Future Primitive

This is a new episode in our monthly podcast series, Upaya Conversations, a collaboration with Upaya Zen Center.
Stephen Batchelor is a contemporary Buddhist teacher and writer, best known for his secular or agnostic approach to Buddhism. Stephen considers Buddhism to be a constantly evolving culture of awakening rather than a religious system based on immutable dogmas and beliefs. Through his writings, translations and teaching, Stephen engages in a critical exploration of Buddhism’s role in the modern world.
He is the translator and author of various books and articles on Buddhism, including the bestselling “Buddhism Without Beliefs” (Riverhead 1997) and “Living with the Devil: A Meditation on Good and Evil” (Riverhead, 2004). His most recent publication is “Confession of a Buddhist Atheist” (Spiegel&Grau, 2010).

http://www.stephenbatchelor.org/index.php/en/

Stephen speaks with Joanna about “confession of a Buddhist atheist”; a Buddhist way of life; a middle road between religion and secularism; ethics & contemplation without metaphysical beliefs; the Dharma in a global culture; “Buddhism 2.0″; a plurality of discourses: the mythical and the historical; Keats and Zen…

”I Can’t Sit Still”, original music by Evarusnik
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Hillary Keeney, Ph.D., is a distinguished scholar, author, and practitioner of creative transformation and improvisational performance. Co-Founder and Director of THE KEENEY CENTER FOR SEIKI JUTSU, she is presently Distinguished Visiting Professor in Psychology, Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla (BUAP), Mexico and Adjunct Faculty in the Creative Systemic Studies doctoral concentration at the University of Louisiana. Having begun her career in the non-profit sector doing community and social justice work, she now advances the art of change in a wide variety of venues, from the therapeutic clinic to the social service agency, classroom, and theatre.  Hillary’s most recent books (co-authored with Bradford Keeney) include “Circular Therapeutics: Giving Therapy a Healing Heart”, “A Master Class in the Art of Performing Change”, and “Creative Therapeutic Technique”.
Bradford Keeney, Ph.D., is an internationally renowned traditional healer, creative therapist, cybernetician, anthropologist of cultural healing traditions, and improvisational performer. He is presently Professor and Hanna Spyker Eminent Scholars Chair, University of Louisiana, Monroe, and has served as a professor, founder, and director of clinical doctoral programs in numerous universities. He is the originator of several orientations to psychotherapy including improvisational therapy, resource focused therapy, and creative therapy. He is the author of 40 books including THE BUSHMAN WAY OF TRACKING GOD, which won the prestigious Silver Nautilus national book award.

Hillary and Brad Keeney speak with Joanna with open-hearted, contagious enthusiasm about their book “Circular Therapeutics: Giving Therapy a Healing Heart”, the upcoming two-year mentorship dedicated to promoting and advancing the wisdom of the world’s oldest ways of spiritual healing and renewal, and the open mysteries of the soulful Life Force

”I Can’t Sit Still”, original music by Evarusnik
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Bill Pfeiffer aka «Sky Otter» is the founder of Sacred Earth Network  which  implemented leading edge visions for almost 20 years. In that time, Bill made Russia a “second home” having traveled there 42 times – -giving him a rare cross-cultural perspective. He has 25 years of experience in Re-evaluation Counseling and Vipassana meditation, and has undergone extensive training with Siberian shamans as well as with Joanna Macy and John Perkins. He has also spent much time in the US Southwest learning about Native medicine ways and the crucial importance of the petroglyphs and pictographs.
Bill brings to all his work a dynamic mixture of open heartedness, sensitivity, and a fierce determination for a peaceful, sustainable future. He has been living in the forests of Nichewaug (Petersham) Massachusetts for 18 years.

He is the author of the forthcoming book “Wild Earth, Wild Soul: A Manual for Ecstatic Culture”.

http://billpfeiffer.org/

Bill speaks with Joanna about the attunement to planetary intelligence; “ancient future perception”; creating ecstatic culture together; experiencing our greater body; micelia and dendrites; a neuro-holographic miracle; travels in Siberia; honoring the elders; ecstatic kindness; petroglyphs, a cosmic language…

”I Can’t Sit Still”, original music by Evarusnik
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George and Sedena Cappannelli are experts on individual, organizational and societal change and internationally known consultants, coaches and keynote presenters who have worked with hundreds of the country’s leading organizations in both the private and public sectors. They are committed to creating an age friendly society, revitalizing and reinvigorating life for the 150 million Americans who will soon be 50 or older and assisting them to reignite their passion, fulfill their dreams and leave behind a legacy of greater promise and hope. And they are truth-tellers, social revolutionaries and passionate spokespeople for the generations whose issues are being ignored and whose talents, wisdom and experience is being undervalued.
Their joint books include: “Say Yes To Change, 25 Keys To Making Change Work for You”; “Authenticity, Simple Strategies For Greater Meaning and Purpose a Work and a Home”; and their just released, “Do Not Go Quietly, A Guide To Living Consciously and Aging Wisely in the 21st Century”.

http://donotgoquietlythebook.com/

http://agenation.com/home/

George and Sedena speak with Joanna about the cultural denial of aging; femenine and masculine aging; social change and individuation; compassion and self-compassion; “let the beauty of what you love become what you do”; becoming elders; deep listening and the collective song…

”I Can’t Sit Still”, original music by Evarusnik
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Dear friends,

Joanna is under the weather. We’ll be back next week.

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. He is an award winning teacher, international speaker, and author of “The Living Classroom”, “Dark Night Early Dawn”, and “Lifecycles”. Chris’ work explores the deeper dimensions of human psychology, including collective consciousness, reincarnation theory and philosophical implications of transpersonal states of awareness. He has degrees from the University of Notre Dame, Cambridge University, and Brown University.

http://web.ysu.edu/gen/class/Dr._Bache_m635.html

Chris speaks with Joanna about the collective death/rebirth process of humankind; an absolute choice point for the survival of the species; twenty years of experience working with non ordinary states of consciousness; the need for a strong spiritual practice when working with the deep psyche; direct experience as initiation in this research; the terror and ecstasy of navigating the soul realms; waking up to the Cosmic Lovers; we are the midwifes of the future human…

”I Can’t Sit Still”, original music by Evarusnik
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This is a new episode in our monthly podcast series, Upaya Conversations, a collaboration with Upaya Zen Center.

 Richard J. Davidson received his Ph.D. in Personality, Psychopathology, and Psychophysiology from Harvard University. He is currently Director for the Laboratory of Affective Neuroscience as well as the Waisman Laboratory for Brain Imaging and Behavior, at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His research is focused on cortical and subcortical substrates of emotion and affective disorders, including depression and anxiety, using quantitative electrophysiology, positron emission tomography and functional magnetic resonance imaging to make inferences about patterns of regional brain function.

He has also studied and published several papers on brain physiology in long-term Buddhist meditators, and in persons receiving short-term training in mindfulness meditation. Among his several books is “Visions of compassion: Western Scientists and Tibetan Buddhists Examine Human Nature” (2002, Oxford University Press), co-edited with Anne Harrington, and (with Sharon Begley) “The Emotional Life of Your Brain”.

http://richardjdavidson.com/

Richard speaks with Joanna about cultivating resilience to navigate the challenges of life with more equanimity, grace and compassion; the “kindness curriculum”; contemplative training: nourishing the seeds of compassion; a historic meeting of scientists and Tibetan contemplative practitioners; compassion practices and neuroplasticity…

”I Can’t Sit Still”, original music by Evarusnik
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Penny Kelly is an author, teacher, speaker, publisher, personal and spiritual consultant, and Naturopathic physician. In 1979 she experienced a full, spontaneous awakening of kundalini that completely changed her life. She returned to school to study the brain, consciousness, perception, cognition, intelligence and intuition. This was followed by over a dozen years of work as an educational consultant specializing in the brain-compatible and accelerative teaching techniques of Dr. George Lozanov.  In 1987, she moved to southwest Michigan and for 25 years has operated Lily Hill Farm and Learning Center. Today she travels, lectures, and teaches a variety of classes and workshops. She maintains a large consulting practice,writes books and poetry, raises chickens, beef cows, and grows organic vegetables and small fruits.

Penny is the mother of four children and has written – among other books – : “The Evolving Human – A True Story of Awakening Kundalini”, “Consciousness and Energy, Vol. 1 – Multi-dimensionality and a Theory of Consciousness”, and “Consciousness and Energy, Vol. 2 – New Worlds of Energy”

http://pennykelly.com/

Penny speaks with Joanna about nutrition, soil: health and higher consciousness; human body & Earth body; noetic transformation; wheels of energy and information; a deep paradigm shift in understanding our reality; awakening kundalini: the evolving human; a turning point; aligning with own’s purpose…

”I Can’t Sit Still”, original music by Evarusnik
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Richard Doyle earned his Ph.D. in Rhetoric at UC Berkeley. He was the Mellon Post Doctoral Fellow in History and Social Science of the Life Sciences at MIT in 1993. Professor of Rhetoric, Doyle holds appointments in English, Science Technology & Society and the College of Information Science and Technology at Penn State University and was Visiting Associate Professor at UC Berkeley, Department of Rhetoric in 2003.
Doyle teaches courses in the history and rhetoric of emerging technosciences – sustainability, space colonization, biotechnology, nanotechnology, psychedelic science, information technologies, biometrics – and the cultural and literary contexts from which they sprout.

Professor Doyle is the author of: “On Beyond Living: Rhetorical Transformations of the Life Sciences” (Stanford, 1997) and “Wetwares:Experiments in PostVital Living” ( Minnesota, 2003) – in a putative trilogy about emerging transhuman knowledges. Continuing his collaborative work on the “transhuman imperative”, Doyle (aka mobius) has now completed the trilogy with a scholarly book about archaic and contemporary psychedelic media technologies and the evolution of mind: Darwin’s Pharmacy: Sex, Plants, and the Evolution of Noosphere. Other current projects include a book, “Admixtures: Dialogues After Genomics” with Anthropologist Mark Shriver.  With Shriver Doyle founded the The Penn State Center for Altered Consciousness, investigating the genetics and phenomenology of legally altered consciousness with the help of a flotation tank.

More about mobius’ work and teaching can be found by browsing his web site.

Joanna and Richard talk about personal awareness of the Divine, a vast sense of belonging; a question as powerful as LSD; the love affair with everything; a curious assignment from ayahuasca…

”I Can’t Sit Still”, original music by Evarusnik
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Sarah Barab has been a practitioner in the Tibetan tradition for 20 years, and also teaches yoga and meditation and is a professional astrologer.
She founded Naked Mind Productions in 2006, as a non-profit dedicated to making Dharma-inspired film.
After graduating from the High School of Performing Arts in New York City, and later Naropa, Sarah went on to earn an MFA in theater. She worked as an actress for many years in physical theater companies such as Imago and Do Jump before deciding to pursue her interest in film. She was first inspired to make “Naked Mind” during the year she spent living in Nepal and India volunteering with Tibetan refugee children and studying Buddhism and Tibetan language.
http://nakedmindthefilm.org/coming-soon/

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/nakedmindfilm/naked-mind-the-film

Sara speaks with Joanna about her Kickstarter project featuring her upcoming film “Naked Mind”.

”I Can’t Sit Still”, original music by Evarusnik
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Peter Forbes is a farmer and conservationist, and an artist of imagery, written word and carved wood. He is also a public speaker and facilitator.  Peter’s life-long pursuit is to be a witness and storyteller of the bond between people and the land, and to translate what he has learned into a new form of leadership.

Peter founded the Center for Whole Communities to do what he could to strengthen and connect movements for social and environmental change by looking deeply at the issues that divide us from one another and from the land. At the core of this work are tools such as inquiry, story, deep listening, transformational leadership, and relationship-building across lines of race, class and ideology. He is the editor of “Our Land, Ourselves: Readings on People and Place” and he is the author of “The Great Remembering: Further Thoughts on Land, Soul and Society” (TPL/Chelsea Green, 2001). His essays have also appeared in “Coming to Land in a Troubled World” (Center for Land and People/Chelsea Green)

http://www.wholecommunities.org/publications/essays_talks.shtml

Peter speaks with Joanna about collaborating with the land; healing diversity; developing intimacy with nature everywhere; a new conservationism; food justice; intensive perception; a new generation of earth persons; uncovering the old wise person within…

”I Can’t Sit Still”, original music by Evarusnik

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We are launching a new monthly podcast series, Upaya Conversations, a collaboration with Upaya Zen Center … I will be hosting conversations with outstanding teachers, scholars, and visionaries in Buddhism and intersecting fields of human development.

We begin this series with scholars from Neuroscience/Neuropsychology … The first guest is  Evan Thompson.

Evan Thompson is a philosopher who works in the fields of cognitive science, Phenomenology, and cross-cultural philosophy, especially Asian philosophy and contemporary Buddhist philosophy in dialogue with Western philosophy and science.  He is the author of “Waking, Dreaming, Being: New Light on the Self and Consciousness from Neuroscience, Meditation, and Philosophy” (Columbia University Press, forthcoming) and of “Mind in Life: Biology, Phenomenology, and the Sciences of Mind” (Harvard University Press, 2007). He is also the co-author of “The Embodied Mind: Cognitive Science and Human Experience” (MIT Press, 1991; new expanded edition, 2014).

Evan speaks with Joanna about his forthcoming book “Waking, Dreaming, Being…”: how consciousness and the sense of self  shift in different waking states, lucid dreaming…through the twin perspectives of neuroscience of consciousness and meditative experience and philosophy; lucid dreaming in a contemplative context; being a philosopher in a post-modern world; autopoiesis: life creates its own ends; love & the web of life: this deeper, organic embeddedness; embodied mind, gender and aging; sitting & movement: complementary contemplative practices; science and meditation: the primacy of mind as direct experience…

http://evanthompson.me/

”I Can’t Sit Still”, original music by Evarusnik

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Leslie E. Sponsel has a PhD in Biological and Cultural Anthropology . Over the last four decades he has taught at seven universities in four countries. His courses include amongst others: Ecological Anthropology, Environmental Anthropology, Spiritual Ecology, Sacred Places.

From 1974 to 1981 Sponsel conducted several trips to the Venezuelan Amazon to study human ecology with the Yanomami and other indigenous societies. Almost yearly since 1986 Sponsel has made research trips to Thailand to study various aspects of Buddhist ecology and environmentalism together with his wife, Dr. Poranee Natadecha-Sponsel. In recent years their work in northern Thailand has focused on exploring sacred caves.

His latest book is “Spiritual Ecology: A Quiet Revolution”. Next up is the book “Natural Wisdom: Exploring Buddhist Ecology and Environmentalism”.

He is developing the Research Institute for Spiritual Ecology (RISE) and its website as founding Director.

http://spiritualecology.info/

Leslie speaks with Joanna about re-thinking/re-feeling/re-visioning our place in Nature; the biomystic roots of ecology; spiritual ecology; animism: the enchantment of Nature; “the military-industrial-media-academic complex”…

Kingsley L. Dennis, PhD, is a sociologist, researcher, and writer. He is the author of “New Consciousness for a New World” (2011); as well as “The Struggle for Your Mind: Conscious Evolution & The Battle to Control How We Think” (2012). He co-authored “After the Car” (Polity, 2009), which examines post-peak oil societies and mobility. He is also the co-editor of “The New Science & Spirituality Reader” (2012) He is now collaborating with the new paradigm Giordano Bruno GlobalShift University, a co-initiator of the Worldshift Movement and co-founder of WorldShift International. His latest book is “Breaking the Spell: An Exploration of Human Perception”.

Kingsley is the author of numerous articles on complexity theory, social technologies, new media communications, and conscious evolution. He currently lives in Andalusia in Spain and is working on new book material. He continues to research, write, travel, grow his own vegetables, and seeks answers to many questions.

http://www.kingsleydennis.com/

Kingsley speaks with Joanna about the transitioning process we are experiencing; increasing of the “global empathic mind”; breaking the spell of conditioning; a new energy/consciousness; the inner homeland; our inherent belonging to the Earth/Cosmos…

Back by popular demand

Charles Eisenstein is a teacher, speaker, and writer focusing on themes of civilization, consciousness, money, and human cultural evolution. His writings on the web magazine Reality Sandwich have generated a vast online following; he speaks frequently at conferences and other events, and gives numerous interviews on radio and podcasts. Eisenstein graduated from Yale University in 1989 with a degree in Mathematics and Philosophy, and spent the next ten years as a Chinese-English translator.  His latest book is “Sacred Economics”.

http://charleseisenstein.net/

Charles speaks with Joanna about the divine masculine and the exploration of a new masculinity; the space between stories; changing the perception of scarcity; the intimacy and simplicity of transitioning; the dance of language and context; the new meaning of money; “the technologies of reunion”…

music: “Xoriak” (from “Xoriek”) by Mikel Laboa

Alfred W. Kaszniak, Ph.D. is currently Director of the Arizona Alzheimer’s Consortium Education Core, and a professor in the departments of psychology, neurology, and psychiatry at The University of Arizona (UA). Al also presently serves as Chief Academic Officer for the Mind and Life Institute, an organization that facilitates collaborative scientific research on contemplative practices and traditions. He is the co-author or editor of seven books, including the three-volume “Toward a Science of Consciousness” (MIT Press), and “Emotions, Qualia, and Consciousness” (World Scientific). His work has focused on the neuropsychology of Alzheimer’s disease and other age-related neurological disorders, consciousness, memory self-monitoring, emotion, and the psychophysiology of long-term and short-term meditation.  Al has served on the editorial boards of several scientific journals, and has been an advisor to the National Institutes of Health and other governmental agencies. In addition to his academic and administrative roles, he is a lineage holder and teacher (Sensei) in the Soto tradition of Zen Buddhism.

http://www.u.arizona.edu/~kaszniak/

http://www.upaya.org/programs/event.php?id=865

Al speaks with Joanna about consciousness, memory & creativity; meditation: the foundation of liberation; an integrated way of knowing: science & contemplative training; a new way of learning about being with Alzheimer disease patients for family caregivers; a transpersonal understanding of the nature of compassion…

Stephen Harrod Buhner is an Earth poet and the award-winning author of fifteen books on nature, indigenous cultures, the environment, and herbal medicine. Stephen lectures yearly throughout the United States on herbal medicine, the sacredness of plants, the intelligence of Nature, and the states of mind necessary for successful habitation of Earth.

His most recent works are: “Ensouling Language: On the Art of Nonfiction and the Writer’s Life”; “The Secret Teachings of Plants: The Intelligence of the Heart in the Direct Perception of Nature”; “Pine Pollen: Ancient Medicine for a Modern World”;”Herbal Antibiotics, Second Edition, Revised, Expanded, Updated: Natural Alternatives for Drug-Resistant Bacteria”; “Healing Lyme Coinfections: Complementary and Alternative Treatments for Bartonella and Mycoplasma”; “Herbal Antivirals: Natural Treatments for Emerging and Resistant Viral Infections”.

http://www.gaianstudies.org/index.html

Stephen speaks with Joanna about the connection between death & nature; the ecological function of entheogens; “everything is alive, intelligent and communicating”; reclaiming your feeling sense; the ecstatic journey into the heart of the world; the inherent genius of human beings…

Cecile Lipworth is the Managing Director/Campaigns Director of V-Day.

Founded by Eve Ensler, V-Day is a global movement of grassroots activists dedicated to generating broader attention and funds to stop violence against women and girls, including rape, battery, incest, female genital mutilation (FGM) and sex slavery.

On V-Day’s 15th Anniversary, 14 February 2013, we are inviting ONE BILLION women and those who love them to WALK OUT, DANCE, RISE UP, and DEMAND an end to this violence. ONE BILLION RISING will move the earth, activating women and men across every country. V-Day wants the world to see our collective strength, our numbers, our solidarity across borders.

http://onebillionrising.org/

“Break the Chain”, music by Tena Clark and Tim Heintz

Edith Turner is an anthropologist engaged in the study of ritual, religion and consciousness. She has been researching the field of symbol and ritual for 58 years, formerly in collaboration with Victor Turner. Edith Turner has researched traditional healing and its ritual implications, initiations in Africa, celebrations and festivals in the Americas, Europe, and the far north, and pilgrimage in Central America, Europe, and Asia.
Author of many books, among them: ” Heart of Lightness: The Life of an Anthropologist”, “Among the Healers: Stories of Spiritual and Ritual Healing Around the World”, and her latest “Communitas: The Anthropology of Collective Joy”.

http://anthropology.virginia.edu/faculty/profile/elt9w

Edith speaks with Joanna about what unites us; religions as experience; the reality of spirits; expanding the paradigm of reality;  the spiritual human potential; “the heart of lightness”; the organicity of spiritual traditions; communitas: collective joy; aging & complexity; remembering Victor Turner; a detective of the Spirit…

A pioneer in the field of spiritual emergence, Paul Levy is a healer in private practice, assisting others who are also awakening to the dreamlike nature of reality. He is the author of the upcoming book “Dispelling Wetiko: Breaking the Curse of Evil”(North Atlantic Books, release date Jan. 15, 2013). He is also the author of “The Madness of George W. Bush: A Reflection of Our Collective Psychosis”. An artist, he is deeply steeped in the work of C. G. Jung, and has been a Tibetan Buddhist practitioner for over thirty years.
http://www.awakeninthedream.com/wordpress/

Paul speaks with Joanna about what is transpersonal evil; the process of shadow projection; the daimon: peril & promise; the response-ability of awakening in the dream; “dispelling wetiko”; agents of awareness; inner change/outer change…

original music by Evarusnik

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Dear Friends,

I’m taking a short break for my birthday. We will be back next week with a new Gaialogue. Please consider contributing to Future Primitive, your support helps us to continue this work. Also, please tell your friends about our interviews and conversations.

I invite you warmly to make suggestions about people that you’d like to hear on this site.

Love to all our listeners

Joanna

Dr. Seth Farber is a writer, social critic, dissident psychologist (he received his doctorate in 1984),visionary, activist (in the human rights, Green and anti-war movements — and a supporter of animal rights) and co-founder of the Network Against Coercive Psychiatry (1988). His newest and most important book is “The Spiritual Gift of Madness:The Failure of Psychiatry and the Rise of the Mad Pride Movement”.

http://www.sethhfarber.com/

Seth speaks with Joanna about the “mad pride” movement; the relevance of psychiatrist R. D Laing; exploring the inner time/space of consciousness; the creatively maladjusted to a insane society; “madness” as a glimpse of a new society; breakdown/breakthrough; “prophets of a new world coming into existence”;  the Great Awakening; “Earth was created for joy, not for sorrow”; suppressed mystics-in-training; Aurobindo’s integral evolutionary mysticism…

original music by Evarusnik

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Lenore Norrgard is a social activist, screenwriter, filmmaker, photojournalist, contributing writer, shamanic healer, teacher and consultant.
Pioneered applying shamanic practices to social activism. Among other articles,”Ritual & Activism: The Alchemy of Social Transformation” and “Our Ancestors, Ourselves: Healing America”. She wrote, directed, shot and edited 60-minute narrative film, GETTING TO SEX, integrating 16mm film with analog and digital video. Wrote and now producing AMERICAN UBUNTU, a narrative feature film.

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1990565332/american-ubuntu
http://www.lenorenorrgard.com/

Lenore Norrgard speaks with Joanna about her film project “American Ubuntu”: art, healing, & social activism; the ritual roots of film; a story about collective transformation; changing the American Dream; “because we are, I am”; an invitation to be a backer for this exceptional film project…

original music by Evarusnik

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Marsha Scarbrough is the author of the prize-winning book “Medicine Dance: One Woman’s Healing Journey into the World of Native American Sweat Lodges, Drumming Meditations and Dance Fasts”.  She’s also a freelance journalist with over 75 articles published in a wide variety of national magazines.  Beyond this she’s a graduate of the Director’s Guild of America’s prestigious Assistant Directors Training program and she spent 17 years scheduling, planning, and running the sets of major feature films, prime television series, movies of the week, and network sitcoms.  Along the way, Marsha traveled with Buddhist teacher Joan Halifax, danced with movement guru Gabrielle Roth, earned a brown belt in karate from martial arts legend Tak Kubota, practiced in healing ceremonies with Native American mystic Beautiful Painted Arrow Joseph Rael, and produced workshops from Nigerian master drummer and ceremonial leader Ayo Adeyemi.

http://www.marshascarbrough.com/

Marsha speaks with Joanna about her book “Medicine Dance: One woman’s healing journey into the world of Native American sweatlodges, drumming meditations and dance fasts”: healing ceremonies; a healing shift of perception;  freedom from fear; balance and the dance of energy/vibrations; drumming for answers; the resurgence of the First People; the teaching in the land; sex & intimacy; falling in love with the land…

original music by Evarusnik

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Lee Irwin is a Professor in the Religious Studies Department at the College of Charleston where he teaches world religions with an emphasis on Native American traditions, western esotericism, hermeticism, contemporary spirituality, mystical cosmology, and transpersonal religious experience as related to dreams and visions. He is the Vice President of the Association for the Study of Esotericism (ASE) and a board member of the Sophia Institute and the Institute for Dream Studies. He has been a workshop leader and group facilitator for over twenty years, particularly in the areas of visionary cosmology and the development of the sacred human. He is the author of many books and articles, including: “The Dream Seekers”, “Visionary Worlds”, “Awakening to Spirit: On Life, Illumination, and Being”, “The Alchemy of Soul”, and “Coming Down From Above: Prophecy, Resistance, and Renewal in Native American Religions”.

http://religiousstudies.cofc.edu/about/faculty-staff-listing/irwin-lee.php

http://www.scribd.com/Lee_Irwin_2984/shelf

Lee speaks with Joanna about ecology and spiritual traditions; being in attunement with Gaia; the many ways of relating to the Earth; positive visions of the future; the mystery of the human soul and World soul; co-creating a beautiful world; the personal quest; the visionary “waking lucidity”; a practice of dream yoga; an invitation to personal transformation…

original music by Evarusnik

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Michael Baldwin is the founder of Baldwin Brothers, Inc. in 1974, an investment advisor firm with over $800 million under management. Previously, he worked at Morgan Guaranty. In addition to his duties as President of Baldwin Brothers, Michael is also a trustee of the Nathaniel Saltonstall Arts Fund, The Garfield Foundation, and Northeast Growth Fund. Michael is also the founder of the Marion Institute, a non-profit organization, dedicated to teaching about alternative medicine and sustainability and he is co-founder of the Buddhayana Foundation. Michael has a BA from Harvard University.

http://www.marioninstitute.org/

http://www.baldwinbrothersinc.com/

Michael speaks with Joanna about discovery and healing; kindness and positive change; philanthropy and empathy; restoring the feeling of community; “Connecting for Change”…

original music by Evarusnik

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Eleanor O’Hanlon is an conservationist and writer. She has worked as a field researcher for leading international conservation groups and her articles on wildlife and wilderness have appeared in magazines in Europe and the US. As a writer, she has collaborated with some of the world’s leading photographers of wildlife and wilderness. Her articles on wildlife and conservation have appeared in magazines in the UK, France, Switzerland, Germany and the US and featured in webcasts bringing together nature photographers and writers for the protection of wilderness. Her forthcoming book “Eyes of the Wild: Journeys of Transformation with the Animal Powers”, will be published in December 2012.
http://eyesofthewild.org/

http://www.thesacredtreeoflife.com/index.html

Eleanor speaks with Joanna about her life-changing encounters with the gray whales; wild animals show us that we are not separate; the Animal Council; living with wolves; the emotional guidance from horses; the guardian of the bears; the authenticity of the wild within; the “Artic Stonehenge”…

original music by Evarusnik

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Richard Power is an internationally recognized author and journalist, and a trusted adviser to the executive leadership of government, industry, academia and the humanitarian community. Power has delivered executive briefings, and led professional training, in over forty countries.  He champions a bold approach to the unprecedented challenges of the 21st century, based on the principle that security, sustainability and spirituality are interdependent issues. He has also published eight books. His latest book is “Humanifesto: A Guide to Primal Reality In An Era of Global Peril”.

http://primalwordsofpower.blogspot.com/

http://words-of-power.blogspot.com/

Richard speaks with Joanna about the paradox of spiritual initiation; the Heart space; the psychological roots of the world crisis; the intimacy of the sacred; spiritual activism; restoring the balance of polarities; the rising the Divine Feminine; being the change…

Original music by Evarusnik

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Daniel Quinn worked in Chicago-area publishing for twenty years before beginning work on the book for which he is best known, “Ishmael”. This book was chosen from among some 2500 international entrants to win the half-million dollar 1991 Turner Tomorrow competition for a novel offering “creative and positive solutions to global problems.” The novel has subsequently sold more than a million copies in English, is available in some thirty languages, and has been used in high schools and colleges worldwide in courses as varied as philosophy, geography, ecology, archaeology, history, biology, zoology, anthropology, political science, economics, and sociology. Subsequent works include “Providence”, “The Story of B”, “My Ishmael: A Sequel”, “Beyond Civilization”, “After Dachau”, “The Holy”, and most recently “At Woomeroo”, a collection of short stories.

http://www.ishmael.com/welcome.cfm

Daniel speaks with Joanna about the circularity of increase in food production/population; retribalization: becoming socially whole; indigenous laws vs. punitive laws; animism: the world as a sacred place; “there is no right way for people to live”; inner/outer change…

A talk by Joanna Harcourt-Smith at the Women’s Visionary Congress at the IONS Retreat Center, Petaluma, California (July 27-29, 2012).

The Women’s Visionary Congress (WVC) is a gathering of visionary women healers, scholars, activists and artists who study consciousness and altered states. The WVC supports the transfer of knowledge among women who apply the insights of their research and spiritual path. We gather annually on beautiful land in Northern California to renew our community of adventurers and visionaries, and hold one-day salons in many places.
http://visionarycongress.org/
Joanna talks about her escape from a repressive environment; her life-changing encounter and love relationship with Timothy Leary; her struggle to free Leary from prison; her healing journey towards sanity/wholeness; sanity is relationship; “I’m here to connect”; LSD, spirituality, beauty…; “I belong with you and you belong with me”…

Charles Eisenstein is a teacher, speaker, and writer focusing on themes of civilization, consciousness, money, and human cultural evolution. His writings on the web magazine Reality Sandwich have generated a vast online following; he speaks frequently at conferences and other events, and gives numerous interviews on radio and podcasts. Eisenstein graduated from Yale University in 1989 with a degree in Mathematics and Philosophy, and spent the next ten years as a Chinese-English translator.  His latest book is “Sacred Economics”.

http://charleseisenstein.net/

Charles speaks with Joanna about the divine masculine and the exploration of a new masculinity; the space between stories; changing the perception of scarcity; the intimacy and simplicity of transitioning; the dance of language and context; the new meaning of money; “the technologies of reunion”…

music: “Xoriak” (from “Xoriek”) by Mikel Laboa

Pancho Ramos-Stierle has a passion for astrobiology that brought him to the University of California at Berkeley to pursue a Ph.D in Astrophysics. But when the government of the part of the Planet we call the U.S. and the laboratories of the university announced they were developing “safer nuclear weapons,” he decided to stop cooperating with the institution. Now as a responsible scientist, he says he is doing his “PhDO in Citizenship of the World.”
Pancho believes that “when the inner (r)evolution merges with the outer (r)evolution, the Total (R)evolution of the Human Spirit is imminent.” Furthermore, when science and art are balanced, the beauty of life blossoms with what he calls the “New Renaissance of Humanity.” His mission statement is “to live in radical joyous shared servanthood to unify humanity.” His activism and life’s focus is on issues of human rights, environmental sustainability, nonviolence, peace-building, immigration, urban agriculture and the development of a vibrant “gift economy.” Ramos-Stierle has been an integral part of movements to democratize the University of California system, protect old growth trees, implement “free farms” and move beyond youth violence, among other efforts.
He blogs at Earthling Opinion and ServiceSpace and can be followed on Twitter @oneworldcitizen.

http://earthlingopinion.wordpress.com/2009/09/01/poetry-is-the-science-of-the-soul/#60

Pancho speaks with Joanna about (r)evolution and the sense of wonder; critical thinking/feeling; connecting to the soil/soul; crafting a new language of the heart; the multiple faces of kindness; healing the fractures: embodying the change; the soul-force of “disobey with great love”; the magic of heart activism: “there’s no enemy”; unification of spirituality and activism…

music: “Babel” (from “Ofrenda”) by Pedro Guerra

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Depth psychologist Craig Chalquist, MS PhD,  is a core faculty member in East-West Psychology at the California Institute of Integral Studies, a former core (now adjunct) faculty in the Department of Consciousness Studies at John F. Kennedy University, and on the Board of Directors for Holos Institute. He is the author of “Terrapsychology: Re-engaging the Soul of Place” (2007), “Deep California” (2008), “Storied Lives” (2009), and co-editor of with Linda Buzzell, MFT, of “Ecotherapy: Healing with Nature in Mind” (2009). He is also a Master Gardener through a partnership of the University of California with the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

http://www.chalquist.com/

Craig speaks with Joanna about the psychlogical effects of climate change; a new perception of planet Earth; a healing dream about the future; “the media fast”; “eradigms”: archetypal worldviews; shadow work and eco-psychology; Jung’s “Red Book”: the Faustian ego;  eco-resilience circles…

Lisl Dennis is an author, lecturer, TV host, educator, and foreign travel tour leader.
Her worldwide career as a travel and decorative arts photographer, travel writer, and  tour leader has garnered a rich spectrum of images, impressions and experiences from a diversity of cultures.
With over 40 years experience guiding and teaching the creative process in the flux of foreign cultures, Lisl brings her stories, wit and wisdom forward in STORYSHARDS: Re-form the Vessel of Your Life. As an inspirational multimedia program, it highlights her stories and imagery of pilgrimage and ceremony from cultures around the world.

http://www.storyshards.info/index.html

Lisl speaks with Joanna about exoticism: pluralistic, multicultural love of beauty; “without imagination, we don’t have anything”; “Story Shards”: a vessel of meaning; chaos and complexity: living in a non linear world; aesthetics in service; engaged creativity…

music: “Ranolan Masun” (from “World Network – Uzbekistan”) by Munadjat Yulchieva & Ensemble Shavkat Mirzaev

Evelin Gerda Lindner  is a transdisciplinary scholar in social sciences and humanities. She holds two doctorates, one in medicine, and the other in psychology.  Her research focuses on human dignity, and she believes that the humiliation of honor and dignity may be among the strongest obstacles on the way to a decent world community. She is the Founding President of Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies (HumanDHS), a global transdisciplinary fellowship of concerned academics and practitioners who wish to promote dignity and transcend humiliation.
http://www.humiliationstudies.org/
http://www.worlddignityuniversity.org/joo/

Evelin Lindner speaks with Joanna abour dignity as sustainability; inequality and humiliation: Rwanda and South Africa; convergence of activism and spiritual practice; living “a dignity economy”; love and social cohesion instead of predator capitalism; the World Dignity University…

Music: “Soireci” (from “Microkosmos”) by Ross Daly
Photo: Evelin Frerk

Simon G. Powell is a writer, film-maker, and musician. He is the author of “The Psilocybin Solution” (2011), and his latest book, “Darwin’s Unfinished Business” (2012).He also wrote and presented the experimental documentary films “Manna” (2003) and “Metanoia: A New Vision of Nature” (2007).
Simon is currently working on a new book entitled “In Love With Gaia” chiefly about his remarkable psilocybin experiences over the last few decades.

http://www.simongpowell.com/index.html

Simon speaks with Joanna about a new relationship with nature; “natural intelligence”; “the survival of that which makes sense”; natural and cultural self-organization; human cortex: a focal lens for the field of information of the Earh…?; we are Nature becoming aware of itself; loving and celebrating the biosphere…

music: “Sygyt” (from “Chöömej – Throat Singing From The Center Of Asia”) by Ondar Mongun-Ool
photo: Nicolas De Jesus

Ken “Bear Hawk” Cohen, author of the critically acclaimed classic, Honoring the Medicine: The Essential Guide to Native American Healing (Random House, 2003), is a a health educator, a traditional healer, and scholar of indigenous medicine. He is the recipient of the Alyce and Elmer Green Award for Innovation and Lifetime Achievement in Energy Medicine. Although best known for his pioneering work in Chinese healing arts (qigong), he has followed the “red road” of Native American wisdom as his personal spiritual path for more than thirty years.

http://www.sacredearthcircle.com/index.html

Ken speaks with Joanna about Indigenous and Nature-based spirituality; similarities of ancient healing traditions; listening to the language of Spirit; indigenous European spirituality; the original Native American values; health, spirituality and Nature; the strong role of women in Native American culture; holistic healing…

music: “End” (from Ibero-Caucasian Style”) by The Shin

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.
http://www.northofeden.com/
Christa and Marc speak with Joanna about “Flesh Off the Bone: Dream Descent through Past Life Trauma”; Jung’s Red Book; remembering the Cathar siege; Mary Magdalene and the inner Feminine; trauma and recovering the girl; the larger context of the past; alchemy: the inner/outer transformation; guidance from dreams…

music: “The Mysterious Fish Named Kun” (from “Three Organic Experiences”) by Aglaia