Future Primitive

Derrick Jensen is an American author and environmental activist.  Jensen has published several books questioning and critiquing modern civilization and its values, including A Language Older Than Words, The Culture of Make Believe, and Endgame. He holds a B.S. in Mineral Engineering Physics from the Colorado School of Mines and an M.F.A. in Creative Writing from Eastern Washington University. He has also taught creative writing at Pelican Bay State Prison and Eastern Washington University.

www.derrickjensen.org

Derrick speaks with Joanna about words and action for social change, abuse as identity in the dominant culture, the importance of naming the unspeakable, putting nature first, “to speak truth about power”, preparing the transition towards a sustainable culture…

Music: “Ancient Trees” (from On the wing) by Stephan Micus

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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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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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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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Ann Weiser Cornell is recognized as one of the leading teachers of Focusing in the world. Since 1989, she has taught Focusing as a full time profession, in northern California and in fourteen states and seventeen countries on five continents, with a special emphasis on the language of process and inner relationship. Focusing is a special way of paying attention to yourself, so that you sense the whole way you are feeling about situations or issues in your life. It involves having a different kind of relationship with emotions and feelings. The result is greater calm, wiser choices, and a deeper sense of connection to your own life and being. See Focusing Resources.

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Stuart Sovatsky, PhD received the only US Federal grant (1976) to bring yoga and Sanskrit chanting to incarcerated youth, was first in the US to introduce yoga (1978) to the homeless mentally-ill; convened the first International Prison Yoga Conference and is initiating co-convener of the forty-country World Congress on Psychology and Spirituality, 2008, in Delhi, India, with Robert Thurman, Stan Grof and BKS Iyengar. He has authored numerous books and poetic works and as a Kundalini Yoga Anahata Nad Chant-master has three CDs with Axis Mundi and has performed in the US, France, Germany, Russia and India. As a psychotherapist he specializes in marriage counselling and is director of the Kundalini Clinic and Blue Oak Berkeley Counseling. He is the co-president of the US Association for Transpersonal Psychology and was founding consultant to Green City Lofts the largest green-design complex in California.

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Transdisciplinary social scientist and founding director of Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies, a global fellowship of concerned academics and practitioners whose vision is to serve as a global enabling platform, giving space and encouragement to people who wish to dignify our world and transcend humiliation.

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Canadian-born author of books on spiritual/travel literature including Savage Breast: One Man’s Search for the Goddess.

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Joanna Harcourt-Smith interviews Lloyd deMause, Director of The Institute of Psychohistory, editor of The Journal of Psychohistory and president of the International Psychohistorical Association

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Joanna Harcourt-Smith interviews Robert Wolff Social psychologist and author of Original Wisdom – Stories of an Ancient Way of Knowing, A Book of Dreams, Ha’ina Mai Ka Puana; Let The Story Be Told, SPIRAL and Rain of Ashes.

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Joanna Harcourt-Smith interviews Jean Liedloff – Consultant and author of “The Continuum Concept” a book offering a new understanding of how we have lost much of our natural well-being and showing us practical ways to regain it for our children and for ourselves.

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Joanna Harcourt-Smith interviews Dr. Barbara Lampert – Psychiatrist and pharmacologist who studies the nature of reality as it flows through the brain and has dedicated much of her practice to understanding the chemistry of the brain.

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Jeffrey Masson author, with Susan McCarthy, of When Elephants Weep: The Emotional Lives of Animals.

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