{"podcast":{"title":"Accidental Gods - The Thrutopian Podcast","slug":"accidental-gods-the-thrutopian-podcast-830699","podcast_index_feed_id":830699,"rss_url":"https://feeds.transistor.fm/accidental-gods","website_url":"https://accidentalgods.life","image_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/hmQPhFuv1s5_5QcngkfwrUBqg9X6t9SEcVPDgJHk99A/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:1400/h:1400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9jNjRl/ZmU1NTg1MWQ2NmFl/MzkzZGIzNjlhYTU4/OTM0NS5qcGVn.jpg","author":"Accidental Gods","episode_count":395,"summary":"Another World IS still Possible. The old system was never fit for purpose - and now it's collapsing around us. So how do we co-create a Thrutopian future that we'd all be proud to leave as our legacy? What stories can we weave of possibility? Of transformation? What happens if we commit to a world based on generative values: compassion, courage, integrity? What happens if we let go of the race for meaningless money and commit instead to the things that really matter: clean air, clean water, clean soil - and clean, clear, courageous connections between all parts of ourselves, between ourselves and each other, between ourselves and the Web of Life - so that we can reclaim our birthright as self-conscious nodes in the web of life? We can do this. Some of us already are. Every week on Accidental Gods we speak with the people who are living this world into being, courageous pathfinders who are exploring the emergent edge of inter-becoming. As a species, we have all the answers, we just haven't yet crafted all the new stories and woven them into a future that works. We have the choice now - we can choose to transform…or we can face the chaos of a failing system. Our Choice. Our Chance.…","last_synced_at":"2026-09-16T10:24:02.025894+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/accidental-gods-the-thrutopian-podcast-830699"},"episode":{"title":"The Art of the Sacred with Sylvie Barbier of Second Renaissance and Life Itself","slug":"the-art-of-the-sacred-with-sylvie-barbier-of-second-renaissance-and-life-itself","published_at":"2026-06-24T00:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/accidental-gods-the-thrutopian-podcast-830699/the-art-of-the-sacred-with-sylvie-barbier-of-second-renaissance-and-life-itself","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/accidental-gods-the-thrutopian-podcast-830699","url":"https://share.transistor.fm/s/28fa3699","audio_url":"https://media.transistor.fm/28fa3699/3e7b9d2b.mp3","summary":"\"We are a collective of artists making art to bring forth the second renaissance. We are alchemists. We create a new world through our work. We are the bridge between the dying past and the future unborn. Art is an expression of our consciousness and humanity, this is our path of transformation. Life as an art. … Our work is to create a space to be with all of it. To be with the joy, the darkness, the hope, the sadness, the unknown. Our work is to inquire about what would a world that works for everyone look like?\" Thus begins the Manifesto on Art in the Second Renaissance, and this week we speak with its author, Sylvie Barbier, a French-Taiwanese performance artist whose work is some of the most powerfully raw, wild and beautiful I have ever seen. As well as being an artist and mother, she's an entrepreneur and educator and one of the two co-founders of Life Itself, which is designed to build a wiser future through culture, space and community. The Life Itself website says, 'We are pragmatic utopians, committed to practical action for a radically wiser, weller world. We create conscious coliving hubs, start businesses, do research and engage in activism to pioneer a wiser culture and plant the seeds of a second renaissance.' The Second Renaissance is an initiative of Life Itself which acknowledges that we live in a moment of potential crisis and collective rebirth and offers a home to the growing community of people who are working to make this rebirth happen. Sylvie is an artist of extraordinary scope and depth and so the role of art in that rebirth is the focus of this episode, but we ranged far and deep into the nature of healing our shadows so that we can heal the ancestral and descendant lines, so that we can become the ancestors our descendants are proud of; we…","meta_description":"\"We are a collective of artists making art to bring forth the second renaissance. We are alchemists. We create a new world through our work. 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