Podcast: 'Transcendence'

Sacred and mundane, emotional and relational, personal and universal.

7 February 2026

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In this freewheeling episode of the Collapse Club podcast, Matthew Painton and David B. start with the dictionary definition of "transcendence" (to climb to another level), discuss different kinds of transcendence (sacred and mundane), examine the relationship of transcendence to collapse (integrative or bypass), and end up describing how Collapse Club meetings help to transcend despair (relationship and metabolization).

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