The relentless flood of bad news challenges our ability to make sense of the world. For those of us who are sensitive to the dissolution of consensus reality, collapse forces us to look inward. How do we know what we should do? How ...

In this freewheeling episode, Matthew Painton and David Baum start with the dictionary definition of "transcendence" (to climb to another level), discuss different kinds of transcendence (sacred and mundane), examine the relationship of transce...

Collapse is accelerating, both in the realm of climate and in politics. The weather is becoming unreliable, and the governments are turning fascist. David Baum and Matthew Painton, Conveners at Collapse Club, talk about how our "inn...

Many of us feel we are living in a fake world. The world of "business-as-usual" cannot last, and yet we are required to live here, even though we see it is collapsing around us.To live in the world but to see beyond the world creates a c...

Collapse causes acute distress in people who learn how things really are, beyond the world of "business-as-usual." If distress is not "metabolized" in a group process, it can cause us to freeze up or spiral into despair. But if we make connecti...