The Initiation
The Initiation is a podcast for those who sense the gravity and possibility of this moment in human history - a threshold marked by converging crises and a call to rise to the occasion.As exponential technologies accelerate, the global monetary system strains, climate disruption intensifies, and geopolitical orders shift - humanity stands on the edge of something vast and unknown.Each episode unpacks the forces reshaping our world and the inner shifts needed to meet them with clarity, courage, a...
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Episodes (55)
#25 Sheldon Solomon: How the Fear of Death Shapes the World
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#24 Sarah Wilson: How to Live Fully in a Collapsing World
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#23 Luke Kemp: Why Civilizations Collapse - and How We Might Avoid the Next One
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#22 Corey Bradshaw: Extinction, Overpopulation, and the Future We Can Still Shap...
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#21 Jeff Booth: Bitcoin, AI, and the End of the Zero-Sum Game
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#20 Jeremy Lent: Eco-Civilization and the Possibility of a Life-Affirming Future
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#19 Energy, Ecology, and the Limits of Industrial Civilization - with Richard He...
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The Iran War and the Dollar Endgame: Inside the Next Phase of Global Breakdown
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The Myth of Infinite Growth - with Bill Rees
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Ecological Awakening and the Return of Soul - with Brian Stafford
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Myth, Initiation, and the Art of Reweaving a World in Collapse - with Michael Ma...
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Becoming True Human in the Age of the Polycrisis – with Samantha Sweetwater
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The Dao of Bitcoin: Money, Energy & the Future of Human Systems
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Inside the Dollar Endgame: Why the Global Monetary System Is Reaching Its Limits
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Economics of Happiness: Helena Norberg-Hodge on Localization, Culture & a Future...
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Building a Village for a New Way of Being
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The Initiation - Trailer
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Episode 9 – The Evolution of Consciousness: Awakening Through the Metamorphosis
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Episode 8 – System Change: Money, Energy, and Governance Reimagined
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Episode 7 – Foundational Technologies: A new civilizational layer
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Episode 6 – The End of an Empire: The unraveling U.S. Global Dominance
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Episode 5 – Climate Breakdown: Beyond Carbon, Toward Transformation
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Episode 4 – The Debt Spiral: Why Our Monetary System Is Reaching Its Limits
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Episode 3 – Superintelligence: Crossing the One-Way Gate
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Episode 2 – Phase Change: How Nature Transforms, and What It Means for Us
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Episode 1 – Humanity at a Threshold: Breakdown, Breakthrough, and the Call to Pa...
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