episode 252 | Aug 6, 2025 | 83min

Towards a Spiritually Informed Sociology with Ivo Mensch

In this conversation with Ivo Mensch we dive into the inner science of world-making, how our concept of time underlies the fabric of capitalism, the role of Buddhism in the metacrisis, liberating the cultural imaginations and creating islands of sanity.
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In this podcast we talk about:

04:30 Spirituality and cultural development
11:45 Buddhism and the metacrisis
18:00 Liberating the cultural imagination
25:00 Moving beyond capitalist mindsets
32:00 Morphogenesis and cultural evolution
37:00 Choosing our relationship with acceleration
44:20 Tuning into non-linear possibility
53:00 Creating islands of sanity
1:05:00 How the concept of time frames modernity
1:14:00 Inviting new ways of being

Resources Mentioned:
Genpo Roshi
Emerge Network
Rebel Wisdom
Jordan Peterson
Jonathan Rowson
Perspectiva 
Capitalist Realism, by Mark Fisher
Active Inference, by Giovanni Pezzulo et al.
Andy Clark
Thomas Metzinger 
Anil Seth
Liquid modernity, by Zygmunt Bauman
Steve March
Margaret Archer 
The Diamond Approach 
Social acceleration, by Hartmut Rosa
Dave Snowden
Bonitta Roy
Robert Kegan
Otto Scharmer
Cynthia Bourgeault
Gurdjieff 
Jean Gebser
Ken Wilber 
Sara Walker 
Michael Levin

About the Guest

Ivo Mensch

Ivo Mensch is Associate Director of Praxis at Perspectiva, a charity working on what they describe as ‘an urgent 100-year project’ to improve relationships between systems, souls, and society. His research focuses on innovation in spiritual practice, particularly interbeing, to come to a spiritually informed sociology with a focus on the body, time, the imagination and logos as fundamental dimensions for change. Currently he is a founding member of Emerge Institute based in Stockholm, where he is director of Research and Consilience. He is also a certified Integral Development Coach and trained in Aletheia Group Unfolding and is a published author. He publishes on his Substack - Increasing Life’ - exploring themes of culture, technology, consciousness and collective action.

WEBSITE

https://systems-souls-society.com
https://substack.com/@increaselife 
https://emergelakefront.org

About the Host

Joel Monk

Joel Monk is a leadership coach, educator and entrepreneur. He co-founded Coaches Rising, a company on the cutting edge of online coach training with a community of over 65,000 coaches. Coaches Rising programs regularly include participants from every continent on the planet and they have collaborated with some of the leading minds in the field of human development and coaching. Joel is also a leadership coach, coaching at companies such as THNK, Booking.com, Siemens and Naspers. Joel has designed and led several entrepreneurial and leadership development programs, at places such as Socionext, THNK and The Impact Hub Amsterdam.

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