AS TEMPERATURES RISE

Dialoguing with Janice Stieber Rous on the importance of the body in how we know what we know. Janice has been dancing since she was five and attended the Martha Graham School until the age of 21. She graduated from the American Center of the Alexander Technique in 1981 and has been teaching classes in Stough Breathing Coordination, Yoga and the Alexander Technique in New York City, Orlando, Florida, Ireland and Israel ever since. Janice created Body Dialogue because she was in search of a practice to integrate all of her different studies, thereby effectively combining Alexander Technique, breathing and yoga. She also annually hosts a women's retreat based in the practice of Body Soul Rhythms Leadership Program, a program with Marion Woodman that Janice graduated from in 2003. https://bodydialogues.com/

This episode is with Saleem Berryman. Saleem is a spiritual teacher and guide in Conscious Awakening and full spectrum forgiveness! Learn more about Saleem and his teachings: https://www.saleemberryman.com/ About the podcast: https://www.astemperaturesrise.com/ Support the podcast: https://www.patreon.com/m/astemperaturesrise This episode is sponsored by Earth Altars: http://www.earthaltars.com/ Music is “Pole Stars ” by Aaron Ximm https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/us/

This episode is with Arthur Brock and Fernandana Ibarra of Holochain and the Commons Engine. Ferananda and Arthur have been working for over a decade as visionary social innovators in the space of currency design and decentralized technologies that are fit for ushering in the emerging post-industrial economy. Currently they are launching Holochain, a paradigm-busting sustainable alternative to blockchain. Holochain, based on principles of nature and living systems, is growing an ecosystem of truly P2P distributed applications. We discuss why this is so important in light the pernicious issues of surveillance capitalism that the film the Social Dilemma brought to awareness yet how the film came up short in its proposed solutions. In this episode we explore the intersection of technology and consciousness and their möbius strip relationship in our cultural evolution. We talk about how centralized technologies inherently concentrate power but that we can choose new means of human coordination and signaling that are more life-affirming and that can enable a flourishing of human creativity. This episode is sponsored by Earth Altars: http://www.earthaltars.com/ Music is “No, really. Everything is fine. ” by Aaron Ximm https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/us/ Links of mentions and rabbit holes to jump into: Video about Holo and Holochain: https://bit.ly/3h6B2MJ Holo: https://holo.host/ Holochain: https://holochain.org/ and how does Holochain work? https://bit.ly/2KM2Gm4 Commons Engine: https://commonsengine.org/ Currency Masterclass: https://commonsengine.org/packagedmasterclass/ Coventina Foundation (formerly CEPTR): https://ceptr.org/ JustOne Organics: https://justoneorganics.com/ Holochain Ecosystem (Happs — distributed apps being built on Holochain) Junto (human-centered social media platform): https://junto.foundation/ Hylo (another social media platform for community organization): https://www.hylo.com/ Kizuna: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SskgD45STwg Tons of videos to learn more on the Holochain Youtube channel: https://bit.ly/3axAxtR

This episode is with Tyson Yunkaporta author of the book Sand Talk that has been spreading like wildfire. Tyson is an academic and a researcher who belongs to the Apalech Clan in far north Queensland. He carves traditional tools and weapons and also works as a senior lecturer in Indigenous Knowledges at Deakin University in Melbourne. Sand Talk: https://bit.ly/37OMat6 Music is “Undying ” by Blue Dot Sessions About the podcast: https://www.astemperaturesrise.com/ Support the podcast: https://www.patreon.com/m/astemperaturesrise

Alnoor Ladha is a political strategist, writer and activist, working at the intersection of political organizing, structural change and narrative work. He was the co-founder and Executive Director of The Rules (TR), a global network of activists, organizers, and others focused on changing the rules that create inequality, poverty and climate change. He is a co-founder of Tierra Valiente, a post-capitalist community in the jungle of northern Costa Rica. He is a board member of Culture Hack Labs and The Emergence Network. *The Rules: https://therules.org/ *Culture Hack Labs: https://www.culturehack.io/ *See website for detailed show notes: https://www.astemperaturesrise.com/ *Support the podcast: https://www.patreon.com/m/astemperaturesrise *Music is “Collapse into Innocence” by Siddhartha https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/us/

This episode is with my friend and fellow podcaster Vicki Robin. Vicki is a prolific social innovator, writer and speaker, activist and life long learner. She coauthored the international best-seller "Your Money or Your Life." I decided to reach out to her to compare notes and ask her about insights she has gained from her 9 months of asking the question “What Could Possibly Go Right?” the name of her podcast. Music is “Gambrel” by Blue Dot Sessions https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/us/ Learn more about Vicki's work: https://vickirobin.com/ What Could Possibly Go Right Podcast: https://www.postcarbon.org/what-could-possibly-go-right-series/ About the podcast: https://www.astemperaturesrise.com/ Support the podcast: https://www.patreon.com/m/astemperaturesrise Show notes: Vicki's main insights: 1. History Matters — tracking the patterns of the rise and fall of civilizations over time; how the events of 2020 are changing her life recognizing privilege; the Victor Frankl choice; there is a humility that comes when we realize history matters 2. Stories or explanatory frameworks matter — especially the indigenous stories of how to live well on the planet; how to take only what we need and leave the rest; indigenous stories are about their screw ups, they got wise by learning from their mistakes; e.g. maturation or developmental frameworks; Peter Buffet uses the birth canal; the AA framework for people who have been addicted to oil and money 3. Solidarity matters — the justice movement and the climate movement MUST come together; one of the benefits of Covid is that put vulnerability to external forces to those who thought they were protected (ie white people) 4. Systems matter — we need to get out of our habit of linearity when existing within complexity; everything is connected to everything else 5. Ethics matter — original instructions and first principles; society is constructed in ways that force people to violate their moral codes in service to surviving; redemption is possible and we are on a redemption path — we need a truth and reconciliation 6. Empathy matters — if we can’t feel the consequences of our actions we cannot get to the truth; public execution of George Floyd was a collective feeling 7. Power matters — the embodiment of our power when it’s in service to something that we love that is greater than ourselves; power is the ability to move things; power wed to empathy and part of what makes a cultural scout, they care about something enough to wield power * Framework that Vicki like is the formation of a cell and the movement from the me to we; so much resolves itself in the realization that I- am you and you are me; we can’t survive without acting from this knowing/reality; it’s like an autoimmune disease that we recognize less and less of ourself as we go deeper into mistrust and polarization * The pressure of modernity is a forge pushing us through this birth canal * Social movements are the green new shoots of what’s happening and what’s going right now — I see us all claiming our power that may have not been possible without 2020; these movements have taught us to be strategic; we can’t just be nice people * Vicki’s list of scouting skills: * ambiguity * humility * inquiry * engagement * urgency within patience Mentions: * Money & Life documentary: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J3szcNsbeSc&t=2s * Vicki’s book Your Money or Your Life: https://yourmoneyoryourlife.com/ * Covida Conversations: https://vickirobin.com/podcasts/covida-conversations/ * Post Carbon Institute: https://www.postcarbon.org/ * Transition US: https://www.transitionus.org/ * Financial Independence, Retire Early (FIRE): https://www.investopedia.com/terms/f/financial-independence-retire-early-fire.asp * Victor Frankl: https://www.pursuit-of-happiness.org/history-of-happiness/viktor-frankl/

Ken Cloke is a world-recognized mediator, dialogue facilitator, conflict resolution systems designer, peace activist, teacher, public speaker, and the author of many books including "Mediating Dangerously" and "Politics, Dialogue and the Evolution of Democracy." He has been a pioneer and leader in the field of mediation and conflict resolution for the last 40 years. "Men often hate each other because they fear each other; they fear each other because they don't know each other; they don't know each other because they can not communicate; they can not communicate because they are separated." — Martin Luther King, Jr. Learn more about Ken's’s work: https://www.kencloke.com/ Music is "Pole Stars” by Aaron Ximm https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/us/ About the podcast: https://www.astemperaturesrise.com/ Support the podcast: https://www.patreon.com/m/astemperaturesrise Show notes: * Einstein after the bombing of Hiroshima “Everything has changed except the way we think." * Today’s political situation is illuminating what we already know: that it’s not working * The fundamental human project requires 1) recognition of the inevitably of diversity and 2) the overwhelming need for commonality/unity and this is what has made the species successful on a planetary scale * individuation and integration * crisis of power and crisis of rights * we need to get together and find ways to turn our diversity into a foundation for unity * one of the things that prompts our learning is contradiction, things that don’t match * The Buddhist middle way is a higher middle ground that is the basis of emergence * Isiah Berlin — politics is inherently unscientific, unphilosophical https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaiah_Berlin * power-based vs. rights-based vs. interest-based approaches to problem solving and conflict resolution * power-based is inherently win-lose; domination and subordinate * rights-based is voting; adversarial; still win-lose and power trumps rights * interest-based is not what you want but WHY you want it and nobody has to lose * these map onto forms of democracy * interest-based democracy requires dialogue and is non-adversarial * this will require us to develop the skills for such social problem solving without domination and subordination * the job is to come up with consensus and agreement * the problems facing the planet require this higher order skill * neurophysiology of conflict, generally speaking there are two responses: * neurotransmitter for fight or flight is adrenalin * neurotransmitter for tend and befriend is oxytocin * globally we are feeling the pressures of change that scares people and we don’t have the skills yet to solve these bigger problems * we are hitting the wall of functional rights-based democracy and we don’t yet have the skills for an interest-based democracy and that’s why we’re stuck * need to ask this third category of interest-based questions * mediation butterfly effect

Vanessa Andreotti is an Educational studies Professor and researcher on Race, Inequalities and Global Change at the University of British Columbia. Her work focuses on the limits of the modern story of development and human evolution and the adjacent possibilities of setting our horizons beyond what we can imagine within modern institutions and ways of knowing and being. Music is “Nature Shuffle" by Ketsa Learn more about Vanessa’s work: https://decolonialfutures.net/ About the podcast: https://www.astemperaturesrise.com/ Support the podcast: https://www.patreon.com/m/astemperaturesrise Show notes: * Vanessa’s mixed race background of white German and Indigenous Brazilian = born from a paradox * the Gesturing Towards Decolonial Futures collective: https://decolonialfutures.net/ * working at the crossroads of historical and ongoing violence and questions of unsustainability * communities around unsustainability and communities around violence generally do not intersect or connect because many of the solutions proposed become contradictory * in order for us to deal with what’s to come we must hold space for what’s difficult, what’s painful, what’s complex, what’s paradoxical without being immobilized or wanting to be rescued * biointelligence * remove the neurobiological barriers that make us feel separate * social cartography of "the house that modernity built” https://youtu.be/nAke2iQ53jc * the house is getting bigger than what the planet can support, based on separability * metabolism to talk about the dynamic nature of things, to focus on the movement of things in this entanglement * fear of scarcity becomes a pattern of accumulation * need evacuation from the house * indigenous proverb that it’s only when the water hits our hip that we start to swim * the indigenous don’t have the answers either but they can remind us that our bodies know how to swim * need to activate our exiled capacities * maybe the house was built to protect us from death, pain, scarcity, and a fundamental sense of worthlessness * unless we can live and die well we will try to protect the entitlements that the house of modernity has promised * Sharon Todd, we need to face humanity and all the human wrongs and process the shit otherwise it saturates in the bodies and can become epigenetic * we romanticize the work and only want to connect with the rainbows and unicorns and not the shit * thus indigenous often have practices such as entheogens or sensory deprivation or long term dancing to interrupt the normal way of being and seeing * we need to develop culturally appropriate practices that also will help bring forward such maturity and sobriety and trust * recalibrating our compass * like composting we have to find the right amount of humor, movement, intellect, affect etc... * affective forecasts that keep us from doing the work * the metabolism is sick and the young people are feeling it * individual hearts cannot deal with collective pain — there are practices of collectivizing the heart * we can calibrate our heart but it’s one of the capacities that have been exiled * if we don’t collectivize the heart we get overwhelmed and the pain then does not process * pain is a teacher * we can attach to the pain and it becomes a form of currency that establishes worth in a community * no community is self-sufficient in terms of medicines, we need to cross pollinate * stories as alive, as entities * sensing sight (Dougald Hine) in vibrational attunement * accountable autonomy rather than narcissistic freedom * Preparing for the end of the world as we know it: https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/oureconomy/preparing-end-world-we-know-it/ * imaging education in the year 2048: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2rEAY3eMbNQ * need to sober up, clean up, show up * education is about eldership, preparing us to be good ancestors * John Cryer, Cree elder, story of the four mountains about human development * who you are is the medicine you carry

This episode is from our first live session with Joe Brewer, the ED of the Center for Applied Cultural Evolution and a deep systems thinker, complexity researcher and pioneer in designing bioregional pathways to earth regeneration. Music is “In Passage" by Blue Dot Sessions Learn more about Joe’s work: https://medium.com/@joe_brewer https://earth-regenerators.mn.co/ Regenerative Economics in Real Life webinar with Joe: https://www.crowdcast.io/e/regenerative-economics-in-real-life About the podcast: https://www.astemperaturesrise.com/ Support the podcast: https://www.patreon.com/m/astemperaturesrise Show notes: * Money & Life documentary: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J3szcNsbeSc * Planetary collapse and why decades of systems change work has not effected deep systems change * Peter Berg, advocate for bioregionalism * Difficult to know overall carrying capacity * Definition of a bioregion = the region of an organisms biological existence which is different from organism to organism because of social behavior * For humans that is/was usually the extent of a trade network * Cultural geography, technical geography and ecological context that is shared = bioregion * What is the living economy of locales? The carrying capacity of the local living * Dana Meadow’s 1983 essay A Brief History of the Balaton Group: https://www.thesolutionsjournal.com/article/from-sustainability-science-to-real-world-action-a-short-history-of-the-balaton-group/ * "The pathway" for sustainability is local living economies * Joe’s work is an update on what has been known * History of management systems = double entry accounting that gave rise to the corporation * Invention of railroads needed a centralized time management system to coordinate at larger (national) scale * Organizing around time allowed scaling of the global economy (between 1850-1950) * Since 1950 the complexity of reality has outpaced the capacity of the older management systems/paradigms and nation states have become increasingly ineffective as solving problems * Nation states are falling away and will fall away because of this * Network systems bypass nation states since the Internet since around 1980 * Is humanity growing up? Yes and no... * Ecological Resilience = about interdependent relationships achieving feedbacks for self-regulation or autopoeisis for the collective * We select cultural patterns that bring about this resilience or we don’t! * The current information-communications system is not regenerative (huge energy hog and based on fossil fuels) and will fail * Mesh networks that emerged during Hurricane Sandy: https://www.govtech.com/public-safety/Mesh-Networks-Keep-Residents-Connected-Outages.html * Conservation management frameworks as a pathway to bioregional economies * Global system is a cancer killing the bioregional systems * Community land trusts to protect against the cancer by removing them from speculative markets * Cultural trauma and grief to be able to do the bioregional work to be able to trust and cooperate * The need for body-based practices e.g. capoeira * To become a perception system for the land and elements * Where to live and how to die

Vanessa Andreotti is an Educational studies Professor and researcher on Race, Inequalities and Global Change at the University of British Columbia. Her work focuses on the limits of the modern/colonial story of development and human evolution and the adjacent possibilities of setting our horizons beyond what we can imagine within modern institutions and ways of knowing and being. Music is “Turning" by Blue Dot Sessions Learn more about Vanessa’s work: https://decolonialfutures.net/ About the podcast: https://www.astemperaturesrise.com/ Support the podcast: https://www.patreon.com/m/astemperaturesrise Show notes: * We open with acknowledgments — land, technology, ancestors and the other than human * Vanessa’s upcoming book: Hospicing Modernity * “wording the world” vs. “worlding the world" * language as a living entity — language moves things * the world as a living metabolism = everything in movement and exchanging energies * we have what we need to face the storm that is coming together if we can co-exist differently with the storm itself and be in a different way with the metabolism that is sick * attuning to the bio-intelligence that keeps the metabolism functional for the healing of our thinking, of our feeling,cc of our relations, of the cycles of life and death * modernity creates deficiencies in ways that deactivate capacities and rhythms (that are still there we just need to reactivate) * our metabolism is part of a larger metabolism, the planet * “allow the thing to thing through us" * modernity’s ladder of mobility * ladder of social mobility that stands on the broken backs of piling bodies of other human and non-human beings. * "these benefits and the social mobility he sought were only made possible by the structural injustices he was trying to fight against” * modernity creates a separation between us and the metabolism — when that separation occurs, our intrinsic value is taken from us and thus we enter cycles of trying to produce a sense of value in modernity’s economies in order to feel we are worth being alive! * hard to criticize the ladder because it’s a compensation for something else much more profound * creates the hamster wheel based on an affective foundation * we are fighting over the throne when the whole palace is falling apart * offering palliative care while we disinvest from the pleasures and so-called securities that we have enjoyed * “modernity is delicious if you don’t know where it comes from…" * we need to hit rock bottom * The Bus Within Us Methodology: https://youtu.be/SyeoaVbp-ys * if you can’t hold space for your own inner complexity, we won’t be able to hold complexity outside ourselves * humor without complexity can be easily weaponized * looking at what’s not beautiful and not turning the gaze, but not feeling worthless * the moment we can see ourselves as cute and pathetic is the moment we can sit with everything and we’re ready to compost our shit * the need to zoom out and see ourselves with humor, disassociating with our self image = the problem of self-worthlessness is gone and NOT because you have been validated * indigenous psychoanalysis * decluttering the affective landmines * the difference between the call for accountability and the call for responsibility * accountability is what are you doing with the energy from the cost of your existence = who are you indebted to? * responsibility is knowing your medicine and when to use it * elders are not elders for the things they’ve done right but for the things they’ve done wrong and helped us learn from their wrong doing * the use of metaphor bypasses the defenses of the ego that have been colonized already and weaponized * fixed form is the problem * the need for gradual disillusionment that allows us to stay in the unknowability * hospicing is not just the glamorous part but its about the mess, it’s about holding generative space for what’s falling apart * education is about preparing people to become good elders and ancestors

This episode is with Sophy Banks. Her eclectic background has included being a therapist, family constellator, radical footballer, environmental activist, engineer, computer trainer, and more. She was on the ground with Transition Town Totnes, the birth place of the global Transition Movement. Sophy’s keen interest and commitment to creating healthy human culture at all scaleshas underpinned all her work and what we explore here in this episode. Sophy Banks: https://grieftending.org/ https://www.astemperaturesrise.com/ https://www.patreon.com/m/astemperaturesrise Music is “Vibrancy" by Ketsa Show notes: * orienting question: why do humans create systems that create so much suffering and nobody does anything about it? * not responding to the signals of pain and suffering * power inequality and inequality in suffering * the Transition Movement * endemic nature of burnout = burning the planet * what is it that organizes healthy culture to be life sustaining? * grief tending and how do we re-create a form of circle where we can hold one another in our grief * grief gives us insight into what’s wrong in our world * conflict between inner transition vs. outer transition * archetypes of doing and being * balance of opposites: health is when these are in balance = * yin and yang = Chinese medicine * fire and water = Sobonfu Some * love and will = Psychosynthesis * sympathetic and parasympathetic systems = organizing systems * what if a healthy culture is one supports a healthy flow between action and rest, between outward and inward movement? * the medicine wheel = cycles of nature * ground state of rituals and practices that support a healthy balance between action and rest * Stephen Porges Polyvagul theory * the return pathway + social technology for helping us come back to relaxed flow * when that return pathway is not there * double injury of the difficult experience + not having the support around to help us come back in a good way * a whole people can go through mass trauma and these pathways are wiped out * the inner world of a culture that’s been organized by trauma * we lose a trust in life * what do we do with pain in our culture? * systems of oppression: * those more identified with fight-flight tend to run things in our world because they have the energy to do so * there the part of the system being run by trauma and part being run by health * “The line between good and evil runs through every human heart.” - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn * George Lakoff on frames and metaphors * Riane Eisler on partnership vs. dominator cultures * Starhawk on good reality vs. bad reality * What we put at the center matters and why our efforts at systems change fail * Molly Scott Cato - our purpose should be to provide meaningful and dignified lives for everyone in the community * No time for grief = it’s not normal to take time * privilege gives us the illusion/possibility of avoiding the pain through comfort * the false construct of privilege * "those who most need to do the work are the ones least resourced and equipped to do it and have the most possibility to go on avoiding it" * we are wired to support each other = the possibility for reconnection is always inside us * attachment theory getting backed by neuroscience * "primarily we are our attachments" * Maslow’s view to put the needs as a hierarchy is a traumatized view * the landscape of inequality * the need to titrate, to be resourced = wisdom of touch it and come back * when it’s wise to not go to the trauma and grief * putting the relationship at the center * letting the pain of the truth transform us so we won’t let it happen again * Bert Hellinger - guilt is not an absolute moral compass but it depends on the moral compass of the group to which we belong * even in perfect society there will still be loss, there would still be grief but we manufacture suffering * the problem is not a technical problem * Martin Prechtel on grief and praise

This episode is with Bayo Akomolafe author of These Wilds Beyond our Fences: Letters to my Daughter on Humanity’s Search for Home’ and Executive Director and Chief Curator for The Emergence Network (A Post-Activist Project]. Bayo is also host of the online writing course, ‘We will dance with Mountains: Writing as a Tool for Emergence’. And in this session Bayo takes us into the shapeshifting territory of monstrosity, glitches and fugitively. http://bayoakomolafe.net/ https://www.astemperaturesrise.com/ Music is “Starlight” by Chad Crouch Show notes: * we start with a blessing * The notion of the monster and the human * the human is invoked when a pandemic strikes * archetypal lens * “withnessing” the transgressions of the monster * the way we respond to the crisis is part of the crisis * Stacy Alaimo: "forward movement is longer possible in the Anthropocene" * only awkward movement is possible * it’s time for descent and losing our way generously * sci-fi vision of climate change fully escalated such that we find ourselves at the edge of the ocean * shapeshifting — a new kind of form is required to be alive in these times * maybe we need new gods * James Hillman * we need a story that allows us to shapeshift * there is a place for fugitive departures * our skins are transcorpreal transactions * defraction and a micro-politics of inquiry * making sanctuary together = about shape shifting more than safety * unschooling/parenting as decolonial politics and breathing underwater * co-accountability * we are shaping each other * “I need the playful defraction on your vision" * Meeting the Universe Halfway * we need the children to baptize us into the next * Manish Jain and unschooling * the pandemic helping parents to see their kids perhaps for the first time * stay with the trouble of our kids * those that come after us have things to teach us from a future that has already happened * Yaruba, West African * the psyche is not in the mind but the mind is in the psyche * the world calls on us to be defeated again and again — calling on Rilke * healing as recovery is vexed with tensions * The goddess Akhilandeshvari — one who is never not broken * Yaruba ritual that when the ground is unstable, the thing to do is be still = stay with the trouble * being still before the elder the Coronavirus * archetypes are still alive, we are co-creating with them * the Abrahamic god may not know what to do with upheaval * we need Pan, Ishu and Dionysus when we are fugitive — the gods of becoming * going into the wilds * exteriorizing the danger — the danger is not down the street but we are the products of danger, stars crashing into stars * the invitation is to touch our own bodies and touch the alienness and monstrosity of ourselves as a way to wiser politics and education * total man concept — trying to design the perfect man * sitting in the lostness of things * fear of the normal, being trapped in the normal = the normal as oppressive * staying in the blackhole of the pandemic

Joe Brewer is a true polymath and lover of Earth! He is executive director of the Center for Applied Cultural Evolution and the founder of the Earth Regenerators network, a study group for restoring planetary health and avoiding human extinction. He is the author of The Design Pathway for Regenerating Earth(which will be self-published soon), where he brings together the fields of complexity, Earth Systems, cognitive science, and cultural evolution. Show notes: * causes of the planetary predicament — difference between learning and instinct * evolution of the human brain and technology, especially language * environmental fitness using technology and building on what came before * human ability to learn culture that can temporarily disconnect from the nonhuman environment (creating a temporary buffer) * disconnected in causality in our short term thinking = displaced causality * if we are to survive this time we will need to spread survival out in space, in time, and in causation * a future that no one can see but somehow still move toward it = we become the past of some future * collapse through the metaphor of hospice * complex sequence of collapses of subsystems of the body * civilizations as one long term living system, example of COVID and shut down as systems * collapse is plural * OPEC oil crisis in 1980 * wealth accumulation is like cancer * collapse of the US economy has been happening for 40 years * Confucius “If your plan is for one year plant rice. If your plan is for ten years plant trees. If your plan is for one hundred years educate children. ” and if you’re planning for 1,000 years grow a forest * Aristotle and teleological thinking * the original cathedral is forest building * cultural evolution and design of culture * population genetics * cultural traits * future fitness is our design challenge * bringing sacred relationships to our environment is an essential ingredient * cumulative culture = we can build on culture * cultural scaffolding or developmental scaffolding * David Sloan Wilson and wise management of cultural evolution * regeneration is a dynamic pattern * Humberto Maturana and Francisco Varela * autopoiesis = self generated self expression * Janine Benyus and the Biomimicry Institute * real sustainability is regeneration * we need to work with living systems * limits to growth * Joe and his family decisions to move to Barichara, Colombia * having a daughter in this time * what do children need in this time? * our daughter is learning that what normal people do is bring rivers back to life and grow forests * Earth Regenerators Network * regenerating at the bioregional level * local living economies * 97% of our history we lived in small hunter-gatherer tribes evolving with nature * should we humans be here or not? * there is no singular human culture * we (humans) get to decide if we stick around! * without enough complexity and diversity in a food web it will collapse * loss of too much non human species and humans go away too' * should there be too many humans or balance and diversity of life? * “we need to deserve to be here" * The Kogi and pagamentos * debt of gratitude to Tierra Madre * gratitude releases hormones of pleasure * Paul Cherfuka’s addition to the stages of grief: the gift * you grieve because you care * to regenerate land we have to feel what has been destroyed * an ability to love that has no end * The true evolutionary adaptation for humans is teamwork * Your medicine is what you give, it’s your genius * we are the medicine if we realized we are the Earth loving itself * how to live in a landscape - to live in a place you love so much you will give your body to it * where should my body rest? Support Joe: https://www.patreon.com/joe_brewer The Earth Regenerators: https://earth-regenerators.mn.co/ Joe on Medium: https://medium.com/@joe_brewer Support the ATR podcast: https://www.patreon.com/astemperaturesrise Music is “The Light Within” by Gavin Luke

After an epic, heart-rending, wildfire ravaged past 10 days in Southern Oregon (and on the entire west coast of the U.S. and in the world). I decided to pull out my interview with Francis Weller from 2 years ago for the documentary RE:MEMBER, as it is more relevant and important than ever and the interview in its entirety has not been publicly shared! Francis Weller is a psychotherapist, writer and soul activist. He is a master of synthesizing diverse streams of thought from psychology, anthropology, mythology, alchemy, indigenous cultures and poetic traditions. Author of The Wild Edge of Sorrow: Rituals of Renewal and the Sacred Work of Grief. He founded and directs WisdomBridge, an organization that offers educational programs that seek to integrate the wisdom from indigenous cultures with the insights and knowledge gathered from western poetic, psychological and spiritual traditions.  In this episode we talk about: – Welcoming grief and apprenticing to grief – Obsession with happiness in our culture – How grief keeps us current – Ritual and going deep into the well of grief – Containment and release and the need for community – Soulful repetition vs. superficial repetition – Correlation between the currency of sorrow and currency of joy – Building communal strength – Practices that help provide ballast – Coping doesn’t get us there where soul wants to take us – The ecology of the sacred — the sanity of knowing trouble will come and the only way through is together – The San Bushmen – When one of us is ill, we’re all ill – A living culture is one that knows what the people require in order for the soul to survive – Community first vs. me first – We are devouring our world because of a profound emptiness and at the heart of that is the grief of the loss of living culture – The broken heart that allows us to feel again – Ancient memory that remembers how we wept together – We cannot do this grief work alone – Right now we are desperate, we can’t pretend it’s not happening – Amnesia around grief work – Ancient Scandinavian village practice with people in grief — sleeping in the cinders — living in the ashes – Grief is holy work — Rilke – Divine quality to the descent, god of the depths – Those who stay faithful to the journey of grief, will be our elders – Blake — emotions as divine influxes – What does it want from me? How do I serve this? – Alchemy — make the black blacker than black, move towards the darkness with fidelity – Suffering will come to you, it’s part of being in the body – Rough initiation — severing; can’t go back; ending of something; to step into a larger identity – Everything you love you will lose; to be faithful to that love, you must be faithful to this grief – Every living culture had ritual at its center to maintain itself – We moved away from it to intellectualism – Ritual has the capacity to derange us — part of psyche that speaks in art, beauty, song – Healing must address the psychological, the sociological, and the cosmological – Healing repairs what is torn and prepares for what is to come – Soul activism – To be re-dreamt – Ritual comes out of the land – Victor Turner — “communitas" Support the podcast here: https://www.patreon.com/astemperaturesrise More about Francis Weller: www.francisweller.net/ RE:MEMBER where grief and beauty co-exist: www.rememberdoc.com/ As Temperatures Rise website: www.astemperaturesrise.com/ Music is "Time of Sorrow" by Martin Carlberg

This episode is with my friend Janice Rous, the somatic psychonaut. Janice was pioneering in the field of somatics (body work, yoga, breathwork)before it was all the contemporary rage. Now as an elder, her life experience and love for life bear the fruit of practical wisdom. Janice developed her work into what she calls *Body Dialogue* because she was in search of a practice to integrate all of her different studies. Body Dialogue is a unique form that effectively combines Alexander Technique, breathing and yoga. She also partners with Polly Howells and Jean Esther annually to host a women’s retreat based in the practice of Body Soul Rhythms Leadership Program, a program Janice graduated from in 2003. To support the podcast: https://www.patreon.com/m/astemperaturesrise To learn more about Janice's work: http://bodydialogues.com/ Music in this episode is "Undying" by Blue Dot Session In this episode we talk about: - The body as the guide - The mind-body connection relating to the chaos in the world today - Body Dialogue - Inflammation in the body, in the planet signaling out of balance - Body as the first responder - We were not born to sit in chairs - Spiritual poverty in the western world - BLM is revealing how we've exploited our bodies - Autoimmune disease is our inner intelligence not working properly - Getting your knowledge from within - Attune to nature - Vitality and where are we in deficit - Come back to love and gratitude - "Teach us to number our days" Links to mentions in the episode: The Alexander Technique: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Technique Marion Woodman: https://mwoodmanfoundation.org/

Pat McCabe (Weyakpa Najin Win, Woman Stands Shining) is a Diné (Navajo) mother, grandmother, activist, artist, writer, ceremonial leader, and international speaker. She is a voice for global peace, and her paintings are created as tools for individual, earth and global healing. She draws upon the Indigenous sciences of Thriving Life to reframe questions about sustainability and balance, and she is devoted to supporting the next generations, Women’s Nation and Men’s Nation, in being functional members of the “Hoop of Life” and upholding the honor of being human. This interview took place at the beginning of this year before the disruptive mayhem of COVID and social uprising. Pat shares her hard-earned insight and beautiful vision of what futures are possible as we choose to enact our "free will accounting." If you'd like access to the entire 90 minute interview, become a patron here: https://www.patreon.com/astemperaturesrise To learn more about Pat: https://www.patmccabe.net/ Music in this episode: "You are Home at Last" by Anders Ekengren To entice you, in this full show we talk about: – Putting life at the center – Radical self love – Power over paradigm vs. Thriving life paradigm – Culture of low self-esteem – "I come from original beauty" – Integrity of the sacred hoop of life – How do I uphold the design for thriving life? – The Trickster and one deception at a time – Free will construct + sovereign being – Speaking to a sage plant – Our participation and awakening – The importance of our actions – Consent – "Your joy matters" – The vehicle of the human body is so profound – Tobacco as an ally plant – Expanded cause and effect – Asking for help from the more than human world – "If all times are happening at the same time, then what's possible?" – Retelling the old story changes the trajectory of the future – "Blood, snot and tears"

This episode is with beloved teacher and elder Joanna Macy. Joanna is an activist, author, and a scholar of Buddhism, systems thinking, and deep ecology. She is the root teacher of "The Work That Reconnects", a ground-breaking framework for personal and social change. Her wide-ranging work addresses psychological and spiritual issues of the nuclear age, the cultivation of ecological awareness, and the fruitful resonance between Buddhist thought and postmodern science. In this episode we talk about: - The Great Turning - Belonging to the Earth - Strengthened by uncertainty - Practices are key - Positive Disintegration - Evolutionary shift - Industrial Growth Society - Fear of death - The Ohlone, the native people of what is known as the Northern California coast - Herman Hesse's "Narcissus and Goldman" - "How Everything Can Collapse" by Pablo Servigne and Raphael Stevens - The splitting of the atom - The hell realm of releasing nuclear power on Earth - Rilke's Book of Hours

This short episode is with Lyla June Johnston. Lyla June is poet, musician, educator, anthropologist, activist and community servant of Diné (Navajo), Tsétsêhéstâhese (Cheyenne) and European lineages. She holds a degree in Environmental Anthropology with honors from Stanford University and a degree in American Indian Education with distinction from the University of New Mexico. Her internationally acclaimed performances and speeches are conveyed through the medium of prayer, hip-hop, poetry, acoustic music and speech. Lyla's personal goal is to grow closer to Creator by learning how to love deeper. Music in this episode is "Final Transmission Home" by Amaranth Cove Please support the podcast: https://www.patreon.com/astemperaturesrise More about Lyla June: https://www.lylajune.com/ Lyla June performing All Nations Rise: https://youtu.be/nr2VLI8jKww

Dahr Jamail is an award-winning journalist and author. His stories have been published with Truthout, Inter Press Service, Tom Dispatch, The Guardian, Foreign Policy in Focus, Le Monde, Le Monde Diplomatique, The Huffington Post, The Nation, The Independent, and Al Jazeera, among others. His most recent book is ‘The End Of Ice: Bearing Witness and Finding Meaning in the Path of Climate Disruption.’ Currently, Dahr is collaborating with elder and teacher Stan Rushworth on a new book project, titled ‘The Changing Earth: Indigenous Voices from Turtle Island." "The book emerges from how Indigenous peoples' experience has given them a unique understanding of civilizational devastation, one that has endowed them with knowledge and solutions that present both radical and pragmatic responses to crises beyond anything known before." Support the podcast: https://www.patreon.com/astemperaturesrise Learn more about Dahr and his work: www.dahrjamail.net Learn more about Dahr and Stan Rushworth’s new book project ‘The Changing Earth’: www.thechangingearth.net Support their fundraiser for the book: gf.me/u/x3jd52

Stan Rushworth is of Cherokee descent and an enrolled citizen of the Chiricahua Apache Nation. He is the author of "Going to Water: The Journal of Beginning Rain" and "Sam Woods: America Healing", and teaches Native American Literature at Cabrillo College in Aptos, California. Stan and journalist Dahr Jamail are raising funds for a new book "The Changing Earth: Indigenous Voices From Turtle Island." Learn more and contribute here: https://gf.me/u/xt39dq