Welcome to Twice 5 Miles Radio. James Navé (www.jamesnave.com)here going solo while I explore the intersections of art, culture, and spirituality. 

This week, I dive into an engaging discourse sparked by a unique invitation from Maria Masycheva (www.mariamasycheva.com), an event organizer based in Berlin, who invited me to participate in UNISONO, a virtual symposium bringing together brilliant minds from music, dance, painting, literature, and theater. 

Maria explained that at this gathering, we'll ponder six provocative questions about the role of art and spirituality in our future. Inspired to understand the question better, I decided to turn this introspection into an episode. Join me as I attempt to answer the following questions, exploring the essence of art, spirituality, and our collective responsibility in this transformative age:

1) How can artists guide us in our evolution?

2) What must we do to elevate the value of art?

3) How can we help others to incorporate spirituality into their lives?

4) What do spiritual mind and spirituality mean, and can we survive 
without them?

5) How can we raise our awareness and creativity and spread it through 
our art?

6) How does art help us endure and transform the unbearable into bearable?

Art From the Unbearable to the Bearable with poet and manuscript coach James Navé

Provocative Conversations from Twice 5 Miles Radio is a podcast devoted to candid, often surprising exchanges with artists, thinkers, and cultural instigators who speak from the core. Each episode dives beneath the surface to explore the stories and questions that shape our lives.

I’m James Navé—poet, storyteller, educator, and longtime creative collaborator. With an MFA from Vermont College of Fine Arts and decades of teaching experience across the globe, I help writers and performers tap into their authentic voices through public speaking, creative writing, and the Imaginative Storm method, which I co-developed with Allegra Huston.

My most recent book, 100 Days: A Poetic Memoir After Cancer (3: A Taos Press), documents a hundred days of healing and poetic reckoning. I’m also co-author of Write What You Don’t Know and How to Read for an Audience—practical guides for anyone seeking to speak and write with more truth and power.

I’ve directed festivals, hosted literary salons, taught with Julia Cameron, and memorized over 600 poems. I still believe in the power of a well-told story, the light through stained glass, and the open road with nothing but a podcast and a windshield full of stars.

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