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We’re exploring regenerative farming and regenerative politics, systems design and personal development, spiritual activism and neuroscience and the many, many deeply thoughtful, deeply soulful practices being explored around the world which throw light on our journey towards the evolution of consciousness.
The Intention Series
Intention part 2 – unpicking the component parts
Exploring the wrinkles we need to iron out and the potential banana skins we need to step round if we are to set a clear and effective intent.
Intention part 1– our most powerful resource
Why don’t we harness our astonishing capacity to create real impacts on the future? There are a host of reasons and each of us has different strategies for getting in our own way…
Episode & Extras posts
HeartFood – Healing our communities with Food grown on Regenerative Farms with Erin Martin of FreshRxOK
What happens when people with chronic, unstable diabetes eat food grown in local, regenerative farms? Erin Martin shares the dramatic improvements in health her group FreshRxOK saw in Oklahoma when they instigated a ‘Food as Medicine’ programme, offering real food with good nutrient density to diabetic patients in some of the poorest communities.
Democracy Rising: Making 2025 the year we recover from Peak Polarisation with Audrey Tang
Is it possible that 2024 might be the year of ‘Peak polarisation’? Audrey Tang certainly thinks so and in this wide-deep, mind-expanding conversation, we explore everything from the dual nature of AGI to the potential for liberational education that gives young people a sense of agency, interaction and the common good, to ways to rescue democracy to recipes for sound sleep.
Heart of Oak: Talking Druidry, Spirituality and the nature of Magic in the MetaCrisis with Philip Carr-Gomm
How is Druidry alive in the contemporary world? What are the values and practices that make it so suited to the inflexion point of the moment? Why – and how – does it mesh so well with other, more spiritual traditions? And how does the practice of Will, the honing of intent, create the magic we need to see in our world?
Solstice Cheer: Three Friends uphold a Podcasting Tradition with Della Duncan, Nathalie Nahai and Manda Scott
By any measure, this year has been pretty turbulent and our capacity to predict anything at all for 2025 is fairly ragged, but that doesn’t stop us from celebrating Della’s news, and sharing the ways we find stability and maintain sanity in a world that feels increasingly precarious. Whatever else is happening, friendship is the glue that builds community and all of us – we who make the podcasts and everyone who listens – are building a de facto community of passion and purpose. So thank you for being there. I hope you enjoy what follows.
Seven Generations Perspective Meditation for December 2024
This meditation aims to offer a long-wide-deep perspective on our place as conscious nodes in the web of life – the journey that brought us here and the places humanity may go. Please give yourself plenty of time both to experience the journey and to reflect afterwards. If it helps to write down your feelings, images, ideas or sensations afterwards, please do.
Must Read, Must Listen, Must View: Manda’s favourite books, podcasts and videos this Winter Season
It’s that time of year – when all we really want is to curl up and reflect, go inside, become the potential that will arise in the unfolding spring. If you want things to listen to or watch or read as you head into the long-nights, then these are (some of) the things that have caught my attention this year. Enjoy!
The Power of (good) Food with Nick Weir of the Open Food Network
Good, nutritious, affordable – obtainable – food is crucial not just to our survival, but to our flourishing. Knowing that our global food/farming system is broken, how do we transform to something that works at every level? The Open Food Network asks these questions and offers a living, working, transparent, compassionate system that all of us can build on and with.
Avoiding Burn Out, Fall Out, Drop Out (and Freak Out) with Dan McTiernan
Our guest today shares straightforward practices that any of us can do to help us with grounding, attunement, opening and integration so that we can be the nodes in the web of life. This is key: we need to stop trying to think our way out of this with our head minds. It doesn’t work. It’s not going to work. We need to come into our physical bodies, find that truly calming place of peace – and then find connections we can trust with the wider web.
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