Following on from Episode 60 - this is a bonus episode - a 5 minute meditation to help you connect more deeply to Gaia - our living Earth - taken from Stephan Harding’s first book - Animate Earth and narrated by Dan Burgess.

You’ll need to go outside, or inside Gaia herself - a garden, park, wood, river, ocean - anywhere that speaks to you where you can lie on your back, on top of Gaia herself and feel safe. From here you can start the meditation.

Try it out and let us know how you get on ;-)
If you enjoy it please share with others and keep the practice

#Becomingcrew #inservicetolife #interconnected #theworldisalive #indigenous
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https://www.thespaceship.earth/podcast
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/835914.Animate_Earth

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Dr Stephan Harding is a Holistic Scientist, Deep Ecologist and co-founder of the legendary Schumacher College. Stephan’s work intersects scientific ecology, with gaia theory and our psyche and soul. Author of two books, Animate Earth and new publication, Gaia Alchemy. Stephan has worked and taught alongside the world's leading ecological thinkers, feelers and activists. And has worked closely with scientist James Lovelock, a mentor, who developed the Gaia theory hypothesis.

Join Dan and Stephan discuss:

- Who is Gaia and what’s her history?

- James Lovelock an independent scientist and great mentor

- From the scientific study of the Muntjac Deer to the deep connection of the wholeness of nature

- We are not just thinkers. We’re equally, feelers, sensors and intuitors

- We’re inherently animistic with a spiritual connection to nature. And we can still value science

- A cultural revolution needs to happen quicker than any other, for the sake of all beings

- Gaia Alchemy. Why put alchemy with science?

- Healing a crisis of meaning and the Azoth of Philosophy

- Valuing the psyche over the ego. Do we invent ideas or do we receive them?

- Find your Gaia place

- We have two bodies. One, a human body which lives inside the wider body of the Earth, Gaia.

For full show notes and links please visit The Spaceship Earth website:
https://www.thespaceship.earth/podcast/2022/6/10/episode-60-stephan-harding-a-kingdom-beyond-measurement

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This Earth Sessions mix is dedicated to Mother Earth, our one and only home planet.
It’s for dancing and moving through overwhelming times.
It’s for the love of all that I know and experience of this Earth.
And to honour the vast unknowable intelligence beyond my human knowing.
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Imagine if we began to see the Earth and the more than human world as our family ?
(As many indigenous brothers and sisters have always done)
Just a shift in perception.
And an ongoing practice
No technology or markets required.
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The mix begins and ends with wisdom from two amazing guests on the podcast this year.
Two humans who are working towards this shift in beautiful ways.
Kicking off with an invitation from Imagination Activist Phoebe Tickell (EP 57)
To find the courage to cultivate our moral imagination capacities.
And consider the more than human and our future ancestors as we re-imagine our human systems that can, should and must be changed.
We close with beautiful wisdom from Nadeem Perera ( EP 59)
To consider and accept the true order of life, where nature, Mother Earth is the director of the show.
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The track selection attempts to express the urgency, beauty, mystery, love and possibility of these times.
Music that’s been moving me of late.
Organic, cosmic house sounds which connect me to rhythms, patterns and love of Mother Earth.

Massive respect and gratitude to all the artists and producers featured in this mix.
Go buy these tracks if they move you too

Hope you enjoy the mix - feedback always appreciated


#becomingcrew

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Alarm Call (French Dub) - Bjork
The Slide - Wild Dark
Fewer - Gadi Mitrani
Felt - Erdi Irmak
Moon by day - Hermanez/Simon Vuarambom
1996 - Simon Vuarambom
Hael - Volen Sentir
Circadian Rhythm - (Hraach mix) Soul Button
Lagom - Lukas Bohlender
Nano - Tamir Regev
Mythical Mirage (Erdi Irmak mix) - Serious Dancers
Vutuka Fet Junior - Lost Desert/Lee Burridge
Rain in June - Mass Digital
Solnce - Krasa Rosa

Bird recordings via @fintanobrien

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Nadeem Perera is a birder, wildlife TV presenter, activist, youth mentor and co-founder of Flock Together.

Flock Together is a birdwatching collective for people of colour who have felt unwelcome and marginalised in spaces that should be for everyone.
Together they are reclaiming green spaces and rebuilding relationships with nature - one walk at a time.
At twenty eight years of age, Nadeem is more than his deep fascination with birds, his youth work, values and unique personal qualities are essential in the world today.

Needem Perera Insta - https://www.instagram.com/birdnerdeem
Flock Together - https://www.flocktogether.world


For full show notes and links please visit The Spaceship Earth website:

https://www.thespaceship.earth/podcast/2022/4/15/episode-59-nadeem-perera-flock-together-return-to-the-source-of-love

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Coming next - in conversation with Nadeem Perera - Birder, Wildlife TV, Youth Coach, Activist and Co-Founder of Flock Together @birdnerdeem https://www.flocktogether.world/

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What is this podcast all about ?
Here's a bit of the vibe.
Nearly 70 episodes of long form conversations, a lock down experimental series, music mixes, audio rambles and much more to come.
Rambling on since 2018
Becoming Crew on SpaceShip Earth

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Felipe Viveros is a British-Chilean writer, independent researcher, artist and strategist. His work focuses on the intersection of on-line organizing, digital storytelling, policy and systems change.
He has worked with governments and organisations globally, served as the chair of The Rules, and acted as the European representative of the GNH Centre Bhutan. Felipe is a fellow of Bertha Foundation, a member of the UN Harmony with Nature initiative and a commissioner for the Sacred Headwaters Initiative, always championing epistemic justice, social justice and indigenous people’s rights.

For full show notes and links please visit The Spaceship Earth website:
https://www.thespaceship.earth/podcast/2022/3/29/episode-58-felipe-viveros-survival-of-the-beautiful
Play out track:
Nick Mulvey
In the Anthropocene ( Elder Brother Remix)

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Coming next - in conversation with Felipe Viveros - artist, researcher, strategist and activist
@nawelcura
#ChooseEarth
https://www.chooseearth.co/

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Welcome to this Bonus episode 57

with our guest Phoebe Tickell

In this we offer you an invitation to listen to a 5 minute story called the Impossible Train, created by Moral Imaginations and narrated by Phoebe Tickell.

The Impossible Train Story is a tool that can be used by anyone, alone or in groups in all settings to catalyse a process of deep reimagining of the future post-COVID and all that it has revealed.

The entire process can be done in under 20 minutes.



The story you are about to hear will build up a sensory experience of a portal into a metaphoric world not far away from this one — where a group of human beings have to make a decision on what to do next with their future after experiencing a Great Pause in their everyday world

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Take 5 minutes to listen to The Impossible Train Story, and be ready with a pen or an open document to start writing immediately after the story ends.

You could set a stopwatch for 7 minutes and start to write freely when the narration is over.



When you’re finished, you could find a friend to chat what you discovered and wrote, or if you do it with someone else, use the remaining time you have to read each other your reflections.



Remember, there is no right or wrong answer, and each time you listen to the story you will have a different response emerge from you, depending on what is going on for you on that day and specific moment.



You do not need to show anyone what you wrote, in fact, some people have been using it as a prompt to use solo when journalling. It can be used as a reflective tool and a way to access deeper imagination and ask big questions that these times are calling for.

But if you wanted to share it with us you can do so.

Peace and Out

https://www.moralimaginations.com/

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Phoebe Tickell is a Biologist and Systems thinker who develops methodologies and approaches suited to a better world. With a degree in Biological Natural Sciences she brings her understanding of biological networks and systems thinking into governance, organisational structures, narratives and imagination. From co-founding multiple organisations, designing and implementing learning programmes to facilitating groups across the world, Phoebe has been called a voice of the emerging future and one of the most important systems thinkers of her generation.

Recorded in the Devonian woods around a campfire, Dan and Phoebe discuss:

- Reflection, peace and slowness in a time when there’s lots to do

- The rejection of indigenous wisdom/science unless ‘discovered’ by western science

- Systems change; yet aren’t we the system?

- In times of grief, what would a sane culture do?

- Evolving from a self-exterminating society to a self-sustaining society

- Caring for young imaginations in an era of technological entertainment

- Moral Imagination. Imagination activists. And imaginal zones

- Subsidising slowness, not speed and rewiring our economy

- Power of the ‘sit spot’, make believe, masks and role play

- Relationships and value between the human and more-than-human world

- Everything is not in the government's hands. We can be empowered to create our own reality

- Designing systems with wisdom. Bring it on!


Play Out Track:
Bonobo - Sapien
From the Album ‘ Fragments’
https://music.apple.com/gb/album/sapien/1584968878?i=1584969129

Sound Credits:
Features birdsong recorded by Fintan O'Brien
https://soundcloud.com/fintanobrien

Full Shownotes:
https://www.thespaceship.earth/podcast/2022/3/3/episode-57-phoebe-tickell-imagination-activism

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