Hosted by Sebastian Dienst · 🇺🇸 US · EN · 22 episodes
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The Initiation is a podcast for those who sense the gravity and possibility of this moment in human history - a threshold marked by converging crises and a call to rise to the occasion.As exponential technologies accelerate, the global monetary system strains, climate disruption intensifies, and geopolitical orders shift - humanity stands on the edge of something vast and unknown.Each episode unpacks the forces reshaping our world and the inner shifts needed to meet them with clarity, courage, and wisdom. This is our collective rite of passage. Welcome to The Initiation.
Sebastian Dienst hosts The Initiation, a society show with 22 episodes published.
In this episode, I’m joined by Jeff Booth — entrepreneur, investor, author, and co-founder of Ego Death Capital — for a wide-ranging conversation on Bitcoin, money, AI, and the civilizational threshold we find ourselves
Jeremy Lent is an author, philosopher, and systems thinker whose work explores the deep roots of our civilizational crisis - and the possibility of a life-affirming future. His books include The Patterning Instinct, The
Richard Heinberg joins The Initiation. Richard is a human ecologist, journalist, and Senior Fellow at the Post Carbon Institute, and the author of fourteen books on energy, ecology, and the future of industrial civilizat
Roberto Rios returns to The Initiation. Formerly known as Peruvian Bull, Roberto is a macro analyst and author of The Dollar Endgame, known for his deep work on global liquidity, sovereign debt dynamics, and the long arc
In this episode of The Initiation, Sebastian speaks with Bill E. Rees, ecologist, systems thinker, and co-originator of the ecological footprint - one of the most influential frameworks for understanding humanity’s mater
In this episode of The Initiation, Sebastian speaks with Brian Stafford, a former psychiatrist who left a successful career after an unmistakable inner call - and went on to train with Animas Valley Institute, founded by
In this episode of The Initiation, Sebastian is joined by mythologist and storyteller Michael Meade for a deep exploration of myth, initiation, and the meaning of collapse. Michael reframes myth not as ancient history, b
In this episode of The Initiation, I sit down with Samantha Sweetwater for a wide-ranging and deeply human conversation about the moment our world is moving through. We explore Samantha’s work at the intersection of inne
In this episode of The Initiation, I sit down with Scott Dedels, author of The Dao of Bitcoin: Towards a Cosmology of Energy Money, to explore Bitcoin not just as technology or finance — but as a philosophical and energe
In this episode of The Initiation, I’m joined by Roberto Rios also known as Peruvian Bull — monetary researcher, economist, and author of The Dollar Endgame — for a deep and unsparing conversation about the fate of the g
In this episode, I sit down with Helena Norberg-Hodge — writer, filmmaker, linguist, and pioneering voice in the localization and new economy movements. Helena is the founder and director of Local Futures, an internation
Welcome to Season 2 of The Initiation. We’re beginning this new season with a conversation that is both deeply grounded and quietly radical – a look at what it truly takes to build a different way of living on this plane
Humanity stands at a threshold. Old systems are breaking down; new patterns of life are emerging. The Initiation invites listeners into the deeper story beneath this turbulence — a collective rite of passage for our spec
In this final episode of The Initiation, I turn inward—to what may be the most profound dimension of humanity’s transformation: the evolution of consciousness itself. We’ve traced the forces of collapse and emergence res
In this episode of The Initiation, I continue our exploration of breakthrough trends—not through technology alone, but through the transformation of systems: how we coordinate, exchange, and govern in a world reaching it
In this episode of The Initiation, we cross the threshold from breakdown to breakthrough - and begin exploring the seeds of transformation already stirring within our dissolving world. So far, we’ve tracked the destabili
In this episode of The Initiation, I explore the fourth major force of breakdown: the unraveling of the U.S.-led global order. Unlike past transitions—like the handover from the British Empire to American dominance—this
In this episode of The Initiation, I explore the third major force of breakdown shaping our time: the accelerating climate crisis. This isn’t a debate. It’s a reckoning with what the science tells us—and how that fits in
In this episode of The Initiation, I turn our focus to one of the most foundational—and fragile—systems shaping our world: money. This isn’t just a conversation about inflation, debt ceilings, or economic cycles. What I
In this episode of The Initiation, I explore one of the most urgent and destabilizing forces of our time: the rise of artificial superintelligence. Unlike previous technologies, superintelligent AI won’t just amplify our
Jeremy Lent
1 appearance on this show
Richard Heinberg
Senior Fellow · Post Carbon Institute
1 appearance on this show
Roberto Rios
macro analyst and author of The Dollar Endgame · Peruvian Bull
2 appearances on this show
Brian Stafford
CEO and co-founder · Diligent Corporation
1 appearance on this show
Samantha Sweetwater
1 appearance on this show
Scott Dedels
author of The Dao of Bitcoin
1 appearance on this show
Helena Norberg Hodge
founder and director · Local Futures
1 appearance on this show
Helena Norberg-Hodge
environmentalist, author and filmmaker · Local Futures
1 appearance on this show
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