Convexplorations—with Anna Grear
A combination of conversations, meditations, hypnotic techniques, guided journeys and intellectual inquiries—using sound, music, language and curiosity to explore healing, spirituality, consciousness and imaginative reality-tunnelling for the 21st century and beyond.
Episodes
8 episodes
The Commons, Prefigurative Imagination and Political Transformations—with David Bollier
David Bollier is an American activist, writer, thinker and author whose work focuses on the commons as a paradigm for re-imagining economics, politics, and culture. He is a director of the Reinventing the Commons Program at the Schumacher Cente...
'Chaos, Distraction and the Danger to Democracy' with George Pappas
In this conversation, Anna explores some contemporary political and geopolitical tensions with former US immigration judge George Pappas. George covers the the challenges currently facing democracy, in the US in particular, and names chaos, the...
'Hydrojustice'—Moving Towards Horizontality—with Andreas Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos
Andreas and Anna discuss the figuration of 'hydrojustice'—a justice 'always defined in relation to water, the element that constitutes and unites all bodies, human and nonhuman. Hence justice is not an ideal state reached through merely human p...
'Onto-Justice'—When Our Maps Fail the Territory (Feral Wisdoms Collection)
What if the deepest crisis of our time isn't primarily political, economic, or even ecological — but ontological? What if the frameworks we're using to understand and respond to reality are themselves part of the problem?In this reflect...
The Box We Opened — Myth, Politics and Staying with the Trouble (Feral Wisdoms Collection—A Conversation) with Alex Andreou
What happens when the box is already open? Anna Grear and Alex Andreou begin with Pandora — and find themselves moving through myth, politics, and the stories and frames shaping our world, now and in the past. Wide-ranging and exploratory, this...
Loosening the Grip: Navigating Our Collective Inflection Point (Feral Wisdoms Collection—A Conversation) with Jana Norman
In this inaugural conversation of the Feral Wisdoms collection of the Convexplorations podcast, Anna welcomes environmental humanities scholar Jana Norman for an exploration of our current collective crossroads. Together, they examine how we mi...
'Breathing the Gardens of Renewal' (Body as Guru Collection—A Guided Somatic Journey)
This is a guided somatic journey. It takes around one hour to complete. It's likely to be consciousness altering, and best listened to lying down. It's perfect to use for going to sleep at night. Please don't listen to it while operating machin...
'Where do you end... and the world begin?' (Body as Guru Collection)
Travel with me through ancient entanglements... journeys that began long before human consciousness first stirred... intimacies written into the very cells of your body.Today, we're going to explore our own bodies as a meeting place wher...