Accidental Gods
Episodes
Four arrows flying: Alnoor Ladha, activist and visionary on changing the stories we tell ourselves.
06 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
What if we could see the nature of the stories that drive us, how would we be? Would we be able to change them? And what would we want in their pl...
Building Soil: Healing the Earth: Feeding Humanity - Regenerative Farming with Navona Gallegos
30 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
What if we had a way to draw carbon out of the air, heal our ecosystems and feed the world? We do: It's called Regenerative Agriculture and the unde...
All the Best of 2020: Books and Podcasts that will lift you into the new year - and beyond.
23 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
An end-of-year round up of the best fiction and non-fiction books - and podcasts - of 2020. All are my opinion and this is only a tiny selection of ...
Birthday/Solstice Celebration: a new Anniversary tradition, with Della Duncan and Nathalie Nahai
21 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
It's our Birthday... and it's the December Solstice, the time of transition and potential transformation . In honour of which, we are crafting a new...
Living to Learn: transforming education with Rachel Musson of ThoughtBox
16 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
How can we make learning a genuinely transformational experience? One that's fun, and inspiring and that teaches us HOW to think, not WHAT to think? R...
The Best of Times, The Worst of Times: Responding to Climate Change with Dr Paul Behrens
09 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
How bad are things really? Is it too late to avert the climate and ecological catastrophe? And if not, how do we pull ourselves back from the brink? E...
Breaking the Rules to save the world: How to be More Pirate, with Alex Barker
02 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
How can we take the radical, renegade, rule-breaking, revolutionary ideals of the golden age of Pirates and transmute them to gold in our world? Alex ...
Spiritual Activism, Raw Courage and Being the Change: Sophie Miller of the Red Rebel Brigade
25 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In the midst of nonviolent direct action, is a red thread, holding the liminal space between the old and the new, between action and re-action, betwee...
Codes for a Healthy Earth: New rules for a flourishing world with Shelley Ostroff
18 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Greta Thunberg says that ‘We cannot save the planet by playing by the rules, so the rules have to be changed’. This is self-evidently true, but ...
Adapting Business:Transforming our systems, careers -and the landscape of business with Mike Raven of AQai
11 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
How do we shift the narratives of business so that it becomes part of the solution, not the core of the problem? Mike Raven of AQAI explores the ways ...
City Repair: Planet Repair: Human Repair. Mark Lakeman on building regenerative cities to heal ourselves and the world.
04 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
How can we rebuild our cities to become place of community, connection and coherence? How can we build multi-generational tribes that thrive and suppo...
The Path of the Trembling Warrior: Gill Coombs on activism, courage and resilience
28 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Gill Coombs is a writer, coach, and facilitator. Her approach is rooted in her own long, colourful journey towards fulfilling work. In 2010, Gill le...
Trauma, Politics and Empathy: re-democratising democracy with Eva Schonveld and Justin Kenrick
21 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
How do we re-democratise democracy? Understanding that our current system is broken is the first step, but then we need to find ways to gather voice...
Dreaming a flourishing future: Rob Hopkins on radical creativity, activism and re-booting our imaginations
14 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
If Climate Change is a failure of the imagination and this is a time when we need to be at our most imaginative, how can we change the trajectory of o...
Grief Walker and Fire Keeper: Medicine woman Fiona Shaw speaks of Trust, Grief and Emotional Authenticity
07 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
If we gather in ceremony, sitting on the land, with a fire-keeper who understands the holding and has trained in the ways of the fire, there is so muc...
The Doughnut Economics Action Lab explained by Rob Shorter
30 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
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. ...
Hero, Sleepwalker or Manipulator? Our Choice in the Game of Life with Gill Coombs
23 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
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, Avoi...
Communities of Earth Protection: embracing the law with Jozette Khimba
16 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Fractal Flourishing in the Symbiocene: Building an Ecological Civilisation with Jeremy Lent
09 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
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 com...
Hearing our Calling - exploring the world of our soul’s true calling with Gill Coombs
02 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Daring to be Wild: Mary Reynolds of 'We Are The Ark' on reWilding our lands and lives
26 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
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. ...
Four steps to transformation - Manda Scott in a podcast Q&A
19 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
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’...
Growing into Relationship with the Earth: Mac Macartney, visionary, leader and teacher offers transformation
12 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
If you could transform your life with three questions whose answers would bring you into right relationship with yourself, the Earth and the whole web...
Feeling for the Edges of Ourselves - talking empowerment, neuroscience and societal change with Adam Hamdy
05 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
What links the neuroscience of love, the embracing of failure and the pheromones of trees? Adam Hamdy, novelist, screenwriter and sense-maker in an ...
ReBirthing Civilisation: a Pattern for a new governance with Benjamin Ross of One Nation
29 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
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 th...
ReBirthing Civilisation - Part 2: Elder Councils and the United Peoples' Coalition with Benjamin Ross
29 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
How can we reWeave the political governance, not just of individual nations, but of the world? In Part 2 of our conversation, Benjamin Ross outlines...
What Humanity Wants - Moral Imagination & a new kind of change with Phoebe Tickell
22 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
How can we embody the change we need to see in the world? How can we find the new ways of being before we even have words to describe them? What i...
Imagineering 2: Weaving a flourishing future with Miki Kashtan
15 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this second of two episodes, practical visionary, Miki Kashtan, lays out her visions of a flourishing, generative future based on providing for the...
Imagineering: ReWeaving the Human Fabric with Miki Kashtan - Part 1
08 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
How can we reweave the fabric of humanity to create a world where everyone's deepest needs are met? How do we even know what our deepest needs are - f...
Fierce Tenderness and White Horse Hill Woman: the teachings of Carolyn Hillyer
01 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Musician, artist, maker-of-ceremony and guardian of the ancestors of the land, Carolyn Hillyer talks - and sings - about the three things that take ca...
No More Rat Race. Creating a world without bullshit jobs - with renegade economist, Della Duncan
24 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
What if our work made our hearts sing every day? What if everyone were paid what they were actually worth? What if the profits went into the community...
No More Business as Usual: A second interview with Rupert Read of XR
17 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Business as usual has brought us to the edge of extinction. Can we switch off our complacency and turn towards life in time? Raw, honest thoughts ...
Nurturing our bodies and souls: Talking to Abel Pearson of Glasbren
10 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
How can we feed our bodies and our souls? Abel Pearson, founder of Glasbren community supported agriculture farm in West Wales shared his connecti...
Humanity Rising: the global summit that will change the future
03 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
When we can't meet in person, how can we build connection? A second conversation with Sarah Schlote
27 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Activism in Service to the Earth: A conversation with Gail Bradbrook of Extinction Rebellion
20 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
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...
How do our deepest selves find balance? Part 1 of a conversation with Sarah Schlote
13 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
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 safe...
Death, Dead and Dying - ways of navigating our own mortality: an interview with Dr Judith Wester
06 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
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 i...
Lockdown: A moment of death and rebirth - A conversation with Angharad Wynne
29 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
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 co...
Explorations of Being: a Conversation with Nathalie Nahai
22 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
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...
What If....? A journey through time and place
22 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Conscious Evolution: The time is now. A conversation with Rob Cobbold
15 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Rob Cobbold is founding editor of consciousevolution.co.uk. He's a critical thinker, a program manager for the Green Schools partnership and is studyi...
Shaman: A conversation with visionary and healer Chris Luttichau
08 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Visionary, healer and author of two books on ancient indigenous and contemporary shamanic practice, Chris Luttichau is a beacon of grounded integrity ...
Movement Medicine in the time of Corona Virus. A conversation with Ya'acov Darling Khan
01 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
As our world turns over, we turn to the new-old ways to discover how we could do things differently. In this raw, deep, honest conversation with shama...
Inner Resilience: finding clarity, courage and connection in a time of Corona Virus
25 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The world is not as it was. Every one of us is touched by this. We are a global community now, striving to find sovereignty, balance - and a way forwa...
Finding stillness, Finding wholeness: Sharing enquiry with Daniel Thorson of Emerge
18 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Daniel Thorson, host of the ground-breaking, innovative - and hugely courageous - Emerge podcast is a Buddhist monastic, activist and meta-modern th...
Dreams of Divinity: Rabbi Jill Hammer on mysticism and the meaning of life
11 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Rabbi Jill Hammer is committed to an earth based and a wildly mythic view of the world in which nature, ritual and story connect us to the body of the...
This Civilisation is Finished: a conversation with Rupert Read
04 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
If, as philosopher, Green party activist, University Professor and XR activist, Rupert Read is right, our civilisation is finished. We'll either col...
Healing Our Selves and the World: an Interview with Della Duncan
26 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
If we can open our eyes and look in the mirror of the world, we can open ourselves to the InterBeing that allows Active Hope as we face the chaos of...
Feelings: How to shape the ones we want
19 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
For most of us, falling in love with the absolute wonder of being alive is a distant dream. Nonetheless, changing how we feel is the goal of most se...
Emerging from Complexity: how we become the change we need to see with Manda Scott
12 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Emergence from Complex Systems is a thing. And the thing about it is, that there are only two options when a system reaches maximal complexity: coll...
Hacking our Habits:Letting go of the old stuff, to make way for something new
05 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
What would our lives look like if we knew how to become the best of ourselves? If we could hack our way into a sense of authenticity that allowed us...
Changing our Minds: Mind hacks to shape our habits with Manda Scott
29 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Why are some habits easy to form (immoral, illegal or bad for your health, as my dad used to say) - but the ones we actually want, are far harder to...
The Route to Heart Coherence with Manda Scott (part 3)
22 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
How do you create heart coherence and inner resilience? This episode of the podcast explores the ways we can balance head-mind and heart-mind to cre...
Growing into Coherence: How to build focus & intent with Manda Scott (part 2)
15 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we look more closely at HOW to grow into coherence.There are four obvious types of meditation, mindfulness, contemplation – whateve...
Growing into Coherence: What it means and why we need to do it with Manda Scott
08 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Of the four steps to conscious evolution and the paradigm shift that we need, this is the one that most people have explored at some point. This is t...
(Re) Awakening into Connection with the Web of Life
01 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Re-Awakening into Connection is the core of what Accidental Gods is about – the return of our heritage, our birthright, our ability to live in conte...
Conscious Evolution: ReWilding Humanity's Soul
24 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Conscious evolution could be our next evolutionary step - a radical shift in what it means to be human. In this episode we outline the steps that we b...