Poet Shaman Eddie Bartok-Baratta / Samana
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Visionary writer, musician, and sculptor Eddie Bartok-Baratta performs his powerful poetry, plays flute, and discusses his amazing life, trauma and violence, and his creativity.
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- Art
- Healing Trauma
- Music
- Poetry
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I remember Ed, Eddie, and Edward.
It’s really swell to hear ” Eddie”s” voice again.
It sure is.
Eddie calls himself “Samana” or the “Northampton Group Sacred Elder” these days. Has anybody here read these articles? Now he says that he speaks with Gandhi and Christ! This is one sick man, this guy.
http://www.gazettenet.com/2010/12/17/his…
http://www.kirbstone.net/low-income-hous…
Calling someone “sick” in a comment is a violation of both civility and the spirit of Madness Radio. I decided to leave up this comment however, because I think it says much more about the comment writer than it does about Samana / Eddie.
Samana / Eddie’s activism in Northampton isn’t something I know firsthand, but I did a bit of reading to find out more of what he’s been up to since this interview was recorded several years ago.
Here’s the unbroken link to the Hampshire Life article:
http://www.dailyhampshiregazette.com/print/297017
Maybe, like Christ, Samana is getting persecuted because he’s onto something.
— Will Hall
The link to the article about Samana was broken again – I am not impressed by the Hampshire Gazette’s interest in transparency and open debate if a major magazine article tends to disapper from its online archives after the subject becomes the center of controversy. So I posted the Gazette story on the Madness Radio site here: http://www.madnessradio.net/files/SamanaHampshireLifeNewspaperHisOwnOrder-SelfAppointedMonkGazette.pdf
Good to hear Edward’s voice again; I haven’t seen him since college, ca. the late 90s.