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Brad Lancaster is a dynamic teacher, consultant, and designer of regenerative systems. He is the author of the award-winning, best-selling books Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands and Beyond, the information-packed website HarvestingRainwater.com, and the Drops in a Bucket Blog. He lives his talk on an oasis-like eight of an acre in dowtown Tucson, Arizona, by harvesting over 100,000 gallons of rainwater a year where just 12 inches per year falls from the sky.

Brad speaks with Joanna about all the aspects of rain harvesting: “planting the rain” – a concept learned from an African farmer, how to begin, the social effects of rainharvesting…
http://www.harvestingrainwater.com

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Andrew Harvey (b. 1952) is an author, scholar and teacher, known primarily for his popular nonfiction books on spiritual or mystical themes, beginning with his 1983 A Journey in Ladakh. He is the author of over 30 books, including the critically acclaimed Way of Passion: A Celebration of Rumi, Journey to Ladakh, The Return of the Mother and Son of Man. His last book is The Hope: A Guide to Sacred Activism. He now lives in Oak Park, Illinois, Chicago,where he writes, conducts workshops, leads tours, and offers spiritual counseling services by telephone.

Andrew speaks with Joanna about his mystical experiences, his defense of animals, sacred activism, the Nets of Grace.

“I believe there is a great death happening at this moment, and that this depth can be seen on every level of our world; it is an environmental death, it is a death through the accumulation of weapons of mass destruction, it is a death due to the addiction of to power of the corporate mindset…”

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Hal Zina Bennet’s highly acclaimed work includes countless articles and more than 30 successful books, including two adult novels: Spirit Circle and White Mountain Blues.

Many of his books have become classics in their fields: Write From the Heart, Spirit Animals & the Wheel of Life, The Lens of Perception and Zuni Fetishes, “The Well Body Book”, Follow Your Bliss, with Susan J. Sparrow, “The Holotropic Mind”, with Stanislav Grof, M.D. Hal’s interest in creativity, human consciousness, metaphysics, and the ancient wisdom traditions began as a teenager, following a coma and near-death experience that left him temporarily blind, during which time he was initiated into the reality of the inner world. Studies in ancient spiritual traditions over the next 20 years helped him to validate insights he’d had during his encounters with his own death and his visions of the world beyond.

In addition to being a prolific author, Hal has helped over 200 authors develop their own work, several of them bestsellers.

Hal speaks with Joanna about his near-death experience, entheogens as mind-expanding tools, story-telling as a wisdom practice, our spiritual connection to Nature…

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Christopher M. Bache has been a professor of Religious Studies at Youngstown State University for almost 30 years as well as an intermittent adjunct faculty member at the California Institute of Integral Studies. From 2000-2002 he was Director of Transformative Learning at the Institute of Noetic Sciences located outside of San Francisco.

At YSU he teaches courses in Eastern religions, transpersonal psychology, consciousness research and Buddhism. His writings explore reincarnation, the philosophical implications of non-ordinary states of consciousness and the dynamics of collective consciousness within the classroom. He was awarded YSU’s Distinguished Professor Award twice, once for teaching and once for research.

Christopher speaks with Joanna about “learning fields” of consciousness, sinchronicities, the collective archetypal process of death/rebirth… among other topics.

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Jesús Sepúlveda is a Chilean poet with roots in Spain, Italy and Eugene, Oregon. His important work is both critical and inspirational, a human and plant-centered antidote to the globalist technocracy.

Sepúlveda’s doctoral dissertation (Toward a Poetic of De-Inhabitation) covers a wide range of aspects of Peruvian, Chilean and Argentine literary history from the Avant-garde period toward the New Avant-garde, and New Baroque periods. Shamanism is another of his areas of interest. His upcoming book, Realidades Multidimensionales, explores the topic of shamanism from the perspective of Nagualism as well as studying shamanic phenomena in their interconnection with dreams, plants of power, consciousness and literary subjectivity.

“If we are to survive, we must remember the wisdom in this powerful and poetic book. The Garden of Peculiarities will in time, I believe, become a classic. Jesús Sepúlveda shows us how to remember what we already know in our bodies.” — Derrick Jensen

Jesús Sepúlveda speaks with Joanna about his books “The Garden of Peculiarities” and “Realidades Multidimensionales”, the teachings of the sacred plants, the magical perception of reality and its relationship with the evolution of humankind, and a nagual message from the future…among other topics.

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Marc Bregman founded Archetypal Dreamwork in 1973, is the Co-Founder and Co-Director of North of Eden and The Center for Archetypal Dreamwork and is on the North of Eden Executive Committee. Marc is a master Archetypal Dreamwork Therapist, in practice since 1973, a teacher and a trainer of teachers. He is the author of The Deep Well Tapes, The Secret of the Pomegranate, Sex, Trauma and Conjunctio and Hubris of the Heavens: Archetypal Dreamwork and Rudyharian Astrology.

Christa Lancaster is the Co-Founder and Co-Director of North of Eden and The Center for Archetypal Dreamwork and is on the North of Eden Executive Committee. Christa is a master Archetypal Dreamwork therapist, in practice since 1991, a teacher and trainer of teachers. She is the co-author with Marc Bregman of The Deep Well Tapes: Sex, Trauma and Conjunctio – it includes her spiritual memoir of her journey through this work called Vessel.

Christa and Marc speak with Joanna about dreams, archetypes, the process of dream groups, the emerging femenine…

http://www.northofeden.com

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Ken Stewart is a Vietnam war veteran who found poetry to be a way to come back home. He found that like a country can’t escape its history he could not escape his baggage and no number of southwestern sunsets could change that fact.

“It seems at least every generation the US has sent young men to war. Although each one has its unique character they all take many young and less experienced men, and now women, and ask them to perform acts of violence only dimly hinted in movies and the media. One thing all wars have in common is the government never prepares itself or their armed forces for the toll it takes on human beings and returning veterans, nor does it consider the impact of homecoming and transition these soldiers are expected to make. Token parades or superficial and transient expressions of appreciation can in no way make up for the price we pay. Many returning veterans have found release in writing, art, family and public service. Many have never found their way home and some never will. These are just some of one man’s thoughts and feelings about his experience. Although war is always big business, for those of us that fight it, it is personal”… kstewart@smellofblood.com

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