Interviews with lively minds on a variety of topics
Interviews with lively minds on a variety of topics
Interview with Robin Chase
October 26th, 2009 Robin Chase is a transportation innovator. She was the founding CEO of Zipcar (the largest carsharing company in the world) and GoLoco (the first company to combine ridesharing, social networks, and easy payment). She writes, consults, and gives talks about the future of transportation and how to actually get there.
Interview with Peter Czarkowski
October 25th, 2009 He is from Milwaukee, Wisconsin. At 21 he dropped out of college to assist those affected by Hurricane Katrina. Now 24, he leads a team of AmeriCorps volunteers from around the country. Eight in all, the group call themselves “Kill Squad” because of their desire to kill apathy. They are currently working with the Marion Institute to help host the 5th annual Bioneers by the Bay conference in New Bedford.
Interview with Clemens Pietzner
October 25th, 2009 Our Love And/Or Our Money. Does time present us with a unique opportunity to think, feel and “do” our money differently. Clemens Pietzner is the President of Triskeles for more information go to www.triskeles.org
Interview with Mercy Bell and David
October 25th, 2009 Mercy and David sang on stage at the Bioneer’s by the Bay conference.
Interview with Nipun Mehta
October 24th, 2009 Nipun Mehta is the founder of Charity Focus a fully volunteer driven organization started in 1999. Charity Focus has now become an incubator of gift-economy projects ranging from web services to a film production company to a print magazine to a restaurant. With a membership of 250.000, they attract millions of viewers to their website, charityfocus.org
Interview with Paul Epstein
October 23rd, 2009 Clean energy solutions can stimulate business opportunities and job creation. All proposed technologies must also be examined as to their health and safety, environmental impact, the economic feasibility and benefits. Life cycles analysis can help separate those technologies that are “no regrets” -and can be invested in today- from those that require further study.
Interview with Juan Pacheco
October 23rd, 2009 Mr Pacheco’s motivation comes from his own life experience. As a youth, he was involved in a gang which took many things away from him. Now he is working at helping other young people turn their lives around. He was a gang member in the past that will become a great physician. He is at Georges Mason University attaining his Pre-Med degree.
Interview with Jim Peters
October 23rd, 2009 Jim Peters is the Executive Director of the Massachusetts Bureau of Indian Affairs. He is a member of the Mashpee tribe and a member of the Wampanog singers and dancers.
Interview with Will Allen
October 23rd, 2009 Will Allen is an urban farmer who is transforming the cultivation, production and delivery of foods to underserved urban population. He says it’s all about the soil.
Interview with Joan Brooks Baker
October 20th, 2009 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]
Interview with Paul Six
October 9th, 2009 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.
Interview with Jerome Bernstein
October 5th, 2009 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]
Interview with Elaine Pagels
October 1st, 2009 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).
Interview with Robert Wolff
September 20th, 2009 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.
Interview with Amanda Seyderhelm
September 11th, 2009 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.
Interview with Toni Frohoff
September 4th, 2009 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.
Interview with Rick Strassman
August 21st, 2009 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.
Interview with Rick Doblin - part 2
August 3rd, 2009 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.
Interview with Jeffrey Lewis
July 24th, 2009 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 Jeffrey Lewis
Interview with Rick Doblin
July 21st, 2009 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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