Original post on mastodon.scot

Jeremy Lent's new book, Ecocivilization: Making a World That Works for All is out soon -so we got together to discuss what an Ecocivilisation is, why we need to become one, and how we might get there […]

Towards the Symbiocene: Building an Eco-Civilisation with thought-leader, Jeremy Lent Jeremy Lent is a long time friend of the podcast. His new book, 'Ecocivilization: Making a World That Works for All' is coming out at the end of April 2026 and so we got together to discuss what an Ec...

Jeremy Lent's new book, Ecocivilization: Making a World That Works for All is out soon -so we got together to discuss what an Ecocivilisation is, why we need to become one, and how we might get there.

accidentalgods.life/towards-the-...

#AccidentalGods #Podcast
#Ecocivilisation
#Ecocivilization

Original post on mastodon.scot

What are the stories we tell ourselves and each other about ourselves and each other and our place in the living web of life—and, crucially, how do we shape them in service to Life? […]

The Joy of Becoming Lost: Maps, Myths and Navigating the meta-crisis with Sam Crosby of Recalling Fire We are a storied species – we live and breathe and love and learn by the rich tapestry of stories that shape our lives. Everything we do from picking a career to moving house, from finding our life's ...

What are the stories we tell ourselves and each other about ourselves and each other and our place in the living web of life—and, crucially, how do we shape them in service to Life?

accidentalgods.life/the-joy-of-b...

#Accidentalgods #Podcast
#Mythology
#ThrutopianStories
#Thrutopia

Pull from the heart, don't push from the head: Spreading Stories that Work with Matt Golding of Antidote How do we create stories powerful enough, moving enough, inspiring enough - and grounded enough - to shift the trajectory of our culture onto a totally new pathway?

How do we create stories powerful enough, moving enough, inspiring enough - and grounded enough - to shift the trajectory of our culture onto a totally new pathway?

accidentalgods.life/pull-from-th...

#Accidentalgods #Podcast s
#NarrativeChange
#ThrutopianStories
#Thrutopia

Open Mind, Open Heart: Evolving the nature of Eldering with Alain Gauthier of the Regenerative Elder Process In a culture where age is, at best, ignored, how do we rebuild a cohort of genuine Elders fit for the rapid transitions of the 21st Century: those who can combine the wisdom of wide boundary perspecti...

In a culture where age is ignored, how do we rebuild a cohort of genuine #Elders who can combine wisdom, humility and flexibility of thinking, feeling and being?

accidentalgods.life/open-mind-op...

#AccidentalGods
#Podcast
#Eldering
#RegenerativeElderhood
#BeingElder

Call to Adventure! Crafting an Integral Altruism with Jonas Søvik What is Integral Altruism and how could it crowd-source the answers to our meta crisis? It's a while since I learned about 'reverse mentoring': a young person mentoring someone of an older generation...

What is #IntegralAltruism and could it crowd-source the answers to our meta crisis?

accidentalgods.life/call-to-adve...

#ThrutopianFutures
#AccidentalGods #Podcast

Call to Adventure! Crafting an Integral Altruism with Jonas Søvik What is Integral Altruism and how could it crowd-source the answers to our meta crisis? It's a while since I learned about 'reverse mentoring': a young person mentoring someone of an older generation...

Reverse Mentoring brought Audrey Tang into government.

Now, it brings me a whole lot of insight into flexible thinking and being and how we can craft a world fit to leave to future generations.

And I learned about Integral Altruism

accidentalgods.life/call-to-adve...

#AccidentalGods #Podcast

Honouring Fear as Your Mentor: Thoughts from the Edge with Manda Scott Manda dives deep into the nature of fear, what it is and how we might find our own resources, resilience and capacity to work with the parts that catch our attention. Given this, it is recommended tha...

Healing our personal, collective and inherited wounds is the work of this moment - and honouring Fear as our greatest Mentor is one key to seeing and working with the 'moments frozen in time' that Thomas Hübl talks of.

Solo #Podcast by Manda

accidentalgods.life/honouring-fe...

#Accidentalgods

Co-ordiNations vs the Network State: Greenland and the Schism in Global Vision with Dr Andrea Leiter What is a Network State and how does the concept matter in relation to the Trump administration's attempts to take Greenland - and their 'peace' proposals in Gaza and Ukraine?

from #AccidentalGods:

Clearly, the concept of a nation state as a geopolitical entity that claims legal monopoly on violence within certain borders is no longer fit for purpose.

So how might we build something better - that *isn't* Trump annexing Greenland?.

accidentalgods.life/co-ordinatio...

Co-ordiNations vs the Network State: Greenland and the Schism in Global Vision with Dr Andrea Leiter What is a Network State and how does the concept matter in relation to the Trump administration's attempts to take Greenland - and their 'peace' proposals in Gaza and Ukraine?

Clearly, the concept of a nation state as a geopolitical entity that claims legal monopoly on violence within certain borders is no longer fit for purpose.

So how might we build something better - that *isn't* Trump annexing Greenland?

accidentalgods.life/co-ordinatio...

#AccidentalGods #Podcast

#quotes #books #booksky #excerpts #citations #accidentalgods #subin #religion #gods #moctezuma #16thCentury #christianity #propaganda #emperor #spain #mexico #aztec

Tracking the Wild Things, Inside and Out - with Jon Young of Living Connection 1st How can we step into our birthright as fully conscious nodes in the Web of Life, offering the astonishing creativity of humanity in service to life? Our guest this week helps people do just this...

How do we in the WEIRD cultures that are destroying the ecosphere, find our way back to meaningful relationships with the rest of the Web of Life?

Jon Young was mentored from the age of 10 and now, 53 years later, shares his wisdom.

accidentalgods.life/tracking-the...

#AccidentalGods #Podcast

Water, Water Everywhere and none of it fit to drink! With Claire Kirby of Up Sewage Creek - ahead of World Water Day Today, we're talking about water, that utterly essential part of our biological and spiritual lives.  It should be clean. It should be safe to drink, to swim in, for us and all the species with whom w...

#CleanWater is a basic right of life.

And water activism is one of those precious things that unites people across all the other toxic cultural divides.

So what are we doing and why and how?

accidentalgods.life/water-water-...

#AccidentalGods #Podcast w Claire Kirby of Up Sewage Creek

#quotes #books #booksky #excerpts #citations #accidentalgods #subin #religion #gods #eisenhower #usa #churchandstate #faith #belief #government #president

Kindling Quiet Romance: Reimagining the Law for Nature with Brontie Ansell of Lawyers for Nature In the midst of collapse, it can be hard to imagine extending the franchise of legal rights and sovereignties to the More than Human world.  And yet, if we're to transcend this moment, it must be beca...

In the midst of collapse, as we watch our governments lay waste to our social agreements, it can be hard to imagine extending the franchise of legal rights and sovereignties to the More than Human world.

And yet we must - so here's how.

accidentalgods.life/kindling-qui...

#AccidentalGods
#Podcast

Healing our Fractured World: Re-Awakening Indigenous Consciousness with Marc-John Brown of the Native Wisdom Hub As the old paradigm splinters into rage-filled, grief-stricken fragments, how can we lay the foundation for the total systemic change we so badly need? Even beyond the listeners to this podcast, it is...

As the old paradigm splinters into rage-filled, grief-stricken fragments, how can we lay the foundation for the total systemic change we so badly need?

accidentalgods.life/healing-our-...

#Accidentalgods #Podcast
#Elderwisdom
#IndigenousWisdom

Laws of Nature, Laws with Nature: Nature on Board with Alexandra Pimor of the Earth Law Center Across the world, our legal systems are crumbling, the rule of sane law dismantled in real time. Yet at the same time, rivers, mountains, bees are being granted legal rights in ways that would have be...

How do we shift business from extractive/destructive to *actually* working as if we were all integral to the Web of Life - and our joy, our duty, our meaning and purpose were its flourishing?

accidentalgods.life/laws-of-natu...

#Accidentalgods #Podcast
#NatureontheBoard
#LawyersforNature

What ought we be? Hope, despair and the resilience of life with Professor David Farrier We live in an ever-changing world, but it is not always obvious what kinds of evolutionary change we are seeing in the broader web of life: in physiology, behaviour, language - and human responses to ...

We live in an ever-changing world, but how thin is the ice on which we are skating? And how can we change the ways we do things so we don’t fall into the void of extinction.

accidentalgods.life/what-ought-w

#AccidentalGods #Podcast with that utterly inspiring @david-farrier.bsky.social

What ought we be? Hope, despair and the resilience of life with Professor David Farrier We live in an ever-changing world, but it is not always obvious what kinds of evolutionary change we are seeing in the broader web of life: in physiology, behaviour, language - and human responses to ...

We live in an ever-changing world, but how thin is the ice on which we are skating? And how can we change the ways we do things so we don’t fall into the void of extinction.

accidentalgods.life/what-ought-w...

#AccidentalGods
#Podcast

Seeing Round Corners: Upgrading Democracy with Suzette Masters and Dr John Izzo If we ever had a genuine democracy (and I would argue we never have) then it is clearly disintegrating now, along with the entire system with which it was entwined.  Everyone agrees we need something ...

If we ever had a #democracy (and I would argue it was only ever a kleptocracy), it has clearly gone from the Western World.

Urgently, we need new ways of bringing Power to those with Wisdom

Let's explore

accidentalgods.life/seeing-round...

#AccidentalGods
#Podcast
#ShapingDemocracy

Thoughts from the Edge: Navigating the turbulent seas of the incoming year with grace and courage In this solo episode, Manda Scott reflects on the year just gone and looks ahead to the one that's coming and lays out ideas for how we can be the change we need to see in the world. Join us for New Y...

Well…2025 was the year the masks came off the old system.

As we step into 2026, how do we bring Power to those with Wisdom and craft a system that will see us through?

accidentalgods.life/thoughts-fro...

#ThrutopianFutures
#Accidentalgods #Podcast
#Thrutopia2026
#NewYear2026
#NewYearsEve

Scary indeed. But we already knew we live in scary times. Your work with #AccidentalGods and your thrutopian writing makes it less scary though 😊

My mother-in-law got Wild Folk for Xmas and she loved it. Now she's also been introduced to this episode of #AccidentalGods, so double present!
Happy Winter Solstice 😊

Change is Coming! Solstice Reflections with Della Duncan, Nathalie Nahai and Manda Scott At the end of a turbulent year that has seen the masks come off the death cult in ways that were probably predictable, but still shocking, we reconvene our December Solstice Traditional conversation. ...

At the end of a year that has seen the masks come off the death cult at spectacular speed, Della Duncan, @nathalienahai.bsky.social and I reconvene our December #Solstice Traditional conversation.

accidentalgods.life/change-is-co...

#Solstice2025
#Podcast
#Accidentalgods

December Solstice meditation - suitable northern and southern hemispheres Here's our December Solstice Meditation for 2025 - please find a place and time where you can relax, take space for yourself, and build the connections to the web of life that will carry us forward.

A meditation for this most transformational December solstice to help you connect to the web of life that is the foundation of all that we are and have been and will be.

Enjoy!

accidentalgods.life/december-sol

#DecemberSolstice
#CapricornSolstice
#WinterSolstice2025

#AccidentalGods #Podcast

Wild new stories: Weaving New Myths for a New Way of Being with Ally Kingston of Agency for Nature How do we create the stories that will bring a whole new generation back to the web of life, that will help people find hope again, and lean into their heart's yearning for connection, relationship, b...

How do we create the stories that will bring a whole new generation back to the web of life, that will help people find hope again, and lean into their heart’s yearning for connection, relationship, being and belonging?

accidentalgods.life/wild-new-sto...

#AccidentalGods
#Podcast
#Thrutopia

Word Magic 2025 - Accidental Gods' pick of fiction, non-fiction, poetry and podcasts through the year Mandas' pick of fiction, non-fiction, poetry and podcasts through the year...

Because traditions matter - even if they're only 6 years old - here's my round-up of books, poetry, podcasts—and one magazine—that have maximally impacted my year (not including those on the podcast)

accidentalgods.life/word-magic-2...

#Accidentalgods
#Podcast
#BooksofBlueSky
#WritersofBlueSky

Barefoot Economics in a world of Hobnailed Boots with storyteller Inze Aponte If we are to build systems that meet our real needs we have to first understand what those needs are and start growing the stuff that will allow us to thrive: good food from healthy soils, safe and su...

How would an #economy function if it was *actually* oriented to the flourishing of people and planet, regardless of the profits, rather than the death cult that aims for profit regardless of the impact on people and planet?

accidentalgods.life/barefoot-eco...

#AccidentalGods
#Podcast
#Economics

Me pregunto si Muñoz Molina ha leído el libro de Leigh Ann Henion "Night Magic: Adventures Among Glowworms, Moon Gardens, and Other Marvels of the Dark". @mandascott.bsky.social la entrevista en su maravilloso podcast #AccidentalGods, por si os interesa saber más del tema:

bsky.app/profile/baja...