We’ve spent a lot of time exploring the world around us, how it works, how it misleads us, how it often feels indifferent to our existence. We’ve looked at the many ways we try to survive within it. But we keep returning to something deeper: not just surviving, but creating a place for ourselves and living authentically within it. And that raises a difficult question; how do we actually come to belong?

In this episode, I explore the tension at the heart of belonging, the constant push and pull between ourselves and the world as we try to find our place within it. With the help of German author Hermann Hesse and his novel Steppenwolf, we examine what it means to seek belonging in a world we often fear… and sometimes feel rejected by.