My guest today is Manda Scott. Manda started life as an equine veterinary surgeon and is now a novelist, host of the Accidental Gods podcast, (r)evolutionary and smallholder. Her Boudica: Dreaming novels were international best-sellers and led to her teaching shamanic dreaming for the past two decades. She is the co-creator of the Thrutopia Masterclass, aiming to furnish writers with the ideas and concepts necessary to create stories that will carry us through to a future we’d be proud to leave behind. 

Manda’s story is fascinating and she shares insights she’s gained through unconventional ways that expand how we think we come to know things. She talks about the need for a conscious evolution in human consciousness and how our current worldview paradigm is deeply rooted in a story of scarcity, separation, and powerlessness. But this is not a “true” story…and we can collectively re-write a new one. 

Manda says that it's time for humanity to evolve our consciousness and understand our place in the web of life and she believes we can play an active role in its evolution and that connecting to the web of life is HOW we do it. This is a wide-ranging conversation, we talk about shamanic practices, economics, artificial intelligence (AI), mass social movements, and much more. 

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Manda Scott’’s Links & Resources:

Manda’s Site

Accidental Gods

Thrutopia Masterclass

Boudica Trilogy

Books mentioned:

The Dawn of Everything, David Graeber and David Wengrow

Debt, David Graeber

The Eagle of the Night, Rosemary Sutcliff

The Patterning Instinct, Jeremy Lent

The Web of Life, Jeremy Lent

Building Tomorrow, Paddy Le Flufy

Other people and work mentioned:

Audrey Tang

Daniel Schmachtenberger, The Civilization Research Institute

Tristan Harris & Asa Raskin, Center for Humane Technology, Your Undivided Attention podcast

The Other Side of Eden, Hugh Brody

The Master and His Emissary, Iain McGilchrist

Zineb Mouhyi https://www.youthxyouth.com

Angharad Wynne https://www.angharadwynne.com/

Paddy Le Flufy https://paddyleflufy.com/

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