Accidental Gods
Episodes
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, bright fireworks of political sanity into floodlights o...
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 transformation that took her from Management Cons...
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 pathway to a flourishing future? What if the end...
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, and secure future generations' survival? And what's ...
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 disregard. But how would the world look if all busi...
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 more deeply into social media, drink, drugs and deep...
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 animals as relations and giving thanks to them. We held ...
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 we do this? How can we pass into our elder years ...
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 and to become enraged when we're challenged…is wh...
Co-Creators of the future: exploring the birth of a new education system with YouthxYouth co-founder Zineb Mouhyi
24 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Zineb Mouhyi is the co-founder of two charitable organizations, YouthxYouth & the Weaving Lab. YouthxYouth is a movement to radically reimagine t...
A Wild Farming Life: Building a regenerative croft from scratch with Lynn Cassells
17 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Lynn Cassells and Sandra Baer met while working as rangers for the National Trust and soon realised that they shared a dream to live closer to the lan...
The Politics of Being: Wisdom and Science for the new world with Dr Thomas Legrand
10 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Holding a Ph.D. in (Ecological) Economics and having studied international development, political science, and management, Thomas Legrand works in the...
Banking on the Beetles: Creating a local circular agro-economy with Liberty Nimmo of The Three Turnips
03 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
By now it's obvious that our current system is destroying all life on the planet - and our food/farming system is key both to the current levels of de...
Of Course We Can! Lifting the lid on possibility with James Brown, mulit-Paralympian Gold Medalist and Climate Activist
27 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
James Brown is an athlete, inventor, social entrepreneur, multi-Paralympian gold medal winner - and climate activist. There was a time when James ...
Bridging the Gap: finding truth, reconciliation and climate justice with Saurav Roy
20 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
With a track record of founding startups at a young age, and executing entrepreneurial roles in global non-profits, Saurav Roy was selected as one of ...
Trees, Trees, Trees! How we can grow food around, within and on them - with Ben Raskin
13 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Ben is head of Horticulture and Forestry at the Soil Association. Author or co-author of eight books including Zero Waste Gargenind, The Woodchip Ha...
Weaving with the Land: The future of regenerative farming with Caroline Grindrod
06 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Caroline Grindrod is a consultant and coach in regenerative systems and leadership. Along with background in environmental conservation and upland lan...
Finding the adjacent possible: routes to political and social transformation with Dave Snowden of The Cynefin Company
29 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
He is the creator of the Cynefin Framework, and originated the design of SenseMaker®, the world’s first distributed ethnography tool. He is the lea...
Designing Education fit for the 21st Century with Prof David John Helfand
22 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
We live in a world where facts are at our fingertips and yet we increasingly live in conceptual silos where ideas are neither broad nor deep. How ca...
How the World is making our Children Mad - and what to do about it - with Louis Weinstock
15 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
How can we create a world where our children can grow in safety - both physical and emotional? How can we find that sense of psychological safety wi...
Connecting with Power: How the media could reframe our world - and why they must - with Donnachadh McCarthy
08 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
How do we bring the world's media on board with the climate and ecological emergency? What would happen if they became the fourth arm of the climate...
Net Positive: Designing a regenerative future with Prof Janis Birkeland
01 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
How do we design our built environment to be more than just 'sustainable' (doing things slightly less badly) and instead to be genuinely regenerative ...
Imagination Activism: exploring radically better futures (and SolarPunk) with Phoebe Tickell
25 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
What are the most effective tools we can engage to create new, different, better futures? How do we translate our visions of a generative future int...
BioRegionalism: The Design Path for Regenerating Earth with Joe Brewer
18 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The Holocene is over, we all know this. The Anthropocene may segue into the Symbiocene, with the opportunity to experience the surprising abundance ...
Regenerative Renaissance: Managing the new economy with Rieki Cordon of Seeds. Part 2 of 2
11 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Revolutions don't work, and we don't have time. What we need now is a Regenerative Renaissance where we all envisage the whole, beautiful, clean, thri...
Regenerative Renaissance: Weaving new worlds with cryptocurrencies based on community, with Rieki Cordon of Seeds. Part 1 of 2
04 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
We all know that our economic system is broken - that the ways we share value are skewed so that the super-rich grow richer while the rest of the peop...
Thrutopia Bonus: 10th Anniversary of Sacred Economics: Charles and Jimi Eisenstein with Della Duncan
29 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
It's long been said that it's easier to imagine the total extinction of humanity than it is to imagine an end to capitalism. But Charles Eisenstein'...
Waking Up: Power, possibility and politics in a Fractal Age with Indra Adnan
27 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
We all know the current system of politics and governance is utterly dysfunctional. But what will it look like - what will it feel like - to organise ...
Beautiful Methane: Powering the transformation with Will Llewellyn
20 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
We all know that methane is a far more dangerous greenhouse gas than CO2. But what if we could harness it and put it to good use? What if it we co...
Transformative Connection: Mapping the way through with Thrutopia's originator: Rupert Read
13 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In a world in existential crisis, deep within what Joanna Macy called The Deep Unravelling, we have a critical need for road maps to help us navigate ...
Down to Earth Derby: Growing a city Green from the inside out
06 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
As our world balances on the edge of transformation, how do we rewild ourselves and our inner cities? How do we build communities of place and of pu...
Buccaneer Economics: Blowing away the old and inventing what works with Prof. Steve Keen
30 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Our current economy is based on idiocy, selfishness and bizarre ideologies. What happens if we completely replace it with a different, better system? ...
The Business of Awakening: Finding a generative future within our businesses with Garry Turner
23 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
If we are to create a regenerative future we'd be proud to leave to the generations that come after us, how can we shift the extractive, profit-based ...
The Gentle Power of Craftivism: With Sarah Corbett of the Craftivist Collective
16 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
What can you do if you want to be a gentle, careful, strategic activist? The kind who catalyses change in empathic ways, who strives to understand peo...
What's an Economy for, anyway? Building an economy for people and planet with Yannick Beaudoin
09 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
What's our economy for? Does it have to keep growing at the expense of all we hold dear; the things that make life worth living? Or can we re-imagine ...
Manda's Basic Tips for Writers
07 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Thrutopia is open to everyone who tells stories in whatever form. But if you're in the early stages of your writing journey and want some support, t...
Daring to risk: finding our purpose in a turbulent world with Maggie Ostara.
02 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
What do we do when the world isn't working for us? When our every fibre rages against the machine and our place in it? Maggie Ostara talks about he...
Activism by Design with David Johnson of the Stanford Law School
23 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
How can we use the leading edge of design thinking to create climate activism that really works? Dave Johnson is a lawyer, teacher, writer and design ...
Stairway to Heaven: Food, Farming and the Regeneration of our landscapes with Patrick Holden of the Sustainable Food Trust
16 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
How can we improve our health, reduce the costs to the NHS by 50%, restore soil biodiversity, reduce flooding, reverse ecosystem decline and draw carb...
The Whispers of a New World: Stepping into a different future with Tamsin Omond, activist and visionary
09 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
How can we shape our culture to be one where everyone thrives? How can we write our new stories where everyone is heroic? How can we connect to th...
Thrutopia Masterclass: Writing our Way to a Future we can be Proud to leave as our Legacy.
05 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
We live on stories. We thrive on visions of futures we want - or terrify ourselves with those we definitely don't. But when it comes to our own near...
Business Unusual: Can Business sweep us to a Regenerative Future? With Nathalie Nahai
02 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In a world where governments are failing on all levels, can regenerative business be the change we need to see in the world? Can the new wave of mea...
Earth Alchemy, Ceremonies and Soul Journeys with shamanic teacher Isla McLeod
26 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
What is the nature of being and belonging in the current world? How can we honour the rite of passage that is happening, and let go of the old ways, l...
The UnderTorah: Exploring an Earth-Based Kabbalah of Dreams with Rabbi Jill Hammer
19 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
How do we understand dreams in ways that make sense of 21st Century life? How can we interpret them in ways that have meaning for us as individuals,...
Communities of craft and purpose: building a future that works with Alice Holloway of the London Urban Textiles Commons
12 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
How can we find joy in life again? How can we create beautiful things to wear that allow us to be the best of ourselves - and build community while we...
Parenting in the Climate Emergency: Building a future we'd be proud to leave to our children - with Eva Bishop
05 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
How can we be the best possible stewards of the future for our children? How can we meet their eco-anxiety and teach them resilience, adaptation and...
Power to change the world - for good or really, really bad. With Richard Heinberg of the Post Carbon Institute
29 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
What is Power? How do we use it: both power over each other, and the power that fuels the world? How could we use it better? In this, our ninth se...
Three-Way Solstice PodBoom: The Hive, Upstream and Accidental Gods virtual solstice party
20 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
As we head down into the dark nights of the year, the quiet time of introspection, of assessing the year just gone and thinking forward to the one yet...
Winter Book Round up with Manda - Best of the Fiction, non-fiction - and podcasts - to share this season
15 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
What are the best, most readable, most inspiring and most give-able books this season? Manda's solstice list of her favourite Fiction and non-Fict...
Ministry for the Future: exploring the ways through that work with Kim Stanley Robinson
08 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
How can we get from the current edge-of-catastrophe to a world where we have addressed the huge issues of the climate and ecological emergency? Only...
Your money or our lives: Economics, Green New Deal and a post-COP world with James Meadway
01 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
How can we shape our economies in a post-COP, decarbonising world? How can we build a way of exchanging value that actually works in favour of our ...
Weaving the Web of Meaning: Building Eco-Civilisation with Jeremy Lent
24 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
How do we evolve the radical new sense of community, connectivity, mutual support - and resilience - that we need as we move into a world of climate b...
Transport for a flourishing Future: Zero deaths, Zero Emissions, Zero Carbon - with John Whitelegg.
17 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
As we lurch towards irreversible climate chaos, how can we begin to pull back from the edge? This week, we look specifically at the area of transpor...
New Myths for Humanity: With Alina Siegfried, author of 'A Future Untold'
10 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
If the stories of our culture are of separation, scarcity and powerlessness, how can we build new stories, new myths, new ideas of how we can be diffe...
Untangling the Entanglements of Activism with Anthea Lawson, activist, author and organiser
03 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Anthea Lawson is a campaigner who’s interested in the connections between our inner lives and the world we create together. In a world of such as...
COP26 and Beyond: Future strategies to keep us alive with Rupert Read
27 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
What is the bare minimum we need world leaders to agree at COP26 and what can we do if they fail? Rupert Read, academic philosopher, author and clim...
Be What you Love: total systemic change, one fractal conversation at a time: with Dr Anna Birney of Forum for the Future
20 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
If we are going to meet the challenges of the climate, ecological and cultural crisis, we're going to have to change the systems that surround us: Edu...
The Future is Farming - Part 2 of 2 with Ffinlo Costain
13 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
As we understand more of the climate and ecological emergency, it becomes increasingly clear that Regenerative Agriculture needs to be one of the main...
Regenerative Farming - the key to the Climate and Ecological emergency: with Ffinlo Costain - Part 1 of 2
13 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
How can we reduce atmospheric carbon dioxide, build living soil from the chaos of industrial farming, while growing healthy nutritious food and restor...
Towards a Progressive Future: politics and activism in the world of climate change with Jeremy Gilbert
06 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
How can we build a progressive political movement that spans the world and that will take us to where we need to be: a future we can be proud of and t...
Medicine Woman Speaks: Deena Metzger, elder, wisdom-keeper, poet and visionary brings 19 Ways to a Viable Future
29 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
How can we embrace our humanity and use it in service to the earth and all that lives? How can we bring the best of ourselves to the best of the Web...
Thresholds to Truth: Conversations on Climate Change with younger generations with Louis Weinstock
22 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In a world of uncertainty, transformation and potential catastrophe, how can we find our own truth and, from there, speak with authenticity to the chi...
Sounds like Magic: a journey into the wild magic of sound with Caro C
15 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
How can sound edge us closer to the centre of ourselves, bring us closer into connection with our own authenticity and with the heart of the earth? ...
Accidental Gods Podcast bookclub with writer and commentator, Ece Temelkuran
12 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Ece Temelkuran is an astonishingly astute, great-hearted writer. Joining us from Zagreb, she gave us an hour of wisdom, insight and compassion, based ...
Circles of Power: Urban Micro Anaerobic Digestion with Rokiah Yaman
08 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
How can we embed circular thinking in our food, energy, water & waste to benefit people and the planet? LEAP Micro Anaerobic Digestion is buildi...
Thresholds of Being: Connecting to the webs of land, life and death with Dr Sharon Blackie
01 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In a world where the only constant is change, how can we find the best of our wisdom? How can we find true connection to the spirits of the places w...
Power to the People: an Energy R-Evolution for the 21st Century with Howard Johns
25 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
How are we going to create the power that we need in a world where fossil fuel use has to end? How can we end the central control of power and keep ...
Beaver ReWilding: Gateway to Transformation - with Eva Bishop of the Beaver Trust
18 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
How can we begin to reverse the destruction of our countryside, the pollution of our rivers - and our disconnection from the Natural World? Beavers,...
Meeting the World unmasked - with Forrest Landry
11 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
When Forrest Landry was 16 years old, he took a vow to meet the Natural World openly, fully, without any projection or expectation on his part - he wa...
Climate Pilgrimages converging on COP26 with Bamber Hawes and Benjamin Christie.
04 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
COP26 takes place in Scotland in November. How can ordinary people persuade our elected Overlords that they need to change the system? Across the UK...
A Bridge to the Future: Walking the path between Wisdom and Despair with Matthew Taylor
28 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
What is it that makes us human? How can we bring the best of ourselves to the current crises – individually, and as a civilisation? In this episode,...
Active Hope: bringing resilience and reconnection to the world with Chris Johnstone and Madeleine Young
21 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
As our world hurtles towards tipping points, how can we be part of the solution? How can we find resilience, in ourselves, our lives and our communiti...
Being, Belonging, Beyond: Bringing the sacred to a turbulent world with Sue Philips of Sacred Design labs
14 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
As we hover on the edge of the Great Turning, how can we find a spiritual practice that draws from the roots of who we are and yet provides the susten...
The Mermaids had to happen! Reflections on G7 activism - and beyond with Sophie Miller
07 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In a world that is literally burning, with politicians whose positions of power are predicated on their not listening, what are the most creative, tho...
Fire at Sea: bringing activism - and mermaids! - to the G7 summit with Sophie Miller
30 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.' As our world bu...
How to Save the our Planet: the Facts - with Professor Mark Maslin
23 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
How did we get here? How bad are things really? Is there still hope? (Yes!) and... crucially - what can we do, individually, collectively, in our bu...
Behave More! Rebuilding Our World Differently with Alexandra Kurland
16 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Imagine a world where we listen to the voices of the young as much as the old, the women as much as the men, all races, all abilities, all income stre...
Behave! - Solving the existential crisis of our times, with Alexandra Kurland
09 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
If we have all the technical and scientific answers to solving the climate and ecological crisis - which we do - how do we bring the greater mass of h...
The Hijacking of our Common Law - and how to set it free: with Mothiur Rahman of the New Economy Law Center
02 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Does the law take care of you? Does it work in your interests, for a common sense of justice - a genuine common-weal? If not, why not? And what ...
Braver Angels: building trust, empathy and decency across the political chasm
26 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
How can be rebuild trust in politics, politicians and each other? How would it feel to be free of partisan divisions? Could we heal our world in tim...
River Dart Wild Church: Druid Christian Sam Wernham, founder of a land-based church explores the nature of wild contemplation.
19 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
How does it feel to stand at the balance point between ancient Christian mysticism and the Druid's path of deep connection with the natural world? W...
Why dignity matters more than nationalist pride with bestselling political columnist Ece Temelkuran
12 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Imagine a world where dignity is valued over nationalistic pride; where we know that 'enough' is the opposite of 'more'; where we understand the bonds...
ReWorlding: Co-Creating a Politics of Wholeness with Eva Schonveld and Justin Kenrick
05 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
How would the world flourish if our politics were based on trust? And how can we make that happen? Eva and Justin are co-creating the 'ReWorlding'...
Webs of Connection: Rebuilding soil, talking with bees and the magic of fungi with Navona Gallegos
28 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Regenerative Farming - or Agro-ecology - is being widely recognised as one of the best ways to mitigate the climate crisis. But how does it actually w...
Swimming in a New Sea: creating a different world of money with Jonathan Dawson of Schumacher College
21 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Imagine a world where money works differently. Where there's enough for everyone's needs, not their greed and where we work together for a life we all...
Wild Weeds/Living Foods: Katrina Blair of Turtle Lake Refuge on Wild Foraging, Plant Whispering and healing the earth
14 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
How can we bring vibrancy, life, diversity and connection back to the land? How would we be if we listened to all the wild plants of our land? Kat...
Honouring the Children: We bequeath them the Earth. What do they need from us in this time of transformation?
07 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
“No decision shall be made and no action taken unless it holds the good of the children of all beings, of this generation and seven hence, at its he...
Wild Law and Justice in action: Spiritual Activism with Mothiur Rahman, founder of New Economy Law
31 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Why does the law not protect us? Why does our government not strive every sinew to keep us safe at all levels? What would it look like if the law ...
ReWilding the Forests of Life: Alan Watson Featherstone, Trees for Life and moving forward
24 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
How does it feel to commit - completely, without reservation - to the flow of life? Where do we find the courage and resilience to take the first step...
Seeds of Change: Growing a different Future with Alan Watson Featherstone
17 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
What are we here for? What - exactly - is the purpose of life? Imagine a world where finding our life's purpose - and having the courage to follow i...
Parents for A Future: Creating a world we're proud to bequeath to future generations with Rupert Read
10 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Suppose we all made this year the one where we choose to make a difference? We could take a sabbatical and join in the actions around COP26. Or we c...
Meeting our needs, healing the earth: Donnie Maclurcan of the post growth institute
03 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Suppose we already have all the answers to the crises that assail us? Suppose countless people, companies, non-profit organisations and local commun...
Breaking the Austerity Myth: The system is broken - but we can mend it. With Richard Murphy
24 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Imagine a world where we didn’t always feel as if money was tight. Imagine an economy that works for the health and welfare of people and planet rat...
The Town that shaped its world: Pam Barrett on FlatPack/DIY Democracy and taking charge of politics
18 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
We all know national politics is in chaos. But local governance can be a place of enlivening, inspiring, radical change. Pam Barrett speaks of her w...
The Subtle Shaman: Chris Taylor, living our purpose and the Tao of R-evolution
10 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
How does it feel to know we're really living our purpose? What's the felt sense inside that tells us to keep going in a particular direction? Or to st...
Models of Mind: bringing emotional intelligence into the heart of governance with Rachel Lilley
03 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
How different would our world be if we understood how our minds - and feelings - worked? How would our workplaces change if everyone was doing their...
Everybody Now: A PodBoom on The Climate and Ecological Emergency
28 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Everybody NowClimate Emergency and Sacred Duty We’ve caused a turning point in the Earth’s natural history. Everybody Now is a podcast about wh...
Kindness, tribalism, faith, hope: exploring Christianity in the climate crisis with David Blower
27 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Kindness costs nothing and it enhances our lives and those around us. And yet our world is full of random acts of unkindness. How can we change this...
The Ocean is Alive: Ocean-shaman Glenn Edney speaks of the living waters of the Earth.
20 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
What if the Ocean were a living thing, in the way that the earth breathes as Gaia? The Maori say that if the Ocean is healthy, so, too, will the peopl...
Trust The People: Creating a politics that works
13 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
How would our world feel if our local, regional and national politics really listened to all the people, really brought together diverse views, and kn...