Podcasts

Go Lie Your Heart at the Ground and Listen!

All new Earth Conversation Podcasts are here!

In this series of interviews, we will explore how to restore our communication with Earth and all of our other-than-human brothers and sisters. The conversations are an exploration of how my guests experience this communication; how the communication is through their lens and feels in their being, as well as, their experiences and hopes for the future.

The intention is to provide the Earth and all og her other-than-human communities a space to be listened to and heard.
It is also my hope that these conversations will inspire others to delve deeper into a conversation with Earth.

Podcasts are available here on this page and on SoundCloud and iTunes.

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Podcast Calendar

March 2020 – Earth Conversation Podcast with guest Cynthia Jurs

Cynthia Jurs is a Tibetan Buddhist lama and a Dharmacharya in the Order of Interbeing of Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh whose source of refuge and spiritual inspiration is Mother Earth; Gaia. In 1990, she made a life-changing pilgrimage to meet the hermit and meditation master, Kushok Mangden Charok Rinpoche, a 106-year-old lama living in a remote cave in Nepal from whom she received the practice of the Earth Treasure Vases when she asked him “What can we do to bring healing and protection to the Earth?” 

For thirty years, Cynthia has been building a global community committed to planetary healing and collective awakening in partnership with elders and activists around the world. Cynthia teaches an innovative blend of engaged buddhism and sacred activism through the Earth Treasure Vase Global Healing Project, the Open Way Sangha in Santa Fe, New Mexico and the international Gaia Mandala Community. Through her nonprofit, Alliance for the Earth, Cynthia has worked in Liberia, west Africa with former combatants and the women who stopped a war, building peace, teaching mindfulness and co-founding the Peace Hut Alliance for Conflict Transformation. Cynthia’s book, Summoned by the Earth, is forthcoming. 

Learn more about Cynthia’s work here: Earth Treasure Vase Global Healing Project.


26. December 2019 – Earth Conversation Podcast with guest Tiokasin Ghosthorse

Tiokasin Ghosthorse portrait

Tiokasin Ghosthorse, Cheyenne River Lakota Nation of South Dakota, is an international speaker on Peace, Indigenous and Mother Earth perspective. 

A survivor of the “Reign of Terror” from 1972 to 1976 on the Pine Ridge,  Cheyenne River, and Rosebud Lakota Reservations in South Dakota and the US Bureau of Indian Affairs Boarding and Church Missionary School systems designed to “kill the Indian and save the man,” Tiokasin has a long history of Indigenous activism and advocacy. He spoke as a 15-year-old at the United Nations – Lake Geneva, Switzerland.

He is an active board member of Simply Smiles, Green Cross International, and The Center for Earth Ethics. Tiokasin speaks frequently at venues such as Yale University’s School of Divinity, Ecology and Forestry focusing on the cosmology, diversity, and perspectives on the relational/egalitarian vs. rational/hierarchal thinking processes of Western society.

Tiokasin was a 2016 Nominee for a Nobel Peace Prize from the International Institute of Peace Studies and Global Philosophy.
Selected for 2016 Native Arts Cultural Foundation Fellowship, and a Nominee for a National Endowment for the Arts National Heritage Fellowship 2018,  National Native American Hall of Fame Nominee 2018, and 2019 Indigenous Music Award Nominee for “Best Instrumental Album” for “From the Continuum.”

A master musician and a teacher of magical, ancient and modern sounds, Tiokasin performs worldwide and has been featured at the Cathedral of Saint John the Divine, Lincoln Center, Madison Square Garden, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Apollo Theatre, and the United Nations, as well as at many universities and concert venues. Tiokasin serves on boards of several charitable organizations dedicated to bringing non-western education to Native and non-Native children. Tiokasin is “a perfectly flawed human being” and a Sundancer in the cosmology of the Lakota Nation. 

Tiokasin is also the host and producer of First Voices Indigenous Radio



27. November 2019 – Earth Conversation Podcast with guest Lisa Podosin

Lisa Podosin started her professional career with horses when she moved to Byron Bay in 2007 and became an accredited Level 1 General Coach with Equestrian Australia.

She was fascinated with connecting with horses using less and less gear. Her passion led her to work with many top trainers such as John Chatterton, Klaus Ferdinand Hempfling, and Mark Langley.

What began as an inquiry learning from experts who connect with horses in a compassionate way evolved into a journey of personal growth and transformation and eventually into a book. These extraordinary people paved the way to an alternative path that is as much about connecting with horses as it is about becoming the best version of yourself in the process.

Ultimately, Lisa is interested in people radiating their authentic selves and interacting with horses as both an advocate as well as a student.

Her main interest is supporting people to break through their current beliefs and create the life of their highest passion through their relationship with horses.

Read more from Lisa on her website One With Horses.



28. September 2019 – Earth Conversation Podcast with guest Ilarion Merculieff

Ilarion (Larry Merculieff) was raised in a traditional Unangan (Aleut) way and received his Unangan name Kuuyux. The name is given to one person in each lifetime amongst his people. Kuuyux means an arm extending out from the body, a carrier of ancient knowledge into modern times, a messenger. Today he is living the legacy of his name.

Larry Merculieff has over five decades of experience serving his people, the Unangan of the Pribilof Islands and other Indigenous peoples around the world in a number of capacities. His reach has been broad and varied—a few of the positions he’s held include: City Manager of St. Paul Island, Commissioner of the Alaska Department of Commerce and Economic Development, President and CEO of Tanadgusix Corporation, Chairman of the Board of The Aleut Corporation, Co-chair of the Japan-Alaska Fishery Cooperative, Chair of the Alaska State Bond Committee, Vice-chair of the Alaska Industrial Development and Export Committee, and Deputy Director of the Alaska Native Science Commission. 

From 2000–2003, Merculieff served as the Director of the Department of Public Policy and Advocacy in the Rural Alaska Community Action Program. As Director, Merculieff led the largest subsistence rights march in Alaska’s history and emceed the subsistence rally after the march. The march was instrumental in protecting Alaska Native subsistence rights, which were legally contested by the State of Alaska, to fish for salmon along Alaska’s rivers. He also successfully led a four-year effort to gain federal and state recognition of Alaska Native subsistence rights to catch and eat halibut throughout coastal Alaska. 

Merculieff is co-founder and former chairman of the Alaska Indigenous Council on Marine Mammals; former chairman of the Nature Conservancy, Alaska chapter; former co-director of the Native American Fish and Wildlife Society, Alaska chapter; as well as co-founder of the International Bering Sea Forum, the Alaska Forum on the Environment, and the Alaska Oceans Network. Merculieff served on the National Research Council Committee on the Bering Sea Ecosystem and presented at numerous scientific conferences. He chaired the Indigenous knowledge sessions (that involved representatives from 80 nations) at the Global Summit of Indigenous Peoples on Climate Change, chaired the scientific working group for Snowchange that involved representatives from 8 Arctic nations focused on climate change, and served as the U.S. chair for the 2008 North American Gathering of Indigenous Peoples for the Healing of Mother Earth in Merida, Mexico

Close to Merculieff’s heart are issues related to cultural and community wellness, traditional ways of living, Elder wisdom, climate change and the environment. Having had a traditional upbringing, Merculieff has been, and continues to be, a strong voice and activist calling for the meaningful application of traditional knowledge and wisdom obtained from Elders in Alaska and throughout the world in dealing with modern day challenges. His present work is with a new organization he has founded called the Wisdom Weavers of the World, www.wisdomweavers.world to take the messages of Elders from throughout the world to global attention.  

Merculieff has shared Elder wisdom locally, nationally, and internationally, and his writings and interviews have appeared in such publications as the Winds of Change, YES, Red Ink, Alaska Geographic, Smithsonian, National Geographic, Cultural Survival, and Kindred Spirits. He has given keynote addresses at such forums as the National Academy of Sciences Annual Meeting, Pan-Pacific University President’s Association, the national convention of American Indian Students in Science and Engineering, White House Conference on the Oceans, and the World Congress of Ethnobiology. He also has lectured on traditional ways of knowing and Indigenous Elder wisdom at such places as Columbia University where he is currently a visiting scholar, University of Montana-Missoula, University of Colorado-Boulder, Seattle University, University of Alaska Anchorage, University of Alaska-Fairbanks, Portland State University, and Oregon State University. Merculieff conducted interviews and talks in such media such as Al Jezzera, BBC, Native America Call-In, and National Public Radio.

Merculieff was featured in National Wildlifean “American Hero”, having called national and international attention to major adverse changes in the Bering Sea ecosystem, resulting in closure of a major bottom fishery trawl zone in the Bering Sea. The closure remains today.

Merculieff’s life and teachings are featured in a chapter of a book titled:Native Men of Couragepublished by Second Story Press. He co-authored a book about traditional worldviews and cosmology entitled “Aleut Wisdom:  Stories of an Aleut Messenger”that was released October 18, 2009 by French publisher Les Intouchables. His lifelong efforts on behalf of his people and the environment have been honored with the Buffet Finalist Award for Indigenous Leadership (2007); the Alaska Forum on the Environment Environmental Excellence Award for lifetime achievement (2007); the Rasmuson Foundation Award for Creative Nonfiction, 2006); the Alaska Native Writers on the Environment Award from the Alaska Conservation Foundation (2004) and the Wisdom Fellowship Award given by The Sacred Fire Foundation (2017). 

Merculieff published a book about wisdom he has learned locally, nationally, and internationally from Indigenous Elders and others from different cultures through the lens of his life experiences, titled Wisdomkeeper: One Man’sJourneytoHonortheUntoldHistoryoftheUnanganPeople, North Atlantic Books (available on Amazon). He co-authored a book titled: IndigenousWaysofTeachingandLearningandDifficultDialogues, University of Alaska Anchorage. His current book is called:  Perspectives on Indigenous Issues: Essays on Science, Spirituality, Partnerships, and the Power of Words, also available on Amazon.

You can also read more on grill.org or on wisdomweavers.world.

https://soundcloud.com/earthconversations/inconversationwithillarionmerculieff


16. July 2019 – Earth Conversation Podcast with guest Dr Jude Currivan

Dr Jude Currivan

Jude integrates leading edge science, research into consciousness and universal wisdom teachings into a wholistic wholeworld-view. This underpins her work aimed at enabling transformational and emergent resolutions to our collective planetary issues, raising awareness and empowering fundamental change and sustainable solutions to global problems.

She holds a PhD in Archaeology from the University of Reading in the UK researching ancient cosmologies and a Masters Degree in Physics from Oxford University specialising in cosmology and quantum physics.

She is the author of six non-fiction books currently available in 15 languages and 25 countries including CosMos – a co-creator’s guide to the whole-world co-authored with Dr Ervin Laszlo. Her first fictionalised e-book Legacy is available at amazon.

Her latest is The Cosmic Hologram- In-formation at the Center of Creation, the first book of the Transformation trilogy and which won a silver Nautilus Book Award for 2017. She is currently writing book two Gaia: Her-Story.

Her international corporate career culminated in her being the Group Finance Director of two major international businesses. She has extensive experience and knowledge of world events, international politics and global economic and financial systems and has spoken on transformational reforms in the UK, US, Europe, Japan and South Korea.

For the last seventeen years she has also travelled around the world in service to planetary and collective healing, some of which is described in her books The 8th Chakra, The 13th Step and most recently HOPE – Healing Our People & Earth.

In 2010 she was presented with a CIRCLE Award by WON  Buddhism International cited for her ‘outstanding contribution towards planetary healing and expanding new forms of consciousness’.

In 2014 she was invited to become a member of the Evolutionary Leaders Circle that includes Deepak Chopra, Barbara Marx Hubbard and Jean Houston.

In 2017 she co-founded WholeWorld-View as a growing community of global change -makers serving the understanding, experiencing and embodying of unity awareness tofacilitate conscious evolution and the collective healing of our relationship with Gaia.

You can also read more on Jude’s personal website here…



21. June 2019 – Earth Conversation Podcast with guest Katarina Felicia Lundgren BA, MiMer

Earth Conversations Podcast with Katarina Felicia Lundgren

Katarina’s passions are understanding and working with equines and humans in therapy, so it can benefit both clients and horses.

She is involved in research and educational projects to spread knowledge, awareness of ethics, welfare and best practices when we work with Equines in Therapy. The research she is involved in focuses on equine-equine and equine-human interaction. She is currently writing her master’s thesis on equine-human interaction in Equine Assisted Psychotherapy. 

She is an Equine Professional who works in teams and offers experiential learning and therapy with horses. She travels the world to educate about the teamwork, the equine’s role and welfare needs and the Equine Professional’s role, need of knowledge, awareness and responsibility in Equine Assisted Activities and Therapies.

She is a co-founder and chair of the board in MiMer, a small independent education, research and treatment center. MiMer is a co-organizer of the Minds-n-Motion “A Horse is a Horse, of Course?!” International Symposiums on Equine Welfare and Wellness and the publisher of the following compendiums with the same name.