Latest Thrutopian Podcast Episodes
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 ★★★★★ - 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...
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 ★★★★★ - 80 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 ★★★★★ - 80 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 ★★★★★ - 80 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 ★★★★★ - 80 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 Hetherington
Accidental Gods - July 05, 2023 07:42 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 80 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 Herrington
Accidental Gods - July 05, 2023 07:42 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 80 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 ★★★★★ - 80 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 ★★★★★ - 80 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 ★★★★★ - 80 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 ★★★★★ - 80 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...
Manda - Summer Solstice Roundup, Reading and Listening
Accidental Gods - June 20, 2023 03:00 - 51 minutes ★★★★★ - 80 ratingsAt the halfway point of the year, Manda looks back on what's been on the podcast, forward at (some of) what's to come, thoughts on where we're at as a world, and explores the books and podcasts that have stood out in the past six months. Non fiction A People’s Green New Deal by M...
The Sacred Depths of Nature: exploring the interface of science, spirituality and religion with Ursula Goodenough
Accidental Gods - June 14, 2023 05:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 80 ratingsSometimes the synchronicity of this podcast leaves me very happy. About six months ago, I was thinking that I wanted to talk to someone who really lived at the interface between science and spirituality, where I could begin to sand down some of the rough edges of my own thinking. And ...
Reality Check: Less Quantity, More Quality in a Future that will Work, Part 4 of our series w Simon Michaux
Accidental Gods - June 11, 2023 05:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 80 ratingsThis is the fourth of our ongoing series with Dr Simon Michaux. As ever, we ranged far and wide, but this time within the remit of 'what does the world look like in 2050 if we make good choices now?' Specifically, how do we construct and power our civilisation beyond the emergence of...
Lifeboats and Volcanoes: part 3 of our series with Simon Michaux
Accidental Gods - June 07, 2023 05:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 80 ratingsThis week's guest is fast becoming a friend of the Podcast. In the first part of what is now an ongoing series, Dr Simon Michaux outlined for us the nature of the materials crisis - the fact that there is simply not enough stuff, not enough copper or cobalt or lithium to continue to man...
Primary Strategy: Growing a new voting paradigm in the South Devon Primary
Accidental Gods - May 31, 2023 05:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 80 ratingsAs you'll know by now, one of our core motivators in creating this podcast was the realisation that the 'democratic' systems of the world are largely broken and are not a useful way to affect change. I used to be a political activist. I thought I'd given all that up, but today's conversation ha...
No More Fairy Stories: Writing the way through, one tale at a time - with Denise Baden
Accidental Gods - May 24, 2023 05:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 80 ratingsIf you've listened to this podcast at all recently, you'll know that I'm in the editing phase of the new book - the phase where we 'carve it into tiny pieces, throw significant chunks of it in the recycling (because words are never wasted and text storage is basically free) and rebuild ...
Meeting the Ocean: Rekindling our deepest connections through art and science with Markus Reymann
Accidental Gods - May 17, 2023 05:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 80 ratingsHow do we really create systemic change? How do we shift narratives towards a generative future? How do we bring artists, scientists, policy makers, educators, conservationists, journalists, and all the different siloed tribes together in ways that let them genuinely communicate and lis...
Proudly Mad: exploring mental health and the climate emergency with Charlie Hertzog Young
Accidental Gods - May 10, 2023 05:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 80 ratingsHow did one man make the shift from Not wanting to live in this world, to refusing to live in this world? If you've listened to this podcast for any length of time, you'll know that I did the Masters in Regenerative Economics at Schumacher college in 2016-17. It was a genuinely life c...
Building Tomorrow: Bonus addition: Painting 2050 if we get things right
Accidental Gods - May 04, 2023 05:00 - 11 minutes ★★★★★ - 80 ratingsPaddy and I recorded a brief 15 minute bonus of how the world could look if we actually employed all the strategies in 'Building Tomorrow' - so sit back, soak it in - and then let's make it happen... BIO: Author, Paddy le Flufy read mathematics at Cambridge, then - as seems to have h...
Building Tomorrow: Practical steps to a new economic system with Paddy Le Flufy
Accidental Gods - May 03, 2023 05:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 80 ratingsAs you will know by now, this podcast searches long and hard for answers to the over-riding question of 'what do we need to do, to get us from where we are, to where we need to be to set the stage for that generative future our hearts know is possible?' So when I got a book that directl...
Building Bridges to the Future with Cat Tully of the School of International Futures
Accidental Gods - April 26, 2023 05:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 80 ratingsIf you've listened to the podcast at all over the past few years, you'll know that the search for routes to total systemic change has always been the driver of what we're doing and why we're doing it. Even so, it's not often I talk to someone who is singlemindedly exploring the routes t...
Bridging from the Necessary to the Possible with Emily Harris of Dark Matter Labs
Accidental Gods - April 19, 2023 05:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 80 ratingsIF the present system is broken - and is in fact the heart of the meta-crisis - how can we transform peacefully to something that will work to create the future we'd want to leave behind? That's the core question of this podcast and so it was with great joy, that I found Dark Matter L...
Drawing Humanity out of the Cave with Dr Simon Michaux (Part 2 of a series)
Accidental Gods - April 12, 2023 05:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 80 ratingsThis week, we're returning to the second part of the ongoing series with Dr Simon Michaux. If you haven't listened to the first part, I'd recommend you do and I'll put the link in the show notes, but the edited highlight is that Simon is a mining engineer who is dedicated to crunching t...
The Fine Art of Huddles: multiplying our potential by the power of our peers with Zahra Davidson of Huddlecraft
Accidental Gods - April 05, 2023 05:00 - 59 minutes ★★★★★ - 80 ratingsHow can we begin to shift away from the old hierarchical dominance structures of our past 2,000 years, towards something where everyone brings the best of themselves and embraces and celebrates the best in other people? It was in hunting for answers to this, that I came across this wee...
Bonus: Exploring the banking crash with Grace Rachmany - in which I ask all the questions I never asked before...
Accidental Gods - March 29, 2023 05:00 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 80 ratingsFollowing our podcast with Grace Rachmany, we stayed online and talked about the banking crash. At the time of recording, we only knew about Silicon Valley Bank - Credit Suisse hadn't gone down yet - but we talked about the nature of finance, of cryptocurrencies, of the totally unsustai...
Meshworks of Being: Building Community on the DAO with Grace Rachmany of Priceless DAO
Accidental Gods - March 29, 2023 05:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 80 ratingsWe know that the future is based on Community. What we lack are practical routes to creating communities of community on a worldwide scale - ones that can form and will be resilient enough to survive. In this week's podcast, therefore, I'm genuinely thrilled to introduce you to one o...
Dancing with the Muppets of Cutthroat Island: Transforming Industry to create a genuine Green Revolution with Dr Simon Michaux
Accidental Gods - March 22, 2023 06:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 80 ratingsHow much actual stuff do we have in the world compared to what we need to make the 'Green Revolution' happen? This week's guest is another of those recently elevated to my pantheon of people I Must Listen To whatever they say and however they say it and I am genuinely thrilled to wel...
Reasons to be Sheepful: from wedding shawls to burial shrouds with Yuli Somme of Bellacouche
Accidental Gods - March 15, 2023 06:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 80 ratingsOur crisis, our challenge, our opportunity is complex. More than ever, it matters now that we not get caught in separate silos where we focus just on atmospheric carbon, or just on plastic pollution, or just on our cultural addiction to fossil fuels. We need responses that cover all of ...
Technology for a future that works with Cory Feco of the DOI Foundation
Accidental Gods - March 08, 2023 06:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 80 ratingsThe one big question that this podcast exists to answer is - what does our future look like when it works? When we endeavour to answer this, there seems quite a clear divide between those us born in the twentieth century who grew up in a world before broadband, and those born in the ni...
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