World of Wisdom 285. Samantha Sweetwater - Homecoming, true humans and enlifenment
Jan 25, 2026
Samantha Sweetwater, author and coach focused on relationality, spirituality and ecological transformation, discusses homecoming and her book True Human. She explores the roots of the meta-crisis, the shift to enlivenment and how technology could align with life. Short, provocative takes on collective readiness, non-extractive communication and plural paths toward renaissance.
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The Meta Crisis Is Separation
- Samantha Sweetwater frames our era as a 'meta crisis' driven by separability from life and each other.
- She argues remedying it requires recognizing our embeddedness, embodiment, and interdependence with biospheric processes.
Five Generators Driving The Crisis
- Samantha lists five generator functions of separation: separability ideology, ideologies, architectures, zero-sum gaming, and domination hierarchies.
- These functions together create layered drivers of the polycrisis across domains like climate and social systems.
Teaching A Blind Man To 'See' A Giraffe
- Samantha recounts guiding a blind, autistic man to 'feel' a giraffe by making its form with her hand.
- He comprehended the giraffe's long neck somatically, giving her a profound empathic lesson about non-visual knowing.
