What is the true cost of our numbness, and how can we alchemize it into deep, loving intimacy?

This conversation with Dr. Jaiya John is a balm, for tender times, tender hearts - a remembrance of how to touch tenderly, inwardly and outwardly.

Dr. Jaiya John, born as an orphan on the sacred lands of the Ancient Puebloans in New Mexico's high desert, walks the world as a freedom worker, poet, author, teacher, and speaker, revered across continents. In this tender episode, Amisha and Dr. Jaiya weave a story of human connection—layered with vulnerability, healing, and the soft light of hope. Together, they lean into our collective longing for liberation from oppression, the raw courage needed to meet grief and emotional pain, and a soul-deep inquiry into how technology shapes intimacy in a world that often feels so far apart.

We hope this episode invites you into deeper layers of tenderness and presence.

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In this TIMELESS episode we hear from Sophie Strand and Bayo Akomolafe. Together, we explore how the sacred is less about certainty and mastery and more about dwelling in the unknown, the disruptive, and the in-between. As we open ourselves to this journey, we consider how unlearning and openness might guide us toward a deeper, more grounded sense of the sacred—one that emerges in moments of humility, fragility, and genuine encounter.

“And  I  was  thinking  that,  at  least  in  my  own  situated  experience, my  approach  to  the  sacred  would  be  to  flip  the  paradigm  and  to  ask,  what  if  the  sacred  researches  you?” Sophie Strand

As a writer, Sophie focuses on the intersection of spirituality, storytelling, and ecology. She believes strongly that all thinking happens interstitially between beings, ideas, differences, and mythical gradients. Bayo is a poet, philosopher, psychologist, professor, and chief-curator of the Emergence Network. He curates this earth-wide project for the re-calibration of our ability to respond to civilisational crisis.

We hope this TIMELESS episode invites you to pause and reflect on the sacred in new and unexpected ways.

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How do we emerge into a new future from here?

In this week’s conversation with award-winning novelist, smallholder, contemporary shamanic trainer and host of the international chart-topping Accidental Gods podcast Manda Scott, we explore the edges of shaping the future of our wildest dreams.

‘The ​not ​knowing ​is ​what ​allows ​the ​space ​for ​the ​web ​of ​life ​to ​send ​the ​knowing ​in.’ and it is this not knowing that gives us room to dream, rise and change this system. ‘It's ​not ​predictable. ​If ​we ​can ​predict ​it, ​then ​it's ​not ​the ​new ​system, ​​but ​we ​can ​take ​ourselves ​​to ​the ​emergent ​edge ​of ​inter ​becoming, ​from ​which ​​emergence ​into ​that ​new ​system ​is ​hopefully ​more ​likely ​than ​the ​chaos ​and ​extinction.’

We explore:

:: Why the emergence into a new system can feel unpredictable but wonderful

:: How to move from a trauma culture to an initiation culture

:: How to dream without constraints

:: What ​it ​looks ​like ​when ​8.5 ​billion ​people feel belonging, ​connection, agency ​and live ​a ​life ​filled ​with ​meaning

:: How we as humans have the power to change and shape a new future

:: Why visions come at unexpected times

:: What ​happens ​when continually ​asking ​of ​the ​web ​of ​life, ​what ​do ​you ​want ​of ​me?

:: How to move away from the head mind and settle into the heart mind

:: How temporary shamanic practices help connect to the wonder and glory of the world

:: How habits done consciously become rituals

:: What the transformative journey of writing a book looks like

:: How the process of death can be a potential window into a ​new ​system ​

:: How ​to make ​governance ​​into ​something ​that ​is ​generative ​and ​collaborative again

We hope this episode encourages you to explore deeper what invitations the web of life is making to you.

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In this week’s TIMELESS episode, Patrisse Cullors highlights the urgent call for a softer, more connected world where care is the base of everything we do. As an Artist and Abolitionist, born and raised in Los Angeles and being on the frontline of abolitionist organising for 22 years, Patrisse offers us a powerful vision for how we can cultivate healing through active, compassionate engagement in our communities and how we can move beyond propaganda and embrace true transformation.

“Our work is to show up and reshape this place.” Patrisse Cullors

This is from our archives, part of a beautiful and powerful conversation we had in episode 201 with Patrisse Cullors on Abolition, Art Activism and Courageous Resourcing // Cultures Of Care.

We hope that this little piece called ‘How to Move Beyond Propaganda and Embrace True Transformation’ will give you what you need in these important times in our evolution as humanity.

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This episode is a very special one. A pure and raw sharing by the fire behind ‘All that we are’, Amisha Tala Oak.

A sacred ritual, a ceremony where she lets her heart speak and where words come from a very deep place inside of her. This episode called ‘Tending to the hearth in a world ablaze // the language of ritual, ceremony and intuition’ takes us on a journey. It’s a remembrance to listen to our heart and inner fire while not losing courage and hope amidst the chaos.

"We ​must ​create ​beauty ​in ​the ​mess." Amisha Tala Oak

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In this TIMELESS episode, we hear from Tiokasin Ghosthorse, Nobel Prize nominated international speaker on Peace, Indigenous and Mother Earth perspective. He is member of the Cheyenne River Lakota Nation of South Dakota, with a long history in Indigenous activism as well as a master musician. He shares a lifechanging perspective on how we can understand the language of the earth and how she speaks and listens to us. We discover how learning to listen to earth leads us to true inner and outer peace.

"The ​earth ​is ​listening ​to ​us ​first and ​if ​we ​do ​not ​​understand ​how ​the ​earth ​listens ​to ​us, ​then ​we ​will ​have ​a difficulty ​listening ​to ​the ​earth." Tiokasin Ghosthorse

This week’s timeless is from our archives, part of a beautiful and powerful conversation we had in E107 with Tiokasin Ghosthorse on Earth Languages, Consciousness and Indigenous Intelligence entitled Walking Earth With The Gifts Of The Stars . We hope that hearing just this small part will give you space to contemplate, integrate and embody what you hear.

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What if we are mushrooms having a human experience?

In this conversation called ‘Mushrooms and Mycelium: Nature's Network’, Amisha Tala Oak meets Darren le Baron, an educator specialising in mycology and psychedelic research based in the UK and the Caribbean.

Known around the world for his Shroomshop Master classes and mushroom educational programs, he is a keen cultivator and teacher who is passionate about sharing his research and findings on ethnomycology, ancient African plant medicines and their various applications.

Together we explore:

:: How understanding yourself can help you build deeper, more meaningful connections.

:: The challenges young people face in finding their purpose—and how to guide them.

:: What mushrooms and mycelium can teach you about connection and renewal.

:: How you are a mushroom having a human experience. 

:: How you, as a gardener or nature-lover, play a vital role in our planet's future. 

:: How money really does grow on trees. 

:: Why plant wisdom is essential for your survival and living in harmony with the Earth.

(Please note despite much research and clinical trials of the benefits, one of the mushrooms we discuss in this conversation are illegal in some countries)

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Welcome to our new fortnightly offering - TIMELESS. 

Drawing on her wellspring of experiences as a writer, activist, and Black feminist, adrienne maree brown shares some timeless wisdom that teaches us about rituals of grief and spiritual healing that can bring us closer to our free and pleasurable futures. She sparks ideas around the construct of linear and layered time, opening up possibilities for spiritual shifts and healing across timeless.

“Grief ​is ​a ​way ​that ​we ​ritualise ​and ​honour ​what ​we ​love ​and ​stay ​in ​a ​relationship ​with ​it.” adrienne maree brown

This is from our archives, part of a beautiful and powerful conversation we had in episode 146 with adrienne maree brown on Future Visioning, Layered Time and Grief // entitled Microcosms of Liberation, Justice and Pleasure.  We hope that hearing just this small part of timeless wisdom will give you space to contemplate, integrate and embody what you hear.

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Is intuition the key to flourishing a better culture?

In this special episode Amisha Tala Oak and Annegret Affolderbach celebrate the end of a chapter of co-creation of this podcast as Annegret is leaving to pursue new creative paths and 'all that we are' takes fresh directions. They share how they have witnessed each others creative growth for the past 15 years and how they have shaped lives, nurtured new cultures and communities guided by their visions and intuition.

We explore

:: creative and artistic practices attuned with visions, intuition and generosity

:: transformative cultural change

:: daydreaming

:: podcasting 

:: the positive power of technology

:: tending to our nervous system

:: all that we are’s new pathways including the re-imagining of Presence Collective

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How can we become catalysts for change?

In this special episode entitled ‘The Butterfly Effect’ Amisha gathers with Ebyän Zanini, Jimena Paratcha, Darren Le Baron and Nathaniel Dunn during Noisily Festival to share insights and ideas around the theme ‘We Are Change’.

We explore

:: duality as a form of balance for change

:: interconnectedness and unity with each other and the more-than-human-world

:: rites of passages

:: plant allies and the power of psychedelics 

:: forming intentions for change

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How do we honour diverse ways of life and all that we are?

In this episode entitled ‘Mysterious Riddles', Amisha Ghadiali talks with Dr Andy Letcher, Senior Lecturer at both Schumacher College, Devon UK, where he is Programme Lead for the MA Engaged Ecology, and at the University of Exeter, where he teaches on the PGCert Psychedelics: Mind, Medicine and Culture. He is the author of “Shroom: A Cultural History of the Magic Mushroom”, and numerous papers on psychedelics, ecology, animism and paganism. Andy researches the contemporary use of psychedelics with a particular focus on the role psychedelics might play in our cultivating an ecological self. He is currently researching ritual and animistic usage of psychedelics by contemporary British Druids, and the contemporary use of the Fly Agaric mushroom. A folk musician, he plays English bagpipes, low whistle, and Dark Age lyre. 

We explore

:: folk music and birdsong

:: deep listening and living in seasonal interconnectedness with nature 

:: psychedelics and plant ceremonies

:: Animism and Druidry

:: pilgrimages and Rights of Passages

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