Accidental Gods

For most of us, falling in love with the absolute wonder of being alive is a distant dream.  Nonetheless, changing how we feel is the goal of most self-help courses, a great deal of therapy and most of the routes that lead to alcohol and drug abuse. Suppose we could do it intelligently, with a generosity-of-spirit that allows us really to fall in love with the act of living.  So that each moment o...

Emergence from Complex Systems is a thing.  And the thing about it is, that there are only two options when a system reaches maximal complexity: collapse to chaos and extinction OR emergence to a new phase.  We prefer the second option, so this is a look at complexity - and at the levers of change in any system. Complexity is all around us - in fact if we're looking for a distinction between compl...

What would our lives look like if we knew how to become the best of ourselves?  If we could hack our way into a sense of authenticity that allowed us to live with integrity?  Let’s find out…. As is clear by now, if large numbers of us are going to find a way to move towards conscious evolution, then we have to solve the problem of how ordinary, time-poor, stressed out people in a world hurtling to...

Why are some habits easy to form (immoral, illegal or bad for your health, as my dad used to say)  - but the ones we actually want, are far harder to set up?  'Watch your character, for it becomes your destiny'  - Lao Tsu mapped the progress from habits of thought (and we would add habits of feeing) towards the truth of what we become.   In this week's podcast, we take a deep dive into the neurosc...

How do you create heart coherence and inner resilience?  This episode of the podcast explores the ways we can balance head-mind and heart-mind to create the kinds of inner equanimity that allow us to flourish, whatever the outer world throws at us. If we’re going to reach conscious evolution, we need to be able to stand in balance in the world – a key part of which is that we learn how to open the...

In this episode, we look more closely at HOW to grow into coherence. There are four obvious types of meditation, mindfulness, contemplation – whatever you want to call it– and  we explore how these  four types form the foundation of this work. All of them help us to build our focused attention into intention. As we’ve said already, the key to successful practice – to building enduring habits – is...

Of the four steps to conscious evolution and the paradigm shift that we need, this is the one that most people have explored at some point.  This is the place where we shift our brain patterns from beta pattens to theta, delta or – rarely so far, but I think it’ll become more frequent – gamma.  This is where we make the most of the fact that what fires together wires together so that we can begin...

Re-Awakening into Connection is the core of what Accidental Gods is about – the return of our heritage, our birthright, our ability to live in context with the web of life.  It’s not long in evolutionary terms, since we were a part of the living world, able to ask questions, and answer the questions that were asked of us.  Now, as we stand on the cusp either of catastrophe or extraordinary change,...

Conscious evolution could be our next evolutionary step - a radical shift in what it means to be human. In this episode we outline the steps that we believe could lead us on the path to a co-creation of a new future for humanity. We are the accidental gods - all of us - we are the generational era that stands on the brink of species level extinction. For the first time in the history of evolution...