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Accidental Gods - The Thrutopian Podcast

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Another World IS still Possible. The old system was never fit for purpose - and now it's collapsing around us. So how do we co-create a Thrutopian future that we'd all be proud to leave as our legacy? What stories can we weave of possibility? Of transformation? What happens if we commit to a world based on generative values: compassion, courage, integrity? What happens if we let go of the race for meaningless money and commit instead to the things that really matter: clean air, clean water, clean soil - and clean, clear, courageous connections between all parts of ourselves, between ourselves and each other, between ourselves and the Web of Life - so that we can reclaim our birthright as self-conscious nodes in the web of life? We can do this. Some of us already are. Every week on Accidental Gods we speak with the people who are living this world into being, courageous pathfinders who are exploring the emergent edge of inter-becoming. As a species, we have all the answers, we just haven't yet crafted all the new stories and woven them into a future that works. We have the choice now - we can choose to transform…or we can face the chaos of a failing system. Our Choice. Our Chance. Our Future. Accidental Gods is a podcast and membership program devoted to exploring the ways we can create a future that we would be proud to leave to the generations yet to come. Find the membership and the podcast pages here: https://accidentalgods.life Find Manda's Thrutopian novel, Any Human Power here: https://mandascott.co.uk Find Manda on BlueSky @mandascott.bsky.social On LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/mandascottauthor/ On FaceBook https://www.facebook.com/MandaScottAuthor

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From the Hostage Nation paper:  " The first and most fundamental duty of a civilised state is the safety of its people.  Not just safety from overseas adversaries, or c

Sep 30
1 h 17 min

How not to be a hostage to the vigilante Bond Markets: with Jamie Driscoll of Majority

What are the actual, practical shifts in our political economy that we could do tomorrow, that would not require extra legislation and could transform our society?  This

Sep 23
1 h 46 min

Autumn Equinox Meditation

Here is an Autumn Equinox Meditation to help set you up for the shift from the long days to the long nights. For those in the Southern Hemisphere, there's a Spring Equi

Sep 22
16 min

The Stewardship Freehold Village - an idea whose time has come - with Michael Taite

"When we build, we first remove the soil and replace it with rubble, concrete and tarmac. When we grow, we exclude all life from the land bar the one crop we want. Where

Sep 16
1 h 25 min

Making Glorious Trouble with Uffe Elbaek, activist, system builder and author of Doubt, Hope, Action

"I know that a good book can move its reader. Writing a book also moves the author. That is how it was for me anyway, not least when I wrote Doubt, Hope, Action. The writ

Sep 9
1 h 21 min

"We All Came By Boat!" - exploring Ireland & Britain’s ancient myths and the world’s future mythologies with Clare Murphy

What happens when the Fires in our Hearts become tsunamis of feeling that take us beyond the narrow imaginal cul de sacs our culture has created, and throw our doors wide

Sep 2
1 h 10 min

Love, Anger and Betrayal: Stories from the front line of Climate Action with Jonathon Porritt and Daniel Knorr

“Climate activists are sometimes depicted as dangerous radicals. But the truly dangerous radicals are the countries that are increasing the production of fossil fuels. In

Aug 26
1 h 05 min

Honouring the Web of Life - Thoughts from the Edge #5 with Manda Scott

In the midst of the polycrisis - or the meta crisis, depending on your point of view - what is the key to the inner change each of us can make that will help us shift our

Aug 19
35 min

Building Scaleable Trust - Of Identity, Commons and Governance with Grace Rachmany of Sideways Earth

"The ecological movement is the largest movement in human history, yet it is fragmented because it is using the "tools of the master" for coordination, resource sharing,

Aug 12
1 h 30 min

The Art of Possibility - A Possitopian approach to the Earth Crisis with Bridget McKenzie of Earth Talk

"The Possitopian approach to future thinking expands the cone of the possible future, draws on geophysical realities and data, and also applies imagination to help you im

Aug 5
1 h 08 min

Creditism: Building the Ledger of Life with Remzi Bajrami of the Common Planet Foundation

How do we make a peaceful transition to a wholly new system when the old one is sustained by those who profit most from the self-terminating zombie of predatory capitalis

Jul 29
1 h 37 min

We Need a Victory Story: Mobilising the Silent Majority with Liam Kavanagh of the Climate Majority Project

If you listen to this podcast then you care about people and planet and how we make it through this potential crunch point when all our crises mash together. But what i

Jul 22
1 h 36 min

We Need to Talk about Tech: Exploring AI, fresh Hope…and the power of Song with Nathalie Nahai

The future is already here – it's just not evenly distributed. William Gibson We need to talk about Big Tech, and particularly AI - it's ubiquitous, it's powerful, and

Jul 15
1 h 30 min

Grown Up Politics: 2. How can Andy Burnham deliver a future that works? With Rupert Read and Clive Lewis MP

  As we (and everyone else) predicted a whole month ago in episode #341, Andy Burnham won the Makerfield by-election for Labour and is going to be the next Prime Minister

Jul 12
1 h 11 min

Healthy People=Healthy Planet=Healthy Future with Dr Amanda d'Almeida of Medicine Explained

How do we create healthy people, intimately enmeshed in a healthy biosphere so that, together, we can co-create routes to a healthy future? Health is such an astonishing

Jul 8
1 h 21 min

Podcasters Unite! Thinking about systemic change with Tim Logan, Nathalie Nahai, Amit Paul, and Manda Scott

How do we think about systemic change? Specifically, how do four podcasters who spend their entire lives thinking about this think about systemic change - what it is and

Jul 5
1 h 00 min

Design for the Ineffable: Crafting a Flourishing world with Dr Jenna Mikus

How do we encourage human flourishing? How, in fact, do we make the thriving of all 8 billion humans and the More than Human World central to all that we are and do?  It'

Jul 1
1 h 06 min

The Art of the Sacred with Sylvie Barbier of Second Renaissance and Life Itself

"We are a collective of artists making art to bring forth the second renaissance. We are alchemists. We create a new world through our work. We are the bridge between t

Jun 24
1 h 11 min

Mothering the Future we'd be proud to leave behind - with author and activist Zineb Mouhyi

"I have come to believe something that sounds simple and is anything but: if Mothering were the axis around which we revolved, we would liberate the world. By Mothering I

Jun 17
1 h 14 min

Grown Up Politics: A Chance for Change - Round Table with Neal Lawson of Compass and Rupert Read of the Climate Majority Project

We're at a pivotal moment in world geopolitics. Increasingly the masks and the gloves are both off - but it's not a binary choice any more between two sets of suits in sl

Jun 10
59 min

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Manda is one of the brightest policy minds of our time. She tells the truth, even when it’s hard, and that is sorely lacking in the world right now. Her podcast is a must for anyone who wants to figure out how to get humanity to the best future that is still possible.

NatalieBradford · Mar 2026

I get so much from this podcast. Manda is exceptionally skilled in conversational interviewing. Combine that with her ability to select and bring on the best of the best guests, and I look forward to every show. As an American who has been witnessing the loss of our democracy and the effects of our president’s actions on other countries and, of course, on our precious planet, I appreciate the voices of non-Americans whose values are similar to mine and who have not been subjected to traumatic and constant gaslighting to the point where I question my own sanity. A big thank you for that. Mostly, I appreciate the space Manda provides for growth because of course there will be a future.

UberTrailseeker · Jan 2026

She is feeding me something I’m not getting anywhere else. My ears and soul are glued on whatever she’s emitting. I think it’s the brutal honesty about the emotional gravity of where we are, and still she is finding was to inspire me forward to participate more in life and wake up every day to really, truly try to be here at this time. What a gift.

ARahRah · Jan 2026

Feeling very much like an ordinary person and this podcast is like talking to my inner self or a good friend. Goosebumps and the comfort of being in company that understands. That's a key part of deeply-rooted systems-change. Thank you for mirroring my words back to me and letting me know so many of us are thinking the very same way, the same dream is dreaming itself through so many of us. My twiggy branches do not stand alone.

BrennaClare · Jan 2026

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