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Lara Tambacopoulou
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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
Take Back the Internet
In this week’s episode Jean M. Russell speaks with Joanna about: Holo, a thrivable technology; differences between blokchain and Holochain; getting back to the internet experience of connecting with others; an ecosystem in the web; exploring the decentralized internet without much tech know-how; envisioning a world where technology supports the experience of small human communities; a system based in nature and our human choices as humans; a platform that promotes evolutionary development, the way ants move and explore; holofuel, rewarded in cryptocurrency by bringing user-controlled applications.
The Visionary River
In this week’s episode Christopher Hill speaks with Joanna about: psychedelics, music and ecstatic change; the spread of esoteric, spiritual knowledge through the music of the sixties; the mysterious spiritual revolution of the troubadours; Walt Whitman, Emerson and the American, progressive ecstatic tradition; the Beatles and the English visionary culture of nature mysticism; “Hey Joe” and the call to the West; Kennedy’s assasination and its effect in Bob Dylan’s music; a broader sense of history about social transformation; the visionary river of collective consciousness; the double vision of art.
The Ancestral Mother
In this week’s episode Max Dashu speaks with Joanna about: Cailleach, the Old Woman; her aspect as megalith builder; the bones of the Earth; drinking from the pool of regeneration; the Cow Mother from Ireland to India; the temple, astronomical observatory and ancestral sanctuary at Newgrange; recent genetic evidence supporting the work of Marija Gimbutas; an ancestral mother to many people; the mythical degradation of women following the political and economic shifts to patriarchy; the Germanic Blessing Goddess of winter nights.
Tending the Space Between Us
In this week’s episode Alan Seale speaks with Joanna about: the breath of life moves through us; everything is connected to everything else; the divide of curiosity; from how we believe to how we live; living from transformational presence; the great breaking open; finding your soul mission; working for the long path accelerates change; partnering with what wants to happen; beyond skills into capacity for energetic awareness; cutting to the core of complexity.
Exploring the Flow State
In this week’s episode Android Jones and Anson Phong speak with Jacob Aman about: Microdose Virtual Reality, merging visual art, music and dance into a visceral experience; unlocking our potential in the flow state; a wider cultural aperture with new media; an intimate marriage of body and technology; some beneficial and therapeutic effects of Microdose VR; dancing at the beat of your own heart; collective possibilities for virtual reality; creating creative conditions for the imagination; the crossroads of technology and radical paradigm shift; the real interest of cryptocurrency; the potential of blockchain to revolutionize democracies.
The Magic of Vulnerability
In this week’s episode Albert Flynn DeSilver speaks with Joanna about: stripped bare of identity; gateways into the stream of creativity; a calling from the world; the natural creativity of children; writing from the body; the magic of vulnerability; receptivity and love across species; another definition of success; praising our ancestors; holding the paradox of human experience; the sacred flow of being in the rhythm with the land; Dolores LaChapelle, one of the pioneers of Deep Ecology.