The Lightfoot Podcast

The ever profound Brad Kershner joins me for a humming exchange around the idea of Hope As Process. We unpack his notion of The Great Integration and explore the interconnections between development stage theories and Brads work as an educator and school administrator. We delve into his connection to the Buddhist tradition and also explore what education might look like in a post labour world. But most of all we enjoy each others presence and have a blast exploring the outer edges of our shared well springs of inspiration. 

https://integrallife.com/hope-as-process-being-and-becoming-in-the-great-integration/

https://www.amazon.com/Understanding-Educational-Complexity-Integrating-Perspectives/dp/9004447849

Get ready for a conversational contact high as Schuyler and I journey into the heart of polarity and stillness together. We speak to rebalancing the masculine and feminine in ourselves and the culture around us and explore Schuyler's work in coming home to ourselves through practices of embodiment. We also reveal some of the more tender and vulnerable parts of ourselves that don't always get to see the light of day. It starts with a poem and ends in a beautiful coincidence. The grander archetypal energies definitely emerged and danced within this particular conversation and I hope it lights you up the same way it did me. 

https://www.artofemergence.com

https://medium.com/curious/the-divine-masculine-and-the-end-of-patriarchy-5c1c173f906f

https://schuyler-brown.medium.com/coming-home-a-path-to-embodiment-13bd23cf3598

A.J. and I explore what is known as The Master Emotion: Shame! He explains what it means to get discomfortable and outlines the evolutionary origins of the shame response. We also explore the conditions that led to A.J's own shame breakthrough and make sense of the connections between guilt, shame and fear. We talk about ways of starting to recognise and work through the shame we're each carrying and propose that vulnerability is the real foundation for any kind of new global culture we wish to inhabit. It's all in there folks, I hope you enjoy this time with A.J as much I did.

https://discomfortable.net/

Alexander and I unfurl through a fascinating forest of ideas. We track the evolution of Rebel Wisdoms development and outline its spiral like journey from embodiment and liminality to its focus on the impact of Jordan Peterson, its exploration of the Intellectual Dark & Deep Web before a return to its roots. We dance with the knotty but humming question of how to cultivate meaningful culture and community within the context of the digital sense making scene and explore the importance of remembering that we're all in this together, that we're practicing for each other. Ali also gives us an update on how he's feeling about the state of the Psychedelic renaissance after his recent debate with the co-founder of Compass Pathways which is one of the best funded and more Game A companies racing towards the Mushroomy Pot Of Gold at the end of the research rainbow. I feel there is a lot to savour in this exchange, I hope you enjoy it as much as I did. 

https://rebelwisdom.co.uk/

Tyson and I go on a wild ride of a yarn. He opens up about his experience of the world as father of young kids and in demand intellectual. He also delivers a scathing and scintillating assessment of the many illusions and hypocrisies of the modern world before arriving at a number of challenging and profound conclusions for those of us identified as 'change makers'. Be warned, this episode doesn't pull any punches, it's raw, real, explicit and in your face hilarious. I hope you enjoy hearing about the true resting place of the Golden Goose's skull as much as I did.

This week I'm joined by Daniel Görtz who is one of the marvellous minds behind Metamodern philosopher and theorist, Hanzi Freinacht. We delve into where Daniel is currently at in his creative process and get a little sneak peak into the next few books currently under development. We unpack the connection between Solarpunk and Metamodernism and explore how Indigenous Wisdom fits into the broader picture of Daniel's work. We explore our shared fascination with shame and discuss our personal practices around attempting to move through it in our bodies. We analyse the hyper intellectual nature of the broader Meta movement and learn about Daniel's involvement in a project that aims to integrate a number of leading Meta theories into one giant framework. But most of all we talk about the profound importance of friendship. I love this mans brain and his heart as well. I hope you enjoy this conversation as much as I did.  

https://metamoderna.org/hanzi-freinacht/

Lana and I take a joyful journey through the ins and outs of her experience weaving community. She shares at least four words from other cultures that left me pondering the poverty of the English language. We touch on whether it's possible to blend corporate culture and community cultivation without corrupting ones principles and also unpack the idea of normalising the notion of different neurotypes. I always feel warm, fuzzy and inspired after spending time with Lana, I hope you do too. 

https://www.facebook.com/groups/we.are.community.builders/

https://www.ghostcompany.fi/products/community-builder-digital-edition

Sylvie Barbier joins me for an exploration of what it's like to cultivate new culture through community. She gives an overview of the fascinating work unfolding under the umbrella of the Life Itself institute and their network of hubs across the south of France and Berlin. Sylvie also offers up her wisdom around letting go of being a mother in relation to her young son and the community she has been helping grow these past five years. I found Sylvie to be truly inspiring human who shares of her self very freely and generously. I hope you enjoy this discussion as much as I did.

https://lifeitself.us/

https://www.ted.com/talks/sylvie_barbier_compassion_and_the_key_to_collective_wisdom

Jeremy Johnson and I shared an epic adventure of a discussion. We delve deep into the ideas of Jean Gebser and trace the contours of just how prescient the ideas in Ever Present Origin really were. We touch on the evolution of perspective throughout art history, the promising synthesis of the Integral movement with Cosmo-Localism and also the progressive legacy of Michael Brooks. There is poetry, complex ideas, concrete ideas and I even have a go at pronouncing the 50 syllable long german word for the 'phenomenology of becoming consciousness'. It was a real pleasure to spend some time in Jeremy's verdant noosphere, I hope you enjoy this episode as much as I did.

https://www.mutations.blog/

A link to Jeremys book Seeing Through The World: Jean Gebser & Integral Consciousness 

This week I'm joined by Richard D. Bartlett for a deep dive into what it is that drives us both to cultivate community. We question whether our passion is coming from a wholly integrated place and explore how our trauma often compels us to act the way we do. We also break down the constellation of thinkers that have most inspired us and zero in on the difference between linking and ranking in social contexts. I enjoyed this conversation with every ounce of my being and hope it touches you the way it did me. I recommend you check out the courses that Rich and Nati offer through the Hum, I made some really great new friends after doing the Microsolidarity course last year.