Future Primitive
Marja de Vries studied biology and ecology and worked more than 10 years as fabric artist. Looking for answers to the question “How can we, human beings, live in harmony with nature?” she visited several indigenous people and developed intuitive communication with nature.
Since 2003 she is fully dedicated to contribute to a worldwide tranformation and the creation of a world in which everything and everyone can live in harmony with all and everything. Because the way we teach and educate – together with the way we raise our children – plays a key role here, her focus was first mainly on the tranformation of learning and educations, so it will be more in line with who we and our children in essence are. Since the publication of her book The Whole Elephant Revealed in Dutch in 2007, of which already 10.000 copies are sold, she is an often asked for speaker and is invited by many different organisations to give a presentation. Most often she is asked to talk about the universal laws, but recently also about ‘Societies in Balance’ the subject of her second book she is still working on.
Marja speaks with Joanna about the principles of order, harmony and dynamic balance in Nature; restoring the dymanic balance between the masculine and the feminine; human being and Nature in a holistic worldview; “the original instructions;” wisdom traditions and the universal laws; epigenetics and quantum entanglement; different levels of reality; conscious evolution…
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Jeffrey John Kripal, Ph.D., is the J. Newton Rayzor Professor of Philosophy and Religious Thought (and Chairman of the Department of Religious Studies) at Rice University in Houston, Texas. His work includes the study of comparative erotics and ethics in mystical literature, American countercultural translations of Asian religions, and the history of Western esotericism from gnosticism to New Age religions. He is also one of the leading scholars at the Esalen Institute’s Center for Theory and Research. He is the author – among other books – of: “The Serpent’s Gift: Gnostic Reflections on the Study of Religion”; “Esalen: America and the Religion of No Religion”; “Authors of the Impossible: The Paranormal and the Sacred”; and his latest book “Mutants and Mystics: Science Fiction, Superhero Comics, and the Paranormal” (2011).
kripal.rice.edu
Jeffrey speaks with Joanna about the relationship between sexuality and mystical states – a western taboo, the “paranormal” as symbolic of emerging realities, “authorization:” taking responsibility for our cultural stories; his transpersonal life-changing experience in Calcutta; the essence of the Gnostic message; and mystics and superheroes…
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Dr. Robert K.C. Forman is a professor of comparative religions, (CUNY), and founder of the Forge Institute. He routinely gives lectures, trainings and workshops around the world. He was the co-founder and is executive editor of The Journal of Consciousness Studies, which has become the principle journal in the field. He is also the author of ten scholarly books on spirituality, mysticism, consciousness and world religions. His latest book is Enlightenment Ain’t What It’s Cracked Up To Be: A Journey of Discovery, Snow and Jazz in the Soul.
Robert speaks with Joanna about the soulful simplicity and beauty of everyday Enlightenment, the challenge and blessing of truth-telling, the relationship between psychology and spirituality, “spacious honesty”…
http://enlightenmentaint.com/
http://godeepertogether.com/
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Merle Lefkoff, Ph.D., is an educator and political scientist focusing on the transformation of diplomacy and international conflicts. Merle recently held an appointment as Guest Scientist and Affiliate at the Center for Nonlinear Studies at Los Alamos National Laboratory, investigating the application of Complexity science to peaceful coexistence among diverse identity groups.After finishing her graduate work she was detailed to The White House Office of Public Liaison under President Carter. She has led Track Two diplomatic negotiations in Central America, Northern Ireland, and the Middle East, and more recently on nuclear disarmorment and nuclear non-proliferation She is a former Advisor to the Kellogg National Leadership Program of the W.K. Kellogg Foundation and presents training workshops in complexity thinking for social change. She has been a member of two committees of the National Academy of Sciences. She is a Lindisfane Fellow and member of the Board of the Upaya Zen Center, where she teaches in the Buddhist Chaplaincy certification program.
Merle speaks with Joanna about what is complexity (“a science of surprise”), systemic humility; adaptability in complexity theory: “robustness;” new methods of peacemaking; Israel-Iran conflict; Nobel’s women initiative; contemplative imagination: storying the future; “Gross National Happiness;” Occupy Wall Street as an emergent process; the “shared leadership model”…
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Christian de Quincey PhD is Professor of Philosophy and Consciousness Studies at John F. Kennedy University; Dean of Consciousness Studies at the University of Philosophical Research; adjunct faculty with Wisdom University. He is also founder of The Wisdom Academy, offering private mentorships in consciousness. Dr. de Quincey is author of the award-winning book Radical Nature: The Soul of Matter and Radical Knowing: Understanding Consciousness through Relationship. His latest book is Consciousness from Zombies to Angels and Deep Spirit: Cracking the Noetic Code.
Christian speaks with Joanna about panpsychysm:”consciousness all the way down;” honoring and integrating the 4 ways of knowing; western ways versus indigenous ways; “feeling your thinking;” retrieving rites of passage, personal mastery and community…
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Jan is a pragmatic dreamer and licensed psychotherapist, in practice for over 25 years. She is the director of Holos Institute where she provides most of the individual and group supervision, oversees clinical policies and operations, and organizes the public educational programs. Her work is based upon her faith in the inherent wisdom each being carries within. She believes that healing is a process of coming into an active relationship with that wisdom. She calls upon metaphors and archetypal patterns of nature to mirror the inherent wholeness of each person.
Jan’s psychotherapy practice is informed by many years of traditional study in self-psychology, family systems and Jungian depth psychology. She received her BA in psychology from Rutgers University, completing her graduate study at the New School for Social Research and the University of San Francisco. She has also studied at the San Francisco Jung Institute, and trained in Ericksonian hypnotherapy, EMDR, Imago couples therapy, Process Acupressure, and a number of private studies with indigenous healers. Alongside her professional training, Jan has a lifetime of intuitive experiences and a personal spiritual practice which includes the study of integral yoga, mindfulness meditation, shamanism and earth-based wisdom traditions.
Jan speaks with Joanna about evolutionary spirituality; outdoor therapy: re-connecting with the healing Psyche of Nature; love: letting the Life Force flow…; latest developments in eco-psychology, the cathartic power of beauty…
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