Accidental Gods

How can we reWeave the political governance, not just of individual nations, but of the world?  In Part 2 of our conversation, Benjamin Ross outlines the ways in which One Nation Politics is creating Elder Councils, a United Peoples' Coalition and how the One Thousand Fractal shards of Burning Man might ignite change across the world As we awaken to an emergent planetary coherence, we rely on stor...

How could our entire political system be rewoven so that it met the needs of all humanity - and the More than Human world?  How can we step beyond the tribal toxicity that is tearing us apart and find ways to build a future that work?  The One Nation Party is a key to a radical new mode of governance.  Here, Benjamin Ross describes how it arose, what draw him to it and how it can work to transform...

How can we embody the change we need to see in the world?  How can we find the new ways of being before we even have words to describe them?  What is 'Warm Data' and how does it help us see the world as it really is?  Phoebe Tickell, utopian, sense-maker and facilitator of radical change talks us through answers that will help us to change the world. Phoebe is embedded in, and embodies the new sen...

In this second of two episodes, practical visionary, Miki Kashtan, lays out her visions of a flourishing, generative future based on providing for the needs of all - the human and More-Than-Human world. And how to get there. Miki Kashtan, co-founder of the Bay Area NVC and adept nonviolent communication practitioner, lays out the pathways she believes could take us towards a future where everyone...

How can we reweave the fabric of humanity to create a world where everyone's deepest needs are met? How do we even know what our deepest needs are - for security (physical and emotional), freedom, connection and meaning? In part 1 of 2, Miki Kashtan gives us answers - and a vision of the future.  Practical visionary Miki Kashtan has devoted her life to the exploration and practice of non violent c...

Musician, artist, maker-of-ceremony and guardian of the ancestors of the land, Carolyn Hillyer talks - and sings - about the three things that take care of this land: a deep honouring of the ancestors, a fierce guardianship, and the absolute heart-felt connection of tribe.   Carolyn Hillyer lives on a 1,000 year old farm in the heart of Dartmoor.  Her fierce, deeply spiritual guardianship of this...

What if our work made our hearts sing every day? What if everyone were paid what they were actually worth? What if the profits went into the community, to build the better world our hearts know is possible?  How would that actually work?  Let’s find out!   Renegade Economist and Right Livelihood coach, Della Duncan, has spent most of her professional life exploring the ideas that might transform o...

Business as usual has brought us to the edge of extinction.  Can we switch off our complacency and turn towards life in time?  Raw, honest thoughts from Professor Rupert Read of Extinction Rebellion.   Professor Rupert Read, Green Party activist, XR speaker, and deep adaptation philosopher, speaks openly, deeply - and with a raw, almost unique honesty  - about the dangers of the current time, and...

How can we feed our bodies and our souls?  Abel Pearson, founder of Glasbren community supported agriculture farm in West Wales shared his  connection to the land, his spiritual practice - and his re-visioning of community, food and spirit.    Abel Pearson is a poet, peasant farmer, permaculture educator & activist, tending soil in West Wales and listening for the stories we need to build comm...

If we're on the edge of chaos, how can we bring all the good ideas together - the right people with the right skills at the right time - and craft an ecosystem of ecosystems to affect radical change?  How can we save ourselves from extinction. Humanity Rising offers an answer.  "What's the equivalent, by 2030, of putting humanity on the moon?  What do we need to do that is bigger than life, worthy...

In the midst of lockdown, how can we find resilience and emotional balance? How can we make the connections we need to feel safe -- in our bodies, in our relationships, out in the world...and on our Zoom calls? How can we feel truly alive? Therapist Sarah Schlote has much-needed answers... Life is changing and we need to find ways to keep ourselves emotionally resilient.  Sarah Schlote, therapist...

Dr Gail Bradbrook is best known as being one of the co-founders of Extinction Rebellion. But she's also a StreetSchool Economist and deeply passionate visionary and here, we explore the spirit of activism that underpins her work - and look forward to future Rebellions held in the trickster spirit of Fox and Crow. Dr Gail Bradbrook has a PhD in molecular biophysics.  She was founder of a program ca...

Where does a true, deep sense of inner safety come from?  How do we recognise safety in ourselves and our environment? And how can that sense of safety be undermined?  Somatic Experiencing Practitioner, Sarah Schlote, explains how our deepest selves find balance.  Recent advances in neuroscience have shed light on those things that are most precious to us  - a sense of equanimity and inner safety,...

We spend our lives squinting past the inevitable reality of our own death. But suppose we were able to talk about it openly, to shape it, to embrace it so that by contemplating a good death, we could become fully alive? Dr Judith Wester is a thanatologist: an academic who specialises in the study of death, dying and the cultural rituals of many nations.  Her life is given to teaching others of all...

If Lockdown is a moment of death and rebirth, what do we want to conceive?  And how can we connect to the Web of Life in ways that will help us to conceive the best possible future?  Angharad Wynne offers the wisdom of a life lived on the edge of being - and a close encounter with death - to this conversation of ancestors, Brythonic lore and red kites.  Angharad Wynne is a visionary, land-walker a...

What do we do with this time of lockdown? How can we use it in ways that will lead us to a more flourishing world, without guilt-tripping ourselves or adding pressure to an already-pressured time?  Nathalie Nahai of The Hive podcast and Manda Scott of Accidental Gods, share thoughts, feelings and explore the edges of being.   Nathalie's humanity, and her deep, broad grasp of psychology, particular...

As discussed in episode 9, this is a thirty minute mediation focussed on the question of WHAT IF we got it all right from this moment forward.  If we can really begin to feel the emotional reality as a physical thing, a felt-sense in our bodies, so that it suffuses all of us - then we can aim for this.  If you want longer variations - or if you live in the Southern hemisphere and would prefer to g...

Rob Cobbold is founding editor of consciousevolution.co.uk. He's a critical thinker, a program manager for the Green Schools partnership and is studying for a Masters in Sustainable Leadership.  He's a key mover in the world of conscious evolution and here, he describes why consciousness is the next evolutionary step and how we might get there.    I haven't often had the pleasure of speaking with...

Visionary, healer and author of two books on ancient indigenous and contemporary shamanic practice, Chris Luttichau is a beacon of grounded integrity in this time of upheaval.  In this week's podcast, we explore how the indigenous peoples' view this time, and how we can respond to the challenges of the moment. This was recorded on the third day of lockdown in the UK. Our world is changing and we'r...

As our world turns over, we turn to the new-old ways to discover how we could do things differently. In this raw, deep, honest conversation with shamanic practitioner, Ya'acov Darling Khan, we talk about what we can do - and his new book. Ya'acov Darling Khan is an international teacher of Movement Medicine and a shamanic practitioner. His new book: 'Shaman: Invoking Power, Presence and Purpose in...

The world is not as it was. Every one of us is touched by this. We are a global community now, striving to find sovereignty, balance - and a way forward that is healing for us all. In this podcast, Manda Scott explores the routes to inner resilience, without which, there can be no outer coherence.  Joanna Macy calls this the Great Unravelling - a time when everything changes.  And we are human, so...

 Daniel Thorson, host of the ground-breaking, innovative - and hugely courageous - Emerge podcast is a Buddhist monastic, activist and meta-modern thinker.  In this conversation, we dive deeply into what it means to be human - and how we can live as the best of ourselves. The Emerge podcast is a must-listen for anyone interested in exploring human potential as we surge into the anthropocene.  Its...

Rabbi Jill Hammer is committed to an earth based and a wildly mythic view of the world in which nature, ritual and story connect us to the body of the cosmos and to ourselves. In this conversation, we dive deep into the meaning of life, the role of dreams in a spiritual life and how we might find hope in the face of climate breakdown.    Jill is an author, midrashist, mystic, poet, essayist and He...

If, as philosopher, Green party activist, University Professor and XR activist, Rupert Read is right, our civilisation is finished.  We'll either collapse, or transform to the point of being unrecognisable.  So... this being the case, what can we do?  Rupert Read is one of our generation's greatest, and deepest green thinkers. Join us in this discussion of how we can move forward.    Rupert Read i...

If we can open our eyes and look in the mirror of the world, we can open ourselves to the InterBeing  that allows Active Hope as we face the chaos of our world.  In this interview, Della Duncan, Renegade economist, host of the Upstream podcast, and practitioner of Joanna Macy's Work that Reconnects, explores the ways to a sustainable and equitable future. Podcaster, economist, and spiritual activi...