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The Lightfoot Podcast
by Joe Lightfoot
Conversations that explore the many pathways towards a world more curious and kind.
Episodes
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#34 Bruce Parry On Tribes, Consciousness, Connection & Plant Medicine
Bruce Parry is an explorer and documentary maker best known for his BBC series Tribe. He's also a really wise and lovely guy who in my opinion has one of the most interesting and inspiring messages out there. We trace his evolution from Christian military man to Rational Animist and explore the...
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#33 Scoutleader Wiley On Cultivating An Arcane Intellect Through Ritual Art
Scoutleader Wiley and I discuss the psychological perks and deep healing possibilities of cultivating a practice of ritual art. We unpack what it means to foster an arcane intellect and delve into the hot topics of gender and race identity exploring Scout's broader philosophical framing in the...
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#32 Emil Ejner Friis On Obedience As Laughter & The New Sincerity
Emil and I discuss some of the more nuanced critiques of Metamodernism and highlight the central importance of finding love in our lives. We explore the danger of cults forming around developmental theory and Emil shares an update on upcoming Hanzi publications. We dream of Metamodern monasteries...
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A Lightfoot Public Service Announcement
A little update from me.
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#31 Justin Scott Campbell On New North Stars & The Promise Of Somatically Embodied Social Movements
This week I’m joined by Justin Scott Campbell for a fascinating conversation about the connections between identity, social change, racial justice and the somatic experience. We explore some of the themes in Justins writings and trace his developmental arc from professor to diversity trainer to...
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#30 Stephanie Lepp On Atonement & Finding The Courage To Change Our Minds
This week I'm joined by Stephanie Lepp for a far reaching discussion around what it means to have a deep reckoning. We explore the ethics of apologising, the art of forgiveness and the fundamental importance of understanding how people can radically change their world views. Stephanie shares what...
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#29 Helena Norberg-Hodge On Big Picture Activism & The Unifying Potential Of The Localisation Movement
This week I'm joined by Helena Norberg-Hodge for a passionate discussion around the importance of localisation. We touch on her time in Ladakh and trace how the unique experience of being exposed to a culture almost entirely free of Western influence has motivated and informed her campaign…
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#28 Jeremy Lent On Neo-Confucianism & The Philosophical Case For Integrating Science & Spirit
This week I speak with Jeremy Lent who I believe to be one of the most important thinkers of our time. We trace the thread of ideas connecting his first book The Patterning Instinct with his new book The Web Meaning and explore the limits of scientific reductionism in relation to unifying science...
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#27 Miriam Martineau On The Essence Of Communitas & The Mythic Journey From State To Stage
This week Miriam and I take a deep dive into her wealth of experience weaving community. We explore her journey in cultivating 10 years of integrally informed intentional community and unpack both what helped and hindered the group from crystallising their communal coherence from a series of peak...
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#26 Arran Rogerson On The Me I Cannot See & The Dream Of A Shadow Working Neotribe
Right off the bat Arran and I delve into some shadow work together before exploring how our Western culture seems perfectly engineered to avoid facing it's own dark side. Arran outlines his relationship to Jungian psychology and shares some of what he's learned in his process interviewing a…
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#25 Brad Kershner On Transcending The Hidden Curriculum & Hope As Process
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…
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#24 Schuyler Brown On Coming Home To Ourselves & Leaning Into The Dark & Divine Masculine
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…
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#23 A.J. Bond On Cultivating Shame Breakthroughs & The Critical Importance Of Getting Discomfortable
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…
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#22 Alexander Beiner On How To Rebel Wisely, Fight For Each Other & Reorient The Psychedelic Juggernaut
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…
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#21 Tyson Yunkaporta On Telling It Like It Is & The Placeless Myth Of The Golden Goose
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...
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#20 Daniel Görtz & The Fundamental Freedom Of Metamodern Friendship
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...
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#19 Lana Jelenjev on Pakikiramdam & Being The Pebble
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...
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#18 Sylvie Barbier On Life Itself & Learning To Grow Beyond Mothering
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…
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#17 Jeremy Johnson On The Shift From Planetary Crisis to Planetary Consciousness
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...
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#16 Richard D. Bartlett On Open Source Cults & The Hurt That Drive Us Towards Belonging
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…
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#15 Blox On Benevolent Dictatorship & The Unsung Realities of Founding A New Community
This week I'm joined by one of the most embodied humans I know, Blox. He is a highly accomplished acrobatics coach and one of the founders of Rebel Ridge which is a newly established community just outside of Asheville, North Carolina. He playfully describes it as a bunch of 'acrobats settling…
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#14 Stephen Reid On DAO's, Psychedelics & The Regenerative Renaissance
This week I'm joined by Stephen Reid, he is a co-operative technologist and cultural changemaker who has trained in the fields of complexity science, physics, software development, meditation, psychotherapy, plant medicine, conscious sexuality and political activism. He is currently a co-director...
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#13 David Sauvage & The Revolutionary Path Of Extreme Empathy
On this weeks podcast I'm joined by empathy expert, empath, performance artist, filmmaker, writer and revolutionary, David Sauvage. We explore the role of Empaths within a community context, sound out the nature of a potential Occupy 2.0 movement and take a snapshot of how the many inner parts of...
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#12 Seishin & The Willow Monastic Academy
This week I'm joined by Seishin who runs the Willow Monastic Academy in Canada. We had a wonderful discussion about the the benefits of walking the neo-monastic path, the challenge of balancing awareness and responsibility and the joys of finding true trust in the right in the teacher. You can...
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#11 Malcolm Ocean & The Non-Naive Trust Dance
Today I spoke (and sang) with the marvellous Malcolm Ocean, we delved deeply into his emerging notion of the Non Naive Trust Dance and explored how breaking the taboo of speaking about the loss of trust can be a key component in community cultivation. https://malcolmocean.com
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#10 The Steward Speaks - Peter Limberg & The Stoa
Peter Limberg lays out his journey as The Steward of The Stoa and together we break down some of the core elements that might help nudge us all towards cultivating a deeper sense of Communitas in our lives. https://www.thestoa.ca/
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#9 A World More Curious & Kind - Dr. Jason Fox & The Coterie
Dr Jason Fox joins me to share the story of The Coterie, an online community of complexity practitioners and philosopher poets. Our discussion ranges far and wide, beginning and ending with the same circuit breaker of a question... Who Am I? https://www.drjasonfox.com/
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#8 Diana Nayeli Monsberger & Noden
Diana Nayeli Monsberger shares her story of being a part of the Noden community in Stockholm. We explore the intersection of Noden, House Blivande and the Borderlands festival and touch upon a whole range of different philosophical ideas together. https://www.noden.community/
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#7 Joe & Sam Tell (Their) Tale Of Dok Rak
My dear friend Sam joins me to tell the story of Dok Rak, a community and Proto-Collective in Chiang Mai that we've been a part of since 2016. We track its origins, peak moments of connection and near dissolution after the community went through a turbulent process of grappling with questions of...
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#6 The Gathering Gurus - Gene Ellis, Jan Gerards & PYNK
Gene Ellis and Jan Gerards join me to share the story of the PYNK Collective, a community that has been sharing peak moments of connection together for over a decade. We explore what it is that makes a truly transformational gathering and unpack the arc of evolution that we seem to be on as a...
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#5 Contemplative Community - Daniel Thorson & The Monastic Academy
The host of The Emerge Podcast Daniel Thorson joins me for an exploration of whether we need the contemplative backdrop of a Monastic Academy to create truly regenerative communal contexts. https://www.whatisemerging.com/emergepodcast https://www.monasticacademy.com/
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#4 Michel Bachmann & The Community Weavers Guild
In this fourth episode of The Collective Blooming Series I speak with Michel Bachmann, co-founder of The Community Weavers Guild. We delve into a wide range of fascinating ideas including the potential for regenerative communal contexts to help us heal our Collective trauma and how preparing...
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#3 Nati Lombardo & The Enspiral Network
In this third episode of The Collective Blooming Series I speak with Nati Lombardo, co-founder of the The Hum and member of the Enspiral network. We cover all sorts of fascinating topics including Nati's insights into the importance of cultivating self awareness in non-hierarchical contexts and…
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#2 Shubha Pradha & That Extra Step
In this second episode of The Collective Blooming Series I speak with Community Weaver Shubha Pradha as we explore the origins of That Extra Step, a thriving Collective she founded in Bangalore alongside her brother Hari and her mentor Abhay. Our discussion covers the many ups and downs of being…
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#1 Tibet Sprague & The Tale Of The Terran Collective
In this first episode of The Collective Blooming Series I speak with Communitarian Technologist Tibet Sprague. We explore the story of the Terran Collective, as well as the challenges and opportunities of cultivating a community of practice and care that is dedicated to building systems and tools...
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