What if the cracks in our world weren’t problems to fix, but portals to step through? In this mythic, poetic, and gently disorienting conversation, Bayo Akomolafe invites us into the liminal, into the spaces between collapse and emergence, between logic and story, between the human and more-than-human. We explore what it means to become otherwise in times of profound unraveling. Bayo shares what it means to be a “recovering psychologist” in the face of modernity’s certainties, and how Yoruba cosmology opened a different kind of knowing, one shaped by entanglement, slowness, and reverence for the unseen. We speak of the Trickster, of AI as a mirror and a myth, and of the strange ways the soul shows up when we stop trying to make sense and start sensing instead. This is not a conversation of easy answers. It’s a dance of metaphors, memories, and micro-ruptures — and somewhere in the dance, a glimpse of sanctuary. 00:00 Opening: Modernity, psychology, and the cracks in our world03:00 What “emergence” awakens: incompleteness and porousness05:00 Yoruba cosmology, Brazil, and ancestral memory09:00 A recovering psychologist: theology, psychology, and coloniality13:00 Collapse, cracks, and radical non-completeness19:00 Spells, narratives, individuation & collective shadow work23:00 Chaos, polarization, and the gifts of confusion27:00 Sideways movements, slavery, and the Trickster31:00 Fragmentation, resistance, and eco-cognitive assemblages37:00 AI as crack, mirror, and Trickster presence45:00 Mythopoetic fields, Tarot, and Narcissus’ reflection50:00 The Emergence Network and sideways politics55:00 Seeds for the future: “Your soul is strange and you haven’t met her yet” Voices of Emergence is a podcast about inner transformation and systemic regeneration, hosted by Alex de Carvalho and Rudy de Waele. Subscribe to explore the edges of leadership, culture, and consciousness. 🎵 Intro & Outro MusicUsed with permission from AWARËTrack: Journey Live 5Listen on SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/awaremusic/jurney-live-5Explore more at: https://www.awaremusic.art