

THE SPACESHIP EARTH PODCAST
Dan Burgess
We live on a life giving rock called Earth hurtling through space.
Like a spaceship, we have a finite amount of supplies with an intelligent operating system, called nature, which keeps everything replenished as long as we all respect and participate wisely.
In this podcast I’m in conversations with humans involved in regenerating life,
Shifting consciousness and re-imagining how we can live more beautifully and peacefully.
I talk with artists, writers, activists, designers, adventurers, healers, farmers, creative mavericks and more.
Their stories invite us to participate in the co-creation of life sustaining cultures.
In service to life.
Becoming crew on Spaceship Earth.
becomingcrew.substack.com
Like a spaceship, we have a finite amount of supplies with an intelligent operating system, called nature, which keeps everything replenished as long as we all respect and participate wisely.
In this podcast I’m in conversations with humans involved in regenerating life,
Shifting consciousness and re-imagining how we can live more beautifully and peacefully.
I talk with artists, writers, activists, designers, adventurers, healers, farmers, creative mavericks and more.
Their stories invite us to participate in the co-creation of life sustaining cultures.
In service to life.
Becoming crew on Spaceship Earth.
becomingcrew.substack.com
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Mar 2, 2023 • 2min
Teaser - Episode 64 - Dougald Hine - At Work in the Ruins
Teaser of Episode 64 is hereIn this episode Dan is in conversation with Dougald Hine.Dougald is co-founder of The Dark Mountain Project.Co-host of The Great Humbling podcast.Co-founder of a School called Home in Sweden where he lives with his partner and son.And Author of new book ‘At Work in the Ruins’ - the focus of this conversation.In this book Dougald is opening up vital spaces for different types of questions, conversations and invitations to be considered and explored as we face into the unravelling mystery of these times.Dan says - “At Work in the Ruins' is a book of wisdom for these times.Times which often to me feel full of cleverness which no longer makes much sense.”‘At Work in the Ruins’ is a gift for these times and we highly recommend it.The audio here is Dougald reading a section from the introduction of the book.Full episode dropping shortly.Available everywhere you get your podcasts#atworkintheruins #thespaceshipearthpodcast #becomingcrew Get full access to Becoming Crew at becomingcrew.substack.com/subscribe

Feb 14, 2023 • 1h 57min
EP 63-Becoming Crew -Mark Sears and Evva Semenowicz, Trust, thresholds and navigating the mystery
In this first full length episode to kick off 2023, Dan introduces in much more depth the Becoming Crew (un)learning adventures for navigating mysterious times.These have been gestating through the podcast since it began and prototyping over the last two years and are now being offered into the world.The episode then deepens and expands into reflections on experiences and learnings from 2022 and intentions for 2023 with fellow Becoming Crew guides Mark Sears and Evva Semenowicz.This was recorded in mid January in a cottage on Dartmoor, Devon during days of intense rainfall where the three of us gathered for a few days to pause, reflect and dream.To find out more visitwww.becomingcrew.comThanks for listening and please do share, comment, rate and review if this speaks to you#becomingcrew #inservicetolife Get full access to Becoming Crew at becomingcrew.substack.com/subscribe

Jan 7, 2023 • 15min
Becoming Crew & Community Solo - (un)Learning Experiences from The Spaceship Earth Podcast
We have a new learning experience offering to accompany the podcast. Becoming Crew - (un)learning adventures for navigating mysterious times.It's been prototyping and gestating for some years.And we released into the wild at the end of 2022.The first offer is Community Solo, a 5 week experience for a crew of individuals which our first cohort completed in mid December.We have a second crew departing on 26th January, with some spots still available.This is a short explainer from Dan (on a ramble in the woods) on the dream of Becoming Crew, an overview of Community Solo and his own profound experience of guiding and participating in the first run last year.Interested in joining the next one ? Jump through the portal...https://www.becomingcrew.com/community-solo Get full access to Becoming Crew at becomingcrew.substack.com/subscribe

Jan 6, 2023 • 1h 50min
Episode 62 - Fergal Smith - Moy Hill Farm - It's not the cow, it's the how
Former professional big wave surfer Fergal Smith walked away from professional surfing a decade ago to begin a journey of becoming a regenerative farmer on the West coast of Ireland.In this conversation recorded in June 2022 Dan revisits Moy Hill for a third time and catches up with where Fergal is at on the evolutionary journey of Moy Hill Farm . Fergal is now working with livestock as a core tool in bringing back soil health, bio-diversity, carbon drawdown and growing nutritious food for the local community. This conversation is an open exploration of the challenges, complexity and nuance required in bringing life back to landscapes, feeding people healthy food and dealing with the challenges of the urgent transition from industrial agriculture to regenerative farming.https://www.moyhillfarm.com/ Get full access to Becoming Crew at becomingcrew.substack.com/subscribe

Nov 18, 2022 • 1h 17min
Earth Sessions - Autumnism - Dan Solo in the mix
New Earth Sessions Mix from @dan__burgess :I’m struggling with my voice at the moment.And words.So I’ve been taking a pause from recording conversations.The podcast is in a composting phaseWhich feels absolutely right for this time.Autumn has always been an important season for me.I feel the transition in a very embodied way.Deep in my psyche and bones.The letting go. The breaking down Of what was.A clearing of space.For what could be.A grieving of sorts.In a beautiful way.In recent years Autumn had also become a time of unexpected challenge.So this mix is an ode to Autumn and all the feels that I’m feeling right now.Autumnism. 125 BPMPlay loudly, for running, dancing and moving through these darker times. A new season of the podcast will be emerging from the compost.Massive respect to all the producers featured in this mix. Thank you for your beautiful sonic offerings.Available on all podcast platforms.#gratitude #thespaceshipearthpodcast #housemusic #earthsessions #cosmichouse #organichouse#becomingcrew Tracklist on site. Get full access to Becoming Crew at becomingcrew.substack.com/subscribe

Sep 13, 2022 • 2h 7min
Episode 61 - Hamish Evans - Middle Ground Growers - Land Based Transformation
Hamish Evans is a Permaculturist, Market Gardener, Regenerative Farmer, Community and Climate Activist and Co Founder of MiddleGround Growers and Weston Spring Farm in Bath, Somerset in the UK.Hamish is another extraordinary human, who in his 20’s is bringing inspirational vision, energy, connection and healing to the lands of Bath and the communities here.In this long conversation which is packed with insight from Hamish’s experiences we explored many many threads, including how to shift our grief and despair around climate and ecological action and social justice and direct our own energies towards creating projects with the potential to heal, bring people together and co-create new life sustaining systems. What Hamish calls Prefigurative action - building the future we envision in the belly of the destructive systems.We explore new forms of activism, our relationship to the land around us, repairing our divided cultures and communities through starting with the ground we stand on, food cultivation, exploring shifts in diets and the foods we eat, how to open up land access to young, marginalised and new types of community growers, new forms of small scale regenerative farming, permaculture approaches and collective design processes which are inclusive, radical co-operation and new forms of food systems grounded in place, as bio-regions and shaping new types of local economies. In short - how land itself could be the catalyst for the personal, cultural and systems transformations that are being called for.And we dig into the question - what will it take for a city such as Bath to be able to feed itself when it comes to food security and food poverty and climate challenges ?As we witness now in real time the effects of climate breakdown in the UK, with water shortages, soil degradation and crop failures now finally being talked about in mainstream media, the question of how will we feed ourselves becomes perhaps the post powerful call to action to step into service in these times, and the possibilities here for reimagining and redesigning our relationships with, food, the living world, with the landscapes around us and how we relate to each other is both profound and exciting.Enjoy, share and do leave us some feedback if you can #thespaceshipearthpodcast #becomingcrew #permaculture #regenerativefarming #bioregional #community #food #inservicetolife Get full access to Becoming Crew at becomingcrew.substack.com/subscribe

Sep 5, 2022 • 1h 31min
Earth Sessions: Dan Solo B2b Jay Bold live at Campo Sancho Festival 30/07/22
Live DJ set recorded at the Sancho Panza festival - 'Campo Sancho' in July 2022 in the UK.90 mins back to back with my great friend Jay Bold which kicked off Saturday night in the Snare and Hi hat tent.Brilliant crowd, mega sound system, awesome festival. Grateful for the opportunity. Massive kudos to Matt Brown and Jim Angel.Respect to all the producers in this recording.Enjoy!https://www.sanchopanza.org/campo-sancho/ Get full access to Becoming Crew at becomingcrew.substack.com/subscribe

Jun 20, 2022 • 6min
Episode 60 Bonus Edition - A Gaia Meditation from Animate Earth by Stephan Harding
Following on from Episode 60 - this is a bonus episode - a 5 minute meditation to help you connect more deeply to Gaia - our living Earth - taken from Stephan Harding’s first book - Animate Earth and narrated by Dan Burgess.You’ll need to go outside, or inside Gaia herself - a garden, park, wood, river, ocean - anywhere that speaks to you where you can lie on your back, on top of Gaia herself and feel safe. From here you can start the meditation.Try it out and let us know how you get on ;-)If you enjoy it please share with others and keep the practice#Becomingcrew #inservicetolife #interconnected #theworldisalive #indigenous____https://www.thespaceship.earth/podcasthttps://www.goodreads.com/book/show/835914.Animate_Earth Get full access to Becoming Crew at becomingcrew.substack.com/subscribe

Jun 10, 2022 • 1h 39min
Episode 60 - Stephan Harding - A Kingdom beyond Measurement
Dr Stephan Harding is a Holistic Scientist, Deep Ecologist and co-founder of the legendary Schumacher College. Stephan’s work intersects scientific ecology, with gaia theory and our psyche and soul. Author of two books, Animate Earth and new publication, Gaia Alchemy. Stephan has worked and taught alongside the world's leading ecological thinkers, feelers and activists. And has worked closely with scientist James Lovelock, a mentor, who developed the Gaia theory hypothesis. Join Dan and Stephan discuss: - Who is Gaia and what’s her history? - James Lovelock an independent scientist and great mentor - From the scientific study of the Muntjac Deer to the deep connection of the wholeness of nature- We are not just thinkers. We’re equally, feelers, sensors and intuitors - We’re inherently animistic with a spiritual connection to nature. And we can still value science - A cultural revolution needs to happen quicker than any other, for the sake of all beings - Gaia Alchemy. Why put alchemy with science? - Healing a crisis of meaning and the Azoth of Philosophy - Valuing the psyche over the ego. Do we invent ideas or do we receive them? - Find your Gaia place - We have two bodies. One, a human body which lives inside the wider body of the Earth, Gaia. For full show notes and links please visit The Spaceship Earth website:https://www.thespaceship.earth/podcast/2022/6/10/episode-60-stephan-harding-a-kingdom-beyond-measurement Get full access to Becoming Crew at becomingcrew.substack.com/subscribe

Apr 25, 2022 • 1h 24min
Earth Sessions 22.04.22 - Love for Mother (Earth) - Dan Solo in the mix
This Earth Sessions mix is dedicated to Mother Earth, our one and only home planet.It’s for dancing and moving through overwhelming times.It’s for the love of all that I know and experience of this Earth.And to honour the vast unknowable intelligence beyond my human knowing.——Imagine if we began to see the Earth and the more than human world as our family ? (As many indigenous brothers and sisters have always done)Just a shift in perception.And an ongoing practiceNo technology or markets required._______________________The mix begins and ends with wisdom from two amazing guests on the podcast this year.Two humans who are working towards this shift in beautiful ways.Kicking off with an invitation from Imagination Activist Phoebe Tickell (EP 57)To find the courage to cultivate our moral imagination capacities.And consider the more than human and our future ancestors as we re-imagine our human systems that can, should and must be changed.We close with beautiful wisdom from Nadeem Perera ( EP 59)To consider and accept the true order of life, where nature, Mother Earth is the director of the show._______________The track selection attempts to express the urgency, beauty, mystery, love and possibility of these times.Music that’s been moving me of late.Organic, cosmic house sounds which connect me to rhythms, patterns and love of Mother Earth.Massive respect and gratitude to all the artists and producers featured in this mix.Go buy these tracks if they move you tooHope you enjoy the mix - feedback always appreciated #becomingcrew______________________Alarm Call (French Dub) - BjorkThe Slide - Wild DarkFewer - Gadi MitraniFelt - Erdi IrmakMoon by day - Hermanez/Simon Vuarambom1996 - Simon VuarambomHael - Volen SentirCircadian Rhythm - (Hraach mix) Soul ButtonLagom - Lukas BohlenderNano - Tamir RegevMythical Mirage (Erdi Irmak mix) - Serious DancersVutuka Fet Junior - Lost Desert/Lee BurridgeRain in June - Mass DigitalSolnce - Krasa RosaBird recordings via @fintanobrien Get full access to Becoming Crew at becomingcrew.substack.com/subscribe