Our Future Beyond History: Weaving The Strands Of A Luminous Tapestry

A    Live Webcast Event, Sunday, June 12, 12 Noon to 4 PM MDT Registrants will be limited to 600 on a first come first serve basis. Register Now! Metahistory Quest, The Marion Institute and Transitions Radio Magazine invite you to participate in this first in a series of live, real time, cyber-events, broadcast in high quality audio fidelity, on the Internet: We will address issues critical to the current turning-point in global awareness. As keynote to this event, each guest participant will respond to this question: What is the single most essential action that will lead to a positive future? In discussing this question, we will explore how to imagine and actually create a future “beyond history,” that is, beyond the current “script” of events dictated by the dominant cultural paradigm, as interpreted by the media, government, education, and religion. There will be Q&A and discussion periods with listeners live, on-line, globally. An active computer monitor will display various resources, factoids, guest bios, and take email input and questions from registered listeners. Music bridges will integrate the program segments. Our Future Beyond History will be hosted by Joanna Harcourt-Smith of Metahistory.org and Alan Hutner of Transradio.com; with an acclaimed line-up of guest presenters including (in alphabetical order): Our Future Beyond History Guest Presenters
David Abram, cultural ecologist and philosopher, is the author of “The Spell of the Sensuous: Perception and Language in a More-than-Human World,” for which he received the Lannan Literary Award for Nonfiction. An accomplished sleight-of-hand magician who has lived and traded magic with indigenous sorcerers in Indonesia, Nepal, and the Americas, his work focuses upon the cultural causes and consequences of environmental disarray; upon the experiential effects of technological change; and upon the ecological dimensions of sensory perception and of language.	Medea Benjamin, co-founder of CODEPINK, a women initiated grassroots peace and social justice movement, is a powerful and charismatic force in human rights activism. She is Founding Director of Global Exchange, an international human rights organization dedicated to promoting environmental, political and social justice. Medea is also co-editor of “Stop The Next War Now: Effective Responses to Violence & Terrorism” with Jodie Evans of CODEPINK. www.globalexchange.org www.codepinkalert.org	Chellis Glendinning is a psychologist, specializing in trauma recovery, an award-winning writer and a social-change activist. She has been nominated for a Pulitzer Prize and won a National Federation of Press Women 2000 Book Award. Her most recent book is, “CHIVA: A Village Takes on the Global Heroin Trade.” Chiva, is a true story that weaves the personal and political; revealing the relationship between colonization, the global drug trade, community drug abuse and the importance of reclaiming sustainable culture. www.newsociety.com
Thom Hartmann is a Project-Censored award-winning, best-selling author of 15 books, and the host of a nationally syndicated, progressive, 3-hour radio show, heard across America via Sirius Satellite, in 29 states on radio stations coast to coast and on cableradionetwork.com, and worldwide on RadioPower.org. Tom is also is an internationally known speaker on culture and communications, an author, and an innovator in the fields of psychiatry, ecology, and economics. His latest book is, “What Would Jefferson Do? A Return To Democracy.” www.thomhartmann.com	Julia Butterfly Hill lived in the canopy of an ancient redwood tree, called Luna, for 738 days. Her two-year vigil informed the public that only 3% of the ancient redwood forests remain and that special interests will not adequately protect forests and species. Julia reflects, “By standing together in unity, solidarity and love we will heal the wounds in the earth and in each other. Her latest book is “One Makes the Difference: Inspiring Actions that Change Our World.” www.circleoflife.org	John Lash is co-founder and principal author of Metahistory’s Website and is one of the foremost exponents of the power of myth to direct and shape an individual’s life, as well as history itself. Described as the true successor of Mircea Eliade, John is a lifelong student of world mythology, Tantra, Buddhism, Gnosticism, the pre-Christian Mysteries, alchemy and astrology. His next book, soon to be released by Chelsea Green Publishing is, “Dreaming Sophia: Gnostic Vision and Recovery of the Earth Mysteries.” www.metahistory.org
Deena Metzger is a writer, storyteller, educator and healer who has taught and counseled for over thirty-five years. She has developed therapies involving “Healing Stories” and leads Daré circles in healing communities which creatively address life threatening diseases, spiritual and emotional crises, as well as community and political disintegration. Her most recent book on the topic is “Entering the Ghost River: Meditations on the Theory and Practice of Healing.” www.deenametzger.com	Jeremy Narby is an anthropologist, author and activist who works to empower the indigenous people of the Amazon in their struggle to preserve their territories and their cultures. He is the author of “The Cosmic Serpent: DNA and the Origins of Knowledge,” a first-person narrative of scientific discovery that opens new perspectives on biology, the knowledge of indigenous peoples, anthropology, and the limits of rationalism. His latest book is “Intelligence in Nature: An Inquiry into Knowledge.” www.nouvelle-planete.ch	James O'Dea is the President of the Institute of Noetic Sciences (IONS), an organization that explores the frontiers of consciousness to advance individual, social, and global transformation. He was previously Executive Director of Seva, a nonprofit organization dedicated to international health & development issues and before that he was the Director of the Washington, DC office of Amnesty International. During the past five years, James created and co-leads a series of dialogues called "Compassionate and Social Healing." www.noetic.org
Nina Simons is co-executive director of the Bioneers, an organization that seeks to unite nature, culture and spirit in an Earth-honoring vision, with economic models founded in social justice. Their annual conference features scientific and social innovators offering models for restoring the Earth and communities. Named as an Utne Reader "Visionary," Simons is an accomplished communicator, strategist and producer who is passionate about uniting the diverse factions of the progressive movement. www.bioneers.org	Agnes Baker-Pilgrim is the oldest living female member of the Rogue River Indians, Takelma Band, originally from Southern Oregon. She is one of 13 Grandmothers of the International Council of 13 Indigenous Grandmothers gathered as an alliance of prayer, education and healing for the earth, the children and all her inhabitants for the next seven generations and beyond. www.sacredstudies.org
Co-hosts and Producers Bios
Joanna Harcourt-Smith is a published poet, writer, story teller and deep ecologist. She is a correspondent and moderator for the website Metahistory.org, with a mission for co-cultivating a new future myth about humanity; a story of our own making that aligns our hearts and minds to intimacy with Gaia, the living earth. She is also internationally known as Joanna Leary, formerly Timothy Leary’s wife and “paramour” during the early 70’s, when she and Timothy wrote several books together, including, “What Does Women Want?” www.metahistory.org	Alan Hutner is the host and producer, of Transitions Radio Magazine (TRM), now in its 22nd year, a Santa Fe based new paradigm radio program offering featured guest interviews and special features on socially conscious issues and resources for a better world with a mix of relevantly themed music. The 3-hour broadcast, airs Sunday mornings live and is archived on the internet with a worldwide following. Alan is also involved in developing, producing and distributing various multi-media projects for radio, the Internet, TV, print and direct consumer mediums. www.transradio.com	Elizabeth Rose has a diverse background in media, teaching, and as a healing arts practitioner. She is co-producer, and co-host of Transitions Radio Magazine (TRM). Elizabeth is also an acknowledged Wisdom Keeper in the fields of parenting and natural birthing and is a skilled, sensitive educator. She has attended 85+ births as a Midwife Assistant & Certified Labor Support Doula and she has worked with hundreds of pregnant and post partum women as a Licensed Massage Therapist. www.transradio.com
Credits Sponsored by The Marion Institute in collaboration with TransitionsMedia Executive Producers, Ian Baldwin, Michael Baldwin, Philip Baldwin Producers, Joanna Harcourt-Smith, Alan Hutner, Elizabeth Rose Director, Elizabeth Rose Webmaster & Webcast Director, Jim Craig Operations Engineer, Bill Georgevich Creative Consultant, John Lash Production Supervisor, Gerard McTernan Studio Administrator, Tony Curtis To register for this    webcast event, please click here.