Philosopher, pro-activist and author Jeremy Lent joins Terry in a deep and vulnerable exploration of where we are right now as a species, the underlying nature of our ecological and civilizational crises and how we frame our work to catalyze em

073 Fred LaMotte – From the Temple to the Wilderness of Now

Jul 10th, 2021 56m 9s

Poet, teacher and interfaith chaplain Fred LaMotte joins Terry to listen, notice, honor and share the mysterious depth that emerges between them, among them and beyond them. Terry begins by reading one of Fred’s poems, and later Fred shares a c

072 Peter Russell – Letting Go of Nothing

Jun 26th, 2021 1h 9m

Futurist, teacher, and author Peter Russell joins Terry in person at his home to connect more intimately and explore several profound considerations about this human miracle and our current predicament. In a previous podcast episode (Febr

071 Indra Adnan – The Politics of Waking Up

Jun 14th, 2021 1h 21m

Social psychotherapist, political theorist & entrepreneur and community organizer Indra Adnan joins Terry to explore the politics and power dynamics of “waking up” to the “meta-crisis” and to one another. Indra is in contact with the raw

070 David Sloan Wilson – Evolution's Key Practices and Design Principles

Jun 1st, 2021 1h 47m

This episode of State of Emergence, features an additional conversation with last week’s featured guest, the evolutionary biologist and important social theorist David Sloan Wilson. If you haven’t already listened to last week’s episod

069 David Sloan Wilson – A Human Superorganism: The Higher Potentials of Cooperation

May 22nd, 2021 1h 30m

Brilliant evolutionary biologist and important social theorist David Sloan Wilson joins Terry to clarify the real implications of what we know about evolution, focusing on how “multi-level selection,” interpersonal cooperation and altruis

068 Stephen Jenkinson – Overwhelming Beauty — and Being OK, Dying

May 1st, 2021 1h 13m

Spontaneous poet, culture activist, and shamanic bard Stephen Jenkinson joins Terry to explore the totally disarming ordeal of bearing witness to death up close — both our individual mortality and our collective mortality. They also drop

Francis Weller (Rebroadcast) – Letting Grief Open Us to Grace

Apr 24th, 2021 1h 16m

This week, we are featuring one of our favorite past episodes — a tender, intimate, and deeply grounding conversation with the psychotherapist and soul-activist Francis Weller. We recorded this conversation almost a year ago, however, it’s fee

067 Jonathan Rowson – Tasting the Pickle: A Personal Relationship with the Meta-Crisis

Apr 3rd, 2021 1h 33m

Chess Grandmaster, philosopher, author, and social entrepreneur Jonathan Rowson joins Terry to explore our global, civilizational predicament from new angles — inspired by his recent brilliant essay “Tasting the Pickle: Ten Flavors of Meta-C

066 Sean Esbjörn-Hargens – Our Wild Kosmos: Aliens, Angels, Elves & Critical Thinking

Mar 20th, 2021 1h 36m

Integral scholar and Exostudies pioneer Sean Esbjörn-Hargens joins Terry to explore an integral approach to conspiracy theories and “exo realities” — including the anomalous phenomena that challenge our current models of reality. Sean beg

065 Jeffrey Kripal – Flipping Open the Materialist Mind

Mar 13th, 2021 1h 26m

Author and professor Jeffrey Kripal joins Terry to explore the multidimensional, psychophysical nature of reality, as well as the potential of new kinds of agency, cooperation, and co-creativity. They begin by noticing the stranglehold th

064 Bayo Akomolafe – Getting Lost & Meeting the More-than-Human Vibrancy of the World

Mar 6th, 2021 1h 36m

Prophetic teacher, psychologist, author and poet, Bayo Akomolafe joins Terry to explore the “cracks in the world” that are opening to swallow everything we’ve been taught to believe and sense into the voices, adventures, and new worlds th

063 Tim Freke – Emergentism, Unividualism, and a New Wave of Benevolence

Feb 22nd, 2021 1h 27m

Philosopher and author Tim Freke joins Terry to explore the personal, cultural, and global implications of an integration of our best rational and spiritual understandings of reality. Tim Freke is an English philosopher and author of 35 b

062 Spiritual Friends Amidst Cultural Madness — The Power of Our Grateful Generosity

Feb 6th, 2021 1h 1m

Terry Patten explores the delusion, anxiety, loneliness, and fear experienced across our culture as well as the potential for sacred, next-stage friendship to be a key leverage point for healing the madness. Terry also invites members of

061 Jonathan Gustin – Becoming Whole: Emotional Maturity, Spiritual Awakening and Soul Purpose

Jan 30th, 2021 1h 22m

Purpose guide and psychotherapist Jonathan Gustin joins Terry to explore the vital processes of discovering and actualizing our soul’s purpose, in clear and practical terms, to benefit our world in crisis. Jonathan builds upon our recent

060 January 21, 2021

Jan 23rd, 2021 13m 51s

In light of the inauguration of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, host Terry Patten shares spontaneous reflections on endings, new beginnings, hope, despair, the spiritual tasks of this time, and how we can refuse to put anyone out of our he

059 Bill Plotkin – The Descent to Soul and the Journey of Initiation

Jan 16th, 2021 1h 56m

Ecopsychologist, wilderness guide and author Bill Plotkin joins Terry to consider the human crisis as essentially a crisis of immaturity — that true human adults and human elders are both extraordinarily rare today. Bill speaks to what is

058 Stephen Dinan – Conspiracies, a New Paradigm and What’s Truly Holistic

Jan 9th, 2021 1h 7m

Evolutionary leader, thinker, and founder of The Shift Network Stephen Dinan joins Terry to explore how conspiracy thinking and new paradigm ideas are sometimes merging in a phenomenon some call “Conspirituality” — which he articulated, w

057 Thomas Hübl – The New Martial Artistry of Healing Our World

Jan 2nd, 2021 1h 52m

Remarkable mystic and teacher Thomas Hübl joins Terry to discuss his new book Healing Collective Trauma, and they take the exploration into some new deep places. Every human being is born into and affected by, either directly or indirectl

056 Kristi Nelson – Beyond Gratitude, Discover Gratefulness

Dec 19th, 2020 1h 24m

Author of Wake Up Grateful and the Executive Director of A Network for Grateful Living, Kristi Nelson joins Terry to explore the elusively obvious gift of this very breath and moment and the transformational practice of living with grat

055 Barrett Brown – Next-Stage Leadership Lessons for the Biden Transition Team

Dec 12th, 2020 1h 29m

Leadership development expert Barrett Brown joins Terry to explore the most advanced levels of leadership, especially as they apply in the US as a new Biden administration begins to navigate simultaneous, interpenetrating fast-moving cris

054 Rupert Read – Parents for a Future – Responding to Greta

Dec 4th, 2020 1h 42m

Environmental philosopher and activist Rupert Read joins Terry to explore the current state of our ecological emergency, its philosophical implications, and our human responses. They probe into what kinds of understanding, spiritual growth, tru

053 Tuesday Ryan-Hart – Being the Medicine for One Another

Nov 21st, 2020 1h 20m

Systems change strategist and facilitator Tuesday Ryan-Hart explores the trauma, care, tenderness, and sacredness that are underneath our discussions of equity and systemic injustice. She and Terry consider which mindsets, skills, and relationa

052 Jude Currivan – The Center of the Cosmic Hologram Is Love

Nov 14th, 2020 1h 26m

Cosmologist, futurist, and mystic Jude Currivan describes her understanding of the quantum nature of reality, which has profound implications for our planetary crises, and the potentials for creative emergence. In the process, she points to sev

051 Diane Hamilton & Jeff Salzman – Processing the 2020 Election, So Far

Nov 7th, 2020 58m 59s

Diane Musho Hamilton (award-winning mediator and Zen Roshi) and Jeff Salzman (integral political commentator and host of The Daily Evolver) join Terry to react, reflect, and take to heart this week’s historic, record-breaking, and, in many ways