KPFA - The Visionary Activist Show
1,039 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 1 month ago - ★★★★★ - 77 ratingsDedicated to “anything we need to know to have a democracy”: Democratic Animism, Pragmatic Mysticism, Applied Divination, Renaissance of Reverent Ingenuity. Hosted by Caroline Casey. Her guests are allies contributing to a culture of reverent ingenuity. Critique and Solution.
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The Visionary Activist Show – Entheo*Anarcho*Animism
May 16, 2024 14:00 - 59 minutes - 68.6 MBJames Fadiman courtesy of Scott Kline Entheo*Anarcho*Animism / Endogenous Indigenuity Caroline is wildly enthused to welcome James Fadiman, PhD Who writes: “The work most worth doing for me has been helping myself and others remember how interwoven we are with the rest of the natural world. Only when we act out a dark fantasy of separation do we harm the very world in which we are enmeshed. Once awakened, exploitation of others, the destruction of any eco- system and that ultimate obscenity –...
The Visionary Activist Show – Flowers are better than bullets
May 09, 2024 14:00 - 59 minutes - 68.6 MBAs Kent State be humming with crucial pertinence, for us all now, we welcome Laurel Krause, the sister of Allison Krause, who was murdered that day. For the last 20 years Laurel Krause has made her home at the Allison Center for Peace on the Mendocino coast of Northern California. Her sister Allison was one of the ‘Four Dead in Ohio,’ killed as she protested the Vietnam War in the May 4, 1970 Kent State Massacre. On the 40th anniversary, Laurel co-founded the Kent State Truth Tribunal at www....
The Visionary Activist Show – Good Medicine and Rewilding
May 02, 2024 14:00 - 59 minutes - 68.6 MBCaroline welcomes Seán Pádraig O’Donoghue (encore encore) with his ally, Jesse Wolf Hardin, conjurer of the Good Medicine Confluence. Jesse Wolf Hardin is an influential author, ecosopher, ecological and societal activist, personal counsel, graphic artist, musician, and historian – a champion of both human and bio diversity, as well as of nature’s medicines. Wolf was a leading organizer of and presenter for Earth First!, becoming a featured presenter at hundreds of conferences and universit...
The Visionary Activist Show – Remembering, Re-Storying
April 25, 2024 14:00 - 59 minutes - 68.6 MBGreg Sarris (credit Christopher Coughlin) Caroline re-welcomes Greg Sarris, Chairman of the Federated Indians of Graton Rancheria and Board Chair for Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian. Always – re-storying the landscape… His most recent work: Told in the classic style of Southern Pomo and Coast Miwok creation stories, The Forgetters story cycle about the people who have forgotten their roots and consequently hurt the Earth and each other. Masterfully infusing magical realis...
The Visionary Activist Show – Biomimicry (Replay)
April 18, 2024 14:00 - 59 minutes - 68.6 MB“Biomimicry,” as sine qua non for life on planet… Again we are drawn to replay this most fantabulous show from the archives with Janine Benyus. Benyus describes herself as “Scientist, animist, poet,” founder of Biomimicry Institute. “Let’s learn democracy from bees! Before our arrogance destroys the bees, who truly know how to vote.” “Range voting.” Grief and ingenuity…innovation & limits From Fall 2008 – but so powerfully pertinent to now… www.JanineBenyus.com The post The Visionary Activi...
The Visionary Activist Show – Anarcho *Entheo * Astro *Animism Radio
April 11, 2024 14:00 - 59 minutes - 68.6 MBRadical Magazine Spiraling forth Liberating Ideas (Moon 4+ Gemini sabian symbol) Anarcho *Entheo * Astro *Animism – Caroline welcomes return of Eddy Nix, who ” plays a bookseller in real life and has many projects operating in the dream world. He is founder and operator of Driftless Books and Music in Viroqua, Wi and was a founding teacher at Youth Initiative High School, and has a radio show on community radio station WDRT every Sunday. He identifies as a rhizome, or a verb, depending on c...
The Visionary Activist Show – Pre-Eclipse Radio
April 04, 2024 14:00 - 59 minutes - 68.6 MBWe’re in the Dark o Moon field of April 8th’s eclipse, traditionally a time of laying low, convening back-stage to guide the course of culture…. (Today’s radio guest, unavailable at the last minute, Caroline flys solo, weaving the themes of now) Tis a fluctuating quirky pre-eclipse shadowy field in which we be navigating…. So let’s work with it… Tomorrow, Eclipse magic for dangerous times, Caroline will be joined by the indefatigable Diane Wilson for Eclipse Texas Zoom Council (join by donati...
The Visionary Activist Show – March 28, 2024
March 28, 2024 14:00 - 59 minutes - 68.6 MBCaroline hosts her long-time deep joy-ful co-cahooter…. Amikaeyla…..Chantress, drummer, calling in the Orishas, Executive Director / Founder, ICAHSI – International Cultural Arts & Healing Sciences Institute “Amikaeyla Gaston is an amazing vocalist and percussionist who comes from the Washington DC area. She has studied, recorded with, and shared the stage with many award winning artists, including Take 6, Sweet Honey In The Rock, Baba Olatunji, Mickey Hart, Gil Scott Heron, Wyclef, Ubaka Hil...
The Visionary Activist Show – May Co-operation Eclipse domination
March 21, 2024 14:00 - 59 minutes - 68.6 MBMay Co-operation Eclipse domination Caroline welcomes Erica Gies – to guide our rogue species back to collaborative Earth Citizen manners (aka animism)…. by asking “what does water want?” …. Erica Gies is an award-winning independent journalist who writes about water, climate change, plants and critters for Scientific American, The New York Times, Nature, The Atlantic, The Guardian, National Geographic, The Economist, Washington Post, bioGraphic, Wired, and more. Erica is a National Geographi...
The Visionary Activist Show – Weaving the Themes of Now
March 14, 2024 14:00 - 59 minutes - 68.6 MBSt Patrick*Stormy Daniels*Equinox*Eclipse- Caroline re-re-re cahoots with Seán Pádraig O’Donoghue, as the Celtic Car Talk Gaias, with this week’s puzzler (so many) Seán Pádraig O’Donoghue is an herbalist, writer, and teacher, and an initiated Priest in two traditions. He lives in the mountains of western Maine. Seán’s approach to healing weaves together the insights of traditional western herbalism and contemporary science. He regards physical, spiritual, and emotional healing as deeply int...
The Visionary Activist Show – The Land in Our Bones
March 07, 2024 14:00 - 6 minutes - 7.75 MBDark o Moon – before March 10th New Moon and Ramadan… Land Sovereignty…. Weaving guiding myth with Fund Drive show, honoring The Land in Our Bones: Plantcestral Herbalism and Healing Cultures from Syria to the Sinai by Layla K Ferghali… also learning about, and dedicating to composting, the planned illegal sale of West Bank property in NJ and NY synagogues… In The Land in Our Bones, Lebanese ethnobotanist, sovereignty steward, and cultural worker Layla K Feghali offers a layered histo...
The Visionary Activist Show – The Story is in Our Bones
February 29, 2024 14:00 - 59 minutes - 68.7 MBCaroline welcomes indefatigable Osprey Orielle Lake Founder and executive director of the Women’s Earth and Climate Action Network (WECAN), Osprey works internationally with grassroots, BIPOC and Indigenous leaders, policymakers, and diverse coalitions to build climate justice, resilient communities, and a just transition to a decentralized, democratized clean-energy future. She sits on the executive committee for the Global Alliance for the Rights of Nature and on the steering committee for ...
The Visionary Activist Show – Women in Greek Mythography
February 22, 2024 14:00 - 59 minutes - 68.7 MBWaxing Full Moon Awooooh- welcoming Max Dashu, honoring her deep delving deft – resonant, latest book Women in Greek Mythography: Pythias, Melissae and Titanides excavating liberating counter narratives to orthodoxy…. “This richly illustrated ethno-historical sourcebook uncovers what they didn’t teach us about women in Greek myth, including pre-patriarchal cosmogonies of the titanides (female titans); women’s dance and ceremony, shapeshifting, Gorgons. How patriarchy transformed the goddess...
The Visionary Activist Show – Transformation through Collapse
February 15, 2024 14:00 - 59 minutes - 68.6 MBMoon exalted in Taurus next to Jupiter (watch tonight!) and Uranus, on their rendezvous course, proffering the possibility of necessary miracles… Calling and dedicating to, daily acts of kindness, and Beauty… So, Caroline welcomes: Vicki Robin, in addition to co-authoring the international best seller, “Your Money or Your Life”, has been a serial social innovator, co-creating the Conversation Cafes, organizing her community for resilience in this time of unraveling, hosting the podcast Wha...
The Visionary Activist Show – Welcome to Psilocybin
February 08, 2024 14:00 - 59 minutes - 68.7 MBDark O Moon- Convening the Flora Fauna Fungi Council: Caroline welcomes Seth Warner, author of “Welcome to Psilocybin – an easy Guide to Growing & Experiencing the Potential of Magic Mushrooms.” Seth Warner is a community advocate in the psychedelic space based in the Bay Area. In 2018 he began his journey directing the San Francisco Psychedelic Society and by 2019 helped decriminalize psilocybin in the city of Oakland, CA. Alongside his work with these initiatives, Seth began MycoRising to t...
The Visionary Activist Show – Brigid: Trickster Peace-maker part 2
February 01, 2024 14:00 - 59 minutes - 68.6 MBOwen Ó Súilleabháin Brigid – Trickster Peace-maker part 2 – deeper delving… Caroline re-welcomes Owen Ó Súilleabháin, that we honor/welcome Brigid – Trickster Peace-maker…. to bring necessary miracles, to cool out the conflagration…. Owen Ó Súilleabháin is a singer, composer, and teacher. Most recently, Owen performed his new arrangements of Irish folk songs with his brother Moley and the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra string quartet. Drawing on his study of philosophy and ancient civilizatio...
The Visionary Activist Show – Brigid ~ Trickster Peace-maker
January 25, 2024 14:00 - 59 minutes - 68.6 MBCaroline welcomes Owen Ó Súilleabháin, and Seán Pádraig O’Donoghue, that we honor/welcome Brigid – Trickster Peace-maker…. Uranus Nature’s evolutionary trickster genius be stationing, so the auguries be welcoming woofy… to bring necessary miracles, to cool out the conflagration…. Seán Pádraig O’Donoghue Owen Ó Súilleabháin Seán Pádraig O’Donoghue is an herbalist, writer, and teacher, and an initiated Priest in two traditions. He lives in the mountains of western Maine. Seán’s approach to heal...
The Visionary Activist Show – Global Truth Transit
January 18, 2024 14:00 - 59 minutes - 68.6 MBGlobal Truth Transit- may everyone be informed and participatory…. Caroline welcomes Daizy Gedeon, recently returned from the Hague, indefatigable reporter, film-maker… joining us at her midnight with expresso in hand….that we honor all the independent journalists doing the real work that mainstream is not… re ongoing carnage in West Bank, Gaza, everywhere past and present, that humans have been cruelly ripped from the land that they love…. www.daizygedeon.com The post The Visionary Activist...
The Visionary Activist Show – Medicine for the Earth, Justice for the People
January 11, 2024 14:00 - 59 minutes - 68.6 MBNew Moon Capricorn begins the prosecution of Israel for Genocide at International Court of Justice, Caroline welcomes Dr Rupa Marya, co- author with Raj Patel of “Inflamed”, “Deep Medicine and the anatomy of injustice.” Medicine and Metaphor…who is especially deft at weaving all the stories together…. Settler Colonialism, all over, crimes against land – brought to accountability… Dr. Marya founded the Deep Medicine Circle, a women of color-led organization committed to healing the wounds of c...
The Visionary Activist Show – Jewish revolutionary nonviolence
January 04, 2024 14:00 - 59 minutes - 68.6 MBJewish revolutionary nonviolence Guiding Story strategies for Necessary Miracles! Caroline welcomes Rabbi Lynn Gottlieb “Explore legacies of Jewish and multi-heritage rituals born out of catastrophic loss and loving solidarity. Share how ceremony functions in contemporary emergent multi-heritage/faith networks dedicated to revolutionary nonviolence and social change Lynn Gottlieb, one of the first women to become a rabbi in Jewish history, is a pioneer Jewish feminist, activist, writer,...
The Visionary Activist Show – Winter Solstice Council
December 28, 2023 14:00 - 59 minutes - 68.6 MBWe play a portion of last week’s Winter Solstice Council with Caroline Casey, astro-mythologist, entheo anarcho animist, and Amikaeyla Gaston, chanteuse, chantress, enchantress, drummer- invoker of the Orishas, living Intelligences of Nature…. “The longest Nights- the wheel is turning – what will we give to the night?” and what reciprocal blessings shall we ladle out of the Solstice cauldron – to prepare for the dangerous, worthy adventure that is coming for us… As the astrologer, (as well a...
Solstice Spark in the Dark
December 21, 2023 14:00 - 59 minutes - 68.6 MBThe Spark in the Dark – from which necessary miracles be born… Winter Solstice. Caroline & bard wizard, Seán Pádraig O’Donoghue proffering astro*mytho narrative to magnetize*animate all of our participatory skills … Inviting ancestral support, Mythic allies, that the desirable story of Kindom be born into incarnational actuality born from the spark in the dark…. this Sacred Night… https://otherworldwell.com/ From Seán Pádraig O’Donoghue, Dawn at Newgrange will be 8 am there 3 am east coast US...
The Visionary Activist Show – The Guiding Stories for Necessary Miracles!
December 14, 2023 14:00 - 59 minutes - 68.6 MBCaroline Welcomes Rabbi Lynn Gottlieb CWC: “The Guiding Stories for Necessary Miracles!” Rabbi Lynn “Okay. This will be a conversation about revolutionary nonviolence.” Lynn Gottlieb, one of the first women to become a rabbi in Jewish history, is a pioneer Jewish feminist, activist, writer, visual artist, ceremonialist, community organizer, master storyteller and performing artist. She is co-founder of Shomeret Shalom Global Congregation and teacher of the path of the Torah of Nonviolence. Cu...
The Visionary Activist Show – Diving into the Dark Underworld, Animating Community
December 07, 2023 14:00 - 59 minutes - 68.6 MBCaroline welcomes spicy, deep-delving Shambhavi Sarasvati Diving into the Dark Underworld where our souls can speak more deeply to us. Tyranny seeks to destroy Community, then creates the toxic mimic, which be a cult…. that must have conflict and cruelty on which to feed…. So we animate Community arising from the Earth, across all borders…. Community be dedicated to collective well-being- democracy- equal rights a cult be a prison….. wonder and responsive augury conversing. this ongoing cri...
The Visionary Activist Show – Grieving Rituals, Globally
November 30, 2023 14:00 - 59 minutes - 68.6 MBgrieving rituals, globally, across all borders… for all in grief, including the Earth herself…. Tyranny seeks to destroy Community, creates the toxic mimic, which be a cult…. So we animate Community arising from the Earth, across all borders…. Caroline proffers dedicated voices, including Rabbi Irwin Keller and (next week’s guest) Shambhavi Sarasvati Rabbi Irwin Keller: https://www.irwinkeller.com/ Article by Shambhavi Sarasvati: “Mourning the Victims of the Cult of Israel Landback. Judaism...
The Visionary Activist Show – Redemptive Thanksgiving of spiraling Blessings out into the World…
November 23, 2023 14:00 - 45 seconds - 896 KBRedemptive Thanksgiving of spiraling Blessings out into the World… Caroline, with some great music, reminds us that Thanksgiving not just a hallmark card smiley face on top of colonial destruction of Indigenous people and their kinship with Flora Fauna Fungi, but tis astrologically timed as first Thursday ( Jupiter’s Day) after Sun enters Sagittarius =Jupiter’s sign.. So tis an assignment to engage in blessing… for every humbling horror in world we gather to animate the antidote blessing… t...
The Visionary Activist Show – Cooling Out the Head
November 16, 2023 14:00 - 59 minutes - 68.6 MBCooling Out the Head Caroline welcomes the return of Sean Padraig O’Donoghue that we may avail ourselves of all Flora Fauna Fungi relations to cool out in this hot reactive field…. www.otherworldwell.com Support The Visionary Activist Show on Patreon for weekly Chart & Themes ($4/month) and more… *Woof*Woof*Wanna*Play?!?* The post The Visionary Activist Show – Cooling Out the Head appeared first on KPFA.
The Visionary Activist Show – Hungerstrike: Clean Water at Home and Beyond
November 09, 2023 14:00 - 59 minutes - 68.6 MBEncampment at Formosa ditch day 10 Caroline welcomes rapid return of Diane Wilson, in reciprocal blessing for her effective dedication…and protection…at this time when the dead are eager to speak and intervene…. indefatigable ally in perpetuity Diane Wilson, “Hey Caroline , I’m on Hungerstrike in ditch front of formosa plastics texas. Come and levitate the plant. Seriously. I have fought formosa on a material, a physical, and a legal level. Now I am fighting on a spiritual level.” “Diane Wils...
The Visionary Activist Show – All Souls: back-channels opening
November 02, 2023 14:00 - 59 minutes - 68.6 MBAll Souls – back-channels opening – for us all, to call in that which is more powerfully wise than our rogue species… Three Librans convening with Day of the Dead, All Souls, True Halloween – “A Libra is just an Aries that’s been to charm school!” (Jay Jacobs) Caroline hosts fellow politically engaged astrologer, Rachel Lang, elected to Ojai, CA city council. Who writes: “I just found out I’ve been selected to serve on the Community Services policy committee for the CA League of Cities… hel...
The Visionary Activist Show – Finding a way outta no way
October 26, 2023 14:00 - 59 minutes - 68.6 MBHalloween Lunar Eclipse “Finding a way outta no way”, Caroline welcomes Sean Padraic O’Donohue, Bardic guide, at this time when the dead speak to the living, at this waxing Full Moon lunar eclipse, when we see the earth’s shadow, visible as it turns red over Gaza and Israel Saturday night, that we may do all we can to animate the desirable, invoke necessary miracles; That we honor the Moon, exalted in Taurus, the sacredness of all life, that it not be sacrileged by the cruel devolutionary ...
The Visionary Activist Show – Agent of Equilibrium
October 19, 2023 14:00 - 59 minutes - 68.6 MBMay those of us, not under immediate pressure of violence, agony and grief, conjure back-stage atmospheric support – for those who are. Caroline hosts denizen of Yosemite, Ron Kauk, born on Autumnal Equinox, as agent of Equilibrium, and the Taoist Rain-bringer, legendary rock-climber and Mentoring youth back to participatory kinship with Nature… https://www.sacredrok.org/about-ron-kauk * * * Audio issues abounding first 15 minutes … connection to KPFA was kerfuffled, but persist throu...
The Visionary Activist Show – Pluto Eclipse Radio
October 12, 2023 14:00 - 59 minutes - 68.6 MBPluto Eclipse Radio…. The dedication is more impossible and more necessary…So we convene back-stage in the participatory imaginal realms to conjure the impossible necessary miracle vision…that we then (a la Haruki Murakami) open the sluice gates, and let the desirable pour into incarnational actuality …. Composting the addiction to having an enemy, on which tyranny feeds….Animating the vision of actual community (that tyranny has always attacked, replacing with the toxic mimic of cults…) Caro...
The Visionary Activist Show – Liberating Lightning
October 05, 2023 14:00 - 59 minutes - 68.6 MBCaroline hosts Mary Greer, long-time, since 1971, divinatory ally, to honor her colleague, Rachel Pollack, whose book, The Beatrix Gate, we are proffering as a pledge incentive Mary K. Greer is one of the world’s leading Tarot scholars and experts, famous by her Tarot blog. She is an author, teacher, and professional tarot consultant known for her innovative teaching techniques. https://marykgreer.com/ Rachel Pollack, Transgender Activist and Authority on Tarot, Dies at 77 (NY Times): ht...
The Visionary Activist Show – Full Moon Radio
September 28, 2023 14:00 - 59 minutes - 68.6 MBFull Moon Radio – Deep roots in Community allow us to rise to the occasion… cause ack requires the re-wedding of Politics and Magic…. Caroline plays segments of her Anarcho*Entheo*Astro*Animist Equinox address in Viroqua Wisconsin, with music by Sound Play… (the whole shebang available for down-load – for pledge of $50 call 800-439-5732) with Kropotkin’s “Mutual Aid” and Erica Lagalisse’s “Occult Features of Anarchism.” The post The Visionary Activist Show – Full Moon Radio appeared first ...
The Visionary Activist Show – Equinoctial anarcho*entheo*Astro*animism!
September 21, 2023 14:00 - 59 minutes - 68.6 MBanarcho*entheo*Astro*animism! Live from WDRT in Viroqua, Wisconsin to KPFA, to all; Caroline hosts Eddy Nix and Christopher Robin, Viroqua Community Citizen denizens, as we all be stepping into the Equinoctial still center of the storm – to dance all falsely estranged, (as a mean trick of the Reality Police) Back into dynamic harmonious equilibrium. Honoring Kropotkin’s “Mutual Aid” & Erica Lagalisse”s “Occult Features of Anarchism” both of which are proffered as pledge incentives for ...
The Visionary Activist Show – New Moon Radio: Sacred Psychiatry
September 14, 2023 14:00 - 59 minutes - 68.6 MBNew Moon Radio: Caroline welcomes, fellow Sun Libra, Moon Virgo, Judy Tsafrir, psychiatrist-astrologer, author of (the forth-coming 1.24) “Sacred Psychiatry: Bridging the Personal and Transpersonal to Transform Health and Consciousness.” CWC: We be crafting our alchemical vessels, in which we shall then set sail into the wild seas of unfurling now ..New Moon 21+Virgo, a degree of connecting with our lineage to bring alive through fresh expression (we pack in out craft) …for the personal/...
The Visionary Activist Show – Growing Down (Anniversary!)
September 07, 2023 14:00 - 59 minutes - 68.6 MBJames Hillman! to honor the 27th anniversary of the Visionary Activist show – we re-play the first show from September 5, 1996, with James Hillman… a riveting relevant resonant romp, with which Caroline riffs for the remainder of the hour… (Note: Dream News Council open for one more week for registration…) Support The Visionary Activist Show on Patreon for weekly Chart & Themes ($4/month) and more… *Woof*Woof*Wanna*Play?!?* The post The Visionary Activist Show – Growing Down (Anniversar...
The Visionary Activist Show – August 31, 2023
August 31, 2023 14:00 - 59 minutes - 68.6 MBCaroline welcome Sara Calvarese, astro anarchist ally, sharing enthusos for: “The US’ Pluto Return and the upcoming outer planet astrology (Pluto moving into Aquarius, Neptune moving into Aries, and Uranus moving into Gemini). And am always willing to have a good discussion about the 8th house.” “…a South Philadelphia based author, illustrator, astrologer, tarot reader, and owner of The 8th House, a brick and mortar retail space. She left her career in chemistry and engineering in 2020 to pur...
The Visionary Activist Show – Dream News
August 24, 2023 14:00 - 59 minutes - 68.6 MBDream News! Tis a description and an exhortation (and title of just now and more soon council) Caroline hosts Tom Cheetham, “a rogue scholar of the imagination in esoteric Islam interweaving the planes of the real into his continuous and wonderfully whacked-out song.” – Joseph Donahue author of (many books, including) “Imaginal Love – The meanings of Imagination in Henry Corbin and James Hillman” Ancestor Ally Mentors, the likes of Hillman, Henri Corbin, and Jung excavated and crafted keys wh...
The Visionary Activist Show – August 17, 2023
August 17, 2023 14:00 - 59 minutes - 68.6 MBThe wedding of spiritual magic and compassionate social activism with host Caroline Casey. The post The Visionary Activist Show – August 17, 2023 appeared first on KPFA.
The Visionary Activist Show – Cooperating with Guiding Auguries
August 10, 2023 14:00 - 59 minutes - 68.6 MBGuiding Auguries Cooling out the conflagration…. Caroline re-welcomes fellow anarcho*entheo*Mytho*animist Sean Padraig O’Donoghue, herbalist, Bard, wizard, writer part of our Rapid Metaphoric Response Team… https://otherworldwell.com “Nae King, nae Quin, we willna be fooled agin,” sayeth the Wee Free Men (via Terry Pratchett). Support The Visionary Activist Show on Patreon for weekly Chart & Themes ($4/month) and more… *Woof*Woof*Wanna*Play?!?* The post The Visionary Activist Show – Coopera...
The Visionary Activist Show – As Above, So Below
August 03, 2023 14:00 - 59 minutes - 68.6 MBUnderworld Arraignment Accountability Special! Barbie as Inanna (great essay by Meg Ellison), True Lammas, US Pluto return, & The Yes Men continue their liberating High Jinx Caroline welcomes return of fellow Libran Dragon, astro*mytho*politico Rachel Lang, author of Modern Day Magic and the new children’s book As Above, So Below. Rachel was recently elected to the Ojai City Council in Ojai, CA, That all metaphysics be applied to supporting Flora Fauna Fungi democracy, or to hell with it… R...
The Visionary Activist Show – anarcho*entheo*animism festival continues
July 27, 2023 14:00 - 59 minutes - 68.6 MBCaroline co-riffs with clips of 2 wondrous guests, Diana Beresford Kroeger, and Rachel Harris, and Peter Kropotkin whose books serve as pledge magnetizers in our on-going anarcho*entheo*animism festival… Mutual Aid, Peter Kropotkin + Swimming in the Sacred: Wisdom from the Psychedelic Underground, Rachel Harris + To Speak for the Trees, Diana Beresford-Kroeger = anarcho*entheo*animism The post The Visionary Activist Show – anarcho*entheo*animism festival continues appeared first on KPFA.
The Visionary Activist Show – anarcho*entheo*animism
July 20, 2023 14:00 - 31 minutes - 36.5 MBanarcho*entheo*animism Syncretism is a sacrament! Caroline re-hosts Charles Allison author of “No harmless power: The Life and Times of Ukrainian Anarchist Nestor Makhno” that we tease the dedicated vision, and myriad befoiblements of anarchist revolution into guiding pertinence, with special honoring of Kropotkin ‘s “Mutual Aid” … Both books being offered as pledge incentives, magnetizing money mojo for the Mutual Aid of KPFA 800-439-5732 Charlie Allison is an anarchist writer, storytel...
The Visionary Activist Show – Guiding Culture to Sane Reverence
July 13, 2023 14:00 - 59 minutes - 68.6 MBDark o Moon radio, when Communitarians gather to guide culture to ingenious sane reverence, Caroline welcomes, ally Jamie Yeager. Jamie Yeager, “a lifelong Texas liberal, was press secretary for Senator Eugene McCarthy’s independent presidential campaign in 1976, and is now battling the modern Confederates.” The post The Visionary Activist Show – Guiding Culture to Sane Reverence appeared first on KPFA.
The Visionary Activist Show – De-bamboozling the Collective Dream
July 06, 2023 14:00 - 59 minutes - 68.6 MBDe-bamboozling the Collective Dream, Caroline welcomes long-time de-bamboozling accomplice, Josh Baran, that we may, with Neptune stationing, query “Is this the thing or the symbol of the thing?” Josh Baran is a former Zen monk and teacher in the Soto Zen tradition After leaving the monastery, Baran ran a group in Berkeley for people leaving every sneaky form of cult, honoring that what gets us into a cult is oft a good thing, made vulnerable by a Yearning Disability …. a communications and p...
The Visionary Activist Show – June 29, 2023
June 29, 2023 14:00 - 59 minutes - 68.6 MBWaxing Full Moon enthuso anarcho woofing with Charles Allison biographer of Ukrainian anarchist leader Nestor Makhno, that we tease the dedicated vision, and myriad befoiblements of anarchist revolution into guiding pertinence, with special honoring of Kropotkin and “Mutual Aid” in resonating relevance. Charlie Allison is an anarchist writer, storyteller, and activist who lives in Philadelphia. Most of his days are spent in freelance editing, agitating, writing, consulting and giving tours...
The Visionary Activist Show – Telling the Story of our Kinship with the Earth
June 22, 2023 14:00 - 59 minutes - 68.6 MBCaroline welcomes Andreas Kornevall, author, storyteller and ecological activist. Directs the Earth Restoration Service Charity, the charity aims to enhance ecological integrity by planting new woodlands around the world. Through which, over a thousand schools across the British Isles have signed up and whose students have planted over two hundred woodlands. In response to the ongoing sixth mass extinction, he was the catalyst behind the Life Cairn movement: memorials for species rendered e...
The Visionary Activist Show – Pre-Solstice Astro*Mytho Positive Intrigue
June 15, 2023 14:00 - 59 minutes - 68.4 MBThe Positive Intrigue of Now! Dark o Moon pre-Solstice astro Mytho Council – Caroline welcomes Eric Meyers, fellow astrological guide, at this time when humans gather to cooperate with Nature’s Guiding genius…to guide the course of Culture… first task re-designing the human cultural interface with Flora Fauna Fungi…. Co-Operators are standing by! at this opportune time: Moon, exalted in Taurus, 27+ degrees, with Vesta. So we are lighting the hearth fire dedicated to Earth Community well-be...
The Visionary Activist Show – Radio Magic for the Forests
June 08, 2023 14:00 - 59 minutes - 68.6 MBRadio Magic for the Forests, Caroline welcomes the return of Diana Beresford-Kroeger, Who says Radio holds the ear, and fires the imagination… So we light our collaborative kinship fires, to quell the fires… Speaker for the Trees, Botanist, medical biochemist and author Dr. Diana Beresford-Kroeger possesses a unique combination of western scientific training and an understanding of the knowledge and methods of a wide variety of traditional and alternative sources. Her books include The Sweetn...