Conscious Evolution Podcast

In 1867 a boy raised by wolves is discovered in the jungles of Northern India. The story which inspired Rudyard Kipling’s Mowgli shows us something profound: strip away culture, and almost nothing recognisably human remains. If feral children show us what humans are like with almost no cultural evolution at all, what does someone at the opposite end of the spectrum look like? Who are the most culturally evolved people on Earth today? And how would such a person navigate polarization and the culture wars?In this episode we surf the spiral of human cultural evolution from traditional to modern, to postmodern, and beyond. Please take a moment to save the episode, and rate and review the show wherever you are listening - it really helps me reach new listeners. Sound Design: Mark PittamMusic: Afro Celt Sound SystemArtwork: Joey Gurdon (https://joeygurdon.com/)Sign up to SIMPOL (https://simpol.org/) Thank you to Intentional Society (https://www.intentionalsociety.org/) for their support.

At the end of Voltaire's Candide, after a lifetime of catastrophe and disillusionment, the young hero arrives at a simple conclusion: we must cultivate our garden.For two centuries that line has been read as resignation, as turning away from the world’s problems. But what if the garden Candide must cultivate is not the patch of earth outside his door - but himself.In this opening episode we meet the thinkers who have stared longest and hardest at the converging crises of our time and come back with a surprising answer. The problem is not just out there, it is in here.As the Sufi poet Rumi said "Yesterday I was clever so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise so I am changing myself."Please take a moment to rate and review the show wherever you are listening - it really helps me reach new listeners.Sound Design: Mark PittamMusic: Afro Celt Sound System Artwork: Joey Gurdon (https://joeygurdon.com/)Sign up to SIMPOL: (https://simpol.org/)This series was sponsored by Intentional Society (https://www.intentionalsociety.org/)

Series 2 is almost here! To get early access to series 2 sign up to the top tier of my Patreon: patreon.com/evoconsciousI need your help! Making a series like this is a huge labour of love - literally years of research and conversations and editing. Well it turns out spreading the word with no marketing budget is just as challenging. I'm up against huge production companies, addictive tiktok reels and endless polarising noise. The one thing that moves the needle for an independent podcast with something important to say? You.A rating or review — right now, wherever you’re listening — directly helps new people find this show. Most listeners mean to do it and never quite get round to it. If this podcast has ever made you think differently, this is the moment to pay it forward.👉 Rate & review (30 seconds)👉 Share the series with one person who’d get it (10 seconds)That’s it — just one listener telling another. It’s how independent podcasts survive.Thank you!

Yesterday I was clever so I wanted to change the world, today I am wise so I am changing myself.

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