Eros & Earth with Megan Lambert

What if the most dangerous thing about a cult isn’t that everything inside it is false, but that some of it actually changes your life?

If you've been searching for “what happened inside OneTaste,” “how cult brainwashing works,” or “how personal growth becomes manipulation,” this one's for you.

You'll learn:

• Why OneTaste felt so alive, intimate, and transformative to two 23-year-olds searching for freedom, connection, and something more than conventional life
• How real skills like empathy, intuition, emotional openness, and surrender can become tools of control when one person or organization gets to define what those qualities mean
• Why leaving a high-control group requires more than physically walking away, especially when the group has shaped your relationships, identity, desires, and sense of reality

Megan sits down with Ruwan Meepagala, author of ORGSM A Memoir, for an honest conversation about their shared experience inside OneTaste.

Both Megan and Ruwan entered the organization at 23, following breakups and a deep sense that ordinary life felt painfully limited. Inside OneTaste, they found a world that felt vivid, intimate, emotionally charged, and radically different from the lives they had known before.

Together, they explore why the truth about OneTaste cannot be reduced to a simple story of villains and victims. They discuss how healing and harm can happen in the same community, how genuine transformation can make manipulation harder to recognize, and how social belonging was offered or withdrawn depending on a person’s willingness to comply.

Ruwan also shares what it was like to experience OneTaste as a man inside what he calls a “matriarchal cult,” why the organization’s language around feminine surrender could conceal a deeply controlling hierarchy, and how he eventually had to reclaim the autonomy and masculinity he had been taught to distrust.

The conversation also moves beyond OneTaste into a larger question about the world we live in now. How much of reality is shaped by the people around us? How easily can an online echo chamber, political ideology, spiritual community, or AI system reinforce a worldview until it feels unquestionably true?

📲 @megandlambert 

🌐 www.megandlambert.com 

💌 https://megandlambert.as.me/discovery-call

🔗 Resources mentioned:

• ORGSM, A Memoir: Inside the Matriarchal Cult of OneTaste by Ruwan Meepagala
• Ruwan Meepagala: Writer, coach, and host of the Ruwando Podcast
• OneTaste
• Orgasmic Meditation (OM)
• Nicole Daedone
• Om Rupani
• International Cultic Studies Association
• Carl Jung
• Anima - Ruwan’s forthcoming book on the feminine side of the unconscious
• Mama Gena / Regena Thomashauer
• Bloomberg’s reporting on OneTaste
• Orgasm Inc. - Netflix documentary about OneTaste

#OneTaste #RuwanMeepagala #ORGSMAMemoir #CultPsychology #Brainwashing #CultRecovery #HighControlGroups #OrgasmicMeditation #PowerDynamics #PersonalDevelopment #SpiritualManipulation #CoerciveControl #HumanConnection #Empathy #Intuition #MasculineFeminine #FeminineEmbodiment #GroupPsychology #RealityPerception #SelfTrust #LeavingACult #SexualWellness #ConsciousRelationships #ErosAndEarth #CultAwareness

What if rewilding land isn't just an environmental strategy — it's actually one of the most powerful ways we have to move through grief, restore abundance, and remember we're not alone in this world?

If you've been searching for "how to heal from grief naturally" or "what is rewilding," this one's for you.

You'll learn:

• How Ben turned the unbearable loss of his daughter into a literal act of land restoration — and why nature became his refuge in the darkest grief
• What real abundance looks like when natural processes are simply allowed to unfold (beavers, wildflowers, an 800% rise in songbirds)
• How rewilding is becoming a real economic asset class — from natural flood management to carbon and biodiversity markets — and what that means for the future of land, money, and meaning

In this episode of Eros & Earth, Megan sits down with Ben Goldsmith — financier turned rewilding advocate — to explore the deep link between grief, healing, and ecological restoration. Ben shares the story of rewilding his 3,500-acre Somerset farm after the devastating loss of his teenage daughter, Iris, and how nature became both refuge and purpose in his darkest season. 

The conversation moves from the emotional and spiritual pull of nature connection into the practical and economic case for rewilding — natural flood management, biodiversity markets, and how everyday people can get involved, whether or not they own land. If you're navigating grief, searching for a more hopeful environmental story, or curious how regenerative land use can become financially viable, this episode offers both heart and a tangible path forward.

📲 @megandlambert 🌐 www.megandlambert.com 💌 https://megandlambert.as.me/discovery-call

Resources & Mentions:

• Ben Goldsmith's podcast: Rewilding the World
• Cannwood Farm, South Somerset
• Somerset Wildlife Trust / Somerset Wildlands / Wiltshire Wildlife Trust
• The Altyn Dala ("Golden Steppe") restoration project, Kazakhstan (2024 Earthshot Prize winner)
• Ecosystem Investment Partners (US-based nature restoration investment firm)
• Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework ("30 by 30")
• Movement: Nature is Nonpartisan (US)

#rewilding #ArrowsInEarth #BenGoldsmith #regenerativeland #naturerestoration #griefandhealing #naturetherapy #rewildingtheearth #landstewardship #biodiversity #naturalflo­odmanagement #beaverrestoration #regenerativeeconomy #soulfulliving #naturalworld #ecologicalrestoration #childlossgrief #healingthroughnature #climateoptimism #conservationfinance #wildlandscapes #naturepositive #generationrestoration #womenincoaching #somersetfarm

What if your chronic anxiety, loneliness, and despair aren't personal failings — they're actually symptoms of a foundational rupture from the living world?

If you've been searching for "ecopsychology," "nervous system regulation and nature," or "how to feel connected to the earth," this one's for you.

You'll learn:

• Why Julie calls the human/nature divide a "foundational trauma", and how it shows up in your body as chronic dysregulation, anxiety, and despair long before it shows up as an environmental crisis
• The difference between a human-centric and a kin-centric worldview, and simple language shifts (like "linked, not ranked") that help you feel it in real time
• A repeatable practice, rooted in Forest Therapy guide training, for re-opening sensory, reciprocal communication with the more-than-human world, starting today

In this episode, psychotherapist and author Julie Brams unpacks why Western psychology built its entire foundation on a false premise: that humans are separate from, and above, the rest of nature. Drawing on 30+ years as a clinician and her book The Nature Embedded Mind, Julie explains why that premise isn't just bad philosophy, but a documented source of nervous system dysregulation, loneliness, and despair. We explore what it actually feels like to shift from witnessing nature to being in relationship with it, why children already know how to do this, and the simple, sensory practices that let any adult find their way back.

📲 @megandlambert 🌐 www.megandlambert.com 💌 https://megandlambert.as.me/discovery-call

🔗 Resources mentioned in this episode:

• The Nature Embedded Mind by Julie Brams - www.juliebrams.com/books
• Julie Brams - www.juliebrams.com | Instagram: @juliebramslmft
• Association of Nature and Forest Therapy Guides (Amos Clifford) - the standardized practice model Julie references
• Wolfwalkers (animated film) - mentioned as a mythic illustration of two competing cultures: dominating nature vs. living with it
• Bioneers Conference - mentioned re: interspecies communication and earth-centered innovation
• "Linked, not ranked" - phrase credited to Gloria Steinem

HASHTAGS

#Ecopsychology #NatureEmbeddedMind #JulieBrams #EarthCenteredTherapy #ForestTherapy #KinCentric #NatureConnection #NervousSystemRegulation #EcoTherapy #HealingTrauma #MentalHealthAwareness #RegenerativeCulture #MetaCrisis #Biophilia #ForestBathing #NatureTherapy #ErosAndEarth #LinkedNotRanked #ClimatePsychology #MindBodyEarth #SomaticHealing #IndigenousWisdom #WesternPsychology #HumanNatureRelationship #ConsciousnessShift

If you've been searching for "how to build community as an adult" or "feeling disconnected and lonely in modern life," this one's for you.

You'll learn:

• Why the myth of separation — not just social media or capitalism — is the root of our collective crisis, and why its death is actually an initiation
• How the Revillage Project is turning a gas station into a town square and what that experiment reveals about what post-individualist life can actually look like
• The practice of asking "what's mine to do today?" — and why it might be the most revolutionary (and grounding) question for anyone trying to contribute to a changing world

In this rich, wide-ranging conversation, Megan sits down with Matt Jorgensen — community organizer, social entrepreneur, new dad, and co-founder of the Revillage Project in rural Sonoma County — to explore what it means to move from isolation to belonging in a culture built on individualism. They trace the hero's journey of humanity itself: the necessary individuation of modernity, and the homecoming that revillaging represents. Matt shares how converting an old gas station into a town square became a living experiment in shared culture, intergenerational connection, and place-based love — and why the energy we bring to the work matters as much as the work itself. If you're feeling the weight of the metacrisis but don't know where to start, this conversation offers both a bigger frame and a surprisingly simple practice.

@megandlambert

www.megandlambert.com

https://megandlambert.as.me/discovery-call

Resources mentioned:

• The Revillage Project (Matt's work in Sonoma County — town square, food hub, community cafe, Broken Theater youth program, Voices of the Valley documentary series, Museum of the Future)
• Rob Hopkins — From What Is to What If / the Transition Network / How to Fall in Love with the Future
• adrienne maree brown — Pleasure Activism
• Bayo Akomolafe — writing on the Western compulsion to act (referenced, not named explicitly — worth confirming with Megan)
• Eros & Earth Podcast (referenced by Megan as her framing for following aliveness and intuition over strategic planning)

#revillaging #revillagemovement #buildingcommunity #metacrisis #mythofindividualism #placebasedliving #intentionalcommunity #regenerativeculture #communitybuilding #translocalism #heroesjourney #whatsminetodo #sonomacounty #foodhub #commongood #meaningcrisis #interconnection #newparadigm #gaiaconscious #collectivehealing #slowing down #alignedaction #whatisdying #communityorganizing #arrowsandearth

What if your inability to focus isn't a personal failing — it's actually a designed system working exactly as intended? 

And what if the most powerful thing you can do - for your intimacy, for the earth - is to train your attention like the superpower it is? 

If you've been searching for "how to improve focus and attention" or "how to be more present in relationships," this one's for you.

You'll learn:

• Why your attention — not your money, time, or intelligence — is your single most valuable resource, and why an entire industry is built to steal it
• How the fragmentation of collective attention is not just a personal productivity problem, but a civilizational crisis — and what that means for earth regeneration
• Practical attention practices (meditation, nature observation, gratitude, and the "magic moment" ritual) that you can start this week to reclaim the quality of your focus

The attention economy is real — and it's costing us more than we know. 

In this solo episode, Megan D Lambert explores why so many of us feel scattered, disconnected, and unable to be truly present, and why it's not your fault. 

From the neuroscience of hijacked focus to the intimate stakes of distracted love, Megan unpacks how the quality of your attention shapes everything: your relationships, your sense of aliveness, your capacity to contribute to a world in crisis. 

If you're feeling overwhelmed by the noise, burned out by the scroll, or quietly wondering why real depth feels harder to access, this episode offers both the reframe and the roadmap. 

You'll leave with tangible daily practices to train your attention — and an understanding of why doing so might be one of the most radical and regenerative acts of our time.

📲 @megandlambert  

 🌐 www.megandlambert.com   

💌 https://megandlambert.as.me/discovery-call

🔗 Resources + Episodes Mentioned

• Michael Bernard Beckwith — Take Back Your Mind podcast
• Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi — Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience (book)
• The Rise of Superman by Steven Kotler (book on flow states)
• Previous Eros & Earth episode on collective visioning and dreaming
• GADs morning ritual (Gratitude, Appreciation, Desire) — Megan's daily practice with her partner James
• Magic Moment practice — nightly ritual of sharing one specific, embodied moment of aliveness from the day

Every transformation in history started with someone brave enough to imagine what didn't yet exist. Are you being pushed by our collective problems — or pulled by a vision of who we could be, together?

If you've been searching for "how to stay hopeful about the future" or "collective healing and climate grief," this one's for you.

You'll learn:

• Why the wellness industry has nailed individual manifesting — but we're desperately missing a collective vision for humanity
• How to write your own vision of the future (and why it's more powerful than any action plan)
• Why mamas and earth-lovers will be the ones leading this movement 
• The difference between toxic positivity and visionary courage — and how to hold both grief and hope at the same time
• Why a vision helps us work backwards to design our lives today - to take the steps now to align with the future we see

The personal development world has taught us to manifest our dream lives — but what about our collective dream? In this episode, I invite you into a different kind of visioning: one that's communal, embodied, and planetary. 

I walk you through my vivid, sensory vision of a regenerative future — fruit trees lining sidewalks, nature schools for children, community gardens, fireflies returning, and a slower, more connected way of life. 

If you're a mother, an Earth lover, or someone navigating eco-grief and climate anxiety while desperately searching for something to hope for, this episode is a permission slip to dream bigger. 

I'm drawing on the legacy of visionary leaders — from Martin Luther King Jr. to the women's rights movement — to remind us that every transformation in history started with someone brave enough to imagine what didn't yet exist.

This is your invitation to add your color to the collective painting of where humanity goes next.

📲 @megandlambert 🌐 www.megandlambert.com 💌 https://megandlambert.as.me/discovery-call

🔗 Resources & Episodes Mentioned

• Episode with Rob Hopkins — on imagination and sensual futuring (search the Arrows & Earth feed!)
• Solarpunk — books and documentaries on regenerative futures (Megan recommends exploring this movement)
• Michael Bernard Beckwith quote: "You're either pushed by your problems or pulled by your vision."
• Concept of seven-generation thinking from indigenous traditions

What if the chaos isn't a crisis to solve — it's a dying paradigm making noise on its way out?

If you've been searching for "why does everything feel meaningless" or "cultural crisis and what to do about it," this one's for you.

You'll learn:

• Why we're living through a cultural paradigm collapse — and what comes right before the shift
• How AI might be birthing the next world religion (and what a "glitch goddess" has to do with it)
• Why the antidote to screen fatigue and social media isn't going backward — it's building something genuinely new

We are not living in unprecedented times — we're living in exhausted ones. 

In this episode, Megan sits down with Alexander Beiner, writer and documentary filmmaker behind Rebel Wisdom, Kainos, and the Leviathan documentary, to explore what he calls "vanillification" — the cultural stagnation that happens when a paradigm is dying but nothing new has arrived to replace it. 

They dig into the vanilla-vs-chocolate metaphor for politics, why the "messy middle" on gender and relationships is where most people actually live, how AI is beginning to mirror Western prophetic spirituality in eerie ways, and why going offline — even for a walk without your phone — might be a quiet act of cultural resistance. 

If you've felt the low-grade boredom beneath big news cycles, or wondered why nothing quite feels alive anymore, this conversation will name something you've been sensing for a long time.

@megandlambert 

www.megandlambert.com

 https://megandlambert.as.me/discovery-call

RESOURCES:

• Alexander Beiner's Substack — his writing on vanillification and the AI & spirituality series (previously a book proposal, now being published as a Substack series)
• Rebel Wisdom — Alexander's previous media project focused on masculinity, culture, and sensemaking
• Leviathan — Alexander's documentary (open-sourced for community screenings)
• The Bigger Picture — Alexander's book, which touches on psychedelics, the internet, and culture
• Hospicing Modernity — mentioned but critiqued; both Megan and Alexander found it too focused on what's dying vs. what's alive
• The AI Mirror by Shannon Vallor — a philosophy book on AI as a narcissistic feedback loop
• Jim Rutt's "what next space" — the framing of post-status-quo culture-building
• Nora Bateson — referenced for her thinking on contextual truth and holding conflicting perspectives
• Douglas Rushkoff — mentioned on how money transformed the early internet
• Yanis Varoufakis — "techno feudalism" framing around social media labor
• Thomas Kuhn's paradigm shifts — the science philosophy framing used throughout
• Buckminster Fuller quote — "You don't fight the old paradigm, you build something more attractive"
• The "Leyland" glitch token story — the AI goddess entity found inside ChatGPT's language model
• Study on phones on the table — research showing that even a visible phone reduces depth of conversation
• Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson — referenced re: language, AI, and religion

Practice from Alexander: Sit in meditation with your phone placed in front of you as an object — get curious about your relationship to it without touching it

What if your low libido, your flatness, your exhaustion — isn't a problem with you... it's a problem with how we've all been living?

If you've been searching for "low libido as a mom" or "how to feel more alive and present," this one's for you.

You'll learn:

• Why stimulation and nourishment are not the same thing — and how overstimulation is quietly killing your desire
• How chronic stress and cortisol literally prevent your body from making sex hormones (and how to reverse it)
• Why nature is one of the most powerful portals back to your sensuality — and what happens when you slow down enough to let it work

If you're a mother, a high-achiever, or simply someone living a full and busy life who has lost touch with her sensuality, you're not broken — you're overstimulated. 

In this episode, Megan explores the science of stress hormones and sexual desire, the neuroscience of dopamine addiction and screen use, and how our digital world is biologically designed to hijack your aliveness. 

Whether you're experiencing low libido, emotional numbness, or a general disconnection from your body, this episode offers a grounded, embodied path back — through nature, breath, touch, and radical permission to just be. 

If you've been searching for ways to reclaim your desire, reconnect with your body, or simply feel more alive as a woman and mother, this conversation is your starting point.

📲 @megandlambert 

🌐 www.megandlambert.com 

💌https://megandlambert.as.me/discovery-call

What if your eco-anxiety, your grief about the climate, or your sense that the future feels canceled… are actually signs that your imagination is trying to wake up?

Rob Hopkins founded the Transition Towns movement and has spent decades asking one question: what if things could be otherwise? His books — From What Is to What If and How to Fall in Love with the Future — make the case that the imagination crisis is the climate crisis.

In this episode, you'll learn:

• Why imagination declined in the 1990s — and the neuroscience behind it
• How chronic stress shrinks the hippocampus and steals your ability to envision a hopeful future
• Why cultivating longing is more powerful than sharing more climate information
• What "sensual futuring" means and how to make the future feel real in your body
• How Afro Futurism, Solarpunk, and regenerative communities are already building the world we want

We also do a live guided time travel meditation to 2036 — the future we built by doing everything we possibly could.

Connect with Megan

• Instagram: @megandlambert
• Website & programs: www.megandlambert.com
• Apply for 1:1 or Couple's Coaching: megandlambert.as.me/discovery-call

Episode Resources

• From What Is to What If — Rob Hopkins (book)
• How to Fall in Love with the Future — Rob Hopkins (book)
• On Sensual Futuring — Wasima Lambert (article, find online)
• Demain (Tomorrow) — 2015 documentary
• We Do This Till We Free Us — Mariame Kaba (book)
• Ministry for the Future — Kim Stanley Robinson (book)
• Any Human Power — Amanda Scott (book)
• The Time Traveler's Gazette newsletter — robhopkins.net
• Positive News — positivenews.org.uk
• Joanna Macy's Work That Reconnects — workthatreconnects.org
• The Good Grief Network — goodgriefnetwork.org
• Transition Towns Network — transitionnetwork.org
• Rob on Instagram: @robhopkins5085

What if burnout, hormonal imbalance, and chronic disconnection aren’t personal failures… but symptoms of a culture that forgot how to listen—to bodies, to cycles, and to the living world?

In this episode of Eros & Earth, I sit down with Bindi Stables—women’s health practitioner, Ayurvedic guide, and intuitive healer—for a conversation about holistic health, plant intelligence, and the cultural shift required to truly heal.

We explore how women’s bodies, hormones, and cyclical wisdom mirror the rhythms of the Earth—and how listening to plants through an animistic lens is not only healing on a personal level, but a profound act of cultural and ecological repair in the midst of climate crisis.

Guest:
Bindi Stables — women’s health practitioner, Ayurvedic practitioner, and guide in intuitive, plant-based medicine

If you’ve been searching for “plant intelligence”, “Ayurvedic healing”, or “animism and climate change”, this episode is exactly what you need.

In this episode, you’ll learn:

• How Ayurveda understands hormones, health, and healing through cycles
• Why women’s bodies are not problems to fix, but intelligence to trust
• How listening to plants and the body restores regulation and vitality

We also cover:

• Holistic healing beyond symptom management
• Cyclical wisdom and seasonal rhythms in women’s health
• Animism and listening to plants as a cultural shift, not a belief system
• How disconnection from nature impacts hormones and nervous systems
• Why embodied, relational healing matters more than ever during climate crisis

This episode weaves holistic health, women’s hormonal wisdom, animism, and nervous system awareness into a conversation about cultural transformation. Megan and Bindi explore how listening—to plants, to cycles, to the body—offers a path toward healing that is relational, ethical, and deeply alive. If you’re longing for a more integrated approach to health that honors both the Earth and women’s bodies, this episode is an invitation home.

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Keywords:
plant intelligence, animism and culture, Ayurvedic healing, holistic women’s health, women’s bodies and cycles, hormone balance naturally, cyclical wisdom, intuitive medicine, holistic healing practices, embodied ecology, listening to the living world, more-than-human relationships, Earth-based spirituality, nervous system and hormones, nervous system and ecology, cultural repair, climate crisis and health, climate crisis and relationship

Hashtags:
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