Accidental Gods

Doughnut Economics is a new, groundbreaking model that lets us see how we can embrace the needs of all within the means of a living, thriving planet.  Rob Shorter, Communities Lead, of the Doughnut Economics Action Lab explains what it is, how it works and how we can embrace it at all levels in our communities of people and place and purpose. The imagination needs mental and emotional space to enable us to create a vision of the more beautiful world our hearts know is possible. Rob Shorter wrote his dissertation at Schumacher on how we cultivate our imagination and change the cultural narrative towards the thinking that Doughnut Economics embodies. In this podcast, we dive deep into the nature of imagination and how we can let it grow.  We explore Doughnut Economics and how the model can transform our world. And we look at the work of the lab and how we might all be involved.   Most of all, we explore how each of us as individuals can be part of the change we need to see in the world. and Rob shares a song.  Listen just for that... Links: Doughnut Economics Action Lab: https://doughnuteconomics.org/Doughnut Economics (Book): https://blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/product/Doughnut-Economics-by-Kate-Raworth-author/9781847941398Circle Economy: https://www.circle-economy.comEllen Macarthur Foundation for the Circular Economy: https://www.ellenmacarthurfoundation.orgC40 Cities: https://www.c40.orgLeeds Good Life: https://goodlife.leeds.ac.ukCity Repair Project: https://cityrepair.orgBiomimicry video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sf4oW8OtaPY

If we view life as a Game between Light and Dark, where do we stand at any given moment?  Hero or Manipulator?  Altruist or Cynic? Sleepwalker, Avoider, Traditionalist?   We can each be any of these at any given moment. Knowing we have choice is what gives us the power to be different.  What do you choose?  Gill Coombs is a facilitator, coach, peripatetic counsellor and an elder of Extinction Rebellion.  Of her three books to date, The Game is the second. In it, she outlines the powers of the Dark Four: The Dark Media, Dark State, Dark Finance, Dark Corporations - and the ways they battle the generative forces of light. And in her game, we can each choose to play one of seven avatars. We might choose a different one in each moment. We might play them so close together as to be indivisible. But it is the thesis of this podcast that meta-awareness is one of the core requirements of humanity and that if we understand what's possible, we can gain agency. With Agency, we can choose to be different. If we choose to be different enough, we become different. So let's play in the seven avatars and see what we'd like to become. LinksGill's website: https://www.gillcoombs.co.ukThe Game: https://www.gillcoombs.co.uk/thegameTom Mills' Book - BBC: Myth of a Public Service:Tristan Harris' podcast - Your Undivided AttentionBlog post on the Wetiko: 'Seeing Wetiko: On Capitalism, Mind Viruses and Antidotes for a World in Transition.'

What is the first, simplest and most profound change we can make in our lives?  Sign up as an Earth Protector - and then encourage your local schools, hospitals, colleges, councils to sign too.  Jozette Khimba of the Earth Protector Communities organisation, explores the ways we can have huge impact on our local communities.Jozette has been a lifelong activist, but it was her connection with activist Barrister, Polly Higgins that took her to Stroud and the Stop Ecocide campaign.  With Polly's death in 2019, Jozette became part of the Earth Protector Communities movement, striving (in her case) to bring the concept of Earth Protection as a moral and legal construct into schools, colleges and universities across the world. As increasing numbers of young people are joining the movement for change, Jozette explains what each of us can do to bring action to our local communities. Links: Stop Ecocide: https://www.stopecocide.earthEarth Protector Communities https://earthprotectorcommunities.netEPC Facebook (which has details of events): https://www.facebook.com/groups/EarthProtectorsCommunity

What are we here for?  Where does our heritage step into our potential? How can we build a genuinely ecological civilisation that sees people and communities flourish within the means of the living planet?  Jeremy Lent, author of 'The Patterning Instinct', explores the answers to life's biggest questions. Jeremy is an author whose writings investigate the patterns of thought that have led our civilization to its current existential crisis. His recent book, The Patterning Instinct: A Cultural History of Humanity’s Search for Meaning, explores the way humans have made meaning from the cosmos from hunter-gatherer times to the present day. He is founder of the nonprofit Liology Institute, dedicated to fostering an integrated worldview that could enable humanity to thrive sustainably on the Earth. His upcoming book, The Web of Meaning: Integrating Science and Traditional Wisdom to Find Our Place in the Universe, will be published in Spring 2021 by New Society Publishers (North America) and Profile Books (UK & Commonwealth).In this podcast, we explore the thinking behind the idea of an Ecological Civilisation - and how we might get there. Links: Jeremy's site: https://www.jeremylent.com/about.htmlJeremy's blog: https://patternsofmeaning.com/2018/10/10/we-need-an-ecological-civilization-before-its-too-late/Liology Institute: http://www.liology.orgJeremy at XR in October 2019: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iBYiEI5pl5A

How can we shape a world where everyone has found and is following their soul’s calling? Gill Coombs, author of The Trembling Warrior and ‘Hearing your Calling’ on ways to discover our soul’s true path.  Gill is a writer, facilitator, coach and activist. In 2011/12 Gill studied Holistic Science at Schumacher College, and then wrote her first book Hearing our Calling. In 2015 she stood as a Parliamentary Candidate for the Green Party, and the following year published The Game: Life vs the Dark Powers. Gill was arrested twice during 2019 with Extinction Rebellion, and as a member of the Visioning Circle, helped to establish XR’s Eldership Circle. She has written three life changing books - today we are exploring ‘Hearing your Calling’ - and how we can bring that into the world. Gill’s link and book: https://www.gillcoombs.co.uk/booksSchumacher Collage PostGraduate Courses: https://www.schumachercollege.org.uk/courses/postgraduate-courses-2020Reciprocoach: https://reciprocoach.com

How would our world feel if we let ourselves follow the wild dreams of our hopes?  And how can we reshape the land around us if we let it teach us.  Former garden designer and founder of "We are the Ark" (Acts of Regenerative Kindness) explores the wild dreaming of the land that brought her to a place where regeneration is the heart of all she does. Mary Reynolds set her intent to win a gold medal at the Chelsea Flower show with her first (and only) exhibit. To do it, she created a wild garden that left visitors in tears for the lost memories of their youths... and she won her gold medal.  Her life since has been a long unfolding of dreams connecting her to the wild land of her Irish ancestors, deepening her experience and coming ever closer to the land. With a raw humility and deep passion, she speaks here of her journey and of how we can join her mission to make of every garden an ARK. Links: We are the Ark: http://wearetheark.orgMary's personal site: http://marymary.ie/Dark Sky Ireland: https://www.darksky.ieFacebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/804968449865497/

How can we heal ourselves and the world?  So many people ask the question and yet the answers are simple.  We know what we need to do, we just don’t know how to do it. In this race through the grounding of Accidental Gods, podcast host, Manda Scott explores the answers.We know that our healing depends on our re-connection with the web of life, with what we call ‘The Natural World’ until we stop seeing it as something other and start seeing it as an integral part of ourselves.   But knowing is different to doing. Declarative learning is not performative learning - both are necessary, but each occupies different bits of our nervous systems and it’s only when we actually begin to embody change that we understand it - and it’s from this embodiment that transformation arises. In a series of Answers to listeners’ questions, Manda outlines the steps to transformation - and reviews some of the wisdom of guests over the past 6 months. LinksAccidental Gods: https://accidentalgods.life Richard J Davidson TED talk: https://youtu.be/7CBfCW67xT8Sam Harris on AI: https://youtu.be/8nt3edWLgIgRupert Sheldrake: https://www.sheldrake.orgTristan Harris Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/your-undivided-attention/id1460030305Tristan Harris website: https://www.tristanharris.comRobert H Lustig: https://robertlustig.com

In a profound discussion, Mac Macartney, a visionary leader and founder of Embercombe, emphasizes the significance of reconnecting with the Earth and our inner genius. He shares insights on self-discovery through nature and the transformative questions that can reshape our relationship with life. Mac reflects on the community bonds forged during lockdown and the vital role of personal responsibility toward humanity and the environment. He advocates for reevaluating power dynamics and the importance of education in fostering meaningful connections.

What links the neuroscience of love, the embracing of failure and the pheromones of trees?  Adam Hamdy, novelist, screenwriter and sense-maker in an increasingly non-sensical world shares ways to be the best of ourselves, and help others to reach the same place. Adam Hamdy is a novelist, screenwriter, advisor-to-ministers (not that they necessarily listen, but that's their loss) and soon-to-be author of a book on the neuroscience of empowerment - how we can do it and why it's essential.  Our conversation ranged from Phytoncides (yes, but trust me, it's fascinating), to the neuroscience of love, and - as ever, what we can actually do, to make a difference in the world around us. LinksAdam's site: http://www.adamhamdy.com Ligandal site: https://www.ligandal.comCrime Time list of best novels - featuring Adam's Black 13  https://www.crimetime.co.uk/the-best-novels-and-novelists-on-the-great-crime-fiction-debate/The paper on CoronaVirus - https://freemarketconservatives.org/were-at-war-with-an-invisible-enemy-heres-how-we-fight-it/Humanity Rising: https://humanityrising.solutionsHealth Benefits of Phytoncies: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2793341/https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/18336737/https://europepmc.org/article/med/20074458https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/time-spent-green-places-linked-longer-life-women-2017030911152https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/news/press-releases/plants-death-rates-women/https://biofit.io/news/phytoncides-forest-vitamins

How could our entire political system be rewoven so that it met the needs of all humanity - and the More than Human world?  How can we step beyond the tribal toxicity that is tearing us apart and find ways to build a future that work?  The One Nation Party is a key to a radical new mode of governance.  Here, Benjamin Ross describes how it arose, what draw him to it and how it can work to transform the world. As we awaken to an emergent planetary coherence, we rely on stories about our Cosmovisión or Ultimate Purpose to place ourselves within our bodies, our communities, our planet, and our universe. Benjamin Ross, Media and Alliance Building Lead for the new governance group, One Nation, is an evolutionary myth-maker, meta-coherence steward, nurturer of emergence, and lover of all beings. Through the expression of non-dual archetypes, all-win ontology, and visionary holistic thriving in media, governance, and culture, Benjamin is co-creating narrative and experiential frameworks necessary to midwife the birth of a New Earth.In this wide-ranging, far-reaching and beautifully shared vision, Benjamin explores the purpose and drive behind One Nation, behind Azure Village and the thousand fractal shards of the Burning Man revolution in this post-pandemic world. "I identify with life. There's a part of me that identifies as Life. I am Life, Benjamin-ing. I am a verb. I'm not a noun. And that verb is an emanation of a complex system that I'm part of. I wouldn't be me if you didn't exist. The ways in which you've changed the world just by your being here is completely connected to who I am and and how I think of myself. And so when my identity frame begins to shift to actually see you as actually a part of me and me as a part of this greater whole, then then these these labels just become tools that we can use to sort through the complexity of information."One Nation Party: https://www.onenation.party/Benjamin's Medium post: https://medium.com/@benjaminross_/a-thousand-fractal-shards-one-burning-man-revolution-bbf4ee5f20eeCivilisation ReDesign: https://www.civilizationredesign.oneChristopher Life, One Nation candidacy: https://www.onenation.party/presidential-candidate-christopherUnity 2020: Articles: https://medium.com/@ArticlesOfUnity/the-articles-of-unity-f544f930d336