The Big Soup

Greetings traveller, sit down and let me get you a bowl of The Big Soup where we dip the ladle into life’s simmering cauldron of ideas, concepts and conversations. This isn’t about sugar coating the challenges we face awakening and seeking an aligned life in a weird spacetime, where cretins pose as croutons. This is about savouring the nuances of life’s flavours and exploring their textures.Why ‘The Big Soup’?Life is the big soup, everything is an ingredient but not all flavours are meant to go together! Your base broth may be different, but sometimes you’ve got people insistent on throwing in their flavours where they don’t belong, especially if their taste buds are used to a dominion of bland, boring, beige and belligerent textures. We want flavour. Texture. Nuance. Balance and a delicate dance between influences to create a harmony that tingles the tastebuds of the mind. This isn’t about walking past the soup-pot simmering and taking a whiff then claiming you’ve got a measure of it. This is about taking a sip, a slurp, dunking the bread and saying YEAH BWOIS. (This is a technical term). What to expect: Open conversation - unscripted, no stale bread ideas forcing themselves into the bowl. Forward thinking openness - the past already happened, we are here to create an expansive future. Not one that is based on an imagined vision of a rose-tinted past. We have to move on. Big ideas in smaller portions - because we approach life and the world expansively but take things step by step. Tangents - what is life without its meandering strolls down the avenues of the mind?Your Soup Server (Host):Alastair Ballentyne - someone who got bored of bland chat, recycled ideas, driven by curiosity and a desire to create mischief for a higher purpose. Always on the search for the best ingredients, interesting flavour combinations and something stimulating to the senses. All of it underpinned by a desire to talk, laugh, examine and challenge the things we cling to in life. Why you’ll