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Lara Tambacopoulou

Host

Joanna Harcourt-Smith

Host and Co-Founder

Jose Luis
Gomez Soler

Producer and Co-Founder

Jacob Aman

Co-Producer, Co-host & Tech

Since 2006, Future Primitive has been hosting intimate conversations with authors, visionaries and innovators who speak about our connection and partnership with the Living Earth. 
We provide this content in order to advance saner and more compassionate visions of our future, guided by our remembering of ancestral wisdom.

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Latest Episodes

Gathering Around the Table of Connection

Gathering Around the Table of Connection

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 dinners around the globe later and just a few weeks ago, Michael relaunched Drugs over Dinner alongside brilliant partners, advisors and friends which is now focused on gathering groups across the globe to have a compassionate conversation about the benefits and challenges of psychedelics. Michael and Lara crossed paths many years ago via their common friend Dr. Gabor Mate, Michael has an incredible track record in social activism blended with originality and fierce dedication.

After almost 700 episodes, Lara is picking up where Joanna left off with new and old voices, documenting the shift in consciousness, the psychedelic renaissance and the global rise in awareness about our interconnections with all things and Gaia.

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The Road to Oneself, Others and the Natural World

The Road to Oneself, Others and the Natural World

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 result of these experiences, which is based on 12 trees, one for each month and is informed by evidence-based psychological theories and older ways of knowing: the nature codes – the patterns of nature

Dr Rosalind Watts is a clinical psychologist and the founder of ACER Integration. Her contributions to the field of psychedelic therapy are numerous and include the development of the the ACE model ‘Accept, Connect, Embody’, which has been used in clinical trials of both psilocybin and DMT, as well as the Watts Connectedness Scale, which is a psychometric tool for measuring outcomes of psychedelic therapy. Dr Watts is the former clinical lead on the Psilocybin for Depression trial at Imperial College London, and sits on the clinical advisory board of the Usona Institute.
She is the founder of the 12 month group integration program ACER. https://acerintegration.com

After almost 700 episodes, Lara is picking up where Joanna left off with new and old voices, documenting the shift in consciousness, the psychedelic renaissance and the global rise in awareness about our interconnections with all things and Gaia.

https://ecotechnics.edu/sponsors-and-donors/future-primitive-is-back/

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An Inner Approach to Ethics and Right Relationship

An Inner Approach to Ethics and Right Relationship

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 Ethics of Caring. The book won a 2018 Nautilus Book Award (the year following publication) in the category, “Relationships & Communication.”

Kylea feels a personal mission to decrease client harm and increase client benefit by inspiring and educating therapists, teachers, and other care providers to take a compassionate, self-reflective approach to ethics. She shares her method InnerEthics® through consulting, training, and peer and formal supervision.

Kylea envisions a paradigm shift in therapeutic, academic, and medical cultures in which ethical self-reflection will become the norm.

After almost 700 episodes, Lara is picking up where Joanna left off with new and old voices, documenting the shift in consciousness, the psychedelic renaissance and the global rise in awareness about our interconnections with all things and Gaia.

https://ecotechnics.edu/sponsors-and-donors/future-primitive-is-back/

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The Porous Veil

The Porous Veil

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 faculty at the California Institute of Integral Studies, Emeritus Fellow at the Institute of Noetic Sciences, and on the Advisory Council of Grof Legacy Training. Chris’ passion has been the study of the philosophical implications of nonordinary states of consciousness, particularly psychedelic states. An award winning teacher and international speaker, Chris has written four books: Lifecycles – a study of reincarnation in light of contemporary consciousness research; Dark Night, Early Dawn – a pioneering work in psychedelic philosophy and collective consciousness; The Living Classroom, an exploration of collective fields of consciousness in teaching; and LSD and the Mind of the Universe, the story of his 20 year journey with LSD.

After almost 700 episodes, Lara is picking up where Joanna left off with new and old voices, documenting the shift in consciousness, the psychedelic renaissance and the global rise in awareness about our interconnections with all things and Gaia.

https://ecotechnics.edu/sponsors-and-donors/future-primitive-is-back/

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Heartmending

Heartmending

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+ communities through outreach with music, the arts, and indigenous wisdom that creates and enhances survival and sustainability. Our values are expressed in the Diné (Navajo) concept, “Hozho”, which means the Beauty Way of life.”

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Praise from Our Listeners

Joe H.

“thank you for these podcasts…OMG…I love you so much…thank you again…your spirit is so wonderful”

Sara

“Thank you for all the work you do.  I have been listening to your podcasts since last year and they have changed my mind and my life so dramatically, in such a REAL way.  I have become more real, more alive, more LoveIncarnate, thanks to your sharing your love and your passion with the world.  When I listen to your voice, I feel like I’m sitting in the room with you and your interviewees, and I feel wrapped in warmth and home and love.”

Sir Pete A.

“Dear Joanna, I know that you know the importance of your work with Future Primitive to the many lives it has touched.  and, “Brava”.  But there is a dimension to this body of work, because it is a “body of work”, that I am not sure you know the value of.  Because you are chronicling lives and values unique in this world, and you are doing it with the very words of those we need to remember.”

Maryla

I love your play with words and your love for words Joanna. Your comment: ‘this makes life bear-able’ – brought smile to my heart. Wisdom contained in our language when we hear deeply and hear every word. And playfulness. And who if not a bear in us has a strength to bear the unbearable that is happening now. 

Naomi W.

“I just wanted to thank you you Joanna for your amazing work on future primitive.These conversations have brought me much solace and comfort in a lonely place,whenever I hear your voice and the opening music to each interview I feel my whole body exhale and a sense of companionship with kindred spirits.”

Michael G.

“Thanks for all you work. You are making a difference.

Timothy A.

“Thank you so much for the gifts that are your website and podcast! It is wonderful to hear a gentle voice of wisdom amidst the inanities and din of the Internet. I listen to downloaded episodes of your interviews as I negotiate the highways of Atlanta, and am therefore able to arrive at work in a relatively calm state wherein I can begin to properly honor the day.”

Irene

“In 2010 I struggled with losing my job after 11 years, as well as several other personal difficulties that I still do not feel capable of writing about. That said, I wanted to tell you that I discovered your podcast in the midst of some of my most difficult days, and I found your interviews to be such a solace.”