Lifeworlds

Soulfire Sessions III: Many Minds – with Kensy Cooperrider

Consciousness is one of the great running threads beneath every episode of this show: a loaded term, tangled up with questions of sentience and intelligence, and carrying

38. Mother Trees And Forest Resilience

This episode is a live interview with Dr. Suzanne Simard at the MOTH Festival of Ideas in London. Suzanne is the forest ecologist whose researched popularised notions of

Meditation | Deep Time

[Republished with better quality audio] This is a meditation I wrote and recorded to plunge us through epochs of cosmic time, through the tremendous evolutionary processe

37. Whale Lexicons: A Language of the Deep — with David Gruber and César Rodríguez-Garavito

What does it actually mean to translate a language that has never been written down or spoken in air, whose holders are ancient ocean denizens, and may not even carry con

36. Stingless Bees, Ancient Honey & the Amazon's Future – with Dr. Rosa Vasquez Espinosa

What if one of the most powerful tools for saving the Amazon rain-forest was a bee most people have never heard of? Enter the stingless bee – a 65 million year old resid

35. From Stardust To Sentience: Astrobiology & Life in the Cosmos – with Adam Frank

What is life, and are we alone in the universe? In this episode I sit down with Adam Frank, Professor of Astrophysics at the University of Rochester, prolific science co

34. Black Mountains College: Rethinking Education for Our Times - with Ben Rawlence

Today’s episode explores a simple but urgent question: is our education system still fit for the world we’re entering? Climate disruption, AI, and uncertainty demand new

Poetry | Fruitful Darkness with Rilke

This Lifeworlds episode is a devotional journey into the work of Rainer Maria Rilke, the lyrical German poet of thresholds and embracing transformations. Through reading

33. Empatheatre: Social Sculpture & Feeling Across Worlds - with Dylan McGarry

In this episode, we explore the role of theatre and empathy in transforming worldviews. Dr. Dylan McGarry is one of the founders of Empatheatre, a South African theatre-m

32. Depth Psychology and Soul Initiation – with Bill Plotkin from Animas Valley Institute

In this episode, I sit down with Bill Plotkin, founder of Animas Valley Institute. Over the past 40 years, Bill has developed intricate, nature-based models of human deve

31. Holistic Landscape Restoration and Inspirational Returns – with Willem Ferwerda from Commonland

Almost 40% of Earth’s land is degraded, meaning that the natural cycles that sustain biodiversity, water, food, and livelihoods are breaking down. This degradation is an

From Orbit to Intimacy | Beyond the Overview Effect

What if the next shift in planetary consciousness didn’t come from looking back at Earth from space, but from listening deeply to the voices already here? In this thought

30. Grief, Song and Ceremonies of Mourning - with Alexandra “ahlay” Blakey

Today we’re joined by artist, musician and communal grief ritual facilitator Alexandra “ahlay” Blakey to speak about the cultural forgetting of communal mourning, the sac

29. Carbon and the Grammar of Life - with Paul Hawken

In this episode we’re joined by the renowned environmentalist, activist and author Paul Hawken to explore the lifeworld of carbon and its role as a vital agent in the sto

28. Whale Dreaming & Ocean Songlines - with WHAIA

In this episode, we journey into the vibrational worlds of sound, ancestry, and deep listening with Whaia, a Ngāti Kahungunu woman of Māori descent and First Nations soni

Poetry | The World Thinks in Poetry

In a remote cabin in Vancouver Island in 2019, far away, I sat by the shore. I listened. I re-read poetry. I swam with jellyfish. I ate bright salmon berries and raw samp

27. The Ecology Of Health - with Dr. Mackenzie Hall

Where does your body end and the Earth begin? In this episode, we explore the real and poetic parallels between human health and planetary health, and how nature’s langua

Soulfire Sessions II: with David McConville

David McConville is a transdisciplinary artist and researcher who explores how technology shapes our perspectives of Earth—from local places to our cosmic context. Our co

From Your Host: Season’s Reflections and Q&A

In this episode, I share some reflections on Season 2, before diving into our first listener-guided Q&A! You’ll be hearing from fellow listeners who enquired on topics

26. Speculative Designs & Embodied Imaginations - with Superflux

What if you could inhabit the future? In this episode, we dive into the work of Superflux, the visionary design studio turning imagination into tangible worlds. From mult