Accidental Gods

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...

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...