Latest Meta crisis Podcast Episodes
Building Lifeboats to the Emerging Futures with Sophia Parker of the Joseph Rowntree Foundation
Accidental Gods - November 22, 2023 06:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 73 ratingsMy 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...
The Animate Earth Responds: Initiation in a time of Crisis with Alnoor Ladha and Lynn Murphy
Accidental Gods - November 15, 2023 06:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 73 ratingsHow do we move ourselves – individually and collectively – from the broken Trauma Culture of our times, to the Initiation Culture that will allow us to step forward, healed and whole? Alnoor Ladha and Lynn Murphy have co-authored a book: Post-Capitalist Philanthropy: Healing Wealth in ...
Bringing Indigenous food back to the people: a conversation with Josiah Meldrum of Hodmedod's
Accidental Gods - November 08, 2023 06:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 73 ratingsThis is an Accidental Gods bonus Episode recorded at the Marches Real Food and Farming Conference held at Linley Estate in Shropshire in September. Josiah Meldrum is co-founder and Director of Hodmedod's - which was set up specifically to enable local growers to farm regeneratively -...
Power to the People: Changing the way things work with Simon Oldridge
Accidental Gods - November 01, 2023 06:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 73 ratingsWe all know the climate and ecological tipping points are terrifyingly close. What can we do - as individuals and collectively? Simon Oldridge has ideas that answer both of these. Simon first joined us back in episode #182 when he joined his colleague Anthea Simmons and they spoke el...
Becoming Intentional Gods: Claiming the future with Indy Johar of the Dark Matter Labs
Accidental Gods - October 25, 2023 05:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 73 ratingsIf we're at the moment of choice between flourishing and destruction, what would you choose? We are at a moment of decision: We either step forward into our own Great Destruction, which could theoretically see us wipe out all of humanity and most of the More than Human World…Or we cou...
Courageous Conversations - talking about what matters with Rowan Ryrie of Parents for Future
Accidental Gods - October 18, 2023 05:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 73 ratingsHow can we, as parents, grandparents and anyone who cares about the fate of future generations, live our lives in such a way that when our children ask us why we didn't do more, we can say with honesty that we did all that we could? How do we help them to build resilience, to feel safe...
The Web of Life & New Tech Webs – A Beautiful Connection? with Monty Merlin of ReFi DAO
Accidental Gods - October 11, 2023 05:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 73 ratingsHow much do you know about AI, blockchain and Web 3.0? If you're like us, the answer is probably very little. But these techs are going to change our world out of all recognition and while there is the potential for catastrophe, in the right hands, the same technology has the potential ...
What your Food Ate - Or why you should never eat industrially farmed food ever again- With Anne Bicklé and David Montgomery
Accidental Gods - October 04, 2023 05:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 73 ratingsHow does soil health intimately and profoundly impact human health? What's the link between the soil microbiome and the human gut microbiome? How can we begin to restore our health, and the health of the living earth in concert with each other? These are the questions posed by the ou...
Transforming Narrative Waters with Ruth Taylor of the Common Cause Foundation
Accidental Gods - September 27, 2023 05:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 73 ratingsHere at Accidental Gods, we are increasingly of the opinion that our most urgent need as we face the polycrisis is to find a sense of being a belonging that changes our life's purpose. We all know we're not here just to pay bills and die, but knowing what we're not here for is not enoug...
Equinox Meditation: Finding the balance point in ourselves and the world
Accidental Gods - September 23, 2023 06:00 - 21 minutes ★★★★★ - 73 ratingsManda's Equinox meditation focuses on finding our sense of balance as the tilt of the world balances between summer and winter, light and dark, day and night. And from that, finding a stable place with the three pillars of our heart minds: joyful curiosity, gratitude and compassion. ...
Walking the edge between light and dark: Equinox reflections on Accidental Gods past, present and future
Accidental Gods - September 23, 2023 05:00 - 24 minutes ★★★★★ - 73 ratingsAs we head into winter in the northern hemisphere, as the tilt of the world hangs in balance, we reached our 200th episode. So this is a time to look back and look forward: to look at where we've been, where we are and where we might go. From our origins as an adjunct to the Accidental...
Meeting the Spirit of the Land: exploring Spirituality in Farming with biodynamic grower, André Tranquilini
Accidental Gods - September 20, 2023 05:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 73 ratingsIn this, our 200th episode of Accidental Gods podcast, I am delighted to be joined by André Tranquilini, estate manager at Waltham Place, a 220 acred biodynamic estate in Berkshire, in the UK. André is a biodynamic farmer, consultant and teacher. He has been the manager at Waltham Pla...
Making The Nettle Dress: a journey of attention and intention and magic and loss with Allan Brown and Dylan Howitt
Accidental Gods - September 13, 2023 05:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 73 ratings"Grasping the Nettle' is at the heart of the film. Making a dress this way is a mad act of will and artistry but also devotional, with every nettle thread representing hours of mindful craft. Over seven years Allan is transformed by the process just as the nettles are. It's a kind of al...
Healthy Human Culture: Diving deep into ourselves, each other and the world, with Sophy Banks
Accidental Gods - September 06, 2023 05:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 73 ratingsHow do good people create systems of oppression? What is Health? What is unHealth? And how do we move from the latter to the former in ways that mean good people create systems of co-creation, inter-being and connection? This week, we explore all these questions with Sophy Banks, Foun...
Inspiring the climate majority with Prof Rupert Read
Accidental Gods - August 30, 2023 05:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 73 ratingsWe're on the edge of so many tipping points it's hard to know where to start. But paralysis isn't useful and so we need to talk to the people who are still moving forward - and who have ideas of how we can carry more and more people with us. With that in mind, this week's guest is ...
The Art of Living Well - A Creative Life on the Land with Elisa Rathje of AppleTurnover TV
Accidental Gods - August 23, 2023 05:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 73 ratingsIn this week's episode I'm talking to someone I met on last year's Thrutopia Masterclass: someone who was there to explore and share ideas about how we might get through to that flourishing future we'd be proud to leave behind. Elisa Rathje is an artist, a filmmaker, a podcaster, a writ...
Spiritual Activism: Permaculture of land, heart and people with Maddy Harland
Accidental Gods - August 16, 2023 05:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 73 ratingsThis podcast is focussed on all the ways that we can bring all of ourselves to the project of total systemic change: our minds, bodies, spirits, hearts - and the practicality of what we do. Given this, we're delighted to welcome to the podcast Maddy Harland, the Co-founder and Editor o...
This Mighty Heart: exploring the power of Heart Intelligence with Scilla Elworthy
Accidental Gods - August 09, 2023 05:00 - 53 minutes ★★★★★ - 73 ratingsWe all know that we need to reconnect to our HeartMinds and to bring our Heart Intelligence up to meet the explosion of left brain intelligence - we just don't know how to do it. This week's guest is one of my living heroes - who does have clear, grounded ideas of how to do this. Dr S...
AI: Integral to the future or existential risk? (or both) - conversations on current evolution with Daniel Thorson
Accidental Gods - August 02, 2023 05:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 73 ratingsHow dangerous is AI? Are Large Language Models likely to subvert our children? Is Generalised AI going to wipe out all life on the planet? I don't know the answers to these. It may be that nobody knows, but this week's guest was my go-to when I needed someone with total integrity to h...
Giving Birth to an Alien Intelligence: AI - existential risk or integral part of the solution with Daniel Thorson
Accidental Gods - August 02, 2023 05:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 73 ratingsHow dangerous is AI? Are Large Language Models likely to subvert our children? Is Generalised AI going to wipe out all life on the planet? I don't know the answers to these. It may be that nobody knows, but this week's guest was my go-to when I needed someone with total integrity to h...
Walk Deep, walk true, and listen to your dreams: wordsmithing the human spirit with Abigail Morgan Prout
Accidental Gods - July 26, 2023 05:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 73 ratingsPeruvian shaman Oscar Miro-Quesada says that "Consciousness creates matter, Language Creates Reality, Ritual creates relationship.” This week I'm speaking with someone who bring reality into being with words and weaves relational rituals. Abigail Morgan Prout is a poet, life coach, ...
A Green New Deal that Works for People and Planet with Max Ajl
Accidental Gods - July 19, 2023 05:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 73 ratingsOur guest this week is Max Ajl, who is an associate researcher with the Tunisian Observatory for Food Sovereignty and the Environment and a postdoctoral fellow with the Rural Sociology Group at Wageningen University. He has written for multiple journals and is an associate editor at Agr...
Becoming a Stag Beetle! Living the Interspecies Treaty of Finsbury Park with Ruth Catlow
Accidental Gods - July 12, 2023 08:19 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 73 ratingsIn this week's episode, we have a return guest to the podcast. Ruth Catlow has taken the amazing work she did in lockdown and held live festivals in the park where people get to become one of the seven core species: a dog, a Canada goose (just visiting!) a tree, grass… and, yes, a stag ...
Voting our way to a fairer future: Contemplations on quadratic voting with Ruth Catlow
Accidental Gods - July 12, 2023 05:30 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 73 ratingsThis is the part of the podcast where we talk about voting systems, specifically the quadratic voting on the blockchain that Ruth has made into an app that's in use in the Park. Then we moved into her work with Government ministries and big corporations, bringing the aliveness and live...
Five Insights for Avoiding Global Collapse with economist Gaya Herrington
Accidental Gods - July 05, 2023 07:42 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 73 ratingsWhat does it take to avoid global collapse? Is there still time? And if so, what are the societal, social, cultural and goal-oriented changes that we need to make to get there? This week's guest is one of the new generation of super-thinkers who have the capacity, individually and c...
Five Insights for Avoiding Global Collapse with economist Gaya Hetherington
Accidental Gods - July 05, 2023 07:42 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 73 ratingsWhat does it take to avoid global collapse? Is there still time? And if so, what are the societal, social, cultural and goal-oriented changes that we need to make to get there? This week's guest is one of the new generation of super-thinkers who have the capacity, individually and c...
Exploding the Myth of a Farm-Free Future (and fake meat!) with Chris Smaje
Accidental Gods - June 28, 2023 05:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 73 ratingsHow do we make the case for a fully ecological farming system, that can feed all of us, while restoring the bio-sphere and providing affordable, nutritious food. How can we become a good keystone species - and what does that mean. This second episode with Chris Smaje, explores his new ...
Psychedelics: the key to evolution or (yet more) big Pharma hype? With Dr Ros Watts of ACER Integration
Accidental Gods - June 21, 2023 05:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 73 ratingsWe are the Accidental Gods. We didn't plan to be the ones to hold the god-like power to destroy most of the life on this planet, but here we are, at a place where one single species - ours - has the capacity to do just this. The routes to Armageddon seem to be increasing all the time, ...
Summer Solstice Meditation - with Manda Scott (with birdsong behind)
Accidental Gods - June 20, 2023 05:00 - 22 minutes ★★★★★ - 73 ratingsIt's the summer solstice, the longest day and the shortest night. What matters now in our world is that we reconnect with the rhythms of the living web. This meditation is designed to help you connect to the rising sun on this day of longest light. This version of meditation has birdso...
Summer Solstice Meditation with Manda Scott
Accidental Gods - June 20, 2023 05:00 - 22 minutes ★★★★★ - 73 ratingsIt's the summer solstice, the longest day and the shortest night. What matters now in our world is that we reconnect with the rhythms of the living web. This meditation is designed to help you connect to the rising sun on this day of longest light. This version of the summer solstice m...
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