The Awaken Podcast - Buddhist Teachings, Social Justice, and Today's World

Ravi Mishra

Conversations with Buddhists and spiritual teachers, social and racial justice activists, technologists, artists, and more about the path of waking up in today's world.

  1. S2, Ep8: The Sacred Economy

    03/21/2021

    S2, Ep8: The Sacred Economy

    We close out this season of Awaken with a discussion about WildSeed's ideas about the Sacred Economy and how we might build it. We consider how holding the inter-relatedness of all beings might help us transcend the overly rational and mechanistic world views which disenchant us and leave us unable to imagine a world beyond the status quo. Lastly, we talk through some potential models that could help us build sustainable and self-organizing community funds, projects, and services.

    23 min
  2. S2, Ep7: Reflections & Upcoming Prototypes

    03/21/2021

    S2, Ep7: Reflections & Upcoming Prototypes

    This episode gives an overview of some of the things that WildSeed did in 2020 as well as dipping into some upcoming projects like community visioning and radical money pools. We hope you enjoy this peek into the past, present, and future of the WildSeed Society.

    23 min
  3. S2, Ep6: Transformation

    03/21/2021

    S2, Ep6: Transformation

    This episode wraps up our discussion of WildSeed Society design principles #9-#12, which all relate to transformation and (R)evolution. As always, it's a wide-ranging discussion touching on things like color revolutions, the emotional truths underlying the so-called "free rider problem", and the challenges we face when giving people permission to re-imagine their relationships outside of scarcity logic and exploitation.

    37 min
  4. S2, Ep5: Interdependence

    02/24/2021

    S2, Ep5: Interdependence

    This episode dives deep into WildSeed Society design principles #5-#8 which focus on "being through interdependence" and community building. Along the way we touch on things like poly-rhythm and moving together like music, the inherent wisdom about community in many indigenous cultures, and why moralization doesn't work when thinking about Wakanda and Black Panther.

    58 min
  5. S2, Ep4: Insight

    02/17/2021

    S2, Ep4: Insight

    There are 12 design principles that hold the WildSeed Society together - this episode focuses on the first 4: Reconnecting the spiritual, social and scientific [R]evolutions of our time to each other and to everyday life with love and rigor Utilizing differential logic: naming and building on many ways of knowing and many sources of knowledge. Where everyone is an authority on their relative truth and no one is an authority on absolute truth. Witnessing ourselves, each other and the world faithfully--with intellectual empathy--in light of deep and complex historical context. Acknowledging tradition and grieving history while leaving what no longer serves all of us behind

    48 min
  6. S2, Ep3: What is the System?

    11/12/2020

    S2, Ep3: What is the System?

    In this episode, Aaron, Chany, and I talk about that age-old question: "What is the System?" - or as Aaron likes to put it, "The Terrain of Domination." As always, we're hoping this wide-ranging convo triggers more questions than answers. ;)

    49 min
  7. S2, Ep2: Liberation Logic

    11/12/2020

    S2, Ep2: Liberation Logic

    This Season will be all about the WildSeed Society, an awesome new project I'm honored to be a part of. You can find an intro to the project in Episode 1. This episode is about Liberation Logic, a framework on the interconnection between spiritual and political liberation. Joining me this season will be Aaron Goggans and Chany Singh. Aaron (he/they) is one of the (if not the) main instigators of the WildSeed Society. Aaron is a visionary, writer, philosopher and organizer. Aaron works on building ecologies of liberation where the currently impossible becomes probable. Chany (she/her) is an administrative magician, co-creative team player who is newer to activism. She's here for the beginners out there to keep talk grounded and accessible.

    1h 3m
  8. S2, Ep 1: What is WildSeed Society?

    09/23/2020

    S2, Ep 1: What is WildSeed Society?

    This Season will be all about the WildSeed Society, an awesome new project I'm honored to be a part of. WildSeed is a still-being-birthed collective, but the best way to describe it is that it's a non-denominational church for activists - both in the sense of being a gathering space for those interested in building a more just, liberated, and joyful world to explore the deeper parts of our collective existence *and* as a hub for organizing and resource sharing amongst projects that make direct impact in the lives of our communities. Joining me this season will be Aaron Goggans and Chany Singh. Aaron (he/they) is one of the (if not the) main instigators of the WildSeed Society. Aaron is a visionary, writer, philosopher and organizer. Aaron works on building ecologies of liberation where the currently impossible becomes probable. Chany (she/her) is an administrative magician, co-creative team player who is newer to activism. She's here for the beginners out there to keep talk grounded and accessible. We'll have a number of conversations about WildSeed, exploring what it means to us and how we hope to bring it alive in the world. Please reach out with questions/comments/anything else.

    1 hr
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