Episode 13 :: Consciousness, Cosmology, and Sheep

Ed Lucas, usually the producer of this podcast, takes his seat on the couch, offering reflections on his recent trip to New Mexico and some of the layers of meaning it is wrapped in. Here are some stories about his time on a ranch, a visit to the Center for Action and Contemplation, visits to a nuclear test site and the Very Large Array of radio telescopes.

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Episode 9 :: Sabbath, Solstice, and Spirit

This month, Lee and Ed go it alone and talk about a season that is filled with holidays in so many traditions, most related to the solstice and its cosmological implications of downtime and ultimate promise of renewal. The shorter days are nature’s way of modeling what the ancient Hebrews called the Sabbath: a punctuation in time, a bit of downtime for rest and renewal. Nature heeds this by default, but humans have, particularly in the last century, brushed that pattern aside with the go-go-go schedule operating at all hours on all days of the year.

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Episode 5 :: JEM gets WWW

This video temporarily leaves the chronology established in the audio podcasts, about components of a new economy.

JEM is in a big place in its history as it plunges headlong into the Web. Leaving the static HTML page behind, we’re now going for the whole Facebook, Twitter, blog, podcast and kitchen sink package to help move our message. So, in order to get ready, we’re trying out our new toys and newfound means to spread the word.

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Episode 4 :: Market as a Functional Religion

This show looks at how we can see the Market and the macroeconomic picture as a functional religion. That is, how it takes on deity-like qualities, and is supported by figures akin to high priests, and has with it a narrative mythology of progress, ultimate worth, sin, and so on.

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Episode 3 :: Prophetic Imagination, Envisioning a New Economy

If we cannot imagine the structures of a new economy, we cannot get there. The eyes of our inner artists can see ways to go. Ed and Lee discuss how any of us can rely on our inner artist to lead us to a world that reflects our deepest values, thus influencing how we move in the world.

Prophetic Imagination, Envisioning a New Economy

Episode 2 :: Metanoia

To live sustainably on our one planet, we need deep change (metanoia) in the story we live, shifting our economic choices and the world view they express. In this show, Lee Van Ham and Ed Lucas look at Ed’s personal shift into a new economic reality as a way to demonstrate the idea.

Metanoia: The Stories that Shape Our Lives and Reshape Them

Episode 1 :: Introducing Jubilee Economics

Our first podcast episode, folks! It’s a collector’s item for sure.

Called by many names, a jubilee economy is just what we need in the 21st century. We’ll introduce ourselves and the biblical idea of Jubilee and explain how it captures our interest as a way to envision change in economics today.

Introducing a Jubilee Economy and Living It Today