Welcome to Accidental Gods – the podcast where we believe that another world is still possible, and that together, we can create a future we’d be proud to leave to the generations that come after us.
Our aim is to provide the tools we could ever need to understand the potential of this moment – and ourselves within it.
In a world where ideas grow faster than anything, we curate the cutting edge of neuroscience and psycho-technologies, connected spirituality and resilience, politics, philosophy and human creativity so that together, in all our diversity, we can choose a different future.
We’re giving voice to those at the leading edge of change so that we can all learn new ways to be, to live, to create community and to co-create world where people and planet flourish and we live as integral threads in the web of life.
*NEWS FLASH * Manda’s latest novel, ANY HUMAN POWER was published on 30th May
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#263 Avoiding Burn Out, Fall Out, Drop Out (and Freak Out): Practical Routes to a whole, healed future with Dan McTiernan of Earthbound
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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#262 Adaptation is Here: Launching the TrAd (Transformative Adaptation) Book with Rupert Read and Morgan Philips
As we head rapidly into biophysical and cultural collapse, how do we adapt and transform to the changing realities?
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#261 Holding the Paradox: Navigating a changing world with Andrea Hiott of Making Ways
We are not going back. But how do we go forward now in a world where the old norms are under assault by people who move fast and break everything? How do we find a place of balance and compassion – for ourselves, each other and the More than Human world – so that we can move forward in a way that isn’t just a replaying of the old binaries?
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#260 Being the Best Ancestors we can – with Dr John Izzo of the Elders Action Network
How do we all respond to the seismic events of the US election? Specifically, how do those of us over 50 respond? (and how would the younger generations like us to respond)?
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#Bonus: The System is Dead.
Long live the (new) System!
Thoughts on the US election and self-terminating algorithm it reveals.
It occurs to me that we are now at an inflection point in the WEIRD (Western, Educated, Industrial, Rich and – notionally – Democratic) culture that has been so successful in destroying the ecosphere. So where do we go from here?
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#259 Turning waste into wellbeing, wildlife, food and forests: Bringing permaculture to schools with Elliot Riley
Young people are facing a world where the only certainty is uncertainty. where the only known is the unknown. So what can we do to offer them the best grounding to move forward into the transition to come?
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#258 Having your C.A.K.E. (Compassion, Awareness, Knowledge, Empathy) and sharing what you learn – with Andrew Hale of Dog Centered Care
How does an understanding of what makes dogs tick, help us to understand ourselves and our place in the world? What does it take to feel safe – as a human, or as a dog (or cat, or horse, or… anything)? And how can we help ourselves and each other find regulation in a VUCA world (Volatile, Uncertain, Complex and Ambiguous)?
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#257 Rethink, Repair, Rebuild – with Natalie Bennett, former leader of the Green Party of England and Wales
How can we achieve total systemic change? And are there politicians anywhere who are ready to make it happen (in a way that supports the continuation of complex life on this planet, not the scorched-earth destruction of the right)?
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#256 The Lama, the Oath and the Web of Treasure Vases – with Cynthia Jurs, author of Summoned by the Earth
How do we recover our birthright as awake, aware nodes in the greater Web of Life? How do we find the compassion and courage to be the best of ourselves? Cynthia Jurs is a Buddhist who has spent the past 34 years carrying out sacred pilgrimages all around the world, burying a network of ’Treasure Vases’ to build a web of compassion and care – and more people are joining her all the time. We can all be part of this.
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#255 Living Well in a Tiny House with Rachel Butler and Maddy Longhurst of Bristol Tiny House Community
How do we offer secure, safe, dry, affordable homes to all the people who want them while not breaching our planetary boundaries more than we have already?
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