A curiosity driven podcast about wisdom, learning and the personal and systemic implications of the transition we are in. Hosted by Amit Paul and Nils von Heijne. For extended shownotes visit: https://worldofwisdom.substack.com/
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The Wisdom from the Top of the World Series aims to provide talks, conferences and podcasts from a center located at the Aspen Chapel in Aspen Colorado. For more free speaker content go to www.aspenchapel.org
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A podcast featuring Rashad Wisdom, get an inside look at who Rashad is and how the season is progressing.
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246. Nessie Reid - food sovereignty, food security and the liberation in grief work
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Nessie Reid is the director of the Global Diversity Foundation, (linktr.ee) the creator of the Miking Parlour lives with her husband on an organic farm in Wales. We deep dive into food and why food sovereignty and food security are such fundamental topics. Why it is that not more of us care about food. We speak of convenience and price as two impor…
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"Being the Eye of the Storm" Presented by Nicholas Vesey, November 10th, 2024
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245. Anna Gyllenklev - objects, infrastructure and how our relationships create our world.
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Anna Gyllenklev (LinkedIn) founder of Untra Studio visited the podcast. We spoke about what our environments do to us, we spoke about health and the relational nature of our world. What are the dependencies that structure our thinking? What do we have to do to think outside our brain? What are you cultivating? What do we nurture? What does it do to…
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‘Enlightenment made simple’, Presented by Nicholas Vesey, November 3rd, 2024
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244. Servane Mouazan - Care, collective intelligence, organisations as living entities
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Servane Mouazan (LinkedIn, webpage) visited the podcast and we spoke of things like collective intelligence, what happens when we invite the organisation as the living entity and inquire into it into the room, we spoke of trust and how capital is not just financial capital but rather many things. We spoke of change, and resistance to change, th…
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'The Sword in the Stone" Presented by Nicholas Vesey, October, 27th, 2024
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How do we bring truth out of our hearts to share with others? There are many similarities with Arthur pulling the sword from the stone. Support the showBy Aspen Chapel
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243. Thekla Teunis - Regenerative agriculture, bottom up systems transformation and building as you go
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Thekla Teunis (LinkedIn) is the founder of Grounded aiming to bring agriculture back into balance. Thekla shares her journey from Shell and McKinsey to her current work of transforming agriculture bottom up from the core. We speak of being with the consequences of what one is doing, what it takes to see and what it takes to take risk. The impor…
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"The Capacity to Act", Presented by Nicholas Vesey, October 20th, 2024
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What stops us from acting? How do we create the capacity to be able to make a difference to the world? Here's how! Support the showBy Aspen Chapel
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242. Vicki Saunders - gifting, new ways of being and the radically generous response
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Vicki Saunders (LI) founder of Coralus and I spoke of the new ways of building business, systems transformation, the power of generosity and kindness. What happens when you get 7000 women together and let the community direct investments? What happens when you realise just how expensive control is and how cheap trust is? What are the metaphors that…
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"The Prophet within us all" Presented by Nicholas Vesey, October 13th, 2024
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241. Sam Hinds - A deepdive into collective practice, collective action and leading from the emerging future
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Sam Hinds (website, substack) therapist, PhD and lecturer at California Center for Integral Studies, has been on before EP173. We dive into the depths of what some call collective precensing. We speak of faith and trust. We speak of the impatience we feel, the importance of slowing down, of staying with it. We speak of responsibility, relevance, ci…
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"Creating Space" Presented by Nicholas Vesey, September 29th, 2024
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"Creating the Space for Love" Presented by Nicholas Vesey, October 6th, 2024
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240. Giles Hutchins - The immanent and transcendent, leadership as facilitating unfolding and the harmonics of life
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Giles Hutchins (webpage) has been on the podcast before (EP107). Recently released his 6th book Nature Works which we center this conversation around. We deepdive into the meaning of the quote: "being intimate with the immanent and transparent with the transcendent". Giles also positions us nicely in where our society is currently, we speak o…
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239. Samantha Sweetwater - wisdom, sensemaking beyond thinking and the possibility that we were the ones who came home
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Samantha Sweetwater is a coach, author, holistic practitioner (webpage, LinkedIn, Instagram). We spoke of what is to have lived with the awareness of existential risk for 50 years. Which places it may take you. We speak of what it means to live in these times we live in and the possibilities it offers us. We speak of embodiment, enlifenment, aesthe…
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Guest speaker Dr. Elaine Pagels presents “Secret Gospels – Censored in Antiquity, Now Revealed", September 22nd, 2024
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238. Vanessa Andreotti - Hospicing modernity, conversations that world, being the sh*t, accountability and compassion
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Vanessa Andreotti author of Hospicing Modernity, dean of the faculty of education at University of Victoria and member of the DCF collective came and spoke about what it takes to begin making space for something that isn't modernity. We speak of the importance of humor and humility, staying open to both the good and the sh*t, coming into contact wi…
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"Selflessness is Selfishness", Presented by Gregg Anderson, September 16th, 2024
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Intermezzo: To move in spaces where worlds shift
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This episode is an intermezzo. It is an audio version of Amit Pauls and Eric Lichtmans article in the Unpsychology Magazine 10: Edges: To move in spaces where worlds shift. Enjoy!
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"Reverence for Life and Aspen Today" with Guest speaker Dr. Lachlan Forrow, September 8th, 2024
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237. Ida Faldbakken - Gatherings, being of service and co-creation
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Ida Faldbakken (LinkedIn), CEO of KatapultX and co-founder of Katapult Future Fest, and I had a deep inquiry into what it is to gather, what it's for and what it means to not waste peoples time. We also spoke about what it takes to break our habits, like what if the people on stage are there to propagate the conversation off stage, what if thes…
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‘Loneliness’ Presented by Nicholas Vesey, September 1st, 2024
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236. Manish Jain - Alternatives to education and reclaiming learning and knowledge
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Manish Jain, founder of Swaraj University and Ecoversities Alliance is this weeks guest. We spoke of alternatives to education, why education as we think of it today may be one of the root causes of the metacrisis rather than a solution for it and we spoke of reclaiming learning and knowledge. The treachery of language like 'first generation le…
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"Letting go of Fear" Presented by Nicholas Vesey, August 25th, 2024
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235. Grace Rachmany - Democracy, the monetary system, commons and value
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Grace Rachmany of the Voices of humanty, Priceless DAO, DAO leadership and many more projects is this weeks guest. We spoke of democracy and the state of it, we spoke of decision making, what happens to a society that has the monetary system as it's primary social structure. We speak of value, commons, technology and responsibility. This conversati…
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"Creating the Space for Harmony to Happen" Presented by Nicholas Vesey, August 18th, 2024
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234. Tanuja Prasad - Investments as a creative act, living systems and the potentiality of metaphor
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Tanuja Prasad (LinkedIn) and I had a conversation about her work in regenerative investments. We talked about the spirit of investments, the driving force behind investment up until this point, how to transcend the extractive paradigm and shift away from the control and force as the governing principles towards something more generative. Tanuja and…
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"How to Create Harmony in the World", Presented by Nicholas Vesey, August 11th, 2024
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Is there a way of creating harmony in our world? Yes, and this is how.... Support the showBy Aspen Chapel
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233. Eva Karlsson - Sustainable business, common sense and measurement
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Eva Karlsson (LinkedIn), CEO of Houdini Sportswear visited the podcast. We got to talk about solutions that are not solutions, the planetary boundaries in business, measurement, common sense, why joy at work is a radical thing to focus on. We also spoke of the benefit of having a strict set of design boundaries to work with, spoler: it spurs creati…
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"Disharmony" Presented by Nicholas Vesey, August 4th, 2024
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232. Jeremy Johnson - Emergence from the middle, the importance of hesitation and going terrestial
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Jeremy D Johnson visited the podcast a second time after 2 years (website). This was a deep and curious conversation about change all the way down. We spoke of emergence happening in the middle, the idea of slowing down, the importance of hesitation, temporics of attention, the awakening of the relational (integrated) worldview in younger generatio…
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"Connecting with harmony" Presented by Nicholas Vesey, July 28th, 2024
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How do we connect with the harmony that is latent within all things in the universe, so that we can manifest that harmony in our lives? Support the showBy Aspen Chapel
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231. Jenny Grettve - the mothering economy, feminine futures, the importance of small things and love
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Jenny Grettve founder of the Economic Institue For Feminine Futures, author of the upcoming book Mothering economy came by the podcast. We spoke of why, with all our innovative capacity, it is so difficult to create a caring and kind economy? This is a conversation on many levels that zooms in and out of the economic, educational and systemic work …
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"Being in Harmony", Presented by Nicholas Vesey, July 21st, 2024
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It is only when we can be in harmony with all that is around us, that we can begin to contribute that harmony to the world. This looks at how we might be that harmony. Support the showBy Aspen Chapel
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230. Eric "Zippy" Harris-Braun - Holochain, LLMs as grammar deducers and a new DNA for social organism
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Eric "Zippy" Harris-Braun, founder of Holochain, had a conversation about Holochain, agent centric vs data centric blockchains, the power of Holochain as one of the components of the DNA for social organisms. We speak about money and why it is not a very wholesome storage of value. We speak of gramatic capacity and LLMs as grammar deducers, the imp…
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"Seeing the Harmony", Presented by Nicholas Vesey, July 14th, 2024
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There is a fundamental harmony to the universe, and yet we experience disharmony and chaos. How do we see the harmony? Support the showBy Aspen Chapel
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229. Jeremy Akers - Liberating structures, coherence, change and game design
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Jeremy Akers from Gospel of change (Substack, X, LinkedIn) came by the podcast. We spoke of liberating structures, how to acheive coherence in groups and why that is crucial for the times we live in, game design and how that may take us forward. This is a conversation that orients towards the practical with some concrete tools and possibilities to …
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"Living with Harmony" Presented by Nicholas Vesey, July 7th, 2024
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"Harmony" Presented by Nicholas Vesey, June 30th, 2024
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‘I’m Spartacus’, Led by Nicholas Vesey, June 23rd, 2024
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228. Soloepisode: Reflections on separation, control and survival, relaxing, repurposing and remembering
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Another solo episode with some pressing reflections that wanted to come out. I reflect on the myths of separation, control and survival. Also invite you to consider the Relax, Repurpose and Remember triad that Innrwrks is working on. Most of all I invite you to be with the very challenging (and rewarding perspective): If everything in this world is…
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227. Karl-Erik Edris - the smoke that connects Reality with words, civilisations, the axial age and how we got here
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Karl-Erik Edris came by for a second conversation (here's the first from nov 2023). This time we spoke of the rise of fall of civilizations, where we currently seem to be in this current change, the axial age, the fall of the roman empire, Jesus, modernity and what might be coming next. What is it that our current ways of treating eachother and the…
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"Fathers Day" Presented by Nicholas Vesey, June 16th, 2024
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226. Nora Wilhelm - Systems change work vs youth activism, burnout in systemic work and what it means to live.
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Nora Willhelm (web, linkedin) founder of the well, co-founder of Collaboratio Helvetica, alumn of the European youth parliament and much more came by the podcast. This is a specific and hands on conversation about what it takes to be one of those longing to bridge the existing system towards what is to come. The costs of being a bridge, why systemi…
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"Faith and Empowerment" with Will Fisher, June 9th, 2024
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225. Michel Bauwens - What's next? Commons, the pulsation of the commons, technology and cosmolocalism
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Michel Bauwens (Substack and X) is a thought leader and researcher in the space of commons. Also the founder of the P2P foundation. We speak of the state of the commons, dive into the pulsation of the commons, the rise and fall of civilizations, and much more. Michel makes a beautiful argument for why we are currently moving towards a time when …
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"Peace and Harmony" Presented by Nicholas Vesey, June 2nd, 2024
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224. Audrey Fillon & Victor Vorski: Gathering of the tribes, the ancient technology of gathering and how to get to action
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Audrey Fillon and Victor Vorski came on the podcast and we spoke of Gathering. They are co-creating the Gathering of the Tribes (links: Gathering of Tribes' website, LinkedIn, YouTube channel, Instagram, Newsletter) It was a beautiful conversation touching on the technology of gathering, the need for breaking silos, the Project, what these times ar…
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"Making Peace with our Bodies", Presented by Nicholas Vesey, May 26th, 2024
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We are often at war with our bodies - diets, exercise, the unwanted judgements of others. How can we make peace and be satisfied with the only bodies we will ever have. Support the showBy Aspen Chapel
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223. Amanda Argot Efthimiou - Integration, consequences of unintegrated cultures and peak experiences
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Amanda Argo Efthimiou (webpage, LinkedIn, instagram) is specialized in integration of peak experiences and altered states with a background in Neuroscience. We speak of integration as an ongoing process, how cultural context is critical in understanding how we think about integration. We speak of how to retain the potency of a peak experience and h…
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