Ep37 - Consciously Navigating our Evolutionary Moment with Daniel Pinchbeck
Description
If there’s a central inquiry to the Waking Youth podcast it’s this: How might we consciously initiate ourselves—as individuals and as a species–into the next stage of our evolution? Turn our ecological emergency, our polycrisis, into an opportunity for global transformation?
Daniel Pinchbeck has dedicated his life and career to living this question.
Author of Breaking Open the Head, 2012 The Return of Quetzalcoatl, How Soon Is Now, and more recently, the Substack newsletter Liminal News, Daniel’s work explores consciousness, politics, mysticism, and social change.
He has spent decades not just writing about change, but actively seeking it through projects like the Evolver Network, The Elevator’s Substack, and online courses on the ecological emergency.
In this episode, we unpack Daniel’s story of becoming—from his early days as a child of the Beat Generation in New York, to his awakening into a more mystical paradigm.
We talk about writing as a tool for transformation, how to catalyze social and environmental shifts, the war between the genders, and the connection between non-normative relational models (like polyamory) and social healing.
Last but not least, we listen to Daniel’s words of wisdom for the younger generations, coming of age in this pivotal evolutionary moment.
Enjoy!
References:
* TAZ: The Temporary Autonomous Zone
* Techno-Feudalism: What Killed Capitalism
* Morphogenetic Fields, Rupert Sheldrake
* The Case Against the Sexual Revolution
Credits:
* Music Audio Producer & Editor: Carlos Sierra
* Producer, Writer & Host: Carlota Guedes
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