#315  Roots to Health – building Food Resilience at all Scales with Daphne du Cros of the Shropshire Good Food Partnership

We all know by now that plants grown in living, thriving, life-filled soil, give us living, thriving, life-filled food… but the steps to getting there in the face of a multinational industry devoted to toxic, nutritionally empty, addictive – and highly profitable – ultra-processed ‘food-like substances’ are harder to see.  This week’s guest, Daphne du Cros, spends her life deep in the mycelial networks of food and farming systems, bringing both into genuinely regenerative balance.

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#314 Dance of the Spiritual Warrior: Balancing Love and Power with Jamie Bristow

What does it mean to (re)orient our entire culture around the power of love? To answer this, we have to understand the nature of love and of power and how both of these have many meanings in our culture, some of them essential to moving forward – and some of them so toxic they turn the entire concept into a poisoned cue. 

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#313 The Magic of Darkness: learning to love life in the night with author Leigh Ann Henion

Do you love the dark? Do you yearn for sunset and the amber glow of a fire with the night growing deeper, more inspiring all around you? Most of us don’t – though our ancestors through all of history have lived by firelight, moonlight, starlight… until the modern era of light at the flick of a switch. But there’s a world out there of sheer, unadulterated magic that is only revealed when we put aside the lights and the phones and the torches and step out into the night – as this week’s guest has done.

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#312  Starting in the Ruins: Of Lions and Games with Crypto-Advocate and Changemaker Andrea Leiter

This week’s guest, Andrea Leiter is one of those polymaths who brings not just breadth, but astonishing depth to the work of bridging the worlds of technology, biodiversity and international law bringing them together in service of a new way of being built from the ruins of collapse.

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#311  Walking the wild, mythic Edge of Being with visionary elder and soul initiator Bill Plotkin

What is the true vow of your life, the one it would kill you to break? This phrase comes from the poem ‘All The True Vows’ by David Whyte, but there can be no better introduction to this week’s guest, who knows how to help people – ordinary, every-day people from our culture – build true, heart-felt connections with the web of life such that we come to know what we are here for, our unique gift to the world.

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#310  Eco-Civilisation: the future we deserve and how we will get there with Jeremy Lent

What is an eco-civilisation? What are its values and what are the frames within which it works? Why do we need it in the first place and what will the Establishment do to maintain business as usual? Most importantly, what can each of us do to live an eco-civilisation into being?

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#309 ReWilding our Horses, Rewilding our Souls with Kelly Wendorf of EQUUS

How do we heal ourselves from the ‘lost-ness’ that afflicts our culture? How do we move on from the strange—and wholly untrue— belief our culture holds that we are separate from the natural world, that our cycles of exploitation, extraction, destruction, pollution are the way the world is, that this is the natural order and there’s nothing we can do to change it, individually or collectively?

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#308  Building the roots of a world that will work with Victoria Hurth, co-author of Beyond Profit

We exist in a world where the ultra-rich are getting richer, powered by a system we call ‘the economy’ which is serving to funnel power and value up to an ever-shrinking core of wounded individuals who then project their trauma out on the rest of the world in a doomed attempt to feel better about being caught in a system that doesn’t promote human wellbeing.

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#307  Of Beetles’ wings and Brittlestars: using Biomimicry to co-create a flourishing future with Michael Pawlyn

What is humanity for?  What happens if we rethink not just the way we plan buildings, but our entire role as beings on a living planet?  These are the central questions driving Michael Pawlyn’s third edition of the life-changing book, Biomimcry in Architecture. 

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#306  Let the Wild Gods Rise! Bridging Between the Worlds with Jackie Morris and Tamsin Abbott

Let the Wild Gods Rise.  Easy to say and harder to do – but if you were offered a portal, a way to step into the other-worlds, to reconnect with all that we have been and could be, would you take it?

If you’re listening to this, you are likely steeped in the mechanical world of our culture – but it doesn’t have to be like this.  The other worlds are alive, present…wild—and just within reach. All we need are doorways, places where the veils between the worlds grow thinner and then route maps to take us to—and through—them.

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#305  The Magic in the Tales we Tell: Living new Stories in Service to Life with Paddy Loughman

How do the stories we tell ourselves and each other about ourselves, each other and our place in the web of life shape our world?

How can we craft narratives that shift the way we see and experience the world? Is this even the best leverage point to start off with or is there a deeper/wider/more effective acupuncture point we could explore as we evolve to become…what? 

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#304  A Dawning Mind: Exploring the science of spirituality with Dr James Cooke

Why are we here? How do we think? What is the nature of life? What are the boundaries between ourselves and the rest of the living web—between ourselves and the rest of the universe across space and through time…and in the timeless, formless place from which everything arises?

These are the big, foundational questions of our existence, and how we answer them shapes how we see ourselves and our relationship to everything around us. If we work on a human supremacist frame, then we have no qualms about destroying the rest of the living web. If we know ourselves to be integral t

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#303  Step by Radical Step: The Route to a Flourishing New Economy with Colleen Schneider

Our western (Trauma Culture) economies run on two falsehoods – we might go so far as to call them lies. Our guest this week is someone particularly well positioned to debunk these and show how how monetary and fiscal policy can be directed toward meeting human needs within environmental limits.

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#302  The Crisis and the Call: Journeys through Species-Wide Soul Initiation with Sara McFarland

As the old system is splitting apart, a few brave souls are already working to hospice this old system, acting as Death Doulas to the Great Dying—as well as helping people to awaken the seeds of a new world within. One of these is our guest this week. Sara McFarland is a Soul Initiation and Wild Mind Mentor and Guide, Artist of Consciousness and a Death Doula for the Great Dying.

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#301  Dreams as a Way of Life – Becoming a Good Relative with author Hilary Giovale

Our Trauma Culture has spread across the globe with terrifying speed and ghastly efficiency.  But the tide is turning and people of good heart in many nations are beginning to understand that what we need now is a move towards a 21st Century Initiation Culture. The language is often different, but at heart, this is where we need to go.

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