Divine Design Podcast & Field-Readings (Divine Letters)

Every life has patterns. Certain relationships, challenges, losses, conflicts and circumstances seem to return in different forms, following us like a red thread through our lives. In this week’s Field-Reading, I explore what I call our unique karmic predicament. The particular curriculum our soul has chosen to experience through this incarnation. Within this understanding, we do not arrive on Ear...

What remains when the noise becomes quiet? In this solo episode of Divine Design Podcast, I share from a deeply personal ceremony about something remarkably simple: the good life. We move through darkness and light, into grief, including the deep sorrow we carry individually and collectively, and into the stillness that can be found underneath it all. I explore the wisdom of the body, our relation...

We spend so much of our lives listening to the world around us. But what happens when we begin listening within? In this week’s Field-Reading, I explore our extraordinary capacity for hearing, the senses as gateways of perception, and the ancient mystical understanding of The Sound Current — the inner sound beneath the noise of the external world. This is also a continuation of last week’s The Bod...

What makes a piece of art human? Is it the hand that painted it? The years of experience behind it? The intention, the imperfections, the story — or something of the artist that somehow remains in the work? In this episode of Divine Design Podcast, I meet Norwegian artist and former teacher Alfred Vaagsvold for a conversation about art, light, darkness, hope — and what it means to create in the ag...

Last week I tested my capacity. This week, my body answered. After an intense period of work, very little sleep and three months inside the healthcare system, my body asked for something completely different: rest, restoration and a return to the roots. In this week’s Field-Reading, I explore the body’s natural intelligence, homeostasis, the deeper symbolism of the kidneys in Traditional Chinese M...

Healing is more than only removing symptoms, and has to do with the way we relate to our body, our patterns, and ourselves? In this episode of the Divine Design Podcast, I sit down with Stian and Eirill for an open conversation about alternative approaches to health, consciousness and human transformation. We explore their experiences with plasma technology, iboga and ibogaine retreats in South Af...

We inherit far more from our families than names and DNA. We carry stories, patterns, wounds, strengths and ways of relating that may have travelled through generations. But inheritance is not destiny. In this week’s Field-Reading, I explore what happens when old family structures begin to break open, how we can become conscious of the patterns we carry, and why transformation in one person can af...

It is a question many of us have asked during periods when our thoughts suddenly feel harder to reach, our memory changes, or we simply no longer feel quite like ourselves. In this episode of Divine Design Podcast, I meet Icelandic artist Guðlaug “Lauga,” whose exhibitions Brain Fog and Where Is My Mind? transform these deeply human experiences into art. We talk about brain fog, menopause, burnout...

We have entered the Age of AI. And everywhere, people are asking the same questions: Will AI replace us? Will it make us less human? Will it become dangerous? Could it even become one of the greatest threats humanity has ever created? Technology has always reflected the consciousness of the people using it. We discovered the enormous power hidden inside the atom and used that knowledge both to tre...

What happens when a song becomes too dangerous to be heard? And what happens when technology can imitate the artists who created the music in the first place? In this episode of Divine Design Podcast, I sit down with Norwegian artist Pål Moddi Knutsen, known as Moddi, for a conversation about music, censorship, AI and the human voice. Through his remarkable "Unsongs" project, Moddi brought banned...

This has been an emotional week, a week of grief, anger, uncomfortable truths, and encounters that have reminded me how important discernment has become. What happens when we begin to recognize dishonesty, manipulation, avoidance of responsibility and unhealthy structures around us and realize that remaining silent is also a choice? Every system can develop its “rotten apples.” Sometimes people le...

What happens when following your conscience begins to cost you the life you knew? For Sharon, Nicaseeker and her family, the COVID years became far more than a global health crisis. They became a turning point. Living in New Zealand during lockdowns and vaccine mandates, Sharon watched restrictions intensify, relationships become divided, and her husband eventually lose his teaching position after...

The Good Life — Field-Reading Week 34 What does The Good Life actually mean to you — the life that genuinely feels good to live? This week I have been reflecting on the difference between being surrounded by drama and choosing to live from an inner place of peace. We cannot always control the storms around us, but we can become more conscious of which storms we enter, what we give our energy to, a...

What does it mean to live a good life when the world around us feels increasingly unstable? In this episode of Divine Design Podcast, Veerle and I meet again after six months, and much has changed. Across the world, we are witnessing extremes: heat waves and drought, unusual weather patterns, pressure on agriculture, exhausted caregivers, healthcare systems struggling to cope, and people navigatin...

Life moves in cycles, and this week I have seen new ones beginning everywhere — in family, work, relationships, education, home and the deeper direction of life itself. But a new cycle is not simply a new beginning. We enter it carrying the wisdom of everything we have already lived, and perhaps the invitation is to become more conscious of how we enter what comes next. What are you bringing with...

What happens when spring becomes quieter? Birds have been witnessing the transformation of our planet for generations. Their changing migration patterns, declining populations and disappearing habitats tell a story that reaches far beyond birdlife. They tell us something about how humanity is living on Earth and where we may be heading. In this episode of Divine Design Podcast, I speak with Profes...

This week has shown me, very clearly, what happens when the old meets the new. I walked into my working week and found myself face-to-face with systems that felt heavy, slow and resistant to change, while at the same time meeting people who reminded me how quickly things can begin to move when we choose openness, courage and a genuine willingness to serve. This is what embodiment really asks of us...

What if we have misunderstood the idea of a spiritual portal? Every year, thousands of people turn toward dates like 8/8, waiting for an opening, a shift, a transmission — something in the universe that will move us into a new reality. But the opening is not happening to us. We are creating it In this episode of the Divine Design Podcast, Colin Whitby and I explore a profound shift from observing...

This week I travelled to 71° North, to Finnmark, the northernmost part of Norway, where I spent time surrounded by powerful landscapes, rich cultural traditions, and many meaningful conversations. It became a week of unexpected encounters and one invitation that has the potential to change the direction of my life. I am not ready to speak about the details yet. But I am ready to speak about what t...

There are losses that happen through death. And then there are losses that happen while everyone is still alive. In this deeply personal episode of the Divine Design Podcast, Tony shares the story of becoming a father, building a quiet life in nature for his daughter, and then watching everything change after the Norwegian system overrun the young family. Rather than focusing only on legal process...

Last week, we remembered what it felt like to row together. This week, life invites us to ask a deeper question: What is keeping us from rowing together? Throughout this week I have witnessed something remarkable. More and more people are reaching their "enough." They are leaving workplaces that no longer honor who they are, speaking truths they have held inside for years, ending relationships tha...

Football is never just about football. When Norway welcomed home its national team on July 13th, 2026, after they had lost in the World Cup, something extraordinary happened. Hundreds of thousands of people filled the streets, not to celebrate a trophy, but to celebrate each other. In this episode of the Divine Design Podcast, Richard Barrett and Ann-Peggy explore why this moment mattered far beyo...

What if the greatest victory was never about winning? On the 13th of July, Norway welcomed home a football team that had not lifted the World Cup trophy. Yet something extraordinary happened. For a brief moment, an entire nation remembered that belonging is more powerful than achievement, that rowing together matters more than crossing the finish line first, and that humanity is at its strongest w...

Sometimes the most meaningful conversations are the ones you never planned. Christine Scott and I had never met before this recording. We simply found ourselves in the same online space, followed our intuition, and began talking. What unfolded was an honest, deeply human conversation about family, awakening, letting go, and the unexpected ways life guides us. Christine spent more than thirty years...

Have you ever looked at the world and felt a sadness you couldn't explain? The distance between the world as it is... and the world as it could be. What if that feeling isn't depression, and instead it is something far older—and far more human? In this week's Field-Reading, I introduce the first layer of Weltschmerz, what I call Mother Earth's Own Grief—the philosophical ache that sensitive people...