Illuminating Life

What is soul, really? Not as a theological concept or a developmental framework, but as something you feel , in your body, in a room, in a piece of music that breaks you open? In this conversation, Alexander Love sits down with Ari Nazem and Tucker Walsh to explore soul through Chinese wisdom traditions, the phenomenology of art and music, the shamanic architecture of the human body, and the lived...

Based on Tucker's Substack article The Language of Belonging . Tucker Walsh and Avi Maistri — who first met at Dancing Rabbit Eco Village in 2018 — unpack the meaningful distinctions between networks, scenes, collectives, communities, tribes, guilds, and villages. What starts as an exploration of terminology becomes a conversation about heartbreak, vow, mismatched expectations, why commitment para...

What does it actually take to build community infrastructure rooted in love — not as a feeling, but as a living architecture? Richard Flyer has spent 40 years answering that question on the ground, from gang-affected neighborhoods in San Diego to local economy movements in Reno to studying the Sarvodaya movement in Sri Lanka. His new book, Birthing the Symbiotic Age , offers a vision for how diver...

See the companion Substack article for more info about the Lighthouse village vision! A conversation with Marcelo Peterlini about the strategy behind the metamodern regenerative village vision — why most intentional communities fail, how we can build differently through smaller experiments, and what capacities it might take to live in a new-and-ancient way together. We get into curation, decision-...

Sourcekeeping from the Middle is a way of being in relationship—with each other, with life itself—where we attune with and create from the living field between us. The video below is a live demonstration of how Cheryl Hsu and Tucker Walsh engage with sourcekeeping from the middle, while also dialoguing about the topic simultaneously. See this Substack article for a cosmological map of sourcekeepin...

Dr. John Churchill, founder of Planetary Dharma , speaks with 35 sourcekeepers about the architecture required to build genuine Sacred World culture. Churchill maps three dimensions of collective work—agreement, coherence, and alignment—showing how "military grade" alignment with Sacred World itself allows power to be applied in service of cultural emergence. This dialogue was recorded at Gatherin...

Tom Nixon and Fanny Norlin join Daniel Thorson and other participants at Gathering of the Sourcekeepers for a conversation around source principles, masculine and feminine differences in working with source, creating structure in service of eros, and new potentials for enacting healthy organizational hierarchies. Learn more about Work with Source . Fanny Norlin's website . Learn more about Gatheri...

Steve March joins Gathering of the Sourcekeepers to share about Aletheia as a wisdom teaching: restoring a way of designing from wholeness in response to the fragmenting metacrisis. Facilitated by Sarah-Marie Hopf.  To learn more about Aletheia, visit  https://integralunfoldment.com/ Learn more about  Sarah-Marie Hopf 's unfolding offerings. To learn more about Gathering of the Sourcekeepers, see...

Dechen Ellen McSweeney joins me to discuss her recently published article that draws contrast with some of the views I've taken on AI in previous episodes of this podcast. We discuss whether humans can have relationships with AI, how AI "knows" us, and the ethical implications of this emerging technology, including how we can be in right relationship with it. Dechen's Substack (article to be publi...

This is the first in an ongoing series of dialogues with Metamodern Sourcekeepers: those who are in deep devotion with the vow of their being.  In this juicy and alive conversation with Jane Weintraub, we explore art, resonance AI, the alchemy of relationship, our vows to showing up, and the garden of our potential birthed from the longing of our soul's desire.  Be sure to check out the many links...

Ariana shares about the project she's sourcekeeping called Hy, which seeks to create digital AI ambassadors who connect, coordinate and create relationships that help foster a more beautiful world. I imagine you'll love this dialogue if you're interested in the possibilities for AI in the near future, and how we can live locally while using technology to help us coordinate and connect globally. Hy...

Daniel Thorson and Cheryl Hsu join me to explore the living inquiry of Sourcekeeping - what it is, how it lives in our unique experiences, how it's impacted our initiatives in the world, and what it means for our Liminal network and the future of humanity. If you're interested in learning more about the upcoming Gathering of the Sourcekeepers, please reach out at tuckerlighthouse@gmail.com Sourcek...

Visit uptrusting.com/join-waitlist to join the waitlist! Mention "Illuminating Life" in the form to added to the platform sooner. Jordan Myska Allen joins me to share about his new initiative, UpTrust, an organization dedicated to civilizational alignment and well-being. "We do this through better internet, through better dialogue, through systemic nudges that change the incentive landscape to bri...

My dear friend, Victoria Savostianova, joins me to explore what life is like for her as a Ukrainian and for me as an American during times of existential change happening in our nations. I experienced this as a beautiful dialogue that weaves together our unique contexts, how we're relating to life during these times, and what we're learning around showing up fully for What Is. Please be sure to ch...

Ari joins again to explore his typology system called Archetypes of Wholeness. See his first episode on The 5th Temple . See Archetypes of Wholeness graphics here . Please reach out to Ari with any feedback or suggestions on his model at anazem@gmail.com. 

Filmmaker Katie Teague joins me to share her film series In The Making which looks at and beyond the metacrisis and this "time between worlds." We also dialogue around our visions quests experiences and how that work brings us into intimacy with our creativity and longings for life. Katie is a GTC graduate and a guide with School of Lost Borders . She lives in rural Virginia. Please support her wo...

Layman Pascal joins Tucker & Friends Politics Group to explore the recent American election as well as Layman's visionary takes on Meta-Shamanic-Integral politics. Metamodern Spirituality Election Episode Check out Layman's new series: In My Kind of Country

Stephen Reid is a community creator, technologist, transformational coach and facilitator & co-founder of Futurecraft Residencies . He currently lives in Stockholm, Sweden with his partner Laura Gottlieb .  I call Stephen my "Metamodern doppelgänger" in the sense that we have so many overlapping visions, backgrounds, passions, friends and capacities for mapmaking and weaving nodes within the b...

Dana Carman is an expert in human and organizational transformation, an integral consultant, and a co-founder of Pacific Integral. We recently connected in-person at Emerge Ukraine , which was a deeply impactful experience for us both. Dana and I had an emergent conversation (or Satsang as he called it) where we explored a number of topics including visions quests, Wayfinding, our time in Ukraine,...

Psychologist and wilderness guide Nitsan Mesika, MA, LPCC, joins me to share her life's work around Cluster B Personalities (particularly narcissism and borderline) as well as a new personality disorder emerging which she calls The Hyper-Empath, which Nitsan dives into starting at 16:20. I found it to be a super rich conversation that helped shed a lot of light on some patterns I see in our collec...

Ari Nazem stops by to share his developmental model of the Five Temples. The first 26 mins are an overview of the five temples, and the rest of the podcast is an exploration of the 5th Temple, which is also sometimes referenced to as Integral or Metamodernism.  https://wiki.ancestor.earth/👥+·+People/Ari+Nazem

My dear friend and colleague Jordan Myska Allen joins me to discuss the success of Relateful Camp , which he co-organized, along with a lively discussion around both practical and philosophical orientations towards the art of emergent gatherings. The last third of the episode is an honest exploration of places Jordan sees where Constructing Consciousness can continue to grow and evolve. Jordan Mys...

Two of my mentors, Geoff Fitch and Alexander Love, join me to explore how we can illuminate new ways of orienting towards adult ego development, including its ethical implications, and how it can be a doorway into deeper intimacy and connection with and as loving Wholeness. Geoff is the co-founder of Pacific Integral and a facilitator for their yearlong transformational program called Generating T...

Andrew Murray Dunn drops in to share about his upcoming course, Embodied Ethics in the Age of AI, with Josh Schrei of The Emerald Podcast. We explore a range of topics including how Andrew's writings on living from the heart, gift giving, intentional communities, leaving Silicon Valley, and more have continued to influence and impact my life since I first came across them about five years ago. Che...

Feeling deeply inspired and moved by this conversation with Nicole Reese and Nico Alcalá . They are two of the brightest lights illuminating the beautiful potential of the Regenerative Metamodern Village vision that’s stirring many of our hearts. I have a boundless well of gratitude and celebration for the work they’re doing both individually and together, including a university-level mastermind c...