Opening the door: activism meets shamanism

Manda Scott (I’m with Audrey Tang on pronouns: post-gender feels pretty good. She uses - */* which means ‘any entry accepted' in computer code, but if we have to nail it down then she/her is fine.)

Born in Scotland at 318ppm CO2, Manda Scott trained as a veterinary surgeon, but is now an award-winning novelist, host of the international chart-topping ‘Accidental Gods’ podcast, co-creator of the Thrutopia Masterclass and a contemporary shamanic practitioner/trainer at

Manda Scott is probably best known as a novelist, though she’s also host of the Accidental Gods podcast which, like us, gives a voice to people who are at the leading edge of inter-becoming, the emergence into a new paradigm that we all know we need. She’s the author of the Boudica: Dreaming series which explored the ways people lived in the islands of Britain before the horror of Roman colonisation, but with her last novel, she’s moved to the future five minutes from now - what she calls a Thrutopian future: how do we get through to a way of living we’d be proud to leave to the generations that come after us. Manda is also a contemporary shamanic practitioner of over 40 years standing, and she’s been teaching since the early 2000s, so we stepped into the other words and took our whole conversation from there.

Podcast: https://accidentalgods.life

Novelist website: https://mandascott.co.uk

Website for aspiring writers: https://thrutopia.life

Contemporary shamanism: https://dreamingawake.co.uk