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Jason Kirkey grew up in the North Atlantic watershed of Massachusetts in a small town north of Boston. He moved to Boulder, Colorado where he attended Naropa University and in 2007 obtained his Bachelor’s Degree in “Interdisciplinary Studies with concentrations in Contemplative Psychology and Environmental Studies.” Throughout his undergraduate career he was also heavily influenced and inspired by deep ecology, ecopsychology, Buddhism, and the Shambhala tradition of enlightened warriorship as taught by Chögyam Trungpa.

He has released three collections of poems, Portraits of Beauty (2006), Songs from a Wild Place (2007), and The Ballad of the Sea-Sweet Moon and Other Poems (2008).

In late 2008 Jason completed a manuscript entitled The Salmon in the Spring: The Ecology of Celtic Spirituality which deals with the themes of Irish mythology and the re-invention and integration of the human species into consonance with the living cosmos. It draws heavily on ecological studies, mythology and folklore, and the nondual mystical traditions.

Most recently Jason has moved to San Francisco to study at the California Institute of Integral Studies in the “Philosophy, Cosmology, and Consciousness” program. He is in the early stages of writing a fourth collection of poems and is developing experiential programs in order to bring his work with Place, Nature, Soul, and Story to the public.

http://www.jasonkirkey.com

Jason speaks with Joanna about nature, soul, storytelling, ecological mysticism and his own initiatory experiences from the diferent facets of the Irish Dreamtime

“We can’t engage with the entire universe, or with the aspect of our being that is the universe until we start engaging with our local identity, our local place, our local culture, our ecosystem, through that engagement, we can find the larger story, but it has to start with the local wawtershed, and finding our own story there, before finding the Big Story.”

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David Cumes, M.D. was born in South Africa and received his medical training at the Witwatersrand Medical School in Johannesburg. Specializing in urology, Dr. Cumes was trained and has previously taught on the staff at Stanford Medical Center. He has published extensively in professional journals and currently has a private practice in Santa Barbara, CA.

Although Dr. Cumes has had classical training in a profession that relies heavily on science and analytical reasoning, he has pursued a personal quest that evokes his intuitive and introspective capabilities. After extensive travel which included time with the San Bushmen in the Kalahari Desert, Dr. Cumes explored the role wilderness plays in personal healing and transformation. He founded a company called Inward Bound, and leads groups on healing journeys to remote wilderness areas. As a graduate of the National Outdoor Leadership School of North America, he has formal training as a wilderness guide.

He has published three books. In the first, “Inner Passages Outer Journeys”, Dr. Cumes explores the restorative power of nature. It discusses practical theories of wilderness psychology and synthesizes relevant aspects of ancient traditions such as yoga and Kabbalah. The second book, “The Spirit of Healing” , discusses the interrelationship between the patient, the healer, and the Divine Force or “Field” as essential components of the healing process. The book is filled with personal anecdotes and insights from his surgical practice, his travels and his studies of ancient healing wisdom, shamans and San trance dancers. More recently Dr. Cumes has been initiated as an inyanga or sangoma (South African shaman.) The third book is about this journey. He has established a healing center in the far north of South Africa (Soutpansberg mountains) where he has built “Tshisimane”.

http://www.davidcumes.com

David Cumes speaks with Joanna about the rol of wilderness in healing transformation, the calling of the ancestors, his own initiation as a Zulu sangoma (shamanic healer), the multiple factors in the healing process…

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Joan Heartfield, Ph.D. has been involved in the exploration of human consciousness for most of her life.

“I opened to a quality of intimacy so empowering and linked to The Divine, I realized I had stumbled upon what seemed like a missing link I never knew existed. I realized that the core of the human experience is all about our ability to love and be loved on all levels. I began to see how we filter and diffuse the love that wants to come into our life. Everything I had learned up till that point suddenly deepened and I began to teach from a place I can only identify as Source. This is a literal place where all experience becomes accessible and tangible. We live what we teach, and the joy in our lives is a real testimony to what we’ve embodied.”

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William Smythe, M.A., is a pioneer in the fields of Somatic Psychology and Rolfing®. A Certified Advanced Rolfer, he has practiced over 30 years. An early collaborator with Dr. Peter Levine, the originator of Somatic Experiencing® and Director of the Foundation for Human Enrichment, William Smythe, has a diverse and profound resume of the traumatic healing arts. He holds a masters degree in Somatic Psychology from the Santa Barbara Graduate Institute with extensive training and influences from Somatic Experiencing, Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy, Visceral Manipulation, Ericksonian Hypnotherapy, and Native American Shamanism. For over 25 years he has been passionately involved with the martial art of Aikido and is the Chief Instructor (Sensei) of the Aikido Arts Center . He lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico. http://williamsmythe.com

William speaks with Joanna about interpersonal neurobiology (first human bond:mother/child ), the somatic psycho-archeology, bridging feeling and imagery, the body as shadow…

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Matthew Hornback is a Licenced Massage Therapist and Health Care interpreter. He is currently working with Gender Alchemy and more recently with Earth Medicine, a project to restore a healing relationship between humans and the sentient land, and a path to reconcile a disconnected and abusive species. He is also working with Red Lightning, a Gender Alchemy camp at Burning Man, with a focus on the Healing Domes and Earth Medicine. He hopes to, soon, dawn Earth Medicine as a 501(c). http://forloveoflife.wordpress.com

Matthew speaks with Joanna about defending the forest, healing the individual/collective shadow, transmissions from the medicine teacher plants, his experiences with the Forest Being…

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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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is the Managing Director/Campaigns Director of V-Day. V-Day is a global movement to stop violence against women and girls. V-Day is a catalyst that promotes creative events to increase awareness, raise money and revitalize the spirit of existing anti-violence organizations. The V-Day movement is growing at a rapid pace throughout the world, in 130 countries from Europe to Asia, Africa and the Caribbean, and all of North America. V-Day, a non-profit corporation, distributes funds to grassroots, national and international organizations and programs that work to stop violence against women and girls. In 2001, V-Day was named one of Worth Magazine’s “100 Best Charities” and in 2006 one of Marie Claire Magazine’s Top Ten.

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is a New York Photographer whose internationally known work focuses primarily on women and girls whose outsider status places them within larger social struggles. She has had photos in U. S. News and World Report, The New York Times Magazine, Newsweek, The London Independent Magazine, Ms. Magazine, Paris Match, The Philadelphia Inquirer Magazine, Art In America and others.

Over the past 18 years, Paula Allen has been photographing international events: The Birth of Solidarity in Poland (1981), The European Nuclear Disarmament Movement (1982), The Dismantling of the Berlin Wall (1989), and the Defeat of Chilean Dictator General Pinochet (1989).

As a documentary photographer, Paula Allen’s dedication has been to record with her photos and also her words, the histories of women.

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‘s unusual path focuses on the hand-held frame drum, the world’s oldest known drum. For fifteen years, she researched the history of this drum in religious and healing rites in the ancient Mediterranean world culminating in her book, When The Drummers Were Women. Layne has been featured in many music festivals including the Touch Festival in Berlin, Seattle Bumbershoot Festival, the Institute for Contemporary Art in London, Tambores do Mundo in San Luis, Brazil, as a soloist at the World Wide Percussion Festival in Salvador, Brazil. Her recordings include: The Wave of Bliss, Invoking the Muse, Trance Union, Since the Beginning, and she has two instructional videos: Rhythmic Wisdom and A Sense of Time.

Layne speaks with Joanna about her music…and the spiritual tradition of women drummers and her resurgence today / yoga of sound / the ancient Mysteries / Kashmir Shaivism: Doctrine of vibration / musical experiences in Brasil, Cyprus… www.layneredmond.com

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Talal Jabari is a Palestinian/American who upon completing his Masters degree studies in 2000 and returning to Jerusalem, found himself thrust into the world of journalism by the onset of the Second Intifada. First as a fixer, then as a reporter, he covered the escalating violence for such prominent news sources as BBC World Service, South Florida Sun-Sentinel, and Al Ahram Weekly. In 2002, Talal started his TV career as an associate producer for CBS News as well as a field producer for the CBS news magazine 60 Minutes. His next career jump was as line producer and production coordinator of a 5-documentary film series entitled “The Shape of the Future,” which has won several awards. He also produced 4 episodes and did a portion of the filming, for Al Jazeera Documentary Channel’s flagship 8-part series: “Israel from Within”. Since then, Talal has continued to specialize in factual programming traveling to Lagos, Nigeria, Antigua, Guatemala and Belgrade, Serbia among other places, to work on various documentaries and doco-reality TV shows. Despite working on numerous award-winning documentary films as a producer or as a sound designer, this is Talal’s first film as the director.

Talal speaks with Joanna about his film : health effects related to cellular technology / possible solutions/ the contradiction between health and finance / Electro-hypersensitivity, among other topics.

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Pam Montgomery is the originator of Green Terrestrial Herbal Products of Vermont and was one of the founding members of the Northeast Herbal Association where she served as their president for four years. For a decade, Pam was on the Executive Council of the Board of Directors of United Plant Savers, an organization dedicated to preservation of our native medicinal plants. Pam has been organizing the Green Nations Gathering for nineteen years and has presented the Spirit Healing Conference and the Healing With Flowers Conference. She teaches workshops internationally on herbal medicine, Plant Spirit Healing, and spiritual ecology.  Pam is the author of “Plant Spirit Healing; A Guide to Working with Plant Consciousness” and “Partner Earth; A Spiritual Ecology”, and a contributing author in “Planting the Future”.

Pam speaks with Joanna about developing an intimate relationship with plants / beyond Gaia theory / the value of stillness /  the Great Healing .

http://www.partnereartheducationcenter.com/index.htm

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Wewer Keohane Ph.D. is an internationally represented and collected artist with works in permanent  collections of several museums.Wewer has been leading dream workshops for over twenty five years .

She has also lectured internationally, including being the keynote speaker for the International Association for the Study of Dreams on the topic of art inspired from dreams. She is the author of “Artful Dreaming: A Primer for Finding Inspiration from Your Dreams” and “Nightscapes: A Journal of Personal Dream Symbols”, and recently, “A Story for Isabel: sure to be your pup’s favourite bedtime tale”.

“I have dedicated my life to being authentic and to helping others find and be their authentic selves”.

http://www.wewerart.com/

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Craig Chalquist, PhD is a core faculty member in the School of holisitic Studies at John F. Kennedy University. He has worked as a family therapist, conflict resolution facilitator, lecturere, and group facilitator, He earned his PhD at PAcifica Graduate Institute, where he studied depth psychology with an ecological approach.

For his doctoral work he explored the history of California one mission city and county at a time while inspecting its geography, ecology, infraestructure, culture, lore, and imaginal life to synthesize a “psychoanalysis of place” to trace connections between the trauma and health of the land and the symptoms and syndromes of its inhabitants. He has written, among other books, “Terrapsychology: Reengaging the Soul of Place”, and is co-editor with Linda Buzzel-Saltzman, of “Ecotherapy: Healing with Nature in Mind”. See: http://www.chalquist.com/

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Joan Brooks Baker is a career photographer. Her work has been shown in many places including The United Nations. She has lived in Santa Fe for 25 years. She also loves New York where she was born and brought up. Joan Brooks Baker has been traveling the world investigating the mysteries of the Black Madonna. In this interview she speaks of the dark feminine and tells us how that wisdom and mystery has influenced her work, particularly in her portraits of women. Recently she gave a keynote presentation on the subject at the Spanish Colonial Art museum in Santa Fe. [More from Baker's website]

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Paul Six has been a student and practitioner of astrology since 1974. He has traveled to the far corners of the globe conducting workshops and private consultations for over 15,000 people in thirteen countries.

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Jerome S. Bernstein is a Jungian analyst and clinical psychologist, and author of Living in the Borderland: The Evolution of Consciousness and the Challenge of Healing Trauma. He was the founding president of the C. G. Jung Analysts Association of the Greater Washington, D.C. Metropolitan Area, vice-president of the C. G. Jung Institute of New York, and past-president of the C.G. Jung Institute of Santa Fe. He is currently on the teaching faculty of the C. G. Jung Institute of Santa Fe. [More from Bernstein's website]

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Elaine Pagels, née Hiesey, (born February 13, 1943), is the Harrington Spear Paine Professor of Religion at Princeton University. The recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship, she is best known for her studies and writing on the Gnostic Gospels. Her popular books include, The Gnostic Gospels (1979), Adam, Eve and the Serpent (1988), The Origin of Satan (1995), Beyond Belief: The Secret Gospel of Thomas (2003), and Reading Judas: The Gospel of Judas and the Shaping of Christianity (2007).

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Robert Wolff is a social psychologist and is the author of Original Wisdom: Stories of an Ancient Way of Knowing, also A Book of Dreams and What It Is to Be Human: Hope Lies in Our Ability to Bring Back to Awareness. Some of Robert’s essays and photographs are available on his website.

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Amanda Seyderhelm creates her life from the inside out. As a writer and life coach she specializes in coaching creative people who want to uncover their Big Dream and start living it.

“My biggest ‘wake up’ was in 2002 when I was diagnosed with ovarian cancer.  This was my body and soul speaking up for me, and I was initiated into an intense healing journey.”

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Toni Frohoff is a behavioral and wildlife biologist who has been studying marine mammal behavior and communication for over 20 years. Dr. Frohoff has a doctorate in Behavioral Biology, an M.S. in Wildlife and Fisheries Sciences, and a B.S. in Psychology. She specializes in stress and welfare in captive and free-ranging dolphins in response to human activity and has written numerous publications on this subject. Currently, Frohoff is Research Director for both Terramar Research (terramarresearch.org), and the Whale Stewardship Project (whalestewardship.org), where she studies free-ranging solitary beluga whales and solitary orcas who regularly interact with people; the first of their kind to be scientifically documented.

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Dr. Rick Strassman is a medical doctor specialized in psychiatry with a fellowship in clinical psychopharmacology research. Dr. Strassman was the first person in the United States after twenty years of intermission to embark in human research with psychedelic, or entheogenic substances.

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Part 2 of an interview with Rick Doblin, founder and president of MAPS (Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies). The second interview is about the Psychedelics and Ecology MAPS Bulletin, volume 19, number 1, edited by David Jay Brown.

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Jeffrey Lewis is a story teller and trader who has lived for many years close to Zuni and Hopi indigenous people learning about their traditions and stories:

“My role in the revitalization of these ancient routes has been a blessed one. I have brought macaw feathers from the Mayan jungles and worked to preserve that species. I have traded for weavings from the highlands of Guatemala and southern Mexico; shells from as far away as southeast Asia; corals from the Mediterranean. I have crawled into the mines at Cerillos and recovered turquoise; worked to re-establish the Zuni fetish trade.

All of this I have done. My commitment has always been that of preservationist: to preserve and protect the cultural rights of indigenous
people: to practice their religion as well their long and rich heritage as artists.”

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Rick Doblin studied with Stan Grof, M.D., and was in the first group to become certified as holotropic breathwork practitioners. His dissertation was on “The Regulation of the Medical Use of Psychedelics and Marijuana,” and his master’s thesis focused on the attitudes and experiences of oncologists concerning the medical use of marijuana. His undergraduate thesis was a twenty-five year follow-up to the classic Good Friday Experiment, which evaluated the potential of psychedelic drugs to catalyze religious experiences. He has also conducted a thirty-four year follow-up study to Tim Leary’s Concord Prison experiment.

In 1986, Rick founded MAPS (Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies). His professional goal is to help develop legal contexts for the beneficial uses of psychedelics and marijuana, primarily as prescription medicines but also for personal growth for otherwise “healthy” people, and to also become a legally licensed psychedelic therapist.

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Patricia Flasch is an author, a soul and depth coach and a business catalyst who has always been fascinated by the discovery of her own soul and she has spent a lifetime passing on her learning to the countless students she has encountered over the years. Her practice includes writing, counseling, coaching, mentoring, ministry, and workshop facilitation.

Patricia has just published her first book, Becoming a Love Dog: From Emptiness to Tenderness. In this book, Patricia offers support to live your life more fully, tenderly, honestly, skillfully, passionately, and authentically. She shares how you can ease your heartache by learning to cope with life with a growing emotional maturity.

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Charles Eisenstein is the author of The Ascent of Humanity: The Age of Separation, the Age of Reunion, and the convergence of crises that is birthing the transition – a book about the history and future of civilization from a unique perspective: the evolution of the human sense of self.

He is also the author of The Yoga of Eating and his most recent book Transformational Weight Loss, a book which applies the deep ideas of Ascent to a very specific crying need. He also give seminars and workshops focusing on two areas: holistic health, and the transformation of human consciousness and civilization.

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Lars Schmidt is an artist, facilitator, project developer and sustainability educator.As founder of Art, Ecology & Education, The Pollinators and initiator/co-developer of Integral Ecoawareness Training and Practice, Lars is a pioneer and visionary in the field of creating and facilitating transformative processes and projects for integrated, sustainable living.

He studied acting, dance, singing and photography in Germany and the US, worked internationally as actor for film, television and theater, as acting coach, photographer, musician/singer/songwriter, filmmaker and poet. He has lived and worked on organic farms in France and Italy, and is engaged in permaculture and living systems theory for several years.

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Dr. Edward Tick is the author of the groundbreaking book War and the Soul and founder of Soldier’s Heart, a veteran’s return and healing project based in Troy, NY. He is a practicing psychotherapist specializing in veterans with PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder). His pioneering work with PTSD or, in his words, “loss of the soul”, is the basis for War and the Soul. He continues his healing work with veterans and other trauma survivors with innovative yet time-honored methods. Ed has extensively studied both classical Greek and Native American traditions and successfully integrates their methods into modern clinical work. A widely published writer, he is also the author of The Golden Tortoise: Journeys in Viet Nam, Sacred Mountain: Encounters of the Vietnam Beast, and The Practice of Dream Healing: Bringing Ancient Greek Mysteries into Modern Medicine.

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Douglas Rushkoff is an author, teacher, and documentarian who focuses on the ways people, cultures, and institutions create, share, and influence each other’s values. He is the winner of the first Neil Postman award for Career Achievement in Public Intellectual Activity.

He has written ten best-selling books on new media and popular culture, written and hosted two award-winning Frontline documentaries, and writes a column for the music and culture magazine, Arthur. He teaches regularly for the MaybeLogic Academy, NYU’s Interactive Telecommunications Program, and the Esalen Institute and lectures about media, art, society, and change at conferences and universities around the world. He is on the board of several new media non-profits and companies, and regularly consults on new media arts and ethics to museums, governments, synagogues, churches, and universities.

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Anne Baring is a writer and retired Jungian analyst, is author and co-author of five books including The Myth of the Goddess: Evolution of an Image, The Mystic Vision, The Divine Feminine, and a book for children, The Birds Who Flew Beyond Time. Anne’s website www.annebaring.com explores the deeper issues facing us at this crucial time of choice.

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Known to many as the “Matisse of Japan”, Mayumi Oda has done extensive work with female goddess imagery. From 1969 to the present Mayumi has exhibited over 40 one-woman shows throughout the world. Her artwork is also part of the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art in New York, The Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, Library of Congress in Washington D.C. and many others. Mayumi is also a global activist, participating in anti-nuclear campaigns worldwide. She has lectured and held workshops on Nuclear Patriarchy to Solar Communities at the United Nations NGO Forum and the Women of Vision Conference in Washington DC. In 2000 she started Ginger Hill, a farm and retreat center on the Big Island of Hawaii. Mayumi currently lives at Ginger Hill Farm and travels worldwide, teaching workshops in creativity and self-realization.

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Natalie Goldberg is the author of Writing Down The Bones: Freeing The Writer Within (1986), which broke open the world of creativity and started a revolution in the way we practice writing in this country. The book has sold over one million copies and been translated into fourteen languages. Since then she has written nine other books, including the novel Banana Rose. Natalie is also a painter and her watercolors are exhibited at Ernesto Mayans Gallery in Santa Fe, New Mexico. She is a poet and has been teaching seminars in writing as a practice for the last thirty years. People from around the world attend her life-changing workshops.

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Cindy Lee Miller Sheehan is an American anti-war activist whose son was killed during his service in the Iraq War on April 4, 2004. She attracted national and international media attention in August 2005 for her extended anti-war protest at a makeshift camp outside President George W. Bush’s Texas ranch — a stand which drew both passionate support and angry criticism.

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