all that we are with amisha tala oak (fka the future is beautiful)

What if we are mushrooms having a human experience?

In this conversation called ‘Mushrooms and Mycelium: Nature's Network’, Amisha Tala Oak meets Darren le Baron, an educator specialising in mycology and psychedelic research based in the UK and the Caribbean.

Known around the world for his Shroomshop Master classes and mushroom educational programs, he is a keen cultivator and teacher who is passionate about sharing his research and findings on ethnomycology, ancient African plant medicines and their various applications.

Together we explore:

:: How understanding yourself can help you build deeper, more meaningful connections.

:: The challenges young people face in finding their purpose—and how to guide them.

:: What mushrooms and mycelium can teach you about connection and renewal.

:: How you are a mushroom having a human experience.

:: How you, as a gardener or nature-lover, play a vital role in our planet's future.

:: How money really does grow on trees.

:: Why plant wisdom is essential for your survival and living in harmony with the Earth.

(Please note despite much research and clinical trials of the benefits, one of the mushrooms we discuss in this conversation are illegal in some countries)

Links from this episode and more at https://allthatweare.org

In this TIMELESS episode we hear from Sophie Strand and Bayo Akomolafe. Together, we explore how the sacred is less about certainty and mastery and more about dwelling in the unknown, the disruptive, and the in-between. As we open ourselves to this journey, we consider how unlearning and openness might guide us toward a deeper, more grounded sense of the sacred—one that emerges in moments of humility, fragility, and genuine encounter.

“And I was thinking that, at least in my own situated experience, my approach to the sacred would be to flip the paradigm and to ask, what if the sacred researches you?” Sophie Strand

As a writer, Sophie focuses on the intersection of spirituality, storytelling, and ecology. She believes strongly that all thinking happens interstitially between beings, ideas, differences, and mythical gradients. Bayo is a poet, philosopher, psychologist, professor, and chief-curator of the Emergence Network. He curates this earth-wide project for the re-calibration of our ability to respond to civilisational crisis.

We hope this TIMELESS episode invites you to pause and reflect on the sacred in new and unexpected ways.

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How can we change the world by changing our consciousness?

In this episode entitled Oxygenating Beautiful States of Mind, Amisha meets author, investigative journalist and teacher of meditation Alan Clements. Together they explore the nature of meditation, consciousness, beauty and activism.

Alan shares the story of his enquiry into the influence of consciousness on consciousness itself, including what inspired him to study “the elements of consciousness that enhance its frequency, luminosity, liberty and enlightenment.” We hear about the shift from external exploration - through psychedelics, entheogens, diet and yoga - toward an internal exploration, which led Alan to Burma, to the Mahasi Meditation Centre, and his teacher there.

After studying mindfulness meditation in a Burmese monastery for over 20 years, Alan returned to the world of laypeople and now spends his days writing, running retreats and teaching what he has learned to others. He and Amisha speak about the challenges of studying meditation outside the controlled environment of a monastery, and how we can practise mindful intelligence as a way of being in everyday life.

Alan shares his beliefs about how monogamous commitment is the way of the future for loving relationships, and why abandoning polyamory allows us to reach greater states of freedom together than we can alone. He tells how - by holding the highest integrity of presence in every moment and encounter - we can each change the world right here, right now and one person at a time.

“The most important act of activism today is to be in emotional integrity in the most heightened way - where you are, with whom you’re with - and let that be the evidence, should you die, of the greatest gift you gave to the future of life.” ~ Alan Clements

Links from this episode and more at https://allthatweare.org/2019/06/20/e53-alan-clements-on-meditation-intimacy-and-sacred-activism-oxygenating-beautiful-states-of-mind/

For Amisha's book INTUITION - https://amisha.co.uk/intuition/

To work with Amisha one on one, visit https://amisha.co.uk/leadership/

How can we sense and cultivate our intuition as a life skill that helps us foster thriving communities?

In this special episode entitled Living A Life Of Embodied Intelligence, Lexy Alea Kay speaks with our host Amisha Ghadiali of this globally acclaimed podcast, All That We Are, that weaves together Politics, Spirituality, Creativity and Sustainability offering us deep, insightful, unedited conversations with inspiring guests. Amisha has a gift of bringing people into connection with themselves, each other and the Earth. She has hosted many retreats, workshops, programmes and rituals around the world. She creates brave, tender and inclusive spaces.

Amisha shares her insights into what it means to live in flow with one’s intuition and the abundant possibilities we open up when we cultivate this essential life skill. Her latest book ‘Intuition’ delves into 9 principles and 53 practices gathered to help us connect with and grow our intuition. Her latest offering ‘Intuitive Flow’ is a 4week journey that integrates themes of the book to help us create a deeper relationship with our inner world learning how to trust our intuition and to unfold life from that place.

Amisha’s offerings are underpinned by her desire to create spaces where we can connect with our own natural intelligence so we may flourish thriving communities that embrace us for who we are, that offer support and camaraderie with the challenges we face whilst honouring our cyclical reciprocity with nature.

She tells us about the The Future Is Beautiful community app, to be launched this year, that albeit it being a tech space, is designed with the intention to lead us into a space as beautiful as a forest beautiful forest; a space of gathering, connection and redefining of priorities where we can share and receive each others gifts, insights and ways of life that can strengthen our communities.

Links from this episode and more at https://allthatweare.org/2021/06/03/e139-the-essence-of-life-living-a-life-of-embodied-intelligence/

For Amisha's book INTUITION - https://amisha.co.uk/intuition/

Be part of AllThatWeAre community by using this link, https://love.allthatweare.org/membership

To work with Amisha one on one, visit https://amisha.co.uk/leadership/

How can we nurture what we have in order to meet the unique challenges of our life?

In this special episode entitled Inner Healing and Systems Of Oppression, our host Amisha Ghadiali welcomes us into the new year. Amisha’s prayer for 2023 is that that we find a way to be as generous as possible with each other, with ourselves and with tapping into the bigger picture.

Amisha has been hosting ‘all that we are’ fka ‘The Future Is Beautiful’ podcast for 6yrs exploring the weave between activism, the sacred, creativity & regeneration. She has hosted many retreats, workshops, programmes and rituals around the world. She creates brave, tender and inclusive spaces.

Amisha shares personal reflections and insights gathered during the past few years. This challenging period of adjusting to profound life changes whilst facing obstacles encountered during the expansion of ‘all that we are’ have granted her a new perspective on how we can meet life’s challenges that lay ahead.

She reflects on systems of oppression and how we may navigate the real impacts these have on our futures, our sense of community, autonomy and inner balance. Amisha speaks about the practice of Beautiful Leadership. She tells us about ‘all that we are’ membership, which as been attuned to bring us into cycles of reciprocity. She invites us to join her early Spring offering, a ‘Beautiful Leadership Retreat’.

We learn that understanding our spirituality is what brings us a sense of power and presence, which will helps us to live with humility, to connect with ourselves with integrity and generosity, and to lead with creativity and intuition.

Links from this episode and more at https://allthatweare.org/2023/01/12/e163-living-beautiful-leadership-inner-healing-and-systems-of-oppression/

For Amisha's book INTUITION - https://amisha.co.uk/intuition/

Be part of AllThatWeAre community by using this link, https://love.allthatweare.org/membership

To work with Amisha one on one, visit https://amisha.co.uk/leadership/