Latest Thrutopian Podcast Episodes
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 ★★★★★ - 80 ratingsThose 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 ...
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 ★★★★★ - 80 ratingsHappy 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...
Promethean Project - Part 2: Crafting the future with Dr Simon Michaux
Accidental Gods - January 03, 2024 06:30 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 80 ratingsWelcome 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 ...
The Promethian Project: Building a Radical Tomorrow with Dr Simon Michaux
Accidental Gods - January 03, 2024 06:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 80 ratingsHappy 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...
Plant Spirit Teachers: learning from the Elder Plants with Dr Simon Ruffell
Accidental Gods - December 27, 2023 06:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 80 ratingsFor 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...
Meditation for the Winter solstice of 2023
Accidental Gods - December 20, 2023 06:30 - 17 minutes ★★★★★ - 80 ratingsHere 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 ...
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 ★★★★★ - 80 ratingsThis 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...
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 ★★★★★ - 80 ratingsThis 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...
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 ★★★★★ - 80 ratingsOur 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...
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 ★★★★★ - 80 ratingsOur 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 ...
Beyond the Brink is the Beginning with Richard Wain - Launching 27th November 2023
Accidental Gods - November 25, 2023 06:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 80 ratingsWords 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...
Building Lifeboats to the Emerging Futures with Sophia Parker of the Joseph Rowntree Foundation
Accidental Gods - November 22, 2023 06:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 80 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 ★★★★★ - 80 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 ★★★★★ - 80 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 ★★★★★ - 80 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 ★★★★★ - 80 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 ★★★★★ - 80 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 ★★★★★ - 80 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 ★★★★★ - 80 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 ★★★★★ - 80 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 ★★★★★ - 80 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 ★★★★★ - 80 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 ★★★★★ - 80 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 ★★★★★ - 80 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 ★★★★★ - 80 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 ★★★★★ - 80 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 ★★★★★ - 80 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 ★★★★★ - 80 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 ★★★★★ - 80 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...
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 ★★★★★ - 80 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...
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