Paul Powlesland on Nature Rights, Nature Guardianship and System Change - E202
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Release Date: 01/25/2024
Jaiya John on Rest, Intimacy and Liberation // A Balm for the Tender Soul - E226
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What is the true cost of our numbness, and how can we alchemize it into deep, loving intimacy? This conversation with Dr. Jaiya John is a balm, for tender times, tender hearts - a remembrance of how to touch tenderly, inwardly and outwardly. Dr. Jaiya John, born as an orphan on the sacred lands of the Ancient Puebloans in New Mexico's high desert, walks the world as a freedom worker, poet, author, teacher, and speaker, revered across continents. In this tender episode, Amisha and Dr. Jaiya weave a story of human connection—layered with vulnerability, healing, and the...
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TIMELESS //'How to Reimagine Power and Presence in Search of the Sacred' with Sophie Strand and Bayo Akomolafe
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In this TIMELESS episode we hear from Sophie Strand and Bayo Akomolafe. Together, we explore how the sacred is less about certainty and mastery and more about dwelling in the unknown, the disruptive, and the in-between. As we open ourselves to this journey, we consider how unlearning and openness might guide us toward a deeper, more grounded sense of the sacred—one that emerges in moments of humility, fragility, and genuine encounter. “And I was thinking that, at least in my own situated experience, my ...
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Manda Scott on Thrutopia, Vision and Human Power // Writing A New Story - E224
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How do we emerge into a new future from here? In this week’s conversation with award-winning novelist, smallholder, contemporary shamanic trainer and host of the international chart-topping Accidental Gods podcast Manda Scott, we explore the edges of shaping the future of our wildest dreams. ‘The not knowing is what allows the space for the web of life to send the knowing in.’ and it is this not knowing that gives us room to dream, rise and change this system. ‘It's not predictable. If we can...
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TIMELESS // 'How to Move Beyond Propaganda and Embrace True Transformation' with Patrisse Cullors
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In this week’s TIMELESS episode, Patrisse Cullors highlights the urgent call for a softer, more connected world where care is the base of everything we do. As an Artist and Abolitionist, born and raised in Los Angeles and being on the frontline of abolitionist organising for 22 years, Patrisse offers us a powerful vision for how we can cultivate healing through active, compassionate engagement in our communities and how we can move beyond propaganda and embrace true transformation. “Our work is to show up and reshape this place.” Patrisse Cullors This is from our archives,...
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Tending to the hearth in a world ablaze // the language of ritual, energy and intuition with Amisha Tala Oak - E222
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This episode is a very special one. A pure and raw sharing by the fire behind ‘All that we are’, Amisha Tala Oak. A sacred ritual, a ceremony where she lets her heart speak and where words come from a very deep place inside of her. This episode called ‘Tending to the hearth in a world ablaze // the language of ritual, ceremony and intuition’ takes us on a journey. It’s a remembrance to listen to our heart and inner fire while not losing courage and hope amidst the chaos. "We must create beauty in the mess." Amisha Tala Oak Links from this episode...
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TIMELESS // 'How Listening To The Earth Leads to Inner and Outer Peace' with Tiokasin Ghosthorse - E221
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In this TIMELESS episode, we hear from Tiokasin Ghosthorse, Nobel Prize nominated international speaker on Peace, Indigenous and Mother Earth perspective. He is member of the Cheyenne River Lakota Nation of South Dakota, with a long history in Indigenous activism as well as a master musician. He shares a lifechanging perspective on how we can understand the language of the earth and how she speaks and listens to us. We discover how learning to listen to earth leads us to true inner and outer peace. "The earth is listening to us first and if we do not...
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Darren Le Baron on Psychedelics, Community and Gardening // Mushroom and Mycelium: Nature’s Network - E220
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What if we are mushrooms having a human experience? In this conversation called ‘Mushrooms and Mycelium: Nature's Network’, Amisha Tala Oak meets Darren le Baron, an educator specialising in mycology and psychedelic research based in the UK and the Caribbean. Known around the world for his Shroomshop Master classes and mushroom educational programs, he is a keen cultivator and teacher who is passionate about sharing his research and findings on ethnomycology, ancient African plant medicines and their various applications. Together we explore: :: How understanding...
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TIMELESS // ‘How grieving and healing opens up life’s pleasures ’ with adrienne maree brown - E219
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Welcome to our new fortnightly offering - TIMELESS. Drawing on her wellspring of experiences as a writer, activist, and Black feminist, adrienne maree brown shares some timeless wisdom that teaches us about rituals of grief and spiritual healing that can bring us closer to our free and pleasurable futures. She sparks ideas around the construct of linear and layered time, opening up possibilities for spiritual shifts and healing across timeless. “Grief is a way that we ritualise and honour what we love and stay in a relationship with...
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Where Generosity Meets Imagination with Amisha Tala Oak and Annegret Affolderbach - E218
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Is intuition the key to flourishing a better culture? In this special episode Amisha Tala Oak and Annegret Affolderbach celebrate the end of a chapter of co-creation of this podcast as Annegret is leaving to pursue new creative paths and 'all that we are' takes fresh directions. They share how they have witnessed each others creative growth for the past 15 years and how they have shaped lives, nurtured new cultures and communities guided by their visions and intuition. We explore :: creative and artistic practices attuned with visions, intuition and generosity :: transformative cultural change...
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We Are Change with Ebyän Zanini, Jimena Paratcha, Darren Le Baron and Nathaniel Dunn - E217
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How can we become catalysts for change? In this special episode entitled ‘The Butterfly Effect’ Amisha gathers with Ebyän Zanini, Jimena Paratcha, Darren Le Baron and Nathaniel Dunn during Noisily Festival to share insights and ideas around the theme ‘We Are Change’. We explore :: duality as a form of balance for change :: interconnectedness and unity with each other and the more-than-human-world :: rites of passages :: plant allies and the power of psychedelics :: forming intentions for change Links from this episode and more at
info_outlineHow do we align the law and ourselves with nature to enrich life?
In this episode entitled Future Source Code Amisha talks with Paul Powlesland, a barrister and lawyer for nature who acts to protect trees and rivers in the courts and speaks for the Rights of Nature. He is a founder of Lawyers for Nature, which aims to transform the relationship between law, lawyers and nature, introducing nature’s voice into our legal and economic systems. Paul lives on a boat on the River Roding in East London, and set up the River Roding Trust, through which he carries out hands-on restoration, guardianship and protection of the river.
We explore
:: Nature guardianship, activism and the challenges of caring for our land and rivers
:: Future Source Code for ‘Nature Rights’ reflecting a relationship of protection and care between humans and nature in our legal systems
:: an ecosystem of interventions that changes the relationship between humans and nature across our legal, social, economic and religious spiritual systems
:: Ecocide
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