Ordinary People Podcast
1) Over The Mountains #1 | The devil’s trick - invisible ideology behind techno oligarchy
This is episode #1 of a new sub-series Over the Mountains: Finding a Path to the Second Renaissance“The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was persuading you he didn’t exist.” In this conversation, ...Show More
2) Sylvie Barbier: Charlie Kirk, Forgiveness & The Power of Words
Sylvie Barbier brings sensemaking to bear on the polarization that followed the Kirk assassination and explores the significance of the Kirk memorial in an interview hosted by Jacob Kishere. The dialo...Show More
3) Layman Pascal: Born to Go Beyond (A Post-modern World)
Rufus dives into the life story of the one and only Layman Pascal: exploring his unique childhood, what he found in Wilber’s Integral, his relationship to intentional communities and what it means to ...Show More
4) Theo Dawson: Beyond Teach to Test—Designing Educational Metrics That Work
Following our interview with Lectica Co-founder Zak Stein, Rufus interviews Theo Dawson, Lectica’s founder and executive director, about her journey into transforming education and the complex and cri...Show More
5) Awaken Your Spiritual Warrior: Shadow Work, Sovereignty & Accountability
Sylvie Shiwei Barbier Co-founder of Life Itself and Ritual Artist calls upon the necessity of re-imagining and committing deeply to the role of the spiritual warrior. A path of vows, communal bonds, s...Show More
6) Manda Scott: Weaving Thrutopias Beyond Climate Crisis and Capitalism’s Collapse
In this interview with author Manda Scott we explore the Manda’s journey as bestselling fiction author into the realms of the shamanic and her subsequent search for new and ancient narratives that can...Show More
7) The Future of Education with Boaz Feldman
In this podcast series Jacob Kishere interviews key speakers on themes of education, metacrisis, transformation and the possibility of a Second Renaissance. On May 2-3rd the corresponsing conference '...Show More
8) Who Gets to Build the World We Live In?
In this Second Renaissance episode from Life Itself, Rufus Pollock sits down with Bonnitta Roy for part II of their conversation.Listen above or watch the episode hereAbout the EpisodeIn this episode,...Show More
9) Zak Stein on Reconstructing Value: A Conversation on the Meta-Crisis
In this conversation, Zak and Rufus examine the shift that has taken place from a belief in the intrinsic value of the universe to the modernist view that denies the reality of value. Zak explains how...Show More
10) A Conversation with Kyle Kowalski
In this episode of Ordinary People, Rufus Pollock speaks with Kyle Kowalski, the founder of Sloww. Kyle shares his journey that led him from a high-powered marketing career to becoming a self-describe...Show More