woodcut of Gustave Baumann
In a completely preliterate society, the oral tradition is not memorized, but remembered. Thus, every telling is fresh and new, as the tellers review the imagery of origins, journeys, loves, hunts. Themes and formulae are repeated as part of an ever-changing tapestry composed of both the familiar and the novel. Direct experience, generation by generation, feeds back into the tale told.

Gary Snyder

Gaialogues with Joanna Harcourt-Smith

"Direct experience, feeding into a tale told" — these words from Gary Snyder epitomize the aim of the Gaialogues. Each month, Joanna Harcourt-Smith will present interviews with lively minds on various topics, and explore the connections between voices at play in a planetary fugue.

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May 02, 2008 - Craig Barnes
(51 minutes - 23.7mb)

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.


April 08, 2008
Second interview with Genoa Bliven

(49 minutes - 22.7mb)

Director of Human Design America. The Human Design System is a form of cosmology which partakes of Eastern and Western Astrology and synthesizes that system with the Hindu Chakra, the Kabbalah and the I Ching and is a new, unique and powerful system of knowledge which provides a framework for understanding human life itself and specific knowledge about each individual.
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Joanna Harcourt-Smith





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