Wilderness Rapture: The Ancestral Roots of Healing

Wilderness Rapture: The Ancestral Roots of Healing

David Cumes, M.D. was born in South Africa and received his medical training at the Witwatersrand Medical School in Johannesburg. Specializing in urology, Dr. Cumes was trained and has previously taught on the staff at Stanford Medical Center. He has published extensively in professional journals and currently has a private practice in Santa Barbara, CA. Although Dr. Cumes has had classical training in a profession that relies heavily on science and analytical...
Romancing the Beloved

Romancing the Beloved

Joan Heartfield, Ph.D. has been involved in the exploration of human consciousness for most of her life. Joan began her professional career as an MFA in Dance, Drama and Theatre from the University of Hawaii in 1969. Shortly thereafter she migrated to Maui where she taught creative Dance, Drama and Theater, Tai Chi Ch’uan and Hatha Yoga for 10 years. A lifelong dancer and choreographer she saw the body as an integral part of human expression. She received...
Coming to our senses

Coming to our senses

William Smythe, M.A., is a pioneer in the fields of Somatic Psychology and Rolfing®. A Certified Advanced Rolfer, he has practiced over 30 years. An early collaborator with Dr. Peter Levine, the originator of Somatic Experiencing® and Director of the Foundation for Human Enrichment, William Smythe, has a diverse and profound resume of the traumatic healing arts. He holds a masters degree in Somatic Psychology from the Santa Barbara Graduate Institute with...
Welcome to our new site!

Welcome to our new site!

This is the new website for futureprimitive.org/staging! We’ve been hard at work on this for almost a year. In addition to the new look and feel, you’ll see that we have organized and categorized our library of past interviews into topics. (Right sidebar.) If you’re not already subscribed to one of our ‘feeds’ and you would like to be notified when we have new shows, you can: Connect with us on Facebook Follow us on Twitter Subscribe...
Harvesting Rainwater

Harvesting Rainwater

Brad Lancaster is a dynamic teacher, consultant, and designer of regenerative systems. He is the author of the award-winning, best-selling books Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands and Beyond, the information-packed website HarvestingRainwater.com, and the Drops in a Bucket Blog. He lives his talk on an oasis-like eight of an acre in dowtown Tucson, Arizona, by harvesting over 100,000 gallons of rainwater a year where just 12 inches per year falls from the sky. Brad...
Sacred Activism and Mystical Experiences

Sacred Activism and Mystical Experiences

Andrew Harvey (b. 1952) is an author, scholar and teacher, known primarily for his popular nonfiction books on spiritual or mystical themes, beginning with his 1983 A Journey in Ladakh. He is the author of over 30 books, including the critically acclaimed Way of Passion: A Celebration of Rumi, Journey to Ladakh, The Return of the Mother and Son of Man. His last book is The Hope: A Guide to Sacred Activism. He now lives in Oak Park, Illinois, Chicago,where he...