Accidental Gods - The Thrutopian Podcast

If we view life as a Game between Light and Dark, where do we stand at any given moment?  Hero or Manipulator?  Altruist or Cynic? Sleepwalker, Avoider, Traditionalist?   We can each be any of these at any given moment. Knowing we have choice is what gives us the power to be different.  What do you choose? 

Gill Coombs is a facilitator, coach, peripatetic counsellor and an elder of Extinction Rebellion.  Of her three books to date, The Game is the second. In it, she outlines the powers of the Dark Four: The Dark Media, Dark State, Dark Finance, Dark Corporations - and the ways they battle the generative forces of light.
 
And in her game, we can each choose to play one of seven avatars. We might choose a different one in each moment. We might play them so close together as to be indivisible. But it is the thesis of this podcast that meta-awareness is one of the core requirements of humanity and that if we understand what's possible, we can gain agency. With Agency, we can choose to be different. If we choose to be different enough, we become different.
 
So let's play in the seven avatars and see what we'd like to become.

Links

Gill's website: https://www.gillcoombs.co.uk
The Game: https://www.gillcoombs.co.uk/thegame
Tom Mills' Book - BBC: Myth of a Public Service:
Tristan Harris' podcast - Your Undivided Attention
Blog post on the Wetiko: 'Seeing Wetiko: On Capitalism, Mind Viruses and Antidotes for a World in Transition.'

What is Accidental Gods - The Thrutopian Podcast?

Another World IS still Possible. The old system was never fit for purpose - and now it's collapsing around us. So how do we co-create a Thrutopian future that we'd all be proud to leave as our legacy?

What stories can we weave of possibility? Of transformation? What happens if we commit to a world based on generative values: compassion, courage, integrity?

What happens if we let go of the race for meaningless money and commit instead to the things that really matter: clean air, clean water, clean soil - and clean, clear, courageous connections between all parts of ourselves, between ourselves and each other, between ourselves and the Web of Life - so that we can reclaim our birthright as self-conscious nodes in the web of life?

We can do this. Some of us already are. Every week on Accidental Gods we speak with the people who are living this world into being, courageous pathfinders who are exploring the emergent edge of inter-becoming.

As a species, we have all the answers, we just haven't yet crafted all the new stories and woven them into a future that works. We have the choice now - we can choose to transform…or we can face the chaos of a failing system.

Our Choice. Our Chance. Our Future.

Accidental Gods is a podcast and membership program devoted to exploring the ways we can create a future that we would be proud to leave to the generations yet to come.

Find the membership and the podcast pages here: https://accidentalgods.life
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