Talk given at the Lensic Theater in Santa Fe on May 25. Joan Halifax Roshi is a Buddhist teacher, Zen priest, anthropologist, and author. She is Founder, Abbot, and Head Teacher of Upaya Zen Center, a Buddhist monastery in Santa Fe, New Mexico. She is Director of the Project on Being with Dying. A Founding Teacher of the Zen Peacemaker Order, her work and practice for more than three decades has focused on engaged Buddhism.

 

 Brief talk by Joan Halifax Roshi [15:23m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Dr. Larry Dossey is a physician, lecturer, author and internationally influential advocate of the role of the mind in health and the role of spirituality in healthcare. His books include. among others, Space, Time & Medicine, Reinventing Medicine and The Extraordinary Healing Power of Ordinary Things.

 

 Interview with Dr. Larry Dossey [41:11m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Bradford Keeney Ph.D. is recognized as an elder shaman and spiritual teacher in cultures throughout the world. He is the author of Profiles of Healing, an eleven-volume encyclopedia of the world’s healing practices and an autobiography entitled Bushman Shaman as well as several classics in the field of psychotherapy and numerous titles for the popular press. With his website Shaking Medicine he invites us to go beyond modernity to the oldest culture on Earth to find true magic and power.

 

 Interview with Bradford Keeney Ph.D [44:45m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Also known as Mountain Girl, Carolyn was a Merry Prankster and the wife of Jerry Garcia. In 1964 she met Neal Cassady who introduced her to Ken Kesey and his friends, one of whom gave her the name "Mountain Girl". She quickly joined the inner circle of Pranksters and was romantically involved with Kesey. She later met and married Jerry Garcia.

 

 Interview with Carolyn Garcia [44:03m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

President and co-founder (with wife Lena Stevens) of Power Path Seminars, an international school and consulting firm dedicated to the study and application of shamanism and indigenous wisdom to business and everyday life. José completed a ten year apprenticeship with a Huichol Maracame shaman in the Sierras of Central Mexico. In addition he is studying intensively with Shipibo shamans in the Peruvian Amazon and with Pacos shamans in the Andes in Peru. He is a licensed Clinical Social Worker, Life coach, master teacher and author of ten books and numerous articles.

 

 Interview with Jose Luis Stevens Ph.D. [35:00m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Joanna presents a blessing ceremony by Dave Courchene (Nii Gaani Aki Inini), Elder and spiritual advisor from the Anishnabe Nation, Eagle Clan. Dave is the visionary behind The Turtle Lodge the First Nation’s Center for Learning and Healing in Sagkeeng, Manitoba, Canada. A documentary about his vision and journey The 8th Fire made by Cindy and Andy Pickard premiered October 13, 2007 in Austin, Texas.

 

 Blessing ceremony by Dave Courchene [16:20m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

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.

 

 Interview with Craig Barnes [51:46m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download