Best Systemstheory Podcasts (2024)

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S3 E5: Forgiveness as a Breathing & Somatic Self-Pleasure with Lady J 1:40:41

1y ago1:40:41

1:40:41

Join T. Aisha Edwards and Kaila June Keliikuli in this special release and the closing episode of Season 3. Season 3 is a year long exploration with the experience and force of forgiveness. In this conversation, we talk about rhythm changes, fractals of the Mother Wound, what it means to be a good ancestor, forgiveness over lifetimes and how ELC sl…

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S3 E4: Expanding Autism 52:42

2y ago52:42

52:42

Aisha and Kaila expand on the discussion about neurodivergence begun in episode 3. We discuss neurodivergent diagnosis, affirmation, trauma healing, disability justice and cultural inclusion. Aisha also intimately explores the impact of autism in xer own family. Topics Kaila and Aisha give a life update Aisha gives more information about the DSM di…

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S3 E3: A Spectrum of Rupture and Repair 55:16

2y ago55:16

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In this special episode, ELC partners with the SquarePeg Podcast, hosted by Amy Richards. Square Peg gives autistic adults the opportunity to hear the lives and stories of other autistic adults. In her conversations, she explores life, love, work, health and relationships with later in life diagnosed folks identifying as femme, trans or nonbinary. …

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S3 E2: Somatic Unwinding for Rupture and Repair 18:18

2y ago18:18

18:18

This brief episode is a follow up for episode one. In it, Aisha shares a poem inspire by an encounter with a hummingbird and offers a somatic practice for working with the activation of rupture. LINKS: ELC Patreon Page https://www.patreon.com/emergentliberationcollective Aisha Edwards https://campsite.bio/full_flight_wellness Kaila June https://www…

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S3 E1: Introducing Forgiveness 44:00

2y ago44:00

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Kaila and Aisha return for another season of ELC, sharing ELC’s changes over the hiatus. introduce the seasonal theme for 2022 Forgiveness. Together the two somatic educators explore the anatomy of forgiveness, foreshadowing the topics addressed throughout Season three. Return after a long hiatus and continuing slow podcast Goodbye to Chris Introdu…

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S2 Ep6: Healing Traditions - Part Two 39:34

3y ago39:34

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In part two of Healing Traditions Devan Williams, a proud indigenous woman of the Squamish Nation, shares cultural and traditional history and the impact of residential school for the indigenous people of Canada. She asks us to learn the true history of Canada as a first step to creating positive change for the next generations. You are doing just …

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S2 Ep5: Healing Traditions 35:04

3y ago35:04

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In part one of this two part episode Devan Williams, a proud indigenous woman of the Squamish Nation, talks with Chris about her family’s resistence & resilience in post confederaion Canada. She tells of the healing and hope that they bring in keeping cultural traditions of the Squamish nation alive. Next full doula and body based trauma treatment …

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S2 Ep 4: Fractals of Desire w/ YaliniDream and Adaku Utah 1:11:45

3y ago1:11:45

1:11:45

In this conversation, Aisha explores following embodied pleasure as the rhythm that agitates for wider social change with YaliniDream and Adaku Utah, two brown queer justice-focused, body-centered transformers of community. TOPICS Defining desire from the body - its connotations, dualities and realms of existence How we become separated from embodi…

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074 Jeremy Lent – Welcome Each Moment as a Sacred Treasure 1:28:23

3y ago1:28:23

1:28:23

Philosopher, pro-activist and author Jeremy Lent joins Terry in a deep and vulnerable exploration of where we are right now as a species, the underlying nature of our ecological and civilizational crises and how we frame our work to catalyze emerging potential for a rapid collective transformation toward a sustainable future. They consider how a gr…

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S2 Ep3: Orgasmic Yes 30:18

3y ago30:18

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Aisha reads from xer blog essay, The Orgasmic Organismic Yes. The essay explores the nuances of a blended YES-NO, the state when our sense of embodied pleasure becomes disorganized by obligation and pain. Xe explores how to cultivate unblending the two, supporting the possibility of embodied pleasure again. After the reading, Kaila guides a somatic…

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S2 Ep2: Generative Creation 1:01:15

3y ago1:01:15

1:01:15

Summer 2021 theme on ELC is Desire. We weave this somatic concept throughout each conversation, practice and exploration for this season. In this conversation, Aisha, Kaila and Chris attempt to reclaim desire as a concept associated with hedonism and mindless sexuality as western culture defines it. Together, we create a new working somatic definit…

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S2 Ep1: Generative Rest 47:13

3y ago47:13

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In this conversation between Kaila June and Aisha Edwards, we explore concepts of ease and slow as precursors for creativity and are inspired by the pace of nature. We introduce Emergent Liberation Collective as a “slow podcast” and talk about the changes we’ve experienced since putting out our first season. As a practice for cultivating generative…

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073 Fred LaMotte – From the Temple to the Wilderness of Now 56:09

3y ago56:09

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Poet, teacher and interfaith chaplain Fred LaMotte joins Terry to listen, notice, honor and share the mysterious depth that emerges between them, among them and beyond them. Terry begins by reading one of Fred’s poems, and later Fred shares a couple of his favorite poems with Terry. They explore the inner processes and revelations from which lumino…

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072 Peter Russell – Letting Go of Nothing 1:09:30

3y ago1:09:30

1:09:30

Futurist, teacher, and author Peter Russell joins Terry in person at his home to connect more intimately and explore several profound considerations about this human miracle and our current predicament. In a previous podcast episode (February 2020), their conversation focused on an essay Peter had written called Blind Spot, in which he explores how…

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071 Indra Adnan – The Politics of Waking Up 1:21:12

3y ago1:21:12

1:21:12

Social psychotherapist, political theorist & entrepreneur and community organizer Indra Adnan joins Terry to explore the politics and power dynamics of “waking up” to the “meta-crisis” and to one another. Indra is in contact with the raw nerve of possibility. While many thinkers look at our civilizational predicament with increasing pessimism, she …

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070 David Sloan Wilson – Evolution's Key Practices and Design Principles 1:47:44

3y ago1:47:44

1:47:44

This episode of State of Emergence, features an additional conversation with last week’s featured guest, the evolutionary biologist and important social theorist David Sloan Wilson. If you haven’t already listened to last week’s episode with David — episode 069, titled “A Human Superorganism — The Higher Potentials of Cooperation” — we encourage yo…

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069 David Sloan Wilson – A Human Superorganism: The Higher Potentials of Cooperation 1:30:08

3y ago1:30:08

1:30:08

Brilliant evolutionary biologist and important social theorist David Sloan Wilson joins Terry to clarify the real implications of what we know about evolution, focusing on how “multi-level selection,” interpersonal cooperation and altruism are no less central to evolution than is competition. Groups of “prosocial” individuals, under the right condi…

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So, Tell Me About Relationships 33:50

3y ago33:50

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This season we'll take a look at a few theological and philosophical concepts that inform Marsh's view of helping. While his counseling paradigm consists primarily of CBT, his faith undergird his worldview and view of human nature. In this episode, we look at the benefits of intimate relationships and the potential pitfalls of isolation. Email: imm…

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So, Tell Me About Suffering 32:38

3y ago32:38

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This season we'll take a look at a few theological and philosophical concepts that inform Marsh's view of helping. While his counseling paradigm consists primarily of CBT, his faith undergird his worldview and view of human nature. In this episode, we discuss how hardships have the potential to help us grow. We also discuss the value in choosing to…

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068 Stephen Jenkinson – Overwhelming Beauty — and Being OK, Dying 1:13:58

3y ago1:13:58

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Spontaneous poet, culture activist, and shamanic bard Stephen Jenkinson joins Terry to explore the totally disarming ordeal of bearing witness to death up close — both our individual mortality and our collective mortality. They also drop into felt contact with Terry’s present, uncertain situation — recently on his 70th birthday, Terry was suddenly …

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So, Tell Me About Grief 39:12

3y ago39:12

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This season we'll take a look at a few theological and philosophical concepts that inform Marsh's view of helping. While his counseling paradigm consists primarily of CBT, his faith undergird his worldview and view of human nature. In this episode, we talk about grief. We explore why western culture struggles with it and its importance for our well…

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Francis Weller (Rebroadcast) – Letting Grief Open Us to Grace 1:16:05

3y ago1:16:05

1:16:05

This week, we are featuring one of our favorite past episodes — a tender, intimate, and deeply grounding conversation with the psychotherapist and soul-activist Francis Weller. We recorded this conversation almost a year ago, however, it’s feeling very alive and timely to us now. Francis’ transmissive presence and his “soul obligation to register t…

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067 Jonathan Rowson – Tasting the Pickle: A Personal Relationship with the Meta-Crisis 1:33:27

3+ y ago1:33:27

1:33:27

Chess Grandmaster, philosopher, author, and social entrepreneur Jonathan Rowson joins Terry to explore our global, civilizational predicament from new angles — inspired by his recent brilliant essay “Tasting the Pickle: Ten Flavors of Meta-Crisis and the Appetite for a New Civilization.” They go beyond its more recognized features such as COVID, th…

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066 Sean Esbjörn-Hargens – Our Wild Kosmos: Aliens, Angels, Elves & Critical Thinking 1:36:56

3+ y ago1:36:56

1:36:56

Integral scholar and Exostudies pioneer Sean Esbjörn-Hargens joins Terry to explore an integral approach to conspiracy theories and “exo realities” — including the anomalous phenomena that challenge our current models of reality. Sean begins by sharing an illuminating series of wise guidelines for navigating our post-truth conspiracy-theory-filled …

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065 Jeffrey Kripal – Flipping Open the Materialist Mind 1:26:16

3+ y ago1:26:16

1:26:16

Author and professor Jeffrey Kripal joins Terry to explore the multidimensional, psychophysical nature of reality, as well as the potential of new kinds of agency, cooperation, and co-creativity. They begin by noticing the stranglehold that materialism still seems to have on our popular imagination, and also acknowledge the recent emergence of what…

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064 Bayo Akomolafe – Getting Lost & Meeting the More-than-Human Vibrancy of the World 1:36:16

3+ y ago1:36:16

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Prophetic teacher, psychologist, author and poet, Bayo Akomolafe joins Terry to explore the “cracks in the world” that are opening to swallow everything we’ve been taught to believe and sense into the voices, adventures, and new worlds that are poised to emerge. With vivid original imagination and a ruthless deep kindness, Bayo names the limits of …

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S1 E2: Trust in Belonging, Ancestor Reverence & Healing w Langston Kahn 33:16

3+ y ago33:16

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“Ancestral liberation is the process of helping our unresolved ancestors to heal the patterns on the level of lineage that keep them stuck, allow them to become true well luminous ancestors and deepen our ability to engage and connect with them as positive forces in our lives so we can transform what has been a burden for us into a powerful blessin…

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S1 E3: Trust, Inner Listening & Connecting to Earth 17:56

3+ y ago17:56

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A story and a somatic grounding practice as invitations to enter into your body for support and intuitive guidance. CONTENT Story: Chris explores trust as an embodied sparkle that, if followed, leads one right where they need to be. Enquiry: The language of your body: What are your sign posts? Somatic Grounding Practice: Magda offers a practice to …

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S1 E1: Trust in Emergence, A Beginning 23:31

3+ y ago23:31

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Welcome to the Emergent Liberation Collective and our premier episode in this winter season February 2021. Every story has a beginning, this is ours. Follow our journey that began the week of George Floyd’s killing in May of 2020, and unfolded through the seasons of the global pandemic inside a vulnerable process of discovering trust. How do we mov…

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063 Tim Freke – Emergentism, Unividualism, and a New Wave of Benevolence 1:27:10

3+ y ago1:27:10

1:27:10

Philosopher and author Tim Freke joins Terry to explore the personal, cultural, and global implications of an integration of our best rational and spiritual understandings of reality. Tim Freke is an English philosopher and author of 35 books, including a Sunday Times bestseller and Daily Telegraph 'Book of the Year'. He is the founder of ‘Unividua…

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062 Spiritual Friends Amidst Cultural Madness — The Power of Our Grateful Generosity 1:01:47

3+ y ago1:01:47

1:01:47

Terry Patten explores the delusion, anxiety, loneliness, and fear experienced across our culture as well as the potential for sacred, next-stage friendship to be a key leverage point for healing the madness. Terry also invites members of the New Republic of the Heart practice community to share their experiences participating in a daring social exp…

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061 Jonathan Gustin – Becoming Whole: Emotional Maturity, Spiritual Awakening and Soul Purpose 1:22:27

3+ y ago1:22:27

1:22:27

Purpose guide and psychotherapist Jonathan Gustin joins Terry to explore the vital processes of discovering and actualizing our soul’s purpose, in clear and practical terms, to benefit our world in crisis. Jonathan builds upon our recent episode with Bill Plotkin by offering important distinctions between purpose, vocation, and pleasure. He also de…

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060 January 21, 2021 13:51

3+ y ago13:51

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In light of the inauguration of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, host Terry Patten shares spontaneous reflections on endings, new beginnings, hope, despair, the spiritual tasks of this time, and how we can refuse to put anyone out of our hearts. We hope that you appreciate this episode, and, most importantly, that you are finding your own way to a rene…

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059 Bill Plotkin – The Descent to Soul and the Journey of Initiation 1:56:24

3+ y ago1:56:24

1:56:24

Ecopsychologist, wilderness guide and author Bill Plotkin joins Terry to consider the human crisis as essentially a crisis of immaturity — that true human adults and human elders are both extraordinarily rare today. Bill speaks to what is truly required for us — as individuals, and collectively — to grow from our extended adolescence into mature hu…

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058 Stephen Dinan – Conspiracies, a New Paradigm and What’s Truly Holistic 1:07:30

3+ y ago1:07:30

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Evolutionary leader, thinker, and founder of The Shift Network Stephen Dinan joins Terry to explore how conspiracy thinking and new paradigm ideas are sometimes merging in a phenomenon some call “Conspirituality” — which he articulated, with clarity and courage, in a Medium essay some months ago titled, “Anatomy of Delusion: How Otherwise Conscious…

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057 Thomas Hübl – The New Martial Artistry of Healing Our World 1:52:30

3+ y ago1:52:30

1:52:30

Remarkable mystic and teacher Thomas Hübl joins Terry to discuss his new book Healing Collective Trauma, and they take the exploration into some new deep places. Every human being is born into and affected by, either directly or indirectly, the collective wounds of human history — epigenetically, energetically, and systemically. This is why Thomas …

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