What do we really think about Food? Revolutionising what we eat with Sue Pritchard of the Food, Farming and Countryside Commission
17 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
We're told so often that people 'don't want the nanny state to intervene' in what we eat or drink or...
How do we live, when under the surface of everything is an ocean of tears? With Douglas Rushkoff of Team Human
10 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Our guest this week is Douglas Rushkoff, a man whose insights and intellect have earned him a place ...
Evolving Education: Building a Doughnut School with Jenny Grettve of When!When!
03 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This week's guest is one of those people whose breadth and depth is an inspiration. As you are abo...
Building Trust - One Conversation at at Time: Cooperation Hull with Gully Bujak
27 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Today we venture into the heart of Hull, where the seeds of change are being sown by the hands of or...
Vulture Capitalism - Exposing the toxic system and how to outgrow it with Grace Blakeley
20 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This week's guest is one of those who understands the nuts and bolts - the iniquities - of the curre...
Accidental Gods Spring Equinox Meditation 2024
19 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
"Consciousness creates MatterLanguage creates RealityRitual creates Relationship" - Oscar Mira-Quesa...
Seeds of Hope: Cultivating a Future of Flavour and Resilience with Sinead Fortune and Kate Hastings of the Gaia Foundation
13 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this nourishing episode of Accidental Gods, we delve into the fertile world of seed sovereignty w...
Finding a Cure for Civilisation: Delving Deep into the Roots of Being with visionary and shaman, Drea Burbank of Savimbo.
06 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
“Respect is earned. Honesty is appreciated. Trust is gained. Loyalty is returned.”— Oscar Auli...
River Charters, Net Zero Cities and BioRegional Banks: Creating a Life-Ennobling Economic System with Emily Harris of Dark Matter Labs
28 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this week's episode of Accidental Gods, we dive into the visionary world of economic transformati...
Dung Beetles, People and helping the Keystone Species with Claire Whittle, the Regenerative Vet
21 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this week's episode we delve into the intricate world of dung beetles and their critical role in ...
End State: 9 Ways Society is Broken and How we Fix it, with James Plunkett
14 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This week, I spoke with James Plunkett, a man who has spent his career at the intersection of policy...
Growing a Public Chorus for Change: reshaping democracy with Alex Lockwood of the Humanity Project
07 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
We don't have a democracy, we have a kleptocracy that elevates to positions of power those amongst u...
Dancing with the god within: Finding the Sovereign Feminine with thought-leader Maggie Ostara
31 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
How does each of us find our sovereignty, our sense of what it is to have agency and be alive in the...
On Nature, Culture and The Sacred with Elder and Visionary, Nina Simons
24 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
"Consciousness creates matter,Language Creates Reality,Ritual creates relationship' - Oscar Miro-Que...
Gathering the Memes of Production: Building Co-ordi-Nations with Josh Davila of Blockchain Socialist podcast
17 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Those of you who've followed the podcast for any length of time know that I feel our capacity to con...
Let's get rid of Money and start afresh! Dismantling the Super-Organism with Diana Finch
10 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Happy New Year. It feels to me as if this year, the journey is going to be one of continual change...
Promethean Project - Part 2: Crafting the future with Dr Simon Michaux
03 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to the second part of our conversation - if you haven't listened to the first part, please d...
The Promethian Project: Building a Radical Tomorrow with Dr Simon Michaux
03 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Happy New Year. My guest this week is a long term friend of the podcast. Dr Simon Michaux has been...
Plant Spirit Teachers: learning from the Elder Plants with Dr Simon Ruffell
27 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
For this time around the dark nights of the winter solstice - at least in the northern hemisphere - ...
Meditation for the Winter solstice of 2023
20 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Here is our winter solstice meditation - please create a space for yourself where you won't be distu...
Solstice Dreaming: 3 podcasters gather round the Dark-Nights fire: Della Duncan, Nathalie Nahai and Manda Scott
20 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This is the fourth year of our now-traditional Winter Solstice podcast get-together in which Nathali...
Bright Fires, Dark Nights: Connecting deeply and building tribe as we head to the Solstice with Angharad Wynne
13 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This week, as we head down towards what, in the northern hemisphere at least, is the long nights, th...
Braced for Impact: Cutting through the Greenwash and Lies with Rachel Donald of Planet: Critical podcast
06 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Our guest this week is host of one of my must-listen podcasts - one I've been following since the sp...
Cars of the future (NOT EVs!) - Transforming transport and business with Hugo Spowers of Riversimple Movement
29 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Our guest this week is Hugo Spowers, Company Architect of Riversimple, whose purpose is 'To pursue, ...
Beyond the Brink is the Beginning with Richard Wain - Launching 27th November 2023
25 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Words have the power to change worlds. Powerful words, powerfully written can open doors to the fu...
Building Lifeboats to the Emerging Futures with Sophia Parker of the Joseph Rowntree Foundation
22 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
My guest this week is someone who is both right at the edge of the emerging futures and in a positio...
The Animate Earth Responds: Initiation in a time of Crisis with Alnoor Ladha and Lynn Murphy
15 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
How do we move ourselves – individually and collectively – from the broken Trauma Culture of our...
Bringing Indigenous food back to the people: a conversation with Josiah Meldrum of Hodmedod's
08 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This is an Accidental Gods bonus Episode recorded at the Marches Real Food and Farming Conference he...
Power to the People: Changing the way things work with Simon Oldridge
01 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
We all know the climate and ecological tipping points are terrifyingly close. What can we do - as in...
Becoming Intentional Gods: Claiming the future with Indy Johar of the Dark Matter Labs
25 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
If we're at the moment of choice between flourishing and destruction, what would you choose? We are...
Courageous Conversations - talking about what matters with Rowan Ryrie of Parents for Future
18 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
How can we, as parents, grandparents and anyone who cares about the fate of future generations, live...
The Web of Life & New Tech Webs – A Beautiful Connection? with Monty Merlin of ReFi DAO
11 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
How much do you know about AI, blockchain and Web 3.0? If you're like us, the answer is probably ver...
What your Food Ate - Or why you should never eat industrially farmed food ever again- With Anne Bicklé and David Montgomery
04 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
How does soil health intimately and profoundly impact human health? What's the link between the soil...
Transforming Narrative Waters with Ruth Taylor of the Common Cause Foundation
27 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Here at Accidental Gods, we are increasingly of the opinion that our most urgent need as we face the...
Equinox Meditation: Finding the balance point in ourselves and the world
23 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Manda's Equinox meditation focuses on finding our sense of balance as the tilt of the world balances...
Walking the edge between light and dark: Equinox reflections on Accidental Gods past, present and future
23 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
As we head into winter in the northern hemisphere, as the tilt of the world hangs in balance, we rea...
Meeting the Spirit of the Land: exploring Spirituality in Farming with biodynamic grower, André Tranquilini
20 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this, our 200th episode of Accidental Gods podcast, I am delighted to be joined by André Tranqui...
Making The Nettle Dress: a journey of attention and intention and magic and loss with Allan Brown and Dylan Howitt
13 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
"Grasping the Nettle' is at the heart of the film. Making a dress this way is a mad act of will and ...
Healthy Human Culture: Diving deep into ourselves, each other and the world, with Sophy Banks
06 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
How do good people create systems of oppression? What is Health? What is unHealth? And how do we m...
Inspiring the climate majority with Prof Rupert Read
30 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
We're on the edge of so many tipping points it's hard to know where to start. But paralysis isn't ...
The Art of Living Well - A Creative Life on the Land with Elisa Rathje of AppleTurnover TV
23 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this week's episode I'm talking to someone I met on last year's Thrutopia Masterclass: someone wh...
Spiritual Activism: Permaculture of land, heart and people with Maddy Harland
16 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This podcast is focussed on all the ways that we can bring all of ourselves to the project of total ...
This Mighty Heart: exploring the power of Heart Intelligence with Scilla Elworthy
09 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
We all know that we need to reconnect to our HeartMinds and to bring our Heart Intelligence up to me...
AI: Integral to the future or existential risk? (or both) - conversations on current evolution with Daniel Thorson
02 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
How dangerous is AI? Are Large Language Models likely to subvert our children? Is Generalised AI g...
Walk Deep, walk true, and listen to your dreams: wordsmithing the human spirit with Abigail Morgan Prout
26 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Peruvian shaman Oscar Miro-Quesada says that "Consciousness creates matter, Language Creates Reality...
A Green New Deal that Works for People and Planet with Max Ajl
19 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Our guest this week is Max Ajl, who is an associate researcher with the Tunisian Observatory for Foo...
Becoming a Stag Beetle! Living the Interspecies Treaty of Finsbury Park with Ruth Catlow
12 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this week's episode, we have a return guest to the podcast. Ruth Catlow has taken the amazing wor...
Voting our way to a fairer future: Contemplations on quadratic voting with Ruth Catlow
12 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This is the part of the podcast where we talk about voting systems, specifically the quadratic votin...
Five Insights for Avoiding Global Collapse with economist Gaya Herrington
05 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
What does it take to avoid global collapse? Is there still time? And if so, what are the societa...
Exploding the Myth of a Farm-Free Future (and fake meat!) with Chris Smaje
28 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
How do we make the case for a fully ecological farming system, that can feed all of us, while restor...
Psychedelics: the key to evolution or (yet more) big Pharma hype? With Dr Ros Watts of ACER Integration
21 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
We are the Accidental Gods. We didn't plan to be the ones to hold the god-like power to destroy mo...
Summer Solstice Meditation with Manda Scott
20 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
It's the summer solstice, the longest day and the shortest night. What matters now in our world is t...
Summer Solstice Meditation - with Manda Scott (with birdsong behind)
20 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
It's the summer solstice, the longest day and the shortest night. What matters now in our world is t...
Manda - Summer Solstice Roundup, Reading and Listening
20 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
At the halfway point of the year, Manda looks back on what's been on the podcast, forward at (some o...
The Sacred Depths of Nature: exploring the interface of science, spirituality and religion with Ursula Goodenough
14 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Sometimes the synchronicity of this podcast leaves me very happy. About six months ago, I was thinki...
Reality Check: Less Quantity, More Quality in a Future that will Work, Part 4 of our series w Simon Michaux
11 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This is the fourth of our ongoing series with Dr Simon Michaux. As ever, we ranged far and wide, b...
Lifeboats and Volcanoes: part 3 of our series with Simon Michaux
07 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This week's guest is fast becoming a friend of the Podcast. In the first part of what is now an ongo...
Primary Strategy: Growing a new voting paradigm in the South Devon Primary
31 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
As you'll know by now, one of our core motivators in creating this podcast was the realisation that ...
No More Fairy Stories: Writing the way through, one tale at a time - with Denise Baden
24 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
If you've listened to this podcast at all recently, you'll know that I'm in the editing phase of the...
Meeting the Ocean: Rekindling our deepest connections through art and science with Markus Reymann
17 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
How do we really create systemic change? How do we shift narratives towards a generative future? How...
Proudly Mad: exploring mental health and the climate emergency with Charlie Hertzog Young
10 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
How did one man make the shift from Not wanting to live in this world, to refusing to live in this w...
Building Tomorrow: Bonus addition: Painting 2050 if we get things right
04 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Paddy and I recorded a brief 15 minute bonus of how the world could look if we actually employed all...
Building Tomorrow: Practical steps to a new economic system with Paddy Le Flufy
03 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
As you will know by now, this podcast searches long and hard for answers to the over-riding question...
Building Bridges to the Future with Cat Tully of the School of International Futures
26 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
If you've listened to the podcast at all over the past few years, you'll know that the search for ro...
Bridging from the Necessary to the Possible with Emily Harris of Dark Matter Labs
19 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
IF the present system is broken - and is in fact the heart of the meta-crisis - how can we transform...
Drawing Humanity out of the Cave with Dr Simon Michaux (Part 2 of a series)
12 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This week, we're returning to the second part of the ongoing series with Dr Simon Michaux. If you ha...
The Fine Art of Huddles: multiplying our potential by the power of our peers with Zahra Davidson of Huddlecraft
05 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
How can we begin to shift away from the old hierarchical dominance structures of our past 2,000 year...
Bonus: Exploring the banking crash with Grace Rachmany - in which I ask all the questions I never asked before...
29 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Following our podcast with Grace Rachmany, we stayed online and talked about the banking crash. At t...
Meshworks of Being: Building Community on the DAO with Grace Rachmany of Priceless DAO
29 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
We know that the future is based on Community. What we lack are practical routes to creating communi...
Dancing with the Muppets of Cutthroat Island: Transforming Industry to create a genuine Green Revolution with Dr Simon Michaux
22 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
How much actual stuff do we have in the world compared to what we need to make the 'Green Revolution...
Reasons to be Sheepful: from wedding shawls to burial shrouds with Yuli Somme of Bellacouche
15 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Our crisis, our challenge, our opportunity is complex. More than ever, it matters now that we not ge...
Technology for a future that works with Cory Feco of the DOI Foundation
08 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The one big question that this podcast exists to answer is - what does our future look like when it ...
Be Kind, Be Useful, Create Giants in the Sky: transforming community with Alan Lane of Slung Low
01 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The Accidental Gods podcast exists to set the conditions for emergence into a new system: to bring a...
One Planet Living: Mapping Minds to create a new Consciousness, with Pooran Desai, OBE.
22 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
It is our mission on this podcast - and the wider membership community from which it arose - to op...
Saving Chocolate! and finding solutions to the meta crisis with Nicola Peel
15 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Accidental Gods podcast exists to open doors and break down barriers, to bring forward the ideas and...
Living in a Post-Carbon, Post-Capital, Post Urban world - with Chris Smaje, author of A Small Farm Future
08 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Chris Smaje is a social scientist by training and a small-scale farmer by occupation. For the past 1...
Unlocking Curiosity: Regenerating Business from the packaging up with Jo Chidley of Re and Beauty Kitchen
01 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Jo Chidley is one of those forces of nature, unconstrained by the way things are usually done. As ...
Stop eating Chicken! - The future of food with Rob Percival, author of The Meat Paradox
25 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Rob Percival is a writer, campaigner and food policy expert with The Soil Association. His commentar...
Cultures of Commoning: Quadratic voting, indigenous connectivity and pacifist chess with Ruth Catlow
18 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This week's conversation ranges over an astonishingly wide range of topics from ways to facilitate i...
Being the Change: Journeys in Service to Life with Gail Bradbrook
11 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This week's guest is a friend of the podcast, Dr Gail Bradbrook. Best known for her role in co-fou...
Plan. Pause. Reset: Real Steps to Radical Transformation with Eva Schonveld and Justin Kenrick
04 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Eva is a climate activist, process designer and facilitator. She has co-convened the Transformative ...
Three years on: Manda's reflections on our third anniversary - and looking forward into 2023
30 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
As we move from our third to our fourth year, it seemed like a good time to look back on the origins...
Food, Farming and Feeding the Soul: with Satish Kumar in conjunction with the Oxford Real Farming Conference
28 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Satish Kumar is one of the absolute titans of the Regenerative movement in the UK. In 1962, he and...
Traditional Solstice Celebration: Looking back and looking forward with Della Duncan and Nathalie Nahai
20 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
As the year stills and tilts afresh, we bring you our annual moment of reflection with two podcast h...
Earthborne Rangers: Playing our way to a future that works with Andrew Navaro
14 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The average child in the western world attends 10,000 hours of school - and plays 20,000 hours of ga...
Living Well within our Limits: Actions for systemic change with Prof Julia Steinberger
07 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Professor Julia Steinberger researches and teaches in the interdisciplinary areas of Ecological Econ...
Data is the New Plastic! Ethics, Accuracy and AI with Dr John Collins of Machine Intelligence Garage
30 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Dr John Collins worked for the UK's Central Electricity Generating Board in the days when such thing...
Telling the Truth and Moving Forward: Building the Moderate Flank with Rupert Read
23 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Rupert Read is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of East Anglia, but he is also a ...
End of year round-up: Manda's favourite podcasts, fiction and non-fiction of 2022
16 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
As we do each year, we've curated a list of the Accidental Gods' favourite podcast and books of 2022...
Regenerative by Design: Creating Communities that work with Charlie Fisher of Transition by Design
09 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In a world that feels as if all the certainties are breaking down, how can we build the communities ...
Fractal Improv: finding generosity, connection and compassion amidst our fear with Belina Raffy
02 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
We know our climate is in crisis and that time is running out. But we also know that screaming at pe...
Compass: Charting a Progressive Route through the Political Maelstrom with Neal Lawson
26 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In a world where our 'democracy' is manifestly not fit for purpose, how can we turn the brief, brigh...
The Kindness of Strangers: Ocean Rowing, Solitude and Transformation with Dr Roz Savage MBE
19 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
What happens when we realise we're trying to be something we're not? For Roz Savage, this led to a...
Matereality and Corporate Mischief: reshaping Business as if the job were to create a world that works with B.Lorraine Smith
12 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
What if businesses existed not to price-gouge consumers and destroy the planet, but to be part of a ...
Flourish: Designing new paradigms and expanding our agency with Sarah Ichioka
05 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
What will it take to restore balance in our world? How can we repair our devastated environments, an...
Planet, not Profit: Envisioning a genuinely sustainable future in a not-for-profit world with Jennifer Hinton
28 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
We live in a world run by profiteers: the rush to make money destroys people and planet with equal d...
Re-Enchantment: Creating rituals to re-discover our embodied sovereignty with Isla McLeod
21 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
What do we do when we feel disempowered, disconnected, alone and afraid? We can throw ourselves mo...
The Meat Paradox: Ethics, morality and shamanic spirituality: exploring the politics of protein with Rob Percival
14 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
We are human because for most of our evolutionary history, we have eaten meat whilst treating animal...
Hagitude: Paving the way to empowered elderhood with Sharon Blackie
07 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
"As elders, our job is to die, as eventually we come to live —always in service to life." How do...
Beyond the tribal divisions of right and wrong: Exploring Restorative Engagement with Sophie Docker
31 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
We know that tribalism is destroying us, that the need for 'us' to be right and 'them' to be wrong a...