Unbreakable Links

In this month’s episode we chat with Reverend Lhamo Lotscher. Lhamo is an ordained Interfaith Minister, counsellor, mystic, and creator of Ministry of She. As a thought leader in matrilineal healing, she teaches women’s circle leadership and skills for serving the Sacred Feminine in the real world.

In this month’s episode we talk with public academic David Tacey, one of our most eminent thinkers on spirituality in Australia. David Tacey has authored several books including The Spirituality Revolution, Re-enchantment and Edge of the Sacred:Jung, Psyche, Earth. Though his first university course on ‘Spirituality in Australia’ was hugely popular, he faced staunch opposition from the academy. Our conversation meanders through diverse territory from the Aboriginal gift, to our treatment of asylum seekers to the call for an ecological conversion. A thread running throughout is the recognition that we all have a deep need for belonging to place.

In this special Australian Women’s Day episode we were invited by the founders of AWD campaign to contribute a conversation about or between women in Australia. The episode is part educative, part reflective and we believe in bringing to light an issues that is often stigmatised, secretive and subtly pervasive. In the first part we share the facts and stats about family violence within Australia and how this fits within the campaign. The second part of our conversation contributes our philosophical ‘unbreakable links’ to family violence spanning language, theology, relationships, myths and early colonial history.

In this month’s episode we talk with Dr Maxine Therese, philosopher, practitioner and author of The Push for a Child Philosophy. Maxine has created the Foundational Needs Model, which draws on the Indian Chakra system, Platonic philosophy, epigenetics and experience working with children and families.

In this month’s episode we talk with Jamie Thomas and Sara Jones, founders of Wayapa Wurrk, about the practice of Wayapa, connection to country, earth mindfulness and how we can be better custodians of the land through cultivating a relationship to the environmental elements around us.  

Today we're talking about the relationship between personal night dreams and the cultural imagination. How do each inform the other? If we're instructed to pursue and live "the dream" -- how do our night visions inform the dreams we construct in our outer lives?

In this week's episode we're talking about how the ideology of neoliberalism affects our relationship to the environment and our individual to climate change.

Although we assume that ageing is decline, perhaps there are other ways to view this process.

Today we're discussing the origin and history of neoliberalism. If you've ever pursued self-improvement or wondered why we tend to define people in dollar figures, you'll enjoy this accessible introduction to neoliberalism.

Social media: we love it, we hate it. But how does it affect our quality of attention and state of mindfulness? Today we're discussing our relationship to social media after a 2 week digital detox.