Drinking from the River of Memory

Drinking from the River of Memory

In this week’s episode, Sarah Drew speaks with Joanna about: A Gaian heroine’s journey; mythopoetics, an incantation creating relationship with the past and the future; drinking from the river of memory; a continuity of souls: remembering together; entheogenic initiations; an emergent, trans-religious spirituality; connecting back to Mother/Matter; mentoring program in visionary writing; the call of Mother Muse; the vibrant potential of these times;...
Alive in Beauty

Alive in Beauty

In this week’s episode, Melissa La Flamme speaks with Joanna about: art as a doorway to Spirit; wilderness rapture; soul rewilding: becoming who you are; Nature needs us now; the alchemy of grief; a dream calling; the medicine of Big Mystery. (Joanna apologizes for the sound quality…so sorry, sometimes it’s like that) Melissa La Flamme, M. A. is a visionary artisan of cultural evolution, author, poet, shamanic guide and teacher, Jungian...
The Harvard Years

The Harvard Years

In this week’s episode, James Penner speaks with Joanna about: rediscovering Tim Leary’s early writings; Leary, an interdisciplinary and provocative thinker; creativity and psychedelics; “learn to trust your nervous system”; growing interest in psychedelics across generations; the changing relationship between Richard Alpert/Ram Dass and Tim Leary; re-evaluating the foundational period of the psychedelic era; a key event: the Harvard...
Restoring the Soul of the World

Restoring the Soul of the World

In this week’s episode, David Fideler speaks with Joanna about: from an ensouled cosmos to a mechanistic “environment”; Pythagoras and Gregory Bateson: beauty as the heartfelt unity of Nature; star gazing, wonder, philosophy: “everything begins with starlight”; the mid-life crisis of our civilization; the evolutionary mysticism of the alchemists; the Cosmopolis project; patterns of living harmony and beauty; parallels between split...
An Atmosphere of Connection

An Atmosphere of Connection

In this week’s episode, James Fadiman speaks with Joanna about: how to be a safe voyager in the psychedelic realms; expressing the inexpressible; towards a normalization of psychedelics; re-membering our interconnectedness, entering the deeper beauty of Nature; the increasing use of these substances in scientific research; “what isn’t spiritual…?”; the rising of the Feminine. James Fadiman is an American psychologist and writer. He is...
The Heart of the Universe

The Heart of the Universe

In this week’s episode, Meg Beeler speaks with Joanna about her life-changing encounters with the Q’ero people from the Andes; making heart-felt connections with Nature; from concepts to direct perception: intent, reciprocity, alignment, resonance; energy alchemy:exchanging energy with the Earth; “living in the heart of the universe”; a meditation with the Earth and the Cosmos; attuning to the natural rhythms as a community service. Meg...