THE SPACESHIP EARTH PODCAST Dan Burgess

Earth Sessions are DJ mixes that I put out from time to time.
This unravelling world makes me despair today.
So I went down to the Spaceship shed and recorded this mix.
Ruff and ready.
When there are no words, there is music.
House Music
And Love.
Respect to the artists and producers who have created these tracks that are alive for me right now.
Full listing on site.



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In this episode I’m in conversation with Sarah Corbett, award winning campaigner, activist and founder of the Craftivist Collective.
Craftivism, where craft meets activism, offers a unique, intimate, transformative approach to addressing the gnarly issues of our time, emphasising the importance of gentle, emotionally intelligent, creative and persuasive protest in fostering meaningful dialogue, connection and change.
From crafting hearts to connect across climate movements to sewing personalised handkerchiefs sent to corporate leaders and so much more - Sarah and the Craftivist Collective invite people to embrace activism rooted in gentleness, compassion, humility and self-care.
We Explore
* Navigating the digital activism world: challenges and personal reflections
* Blending craft and activism for change
* The potential of gentle protest: crafting a kinder activism
* The power of hands in crafting, connecting and healing
* The transformative impact of craft on mental health
* Craftivism in action: from gentle protest to wider solidarity and systemic change
Links
Craftivist Collective
Craftivist Instagram


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In this episode I’m in conversation with Adah Parris - keynote speaker, futurist,  visionary artist, and activist who inspires transformative change through her practice.
Adah is working with many inquires - including ‘Cyborg Shamanism’ and the provocation ‘What kind of ancestor do you want to be ?’
And we dig into this and much more in this conversation.
This is also a conversation which explores the essence of diversity - of wider intelligences, of sensing the world differently and of co-creating different futures. 
A conversation between two late diagnosed neurodiverse people, we explore what happens when we challenge normativity, drawing on other forms of creative intelligence, what do we find along the path when we're walking on the edges of normal?
We Explore
* Personal and collective responsibility towards climate change and the actions necessary for a more regenerative future.
* Emotional and mental health in the face of conflict and crisis.
* Experiences of ADHD and Autism, challenging ‘normativity’ and the impact and potential of diversity in shaping our future
* Creating change through remembering our rootedness to the Earth
* Cyborg shamanism’ - blending technology, storytelling and spirituality for better understanding relationships, interconnectedness and planetary consciousness.
Links
Becoming Crew Live Gatherings
Tickets for Live Gathering with Bayo Akomolafe
Adah Parris
Adah Parris Instagram
Earth Echoes


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Every so often I record a conversation that feels absolutely vital for the stuckness of these times.
Full of insight, provocation, intelligence, trouble and beautiful fertiliser for what could be.
This is one of those episodes.
A conversation with Alnoor Ladha and Lynn Murphy - both long term activists, political strategists and in their words ‘accidental philanthropy advisors’.
Alnoor and Lynn are two of the wisest souls I’ve hosted here.
Their ability to articulate with clarity, nuance, honesty and humility to the mess we are in as a species and how we got here, while gesturing towards beautiful ways through is remarkable, and is a true gift in my opinion.
They draw on this knowledge through wisdom, experiences and learnings from a vast diverse web of life, traditions, cultures, professions and expertise past and present, and the extraordinary book they created is a synthesis of all of that.
Post Capitalist Philanthropy - Healing Wealth in the Time of Collapse 
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This Episode is a longer one. - However, we do offer you an intentional reflective pause half way through, a place to breathe and check in on yourself or take a break.
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This conversation is deep, it sets out a dynamic perspective on ’the waters we are swimming in’ today and the ‘Age of Consequence’ we are now experiencing.
We explore:
* Navigating the polycrisis/metacrisis - how did we get here - understanding the systems through ‘structural, historical, constellational world views.’
* The inevitability of financial collapse and currency devaluation as the model of debt-based, growth-based logic self-terminates.
* The incompatibility between the Earth’s System and Neo-liberal late stage- capitalist modernity
* Ontological shifts and returning to life force - somatics, disembodiement, separation, identity, ancestry and death
* What is Post-Capitalism - values and realities
* Becoming ‘conscientious objectors’ of the dominant extractive culture
* Shifting to solidarity with all life: the power of connection and dialogue with the living world and ancient wisdom in modern activism and regenerative change
* Growing post-capitalist realities, cultures and infrastructure through community and practices
* Living and practicing new and ancient ways of being, knowing and relating
* Creating post capitalist infrastructure: a call to philanthropy and wealth redistribution
* Reflections on wealth, identity and the journey of collective liberation and transformation.
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Are we willing to walk away from cultures of domination, control and violence ?
To recognise our smallness in the great mystery of life and begin to trust the life force within us and around us to guide us into practicing new ways of being and new cultures that put life at the centre again.
I really hope you appreciate this Episode, please do comment, share and post far and wide if it brings things up for you, we’d love to hear from you.
Links
Becoming Crew Live Event Gatherings
Post Capitalist Philanthropy
Transition Resource Circle
Culture Hack Labs
Sam Lee - Green Mossy Banks




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Originally released in June 2022, I’m rebroadcasting for Earth Day Episode 60 with Dr Stephan Harding - Holistic Scientist, Deep Ecologist, Author and Co-founder of Schumacher College who was mentored by the scientist James Lovelock - responsible for the Gaia Theory Hypothesis.
Earth Day began in 1970 the year before I was born, and here we are 54 years later experiencing the accelerated unravelling of our Earth’s System, essentially from a perception problem, a relationship problem, a separation crisis.
Capitalist Modernity has failed to understand or accept that the Earth is alive, an ongoing complex, mysterious entanglement of intelligent living relationships which have created the conditions for life to emerge, including human life.
This is Gaia. A way of seeing the Earth that humans throughout the majority of our time as a species on this planet have always known.
The Earth and all life on it is sentient, animate and sacred.
Decades of destructive and extractive ways of being in relationship with the Earth means we’re facing into the consequences of that in profound ways now, how quickly can we wake up at scale and re-learn to see the Earth as alive ?
What Stephan would call Gaian consciousness…
“So lets call it a Gaian consciousness. It’s gradually taking root inside people, people are waking-up to it more and more. But it’s slow. Waking up is far slower than the rate of destruction. And what we need now is the rate of waking-up to overtake the rate of destruction. And the waking-up has got to happen on a massive scale. But I don’t know how that is going to happen.
The positive side is that cultural revolutions can happen very quickly. Revolutions in consciousness can happen very quickly. This one has got to happen quicker than any other, and happen fast and on a global scale. And it has got to transcend national boundaries, political boundaries, all the sorts of boundaries that we humans have erected between ourselves, gender boundaries, all those boundaries they have got to fall down. And we all have to unify to protect our very own planet, for her own sake and our sake and the sake of all beings. Is that going to happen?”
In this episode we explore
- Who is Gaia and what’s her history? 
- James Lovelock independent scientist, mentor and Gaia Theory Hypothesis
- 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 time, for the sake of all life
- 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?
- Finding your Gaia place
I hope you enjoy this conversation.



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Something a bit different this week from the deeper more than human dive we’ve been on in the last few episodes.
I’m in conversation with Matthew Barr of Adventure Sport Podcast Looking Sideways
Matt has released nearly 250 episodes on his podcast with some of the biggest, humblest and most interesting names in Surfing, Snowboarding, Skateboarding and related pursuits.
Many of the conversations Matt hosts explore the big challenges of our time through the lens of these sports, experiences and communities.
Aside from being a fan of the pod I wanted to get Matt on for a few reasons:
* I’m a life long trail runner and a keen surfer  - both of these pursuits have kept my awe for the living Earth alive and my humility in check - as a little human-being on a vast, powerful, complex, intelligent more than human planet .
* I’m always curious about adventure sport and the obvious relationship with our living Earth that offers potential not just for connection, but protection, activism, regeneration and stewarding from within these communities, if they could be more widely mobilised.
* I really appreciate how Matt digs into the multiple tensions and issues we are facing today from climate and ecological breakdown, to structural racism, to gender rights and much more - he explores them, through the stories of some amazing humans that he hosts.
* Like this podcast tries to do, Matt creates space to explore the complexities, nuance and difficult things we must all learn to face into, the uncomfortable conversations we need to learn to welcome if we’re to find ways through these crazy times into more peaceful, co-operative ways of being, between humans and all life on this Earth.
* Podcasting can be an extraordinary medium for learning and unlearning which is what keeps me going with this podcast and what I learn in this conversation drives Matt to continue with his.
We explore:
* The need for more spaces for true dialogue to help us move through the stuck binary, divisiveness of modern culture and media.
* How so many tensions are often based on poor information and limited understanding, especially when it comes to our relationship with a complex living planet.
* The elephant in the room when it comes to the meta crisis - ‘the spell of Capitalism’ - and our collective inability to imagine anything different.
* The impacts of a deeply commoditised, extractive and often entitled culture on our personal sense of responsibility to look beyond ‘nature as transaction’, and act as stewards, protectors and active participants in change.
* ‘The Announcement’ - a 3 part audio documentary that Matt is creating with Patagonia based on their recent decision to ‘convert all the wealth Patagonia creates to protect the source of all wealth - the Earth.’
* This is also a conversation from two ‘Gen-X’ middle-aged white men about the pursuit of the podcasting medium, the role for longer form content, the challenges of pervasive technology and social media platforms on our attention, and how to be of service in these unravelling times.
As Matt put it:
“We were both born in the analogue era and we’ll die in the AI era”.
I hope you enjoy, please share if you do and let us know how this lands for you in the comments
Links
Looking Sideways Website
Looking Sideways Substack
Instagram
Patagonia Announcement


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