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by Robert Cobbold
Today many people find themselves without a story that can point to their place and purpose in the universe, and yet can withstand the test of rational scrutiny. The mental health crisis isn’t just a medical crisis. It’s a crisis of meaning.All of us are different, and so all of us will find meaning and purpose in different things. But what if there was something which ties all these purposes together, which can explain why they are meaningful, and which has the potential to unite all of humanity in a great common enterprise.Welcome to the dawn of Conscious Evolution.
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- 5 days ago56 min
S2E1 - Metacrisis
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 SystemArtwork: Joey GurdonThank you to Intentional Society for their support.
- 2 weeks ago2 min
What's Coming In Series 2?
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!
- Sep 30, 20260 min
S2 Trailer - The Journey Within
Yesterday I was clever so I wanted to change the world, today I am wise so I am changing myself.
- Sep 2, 202046 min
S1E5 - Conscious Evolution
Do you want to know the meaning of life?
- Aug 26, 202036 min
S1E4 - Transcendence
Humans find great meaning in transcending our physical and mental limitations and tapping into enhanced states of consciousness. When we do so we are expressing an impulse that has been inherent in the evolutionary process from the big bang onwards. Evolution has continually transcended its limitations, breaking free from the determinism of blind laws and mechanisms. But what does that have to do with consciousness?Start with Episode 1 — Meaning. Each episode builds on the last.
- Aug 19, 202035 min
S1E3 - Creativity
Creativity is one of the enduring mysteries of the universe. How does something more keep coming from something less?From cosmological to biological to cultural evolution the universe appears to be getting more and more creative as it evolves, and human creativity is just the latest example of that trajectory.Can this explain why humans find creativity meaningful?Start with Episode 1 — Meaning. Each episode builds on the last.
- Aug 19, 202038 min
S1E2 - Cooperation
We’ve been taught that evolution is a cruel and vicious struggle in which only the ruthless survive. But if you look a little more closely, the natural world is teeming with cooperation.Not only that, but from single celled organisms right the way through to human civilisation, the scale of cooperation has been steadily increasing.Can this shed any light on why humans find cooperation meaningful?Start with Episode 1 — Meaning. Each episode builds on the last.
- Aug 19, 202037 min
S1E1 - Meaning
The pursuit of happiness is one of the founding American ideals. But evidence from psychology research points to the conclusion that pursuing happiness for its own sake doesn't actually work. What can work, however, is to cultivate a meaningful life, because in doing so, happiness tends to follow as a by-product. What do humans find meaningful? How do they differ from simple hedonism? And what does this tell us about life?
About Conscious Evolution Podcast
Today many people find themselves without a story that can point to their place and purpose in the universe, and yet can withstand the test of rational scrutiny. The mental health crisis isn’t just a medical crisis. It’s a crisis of meaning.All of us are different, and so all of us will find meaning and purpose in different things. But what if there was something which ties all these purposes together, which can explain why they are meaningful, and which has the potential to unite all of humanity in a great common enterprise.Welcome to the dawn of Conscious Evolution.
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