Podcast appearances and mentions of john seed

In this special episode of Animals & Us – Voices of a New Paradigm, we share an impromptu conversation with legendary environmental activist and deep ecologist John Seed.John has spent over four decades defending rainforests and advocating for the Earth - not only through direct action, but by inviting us to transform how we see ourselves in relation to the natural world. As the founder of the Rainforest Information Centre and co-author of Thinking Like a Mountain, John's work has inspired a generation of changemakers, spiritual ecologists, and everyday people yearning for reconnection.We speak with John about the roots of the Deep Ecology movement, the role of grief and love in environmental action, and the power of the Council of All Beings workshops to awaken ecological identity. Our conversation explores what it means to shift from seeing the Earth as “other” to remembering that we are the Earth, and that our activism, care, and listening arise from that sacred belonging.This is a gentle yet powerful episode with someone whose life reminds us that protecting the planet is not just an act of urgency - but of reverence.Follow John's work at:https://www.facebook.com/johnseed.deepecology        https://www.instagram.com/johnseed_deepecology/  Substack at https://substack.com/@johnseed  Occasional blog posts at htpps://johnseed.netSchedule, podcasts, essays, films etc. at https://rainforestinfo.org.au/johnseed.htm

In this rich and timely conversation, we sit down with legendary rainforest activist, eco-philosopher and elder of the Deep Ecology movement, John Seed. For over four decades, John has stood on the frontlines of ecological protection -spearheading rainforest-saving campaigns, offering experiential deep ecology workshops, and co-creating the powerful ritual known as The Council of All Beings with Joanna Macy.We explore the concept of the Ecological Self - a radical shift in identity that sees the tree, river, stone and storm not as separate from us, but as expressions of a shared being.  As John puts it, “I try to remember that it's not me, John Seed, trying to protect the rainforest. Rather, I am part of the rainforest protecting itself. I am that part of the rain forest recently emerged into human thinking."  From blockades and biodiversity to reEarthing rituals and the resurgence of ecological consciousness, this is a conversation that bridges inner transformation with outer action.This episode is an offering for all who are seeking deeper relationship with the Earth, and it speaks directly to the heart of our work at Rooted Healing. If you're drawn to this path, you may also wish to explore our year-long programme, Deepen Your Roots, which weaves together deep ecology, animism, and community ritual. Join us at a gathering or on a course at rootedhealing.org.  We have a space left at our signature Earth Medicine psilocybin retreat this September...You can access our free hour-long workshop in Embodied Deep Ecology here.The music in this episode is from Mae Bird, Eric Idle & John Seed, and Bonnie Medicine.Thank you Niamh Murray of Enviromentality for sending John Seed this way.Support the show

#70 - Join us for an amazing conversation with environmental activist and Rainforest Information Centre founder John Seed. In this illuminating episode, John shares his journey of awakening to the sentience of the natural world and how addressing inner disconnection from Nature is essential for true ecological healing.In this episode you'll discover: • How spirituality and ecology are fundamentally interconnected • A beautiful guided practice that helps us experience our ancient reciprocal relationship with plants • The remarkable success of his experience in rainforest protection campaigns and understanding the ecological self • How community-based ecological therapies can help heal our relationship with the living Earth and dispel the illusion of separation John also shares profound wisdom on the value of connecting with the story of the emerging universe and practical tools to experience our interdependence with the plant world.John Seed is an environmental activist and founder of the Rainforest Information Centre (RIC). He is an accomplished bard, songwriter, filmmaker, and co-author of "Thinking Like a Mountain - Towards a Council of All Beings." In 1995 he received the Order of Australia Medal (OAM) in 1995, for services to conservation. He has spearheaded RIC's endangered species, climate change, Asian elephants, Ecuador and Cambodia campaigns. John has written and lectured extensively on deep ecology, and he's conducted Deep Ecology workshops around the world for 35 years to help people strengthen the felt sense of our connection with the living Earth. You can find John at: https://www.rainforestinformationcentre.org/Breathing with Trees meditation: https://rainforestinfo.org.au/deep-eco/breathing.htmIG: https://www.instagram.com/johnseed_deepecology/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/johnseed.deepecology/YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/rainforestinfoBooks & Articles: https://www.rainforestinformationcentre.org/john_seed_articles_essaysFor more info visit Sara's website at: https://www.multidimensionalnature.com/ IG: https://www.instagram.com/multidimensional.nature/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/saraartemisia.ms/Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/plantspiritherbalismYoutube: https://www.youtube.com/@saraartemisiaTikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@multidimensional.naturePinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/multidimensionalnature/Learn how to communicate with plant consciousness in the free workshop on How to Learn Plant Language: https://www.learnplantlanguage.com/

Bob talks with John Seed who started working on saving rain forests in Australia in 1979. John explains how he learned about biodiversity and Deep Ecology . To learn more about John Seed check out: The Rainforest Information Centre - organization founded by John Seed Thinking Like a Mountain - free PDF John Seed Deep Ecology - includes subscribing to John's mailing list

Susie Russell is a long-time activist and campaigner for protecting Australia's forests who holds committee positions in The North East Forest Alliance (https://www.nefa.org.au/), the North Coast Environment Council (https://www.ncec.org.au/), 4Nature (https://www.acnc.gov.au/charity/charities/e62f6142-3aaf-e811-a963-000d3ad244fd/profile) and The Rainforest Information Centre (https://www.rainforestinformationcentre.org/). Susie was awarded the Miles Dunphy Award in 2024 and soon after was arrested as part of the Save Bulga Forest (https://savebulgaforest.org/)movement for obstructing logging in endangered glider habitat. In this episode we explore several critical issues including the persistent effects of growth-driven capitalism on the natural environment as well as the urgent need for deep, systemic change to avert impending ecological collapse. Drawing on decades of experience in environmental and social justice activism, Susie goes on to offer a distinctive and holistic vision for a post-growth future where humanity can thrive in harmony with the natural world. • For further reading, we recommend Susie's interview with the Finding Courage publication: “Standing Up (Even When All Seems Lost) (https://findingcourage.online/stories/susie-russell).” • PGAP was introduced to Susie through John Seed, who we interviewed in the season 5 finale: “Going deep into Deep Ecology with John Seed (https://pgap.fireside.fm/deep-ecology).” Many thanks to all of our listeners for your support. You are welcome to support PGAP further by sharing this episode with your friends, family and networks. You are also welcome to rate and review us on Apple Podcast (https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/post-growth-australia-podcast/id1522194099)or your favourite podcast platform. You can send us your feedback, thoughts and suggestions on the PGAP Contact form (https://pgap.fireside.fm/contact). You can find out more about your PGAP co-hosts Mark Allen and Michael Bayliss HERE (https://holisticactivism.net/)and HERE (https://michaelbayliss.org/). Special Guest: Susie Russell.

John Seed is the founder of the Rainforest Information Centre and has dedicated his life to the protection of rainforests and their biodiversity since 1979. In 1995 he was awarded the Order of Australia Medal (OAM) by the Australian Government for services to conservation and the environment.

John Seed was a 3-piece suit tech worker, then a meditating hippie farmer, before stumbling into his lifelong calling as an environmental activist.He participated in the world's first direct action to preserve a rain forest in the 1970s. He co-founded the Rainforest Information Center and raised money and awareness to save the "lungs of the planet."John soon realized that raising awareness wasn't going to accomplish the mission. After all, most people were aware of the damage humans were doing to the planet, but still weren't taking action to stop it.His discovery of the Deep Ecology movement brought new clarity and led to the creation of new forms of activism. With Buddhist scholar and activist Joanna Macy, John developed what's now known as The Work that Reconnects (and Experiential Deep Ecology in Australia).This work invites us to honor our feelings, even the most painful and hopeless ones. It asks us to see the possibilities that can arise when we see ourselves as part of, rather than apart from and above, nature.In our conversation, we talk about capitalism, economics, advertising, right livelihood, psychedelics, 4 billion years of evolution that lives in each of our bodies, and the distinction between personal biographical trauma and that trauma that every living being experiences on a planet at war with itself.I feel so lucky to be able to imbibe John's wisdom and spirit and humility.I don't know if I have more hope than before, but I have more clarity, direction, and resolve.I wish the same for you, and all my human relations.LinksJohnSeed.netThinking Like a MountainThe Work That Reconnects

Welcome to Art is Awesome, the show where we talk with an artist or art worker with a connection to the San Francisco Bay Area. Today, Emily chats with painter Kirstine Rainer Hansen, as they discusses her transition from design and illustration to becoming a self-taught artist specializing in 'Disrupted Realism.' Born in Denmark, Kirstine has lived across various countries, ultimately settling in Carmel, California. Her path to art was unconventional; due to financial and societal pressures, she initially studied design but shifted to painting after struggling to find work during a recession. Kirstine's work, influenced by artists like Rembrandt, Francis Bacon, and Lucian Freud, is currently on display at the Jack Fisher Gallery at the Minnesota Street Project in San Francisco. She talks about how moving to San Francisco shaped her artistic style, transitioning from classical realism to a more fragmented, collage-based approach. Kirstine also dives into "Three Questions" talking about her artistic identity, influential works, and inspiring locations in the Bay Area.About Artist Kirstine Reiner Hansen:Kirstine Reiner Hansen is an artist based on the Central Coast of California, US. Born in Odense, Denmark, she received a BA in Design and Illustration at Kolding School of Design. Her work has been exhibited in numerous galleries, most recently she had 2-person exhibition at Jack Fischer Gallery, San Francisco. In 2012 she received the Lillian Orlowsky and William Freed Foundation Grant and was twice a semi-finalist for the Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition. She has been featured in Juxtapoz Magazine, BloPop Magazine and the Asian Curator as well as in the book ‘Distrupted Realism' by John Seed, 2019. Her work is featured in the movie ‘Meaning of a Ritual' by Berlin director Natalie MacMahon, 2023.Visit Kirstine's Website:  ReinerHansen.comFollow  on Instagram:  @ReinerHansenArtFor more about her current exhibit "Atmospheric Disruptions" at the Jack Fischer Gallery, CLICK HERE. --About Podcast Host Emily Wilson:Emily a writer in San Francisco, with work in outlets including Hyperallergic, Artforum, 48 Hills, the Daily Beast, California Magazine, Latino USA, and Women's Media Center. She often writes about the arts. For years, she taught adults getting their high school diplomas at City College of San Francisco.Follow Emily on Instagram: @PureEWilFollow Art Is Awesome on Instagram: @ArtIsAwesome_Podcast--CREDITS:Art Is Awesome is Hosted, Created & Executive Produced by Emily Wilson. Theme Music "Loopster" Courtesy of Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 LicenseThe Podcast is Co-Produced, Developed & Edited by Charlene Goto of @GoToProductions. For more info, visit Go-ToProductions.com

John Seed and his colleagues are helping people all over this country and overseas  find their ecological self.Plus:  John gives practical suggestions on how to find direction in life.Music: A new recording of Johns Seed singing his song Expanding Universe.Links:John Seeds Deep Ecology workshop schedule on The Rainforest Information Centre(link is external) website.Falling in Love with the World - Active Hope Spiral - free online, Sundays @5pm AEDT. (link is external) Hosted by Nettie Hulme"Active Hope is a practice that encourages us to find and offer our best response to global issues during this time of unfolding crisis. It's about facing the mess we're in and playing our role in the collective transition toward a society and way of being that supports the flourishing of life(link is external)1(link is external)." [OpenAI, 2024]Plant Intelligence and the Imaginal Realm, x10 Week Online and In-Person Study Group(link is external). Hosted by Skye Cielita Flor(link is external)"A deep dive into this profound body of work by renowned master herbalist, earth poet, bardic naturalist, deep ecologist and prolific award-winning author of 25 books, the late Stephen Harrod Buhner(link is external). Stephen was a radical thinker, polymath and synthesiser whose work continues to have a deep and lasting impact on Plant People and Deep Ecologists all over the world."           Skye Cielita Flor(link is external)Earth Matters Episode #1483 produced by Bec Horridge on Darkinjung Country at Narara Valley Ecovillage, NSW. 

En el último episodio de este año, acudí a una fuente de sabiduría que atesoro, un pequeño libro verde titulado Pensar como una Montaña, para presentar la experiencia de una educación afectiva, ofrecida por el ejercicio colectivo del ritual del Concejo de Todos los Seres. También exploramos los conceptos de ecología profunda, Ritual y el Recordar Evolutivo. Al llegar a la Introspección, seguimos a Joanna Macy y a John Seed con sus Meditaciones de Gaia, quienes nos guían con las preguntas cruciales: ¿Qué soy? ¿Qué eres? Luego, al llegar a la Fortaleza, el último totem del aro de la vida, comparto el testimonio del tipo de fortaleza que necesitamos en este momento. Graham Innes escribió su relato de conexión con la tierra al actuar en defensa de la Selva Daintree, en Australia, enterrándose con otros activistas en el lodo. Las palabras de dos maestros me ayudan a concluír esta poderosa jornada, y cierro el Círculo Medicinal con un ejercicio concreto de Transformación.

In the last episode of this year, I went to a fountain of wisdom I cherish, a small green book titled Thinking like a Mountain to present the experience of an affective education, offered by the collective exercise of the transformative ritual The Council of all Beings. We also explore the concepts of Deep Ecology, Ritual and Evolutionary Remembering. As we reach Introspection, we follow the lead of Joanna Macy and John Seed's Gaia Meditations as they respond to two crucial questions: What are you? What am I? Then, as we reach Strength, the last totem of the Hoop of Life, I share a first person testimony of the fortitude I believe is necessary to summon right now, as Graham Innes wrote in his narrative of Earth Bonding when he acted in defense of Daintree Forest, in Australia, burying himself with fellow activists up to his neck in the soil. Words and Art of two masters; Jacek Yerka and Harlan Ellison, allow me to conclude this powerful journey, and I close the Medicine Wheel by offering you the gift of a concrete exercise in Transformation.

After almost 50 years as one of the world's leading environmental activists, John Seed has started to see an encouraging shift: "Caring about the Earth isn't just for hippies and pagans," he says. "More and more people are moving from having these ideas to exploring what we can do about them." In this podcast, Tami Simon speaks with the founder of the Rainforest Information Centre and co-author of Think Like a Mountain about his ongoing commitment to serving as a tireless steward of our planet and all its inhabitants.  Give a listen to this inspiring conversation exploring: the illusion of separation underlying the environmental crisis; experiential ecology, or "the work that reconnects"; engaged Buddhism and activism as a spiritual practice; Joanna Macy's renowned despair and empowerment work; waking up a culture in denial; transforming numbness into energy and action; creating a container for safely witnessing what's going on; ceremony and bringing the sacred into our activism; the Council of All Beings practice; gratitude; a guided experience of "the cosmic walk"; Thomas Berry and the call for a creation story that unites us all; and more. Note: This episode originally aired on Sounds True One, where these special episodes of Insights at the Edge are available to watch live on video and with exclusive access to Q&As with our guests. Learn more at join.soundstrue.com.

In this episode of the podcast, we interview deep ecology teacher and rainforest activist John Seed. Together, we discuss the importance of altering our sense of self such that it includes the natural world, the role psychedelics can play in that process, and how, even if the world as we know it burns and collapses, life itself will thrive through it all as it always has. We also talk about the philosophy of deep ecology and healing ourselves from the illusion of anthropocentrism; falling into the apathy of the modern world; “honouring our pain for the world” and how, when expressed, despair becomes empowerment. As well as the dance between present ecological crisis and the thriving of life for billions of years; the Disney-fication of nature vs the brutality of life being itself; and where psychedelics fit into deep ecology and environmental activism. Far from being a downer episode, as one might expect with topics such as these, I found my conversation with John refreshing, empowering, and genuinely inspiring. To me, this is one of the small handful of interviews I have done that impacted me in a significantly positive way. I hope you experience something similar. Enjoy. ... For links to Seed's work, full show notes, and a link to watch this episode in video, head to bit.ly/ATTMind191 *** FULL TOPICS BREAKDOWN BELOW**   SUPPORT THE PODCAST Become a member of my Patreon: https://patreon.com/jameswjesso Toss me a tip on PayPal: https://www.paypal.com/biz/fund?id=383635S3BKJVS Toss my a Tip on Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/jameswjesso Buy some merchandise:  https://www.jameswjesso.com/shop/ More Options: https://www.jameswjesso.com/support Newsletter:  https://www.jameswjesso.com/newsletter Telegram Channel:  https://t.me/jameswjesso *** Huge thanks to my patrons on Patreon! In particular, my $23+ patrons; Andreas D, Ian C, Alex F, Eliz C, Joe A;   Episode Breakdown (00:00) Opening and Guest Bio (04:47) Interview Begins (06:20) The value and importance of activism; turning citizens into consumers (09:23) The dance between present crisis and the thriving of life for billions of years (14:25) Deep ecology and healing the illusion of anthropocentrism (27:13) Patreon Thanks (29:05) Grief and “honouring our pain for the world”; when expressed, despair becomes empowerment (36:08) Seeing the world with new eyes (39:38) Falling into the apathy of the modern world (44:56) The importance of community in facing our grief (47:43) A story of psychedelic cannabis and being healed by the forest (52:42) The Disney-fication of nature vs the brutality of life being itself (57:27) Exchanging stories of meaningful psychedelic visions (01:05:09) How psychedelics put John on his journey into environmentalism (01:08:27) Where psychedelics fit into deep ecology and environmental activism (01:11:31) What looks like chaos and destruction might be a greater intelligence at work (01:19:16) If we can cause less death and destruction, we should try (01:22:17) The drinking of psychedelic acacias in Australia; how acacia courtii saved John's life (01:29:22) The challenge of facing one's aging as one's desire to give more to the world grows (01:33:23) Follow-up links and contact information (01:34:24) Outro

In this episode, John Seed, a dedicated environmental activist and deep ecologist joins us. We share stories and snippets from life in which the deep ecology movement and the significance of rituals are discussed.

In this episode, Daniel and Philipa discuss the practices that can help us reconnect with the living world with renowned author and activist, John Seed, and deep ecology practitioner, Skye Mandozay.John Seed  is the founder and director of the Rainforest Information Centre in Australia.  Since 1979 he has been involved in the direct actions which have resulted in the protection of the Australian rainforests. He has written and lectured extensively on deep ecology and has been conducting Councils of All Beings and other re-Earth ing workshops  around the world for 25 years. With Joanna Macy, Pat Fleming and Professor Arne Naess, he wrote "Thinking Like a Mountain - Towards a Council of All Beings"(New Society Publishers) which has now been translated into 12 languages. He is an accomplished bard, songwriter and film-maker and has produced 5 albums of environmental songs and numerous films.Skye Mandozay is South African born, now living on Wurundjeri Country in Melbourne Australia. She is an Animist, Deep Ecologist, Grief Ritualist and Folk Medicine practitioner who is passionate about facilitating people through journeys that assist in the reclamation of Living Earth Perception, Ecological Awakening, Mythic Imagination and Ritual Rhythms."The World Bank Song" by John Seed: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X6VVZif4fBo&ab_channel=rainforestinfo Explore links and resources, and find out more at  https://www.thersa.org/oceania/regeneration-rising-podcast  Join the Re-generation: https://www.thersa.org/regenerative-futuresReduced Fellowship offer: In celebration of the launch of Regeneration Rising, we're offering a special promotion for listeners to join our global community of RSA Fellows. Our Fellowship is a network of over 31,000 innovators, educators, and entrepreneurs committed to finding better ways of thinking, acting, and delivering change. To receive a 25% discount off your first year of membership and waived registration fee, visit thersa.org and use the discount code RSAPOD on your application form. Note, cannot be used in conjunction with other discount offers, such as Youth Fellowship. For more information  email fellowship@rsa.org.uk.

Our guests in The Sustainable Hour no. 508 are Celia Leverton from Regen Agriculture Network Tasmania, and John Seed - a long time rainforest activist and deep ecology advocate.

Reconnecting with nature; the living world,  through Deep Ecology workshops is taking off in Australia.   John Seed and his colleagues are helping people all over this country and overseas  find their ecological self. The Deep Ecology workshops are booked out and participants  are  much more mainstream than in the past.   Plus:  John gives practical suggestions on how to find direction in life.Music: A new recording of Johns Seed singing his song Expanding Universe. Links:John Seeds Deep Ecology workshop schedule on The Rainforest Information Centre website. Rising Tide: A national network currently mobilising ten thousand people for ten days of non violent action using  smalll boats to block the shipping channelto close down Newcastle coal kexport faciltiy for  48 hours.10,000 people, over 10 daysTues Nov 19 — Thurs Nov 28, 2024“2023 is a year of reckoning. It must be a year of game-changing climate action. We need disruption to end the destruction. No more baby steps. No more excuses. No more greenwashing. No more bottomless greed of the fossil fuel industry and its enablers.” — Antonio Guterres, UN Secretary-General---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Falling in Love with the World - Active Hope Spiral - free online, Sundays @5pm AEDT.  Hosted by Nettie Hulme "Active Hope is a practice that encourages us to find and offer our best response to global issues during this time of unfolding crisis. It's about facing the mess we're in and playing our role in the collective transition toward a society and way of being that supports the flourishing of life1." [OpenAI, 2024]----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Plant Intelligence and the Imaginal Realm, x10 Week Online and In-Person Study Group. Hosted by Skye Cielita Flor "A deep dive into this profound body of work by renowned master herbalist, earth poet, bardic naturalist, deep ecologist and prolific award-winning author of 25 books, the late Stephen Harrod Buhner. Stephen was a radical thinker, polymath and synthesiser whose work continues to have a deep and lasting impact on Plant People and Deep Ecologists all over the world."           Skye Cielita Flor Earth Matters Episode #1451 produced by Bec Horridge on Darkinjung Country at the Narara Valley Ecovillage, NSW. 

Sky Otter formerly known as Bill Pfeiffer is the founder of Sacred Earth Network (SEN) which implemented leading edge visions for over 25 years. In that time, Sky made Russia a second home having traveled there 44 times assisting the environmental and indigenous movements through SEN. This has given him a rare cross-cultural perspective. He has also led hundreds of spiritual ecology workshops, including men's and breath work. He has 25 years of experience in Re-evaluation Counseling and Vipassana meditation, and has undergone extensive training with Siberian shamans. Sky has partnered with and designed experiential workshops with Joanna Macy, John Perkins, Llyn Roberts, Cathy Pedevillano, and John Seed. He has also spent much time in the US Southwest learning about Native medicine ways and the crucial importance of the petroglyphs and pictographs. His book, Wild Earth, Wild Soul: A Manual for an Ecstatic Culture has been met with high acclaim. Connect with Sky Otter: https://billpfeiffer.org/ https://www.sacredearthnetwork.org/ Wild Earth, Wild Soul: A Manual for an Ecstatic Culture: https://amzn.to/4bhMj7R Join the Forest Educator Patreon! https://patreon.com/ForestEducatorPodcast Connect with Ricardo: https://www.foresteducator.com/ https://www.theforestboxforkids.com/ https://www.hawkcircle.com/ Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ricardo-sierra-5980931/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/the_forest_educator_podcast/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/RicardohawkSierra

For the final episode of season 5, PGAP welcomes special guest John Seed (OAM). John is founder and director of Australia's Rainforest Information Centre (https://www.rainforestinformationcentre.org/) and is an Australian figurehead for the Deep Ecology Movement (https://www.deepecology.net/). A long time hero of both co-hosts Mark and Michael, John combines decades of successful environmental activism with an emphasis toward re-establishing a deep emotional connection with the natural world. It is the disconnection from nature which has resulted in the endless growth paradigm which is tearing apart our societies and our planet. John shares his thoughts on why system change is not enough and why a fundamental shift in our collective psychology is needed to get us out of this mess. In addition to John's other accolades, he is also an accomplished musician. It was a pleasure to play his song ‘The World Bank Song' on PGAP. The song was written in 1990 for a protest against the World Bank in Washington DC and the message is arguably even more relevant today. The video may be seen on YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X6VVZif4fBo) and John's music may also be heard on SoundCloud. (https://soundcloud.com/johnseed) You can find more about the RAINFOREST INFORMATION CENTRE HERE (https://www.rainforestinformationcentre.org/). Or about DEEP ECOLOGY HERE (https://www.deepecology.net/). More links to John's work include articles on THE RELIGION OF ECONOMICS (https://rainforestinfo.org.au/deep-eco/ecorelig.htm), THE RIGHTS OF NATURE (https://www.rainforestinformationcentre.org/los_cedros), and CLIMATE GRIEF (https://journal.workthatreconnects.org/2023/09/02/hearing-inside-ourselves-the-sounds-of-the-earth-crying/). More information regarding the Atlas network may be read HERE (https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/jan/06/rishi-sunak-javier-milei-donald-trump-atlas-network) and HERE (https://knittingnannas.org/2024/01/18/atlas-network/). You can find out more about HOLISTIC ACTIVISM HERE (https://holisticactivism.net/) (founded by co-host Mark Allen). Both Mark and Michael Bayliss (https://michaelbayliss.org/) have been busy over the last couple of months. Mark has written A Holistic Activism Approach to the Population Issue (https://medium.com/@bayliss.michael/a-holistic-activism-approach-to-the-population-issue-f1c5d7d80624) for Medium. Michael was recently a guest presenter on the Rethinking Sustainability Podcast, on the topic of Growth and the Parasitic Economy. (https://sustainablecivilisation.com/growth-and-the-parasitic-economy/). Mark has written for Independent Australia: Sydney asbestos crisis the tip of the iceberg (https://independentaustralia.net/environment/environment-display/sydney-asbestos-crisis-the-tip-of-the-iceberg,18376). EcoVoice published Mark's article Climate Activism and the Crisis of Language (https://www.ecovoice.com.au/climate-activism-and-the-crisis-of-language-by-mark-allen-2024/). Last but not least, the PGAP Blog has been updated with a new post, Building a house in the 2020s (and other fun things!) (https://pgap.fireside.fm/articles/buildingahouse). At PGAP, we like to give a shout out to the work of our past guests. The highly anticipated De Gruyter Degrowth Handbook (https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783110778359-018/html) has finally been released! Inside, contributors, including a forward by Jason Hickel, explore various facets of degrowth, delving into its intersections with Marxism, feminism, architecture, and issues related to the global south. A standout chapter, penned by our former podcast guest Alex Baumann and co-author Samuel Alexander, shines a light on the initial privatisation of capitalism, namely land privatisation. While the Handbook itself is behind a paywall, an excellent article in The Conversation (https://theconversation.com/huge-housing-costs-make-us-slaves-to-our-jobs-and-unsustainable-growth-but-theres-another-way-203144?fbclid=IwAR0YYO8Tg9psaa4QPGg3Xjr11nv_MVjSmEAi4rueFJqG21Bjqqn7FIn9Ie8) gives a great overview. PGAP will be on break for two months before we return for season six in a couple of months. PGAP has now been on the air for nearly four years and we are so pleased that community support for our grassroots program has gone from strength to strength across the five seasons. We are looking forward to many more stellar guests in season six and we will also be experimenting with 'mini-episodes' for returning guests. Until then, we invite you to RATE AND REVIEW PGAP (https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/post-growth-australia-podcast/id1522194099), SUBSCRIBE (https://pgap.fireside.fm/subscribe), or CONTACT US (https://pgap.fireside.fm/contact) with our easy to fill out contact form. Please share this and other episodes of PGAP with your friends, family and networks. Until season six, until then! (All views, opinions, and past and present legacies of PGAP guests do not necessarily reflect those of PGAP of Sustainable Population Australia (https://population.org.au/) who are the kind supporters of this podcast.) Special Guest: John Seed.

John Seed is a 78-year-old world-renowned Australian environmental educator, author, activist, artist and filmmaker. A recipient of the Australian government's Order of Australia medal, John is the founder and director of the Rainforest Information Centre and, since 1979, has been involved in 100s of campaigns and education initiatives that have protected remaining rainforests and helped humanity rethink our relationship with nature. John and his family first came to Australia as Jewish refugees who experienced incredible hardship and devastating loss during the Nazi occupation of Hungary. They went on to create a new life in Australia, where John's mother, Judy Cassab, went on to become one of Australia's most celebrated painters.  John also has an artistic flair, and he and his mother had an exhibition together during the final years of Judy's life. John has had a fascinating and adventurous path in life.After a short career in computing with IBM, John joined the hippy trail, travelling overland through Afghanistan and onto India, where he studied meditation before arriving back in Australia and co-founding an intentional community in Bundjalung Country,  and the Northern Rivers ‘rainbow region' of Northern NSW at Bodhi farm, which still exists to this day. It was here that John found his true calling, or it found him. As you're about to hear, at the time, outside of Indigenous culture, there was little respect or appreciation for the value of rainforests, and they were being destroyed at an alarming rate. John joined locals in blockading the site at Terania Creek and said the experience at the time was as if nature was speaking to him. The protesters succeeded, and John went on to found the Rainforest Information Centre, a pioneering global organisation that has been instrumental in rainforest protection and conversation throughout Latin America, Cambodia, India, Papua New Guinea, Australia, and the South Pacific. His work also helped initiate the creation of the US Rainforest Action Network.John has written and lectured extensively on the concept of deep ecology. With Joanna Macy, Pat Fleming and Professor Arne Naess, he wrote "Thinking Like a Mountain - Towards a Council of All Beings" which has been translated into 12 languages including Korean and Tibetan.In 1987 he co-produced a television documentary, "EARTH FIRST!" for Australian national television about the struggle for the rainforests. In 2003 he spearheaded RIC's endangered species campaign and made the film "On The Brink" with David Attenborough, David Suzuki, Olivia Newton-John and Jack Thompson. You can find that via the Rainforest Information Centre online, as well as lots of other great videos, including one of John in conversation with Ram Dass in 1992.In 2021 – after an arduous and prolonged struggle with life-threatening cancer, John got back in the saddle and jumped straight into action. Some of his campaigning at this time helped lead to Ecuador's Constitutional Court ruling that mining in the Los Cedros Protected Forest is a violation of the constitutional rights of nature and is therefore prohibited in the forest. This has created an important national and worldwide precedent.More recently, John was involved in the Rising Tide blockade of coal ships leaving the world's Largest Coal Port in Newcastle, NSW. 3000 protesters gathered, and John was one of over 100 people in Kayaks arrested as part of a collective stand against Australia's continued investment in fossil fuels.   I should add that John is also an accomplished songwriter and has produced 5 albums of environmental songs, as well as numerous other environmental films. 

On Tuesday, October 17, 2023, we had the honor and pleasure to interview author, ⁠⁠John Seed ⁠⁠via Zoom from his home base on the Central California Coast. He defines himself as an art writer and we would add storyteller with rich experiences in the world of art that tell all the sides of the art coin. From taking the path of an art student, to MFA, to gallery driver, collector, curator, installation team member, art professor, to author, he has done it all and uses all the facets to his advantage in his writings.  He has written for the art section of Huffington Post, Hyperallergic, a round the clock online art newsletter, Arts of Asia and other fine publications. His books include My Art World: Recollections and Other Writings, ⁠⁠Disrupted Realism: Paintings for a Distracted World⁠⁠, and his most recent book ⁠⁠More Disruption: Representational Art in Flux⁠⁠. He was the recipient of a Society of Professional Journalist's award in art and entertainment writing.  For over three decades John Seed taught Studio Art and Art History at Mount San Jacinto College. He also taught Modernism at Art Center College of Design in Pasadena and Theory and Criticism for the MFA program at Laguna College of Art and Design. Since 2013 John has served on the board of the ⁠⁠Sam Francis Foundation⁠⁠ and am currently serving as the President of ⁠⁠Greenspace: The Cambria Land Trust.⁠⁠ Here is a video interview with John Seed titled ⁠⁠"My Non-Tragic Backstory".⁠⁠ John is also teaching an online class called ⁠⁠Art Criticism for Artists⁠⁠ through the Penn Studio School of Art. Val will be taking this class starting in January and is looking forward to hearing more from John. Check out the link above to learn more about this class.  Thank you, John for spending time with us and sharing your knowledge and stories. By the way, he invites our audience to email him at johnseed@gmail.com with questions and comments on any of his books. He is generous and kind with his correspondence and you will be richer by sharing an email with him. Enjoy this episode! 

Join a beautiful conversation with John Seed. John has written and lectured extensively on deep ecology and has been conducting Councils of All Beings and other re-Earthing workshops around the world for 35 years. Find more about John at https://www.rainforestinformationcentre.org/john_seed Some of the topics we explore: Honoring Our Pain for the World The philosophy of deep ecology Experiential deep ecology workshops The Work that Reconnects $ ceremonies that dispel the illusion of separation between humans and the more-than-human-world. The success of direct actions in protecting Australian rainforests Rainforest conservation About John Seed John Seed is founder of the Rainforest Information Centre. Since 1979 he has been involved in the direct actions that have resulted in the protection of the Australian rainforests. He has written and lectured extensively on deep ecology and has been conducting Councils of All Beings and other re-Earthing workshops around the world for 35 years. With Joanna Macy, Pat Fleming and Professor Arne Naess, he wrote "Thinking Like a Mountain - Towards a Council of All Beings" (New Society Publishers) which has now been translated into 10 languages. In 1995 he was awarded the Order of Australia Medal (OAM) by the Australian Government for services to conservation and the environment. He is a Fellow of the Findhorn Foundation and occasional Scholar-in-Residence at the Esalen Institute. In 2003 he spearheaded the Rainforest Information Centre's endangered species campaign http://www.rainforestinfo.org.au/spp/ and made the film "On The Brink" with David Attenborough, David Suzuki, Olivia Newton-John, and Jack Thompson. In 2023 he is spearheading a campaign to prevent the extinction of koalas. He continues to conduct experiential deep ecology workshops around Australia as well as online workshops.

We are certainly living in precarious times. We have transgressed six out of nine planetary boundaries (with more to come). The gap between the ‘haves' and ‘have nots' is beginning to look less like a gap and more like a chasm. The threat of wide-scale war looms large. How do we get ourselves out of this mess before Mad Max becomes a documentary? Luckily for us, Mark Diesendorf and Rod Taylor have co-authored a new book “The Path to a Sustainable Civilisation: Technological, Socioeconomic and Political Change.” Not only does this book unpack several of the main existential challenges facing humanity, it details many proactive solutions that we can all undertake to create a better future. In this episode of Post-Growth Australia Podcast, Mark Diesendorf kindly steps into the microphone to summarise the key arguments detailed in “The Path of a Sustainable Civilisation.” Dr Mark Diesendorf is Honorary Associate Professor in the Environment & Society Group, School of Humanities & Languages at UNSW Sydney. He is also Senior Editor for Energy of the international journal Global Sustainability. Originally trained as a physicist, he became a Principal Research Scientist in CSIRO, and then broadened out into interdisciplinary energy and sustainability research. From 1996 to 2001 he was Professor of Environmental Science and Founding Director of the Institute for Sustainable Futures at University of Technology Sydney. PGAP listeners will be familiar with many of the challenges and solutions raised by Mark, in this interview, that are expanded on within the very concise and easy to read pages of “The Path to a Sustainable Civilisation (https://sustainablecivilisation.com/)”. These include the mechanisms of state capture and how they undermine democracy, the critical role that population sustainability contributes toward any planned Degrowth transition and how planned Degrowth may be facilitated with the sensible application of Modern Monetary Theory (MMT). MMT is a favourite topic on PGAP and we highly recommend listening to our episode: “MMT for Activism with Gabrielle Bond (https://pgap.fireside.fm/mmtlab)”. You may also recognise Mark's co-author, Rod Taylor, who also contributed to the book “Sustainability and the New Economics” with Steve Williams, whom PGAP interviewed last yea (https://pgap.fireside.fm/stevewilliams)r. Rod Taylor was also interviewed on PGAP for his own book “10 Journeys on a Fragile Planet (https://pgap.fireside.fm/rodtaylor).” We are certainly well read on this podcast! PGAP is supported by Sustainable Population Australia (https://population.org.au/). All views and perspectives from our esteemed guests, including current and past legacies, are their own and do not always reflect the positions held by PGAP or SPA. Your PGAP co-hosts, Michael Bayliss (https://michaelbayliss.org/)and Mark Allen (https://holisticactivism.net/town-planning-rebellion-tpr/), have been very impressed by the amount of contact and feedback that we have been receiving from our listeners and supporters. Thank you so much! Let's build this community. Rate and review this and other episodes of PGAP on Apple Podcast (https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/post-growth-australia-podcast/id1522194099) or your favourite platform and feel free to share among your networks. Contact us (https://pgap.fireside.fm/contact) anytime with your feedback, thoughts and ideas. As Mark Diesendorf is a very industrious generator of wisdom, we are honoured to share a large collection of his work below, followed by the time stamp for this episode. Happy further reading! Mark's website: https://research.unsw.edu.au/people/associate-professor-mark-diesendorf Mark's Interview with The Sustainable Hour Podcast (https://climatesafety.info/climaterevolution5/). Mark and co-host Rod Taylor spoke at an online Australia Earth Law Alliance online event for Earth Laws month. The presentation may be seen at the AELA YouTube channel here (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K0yiZp5xDqw). Yin Paradies and John Seed, who also spoke during Earth Laws month, were discusssed during the introduction of this episode. These talks may be watched here (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bo4CXIboS1Q) and here (https://www.earthlaws.org.au/event/elm23-8sept-john-seed-patricia-fleming-the-work-that-reconnects/). Mark wrote for The Conversation: Saving humanity: here's a radical approach to building a sustainable and just society (https://theconversation.com/saving-humanity-heres-a-radical-approach-to-building-a-sustainable-and-just-society-205566) New book: Mark Diesendorf & Rod Taylor (2023). The Path to a Sustainable Civilisation: Technological, Socioeconomic and Political Change. Palgrave Macmillan. eBook ISBN 978-981-99-0663-5; print ISBN 978-981-99-0662-8. See https://sustainablecivilisation.com/. Order from https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-981-99-0663-5 Latest papers Mark Diesendorf & Steven Hail (2022). Funding of the energy transition by monetary sovereign countries. Energies, volume 15, paper number 5908. https://doi.org/10.3390/en15165908 (Can be downloaded free of charge) Mark Diesendorf (2022). Scenarios for the rapid phase-out of fossil fuels in Australia in the absence of CO2 removal. Australasian Journal of Environmental Management https://doi.org/10.1080/14486563.2022.2108514 Mark Diesendorf (2022.) Scenarios for mitigating CO2 emissions from energy supply in the absence of CO2 removal. Climate Policy 22:882-896. https://doi.org/10.1080/14693062.2022.2061407 Mark Diesendorf, David Roser & Haydn Washington (2023). Analyzing the nuclear weapons proliferation risk posed by a mature fusion technology and economy. Energies 16:1123. https://doi.org/10.3390/en16031123 . Time Stamp 0:00:00 - 0:11:18 Introduction 0:11:19 - 1:08:02 Interview with Mark Diesendorf 1:08:03 - 1:16:23 Outro Special Guest: Dr Mark Diesendorf.

It's been a year of amazing conversations with insightful humans, meandering through the forest of plant relationships and numinous experiences. In this episode I explore: Why does 'sacred' matter to us as herbalists anyway? What is sacred herbalism? And how can we begin to cultivate this in our own lives? I highlight some snippets of conversations with Jacqui Bushell (episode 11), Jimi Wollumbin (episode 15), John Seed (episode 27), and Skye Cielita Flor (episode 41). A big shout out to all my other fabulous podcast guests: Tatiana Dawn, Lis Conlon, Katelyn Jones, Benjamin Haynes, Lily of the Herbs, Jessyca Bosscha and the anonymous therapist. You were all incredible - weaving each of these conversations into one was quite simply beyond me. To find out more about The Elder Tree, head to TheElderTree.org You can also follow The Elder Tree on Facebook and Instagram.The intro and outro song is "Sing for the Earth" and was kindly donated by Chad Wilkins.

Co-curated by John Natsoulas and John Seed, the 14th Annual Art of Painting in the 21st Century Exhibition and Conference is coming soon! Experience a once-in-a-lifetime event where visitors can meet top artists in an intimate setting and learn about the current trends within painting. John Natsoulas Gallery City: Davis Address: 521 First Street Website https://www.natsoulas.com Phone +1-530-756-3938 Email art@natsoulas.com

https://Art2Life.com - There is something so powerful about disruption. Challenging the status quo is a message in and of itself, but when you apply that to art…it simply transcends. Meet author, artist, and disruption curator John Seed. John has written two books on disruption, with the second book chronicling an entire movement happening in the art world right now. Join us for a conversation about John's life and career, disruptive realism, creative advice, and a sneak peek into the artists John profiled for his upcoming book. ================================ LISTEN IF YOU ARE INTERESTED IN… Getting to know John Seed and how he brought his books to life [1:52] Exploring John's writing journey from unpaid blogger to author [11:36] Understanding disrupted realism and bringing focus to a distracted society [17:29] Diving into John's new book [25:59] John's advice for those on the creative path [31:40] A sneak peek at the artists featured in John's work [42:05] ================================ RESOURCES MENTIONED Jenny Saville (Artist): https://www.instagram.com/jenny_saville_art/  Gerhard Richter (Artist): https://gerhard-richter.com/en/art  Marcus Jansen (Artist): https://www.marcusjansen.com/  Justin Mortimer (Artist): http://justinmortimer.co.uk/  Joseph Lee (Artist): https://www.josephleeart.com/  Katherine Lau (Artist): https://katherinelevinlau.com/  Anthony Peyton Young (Artist): https://www.bemiscenter.org/residents/anthony-peyton-young  ================================= CONNECT WITH JOHN SEED Website: www.johnseed.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/johnalbertseed/?hl=en  ============================= CONNECT WITH NICHOLAS WILTON AND ART2LIFE: Get the Free COLOR TIPS PDF: https://workshop.art2life.com/color-tips-pdf-podcasts/  Follow the Sunday Art2Life Vlog: https://art2life.lpages.co/sign-up-for-the-a2l-vlog/  Follow Nicholas Wilton's Art on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nicholaswilton/  Follow Art2Life on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/art2life_world/?hl=en  Subscribe on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/c/Art2Life

Stephanie Hazel interviews Folk Herbalist, Deep Ecologist and traditionally trained Shipibo Curandera Skye Cielita Flor. In this episode, we explore questions such as: What does it mean to take a plant out of context? What do we leave behind when we extract a single active chemical from a medicinal plant? What do we lose when we take a single aspect of Shipibo culture, like ayahuasca ceremonies, but leave all of the cultural nest of animistic relationships with plants and land behind? Skye is a South African woman currently living in Warrandyte in Melbourne, and is one of the few people I know who has completed a 4 year immersive apprenticeship in the Peruvian Amazon, where she studied with Shipibo curanderos to become a healer, an apprenticeship that involved extensive training in ritual and healing use of ayahuasca, and deep dietas with other powerful medicinal plants. Four years of full time training in the amazon! This actually makes her the most qualified person I know to comment on the rising wave of ayahuasca use in the west. She also completed 3 years of full time Chinese Medicine apprenticeship, and worked as a wilderness guide in South Africa. When she came to Australia, she was confronted with the deep grief of having lost the beautiful animism of Shipibo culture and of finding herself bereft of the plants who had become her friends. Beyond this, she felt afresh the aching wounds of Western disconnection from the living world around us. She had found herself entirely out of context! Her pathway to grounding into the place she is now was deep ecology., which she believes is the missing framework that any animistic or psychedelic experience needs to be nestled into for any western person to actually receive the healing they need. Her work now primarily consists of facilitating experiential deep ecology workshops and retreats, under the guidance of John Seed, who was previously interviewed on this podcast. You can check out an upcoming webinar with Skye and John in September if you are inspired to learn from this heart-felt, intellectually sophisticated and wildly experienced woman and plant collaborator. Show Notes: Skye's upcoming webinar with John Seed - Honouring Our Pain For The World https://workthatreconnects.org/event/honoring-our-pain-for-the-world-a-webinar-with-john-seed-and-skye-mandozay/?fbclid=IwAR1otXUV2Wp6y55eks-GjXODBDrIQ-8FYS4S9Vw-3yK5uXotcN5DAVjZdrw Follow Skye on Social Media: https://www.facebook.com/Cicadia.DepthPerception https://www.instagram.com/deep.earth.dreaming/ Get your own taste of relationships with plants in my upcoming 6-week course: Finding Your Plant Allies. Use the code ElderTreeListens for 10% off :-) www.stephaniehazel.com.au/courses/find-your-plant-allies/ To find out more about The Elder Tree visit the website at www.theeldertree.org and donate to the crowdfunding campaign here. You can also follow The Elder Tree on Facebook and Instagram and sign up to the newsletter. Find out more about this podcast and the presenters here. Get in touch with The Elder Tree at:  asktheeldertree@gmail.com The intro and outro song is "Sing for the Earth" and was kindly donated by Chad Wilkins.  You can find Chad's music here and here.

In this episode I am delighted to be speaking with pivotal figure in the world of deep ecology - a concept I came into contact with at Schumacher College in 1992 when I studied with Arne Naess - the Norwegian mountaineer and philosopher who coined the term Deep Ecology. My guest today is deep ecologist, rainforest activist and author JOHN SEED - a fellow ecovillager. He's based at Narara Ecovillage in NSW and I'm at Crystal Waters on Gubbi Gubbi Country, QLD.John is the founder and director of the Rainforest Information Centre in Australia. He has worked for rainforests worldwide since 1979. He says many of their campaigns have been successful, but sadly,  for every forest saved, another 100 have disappeared. He realised he cannot save the planet one forest at a time - what we needed is a profound change in consciousness. Deep ecology reminds us that the living world is not a pyramid with humans on top, but a web. We, humans, are but one strand in that web and as we destroy this web, we destroy the foundations for all complex life including our own.It's not enough to have ecological ideas, says Arne - we have to have an ecological identity and ecological self. To nourish the ecological identity, John and the american peace scholar-activist Joanna Macy developed a series of experiential rituals called the Council of All Beings. John co-write a book, Thinking Like a Mountain in 1988  about the council of all beings, with Arne Naess, Joanna Macy and Australian Pat Fleming.https://www.rainforestinformationcentre.org/john_seedhttps://www.facebook.com/johnseed.deepecology https://www.instagram.com/johnseed_deepecology/Support the showThis podcast is an initiative of the Permaculture Education Institute.Our way of sharing our love for this planet and for life, is by teaching permaculture teachers who are locally adapting this around the world - finding ways to apply the planet care ethics of earth care, people care and fair share. We host global conversations and learning communities on 6 continents. We teach permaculture teachers, host permaculture courses, host Our Permaculture Life YouTube, and offer free monthly film club and masterclass. We broadcast from a solar powered studio in the midst of a permaculture ecovillage food forest on beautiful Gubbi Gubbi country. I acknowledge this is and always will be Aboriginal land, pay my respects to elders past and present, and extend my respect to indigenous cultures and knowledge systems across the planet. You can also watch Sense-Making in a Changing World on youtube.SUBSCRIBE for notification of each new episode. Please leave us a 5 star REVIEW - it really it does help the bots find and myceliate this show.

In this Season 1 (2021) of Birdsong we have Skye and Miraz joining us. We go deep into a number of themes exploring the culture of separation that plagues the collective sphere we all find ourselves in, the re-orientation of our perception to animistic worldviews, their many years in the amazon jungle studying amazonian shamanism, the frameworks that the indigneous shipibo people passed onto them to assist in the relating with a living breathing jungle, and extrapolating from that, a living breathing planet, and how this path interrelates into the work that they're currently doing, known as deep ecology, aka, the work that reconnects. Skye was raised on (and by) a farm on the edge of a wildlife reserve in South Africa. Her early childhood was spent wandering barefoot, immersed in the imaginal worlds that emerged between her senses and the touch of lion's roar, river song, and rolling thunderstorms across the bushveld. Her teen years were spent hand-raising and rehabilitating wildlife, she later became a wilderness guide, she trained in traditional Taoist healing practices for three years, became a qualified yoga instructor, and this was all before travelling to the Peruvian Amazon to undergo an in-depth apprenticeship in Amazonian curanderismo. Miraz also grew up close to nature, but attempted to ‘civilize' himself through higher education and for a few years as a corporate lawyer, but through the good fortune of an existential crisis he wound up in the jungle, where he and Skye met, and where there was a remembrance in what it felt like to belong to the world. Along the way he trained as a counsellor, a psycho-therapeutic journey practitioner, alongside breathwork and bodywork practices. They now apprentice themselves to the deep ecological movement arising in response to the darkness of the modern industrial growth culture, which includes the work of John Seed and Joanna Macy: The Work that Reconnects. Their offerings are a synthesis of plant medicine practice and ecological awakening, including the facilitation of study groups, retreats and intensives, and one-on-one sessions.   TIMESTAMPS: [5:14] Opening the Container: Skye opens the container with an acknowledgement of the beauty and pain that exists in the land and a gratitude to the world that supports us in this moment [11:06] Going real with gratitude [12:39] Disconnected perspective [18:28] Personal development vs social activism [25:32] Cultural duality [33:25] Skye's crisis [38:30] Miraz's journey [47:35] The jungle apprenticeship [51:54] A re-introduction to animism [52:32] A new perspective on an oak tree [53:40] Dietas [58:49] Reconnecting to our wild senses [1:08:49] Challenges on the path [1:12:00] A beautiful passionflower story [1:20:17] The emotion medicine in plants [1:25:00] How do we become fully human? [1:27:49] The Work That Reconnects [1:30:29] Back to civilization [1:39:30] Starting to reconnect [2:03:00] Closing the Container: Miraz closes the container with a very interesting poem about whales...and you'll have to see and hear it

Stephanie Hazel interviews environmental activist and cofounder of the Deep Ecology movement John Seed on how Deep Ecology is a powerful philosophy for herbalists, plant folk and all humans living with grief and confusion around the devastation of the natural world. By getting humans out of the driver's seat of existence, and remembering that we are one strand in the web of life not the spider in the middle, we can restore right relationship with the Earth. John shares unique stories for the first time on this show: how powerful experiences with magic mushrooms prepared the ground for his initial groundbreaking revelations in the Australian rainforests that led to what we now know as Deep Ecology; how "Aussie-huasca" just might have saved his life recently; and how he discovered indigenous rituals performed in a group context to dissolve the hubris of human superiority that were exactly like the 'Council of All Beings' process he had created with Joanna Macy a few years prior. Show Notes: John Seed's book 'Thinking Like A Mountain' is available for free download here: https://rainforestinfo.org.au/deep-eco/TLAM%20text.htm Excellent talk by John Seed at Rebel Herbal conference https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPdxrrg_Frw 'The Spirit of Herbs', an article written by John Seed in response to Stephen Harrod Buhner's work:  http://www.rainforestinfo.org.au/deep-eco/herbs.htm Upcoming Deep Ecology workshops with John Seed: https://events.humanitix.com/host/6020d0d134494c000a3c23bd

Dr. T and The Truth Fairy welcome special guest Sky Otter, founder of Sacred Earth Network and author of “Wild Earth, Wild Soul: A Manual for an Ecstatic Culture”, to the podcast to share his teaching and experience. Sky leads listeners into Siberian shamanism, the raw vitality of the environment, and the connectedness of our healing journeys.Sky tells Dr. T and the Truth Fairy about his awakening into realizing the power of life when he was on the New York subway en route to a peace rally in Central Park. He has pursued peacefulness, connectedness to the natural world, and the embracing of wildness in soul since. Sky believes we need to embrace Indigenous and Aboriginal teachings far more deeply.The discussion Dr. T and the Truth Fairy have with Sky Otter is soul-searching and beautiful. They explore the dominator worldview and the need to regain connectedness with each other and the earth, they discuss Sky's time in Russia and the ongoing situation in Russia and the Ukraine now, and Sky describes the awe of a Siberian shamanic fire circle. Healing and connectedness truly are the focus of this episode and many vulnerable and inspiring moments are shared.“Us smart Westerners need to sort of put aside those big brains a little bit and, not losing our faculty for critical thinking, but just saying, wait a minute, I don't really know everything here and all that stuff I was taught, you know, I'll take it with a grain of salt. And I'll just humble myself before Mother Earth and the Aboriginal people and learn from the earth and learn from them.” -  Sky OtterAbout Sky Otter:Sky Otter formerly known as Bill Pfeiffer is the founder of Sacred Earth Network (SEN) which implemented leading edge visions for over 25 years. In that time, Sky made Russia a second home having traveled there 44 times assisting the environmental and indigenous movements through SEN. This has given him a rare cross-cultural perspective. He has also led hundreds of spiritual ecology workshops, including men's and breath work.  He has 25 years of experience in Re-evaluation Counseling and Vipassana meditation, and has undergone extensive training with Siberian shamans. Sky has partnered with and designed experiential workshops with Joanna Macy, John Perkins, Llyn Roberts, Cathy Pedevillano, and John Seed. He has also spent much time in the US Southwest learning about Native medicine ways and the crucial importance of the petroglyphs and pictographs. His  book, “Wild Earth, Wild Soul: A Manual for an Ecstatic Culture” has been met with high acclaim.Resources discussed in this episode:Sacred Earth Network"Wild Earth, Wild Soul: A Manual for an Ecstatic Culture" by Sky Otter Rainer Maria Rilke“Ishmael” by Daniel QuinnAmanita muscariaSiberian Shamanic drum“Embers: One Ojibway's Meditations” by Richard Wagamese---Punk Therapy: website |emailSky Otter: website

Today I sit down with John Seed,  founder of the Rainforest Information Centre and long-time environmental activist, who has dedicated his life to the protection of rainforests and their biodiversity since 1979. John is well versed in the field of Deep Ecology and has helped to develop the body of knowledge known as 'The Work That Reconnects', originating with Joanna Macy. Today John and I discuss: John's activism story - how he came to be a protector of the rainforests; The body of knowledge known as Deep Ecology; How John came to be working with Joanna Macy and how he has contributed to the evolution of The Work That Reconnects; John's experience of 'burnout' and the interesting ways he received guidance from Mother Earth; and Some Deep Time perspectives to help us grapple with the present moment. Show links:John's Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/johnseed.deepecologyJohn's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/johnseed_deepecology/John's blog http://johnseed.net/Rainforest Information Centre  https://www.rainforestinformationcentre.org/Youtube https://www.youtube.com/rainforestinfo

How do we live at a time like this? You are in for a treat in today's episode, hearing John Seed's answer to this question, and especially in hearing about how he's come to his answer. If you don't recognize his name, John Seed is a wise elder, activist and well-loved leader based in Australia, and a beautiful human being who's a lot of fun to talk with. He's made core contributions to Deep Ecology and the Work that Reconnects, and to the protection of life on Earth, for more than 40 years. I'm so thankful to have had the opportunity to speak with him, and to share our conversation with you.Click Play to hear us explore:how John found his calling in rainforest protection (part psychedelics, part being willing to help a neighbor, and part lucky accident)why he likes to attend a group Experiential Deep Ecology workshop about 10 times a year (like all of us, he still needs to remember to remember)one practice that you can easily do on your ownthe recent Rights of Nature win in Ecuadorhow he's able to relate to this ecologically "on the brink" time with passion, but without hysteriaand a glimpse through his words of what it's like to expand your identity through time, through the cosmos, and through different life forms on EarthThis conversation has made a lasting and very welcome impact on my heart and mind. Listen in to receive John's insights for yourself, and please do share this with the people in your life whose hearts and minds would benefit from it too.It's such a special opportunity to hear from John Seed, especially after his 6-year struggle with cancer, when he couldn't engage in leading workshops or activism like he had been. I feel blessed to have had this conversation, and I hope it's a blessing for many.Visit the show notes at turningseason.com/episode17 for more about John Seed, useful links, and related recommended books. Thank you for being here, and for all the ways you play your part.Turning Season Podcast is here to offer you up regular doses of Active Hope in the Great Turning, bringing you news and deep conversations about our adventure toward a life-honoring, life-sustaining way of being human on Earth. This show is for every one of you who's awake to our multiple crises, feels your love for life on Earth, and chooses to participate in cultivating ways of life we can believe in. 

Mary-Jayne Rust BIO: I am an art therapist and Jungian analyst in private practice in North London. Alongside this, I lecture and facilitate workshops on Ecopsychology in a wide range of settings. My therapy training began in art therapy in 1979. During the 1980s I worked in a men's prison, as well as with women with eating problems at the Women's Therapy Centre, London during the early years of feminist psychotherapy. These two workplaces offered diametrically opposed experiences: working in a male hierarchy with perpetrators of abuse versus working with victims of abuse in a women's collective.  This taught me a great deal about perpetrator and victim. Feminist psychotherapy helped broaden my understanding of how culture shapes our internal worlds. In the early 1990's I made several trips to Ladakh (on the Tibetan plateau) where I spent time with Helena Norberg-Hodge of ISEC.  This experience impressed on me the seriousness of our environmental crisis. I then discovered Ecopsychology, an emerging field weaving together the ecological, psychological, political and spiritual. I joined a group of like-minded therapists, and together we explored ecopsychological thinking, facilitation, and supervision. John Seed and Joanna Macy were two of our mentors in this journey. My interest in eating problems expanded into an inquiry into our collective consuming of the earth, and the relationship between mind and body, soul and the land. I became fascinated by the differences between indigenous and western worldviews and how we might enable ancient and modern to live together today. I love colour and I am a visual artist. I live in Nth London beside Queenswood, part of the forest which originally covered Britain. Highgate Hill and Muswell Hill are on the terminal moraine left by a glacier of the last ice age.  I have an ongoing love affair with swimming in wild waters. Forest and pond, kingfisher, owl, cormorant and humans; it is all these places and relationships to whom I owe my thanks for the ideas that you find here.

Have you ever donated to "save the rainforest?" I remember placing a globe-shaped piggy bank on the secretary's desk at my elementary school in about 1991. The Kids for Saving Earth club asked people to drop in their spare change so we could buy a $25 acre of rainforest, and protect it "forever." It's been eye-opening to connect with Liz Downes, who works with John Seed, who has himself been devoted to rainforest protection since 1979. Liz is the director of the Rainforest Information Center in Australia. The Center recently supported a successful legal case in Ecuador's constitutional court. The court's decision was announced at the end of 2021: Los Cedros Reserve will not be open to mining. This was an area that was protected "forever" as a reserve, but had been opened to mining exploration in 2017. Wouldn't this be counter to the "Rights of Nature" enshrined in Ecuador's constitution? A couple months ago, Ecuador's constitutional court ruled that yes, mining here would violate the Rights of Nature, and the reserve is protected once more.I loved hearing from Liz, someone devoted to the day-in, day-out tasks of activism, of "holding actions" to protect the Earth and all of us living beings.Click Play to hear her talk about:being an activist in "David and Goliath" type situations (local communities vs. mining corporations)how she is fueled somewhat by anger, and more deeply by lovewhy, as John Seed said, human activists are not defending the rainforest, they are "the rainforest defending itself"a problem with our tech solutions to the climate crisis, like electric vehicles: the need for copper, much of which is under indigenous homelands and some of the world's most biodiverse ecosystemswhy activists with so much common ground come to different conclusions about what's most urgentEcuador's unique biodiversity, from Andes to Amazon rainforest to cloud forestsissues with how mining companies interact with local communitiesand how the idea that "people are bad for the Earth" seems to overlook all the human beings who are not only living in a less destructive way, but all the human cultures that have solutions to our ecological crises in their ways of thinkingHow about you? I'd love to hear what "holding actions" or protections you are supporting. Share them in the comments at turningseason.com/episode8Music by East Forest.

We live in an era when nearly every governor, state congressperson, or mayor supports maximum economic growth.  It doesn't matter what party you are from – or whether you support lower taxes or more social programs. Economic growth covers up all sins. Increasingly, it does not matter what country you are from. Economic growth is promoted as the way forward, the way to becoming more prosperous, the way to becoming a more “developed” nation. But economic growth is not the answer. In the words of Oren Lyons, we are acting like jockeys, whipping our horses to go faster and faster, unaware that the finish line is a brick wall.  How do we get people to understand: We cannot grow infinitely on a finite planet. How do we get people to understand that without fertile soil, clean air and water, all life is endangered, including human life. When will we remember that humans are made of light, air, water, and earth – that what we do to the elements we do to ourselves?  Why has the Western developed world – ever since the industrial revolution – been relentlessly pursuing progress? Why do we put our short-term economic goals first while ignoring the despoilation of the planet? It is not out of malice. It is not entirely out of fear, racism, or greed. It is more that we don't know a different way. We had a dream – a belief that increased goods and services made for a higher standard of living – and that was all that mattered. We have been chasing that dream ever since. In our dream, we don't count our blessings. What we have now is insufficient. We want more – the more the better, and the faster we get there and the more convenient the better.  Fortunately, my two honored guests know this is not the only way to live. They have met people who have another dream and it has changed the way they live. All over the world, Indigenous peoples carry a dream that sees all of creation as our relatives – a dream that respects the right of everything to exist. A dream that sees a way to live life differently, a way to perceive differently, a way to look at the world in a joyful, ecstatic manner – a way to be fully alive!  What will it take to change our dream?  How do we dance and sing a new reality into being? Join us as we delve into this with John Perkins and Bill Pfeiffer.  BIOS Bill Pfeiffer aka “Sky Otter” is the founder of Sacred Earth Network (SEN) which continues to implement leading edge visions for over 25 years. In that time, Bill has made Russia a second home having traveled there 44 times assisting the environmental and indigenous movements through SEN. This has given him a rare cross-cultural perspective. He has also led hundreds of spiritual ecology workshops, including men's and breath work.  He has 25 years of experience in Re-evaluation Counseling and Vipassana meditation, and has undergone extensive training with Siberian shamans. Bill has partnered with and designed experiential workshops with Joanna Macy, John Perkins, Llyn Roberts, Cathy Pedevillano, and John Seed. He has also spent much time in the US Southwest learning about Native medicine ways and the crucial importance of the petroglyphs and pictographs. His  book, “Wild Earth, Wild Soul: A Manual for an Ecstatic Culture” has been met with high acclaim. I've read the book and reviewed it for Amazon. The first 50 pages alone are an important summary of Western civilization and what needs to change. John Perkins, a kindred spirit, wrote the Foreword. John Perkins began his career as a “Chief Economist” at a major international consulting firm, advising the World Bank, United Nations, IMF, U.S. Treasury Department, Fortune 500 corporations, and countries in Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Middle East. He worked directly with heads of state and CEOs of major companies. He wrote about all this in his first book with the provocative title “Confessions of an Economic Hit Man” – one of the most eye-opening true stories you can ever read to find out how the world really operates, and of John's role in creating that, which he came to regret. The book was on the NY times best seller list for 73 weeks. John has lectured at Harvard, Oxford, and more than 50 other universities around the world. He has been featured on ABC, NBC, CNN, NPR, A&E, the History Channel, Time, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Cosmopolitan, Elle, Der Spiegel, and many other publications, as well as in numerous documentaries including “The End of Poverty?”, “Zeitgeist Addendum”, and “Apology of an Economic Hit Man”. John was was moved to be a founder and board member of Dream Change and The Pachamama Alliance, tremendous nonprofit organizations devoted to establishing a world that future generations will want to inherit. It is this work that has led to special recognition = such as the Lennon Ono Grant for Peace, and Rainforest Action Network Challenging Business As Usual Award. Economic Hit Man and his other books: “New Confessions of an Economic Hit Man”, “Touching the Jaguar – The World is As You Dream It”, “Psychonavaigation”, “Spirit of the Shuar”,  and “Secret History of the American Empire” have sold more than two million copies. Touching the Jaguar (2020) tells the story of John's journey from Amazonian shaman to economic hit man and then social/environmental activist.  The New Confessions of an Economic Hit Man (2016), a follow-up to the classic New York Times bestseller, brings the story of economic hit men and jackal assassins up to date and chillingly home to the U.S. It goes on to provide practical strategies for each of us to transform the failing global death economy into a regenerative life economy. The post The World is As You Dream it with Bill Pfeiffer and John Perkins appeared first on WebTalkRadio.net.

What are a suspect's rights during a police interrogation? Jason Y. Chan and John B. Seed of Seed, Chan & Associates LLC in Brighton break down all of the Fifth Amendment issues in this podcast, excerpted from MCLE's 10/15/2020 program: How to Advise Clients on 5th Amendment Issues. The full program is available as an on demand webcast or an MP3 here. Get 24/7 instant access to hundreds of related eLectures like this one—and more—with a subscription to the MCLE OnlinePass. Learn more at www.mcle.org/onlinepass.About the Speakers:JASON Y. CHAN is a partner at Seed, Chan & Associates LLC in Brighton where, along with attorney John Seed, he specializes in felony cases including human trafficking, drug trafficking, firearm charges, sexual assault, assault and battery, and other types of criminal charges. He works on cases in Worcester, Suffolk, Norfolk, and Middlesex counties. Mr. Chan graduated summa cum laude from Northeastern University with a bachelor of arts in political science and psychology. He then went on to attend the New England School of Law where he served as editor-in-chief for the New England Journal of International and Comparative Law. Mr. Chan also had his comparative paper published in the spring 2007 edition of the journal. He is admitted to practice law in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, and is licensed to practice in all state and federal courts in Massachusetts.JOHN B. SEED is a partner at Seed, Chan & Associates LLC in Brighton. He has been practicing criminal law in Massachusetts for his entire career, and previously served as a Suffolk County assistant district attorney supervising the Brighton District Court. He takes pride in giving every one of his clients the same intense focus to details, no matter the charge the client is facing. Mr. Seed handles cases in Suffolk, Plymouth, and Bristol counties, as well as the Cape and Islands. His years of training and courtroom experience in the areas of criminal law and OUI law have provided him with a unique skill set. Those skills, when combined with his hardworking and determined attitude, have contributed to an outstanding record in the courtroom.

In today's episode we are diving deep into spirituality and nature. I am so excited to bring you this episode as it has been one of my favourite conversations to record.  Catherine Potter is a marriage celebrant, yoga teacher, retreat facilitator, ecologist and spiritual teacher. As you will come to find she is incredibly passionate about her connection to spirit and earth and believes that by cultivating a spiritual practice closely aligned with nature she is able to bring more meaning and purpose into her own life and helps others to do the same. This episode dives into the history of the spiritual as well as introduces us to many different practices and the connection and intention behind each. I really enjoyed talking with Catherine and I hope that her words inspire you to dive a little deeper into your own practices. Let's dive in… Find Catherine: www.radiantsun.com.au Extra notes: Books David Abram The Spell of the Sensuous: Perception and Language in a More Than Human World (1996) Becoming Animal : an Earthly Cosmology (2011) Sharon Blackie   If Women Rose Rooted: A Journey to Authenticity and Belonging (2019)   James Endredy Ecoshamanism: Sacred Practices of Unity, Power and Earth Healing (2005) Earthwalks for Body and Spirit. Exercises to Restore Our Sacred Bond with the Earth (2002) Sandra Ingerman   Awakening to the Spirit World: The Shamanic Path of Direct Revelation (2019) Joanna Macy A Wild Love for the World and the Work of Our Time (2020) Bill Plotkin Nature and the Human Soul: Cultivating Wholeness and Community in a Fragmented World (2008) Journey of Soul Initiation: A Field Guide for Visionaries, Evolutionaries and Revolutionaries (2021) Mary Reynolds Thomson  Reclaiming the Wild Soul. How Earth's Landscapes Restore Us to Wholeness (2019) John Seed, Joanna Macy, Pat Fleming and Arne Naess Thinking Like a Mountain: Towards a Council Of All Beings (1988) David Tacey Re Enchantment (2000) Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee (editor)  Spiritual Ecology – The Cry of the Earth (2016) Robin Wall Kimmerer   Braiding Sweetgrass (2013)   Websites, Podcasts and Video  David Abram - wildethics.org/dynamic-media/ Sharon Blackie - sharonblackie.net/podcast/ Isla Macleod - Nature–based Spirituality  Joanna Macy –  joannamacy.net/main#multimedia The Work that Reconnects Bill Plotkin - www.animas.org/podcasts/ John Seed – Deep Ecology video   Miriam Rose Ungunmerr-Baumann - Dadirri -  miriamrosefoundation.org.au/about-dadirri miriamrosefoundation.org.au/about-dadirri/dadirri-film Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee - workingwithoneness.org/video/ Louise Wiggins – Chakra Yoga  The Earthing Movie: The Remarkable Science of Grounding

Joanna Macy begins by telling us about the possibility of experiencing the earth as our larger body, as our mother, as our grandmother as our source of everything, and how this sometimes manifests very intimately and sometimes as being held by the earth itself. Our conversation soon goes to Georgia in the former Soviet Union, and Joanna tells us about being stuck in an hotel room with a great big samovar emitting eucalyptus steam and a Russian orthodox religious man trying to guide her into being less of a monkey person and to rather become more of a kitten person - this was his metaphor for the great surrender that he think she needed in order to heal. The topic of surrender brings us to Rilkes poetry and from there to covid, which Joanna also sees as part teacher to us all - teaching us to stop, to slow down and see the natural worlds beauty around us. Joanna also shares how grateful she feels to be alive at this very time that is so precarious, how meaningful it feels, when every choice you make actually matters so greatly for the future of complex life on earth. She also tells us that if we are going to save the planet, we need to do it with joy, wonder and gratitude, not by complaining. “We have to be glad to be here if we want to make any change for the better. Only the joy and gratitude can awaken the imagination to do this.” She says. Joanna also takes great interest in my native Islands, The Faroe Islands, and in my childhood growing up there, and she tells us about her own childhood, both in Manhattan and on her grandfathers farm in upstate New York. She said that on her grandfathers farm everything came alive, and how she discovered that all life had its own being and mystery. We also speak about the late Norwegian philospher Arne Næs, who was a great inspiration to Joanna Macy with his deep ecology and his notion of the ecological self We speak about working with despair and other difficult feelings about the devastation of the planet, and about how easy it is to just Numb out. Which is where The Work that Reconnects comes in. And she speaks about how we need to take this work beyond anthropocentrism by truly opening the heart and mind. And how in this spirit she, together with John Seed invented the Council of all Beings. Joanna also tells us about her heartbreaking work at San Quentin prison. And we do ofcourse speak about her work with the Tibetan refugees and The Dalai Lama in India, and her time there with the peace core. And she tells us about the Khampagar monastery in Tibet and Tashi Jong monastery in Northern India. She describes that what she saw in the Tibetan refugees in the sixties, was that they had a much vaster experience of self than she had seen before, and that that was the root to their happiness. The tibetans taught her mindfulness practice, which she says has sreved her so well ever since. And she does tell us about the notion of no-self, of no separate self, but that we are more of a stream of experience, and how we can watch this process of being taking place. And she takes great joy in the buddhist teaching, that all we have to do, is just to see through the self. That is the greatest gift. Joannas greatest message is for us to learn to open to everything, to the planet as our own larger body, and she says that life wants to live itself through us, taste itself through us. And she ends by telling us how much joy she takes in being breathed by mother earth, our larger body! Joanna Macy's website: www.joannamacy.net My website: www.duritaholm.com

We discuss: Limitations can help creativity, What podcasts podcasters listen too, Artist statements, Writers and curators writing artist statements, Art academia, Art competitions, Always research opportunities, Have goals, Sharon Louden, The overuse of the terms 'artist' and 'curator', The importance of tenacity in an art career, Teaching art online, Being a parent and an artist https://www.erikabhess.com https://www.ilikeyourworkpodcast.com About Erika b Hess is a painter recognized for her use and interest in color. Her work has been exhibited nationally including Prince Street Gallery in NYC, Last Projects in Los Angles, CA, and Boston Center for the Arts in Boston, MA. In 2017, she had two solo exhibitions, “The Line Between the Past and the Present,” at Musa Collective, Allston MA and “Viewing Light,” at Newton Free Library, Newton, MA. Her work has been featured in various publications including, Poets and Artists, Fresh Paint, Charles River Journal and Post Industrial Complex, a book released by the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit. Her work was selected by John Seed to be featured in, “Fifty Memorable Artists 2015”. She has served on panels such as Cleveland Institute of Art's, “Feminism Now: Exposing the Truth”, Boston University's, "Creative Capital: Building Collaborative Art Space" and was a visiting juror for Dayton Visual Art Center's 2016-2018 biennial. She created the podcast, I Like Your Work and is a co-founder of MUSA Collective, an artist-run collective in Boston. She received her MFA from Boston University. Please be sure to visit our Patreon page and help support the podcast by being part of the conversation. The more money raised, the larger the global reach we can offer you: https://www.patreon.com/thewisefool For more information about the host, Matthew Dols http://www.matthewdols.com

We discuss: Limitations can help creativity, What podcasts podcasters listen too, Artist statements, Writers and curators writing artist statements, Art academia, Art competitions, Always research opportunities, Have goals, Sharon Louden, The overuse of the terms 'artist' and 'curator', The importance of tenacity in an art career, Teaching art online, Being a parent and an artist https://www.erikabhess.com https://www.ilikeyourworkpodcast.com About Erika b Hess is a painter recognized for her use and interest in color. Her work has been exhibited nationally including Prince Street Gallery in NYC, Last Projects in Los Angles, CA, and Boston Center for the Arts in Boston, MA. In 2017, she had two solo exhibitions, “The Line Between the Past and the Present,” at Musa Collective, Allston MA and “Viewing Light,” at Newton Free Library, Newton, MA. Her work has been featured in various publications including, Poets and Artists, Fresh Paint, Charles River Journal and Post Industrial Complex, a book released by the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit. Her work was selected by John Seed to be featured in, “Fifty Memorable Artists 2015”. She has served on panels such as Cleveland Institute of Art's, “Feminism Now: Exposing the Truth”, Boston University's, "Creative Capital: Building Collaborative Art Space" and was a visiting juror for Dayton Visual Art Center's 2016-2018 biennial. She created the podcast, I Like Your Work and is a co-founder of MUSA Collective, an artist-run collective in Boston. She received her MFA from Boston University. Please be sure to visit our Patreon page and help support the podcast by being part of the conversation. The more money raised, the larger the global reach we can offer you: https://www.patreon.com/thewisefool For more information about the host, Matthew Dols http://www.matthewdols.com

Patreon and Paypal link – In this inbetwenisode themed episode I am talking with artist, art teacher and art writer John Seed in California. John answers your questions about his book, “Disrupted Realism,” and all the other questions you sent in. To find out more about John’s book Disrupted Realism go to: https://www.amazon.com/Disrupted-Realism-Paintings-Distracted-World/dp/0764358014/ John’s Insagram […]

20th April. Interviews: Vivien Langford    Podcast: Andy BrittHOLDING A BRAVE SPACE and EMPATHY CAFEGUESTSRita Gyorrfy- The Empathy Cafe. Raven Karin Steiniger - Deep Ecology and XR Regenerative CultureRev Glen Loughry - Indigenous leader, minister and artist.Professor Helen Berry- Expert in public mental health during climate catastropheDr Sebastian Rosenberg - ANU Centre for Mental Health ResearchKavisha Mazzella - Italian songsThe pandemic has shown that a crisis can bring us together or push us apart. These interviews were recorded when the bushfires were still front of mind. At the people's climate assembly in Canberra with bushfire smoke billowing on the horizon, we heard about the  mental suffering of victims and firefighters as well as how resilience was sustained and supported.Helen Berry talks about community building as the foundation for Mental health.She says "people need to be encouraged in preparation for what is actually happening " not in denial. Checkout her article about how it can be done: The pearl in the oyster: climate change as a mental health opportunity. Sebastian Rosenberg says that pro active outreach to vulnerable people is essential. He describes the Christchurch Earthquake response as his shining example of reaching out effectively. Rev Glen Loughry is a Wiradjeri man and artist. He says we live in a reciprocal relationship with the land. If songlines are interrupted by a mine for example, indigenous knowledge transmission is ruptured. We cut the lands capacity to talk to us leading to dysfunction. He was speaking at an ARRCC forum on the Bushfires and the Climate Crisis at St Michael's Uniting church in Melbourne. Extinction Rebellion understands that activism is tough.People burn out, but in a regenerative culture emotional support is there for the asking.Raven learned about Deep Ecology from Joanna Macy and John Seed. I was moved in her workshop at how many young people were particularly grief stricken by the death of so many animals in the fires. You can't just move on from that. Raven talks about creating a sacred space where we can confront our fears,anger and grief to build a stronger community. The Shambhala  Warrior story  shows how we can dismantle the mind made weapons that are destroying our biosphere just as we can dismantle the fossil fuelled infrastructure.The tools are insight and compassion. Joanna Macy writes in Active Hope,  " There is no such thing as a self made person. When floods or fires sweep away our illusions of self sufficiency we are reminded how much we need each other. How much we depend not only on people but on the web of life......we treat the rest of life with a different kind of respect when we consider that without it, we wouldn't be here at all." The pandemic has only made these ideas more dramatic. Rita Gyorrfy tells us about non violent communication. When exhausted fire fighters or people who have lost everything cannot reach out, she gives us ideas about how to reach in.Her empathy cafes have gone on line since we spoke and she is building Eco resilient communities wherever she goes. She says " hearing the story of the " other" affects and heals our own story.  Martin Luther King's comment from prison in BirminghamAlabama, only has more resonance today as Corona Consciousness touches us all." We are all caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. What affects one affects all directly".   

I am really excited to share this episode with you guys because it is with the art writer John Seed. I’m sure many of you have read or follow John Seed on social media. I’ve been following his writing for a while now and also enjoyed how he was championing figurative painting during a time when it wasn’t as popular. In fact, John is speaking today, Friday, March 13 at Kalamazoo Institute of Art on David Park and has a show he curated up at Sue Greenwood Gallery in Laguna Beach, Table for Four. I will be sharing images from that show and of David Park’s work. I was actually planning to go to the discussion at KIA, which I talk about in the interview, but decided at the last minute, not to due to the coronavirus. I hope all of you are staying healthy and making the decisions you need to make for your own health and practice etc.   John Seed is a California-based arts writer, painter, curator, and retired professor. Seed is a 7th generation Californian who grew up in Westside, Los Angeles. He began making art while attending Stanford University, where he earned a BA in Studio Art and an MA in Fine and Studio Art at UC Berkeley. He began writing about art for his local newspaper, which led to a position writing for The Huffington Post. Since then Seed has written for Harvard Magazine, Hyperallergic, and Christie’s Hong Kong to name a few. He has published several books and he is a frequent speaker and panelist. In our conversation, we discuss his formative experiences, how he started to write, his time teaching and his advice for artists. John was so wonderful to connect with and talk to and is a true advocate for the arts and artists.   RESOURCES: I Like Your Work Podcast Studio Planner Instagram Submit Work Online Exhibition-Drowned Neon Rose Observations on Applying to Juried Shows   Curated Exhibition: Table for Four Sue Greenwood Gallery KIA: David Park Retrospective Disrupted Realism My Art World: Recollections and Other Writings Driftwood on a Heaving Sea: Zhang Daqian in the Modern West  http://www.johnseed.com/ https://www.instagram.com/johnalbertseed/

We are all connected to the earth in countless ways. Not only do we rely on the nutrients and chemicals produced by the myriad natural cycles going on around us, but we also have deep emotional and spiritual connections to the planet too. Sometimes it is easy to forget how intimately linked we are and we see ourselves as somehow outside of nature. In this episode, we take some time to reestablish our awareness of this connection by focusing specifically on our biological dependencies on the environment. You will be taken through the different steps of some of the cycles that keep us alive today: the nitrogen, phosphorus, carbon, and hydrological cycles. You’ll discover the magic of how each of these processes filter nutrients in ways that make these otherwise unreachable elements accessible to humans. In every description, we will also learn how each cycle is under threat by human-made processes, which equates to humans harming themselves at the end of the day. Toward the end, we devote some time to the inspired prose of Joanna Macy, John Seed, writers who have woven the interconnectedness between humans and nature into intricately beautiful imagery. We hear an excerpt from Richard Louv’s Last Child in the Woods book that reflects on the changing relationship that children have with their surroundings. Follow along as we remind ourselves of the divine complexity that nourishes us biologically each day, and how our emotional and spiritual senses intuit the threat to this connection.Key Points From This Episode:An introduction to the themes of human connection to nature discussed in this show.Ways that humans can connect to their surroundings: emotional, spiritual, biological.A look into the un-obvious natural origin of daily objects and foods we need very much.Our need for nitrogen which can only be accessed after being processed by soil bacteria.Ways we disrupt nitrogen: burning fossil fuels, agricultural practices, sewage discharge.The value of phosphorus for the flourishing of plant life.Algal blooms which occur through the accelerated man-caused release of phosphorous.The way carbon is integrated into all life: through photosynthesis.A major concern: the rising release of carbon through human processes.How unwanted carbonic acid in the ocean reduces its pH levels.Another problem: areas of primary productivity land are being used for human needs.Questions over when a looming tipping point signifying system collapse will come.The intimate need humans have for water to drink and feed their crops.Ways humans intervene with the hydrological cycle and the harmful effects this produces.Moving prose by John Seed and Joanna Macy about human oneness with nature.Moral concerns that are seen to arise from an intuitive sense of our connection to the earth.The position of children, who are both disconnected from nature and aware of its vulnerability.Links Mentioned in Today’s Episode:Kristina HunterJoanna MacyJohn SeedThinking Like a MountainRichard LouvThe Last Child in the Woods

This past summer there was a brief flaring of concern about rainforest destruction in the Brazilian Amazon. Panicked headlines portrayed the whole region as on fire, the President of France took the President of Brazil to task, and ‘the lungs of the planet” were said to be risk. Brazil’s Foreign Minister responded by saying that the number of fires were not above average. This was presumably meant as reassurance, as well as defiance, It was, in fact, a tricky claim - there had been past years when there were even more fires, though the number in 2019 was double the number of the year before - but, even if it had been true, it would not have been that reassuring. The Brazilian rainforest has been on fire for a long time, as I think the following series will make clear.For two years in the mid-1960’s I lived near the little town of Sibu in the Malaysian state of Sarawak on the island of Borneo, a vast region of tropical rainforest. By the later 1980’s I was hearing, again and again, of a logging boom there. Not only were valuable tropical hardwoods being sold so cheap that they ended up in shipping pallets and other similarly wasteful uses, but forest peoples were losing their homes and livelihoods. Similar stories were coming from Brazil and elsewhere. I began to investigate, and the result was this five-hour effort, broadcast in 1989. It gathered stories from Sarawak and Brazil - but also from Canada where acid rain was believed responsible for the declining health of maple forests. - and it reflected on forest ecology and forest conservation through the world.Thirty years later, it remains germane, although many details may be out-of-date. It also contains a number of inspiring accounts of resistance from around the world. One caution concerns the conclusion of the fifth and final program in the series that maple decline in Canada was a direct result of acid rain. New scientific evidence, presented in the year after these broadcast, suggested that damage to roots sustained during an unusually harsh winter in the later 1970’s was also playing a key role in maple decline. This theory received some confirmation, when the maple bush began to recover out of proportion with any declines in acid rain. This demonstration that scientific theories are always, more or less, provisional became a lasting lesson to me and seems relevant at a time when the expression “settled science” has become something of an ideological cudgel.A transcript of the series is available on the transcripts page of this site. The lineo-up of speakers was as follows:#1 - José Lutzenberger, Barbara Zimmerman, Tom Lovejoy, Kenton Miller, Adrian Forsyth, Richard Evans Schultes, Susanna Hecht, Dan Janzen#2 - Job Dudley Tausinga, Theodore Panayotou, Bruno Manser, Mat Sylvan, Martin Khor, Randy Hayes, Peggy Hallward, John Seed, Neville Wren, Martin Teni#3 - Simon Dick, Catherine Howard, Susanna Hecht, Peggy Hallward, Darrell Posey, Guujaw#4 - Steve Schwartzman, Susanna Hecht, Robert Kasten, Ted Macdonald, Gary Hartshorn, Theodore Panayotou, Bill Burch, Kenton Miller#5 - Michael Herman, Arch Jones, Dick Klein, Dale Willows, Tom Hutchinson, Robert Bruck, Bernard Ulrich, Don Goltz, Ian MacLachlan

To mark the 40th anniversary of Australia's first forest blockade at Terania Creek in 1979 Earth Matters presents a program in which musicians Brenda Liddiard and Lisa Yeates reflect on the songs that came out of that event as well as from later protests at Grier's Scrub and Mount Nardi. The role of music in securing victories, unifying blockaders and spreading the word, and the way in which the songs lived on through further protests, is also discussed. The songs heard during the program are drawn from the Lock On CD, which was compiled by Andy Parks, and a documentary about the Nightcap campaign which was produced by John Seed in 1982.Guests: Brenda Liddiard (www.brendaliddiard.co.nz) and Lisa Yeates.Some of the music heard in the program, and much more besides, can be listened to and purchased via the 'Lock On! Songs To Save Australia's Forests' compilation bandcamp page. All proceeds go to North East Forest Alliance- https://nefa.bandcamp.com/releasesEarth Matters #1205 was produced by Iain McIntyre

Intro www.rebeccacrowell.com www.squeegeepress.com www.facebook.com/messystudiopodcast Notes When we are in the midst of things, it is easy to lose sight of the big picture of our own journey as an artist. We tend to focus on the day to day, the ups and downs of whatever we are currently working on, as well as on future goals and plans. But every now and then it's good to appreciate the path we've walked on to this point, how one thing has led to another. Prompted by several recent Facebook posts an artist having a retrospective exhibit gave thanks to everyone who had helped and supported her along the way an artist was thinking about how her initial experiments with a particular medium led to a whole series and the sale of that first playing-around painting. Whether you're just starting out or have been making art a long time you can look back and connect any number of dots (—when this particular thing led to that—when this opportunity presented itself—when someone encouraged you to try something. ) Reminds me of the Talking Heads song, Once in a Lifetime: “And you may ask yourself, well how did I get here???” True for many aspects of life Esp. for art career may be helpful when things are not going well, discouraged or having rejection to deal with You build a history that can keep you on track/guard against discouragement/give you confidence Keep track of that history in notes, journals, sketchbooks, older work--even unintentionally you leave a long trail of where you have been May be interesting to write or think about more directly: Pondering the journey/questions Where did the art urge originate for you? Who were your mentors? Did you search for them deliberately or did that relationship evolve? At what point did you start to call yourself an artist? Looking back were there breakthrough paintings or insights that pointed the way? What have been the hardest times to keep going and how did you push through? Any/all of these can be explored in journaling or conversation -- helps you appreciate how complex /challenging this path as an artist can be. Give yourself credit for persevering Give others credit for their help and support Nobody does this alone Gratitude—for the people who really see you and understand your needs as an artist—rare and important—family, friends, mentors and teachers Realize that you can be that support for other artists on their path Seeing your art journey as an unfolding story—the big picture—helps you see past any current difficulties. What recurs? ebbs and flows in success, times of focus and motivation/times of searching and transition Path of a particular work of art that ended up being sold or recognized in some way. The chain of events in retrospect can seem amazing—you never know at the start. (personal story of Red Bog—recognized by John Seed—developed rapport with him/wrote forward to our book. Painting itself= warped panel, eventually purchased by gallery owner for personal collection, happy ending.) Path of a particular choice of medium or other aspect of form—cold wax for me Seeing the big picture also helps you talk about and describe your work in a more meaningful way. Not that you have to give your whole history but introspection generally leads to insights. Our personal voice is the result of our journey so think about how aspects of your art life have contributed-- How have your intentions or goals for your work changed over time? I notice that over time my ideas open up, become more expansive in what I will consider doing, as a result of growth of confidence, a more free feeling. But this only came after years of more narrow focus. Looking back I see how important it was to have distinct focus. Cyclical aspects—what recurs? Themes in your work, aspects of form or content that find new expression over time? Compare a current work with one from ten years ago—what is consistent? Giving an artist talk—a topic for another podcast, but others do find the story of our journey interesting. How have your experiences as an artist led to your current work? Promotion: We all do have a story and story engages other people…what about your own journey could be used to promote your work? Be a little cautious not to lose professional image but indicating how you have devoted yourself to your work is good. Wrap-Up: Losing sight of the big picture is easy to do when we all have so much on our minds in the day-to-day aspects of our art practice -- often thinking ahead to the future but not appreciating how far we've come. But our story as an artist is what creates our personal voice and it is something other artists and the larger art world often finds interesting

John Seed is the founder and director of the Rainforest Information Centre in Australia, which has engaged in the protection of rainforests worldwide. Since 1979, he has been involved in direct actions, which have resulted in the protection of the Australian rainforests. He has since created numerous projects protecting rainforests throughout South America, Asia, and the Pacific. In addition, he is an accomplished songwriter, filmmaker, and author, writing and lecturing extensively on deep ecology and conducting re-Earthing workshops for the past 25 years. John co-authored “Thinking Like a Mountain – Towards a Council of All Beings” with Joanna Macy, Pat Fleming, and Arne Naess. His most recent project with the Rainforest Information Centre focuses on the protection of Ecuador’s rainforests in the Los Cedros Biological Reserve. Join us as Ayana and John explore topics of ecological identity, embodied wisdom, moving beyond the individual, the tenets of Deep Ecology, and the Rainforest Information Centre’s recent work in Ecuador with the Los Cedros Biological Reserve. Music by Y La Bamba http://www.ylabamba.com/

Join us for a fun co-interview with artist Erika b Hess who recently launched her own podcast, I Like Your Work. We talk about artist residencies (I just got back from France at the time of recording), feminism, and being a painter, podcasting and entrepreneurship. Erika and I also discuss the importance of fostering our own artist communities and using our voice as artists. Erika b Hess is a painter based in Boston recognized for her use and interest in color. Hess’s work has been exhibited nationally including Prince Street Gallery in NYC, Last Projects in Los Angles, CA, and Boston Center for the Arts in Boston, MA. In 2017, she had two solo exhibitions, “The Line Between the Past and the Present,” at Musa Collective, Allston MA and “Viewing Light,” at Newton Free Library, Newton, MA. Her work has been featured in various publications including, Poets and Artists, Fresh Paint, Charles River Journal and Post Industrial Complex, a book released by the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit. Her work was selected by John Seed to be featured in, “Fifty Memorable Artists 2015”. She has served on panels such as Cleveland Institute of Art’s, “Feminism Now: Exposing the Truth”, was a visiting juror for Dayton Visual Art Center’s 2016-2018 biennial, and is a recurring juror for the Walker Art MFA Prize at Boston University. Hess is a co-founder of MUSA Collective, an artist-run collective in Boston, and received her MFA from Boston University. I Like Your Work is dedicated to interviewing creative people from painters and artists to collectors and curators. People who are involved in a creative lifestyle and also in building community within the arts.  You can see images of artist work below on the blog or on Instagram at ilikeyourworkpodcast.

Donate to The Permaculture Podcast Online: via PayPal Venmo: @permaculturepodcast As I was reminded of in a recent conversation with Emma Huvos, we protect what we love. As the ethics of permaculture call for us to care for Earth and people, then practicing permaculture can be a political act requiring activism. In this conversation facilitated by guest host David Bilbrey, John Seed shares his work of nearly 40 years to preserve landscapes all over the world, beginning first in New South Wales, Australia to save rainforests. He and others in those early days created the many direct actions now used by activists and protestors all around the world including tree sitting or chaining oneself to industrial equipment. From there he moves to his current work with the Rainforest Information Centre and the Los Cedros Reserve to save the rainforests of Ecuador. Find out more about Los Cedros at https://reservaloscedros.org/, and the Rainforest Information Center at rainforestinformationcentre.org. Given all the names and organizations John mentioned you'll find a number of additional links in the resource section below, including to the Save Los Cedros petition so you can get involved. -- I posted a question on the Facebook page for the show back in early November asking “Should permaculturists get involved in politics?” And received a number of responses that ranged from, “Politics and permaculture = incompatible” to “Absolutely. Everyone should get involved in politics. If we leave it only to those who are attracted to it, we get exactly the current situation.” My own personal perspective and why I was interested in David's interview with John rests closer to that second answer: we should all be involved in politics and action. As a permaculture practitioner, my focus continues to be on the philosophical underpinnings of this holistic systems-thinking approach paired with the social, economic, and, yes, political change we can create through intentional design. Though I see the world through this lens of political and social work, I also understand that we should engage in the activities we are called to. We only have so much time in our lives to work on the issues that matter to us. If you have a limited interest in politics but live in a democratic society with elections, vote. If you want to go a step further and help preserve rainforests, get involved with the Rainforest Information Centre. If you feel working on, or in, politics holds the most possibility for you to affect change, become a lawyer, run for office, or work to enact policy changes at your municipal, state, province, national, or the international level. One one of the things I love most about permaculture is the breadth of possibilities available to us. Use your knowledge and ability to create the world you want to live in. While you're doing that, know that there are tens of thousands of others doing the same thing, in their own way, alongside you. -- If there is any way I can help connect you to the resources you need, answer your question, or help you get involved, email, call or write. The Permaculture Podcast The Permaculture Podcast Also be sure to look for the show on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter. From here, the next episode is an interview with Maddy Harland, the editor of Permaculture Magazine, to discuss her new book Fertile Edges, and look at her more than 25 years in the center of the permaculture community. Until then, take care of Earth, yourself, and each other. Resources: Save the Los Cedros Reserve Petition Los Cedros Reserve (Reserva Los Cedros) / Jose DeCoux Rainforest Information Centre Rainforest Action Network Earth First! Worldwide Earth First! Journal Dave Foreman (Wiki) Mike Roselle (Wiki) Randy Hayes (Foundation Earth biography) Friends of the Earth Gary Snyder (Poetry Foundation) AusAID - Australia's Aid Program Work That Reconnects Network - Joanna Macy

Donate to The Permaculture Podcast Online: via PayPal Venmo: @permaculturepodcast How do we limit the damage of the greatest terrestrial environmental disaster ever, climate change? By drawing down carbon.   How we do that, and the most effective ways possible, form the base of this conversation with Eric Toensmeier, as he shares his ongoing research about the impacts of agriculture and how we can use agroforestry to increase productivity and sequester carbon. As an overview of the global state of carbon farming, Eric also discusses the reality of what we can do, through dietary practices and engaging in our own food production, to create change. For those of you inclined towards policy and top-down approaches, you'll hear plenty of possibilities of how you can move the conversation in your community and with your legislators. Find out more about him at perennialsolutions.org, and The Carbon Farming Solution at ChelseaGreen.com.   Visit our partner: Food Forest Card Game   Given the range of topics touched on regarding climate change, the resources below include not only those that Eric mentioned, but also a number of previous interviews with Dr. Laura Jackson, Keefe Keeley of The Savanna Institute, small-scale farmers Lee and Dave O'Neill at Radical Roots, and the market farmer Jean-Martin Fortier, as well as Jerome Osentowski of Central Rocky Mountain Permaculture. In the conversation with Jerome, he even touches on the impacts he's seeing of climate change after his many years in the high altitude environment of Colorado where CRMPI calls home, and the focus of his decades of work on greenhouses. As I put together the notes for this show, I'm left thinking about how to move forward in a meat-reduced world and have questions I need to answer. How viable is meat on leftovers? What systems do we need to implement to capture food waste so it gets to animals instead of the refuse bin? I should have expected to be left with more questions after speaking with Eric, so am going to keep digging into this and will share more as I find it. I would like to have Eric back sometime to continue the conversation about permaculture and food production on marginal land. If you have questions about this or anything else we covered in today's conversation, leave a comment in the show notes below, or get in touch. Email: Or you can send me a letter if you prefer something analog: The Permaculture Podcast The Permaculture Podcast From here, the next conversation is from guest host David Bilbrey, who sat down with John Seed to talk about Saving the Los Cedros Biological Reserve. Until then, spend each day creating the world you want to live in by taking care of Earth, yourself, and your community by capturing carbon wherever you can. Resources The Carbon Farming Solution Project Drawdown Perennial Solutions The Center for Agroforestry at the University of Missouri Agroforestry at Virginia Tech IPCC - Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Trees on Farms by RJ Zomer, et al. (PDF) Savanna Institute Steve Solomon - Gardening When It Counts John Jeavons - Grow Biointensive Legal Pathways to Carbon_Neutral Agriculture by Peter Lehner and Nathan Rosenberg (PDF) Diet for a Small Planet Interviews for More Information Modern Agricultural Systems with Dr. Laura Jackson The Savanna Institute with Keefe Keeley The Market Gardener with Jean-Martin Fortier Radical Roots Farm with Dave and Lee O'Neill The Forest Garden Greenhouse (Jerome Osentowski)

John Seed is an art writer, art and art history professor, and an artist in his own right. In our conversation we discuss his formative experience learning under Nathan Oliveira, his time working in galleries, what it was like hanging paintings by renowned artists like Jean-Michel Basquiat and Eric Fischl, and so much more. It was an honor to speak with such a gracious and talented artist and writer, I know you will have a great time learning about his progression from art teacher to art writer as well as all the great insights and lessons he has to share from his years in the art world. From Art Teacher to Art Writer It’s been said that every step we take in life is one of arrival. To hear John Seed explain how he found his way from being captivated with art at a young age, to working in art galleries, then teaching art and finally to writing about the subject is an engrossing story. Though each step along the way you really get the sense that John was meant to tell the story of artists because of his deep respect and genuine fascination with the creative process. If you are anything like me, spending time with John’s story will help fan the flames of creativity and passion for the art that you were meant to create. John’s First Assignment as an Art Writer Have you ever had on of those moments where it seems that the stars aligned to set you on a particular course? When I heard John Seed describe his first assignment as an art writer it seemed like a date with destiny type of encounter. John shares how he found a painting at a thrift store that grabbed his attention, he purchased the painting and proceeded to sell it on Ebay for a modest profit. It turns out that the buyer on Ebay was a private art dealer - John and this individual struck up a friendship. Soon after, this art dealer paid John $1000 to write an article about a well known artist in Hawaii who committed suicide at a young age. Over the course of the next year, John wrote an in depth article that ended up winning the Society of Professional Journalists Award for the best art article published in Hawaii that year. Leaving a Legacy as an Art Writer We all want to leave some sort of mark on the world. Most of us want the world to have been a better place because of the art we’ve created and the way we’ve treated others. Each one of us has to find that unique legacy that we want to leave behind. John Seed’s legacy rests primarily but not exclusively in his work as an art writer and an art teacher. He relishes in the fact that he has been able to have an impact on his art students in a similar manner that teachers like Nathan Oliveira had on him as a young student. But when John thinks of his legacy, he goes to his writing. He wants his impact to revolve around the public understanding and appreciating representational painters and other artists he knows who aren’t getting the type of exposure to the general public that he’d like to see. Tips for Artists who want to tell their story Many artists love to express their personal story through their artwork. As beautiful and symbolic as that expression can be, more and more artists are seeking to share their personal story through the written word. Art writer John Seed wants to help artists express themselves through the exercise of writing their story. John suggests that artists start by sharing their story on their websites. This can be done in big ways and in subtle ways depending on the comfort level of the artist. John also encourages artists to spend time with other artists and interview them to hear other artists tell their stories in their own words. Outline of This Episode [0:15] My introduction to today’s guest, John Seed. [1:30] John shares how he started getting involved with art. [8:30] Lessons John learned studying under Nathan Oliveira. [18:00] John’s journey to start writing about art. [26:30] From teaching art history to writing about art. [32:00] John’s first writing assignment and facing cancer. [37:30] John’s legacy in writing. [41:30] Advice for artists who want to tell their story. Other artists mentioned on this episode Nathan Oliveira Kyle Staver Frank Lobdell Richard Diebenkorn Mark Rothko Philip Guston Elmer Bischoff Joan Brown Phyllis Shafer Eric Fischl David Salle Jean-Michel Basquiat Jon Swihart Wayne Thiebaud Resources Mentioned on this episode John’s website: www.johnseed.com John’s Twitter page: twitter.com/johnalbertseed John's writings on Bay Area Art and Artists John’s Huffington Post Blog Gagosian Art Gallery The Anderson Collection John's Hyperallergic Blog Movie: The Great Race Connect With Antrese On Facebook On Pinterest On Instagram On Twitter

John Seed = Deep Ecology = One of Australia’s most articulate communicators of, and about, the web of life. John gets us in touch with the psychological dimension of our environmental crisis to get beyond the denial that most people greet the news - as to what is happening to our world – and if we are in denial about the terrible plight that our planet’s in –then our ability to celebrate the beauty of nature and the glory of the cosmos is severely hampered – because it’s resting on a very unstable foundation. John’s work over many decades has been in collaboration with Joanna Macy from the USA. They encourage people to recognise that our deepest feelings of despair and anguish about what’s happening to our world, are an integral part of us being able to celebrate and glory in the wonders of nature and the wonders of creation. That if we are in denial and are unwilling to feel and to share our pain as to what’s happening to our world, then we are also unable to truly celebrate the beauty, that surround us. This has led him to take people who are needing to be healed ‘on a journey’ so as to let them confront their hurt and fears and - from a  psychological standpoint reconcile and rectify the trauma that they are witnessing across the face of nature today. This is an Australian story of a seminal conflict between the forest industry and the conservation movement over rainforests in northern New South Wales. Battle for Forests The battle over logging the rainforests of Terania Creek in 1979 started the Rainforest War in New South Wales. Some claimed Terania Creek to be the last un-logged rainforest in Australia. The war was a clash of values and cultures, but three important lessons came about from this conflict. These being the influence of the media, the role of science and ecology, and the spirituality of forests. This ecological battle started a process that saw the eventual closure to logging and reservation in national parks of 900,000 ha of native forest, or about one third of the productive State Forests of New South Wales. This halted the logging and sparked the NSW government's decision to gazette the remaining rainforest in NSW as a National Park. John states “that even though we won that battle there are so many other battles...and in lots of ways they got worse." "We still find it really hard to imagine that it was the first time people actively got out and protected the rainforest." However John soon realised that in spite of the success of saving that forest and the wildlife that abounded, in looking at what was happening all around our planet - for every forest that was being protected, a thousand forests were being lost. And he saw clearly that there was no way we could save our planet at one forest at a time. Addressing the underlying Psychological challenge. That unless we address the underlying psychological or spiritual disease that afflicts modern humans one that somehow allows us to imagine that we can somehow profit from the destruction of our own life support systems – and that these actions are very enjoyable and rewarding for the participants - it would be of no particular significance to the future of the world. So John began to study to understand why do we behave is such a self-defeating manner?   He mentions: Paul Ehrlich  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_R._Ehrlich   The famous American ecologist and population commentator who said “we are sawing off the branch that we are sitting on.” Clearly this indicates a psychological problem no matter how much the timber in that branch might be worth – it can’t profit us to do this. And through this enquiry he came upon a philosophy of nature called Deep Ecology. Deep Ecology: And this is where he could understand why we were behaving in this way. Deep Ecology was coined by the Norwegian - the late Arne Naess https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arne_Næss the emeritus Professor of Philosophy at Oslo University who said the underlying all the symptoms of the environmental crisis was the illusion of separation between ourselves and that of the natural world. The illusion … and this has grown into anthropocentrism or human centeredness. The idea that we human beings are the centre of everything. This view sees us being the crown of creation - the measure of all being … and that nothing has any value except human beings – nothing is intrinsic. Things can have instrumental value if they are a resource for us. But really, we do not look at life as being a web or, if we do happen to see life as a web – we are the spider in the centre of it. We are still unable to understand the science of ecology and the wisdom of indigenous people reveals we are but one strand in that web and if we destroy the other strands we destroy ourselves. Connection to the Earth via Ceremony John’s workshops look to how most indigenous societies practice and reiterate the connection between human beings and that ‘all our relations’ are not severed. Every indigenous culture has ceremonies and rituals that allow the human family to celebrate our connectedness and to nourish that connectedness. And these ceremonies involve the entire community and the children are there and are watching and are learning this. Indigenous people have this knowing that we are rooted and draw energy and nourishment from the living earth and enact it with reverence for nature in all their ceremonies – so as to never forget their roots. (When were you last bare footed walking on the grass of the earth?) For 30 years John has been developing methods and skills to move us from a social identity to an ecological identity. This interview covers Wetko – the mind virus that has infected materialist man and what we need to recognise - to break free. That the First Nation American peoples - saw the very connection to Mother Earth when recently here in NZ one visitor put on a small campfire, a dry branch of wood and reverently stated “to all our relations” – that the tree is of life, giving us light and warmth as well as taking in Co2 and giving us oxygen back. Everything is connected. We are all in a grand cycle called life and it is this wonder of the web of life that is threatened by our foolish behaviour today.… The Council of All Beings An experiential process of deep connection – That Joanna  Macy & John designed back in the mid eighties – and the book ‘Thinking like a mountain towards the Council of all Beings… translated onto a dozen languages  - Now in Mandarin www.joannamacy.net/ Originally Joanna taught “despair and empowerment “ and it is now called “honouring our pain for the world.” Once certain boundaries are set – people are invited to share their deepest feelings of anguish, despair and horror at what’s happening to our world. This is a rare opportunity because if anyone even hinted at expressing their feelings around this subject - under ordinary circumstances people instantly want to change the subject as everyone feels threatened when such feelings are openly expressed. But, as people are taken through this exercise – what follows is empowerment and we discover that (listen to the broadcast that John eloquently shows us a way out) - the end result is a celebration that then becomes possible! Thomas Berry’s name is mentioned http://thomasberry.org/ A Catholic  theologian, who instead of focussing his attention on the Heavens to find God, became a geo seer –  studying  the Ancient Greek word Geo – where we get as a prefix …for geology, geography, geometry, geodesy, geopolitics  etc. Our planet. The study of the earth … Is another way to see our connection to the earth in such another way as to experience a deeper relationship and link to the earth. http://drewdellinger.org/  Poet who wrote the poetic introduction that John introduced us with at the state of this interview. Also http://www.genesisfarm.org/about.taf  Sister Miriam MacGillis of Genesis Farm that is dedicated to understanding the Universe and Earth as a single, unfolding process. That Genesis Farm offers diverse and innovative experiences that inspire a comprehensive approach to personal and social change. As a community facility it is open to all who are interested in exploring the sacredness of the land, their mission and their work.   Sister Miriam MacGillis created a process called the cosmic walk – and this is what John’s workshop will do on this coming Saturday night. (1st April 2017 at Kawai Purapura. See below) A spiralling story of the creation and the evolution of life. Which everyone participates in. IndiaJohn then tells of his work in India, which as a country he says has given him so much inspiration to awaken his spirituality - that:   Bruce Lipton’s name comes up again with his work in India around organics and farming. http://www.organicindia.com/  and Bharat Mitra. This became a movement in organic and biodynamic farming methods that were developed and practiced. The founder's mission being to offer safe effective herbal products to the world and he is the driving force behind an organic revolution that started with ORGANIC INDIA and is now taking root all across India.  Re forestation of the sacred mountain in South India https://naturedesignsjohnfranci.com/projects-implemented/ In 1988 John, who is a founder and Director of the Rainforest Information Centre (RIC) was asked to assist in the co-ordination of the Annamalai Reforestation Society’s project to green the sacred mountain of Arunachala in South India. Now the mountain reforestation has advanced a long way since then. There is a good collection of different organisations working together to ensure the the success of the project.  http://www.theforestway.org/greening/overview.html Land rights for the Poor of India. John has been assisting these people for some time. In December 2015, Rajeev wrote to John that the campaign to establish land-rights for the Katkari and other Adivasis was finally bearing fruit and “will help resolve the insecure village land issue in at least 600 – 700 Katkari villages”. http://www.rainforestinfo.org.au/projects/india/rajeev3-16proposal.htm The next steps are tree plantings to improve the fertility and productivity of their land. However, suitable native tree seedlings were not available and they are establishing a nursery “to ensure multiplication of diverse native plant species (fruits, uncultivated foods, vegetables, medicinal plants, fibre plants, sacred plants, flowering plants, natural dyes, etc)” This interview of John Seed shows a dedicated man working for the earth. Big Data Info:  http://rainforests.mongabay.com Johns Itinerary for Auckland New Zealand 2017 MARCH 23 “What is Ecological Identity?” Auckland University of Technology MARCH 24 “Fostering Ecological Identity” Auckland University of Technology MARCH 25-26 talks and workshops at the Voices of Sacred Earth festival, Auckland Kawai Purapura Mills Lane Albany. MARCH 28 “Weaving Together Maori Earth Wisdom with Deep Ecology” with Maikara Ropata & Sika, Pititahi Marae , Waiheke Island APRIL 1-2 “A weekend of Deep Ecology“ APRIL 3 Facilitator Training, Auckland For the best information go to https://workthatreconnects.org/event/john-seed-in-new-zealand/  

Join Linda Riesenberg Fisler and Michael Pearce as we discuss the role of new media on representational art. Our guest for this show will be John Seed, art blogger for the Huffington Post, and Deanna Piowaty, owner/editor of Combustus. What is new media? It is your website, social media, your blog--all the new technology where you can experience art. Do you blog about art? We talk about art blogging and our guests provide some insight about how art blogging has impacted representational art. Hear useful information about how social media effects exposure of art and artists. What is the role of past art critics? We touch on this as well as many other aspects.Helpful links:TRAC2014: This is part of the TRAC2014 series of interviews. The Representational Art Conference will be held in Ventura California on March 2-5. www.TRAC2014.org for more information.John Seed of the Huffington Post:http://www.huffingtonpost.com/john-seed/Deanna Piowaty: http://www.combustus.com/13/(Like this show? Want to know about upcoming shows? Go to www.LindaFisler.com and sign up for our free newsletter (upper right hand corner of the website). The newsletter contains information on upcoming shows! Thank you!)Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/LindaRiesenbergFisler)

Institute of Historical Research Secularisation: Or Otherwise in Eighteenth-Century England? John Seed (Roehampton University) British History in the Long Eighteenth Century seminar series

John Seed is an Australian environmentalist and director of the Rainforest Information Centre which successfully campaigned to save the sub-tropical brainforests of New South Wales, other forests in Tasmania and across Australia and beyond.He is also a prominent figure in the deep ecology movement including eco psychology and is co-creator of the Council of All Beings, and other re-earthing processes.An activist to his last breath, John encourages us to keep hurling ourselves at this question of how do we usher in a new change of consciousness and to awaken to who we are … whilst furthering our connection within the web of life and the planet as a whole, that of deep ecology - Gaia.Listen how he uses Facebook to fundraise globally, calling on the spirit of voluntarism as one of the few hopes the world has. Encouraging the locavore diet, eating food from your local area, as against importing it from the other side of our planet. Including, connecting weekly into a local food cooperative called 'Food Connect' to purchase a box of fresh organic veggies.(The NZ equivalent is Ooooby)Transition Bondi where John again connects into is an extension of Transitions Townshttp://www.transitionsydney.org.au where they have as an example, their own bees and an aquaponic system.Our equivalent here in NZ is www.transitiontowns.org.nzListen to a man who remains a leading activist around the globe, tell stories that empower and encourage us to instigate positive change to restore the earth and bring community closer together. Be it India, Africa, and Ecuador.In 1995 he was awarded the Order of Australia Medal by the Australian vGovernment for services to conservation and the environment.For more information about deep ecology experiential workshops, please see; http://www.rainforestinfo.org.au/deep-eco'Everything is connected to everything else'

John Seed is founder and director of the Rainforest Information Centre in Australia. www.rainforestinfo.org.au Since 1979 he has been involved in the direct actions which have resulted in the protection of the Australian rainforests. He has written and lectured extensively on deep ecology and has been conducting Councils of All Beings and other re-Earth ing workshops  […] The post From Despair to Ecological Empowerment appeared first on Future Primitive Podcasts.

Episode 36: John Seed is the founder and director of the Rainforest Information Centre in Australia. Seed is an environmental activist, rainforest advocate, bard, and filmmaker. Seed co-wrote the book, Thinking Like A Mountain.

Ruth Rosenheck is a Canadian who has been living for some time in Australia where she is Co- Dir. with John Seed of the Rainforest Information Center. They work on issues of the environment and environmental justice and one aspect of their work is leading workshops, based on the work of Joanna Macy as well. They are called by different names-- The Work that Reconnects, Deep Ecology, Despair and Empowerment. This interview was conducted during a workshop in S. Oregon and includes interviews with a few of the participants as well. Ruth led, in order to train us to lead ourselves, a workshop she calls “deep ecology” because it focuses on how we’re part of the earth and when we destroy the web of life we’re destroying our own home—ie, when we toxify the water, cause the extinction of other species, etc. we’re weakening the fabric of life, the biological web that we depend upon. Ecological collapse is looming before us in ways we have no idea about. It is normal to feel anxious or afraid or sad or angry about the injustices that occur in the world. There’s a strong taboo in this society about showing feelings so by the time we’re adults we are likely to push the feelings down and judge ourselves for having them. We’re so numbed we don’t even notice we have feelings. If we do we may think we’re weird and feel isolated and self-doubting, wonder what’s wrong with us, go to therapist who may make it a “personal” problem and we leave with anti-depressants. Rather it could be seen that these feelings are a natural and healthy reaction to what’s going on with the destruction of our earth that we love,. These feelings can be seen as part of our ancient intelligence of instinct and intuition that enabled us to survive time and time again. We could walk out of therapist’s office inspired to work instead of depressed and trying to adjust to a dysfunctional society. The work of Despair and empowerment is to be present and witness these feelings of fear and sadness about the earth in ourselves and each other and acknowledge them as part of our wisdom and vision and, in fact, they can bring us great inspiration and vision to act. Joanna Macy says we can lose our intuition if we don’t let ourselves feel. We’re discouraged from feeling strongly and considered insane if we’re either too sad or too happy. In fact, it is healthy, crucial and revolutionary to feel and not push it away—and if you feel it it’ll move right on along and out. Joanna’s book on this work is entitled “Coming Back to Life”. We are wrong to think we can necessarily “solve” everything but we can do the best that we can—both inner and outer work—with love is the best that we can do.Rosenheck has also produced a film, “Earth, Spirit, Action”, which she describes as a 15 minute prayer for the earth that asks for a radical change to occur planetary-wide. It includes herself, Starhawk, Vandana Shiva, Mathew Fox and John Seed and herself speaking on Deep Ecology, Living Democracy and Revolution in Consciousness.Toward the end of the show Lilith Rogers speaks of how happy she was during the weekend to be able to talk about and perform her one woman play about Rachel Carson, who wrote in the early ‘60’s and is often referred to as the mother of the environmental movement. Carson is the author of Silent Spring, The World Around Us, and the breakthrough book called “The Sea Around Us. She talked about the dangers of pesticides, particularly DDT and it got the public focused on those dangers and their use and DDT banned. Tina talks about We Moon--a calender produced at this land and a must have book for many women who want the ecofeminist voice. Another woman talks about making a cob studio on their land as self-sustaining as it can be.Recorded September 2008To hear/see Joanna Macy speaking about her book, Coming Back to Life, & her specific group work go to http://www.turntowardlife.tv/ and/or get the book.