Best Joanna | Consciousness Evolutionary Podcasts (2025)

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A Universe of Love: God, Evolution and AI – with Ilia Delio 1:07:39

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Mike Kauschke in Dialogue with Ilia Delio We live in an evolving universe, in which also God is becoming. This idea of a “Not-Yet God” leads Ilia Delio to investigate our role as humans in the cosmos in a breathtaking and heart-opening way as participants in the unfolding of the forces of love and unification. Drawing from the insights of evolution…

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Committed to the Sacred: In Honorof Thomas Steininger–with Mary Adams, Steve Brett and François Demange 58:33

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Mike Kauschke in dialogue with Mary Adams, Steve Brett and François Demange Thomas Steininger, our friend and companion, editor of evolve, founder and host of Radio evolve, passed away on October 9. He succumbed to the effects of a brain tumor that was diagnosed two and a half years ago. Like his life, he completed this transition of dying with an …

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Metamodern Spirituality 51:55

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Elizabeth Debold in Dialogue with Brendan Graham Dempsey Metamodernity is a new cultural trend, worldview or quality that aims to bring together the values and learning from modernity and postmodernity. Brendan Graham Dempsey is one of the vivid explorers, thinkers, and critics of this new movement. His special interest lies in the relevance of the…

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The Gift of Interbeing 55:40

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Mike Kauschke in Dialogue with Elizabeth Debold “Interbeing, like life itself, is given. Life is nothing that any one of us made happen. The tree with leaves that dance gold and green in the sunlight were not made by human hand. The pleasant warmth of the sun on your face just is. These are given to us. We are made to seek beauty; to see and smell …

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The Reciprocity at the Heart of the Universe – In Honor of Joanna Macy 48:54

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Elizabeth Debold in Dialogue with Joanna Macy “You cannot work for the Earth without joy – you know why? Because we are leaving the linear, top-down view of reality that has gripped us through most of the patriarchal era, and we are moving by necessity to an understanding of the reciprocity at the heart of the Universe: If you act, you are met. If …

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Foundations of emergent interbeing - 3. Individuation and Transindividuation 43:20

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In this new Series, Elizabeth Debold and Thomas Steininger, the founders of Emergent Interbeing practice, discuss important aspects of this work. From the perspective of the individual, Emergent Interbeing brings us to a new point in human development that begins to re-integrate the individual in the wholeness of Life. This is Transindividuation, w…

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Imaginal Mysticism 47:16

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Thomas Steininger in dialogue with Cynthia Bourgeault There is a subtle symbolic reality that has the power to transform us. This dimension of reality speaks to something that our culture is forgotten to be in relationship with. It is something that Cynthia Bourgeault is deeply acquainted with. As a globally renowned teacher of Christian mysticism,…

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The Sacrament of Dialogue 38:02

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Thomas Steininger speaks at the Breakwater Festival‍ Some months ago, Dr. Thomas Steininger spoke at Breakwater Festival in Mannheim, Germany led by Rev. Paul Vanderklay. For this Christian conference, Thomas opened up the question of sacrament. How do different Christian churches celebrate the sacred? Are there new forms of sacred practice emergin…

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Jean Gebser and the Transparency of Time 44:48

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Thomas Steininger in dialogue with Jeremy Johnson One of the original integral thinkers was Jean Gebser. In the 1950s, he wrote about integral consciousness, particularly focusing on how such a consciousness would relate to time. He saw that our modernist relationship with reality mainly focused on space and the perspective of a separate, individua…

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A Once and Future God 49:31

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Thomas Steininger in dialogue with Bonnitta Roy What if God, the sacred, comes from three directions at the same time? So there is sacredness that emerges out of our living planet, Earth. Then there is maybe a Creator God at the beginning of this long evolutionary process. Finally, there is a God from the future, the fulfillment of all of this. The…

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A Global Network of Villages 50:25

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Thomas Steininger in dialogue with Franz Nahrada Villages have a human scale, where it is still possible to develop personal relationships free from bureaucracy or the market. Not that villages don't have problems, but they have specific qualities that we have lost in the metropolitan areas and the worlds created by the global market. Franz Nahrada…

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That Big Co-Creation 44:59

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Thomas Steininger in dialogue with Jascha Rohr The philosopher and coach Jascha Rohr coined the term co-creation in the German language. In his new book, he describes how, in a time of fragmentation, co-creation is more than a powerful methodology for the development of organizations or political participation in the democratic process. Co-creation…

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The Language of Ritual 46:36

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Thomas Steininger in dialogue with François Demange Language matters. It creates our worlds. The trance of our objectified language creates the objectified world that we are living in. Indigenous people spoke in a different way. They enchanted the rivers, the hills, the water and mountains. Or did the rivers and the hills, the water and the mountai…

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What is Jewish Mysticism 40:48

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Thomas Steininger in dialogue with Igal Harmelin What is Jewish mysticism? What makes it unique? Igal Harmelin has a biography deeply devoted to mysticism and it is an unusual one. Born into a family of Holocaust survivors, he grew up in Israel but, perhaps surprisingly, devoted most of his life in an unusually committed way to Indian mysticism. He…

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New Media that Helps us to Become more Human 47:00

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Thomas Steininger in dialogue with Mario Spassov We are all lost. Lost in the new social media world, in fragmentation and desperation. We know that. And quite likely artificial intelligence will make things worse. Or not? Mario Spassov wrote a series of articles about how the German concept of Bildung, holistic education, can show us different way…

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The Open Society Needs our Wisdom Traditions 55:23

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Thomas Steininger in dialogue with Paul Vanderklay In the vast world of the Internet, there's a little corner on YouTube where a new kind of global conversation is taking place. This conversation revolves around spirituality, wisdom culture, science, and consciousness. These deep conversations are markedly different from the typical Internet experi…

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Emergent Interbeing as a New Ground for an Open Society 1:42:12

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Paul Vanderklay talks with Thomas Steininger After a break of several months, we start again with the broadcasts of Radio evolve. And we start with a special, longer feature: Paul Vanderklay interviews Thomas Steininger about his life and the emergent interbeing work that he has developed together with Elizabeth Debold and others. In addition to hi…

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Where ist the "Integral Movement" moving to? 50:57

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Thomas Steininger in dialogue with Geoff Fitch The integral movement has been a defining factor in the attempt to create a culture that is deeply aware of the inner dimensions of human experience. This movement, which has been grounded in the work of philosopher Ken Wilber, has changed in many ways in the recent years. Some people say that integral…

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Gathering Around the Table of Connection 1:12:34

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In this episode Lara speaks to Michael Hebb, founder and co founder of DeathOverDinner.org, DrugsOverDinner.org and GenerationsOverDinner.com, all three projects have the common theme of gathering people around the dinner table in order to open the space to explore some difficult topics which are - perhaps not so anymore - taboo. Many thousands of …

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Our More-than-Human Relationships 37:36

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Thomas Steininger in dialogue with Louise Marra Can we re-root in nature? Louise Marra, author of ReRoot: The nature of change for a system of trees, starts this conversation in a very particular way. Introducing herself, she speaks of the mountain that is behind her, the river next to her, and the trees close to her. Louise Marra is from New Zeala…

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Collective Wisdom and ChatGPT 51:33

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Thomas Steininger in dialogue with George Pór Over the last few weeks, many of us have become more aware of how powerful artificial intelligence has become. Many have played with the Chatbot, ChatGPT and are surprised, even stunned, by how this machine is able to deliver intelligent and precise answers to seemingly all aspects of reality. Will we b…

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Collective Presencing 52:17

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Thomas Steininger in dialogue with Ria Baeck Over the past couple of decades a new wave of consciousness practices has been emerging around the world. They focus on what you could call We Space, dialogue, conscious relating, transparent communication and more. In fact, the emergent dialogue work developed within evolve is part of this surge of new …

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Radical Activism and the Transformation of Consciousness 48:31

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Thomas Steininger in dialogue with Mary Adams These times are times for action. The climate catastrophe needs our full attention. Many people claim that activism is more important right now than any engagement for some “spiritual” transformation of consciousness and culture. Others are concerned that an exclusive focus on activism will miss the mar…

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Developing Emotional Maturity 47:43

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The emotional domain is the gateway to the heart. To become a wholehearted human being, we have to be able to include the full range of our emotional responses, including the pain and difficulty of our lives. Diane Musho Hamilton, teacher of Zen, mediator and meditator, calls this kind of development, emotional maturity or emotional literacy. It in…

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The Road to Oneself, Others and the Natural World 49:42

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In this episode Lara talks with Dr Rosalind Watts talks with Lara about the challenges and the gifts in her journey as a clinical psychologist within the clinical trials in psychedelic therapy at Imperial College, the true qualities of a good therapist whether licensed or not and the 12 month community integration program she has created as a resul…

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The Origins of Circling Practice 53:06

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Thomas Steininger in dialogue with Guy Sengstock Circling is a dialogical art that has found its way around the globe in recent years. Circling comes in different forms and incarnations—sometimes as Circling, sometimes as Authentic Relating, and sometimes under other names and forms of interpersonal communication. Many people have been touched and …

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Regenerative Cultures 46:40

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Thomas Steininger in dialogue with Joe Brewer Sustainability is not enough anymore. Too much damage has been done to our planet. And every minute more damage is happening at a dramatic speed. As a response to this development there’s a new movement forming around the globe, and Joe Brewer is part of this movement beyond mere sustainability. Core to…

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An Inner Approach to Ethics and Right Relationship 57:30

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In this episode, Lara Tambacopoulou interviews Kylea Taylor about her concept of InnerEthics® and Right Relationship. Kylea Taylor is a Marriage and Family Therapist, licensed in California (MFC #34901), a consultant, and author of The Ethics of Caring. Kylea does consulting and teaching related to InnerEthics® based on her successful title The Eth…

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The Porous Veil 1:02:20

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In this first episode after almost two years, Lara Tambacopoulou interviews Christopher Bache about the gift of becoming aware of the porous veil of consciousness. Christopher M. Bache, Ph.D. is professor emeritus in the department of Philosophy and Religious Studies at Youngstown State University where he taught for 33 years. He is also adjunct fa…

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For Joanna 9:54

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Heartmending 47:29

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Joanna Harcourt-Smith is invited to speak at an IndigenousWays virtual event, an indigenous women-led nonprofit based in Northern New Mexico, co-founded by Tash Terry and Elena Higgins. “IndigenousWays promotes living in balance for diverse communities through music, arts, outreach and events. Our vision is to reach Indigenous & LGBTQIA2+ communiti…

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Making America Sacred Again 1:00:19

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Glenn Aparicio Parry speaks with Joanna about: American ideals were founded upon Native American values; a medicine tale about chaos; a quick shift of collective consciousness; the revealing of the American shadow; unity and the choice before us; addressing the wound in the American psyche; we need a form of politics that includes Nature; tuning to…

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Homegrown National Park 52:25

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Doug Tallamy speaks with Joanna about : A new approach to ecological conservation; “Homegrown National Park”; the demonization of Nature; insects, the little things that run the world; the vital role of wildlife for our health; Aldo Leopold and the land ethic; the impossibility of perpetual economic growth in a finite planet; “Native Plant Finder”,…

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The Fluidity of Reality 57:50

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Richard Grossinger speaks with Joanna about: there are ranges of knowledge that cannot be included in science; the politicization and ideologization of science, experience and spiritual freedom; physical reality and conscious reality simultaneously create each other; the fluidity of reality; “the ecological problem is a problem of consciousness”; d…

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Becoming a True Human Being 51:38

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We are happy to come back! In this week’s episode psychiatrist and integrative physician David Kopacz speaks with Joanna about: Encouraging children to plant green living things; dancing with the trees; the dormant seed inside oneself; walking the medicine wheel; becoming a true human being; we are medicine bags; being and vibration; the cycle of r…

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Truth Cannot Be Imprisoned 1:10:14

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Errol Morris and Hamilton Morris speak with Joanna about: Quarantined in the family house and loving each other; fascinated by the Iboga plant; the different paradigms of the history of psychedelic thinking and the evolution of Timothy Leary; a story of the psychedelic era; living and working in these strange days; being a mystery to oneself; an im…

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Nights of Grief and Mystery 50:57

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Stephen Jenkinson speaks with Joanna about: paying attention to the crisis for an understanding of the time we are in; the skillfulness of grief; the greater achievement is lucidity, not comfort; the “Nights of Grief and Mystery” experience; the task in the second half of life; drawn in by the particulars of a piece of ground; Earth is a consequenc…

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Green Alchemy 50:17

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John Todd speaks with Joanna about: rethinking everything with the coronavirus; inspiring a whole new generation to change the course of the planet; a profound sense of hope about our future; scale and complexity along a continuum of healing; ecology is evolution story in the present; eco-machines, the birth of a regenerative ecological technology;…

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The New Voice of an Ancient Spirit 47:09

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Pegi Eyers speaks with Joanna about: we need to return to our original indigenous knowledge; the complexity of reclaiming our pre-colonial culture in American culture; being a Celtic animist; listening to the ancestral trauma; communing with the Earth beings; reweaving the patterns of Western culture; bringing together in equality the gifts of huma…

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Pattern Mind 44:30

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Joel Glanzberg speaks with Joanna about: the origin of Regenesis, regenerative planning and development; becoming conscious together of the place where we live; giving back the love and freedom of a childhood in the woods; a life-changing reading of a spiritual vision; belonging to a living and sacred landscape; “Pattern Mind”, a forthcoming book a…

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The Ancestral Mother 47:58

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Max Dashu speaks with Joanna about: 50 years of questioning patriarchy and systems of domination and reclaiming the matricultures; searching the history of indigenous cultures before the European colonizations; studying the cultural patterns of what we call patriarchy; the whore labeling, a patriarchal way of discrediting women; divide and conquer,…

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Trusting the Sacred Medicines 1:01:33

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Francoise Bourzat speaks with Joanna about: a book born from the course “Expanded States of Consciousnes and Psychotherapy”; first experience with indigenous medicine; a resonant, mysterious and familiar connection to Nature; what she learned from Doña Julieta Casimiro, a Mazatec master healer; trusting the “Holy Children”; purified by the principl…

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The Future is Local 51:51

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Helena Norberg-Hodge speaks with Joanna about: localizing, a systemic path to nature and community; the learning dance of the ancient local and the new local; the structural shift needed to create a happier, healthier way of life; localization can do away with ideological, political divides; local food economies produce much more than monoculture; …

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Apart of Me 52:32

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Louis Weinstock speaks with Joanna about: the shadow side of modern Western culture; the invisible harms of addictive technologies and social media on our children and young people; unplugging ourselves from the distraction economy to meet our uncomfortable feelings and truths; designing a new service for creating communities for young people exper…

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Incarnating the Unknown Future 1:04:21

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John Woodcock speaks with Joanna about: the disconnect that is killing us; enduring the purification process by the Mother; the undoing of the heroic consciousness; the emergence of “living thinking” from the future; bringing the new, including the darkness; Salvador Dali and the fluidity of a new reality; the sacred speech of Nature; the new langu…

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Your Medicine Chest 52:03

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Linda Burnham speaks with Joanna about: the head center as a place of spiritual liberation; our greatest wholeness; the complexity of healing; the natural energies of your hands and heart; the divine impulse in all living things; touching in a sacred manner; “your medicine chest”, medicines in your pantry; a natural remedy for concussions and bruis…

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From Growing Up to Growing Down 42:46

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Timothy Morton speaks with Joanna about: appreciating different time scales is part of ecological awareness; we are realizing we are part of the planet by despoiling it; acknowledging the fear of mass extinction; the convulsive power of beauty; the interdependence of ecological health and mental health; don’t grow up, grow down; living in an ambigu…

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Nourishing an Emergent Reality 44:34

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adrienne maree brown speaks with Joanna about: a social justice and liberation activism that feels good; punitive justice versus transformative justice; mercy and seeing the whole of the person; giving ourselves permission to feel everything; nourishing communities allow for a new future; emergent strategy immersions; a key insight of both pleasure…

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Asking the Right Questions 59:19

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Daniel Christian Wahl speaks with Joanna about: the feeling behind creating regenerative cultures; the potential of the present moment; the paradox between humility and audacity; the key question about human survival; connecting young people with the living practices of regeneration; acting in urgent times with hope and knowledge; changing the unde…

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Bringing Breath to Life 50:28

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Will Johnson speaks with Joanna about: Rumi and the practice of eye gazing; remembering the great wide open throught the felt presence of body and breathing; cannabis, an ally in waking up the vibratory presence of the body; cannabis and the spontaneous dance of Shiva; surrendering to breath and awakening the body; the real value of entheogens; the…