Insightful author, speaker, and consultant Carter Phipps joins Terry to explore our intensifying political, economic, and cultural crises in the U.S. Carter begins by reflecting on his previous home — the San Francisco Bay Area — and how, in many ways, today’s progressive cities do not resemble the healthy and sustainable future societies he envisions. […]

Lifetime social and political activist Jim Garrison joins Terry to reflect on both the extreme state of our world and the subtle forces driving the collective consciousness. They reinterpret our collective madness in light of the wisdom of the natural world, and the archetypes of apocalyptic stories. Ultimately, they imagine what it means to proactively

Somatic educator, mindful embodiment teacher, and cultural anthropologist Karine Bell joins Terry to examine the nature of multi-generational trauma, how it remains alive in us today, and the collective healing so vital to the well-being of future generations. They consider how colonialism and hyper-individualism have traumatized not just black and brown bodies, but also white

The original, caring, and influential thinker Charles Eisenstein joins Terry to explore what’s really happening in this disorienting, liminal ordeal we find ourselves in — what he calls the “space between stories.” We confront the pattern of dehumanization we’re seeing across human culture, especially amidst our converging crises, and we consider what is required to

Gracious meditation teacher, author, shamanic practitioner, and community leader Spring Washam joins Terry to offers compassionate guidance and insight for how all of us can be authentic allies to people of color and the more-than-human world. She encourages everyone to be guided by our conscious heart intelligence and she effortlessly expresses a spacious generosity of

In this episode, we offer recent remarks Terry Patten gave on the topic of “holistic antiracism” to a mostly white community of caring spiritual practitioners. Afterward, several people mentioned that these reflections were useful and requested that Terry share them with others. So, we offer Terry’s reflections in this week’s episode. Below is a message

Writer, thinker, podcaster, community convenor and Stoic Peter Limberg joins Terry to consider how we can navigate our fast-changing cultural and digital landscapes amidst the meta-crisis in a way that brings tribes and ideologies into conversation with one another and fosters authenticity, wholeness, and right relationship to reality. Peter was convening in-person events in Toronto