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#accidentalgods

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Eceni 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🌈

“Wellbeing is about wholeness, not happiness, and wholeness is so much more demanding than happiness.’

How do we find wholeness in a world gone mad? How do we embed new values in ourselves and our culture?

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#Accidentalgods #podcast w Dr Mark Fabian

ACCIDENTAL GODS · Wellbeing: It’s about wholeness, not happiness - with Dr Mark Fabian, author of Beyond HappyWe grow up thinking we want to be happy (or at least, not-sad). But happiness isn't enough. What we need is wellbeing, and as Dr Mark Fabian quotes in the dedication to his book, Beyond Happy, "Wellbeing is about wholeness, not happiness, and wholeness is so much more demanding than happiness.'
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Eceni 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🌈

Who are our elders and what can they teach us?

How do we learn to listen to our heart’s desire and shape the communities of place, passion and purpose that will allow us to emerge into a different culture?

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#Accidentalgods #Podcast
#Permaculture
#ParadigmShift

ACCIDENTAL GODS · A Longing for Belonging: Shifting the Cultural Paradigm with Looby Macnamara and Leona JohnsonWe are in the midst of the Great Derangement (thank you Amitav Ghosh) - so what tools will help us shape a system that is actually fit for purpose? Who are our elders and what can they teach us? How do we learn to listen to our heart's (and hearts') desire and shape the communities of place, passion and purpose that will allow us to emerge into a different culture?
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Eceni 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🌈

#Democracy is being destroyed, turning us into obedient subjects.

We are better than this.

How can we harness the astonishing wonder of human co-creation in service to a world where humanity thrives as part of a flourishing web of life?

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ACCIDENTAL GODS · Find the Others! Beyond the Death of Democracy lies Citizen Power - with Jon Alexander of the Citizen CollectiveDemocracy is breaking around us in real time and a small percentage of those in power would like us to become - at best - obedient subjects in a world dedicated to the destruction of ecosystems and the annihilation of compassion, empathy and all that makes use thrive. Clearly, we are better than this. So how can we harness the astonishing wonder of human co-creation in service to life and a world where humanity thrives as part of a flourishing web of life?
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Eceni 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🌈

We are living through the death of #democracy and the onset of #technofeudalism

How can we be part of a transformative process that will let us lay the foundations for a future we’d be proud to leave behind?

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#AccidentalGods #Podcast

#NeverGoingBack
#ForwardTogether

ACCIDENTAL GODS · Living through the Death of Democracy: Manda's thoughts on love, liberty and the continued existence of complex life on earthWe are living through the death of democracy and the onset of Techno-Feudalism. But this is not a time when linear systems can hold and feudalism was nothing if not linear. So how can we be part of a transformative process that will let us lay the foundations for a future we'd be proud to leave behind?
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Eceni 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🌈

What if 2024 was the year of Peak Polarisation?

What if we made 2025 the year when #democracy became a generative, #regenerative social technology?

How could we make this work?

@audreyt.org explains how on the #AccidentalGods #Podcast

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#NewYearNewWorld
#ChangeIsComing
#BeTheChange
#newyear2025

ACCIDENTAL GODS · Democracy Rising: Making 2025 the year we recover from Peak Polarisation with Audrey TangIs it possible that 2024 might be the year of 'Peak polarisation'? Audrey Tang certainly thinks so and in this wide-deep, mind-expanding conversation, we explore everything from the dual nature of AGI to the potential for liberational education that gives young people a sense of agency, interaction and the common good, to ways to rescue democracy to recipes for sound sleep.
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The amazing Helena Norberg-Hodge (@localfutures) is on this week’s #AccidentalGods podcast with Manda Scott (@Eceni) … I’m very much looking forward to this one. podverse.fm/episode/uWm7TWRVH

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PodverseBuilding an Economics of Happiness: How - and why - our Future must be Local with Helena Norberg Hodge of Local Futures - Accidental GodsHow do we build the local futures we all know we need?  What does it actually take to become a good enough ancestor? Or even the best ancestor we can be?  Our guest this week, Helena Norberg-Hodge, has given her life to exploring the answers, and helping birth them into being. Helena Norberg-Hodge is one of the Elders of our culture. She's a linguist, author and filmmaker, and the founder and director of the international non-profit group Local Futures, in which role, she has initiated localization movements on every continent, and has launched both the International Alliance for Localization (IAL) and World Localization Day (WLD). She's a pioneer of the new economy movement and recipient of the Alternative Nobel prize, the Arthur Morgan Award and the Goi Peace Prize for contributing to “the revitalization of cultural and biological diversity, and the strengthening of local communities and economies worldwide.” She is author of the inspirational classic Ancient Futures: Learning from Ladakh, and Local is Our Future (2019), and producer of the award-winning documentary The Economics of Happiness. Almost fifty years since her journey began in Ladakh, Helena is still collaborating with thought-leaders, activists and community groups across the globe which gives her a uniquely rounded insight into howour local futures could look and feel - and the routes to getting there. I've known Helena since I was at Schumacher college - I rented a room in her house for a while, so we know each other well and I was able to press her in ways I wouldn't normally feel able to do with a podcast guest, so we could drill down into the details of her ideas for a different way of being. At heart, we need to get rid of global trade and move back to a localist economy based in sufficiency. The devil is in the detail, obviously, but if we have an idea of where we're going, we stand more chance of getting there. So I hope this inspires you to action.  Please do follow up some of the links  - and definitely watch this new film: Closer to Home - the vision it offers of a generative, working local future is beautiful.  Helena's website https://www.helenanorberghodge.com/Local Futures https://localfutures.orgWorld Localisation Day https://worldlocalisationday.orgFilm: Closer to Home: Voices of Hope in a Time of Crisis (YouTube) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJBWvUEZ-50Helena's book Ancient Futures https://uk.bookshop.org/p/books/ancient-futures-learning-from-ladakh-helena-norberg-hodge-hodge/2771495?ean=9780712606561Book Local is our Future: Stepping into an Economics of Happiness https://uk.bookshop.org/p/books/local-is-our-future-steps-to-an-economics-of-happiness-helena-norberg-hodge/7409197?ean=9781732980402
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Simon Brooke

On @Eceni's #AccidentalGods podcast this week, someone (I think it was @Eceni herself) described #Starmer's cabal as 'Stalinist'. I don't think this is right, but I think it's pretty close. I think they're more Leninist.The unprincipled pursuit of power at any price, the ruthless factionalism, the bad-faith negotiation, the mean-spirited opportunism are all very Bolshevik.

Their enemies may fear them, but their friends should fear them more.

#GeneralElectionUK

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ACCIDENTAL GODS · Breaking the Doom-Loop of UK Politics with Neal Lawson of CompassOur first Election Special with Neal Lawson, director of the progressive campaign group, Compass, a long-time progressive campaigner and a tireless advocate for Proportional Representation as a vehicle for change. In this swift half hour, we look at the circumstances of this utterly unexpected election and at steps we can take between now and polling day with the aim of brining about what he calls a progressive 'Pitch Invasion' that will fundamentally upgrade and update the way we arrange our governance structures...
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Simon Brooke

@yogthos there was a very interesting moment in an interview last year by @Eceni in her #AccidentalGods podcast with a senior officer of the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, a charity mainly focussed on relieving poverty, in which the officer observed that the charity had its capital invested in #capitalist industry in order to spend the dividends on seeking to ameliorate the damage which the companies it invested in were doing.

I suspect a lot of charities are like that.

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Matt Guy

There's such a tendency to see humanity in a negative light, but this was a real 'humanity is amazing' moment. Great episode.

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Eceni@mastodon.scot - How will we manage our personal transport when our fossil fuel addiction ends-without ripping up the planet for rare earths for EVs?

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#AccidentalGods #podcast w
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mastodon.scotEceni 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🌈 (@Eceni@mastodon.scot)How will we manage our personal transport when our fossil fuel addiction ends-without ripping up the planet for rare earths for EVs? https://accidentalgods.life/cars-of-the-future-not-evs-transforming-transport-and-business-with-hugo-spowers-of-riversimple-movement/ #AccidentalGods #podcast w @HugoSpowers of @riversimple on future transport - & transforming business #WednesdayMorning
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Simon Brooke

@Eceni's #AccidentalGods is not a podcast I often feel I need to listen to twice, but this is an episode I certainly do. Sophia Parker of Joseph Rowntree Foundation. Listen through – there were bits of it that really didn't speak to me, but there's nuggets of important insight.

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Pocket CastsBuilding Lifeboats to the Emerging Futures with Sophia Parker of the Joseph Rowntree Foundation - Accidental GodsMy guest this week is someone who is both right at the edge of the emerging futures and in a position to exert leverage at some of the highest points of the scale at which change happens. Sophia Parker is the Emerging Futures Director at the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, a philanthropic organisation with a long history of progressive work, aiming for social and cultural equity.  It is still committed to the research that sheds new light onto the nature and scale of poverty and injustice in the UK. It is still advocating for change and supporting the people who are making it happen - but newly it is supporting those who are at the leading edge of paradigm shift, exploring all the myriad ways we could break out of late stage capitalism and towards that more flourishing future our hearts know is possible. And there are so many ways - one of the many things I took on board from this conversation was the number of people and organisations around the world who are working in and expanding the radical spaces we've
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Pauline von Hellermann

@bethsawin sadly no fruit or veg here yet but have been listening to an #AccidentalGods podcast on Nature Spirituality where @Eceni and Ursula Goodenough talked about whether you feel a two-way, reciprocal relationship with nature. I am perhaps not that spiritual myself but had just come in from hanging up laundry in garden and taking a few pictures and feeling deep #Gratitude for all the flowers - they are so giving, just being there

close up picture of Burnet bloodwort groeing in our garden: they look like dark red raspberries made of of petals, on thin long stems. Very beautiful
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Simon Brooke

@whitepineswhisper @breadandcircuses We don't have the materials. We don't have the (clean) energy to process the materials. Even recycling materials to create a circular economy costs more energy than we can generate cleanly, in the thousand-year term. And we don't have a thousand years to spare.

@Eceni's #AccidentalGods podcast was good on this, this week.

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ACCIDENTAL GODSDancing with the Muppets of Cutthroat Island: Transforming Industry to create a genuine Green Revolution with Dr Simon MichauxHow much actual stuff do we have in the world compared to what we need to make the 'Green Revolution' happen? And how do we adjust our lives so that we can create the infrastructure we'll need to take us to a post-carbon future?
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