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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.
In Memoriam
Joanna Harcourt-Smith
January 12, 1946 – October 11, 2020
Showtime Film:
“My Psychedelic Love Story”
Released on November 29th, 2020
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Latest Episodes
Other Words from Other Worlds
In this week's episode Neşe Devenot speaks with Joanna about chemical poetics; the Timothy Leary archives; Leary's "High Priest" and Sasha Shulgin's "PIHKAL", reflecting on the meaning of te psychedelic experience; psychedelics and pushing the boundaries of language;...
The Carbon Farming Solution
In this week's episode Eric Toensmeier speaks with Joanna about: the climate change and its ecological and human impact; the ancestral inspiration of permaculture; restoring the landscape and its connection to people; key questions in cultivating your garden; the...
Embodying the True Masculine
In this week's episode Thomas Jaggers and Patrick Anderson speak with Joanna about survival, safety, and intimacy; the strength of vulnerability; the roots of homophobia; the historic repression of male expressions of love and affection; the potential for masculine...
Initiated by the Mushroom
In this week's episode Shonagh Home speaks with Joanna about: a life-changing experience with the mushroom medicine; being held by the Earth; breaking the spell of forgetfulness; welcoming the tutelary spirits; entheogenic medicines and inner growth; a culture without...
Letting Nature Live Through Us
In this week's episode Joanna van der Hoeven speaks with Joanna about: discovering modern Druidry; an unexpected ancestral connection; origins of the Celtic culture; attuning to Nature and the ancestors; Awen, the flowing thread to the Life Force; Nemetona and sacred...
Finding Gold in the Shadow
In this week's episode Carolyn Baker speaks with Joanna about: healing the personal and collective shadow; the ego and the sacred self; transforming the tyrant,victim,rebel,savior dynamics; rites of passage and the right use of power; surrender and spiritual...