Future Primitive

Khepe-Ra Maat-Het Heru is one of the original members of The The E.S.H.U. Collective, a grassroots transformational leadership system based in Spiritual Warriorship established in 1997. Through her work with ESHU she has consulted with various programs such as The Marion Institute, The Massachusetts Commission for National and Community Service, YouthBuild USA, NeighborWorks America, Youth Recreation Counsel of Bermuda, Sisseton Wahpeton Oyate youth program of The Lake Traverse Reservation, Global Passageways first international rites of passage Hilo, Hawaii and many more. In 2010 ESHU and Green Jobs of The Marion Institute created POWER as an eco-warrior training model. Khepe-Ra is a skilled and passionate educator, artist, visionary and spiritual warrior. She has been a keynote speaker for The Bioneers Conference, a presenter/performer at YouthBuild USA’s 20th and 30th national anniversary days of action in D.C., and facilitated National Youth Symposiums and Community Leadership Institutes and others over the last fifteen years. She is an active member and supporter of the Decolonize/Occupy movements.

www.marioninstitute.org/about-us/marion-institute-team

Khepe-Ra speaks with Joanna about developing an intimate relationship with the Elements and Spirit, spirituality and leadership development, the “spiritual warrior” project, “holographic kinetics,” the voice of the feminine, connecting to the Earth, freedom and spiritual activism, coming into sacred space with each other…

Music: ‘Breathing,” (from EarthLight) by A Tree Within

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Note: This episode is a re-publish of the 2008 conversation with Craig.

Craig Barnes is an author, essayist, playwright and international mediator. In the 1980s he negotiated nuclear issues with leaders in the Academy of Sciences in the Kremlin, in the 1990s he facilitated talks between opposing sides in the war between Armenia and Azerbaijan and thereafter led talks to knit together transboundary water agreements between Kazakhstan, Uzbeckistan, Tajickistan, and Kyrghizstan. His books include In Search Of The Lost Feminine, Decoding the Myths that Radically Reshaped Civilization, an analysis of the roles of women as they appear in archeology and myth before the patriarchy. His most recent book is: Democracy at the Crossroads. Craig also has a weekly radio program at KSFR, every Saturday @9AM MST.

www.craig-barnes.com

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Requa Tolbert is a psychiatric nurse, psychedelic researcher and medicine artist who lives in the desert Southwest with her beloved, George. From 1980 to 1985, George Greer and his wife, Requa Tolbert, conducted over 100 MDMA therapeutic sessions for 80 individuals; this is the largest published study of the use of MDMA in a therapeutic setting.

www.stormridercards.com

Requa speaks with Joanna about the card deck and the book she has created – “The Stormrider Calling Cards;” “the medicine of the moment”; water as the blood of life; “healer, heal thyself;” the alchemical medicines; ceremony, community and the divine feminine…

Music: “Soso Soso” (from “Mushroom Ceremonies of the Mazatec Indians“) by María Sabina

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Marja de Vries studied biology and ecology and worked more than 10 years as fabric artist. Looking for answers to the question “How can we, human beings, live in harmony with nature?” she visited several indigenous people and developed intuitive communication with nature.

Since 2003 she is fully dedicated to contribute to a worldwide tranformation and the creation of a world in which everything and everyone can live in harmony with all and everything. Because the way we teach and educate – together with the way we raise our children – plays a key role here, her focus was first mainly on the tranformation of learning and educations, so it will be more in line with who we and our children in essence are. Since the publication of her book The Whole Elephant Revealed in Dutch in 2007, of which already 10.000 copies are sold, she is an often asked for speaker and is invited by many different organisations to give a presentation. Most often she is asked to talk about the universal laws, but recently also about ‘Societies in Balance’ the subject of her second book she is still working on.

www.marjadevries.nl

Marja speaks with Joanna about the principles of order, harmony and dynamic balance in Nature; restoring the dymanic balance between the masculine and the feminine; human being and Nature in a holistic worldview; “the original instructions;” wisdom traditions and the universal laws; epigenetics and quantum entanglement; different levels of reality; conscious evolution…

Music: “La Selva” (field recording) by Francisco López

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Jeffrey John Kripal, Ph.D., is the J. Newton Rayzor Professor of Philosophy and Religious Thought (and Chairman of the Department of Religious Studies) at Rice University in Houston, Texas. His work includes the study of comparative erotics and ethics in mystical literature, American countercultural translations of Asian religions, and the history of Western esotericism from gnosticism to New Age religions. He is also one of the leading scholars at the Esalen Institute’s Center for Theory and Research. He is the author – among other books – of: “The Serpent’s Gift: Gnostic Reflections on the Study of Religion”; “Esalen: America and the Religion of No Religion”; “Authors of the Impossible: The Paranormal and the Sacred”; and his latest book “Mutants and Mystics: Science Fiction, Superhero Comics, and the Paranormal” (2011).

kripal.rice.edu

Jeffrey speaks with Joanna about the relationship between sexuality and mystical states – a western taboo, the “paranormal” as symbolic of emerging realities, “authorization:” taking responsibility for our cultural stories; his transpersonal life-changing experience in Calcutta; the essence of the Gnostic message; and mystics and superheroes…

Music: “El Contador de Historias/The Storyteller” (from Nierika) by Jorge Reyes.

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Dr. Robert K.C. Forman is a professor of comparative religions, (CUNY), and founder of the Forge Institute. He routinely gives lectures, trainings and workshops around the world. He was the co-founder and is executive editor of The Journal of Consciousness Studies, which has become the principle journal in the field. He is also the author of ten scholarly books on spirituality, mysticism, consciousness and world religions. His latest book is Enlightenment Ain’t What It’s Cracked Up To Be: A Journey of Discovery, Snow and Jazz in the Soul.

Robert speaks with Joanna about the soulful simplicity and beauty of everyday Enlightenment, the challenge and blessing of truth-telling, the relationship between psychology and spirituality, “spacious honesty”…

http://enlightenmentaint.com/
http://godeepertogether.com/

Music: “Words of Truth” (from “The Garden Of Mirrors“) by Stephan Micus

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Daniel Leonard Everett is a U.S. author and academic best known for his study of the Amazon Basin’s Pirahã people and their language. He has worked in the Amazon jungles of Brazil for over 30 years, among more than one dozen different tribal groups. He is best-known for his long-term work on the Pirahã language. He has published more than 90 articles and six books on linguistic theory and the description of endangered Amazonian languages. His most recent book, “Don’t sleep, there are snakes: life and language in the Amazonian jungle”, was selected by National Public Radio as one of the best books of 2009 in the US, by Blackwell’s bookstores as one of the best of 2009 in the UK , and was an ‘editor’s choice’ of the London Sunday Times. His latest book is “Language as a cultural tool”. A documentary of his life and work, “The Grammar of Happiness”, will be released in 2012. A screenplay based on “Don’t sleep” is in progress by Spider Ink of Australia. He is currently Dean of Arts and Sciences at Bentley University in Waltham, Massachusetts.

daneverettbooks.com

Daniel speaks with Joanna about culture, language and belief; the deep existencial change he experienced living with the Piraha people; “inmediacy of experience principle”; language and community, the Piraha languages: spoken, whistling…and humming, relative truth and tolerance, the deep ecological culture of the First People, the cognitive value of diversity…

Music: “Piraha singing“, fieldwork recording

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