaia Foundation

Accidental Gods - March 13, 2024 06:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 73 ratings
In this nourishing episode of Accidental Gods, we delve into the fertile world of seed sovereignty with Katie Hastings and Sinead Fortune of the Gaia Foundation's Seed Sovereignty Programme. Katie, hailing from the lush landscapes of Wales, and Sinead, rooted in the rugged beauty of rur...

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Finding a Cure for Civilisation: Delving Deep into the Roots of Being with visionary and shaman, Drea Burbank of Savimbo.

Accidental Gods - March 06, 2024 06:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 73 ratings
“Respect is earned. Honesty is appreciated. Trust is gained. Loyalty is returned.” — Oscar Auliq Ice - quoted on Savimbo website In this pivotal episode, we journey with Drea Burbank from the depths of a fundamentalist Mormon cult to the rainforests of the Colombian Amazon. Drea's lif...

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River Charters, Net Zero Cities and BioRegional Banks: Creating a Life-Ennobling Economic System with Emily Harris of Dark Matter Labs

Accidental Gods - February 28, 2024 06:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 73 ratings
In this week's episode of Accidental Gods, we dive into the visionary world of economic transformation with Emily Harris of Dark Matter Labs. Emily, a chartered accountant with an MA in regenerative economics, is not your average number cruncher. She's at the forefront of reimagining ou...

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Dung Beetles, People and helping the Keystone Species with Claire Whittle, the Regenerative Vet

Accidental Gods - February 21, 2024 06:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 73 ratings
In this week's episode we delve into the intricate world of dung beetles and their critical role in regenerative farming with the passionate and knowledgeable Claire Whittle, the Regenerative Vet. Claire's journey from a conventional large animal practitioner to a fervent advocate for f...

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End State: 9 Ways Society is Broken and How we Fix it, with James Plunkett

Accidental Gods - February 14, 2024 06:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 73 ratings
This week, I spoke with James Plunkett, a man who has spent his career at the intersection of policy and social change. From the halls of Number Ten to the charity sector's front lines, James's unique perspective has birthed a book that critically examines what's wrong with our society ...

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Growing a Public Chorus for Change: reshaping democracy with Alex Lockwood of the Humanity Project

Accidental Gods - February 07, 2024 06:00 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 73 ratings
We don't have a democracy, we have a kleptocracy that elevates to positions of power those amongst us who are most comfortable with leaning into their inner Dark Triad of Psychopathy, Narcissism and basic low cunning.  Then, when they get there, we're surprised that they go on to wreak ...

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Dancing with the god within: Finding the Sovereign Feminine with thought-leader Maggie Ostara

Accidental Gods - January 31, 2024 06:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 73 ratings
How does each of us find our sovereignty, our sense of what it is to have agency and be alive in the world, and align this with the part in all of us that is anchored in compassion, connection and empathy?  How, in short, do we encounter and encourage our own sovereign feminine? Dr Mag...

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On Nature, Culture and The Sacred with Elder and Visionary, Nina Simons

Accidental Gods - January 24, 2024 06:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 73 ratings
"Consciousness creates matter, Language Creates Reality, Ritual creates relationship' - Oscar Miro-Quesada  quoted by Nina Simons in her book ’Nature, Culture and the Sacred’  One of the extraordinary privileges of hosting a podcast like this is that I get to talk to some of my heroes, to as...

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Gathering the Memes of Production: Building Co-ordi-Nations with Josh Davila of Blockchain Socialist podcast

Accidental Gods - January 17, 2024 06:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 73 ratings
Those of you who've followed the podcast for any length of time know that I feel our capacity to connect across long distances, to share ideas in real time, is one of the things that has shifted our culture from being complex to super-complex, or hyper-complex, or whatever adjective we ...

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Let's get rid of Money and start afresh! Dismantling the Super-Organism with Diana Finch

Accidental Gods - January 10, 2024 06:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 73 ratings
Happy New Year.  It feels to me as if this year, the journey is going to be one of continual change and of challenge - that 2024 will be the year when it is impossible for anyone to pretend that the life we knew, the life we grew up believing would go on indefinitely - is going to conti...

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Promethean Project - Part 2: Crafting the future with Dr Simon Michaux

Accidental Gods - January 03, 2024 06:30 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 73 ratings
Welcome to the second part of our conversation - if you haven't listened to the first part, please do so - it's here [LINK] and  Simon has very kindly agreed to come back to join our Cutting Edge gathering on Sunday 19th March at 7pm UK time. He'll be with us for an hour during which ...

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The Promethian Project: Building a Radical Tomorrow with Dr Simon Michaux

Accidental Gods - January 03, 2024 06:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 73 ratings
Happy New Year.  My guest this week is a long term friend of the podcast. Dr Simon Michaux has been a physicist and geologist and then became an expert in the reality of the circular economy. He now works in the Geological Survey of Finland and is a regular advisor to the Finnish parlia...

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Plant Spirit Teachers: learning from the Elder Plants with Dr Simon Ruffell

Accidental Gods - December 27, 2023 06:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 73 ratings
For this time around the dark nights of the winter solstice - at least in the northern hemisphere - we've been exploring more of an inner landscape - being reflexive with Nathalie and Della, and before that, exploring the living myths of our land and how we can ground them in our curren...

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Meditation for the Winter solstice of 2023

Accidental Gods - December 20, 2023 06:30 - 17 minutes ★★★★★ - 73 ratings
Here is our winter solstice meditation - please create a space for yourself where you won't be disturbed and where you can feel your way into the dark, regenerative space of the longest night.  If you want to draw the curtains, switch off all the power and light a candle, this may help ...

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Solstice Dreaming: 3 podcasters gather round the Dark-Nights fire: Della Duncan, Nathalie Nahai and Manda Scott

Accidental Gods - December 20, 2023 06:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 73 ratings
This is the fourth year of our now-traditional Winter Solstice podcast get-together in which Nathalie Nahai, Della Duncan and I sit around our virtual dark-nights fire to reflect on the podcasting year just gone and explore what has changed for us since the last time the seeds of new be...

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Bright Fires, Dark Nights: Connecting deeply and building tribe as we head to the Solstice with Angharad Wynne

Accidental Gods - December 13, 2023 06:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 73 ratings
This week, as we head down towards what, in the northern hemisphere at least, is the long nights, the dark nights, I wanted to explore our heritage, the way we celebrate the solstice in this land, the land of Britain. I'm aware that quite a lot of you listening are from the southern hem...

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Braced for Impact: Cutting through the Greenwash and Lies with Rachel Donald of Planet: Critical podcast

Accidental Gods - December 06, 2023 06:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 73 ratings
Our guest this week is host of one of my must-listen podcasts - one I've been following since the spring, when Dr Simon Michaux mailed me and said, you need to listen to Rachel - and he was right.  Rachel Donald is host of Planet: Critical one of the world's top-rated podcasts on the p...

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Cars of the future (NOT EVs!) - Transforming transport and business with Hugo Spowers of Riversimple Movement

Accidental Gods - November 29, 2023 06:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 73 ratings
Our guest this week is Hugo Spowers, Company Architect of Riversimple, whose purpose is 'To pursue, systematically, the elimination of the environmental impact of personal transport.'  Modernity demands that we have personal transport and the thought of giving it up is one of the many ...

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Beyond the Brink is the Beginning with Richard Wain - Launching 27th November 2023

Accidental Gods - November 25, 2023 06:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 73 ratings
Words have the power to change worlds.  Powerful words, powerfully written can open doors to the future.  Beautiful words, beautifully written, can give us hope . Richard Wain's new collection of poetry is doing all of these, with panache, and heart and soul. We all know by now that we...

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Building Lifeboats to the Emerging Futures with Sophia Parker of the Joseph Rowntree Foundation

Accidental Gods - November 22, 2023 06:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 73 ratings
My guest this week is someone who is both right at the edge of the emerging futures and in a position to exert leverage at some of the highest points of the scale at which change happens.  Sophia Parker is the Emerging Futures Director at the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, a philanthropic...

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