Convexplorations—with Anna Grear

In this episode, Anna speaks with Ralph Cree—another long-time spiritual practitioner—about psychedelics, self-constructs, 'not knowing', maturation, and the current political and civilizational inflection point that humanity is facing. You can find Ralph's work on Soundcloud and on his website. Watch out, too, for Anna and Ralph's new collaboration, 'Hypgnosis', a st...

David Bollier is an American activist, writer, thinker and author whose work focuses on the commons as a paradigm for re-imagining economics, politics, and culture. He is a director of the Reinventing the Commons Program at the Schumacher Center for a New Economics and is co-founder of the Commons Strategies Group. In this conversation, Anna and David have a wide-ranging, invigorating discussion o...

In this conversation, Anna explores some contemporary political and geopolitical tensions with former US immigration judge George Pappas. George covers the the challenges currently facing democracy, in the US in particular, and names chaos, the politics of cruelty and culture war distractions (including around immigration) as techniques being used to distract from the deeply material challenges fa...

What if the deepest crisis of our time isn't primarily political, economic, or even ecological — but ontological? What if the frameworks we're using to understand and respond to reality are themselves part of the problem? In this reflection, transformation practitioner, healer, and former legal scholar Anna Grear introduces the concept of onto-justice — the idea that justice—real justice...

Andreas and Anna discuss the figuration of 'hydrojustice'—a justice 'always defined in relation to water, the element that constitutes and unites all bodies, human and nonhuman. Hence justice is not an ideal state reached through merely human procedures (legal, political, economic, etc.) but also a planetary one, always conjoined with the element of water that both constitutes and t...

What happens when the box is already open? Anna Grear and Alex Andreou begin with Pandora — and find themselves moving through myth, politics, and the stories and frames shaping our world, now and in the past. Wide-ranging and exploratory, this conversation weaves between the archaic and the contemporary: the double-edged potential of the narratives we inherit, the political turbulence of our mome...

In this inaugural conversation of the Feral Wisdoms collection of the Convexplorations podcast, Anna welcomes environmental humanities scholar Jana Norman for an exploration of our current collective crossroads. Together, they examine how we might navigate away from hierarchical, disembodied ways of being toward more relational, ecologically-grounded approaches to life and community. Drawing on in...

This is a guided somatic journey. It takes around one hour to complete. It's likely to be consciousness altering, and best listened to lying down. It's perfect to use for going to sleep at night. Please don't listen to it while operating machinery or doing anything you need your wits about you for! You will be in control, of course, at all times. When you have had enough, you can ju...

Travel with me through ancient entanglements... journeys that began long before human consciousness first stirred... intimacies written into the very cells of your body. Today, we're going to explore our own bodies as a meeting place where countless forms of life converge to create what you experience as... well, you . Where exactly do you end... and the world begin? To find out more, visit h...