Wonderstruck® is a podcast about awe and wonder that includes the profoundly moving, the humbling, and the uncanny. Hosted by psychologist, yoga teacher, and seeker Elizabeth Rovere, it explores experiences that bring us to the very edges of what we can explain, and beyond.
Join us every month for conversations with scientists and shamans, philosophers and poets, mystics and experiencers. We ask what we can learn from those moments that often lack explanations. We ask deeper questions about consciousness, being, and reality. We look at mystery not as something to solve, but as a place where transformation can occur. And along the way, we glimpse a world wilder, stranger, and more Real than we ever imagined.
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Wonderstruck® is a podcast about awe and wonder that includes the profoundly moving, the humbling, and the uncanny. Hosted by psychologist, yoga teacher, and seeker Elizabeth Rovere, it explores experiences that bring us to the very edges of what we can explain, and beyond.
Join us every month for conversations with scientists and shamans, philosophers and poets, mystics and experiencers. We ask what we can learn from those moments that often lack explanations. We ask deeper questions about consciousness, being, and reality. We look at mystery not as something to solve, but as a place where transformation can occur. And along the way, we glimpse a world wilder, stranger, and more Real than we ever imagined.
http://newsletter.wonderstruck.org
https://www.youtube.com/@wonderstruckpod
https://www.instagram.com/wonderstruckpod/
Presented by Creative Visions and Striking Wonder Productions™
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
What if the cracks in our world aren't flaws, but thresholds into the unknown? In this episode of Wonderstruck, we sit with philosopher, poet, and playful trickster Bayo Akomolafe. Bayo's vision invites us to linger in mystery rather than rush to solutions. He takes us into the unfolding terrain of post-activism, where possibility, not certainty, becomes our guide.
In this conversation, we explore:
✦ How physics becomes philosophy… and poetry offers a new way of seeing
✦ How AI unsettles our ideas of consciousness and what it means to be human
✦ His vision of an “autistic politics,” shaped by those who move differently through the world
✦ The role of sanctuary and sacred spaces in times of upheaval
This is less a conversation of answers than of reimagining; an invitation to pause, to listen otherwise, and to encounter the mystery shimmering inside the fractures of our time. In these transformational times, Bayo is a rare and radical voice, urging us to reimagine how we see the world.
This episode of Wonderstruck invites you into that space.
Chapters
0:00 Introduction
5:31 Autistic perception and expanded awareness
12:30 AI is redefining intelligence
18:58 The Ship of Theseus and posthumanism
25:50 A moment of wonder at the moon
40:00 Second sound and postactivism
55:38 Liminality and the Cracks
1:06:50 Death, Eshu and Jesus as trickster
1:14:51 Making sanctuary and examining life's glitches
Follow Bayo:
Website: https://www.bayoakomolafe.net/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bayoakomolafe/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/bayoakomolafeampersand
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bayo.akomolafe/
Emergence Network: https://www.emergencenetwork.org/
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