Lifeworlds
Alexa Firmenich
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Lifeworlds is an intimate dialogue with our planet’s ecologies and with those who are translators and bridges between the human and beyond-human.
Our guests are farmers, lawyers, scientists, investors, indigenous scholars, artists, and many more — with them, we explore the mindsets, skills and actions required to forge deep connections with nature and to enter into close relationship with the lifeworlds of other beings.
We begin to change the world when we change our ways of seeing and being. Lifeworlds points us towards a deeper reformulation of core human identities, asking who it is we share the Earth with and what our human role may be at this pivotal moment in time. It is through the doorway of inhabiting and understanding multiple perspectives that we can begin to heal a culture and psyche that is steeped in duality. We have lost our place as humans amongst all life. This is our call for healing, engagement and wonder.
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Recent Episodes
S4E36 36. Stingless Bees, Ancient Honey & the Amazon's Future – with Dr. Rosa Vasquez Espinosa
What if one of the most powerful tools for saving the Amazon rain-forest was a bee most people have never heard of?Enter the stingless bee – a 65 million year old resident of Earth that produces…
S4E35 35. From Stardust To Sentience: Astrobiology & Life in the Cosmos – with Adam Frank
What is life, and are we alone in the universe?In this episode I sit down with Adam Frank, Professor of Astrophysics at the University of Rochester, prolific science communicator, and author of five…
S3E34 34. Black Mountains College: Rethinking Education for Our Times - with Ben Rawlence
Today’s episode explores a simple but urgent question: is our education system still fit for the world we’re entering? Climate disruption, AI, and uncertainty demand new forms of education fit for…
S3 Poetry | Fruitful Darkness with Rilke
This Lifeworlds episode is a devotional journey into the work of Rainer Maria Rilke, the lyrical German poet of thresholds and embracing transformations.Through readings of his most luminous poems…
S3E33 33. Empatheatre: Social Sculpture & Feeling Across Worlds - with Dylan McGarry
In this episode, we explore the role of theatre and empathy in transforming worldviews. Dr. Dylan McGarry is one of the founders of Empatheatre, a South African theatre-making company and methodology…
S3E32 32. Depth Psychology and Soul Initiation – with Bill Plotkin from Animas Valley Institute
In this episode, I sit down with Bill Plotkin, founder of Animas Valley Institute. Over the past 40 years, Bill has developed intricate, nature-based models of human development and education that…
S3E31 31. Holistic Landscape Restoration and Inspirational Returns – with Willem Ferwerda from Commonland
Almost 40% of Earth’s land is degraded, meaning that the natural cycles that sustain biodiversity, water, food, and livelihoods are breaking down. This degradation is an ecological crisis, and, it…
From Orbit to Intimacy | Beyond the Overview Effect
What if the next shift in planetary consciousness didn’t come from looking back at Earth from space, but from listening deeply to the voices already here? In this thought piece I propose the…
S3E30 30. Grief, Song and Ceremonies of Mourning - with Alexandra “ahlay” Blakey
Today we’re joined by artist, musician and communal grief ritual facilitator Alexandra “ahlay” Blakey to speak about the cultural forgetting of communal mourning, the sacred role of professional…
S3E29 29. Carbon and the Grammar of Life - with Paul Hawken
In this episode we’re joined by the renowned environmentalist, activist and author Paul Hawken to explore the lifeworld of carbon and its role as a vital agent in the story of life.Paul speaks about…
S3E28 28. Whale Dreaming & Ocean Songlines - with WHAIA
In this episode, we journey into the vibrational worlds of sound, ancestry, and deep listening with Whaia, a Ngāti Kahungunu woman of Māori descent and First Nations sonic weaver and…
S3 Poetry | The World Thinks in Poetry
In a remote cabin in Vancouver Island in 2019, far away, I sat by the shore. I listened. I re-read poetry. I swam with jellyfish. I ate bright salmon berries and raw samphire. I gazed around and…
S3E27 27. The Ecology Of Health - with Dr. Mackenzie Hall
Where does your body end and the Earth begin? In this episode, we explore the real and poetic parallels between human health and planetary health, and how nature’s language moves in our…
S3 Soulfire Sessions II: with David McConville
David McConville is a transdisciplinary artist and researcher who explores how technology shapes our perspectives of Earth—from local places to our cosmic context. Our conversation examines how…
S3 From Your Host: Season’s Reflections and Q&A
In this episode, I share some reflections on Season 2, before diving into our first listener-guided Q&A! You’ll be hearing from fellow listeners who enquired on topics like: Earth-centered…
S2E26 26. Speculative Designs & Embodied Imaginations - with Superflux
What if you could inhabit the future? In this episode, we dive into the work of Superflux, the visionary design studio turning imagination into tangible worlds. From multispecies banquets and…
S2 Practice | Body Compass
This is my take on ancient and intuitive sensory experience that taps into the innate intelligence of the human body, a blend of body compass, Zen Beginner's Mind, a shamanic medicine walk and…
S2E25 25. The Connected Wild: Earth’s Internet of Animals - with Dr. Martin Wikelski
Throughout history, many cultures have observed and interpreted animal behavior to predict events and read the landscapes around them. The multispecies lives of our planet weave an astonishing…
S2E24 24. Guardians of the Earth: The Rise of Ecocide Law - with Pella Thiel
Could the destruction of nature become considered as serious a crime as that of genocide? How does the structure of law shape a civilisation’s norms, behaviors and overarching story?Today we’ll be…
S2E23 23. Wild Avatars: Nature in Virtual Reality - with Marshmallow Laser Feast
Have you ever wondered what it would be like to breathe yourself into your own body? To flow with the out-breath of trees into your own fractaling lungs, to dance ribbonlike into an ancient ceiba’s…
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Lifeworlds has published 76 episodes since July 2022, covering topics in Life Sciences, Nature.
Lifeworlds is currently moderate with new episodes monthly. Average episode length is 52m.
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