How can we feed our bodies and our souls?  Abel Pearson, founder of Glasbren community supported agriculture farm in West Wales shared his  connection to the land, his spiritual practice - and his re-visioning of community, food and spirit.   Abel Pearson is a poet, peasant farmer, permaculture educator & activist, tending soil in West Wales and listening for the stories we need to build community and culture, restore health and breathe new life into our connection to land, food and seed. He is the founder of Glasbren, a non-profit social enterprise working to reimagine our food systems, rewild the way we eat, live and grow food and regenerate our communites, the people that live in them and the land we depend on. Glasbren is a Community Supported Agriculture scheme, offering it's members a weekly 'Share in the Harvest' veg box & a transparent relationship with where their food comes from, volunteer opportunities, courses and workshops. They also raise money for tree planting and support the local food bank through their Solidarity Fund. Abel is passionate about growing food, together, as a means to facilitate a collective shift to a radically ecological way of being and as a vehicle for social, ecological and cultural rebirth. He is a grower at Glasbren, but also teaches immersive experiences in permaculture, food growing and regenerative living, works with activists & Earth stewards to build a rooted connection to the Earth and is searching for authentic ritual spaces, passageways and the knowing to explore a truly indigenous connection to place.Glasbren: https://www.facebook.com/GlasbrenCSA/Eco Dharma: http://www.ecodharma.com/Zac Bush talking about the importance of biome (soil/gut) to health: https://youtu.be/EniVCQL3NzcCommunity Supported Agrictulture: https://communitysupportedagriculture.org.uk/Help-X  HELPEX - https://www.helpx.net/ 

If we're on the edge of chaos, how can we bring all the good ideas together - the right people with the right skills at the right time - and craft an ecosystem of ecosystems to affect radical change?  How can we save ourselves from extinction. Humanity Rising offers an answer. "What's the equivalent, by 2030, of putting humanity on the moon?  What do we need to do that is bigger than life, worthy of human nobility, such that if it put into action around the world, we would be credited as that generation of human beings that when the chips were down really made a difference? That's what we want to do. That's the aspiration for Humanity Rising to work together with like-minded, similarly inspired people from all over the world. Over the next 10 years to make the critical difference necessary to ensure human survival."Radical activists, educators, academics and entrepreneurs, Jim Garrison and Matt Robinson of Ubiquity University have launched the world's most ambitious summit - using the cutting edge of modern technology and bringing together hundreds of organisations and hundreds of thousands of committed activists - Humanity Rising sees the beginning of the wave that could change the world. If we commit to it.  Jim and Matt talk to Accidental Gods about the project, how it arose, and their visions for the future. Ubiquity University: https://www.ubiquityuniversity.org/Here are the access links for Humanity Rising:Registration: http://humanityrising.solutions/The Humanity Rising schedule can be found here: https://humanityrising.solutions/agenda/If the maximum amount of Zoom webinar participants is reached you can watch the live stream here:https://www.facebook.com/UbiquityUniversityOnlinehttps://www.youtube.com/c/UbiquityUniversityhttps://www.awaketvnetwork.live/humanity-rising-channelIf you missed a session the recording can be found here:https://ubiverse.org/groups/humanity-rising-global-solutions-summit/documentsMatt's Poem:  Humanity Rising - A New Story: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2u1aPyx_8fU

In the midst of lockdown, how can we find resilience and emotional balance? How can we make the connections we need to feel safe -- in our bodies, in our relationships, out in the world...and on our Zoom calls? How can we feel truly alive? Therapist Sarah Schlote has much-needed answers...Life is changing and we need to find ways to keep ourselves emotionally resilient.  Sarah Schlote, therapist and Somatic Experiencing Practitioner, has spent her professional life exploring the pathways by which we find safety  - in our own bodies, in our closest relationships, and out in the world. In today’s podcast, we explore the ways we can find the connection that science (and experience) tells us we need to feel safe in the presence of others.  We explore ways that we can work towards safety in Zoom (or other video) calls in both one to one situations and in larger groups. We look at strategies we can all use all the time to help us navigate the novel circumstance of a global threat. Links: Sarah’s personal site: https://sarahschlote.comSarah’s Healing Refuge: https://healingrefuge.com/our-team/sarah-schlote/Equusoma:  https://equusoma.com/Sarah’s “Freesources”  page - has brilliant diagrams: https://equusoma.com/freesources/Steven Porges: https://www.stephenporges.comPeter Levine’s ‘Trauma therapist project’ https://www.thetraumatherapistproject.com/podcast/peter-levine-phd/Book Spiritual Bypassing:  https://www.amazon.co.uk/Spiritual-Bypassing-Spirituality-Disconnects-Matters/dp/1556439059/

Dr Gail Bradbrook is best known as being one of the co-founders of Extinction Rebellion. But she's also a StreetSchool Economist and deeply passionate visionary and here, we explore the spirit of activism that underpins her work - and look forward to future Rebellions held in the trickster spirit of Fox and Crow. Dr Gail Bradbrook has a PhD in molecular biophysics.  She was founder of a program called ‘StreetSchool Economics’.  She’s a visionary, social and spiritual activist - and, of course, she’s best known as one of the co-founders of Extinction Rebellion.  She has a deeply held spiritual path that underpins the values of all her work - being in service to the earth in the best way she can guides everything she does.  In this podcast, she talks about those values, about the moments when she prayed for help - and was answered - and about the vision that drives the latest dreams of how we move away from the corruption of the current system to the more beautiful world our hearts know is possible. Links to people or ideas mentioned in the podcast: Extinction Rebellion - https://rebellion.earthThis is not a Drill (Book): https://www.amazon.co.uk/This-Not-Drill-Extinction-Rebellion-ebook/dp/B07R57LTG5XR Podcast Episode 11 featuring Jason Hickel: https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/xr-podcast/episodes/2020-05-17T19_00_00-07_00XR YouTube featuring Ian Haney Lopez and Adam Elliott-Cooper: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3U7PYZCObtkStreet School Economics: https://streetschooleconomics.wordpress.comGail Bradbrook ‘Adventures in New Economics’ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_rUk-r0G1eQCharles Eisenstein: https://charleseisenstein.orgFrederic Laloux Reinventing Organisations: https://www.reinventingorganizations.comTax Cast: https://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=620020246

Where does a true, deep sense of inner safety come from?  How do we recognise safety in ourselves and our environment? And how can that sense of safety be undermined?  Somatic Experiencing Practitioner, Sarah Schlote, explains how our deepest selves find balance. Recent advances in neuroscience have shed light on those things that are most precious to us  - a sense of equanimity and inner safety, of balance, and of the capacity to relate in ways that leave us feeling nourished.  All of these stem from early patterning and recognising the times we're off balance can help us to find how best to resource ourselves. In this deep dive into the neurophysiology of poly-vagal theory, Sarah Schlote, director of the Healing Refuge in Canada, and of Equusoma, the centre for Horse-Human recovery, relays in lyrical, human terms, the ways to healing that arise from an understanding of how we recognise safety, danger and life-threat.  This is part 1 of a 2 part series.  In the second part, we'll explore the routes to rebalancing and the implications to our sense of wellbeing that arise out of lockdown. The Healing Refuge is here: https://healingrefuge.comEquusoma is here: https://equusoma.comStephen Porges' Polyvagal theory here:  https://www.stephenporges.com

We spend our lives squinting past the inevitable reality of our own death. But suppose we were able to talk about it openly, to shape it, to embrace it so that by contemplating a good death, we could become fully alive? Dr Judith Wester is a thanatologist: an academic who specialises in the study of death, dying and the cultural rituals of many nations.  Her life is given to teaching others of all ages and in all walks of life how to broach this subject with themselves and so with other people.  In this deep dive into death, Judith explains the difference between death, dying and dead, between grief, mourning and bereavement - and looks into the ways we could explore beyond the inevitable mortality of each of us, to the mortality of our culture - and how something new might be reborn from the ashes in this time of Corona Lockdown. Judith's website is here: https://cedareducation.org.uk/

If Lockdown is a moment of death and rebirth, what do we want to conceive?  And how can we connect to the Web of Life in ways that will help us to conceive the best possible future?  Angharad Wynne offers the wisdom of a life lived on the edge of being - and a close encounter with death - to this conversation of ancestors, Brythonic lore and red kites.  Angharad Wynne is a visionary, land-walker and storyteller. She works to reconnect people from around the world with the wild lands and ancient lore of Britain. Her own encounter with death has transformed an already-deep connection to the land, and the lore of the islands of Britain.  She draws inspiration from her storytelling - and the ways it is led by the deeper needs of the ancestors to have their voices heard - and from her spiritual practice, leading pilgrimages deep into the edge-spaces of Wales.  She is a profoundly spiritual individual with a deep, grounded, authentic understanding of the potential of this moment - and the world's most beautiful voice.Her website is here:  https://www.angharadwynne.comCae Mabon is here: https://www.caemabon.co.ukand the book she mentions is here: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Ancestral-Medicine-Rituals-Personal-Healing/dp/1591432693/ref=sr_1_1  

What do we do with this time of lockdown? How can we use it in ways that will lead us to a more flourishing world, without guilt-tripping ourselves or adding pressure to an already-pressured time?  Nathalie Nahai of The Hive podcast and Manda Scott of Accidental Gods, share thoughts, feelings and explore the edges of being.  Nathalie's humanity, and her deep, broad grasp of psychology, particularly the psychology of online influences and the ethics around them, informs all of her work. In this conversation, we explore together what lockdown means, and how we might grasp this moment in ways that will leave all of us better when it's over, but that won't leave us guilt-tripped or (even more) exhausted.  We explore what it means to be human. How to transcend the moment and the psychology of pleasure versus happiness.  Join us, and enjoy… I'll put up a meditation as a podcast after this, but if you want more, deeper, try here: https://accidentalgods.life/what-if-imagining-the-new-future-our-hearts-know-is-possible/

As discussed in episode 9, this is a thirty minute mediation focussed on the question of WHAT IF we got it all right from this moment forward. If we can really begin to feel the emotional reality as a physical thing, a felt-sense in our bodies, so that it suffuses all of us - then we can aim for this. If you want longer variations - or if you live in the Southern hemisphere and would prefer to go north, than south - you'll find more here: https://accidentalgods.life/what-if-imagining-the-new-future-our-hearts-know-is-possible/

Rob Cobbold is founding editor of consciousevolution.co.uk. He's a critical thinker, a program manager for the Green Schools partnership and is studying for a Masters in Sustainable Leadership.  He's a key mover in the world of conscious evolution and here, he describes why consciousness is the next evolutionary step and how we might get there.   I haven't often had the pleasure of speaking with someone else whose life revolves around the concept of conscious evolution: what it is, why its time is now  (with increasing urgency) and how we might move the great, hypercomplex, super-connected web of humanity towards it.   Rob has both a materialist and a spiritual perspective on the ways we might reach conscious evolution so this was a particularly interesting deep dive into what it will take to reach our critical mass. Rob's website is https://www.consciousevolution.co.ukHe refers to John Stewart's Evolutionary Manifesto, which is here: http://www.evolutionarymanifesto.com/man.pdfHe recommends Charles Eisenstein's 'New and Ancient Story' podcast which is here: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/a-new-and-ancient-story-the-podcast/id1047290956He refers to ‘This View of Life’ by David Sloan Wilson - https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/246844/this-view-of-life-by-david-sloan-wilson/ I mentioned 'The Listening Society' by Hanzi Freinacht, which is here: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Listening-Society-Metamodern-Politics-Guides-ebook/dp/B074MKQ4LR/ref=sr_1_2 ...and he recommended that I talk to John Stewart, and Daniel Schmachtenberger... both of which have been invited to feature on the podcast.