This is a journey of exploration into two questions: 'How did we break?' and 'How do we heal?'. Here, I interview guides who can help us explore the terrain we need to explore in order to uncover and develop answers to these two questions.

Today's guide is Manda Johnson. Manda was born and raised in the UK, but has spent her adult life in New Zealand where she has been actively engaged in her own process of inner transformation for 40 years; a process centred on the ongoing restoration of her own trauma. Manda has a background in Acupuncture, Hypnotherapy, Somatic therapy and Psychodrama, working with individual and groups. In NZ, Manda Johnson is a facilitator of transformation for Collective Intelligence.

Manda has played an important part in the non-profit Pocket Project, established and led by Thomas Hubl, which is dedicated to the restoration of collective and intergenerational trauma. Within the Pocket Project, she has pioneered the philosophy and practice of what is called Global Social Witnessing and is co-initiating a World Witnessing collective.

Manda's experience of living in intentional community for 20 years has helped her to develop a deep appreciation for and trust in the potential and the magic of the Collective.

Key links:

https://www.globalsocialwitnessing.org/

https://www.globalsocialwitnessing.org/product/

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These interviews are part of a journey of exploration into two questions: 'How did we break?' and 'How do we heal?'.

Our guide for this interview is Prof Jason Moore. Here, Jason helps us understand our 'breaking' as historically enacted and deepened through successive waves of capitalist imperialism. Jason reveals how this racist and patriarchal project has necessitated and effected a now planetary scale reordering and ultimately destruction of the 'Oikeios' or 'web of life'.

At the heart of Jason's philosophy is a non-dualism that challenges and unites dualisms. Jason argues that our path to healing is not just through a practical politics of socialism, but equally through a 'revolutionary politics of love' that we are only just beginning to explore and articulate.

Jason W. Moore (https://jasonwmoore.com) is an environmental historian and historical geographer at Binghamton University, where he is professor of sociology. He is author or editor, most recently, of Capitalism in the Web of Life (Verso, 2015), Capitalocene o Antropocene? (Ombre Corte, 2017), Anthropocene or Capitalocene? Nature, History, and the Crisis of Capitalism (PM Press, 2016), and, with Raj Patel, A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things (University of California Press, 2017). His books and essays on environmental history, capitalism, and social theory have won several major prizes. He coordinates the World-Ecology Research Network.

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This is a journey of exploration into two questions: "How did we break?' and "How do we heal?". These interviews are with guides who can help us explore the terrain we need to explore in order to uncover and develop answers to these two questions.

Today's guide is the eminent Marxist economist Michael Roberts. Michael worked as an economist for investment banks in the City of London for over 40 years, closely observing the machinations of global capitalism from within the dragon’s den! At the same time, he was a political activist in the labour movement for decades. Since retiring, he has written several books: The Great Recession – a Marxist view (2009); The Long Depression (2016); Marx 200: a review of Marx’s economics (2018): and jointly with Guglielmo Carchedi as editors of World in Crisis (2018). Michael is the author of the invaluable blog, The Next Recession, which you can find here...

https://thenextrecession.wordpress.com/

This interview sees Michael sharing indispensable Marx's and his own Marx-inspired insights into the origins and nature of our current crisis and, in broad terms, what the way beyond looks like.

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This is a journey of exploration into two questions: "How did we break?' and "How do we heal?". These interviews are with guides who can help us explore the terrain we need to explore in order to uncover and develop answers to these two questions.

Our guide here is Prof Richard Hall (see below for Richard's bio) and the interview is released to celebrate the publication of his new book - 'The Hopeless University: Intellectual Work at the end of the End of History'.

http://mayflybooks.org/?p=302

Together, we explore the colonisation of the university by capital and the conditions of alienation and hopelessness that the capitalist university engenders. Beyond concrete prescriptions, Richard identifies the origins of reimagining relations of producing knowledge in the yearning within us all for our self- and collective realisation.

Richard Hall is Professor of Education and Technology at De Montfort University, and a National Teaching Fellow. He is a trustee of the Open Library of Humanities, a member of the Management Committee of the Leicester Primary Pupil Referral Unit, and an independent visitor for a looked-after child. He is the author of The Alienated Academic: The Struggle for Autonomy Inside the University with Palgrave Macmillan, and The Hopeless University: Intellectual Work at the end of The End of History with MayFly books. Richard describes the Hopeless University as "a flag bearer for a collective life that is becoming more efficiently unsustainable.”

He writes about life in the University at richard-hall.org. He centres hopelessness twice a week by watching the struggles of Walsall FC.

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Welcome, fellow traveller! These interviews are conversations with guides who can help us explore the terrain in order to develop answer to our two questions: 'How did we break?' and 'How do we heal?'

Our guide in this conversation is Rev Dr Stephen Wright MBE. Stephen is an ordained interfaith priest, Christian mystic, poet, author, and spiritual guide.

After a long and distinguished career in nursing, Stephen has devoted his life over the past thirty years to exploring the interface between spirituality and healthcare and wellbeing. He has produced several books and was awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of Cumbria in 2013 for his contribution to this field. Stephen is co-founder and Spiritual Director of the Sacred Space Foundation (https://www.sacredspace.org.uk/) which provides safe space for rest and reflection with support from experienced and compassionate spiritual directors and guides.

This conversation was recorded in March 2021

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This podcast is a journey of exploration into two questions - 'How did we break?' and 'How do we heal?' In this video, I invite Stina Deurell to help me answer these two questions, particularly the latter question of healing, through an exploration of the meditation practice she has developed called 'Wider Embraces'. https://widerembraces.org/

The Wider Embrace meditation enables us to have experiences of 'transrelationality' - experiencing ourselves as part of the whole (the Embrace) - and 'introrelationality' - gaining an experience from the perspective of the whole/Embrace. Stina argues that such experiences are so important for us to raise our consciousness to become 'multi-individual' beings who can transcend separation and violence.

Stina Deurell is the founder of Wider Embraces, and it has been her primary focus since 2012. She is also a creative and renowned nature photographer. And for more than twenty years, she has been a self-employed web developer and graphic designer.

Since the 70s, Stina has been part of the Swedish environmental movement, both as an employee and on the board of several organisations.

She holds a third-degree black belt in Aikido, has been practising both TM and Zen meditation and is a Reiki master. Stina was one of the leading members of Malmö Integral and on the board of Holma College of Holistic Studies.

Her main characteristics are curiosity, creativity and a bit of stubbornness.

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These interviews constitute a journey into two questions: 'How did we break?' and 'How do we heal?' This is Part Two of my interview with Rabbi Jeff Roth. Having explored the question of 'How did we break? in Part One, we turn our attention here to the second question of 'How do we heal?'

Rabbi Jeff Roth, D.Min., M.S.W. is the founder and Director of The Awakened Heart Project for Contemplative Judaism. He has led over 200 Jewish mindfulness meditation retreats over the last 20 years. He was the co-founder of Elat Chayyim, the Jewish Spiritual Retreat Center, where he served as Executive Director and Spiritual Director for 13 years. He is the author of Jewish Meditation Practices for Everyday Life and Me, Myself and God. He was ordained by Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi as well as by the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College. He lives with his partner Rabbi Joanna Katz in the Hudson River Valley.

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In Part One of this interview, Rabbi Jeff shares his interpretation of the Book of Genesis as a coded explanation of the evolution of human consciousness to offer answers to our first question of 'How did we break?'

Rabbi Jeff Roth, D.Min., M.S.W. is the founder and Director of The Awakened Heart Project for Contemplative Judaism. He has led over 200 Jewish mindfulness meditation retreats over the last 20 years. He was the co-founder of Elat Chayyim, the Jewish Spiritual Retreat Center, where he served as Executive Director and Spiritual Director for 13 years. He is the author of Jewish Meditation Practices for Everyday Life and Me, Myself and God. He was ordained by Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi as well as by the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College. He lives with his partner Rabbi Joanna Katz in the Hudson River Valley.

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