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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…
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#25 Sheldon Solomon: How the Fear of Death Shapes the World (opens the original)
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What if one of the most powerful forces shaping human behaviour is something we rarely talk about - our fear of death? Sheldon Solomon is a social psychologist and one of the world’s leading researchers on terror management theory - the idea, inspired by Ernest Becker’s The Denial of Death , that our awareness of mortality quietly shapes much of human behaviour. For more than four decades, Sheldon and his colleagues have studied what happens when people are reminded of their mortality. Their res
#24 Sarah Wilson: How to Live Fully in a Collapsing World (opens the original)
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What if the collapse we fear isn’t the end of humanity — but the end of a system that no longer serves us? Sarah Wilson is a bestselling author, journalist and activist. Her latest book, I Eat the Stars: How to Live Fully and Beautifully in a Collapsing World , explores how facing the reality of the metacrisis can paradoxically bring greater clarity, courage and even joy. In this conversation, we explore: Why the crises around us may be different expressions of one larger metacrisis Sarah has mo
#23 Luke Kemp: Why Civilizations Collapse - and How We Might Avoid the Next One (opens the original)
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In this episode of The Initiation , I speak with Luke Kemp, researcher at Cambridge’s Centre for the Study of Existential Risk and author of Goliath’s Curse: The History and Future of Societal Collapse . Luke challenges the conventional story of civilization as a steady march of progress. Instead, he traces the rise of what he calls “Goliaths”: societies built upon concentrated power, extractive resources, monopolized violence, and the restriction of people’s freedom to leave. While the collapse
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