Gaialogues

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 [...]

The Space In Between

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 [...]

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“Disobey with Great Love”

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 [...]

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A Message from Joanna

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Circles of Eco-resilience

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 [...]

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The Vessel of Your Life

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 [...]

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The Paradigm of Dignity

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 [...]

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A New Relationship with Nature

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 [...]

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Honoring the Medicine

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. [...]

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The Wisdom of Dreams

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 [...]

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A Healthy, Just and Reverent Culture

Trathen Heckman is the founder of Daily Acts, publisher of Ripples Journal and a backyard farmer. Former director of Green Sangha, he serves on the board of Transition US. Trathen inspires, educates and collaborates with communities, business and municipal leaders to harness the power of nature and inspired action to restore the health of our lives [...]

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Seeds of Wholeness

Glenn Aparicio Parry PhD, (Spanish, Basque and Jewish) is an educator, psychologist, and entrepreneur whose passion is reforming education into a coherent, cohesive whole. He is the president of SEED Graduate Institute in Albuquerque, New Mexico. SEED Graduate Institute offers a model of a synergistic, interconnected curriculum based in indigenous ways of knowing. SEED is currently [...]

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Future Primitive Podcasts 2012-07-05 18:00:55

Due to the July 4th holiday, we will be publishing this week’s episode on Mon July 9th …
Love to all.
Joanna

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To Educate A Woman…

Kristin (Kiki) St. Clair is the executive director of Humankind Foundation working in East Africa to promote equality and education to Maasai families. A Quaker since childhood, her focus has always been social activism and she has been tireless in the pursuit of justice and equality since the 1960’s. She began Humankind Foundation with another [...]

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Male Female, Dark Light, Inner Outer…

Hillary S. Webb, PhD., is the Managing Editor of Anthropology of Consciousness, the peer-reviewed journal of the Society for the Anthropology of Consciousness and the former Research Director at The Monroe Institute. Having received her undergraduate degree in Journalism from New York University, Dr. Webb went on to earn an MA in Consciousness Studies from [...]

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Remembering the Wild

Peter H. Kahn, Jr. is Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology and Director of the Human Interaction With Nature and Technological Systems (HINTS) Lab. The HINTS Lab seeks to address – from an ethical stance – two world trends that are powerfully reshaping human existence: (1) the degradation if not destruction of large parts [...]

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A Rite of Passage for Father and Son

Tim Ward is an author, publisher, teacher, and traveler. He has written five books about his travels through Thailand, India, China, Tibet, Greece and Southern Europe, and most recently East Africa, among them: Savage Breast: One Man’s Search for the Goddess, What Buddha Never Taught, and Zombies on Kilimanjaro: A Father/Son Journey Above the Clouds. [...]

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A Love Affair with Life

Tim Freke has spent his life exploring the ‘Mystery Experience’ and sharing it with others. He has an honours degree in Philosophy and is an internationally respected authority on world spirituality. Tim has written more than thirty books exploring all the major spiritual traditions of the world. He established his reputation as a groundbreaking scholar with [...]

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