Lifeworlds is an intimate dialogue with our planet’s ecologies and with those who are translators and bridges between the human and beyond-human.Our guests are farmers, lawyers, scientists, investors, indigenous scholars, artists, and many more — with them, we explore the mindsets, skills and actions required to forge deep connections with nature and to enter into close relationship with the lifeworlds of other beings.We begin to change the world when we change our ways of seeing and being. Lifeworlds points us towards a deeper reformulation of core human identities, asking who it is we share the Earth with and what...
Latest episodes
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55 min
38. Mother Trees And Forest Resilience - with Suzanne Simard
This episode is a live interview with Dr. Suzanne Simard at the MOTH Festival of Ideas in London. Suzanne is the forest ecologist whose researched popularised notions of the Wood W…
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20 min
Meditation | Deep Time
[Republished with better quality audio] This is a meditation I wrote and recorded to plunge us through epochs of cosmic time, through the tremendous evolutionary processes that pre…
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1 h 12
37. Whale Lexicons: A Language of the Deep — with David Gruber and César Rodríguez-Garavito
What does it actually mean to translate a language that has never been written down or spoken in air, whose holders are ancient ocean denizens, and may not even carry concepts we'd…
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1 h 11
36. Stingless Bees, Ancient Honey & the Amazon's Future – with Dr. Rosa Vasquez Espinosa
What if one of the most powerful tools for saving the Amazon rain-forest was a bee most people have never heard of?Enter the stingless bee – a 65 million year old resident of Earth…
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60 min
35. From Stardust To Sentience: Astrobiology & Life in the Cosmos – with Adam Frank
What is life, and are we alone in the universe?In this episode I sit down with Adam Frank, Professor of Astrophysics at the University of Rochester, prolific science communicator,…
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56 min
Soulfire Sessions III: Many Minds – with Kensy Cooperrider
Consciousness is one of the great running threads beneath every episode of this show: a loaded term, tangled up with questions of sentience and intelligence, and carrying the most…
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58 min
34. Black Mountains College: Rethinking Education for Our Times - with Ben Rawlence
Today’s episode explores a simple but urgent question: is our education system still fit for the world we’re entering? Climate disruption, AI, and uncertainty demand new forms of e…
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18 min
Poetry | Fruitful Darkness with Rilke
This Lifeworlds episode is a devotional journey into the work of Rainer Maria Rilke, the lyrical German poet of thresholds and embracing transformations.Through readings of his mos…
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1 h 17
33. Empatheatre: Social Sculpture & Feeling Across Worlds - with Dylan McGarry
In this episode, we explore the role of theatre and empathy in transforming worldviews. Dr. Dylan McGarry is one of the founders of Empatheatre, a South African theatre-making comp…
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1 h 14
32. Depth Psychology and Soul Initiation – with Bill Plotkin from Animas Valley Institute
In this episode, I sit down with Bill Plotkin, founder of Animas Valley Institute. Over the past 40 years, Bill has developed intricate, nature-based models of human development an…
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1 h 08
31. Holistic Landscape Restoration and Inspirational Returns – with Willem Ferwerda from Commonland
Almost 40% of Earth’s land is degraded, meaning that the natural cycles that sustain biodiversity, water, food, and livelihoods are breaking down. This degradation is an ecological…
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16 min
From Orbit to Intimacy | Beyond the Overview Effect
What if the next shift in planetary consciousness didn’t come from looking back at Earth from space, but from listening deeply to the voices already here? In this thought piece I p…
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1 h 05
30. Grief, Song and Ceremonies of Mourning - with Alexandra “ahlay” Blakey
Today we’re joined by artist, musician and communal grief ritual facilitator Alexandra “ahlay” Blakey to speak about the cultural forgetting of communal mourning, the sacred role o…
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1 h 03
29. Carbon and the Grammar of Life - with Paul Hawken
In this episode we’re joined by the renowned environmentalist, activist and author Paul Hawken to explore the lifeworld of carbon and its role as a vital agent in the story of life…
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1 h 19
28. Whale Dreaming & Ocean Songlines - with WHAIA
In this episode, we journey into the vibrational worlds of sound, ancestry, and deep listening with Whaia, a Ngāti Kahungunu woman of Māori descent and First Nations sonic weaver a…
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7 min
Poetry | The World Thinks in Poetry
In a remote cabin in Vancouver Island in 2019, far away, I sat by the shore. I listened. I re-read poetry. I swam with jellyfish. I ate bright salmon berries and raw samphire. I ga…
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1 h 12
27. The Ecology Of Health - with Dr. Mackenzie Hall
Where does your body end and the Earth begin? In this episode, we explore the real and poetic parallels between human health and planetary health, and how nature’s language moves i…
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1 h 02
Soulfire Sessions II: with David McConville
David McConville is a transdisciplinary artist and researcher who explores how technology shapes our perspectives of Earth—from local places to our cosmic context. Our conversation…
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1 h 10
From Your Host: Season’s Reflections and Q&A
In this episode, I share some reflections on Season 2, before diving into our first listener-guided Q&A! You’ll be hearing from fellow listeners who enquired on topics like: Earth-…
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1 h 11
26. Speculative Designs & Embodied Imaginations - with Superflux
What if you could inhabit the future? In this episode, we dive into the work of Superflux, the visionary design studio turning imagination into tangible worlds. From multispecies b…