#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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#300  PopShift: Changing the global Narrative on all our screens with Romain Vakilitabar of Pathos Labs

We are a storied species: Everything we do arises from the stories we tell ourselves and each other about ourselves and each other and our relationship with the web of life.

How do we create visions of a world that functions differently, one where every single human thrives as an integral part of a flourishing ecosphere?

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#299  Co-Evolving Humanity: Outgrowing Modernity with Vanessa and Giovanna Andreotti – and Tim Logan

How do we Outgrow the death cult of Modernity – opening the doors to a future we’d be proud to leave to the generations yet unborn?

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#298  From Darkness to Radiance: Lights On Learning with Julia Black

How do we help our young people (and ourselves) ’switch on’ the light of learning – so that we all once again fall in love with living? Julia Black of Lights on Learning has a route to exactly this.

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#297  Otterly Amazing! Common Sense Farming can feed us all with Charlie Bennett

“In a world where our wildlife is becoming extinct at a frightening rate, we are setting up an oasis where animals, wild flowers and even ancient fungi can thrive.” Our guest this week, Charlie Bennett of Middleton North Farm, is working to find ways to feed people healthy, nutritious food at prices they can afford while also building soil, increasing water uptake and returning life to the land.

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#296  Be like Water: Becoming Nature Again with the River Dôn Project and Jonny Douglas

Clean Water is part of our heritage and a basic Right of being alive. We should be able to drink from our river, swim in our seas. This week we explore the River Dôn Project which is working to create vibrant life in the whole catchment area.

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#295  People’s Charter for People Power – with Katy Rubin and Oli Whittington of Our House

When people have experienced ways to bring Power to those with Wisdom and Wisdom to those with Power, then they’ll work together to make it a reality at a larger scale.

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#294  Dancing the Path of the Inner Warrior with Diarmuid Lyng of Wild Irish Retreats

How can we find a way through the obfuscations and extractive values and downright lies of predatory capitalism.  Through to authenticity, and integrity and finding language for how we can be who we really are, what our souls yearn to be.  And that language is not always English.

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#293  Still In the Eye of the Storm: Finding Calm and Stable Roots with Dan McTiernan of Being EarthBound

Our priority now is to find -and then embody – a sense of grounded stability, a sense of safety, a sense of embodied connection to the Web of Life…

This is the single most important thing we can be doing now, and this week’s guest, Dan McTiernan, is one of those who is leading courses, trainings and embodied meditations that give people a genuinely grounded set of resources to feel this at a cellular, bone-deep level so that it can become the foundation for a life of authentic practice.

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#292  Sit with the River, Breathe Sacred Smoke, Love with the World: Building a Bioregional world with Joe Brewer

How can Bioregionalism supplant the nation state as the natural unit of civilisation? Joe Brewer is living, breathing and teaching the ways we can work together with each other and the natural flows of water and life.

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#BONUS Thoughts from the Solstice Edge: Turning the Page on a Dying System with Manda Scott

As we head into the solstice- that moment when the sun stands still—whether you’re in the northern hemisphere where we have the longest day, or the southern, where it’s the longest night—this solstice feels like a moment of transformation.

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#BONUS: Solstice Meditation 2025 – Sun Stands Still – by Manda Scott

Here is a meditation for the shortest night of the year – the time when the sun stands still.

It doesn’t have to be at the moment of the solstice, it’s the connection that counts, the marking of the day. And you don’t have to limit yourself to one pass through – please feel free to explore this more deeply than one single iteration. If you want other, similar journeys, they are a whole host in the Accidental Gods Membership Programme.

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#291  Falling in Love with the Future – with author, musician, podcaster and futurenaut, Rob Hopkins

We need all 8 billion of us to Fall in Love with a Future we’d be proud to leave to the generations that come after us. So how do we do it?

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#290  ReWilding our Water: From Rain to River to Sewer and back with Tim Smedley, author of The Last Drop

How close are we to the edge of Zero Day when no water comes out of the taps? Scarily close. But Tim Smedley has a whole host of ways we can restore our water cycles.

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#289  This is how we build the future: Teaching Regenerative Economics at all levels with Jennifer Brandsberg-Engelmann

How do we let go of the sense of scarcity, separation and powerlessness that defines the ways we live, care and do business together? How can we best equip our young people for the world that is coming – which is so, so different from the future we grew up believing was possible?

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#Brilliant Minds: BONUS podcast with Kate Raworth, Indy Johar & James Lock at the Festival of Debate

We are honoured to bring to Accidental Gods, a recording of three of our generation’s leading thinkers in conversation at the Festival of Debate in Sheffield, hosted by Opus.

This is an unflinching conversation, but it’s absolutely at the cutting edge of imagineering: this lays out where we’re at and what we need to do, but it also gives us roadmaps to get there: It’s genuinely Thrutopian, not only in the ideas as laid out, but the emotional literacy of the approach to the wicked problems of our time.

Now we have to make it happen.

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#288  Farm as Church, Land as Lover: Community. farming and food with Abel Pearson of Glasbren 

The only way through the crises we’re facing is to rekindle a deep, abiding respect for ourselves, each other and the living web of life. So how do we make this happen?

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#287  Working from the Inside Out: Paths to Personal and Global Transformation with Renée Lertzman

‘Yell, Tell and Sell’ doesn’t work: not for the climate and ecological emergency, not for the collapse of democracy – not for any part of the growing polycrisis. So what can we do to help us all to make the shift towards a future we’d be proud to leave behind?

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#286  The Others Within Us: Meeting our Spirit Guides and other entities with Bob Falconer

Our world is more magical than we know – more than we can know.  Increasing numbers of us are realising that the ‘citadel theory of mind’ where we see ourselves as isolated units within the boundaries of our own skulls is not how the world works.  But if it isn’t, then how do we make sense of the worlds beyond consensus reality? How do we engage with the web of life and all that’s around it in ways that are respect, reciprocal and generative?

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