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Find the Others! Beyond the Death of Democracy lies Citizen Power – with Jon Alexander of the Citizen Collective

Find the Others! Beyond the Death of Democracy lies Citizen Power – with Jon Alexander of the Citizen Collective

Democracy is breaking around us in real time and a small percentage of those in power would like us to become – at best – obedient subjects in a world dedicated to the destruction of ecosystems and the annihilation of compassion, empathy and all that makes use thrive. Clearly, we are better than this. So how can we harness the astonishing wonder of human co-creation in service to life and a world where humanity thrives as part of a flourishing web of life?

The Phoenix Always Rises: Evolving into the Future Human with Prof Chris Bache, Author of LSD and the Mind of the Universe

The Phoenix Always Rises: Evolving into the Future Human with Prof Chris Bache, Author of LSD and the Mind of the Universe

Five years ago when we began, it was possible to imagine that the world might stabilise with a vestige of the old system as a scaffold for the new.  That assumption is growing increasingly ragged. It’s now clear that the shifts we need to be in the world are primarily inner; that the truly urgent work is in healing both our own and the global human psyches, that we need urgently to remember how to connect with the web of life so that we can ask it ‘What do you want of me?’ and respond to the answers in real time. That we need, in short. to evolve.

Democracy Rising: Making 2025 the year we recover from Peak Polarisation with Audrey Tang

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.

Election Special #4: What is Governance for and how can we shape genuine democracy – with Glen Weyl of the Plurality Institute

Election Special #4: What is Governance for and how can we shape genuine democracy – with Glen Weyl of the Plurality Institute

If the current electoral/governance system is not fit for purpose (and who could possibly imagine it was?) how can we lay the foundations for new ways of organising democracy, new ways of voting, new ideas of what governance is for and how it could work in the twenty-first century. How, in short, do we create space for future generations to be able to decide their own futures in ways that are not constrained by material or political strictures they’ve inherited from us?

Wild shamanic theatre and becoming embodied: with Jessica Bockler of the ALEF Trust

Wild shamanic theatre and becoming embodied: with Jessica Bockler of the ALEF Trust

Our guest this week stands at the place where neuropsychology, shamanic practice and artistic practice meet. We explore the transformative power of theatre and the importance of integrating body, mind, and spirit to foster personal and collective growth and Jessica shares a clip from one of her own practices which is solid podcasting gold!

The Story is in our Bones: Rewilding Ourselves with author and activist Osprey Orielle Lake

The Story is in our Bones: Rewilding Ourselves with author and activist Osprey Orielle Lake

Our guest today is the author of ‘The Story is in our Bones: How Worldview and Climate Justice can Remake a World in Crisis’, a genuinely beautiful book on every level, full of living mythology, opening doors to how the bones of our language make the world around us, offering other perspective, other ways of being, living stories of where we came from and who we are and who we could be.