KPFA - The Visionary Activist Show
1,046 episodes - English - Latest episode: 13 days 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 – October 17, 2013
October 17, 2013 14:00 - 8 minutes - 10.3 MBCaroline hosts long-time collaborative ally, Amikaeyla, drumming chanting conjuror of Orisha’s and rousing juju, in the KPFA performance studio, whereby to inhale back the cultural narrative, and offer ourselves in collaborative cahoots with the choreography of creation. The post The Visionary Activist – October 17, 2013 appeared first on KPFA.
The Visionary Activist – Wisdom Derived from Permaculture
October 10, 2013 14:00 - 8 minutes - 10.3 MBCaroline hosts long-time perma-culture allies, Delia Carroll and Cassandra Ferrer: that all natural facts be social strategy metaphors! Let the waters of life, in the form of $ irrigate The Visionary Activist Show on this last day of fund drive… The post The Visionary Activist – Wisdom Derived from Permaculture appeared first on KPFA.
The Visionary Activist – Dark of Moon “Long Life – Honey in the Heart” Radio
October 03, 2013 14:00 - 8 minutes - 10.3 MBCaroline hosting long-time ally of aspirational eloquence, fellow pragmatic mystic dedicated to democratic animism, Martin Prechtel. We be in KPFA Fund Drive (11shows of Caroline and Martin cahooting available) http://www.floweringmountain.com/ The post The Visionary Activist – Dark of Moon “Long Life – Honey in the Heart” Radio appeared first on KPFA.
The Visionary Activist – September 26, 2013
September 26, 2013 14:00 - 8 minutes - 10.3 MBKPFA Pledge Drive, in which Caroline plays half of her Equinox Talk delivered at the Symbiosis Festival, and part of the Saturn from Making the Gods Work for You (all available by pledging to our beloved community radio station.) The post The Visionary Activist – September 26, 2013 appeared first on KPFA.
The Visionary Activist Show – September 19, 2013 at 2:00pm
September 19, 2013 14:00 - 8 minutes - 10.3 MBThe post The Visionary Activist Show – September 19, 2013 at 2:00pm appeared first on KPFA.
The Visionary Activist – Serendipitous Synchronous Symbiosis
September 12, 2013 14:00 - 8 minutes - 10.3 MBBombs into Balms Radio, Caroline hosts Manuel Maqueda and Ryan Rising, fellow presenters at the Symbiosis Gathering. The post The Visionary Activist – Serendipitous Synchronous Symbiosis appeared first on KPFA.
The Visionary Activist – All War is a Failure of Imagination
September 05, 2013 14:00 - 8 minutes - 10.3 MBToday’s replay of last week’s radio “Cooling out Conflagration: Yosemite-Syria Radio.” Both the fire and the chemical weapons attack happened on 8.21. All is conversing, natural facts providing social strategy, metaphors. The post The Visionary Activist – All War is a Failure of Imagination appeared first on KPFA.
The Visionary Activist – Slow Down to Cool Out Conflagration: Yosemite-Syria Radio Let Natural Facts Be Social Strategy Metaphors.
August 29, 2013 14:00 - 1 hour - 105 MBCaroline hosts Ron Kauk, master rock climber, guide, mentor, long-time inhabitant of Yosemite, author of “Letters from Sacred Rok, Education Nature’s Way.” And long-time ally Deborah Felmeth, loving ally of Syria www.SacredRok.org The post The Visionary Activist – Slow Down to Cool Out Conflagration: Yosemite-Syria Radio Let Natural Facts Be Social Strategy Metaphors. appeared first on KPFA.
The Visionary Activist – Heal the World by Honoring the Dead
August 22, 2013 14:00 - 8 minutes - 10.3 MBCaroline welcomes Lance Canales, that we may Heal the World by Honoring the Dead, memorial for the 28 Mexican citizens who died in a plane crash on January 28, 1948, in Coalinga California, and were anonymous – until now. A memorial service will be held on Labor Day September 2nd, 10 am at Holy Cross Cemetery 2105 W. Belmont st. Fresno Ca. The post The Visionary Activist – Heal the World by Honoring the Dead appeared first on KPFA.
The Visionary Activist Show – August 15, 2013 at 2:00pm
August 15, 2013 14:00 - 8 minutes - 10.3 MBThe post The Visionary Activist Show – August 15, 2013 at 2:00pm appeared first on KPFA.
The Visionary Activist Show – August 8, 2013 at 2:00pm
August 08, 2013 14:00 - 8 minutes - 10.3 MBThe post The Visionary Activist Show – August 8, 2013 at 2:00pm appeared first on KPFA.
The Visionary Activist Show – August 1, 2013 at 2:00pm
August 01, 2013 14:00 - 8 minutes - 10.3 MBThe post The Visionary Activist Show – August 1, 2013 at 2:00pm appeared first on KPFA.
The Visionary Activist – Protecting the Sacred
July 25, 2013 14:00 - 8 minutes - 10.3 MBWe gather in radio council, at this time of Dire Beauty, to magnetize, animate and spiral forth the unifying guiding narrative of now. Caroline hosts Tzeporah Berman and Chief Phil Lane Jr., among our most effective allies, dedicated to protecting life. We are reporting in from the Gathering at Holly Hock (where we’ve all been presenting) on Cortes Island BC, sharing a land-line phone, as a talking stick. (Because we are plucky, playful, and it is KPFA Fund dive in which we will be offering T...
The Visionary Activist Show – July 18, 2013 at 2:00pm
July 18, 2013 14:00 - 8 minutes - 10.3 MBThe post The Visionary Activist Show – July 18, 2013 at 2:00pm appeared first on KPFA.
Visionary Activist – July 11, 2013
July 11, 2013 14:00 - 8 minutes - 10.3 MBVisionary Activist Show Today: Deeply Delving into the Dire Beauty of Now astro-mojo-mythic- meta-guiding story Caroline Welcomes fellow astro*mytho*cultural guide, Richard Paul Geer, that we may cahoot with the heartening sky-earth story of now, and the next 12 years… as we conjure Wiccan leaks, "let anything not dedicated to collective well-being, be revealed rendered harmless and (in the fullness of time) be an occasion for mirth. Considering the chart of USA and the 4th amendment - ...
The Visionary Activist Show – June 27, 2013 at 2:00pm
June 27, 2013 14:00 - 8 minutes - 10.3 MBThe post The Visionary Activist Show – June 27, 2013 at 2:00pm appeared first on KPFA.
The Visionary Activist – Coyote! Waxing Summer Solstice Full Moon Trickster Radio
June 20, 2013 14:00 - 8 minutes - 10.3 MBCaroline welcomes Melissa Peabody, and her splendid film “San Francisco- Still Wild at Heart,” that humans may have collaborative symbiosis with these embodiments of uncontrollable Trickster against all odds relentless resillence. www.livingworldfilms.com The post The Visionary Activist – Coyote! Waxing Summer Solstice Full Moon Trickster Radio appeared first on KPFA.
The Visionary Activist – June 13, 2013
June 13, 2013 14:00 - 8 minutes - 10.3 MBCaroline hosts – Faith Spotted Eagle: “An urgent conversation needs to be held about the parallels between sexual violence, conquest, colonization, environmental racism and the rape of Mother Earth.” Proposed Keystone XL (extra large) Pipeline = one of largest human rights violations (and Nature’s Living Intelligence violation). The post The Visionary Activist – June 13, 2013 appeared first on KPFA.
The Visionary Activist – “Spy on Us – We’ll Spy on You”
June 06, 2013 14:00 - 8 minutes - 10.3 MBThe East:”Spy on Us – We’ll Spy on You” Dark Of Moon-Neptune stationing Filmic mojo, Caroline hosts Zal Batmanglij, director and co-writer of “The East,” opening in Bay Are Friday, “eco-thriller,” that invokes useful conversing. http://www.foxsearchlight.com/TheEast/ The post The Visionary Activist – “Spy on Us – We’ll Spy on You” appeared first on KPFA.
The Visionary Activist – Syria and the Sky-Earth Story of Now
May 30, 2013 14:00 - 8 minutes - 10.3 MBCaroline hosts long-time ally, Deborah Felmeth, guide to the beauty of Syria, that we may animate the desirable story and cultivate necessary qualities of compassionate complexity and deep-delving wonder. Underneath the hot reactive conflagration, are the cool responsive waters of life, available for us to pour forth on hyper-yang death frenzy. Where there be too much Mars, let us invite Venus. Enough of weapons, and the immature violence that distracts us from our common global task of...
The Visionary Activist – Syria and the Sky-Earth Story of Now
May 30, 2013 14:00 - 8 minutes - 10.3 MBCaroline hosts long-time ally, Deborah Felmeth, guide to the beauty of Syria, that we may animate the desirable story and cultivate necessary qualities of compassionate complexity and deep-delving wonder. Underneath the hot reactive conflagration, are the cool responsive waters of life, available for us to pour forth on hyper-yang death frenzy. Where there be too much Mars, let us invite Venus. Enough of weapons, and the immature violence that distracts us from our common global task of...
The Visionary Activist Special Part 2 – May 23, 2013 at 3:00pm
May 23, 2013 15:00 - 4 minutes - 5.14 MBThe post The Visionary Activist Special Part 2 – May 23, 2013 at 3:00pm appeared first on KPFA.
The Visionary Activist – Lunar Eclipse, Coyotes, Judi Bari
May 23, 2013 14:00 - 8 minutes - 10.3 MBCaroline hosts, Earth First, singer, activist, Darryl Cherney, co-maker of the movie “Who Bombed Judi Bari?” as we invite the spirit of Judi Bari to have her increasingly effective voice, (May 24th is Judi Bari Day in Oakland);coinciding with the positive return of Coyotes to the Bay Area (and everywhere.) (Melissa Peabodies fantabulous movie “Still Wild at Heart.”www.livingworldfilms.com http://www.whobombedjudibari.com The post The Visionary Activist – Lunar Eclipse, Coyotes, Judi Bari ...
The Visionary Activist – Bug Music!
May 16, 2013 14:00 - 8 minutes - 10.3 MBLet Magic be a willingness to jam with everything: Bug Music! Entomological Jazz: – Caroline hosts our guest exemplar, David Rothenberg, philosopher, jazz musician, author-composer of splendiferous book and CD, Bug Music- How Insects Gave Us Rhythm and Noise. www.bugmusicbook.com The post The Visionary Activist – Bug Music! appeared first on KPFA.
The Visionary Activist – Venus Emerging from Eclipse
May 09, 2013 14:00 - 8 minutes - 10.3 MBWe convene our radio council as the Moon begins its passage across the Sun, the darkening of the light, time of doorways opening between worlds. To avail ourselves of this opportune shape-shifting time, Caroline hosts G. Willow Wilson author of the splendiferous “Alif – the Unseen,” “every innovation begins with fantasy,” Arabian Nights, Jinn, computer code inter-weaving with Arab Spring, and more! www.gwillowwilson.com The post The Visionary Activist – Venus Emerging from Eclipse app...
The Visionary Activist – Spiraling Forth Beauty Radio
May 02, 2013 14:00 - 8 minutes - 10.3 MBCaroline welcomes scholar and devotee of healing music, Jill Mattson, that we may release our resistance to beauty, to be agents of responsive cool, to be the antidote Medicine for a hot reactive world. The post The Visionary Activist – Spiraling Forth Beauty Radio appeared first on KPFA.
The Visionary Activist – Lunar Eclipse Extreme Weather Radio mojo
April 25, 2013 14:00 - 8 minutes - 10.3 MBCaroline welcomes Bob Gough, long time ally proponent of Indigenuity, Secretary of COUP(Council on Utility Policy), for sane reverent renewable energy and housing on the Rez, and everywhere. www.intertribalcoup.org The post The Visionary Activist – Lunar Eclipse Extreme Weather Radio mojo appeared first on KPFA.
The Visionary Activist – Defiant Beauty at a time of Volatile Hyper-Yang Death Frenzy toxicity
April 18, 2013 14:00 - 8 minutes - 10.3 MBMore than perfectly, with Jupiter at the “Woman Activist gives rousing speech on behalf of the earth,” Caroline welcomes fantabulous ally, Seadrift, Texas mega-activist, fellow Council of Unreasonable Women co-cahooter Diane Wilson, that we may cover all things Texas, poisonous, explosive, and dedicate to beauty rising from the ashes of destruction in this volatile field. The post The Visionary Activist – Defiant Beauty at a time of Volatile Hyper-Yang Death Frenzy toxicity appeared firs...
The Visionary Activist Show – April 11, 2013 at 2:00pm
April 11, 2013 14:00 - 8 minutes - 10.3 MBThe post The Visionary Activist Show – April 11, 2013 at 2:00pm appeared first on KPFA.
The Visionary Activist – Revival Radio!
April 04, 2013 14:00 - 8 minutes - 10.3 MBCaroline hosts Rev. Billy of the Church of Stop Shopping, re his Revolt of the Golden Toads Tour: http://revbilly.com/events/the-revolt-of-the-golden-toads-tour The post The Visionary Activist – Revival Radio! appeared first on KPFA.
The Visionary Activist – March 28, 2013
March 28, 2013 14:00 - 8 minutes - 10.3 MBMaundy Thursday Way Holy Week Resurrection Renaissance Radio Caroline welcomes the return of political consultant (VP Gore’s Deputy Chief of Staff) Biblical scholar, Liberating Christianity, Pat Ewing. that we may animate Renaissance rising from rubble. Teasing the sacred past the gates of orthodoxy, into cultural influence. The post The Visionary Activist – March 28, 2013 appeared first on KPFA.
The Visionary Activist – Vernal Equinoctial Magnetizing Memospheric Mojo
March 21, 2013 14:00 - 8 minutes - 10.3 MBCaroline opens up our vernal by riffing on Mars and Venus, Pope Francis, and Bradley Manning, in cahoots, dree-ing their weird, with the covert chart of America. We welcome the return of fellow astro-mytho- cultural change artist Daniel Giamario, that we may conjure and animate the presiding Co-Operators who are Standing by! www.shamanicastrology.com The post The Visionary Activist – Vernal Equinoctial Magnetizing Memospheric Mojo appeared first on KPFA.
The Visionary Activist – March 14, 2013
March 14, 2013 14:00 - 19 minutes - 22.4 MBCaroline, as Abigail Adams, files scouting reports from the first day of the CPAC Underworld, all weirdly Koch Brothers aka “Citizens United”, and weirdly dedicated to the toxicity of Andrew Breitbart (the authentic heroic tonic anti-dote would be the Scott Prouty and Bradley Manning part of all of us.) on the CPAC agenda: Bruce Fein channeling Madison, “The Islamic threat to America”, Marco Rubio, Rand Paul, movie about how fracking is good for us vs “green extremists.”Rick Perry, and And...
The Visionary Activist Show – March 7, 2013 at 2:00pm
March 07, 2013 14:00 - 8 minutes - 10.3 MBThe post The Visionary Activist Show – March 7, 2013 at 2:00pm appeared first on KPFA.
The Visionary Activist – February 28, 2013
February 28, 2013 14:00 - 8 minutes - 10.3 MBCaroline welcomes the return of Martin Lee, author of the completely great book, “Smoke Signals, A Social History of Marijuana – Medical, Recreational, and Scientific,” essential to us now, as we embrace sacraments of kinship, and Renaissance… as the anti-dote to Dementors of Doom dedicated to destroying life. The post The Visionary Activist – February 28, 2013 appeared first on KPFA.
The Visionary Activist – February 21, 2013
February 21, 2013 14:00 - 8 minutes - 10.3 MBWelcoming the return of John Roulac, to guide us further into sneaky viruses of GMO’s and the literal and cultural antidotes. www.nutiva.com The post The Visionary Activist – February 21, 2013 appeared first on KPFA.
The Visionary Activist – Valentine’s Day
February 14, 2013 14:00 - 8 minutes - 10.3 MBSatchmo & Groucho (cannabis enthusiasts) Radio: Restoring-Increasing our cahooting intimacy with hemp and cannabis.Caroline welcomes for the first smudge, John Roulac, to speak to us of hemp, Valentine’s Day and GMO’s to beware.Followed by Martin Lee, author of completely great:”Smoke Signals, A Social History of Marijuana,” that we all be restoring sane, creative, collaborative reverence with every breath (puff.) The post The Visionary Activist – Valentine’s Day appeared first on KPFA.
The Visionary Activist – Caroline hosts John Trudell!
February 07, 2013 14:00 - 8 minutes - 10.3 MBGuiding myths:Those who journey back from the Underworld earn the right to be agents of the Cultural Trickster Redeemer. Dedicated, coherent, prolific, inspiring, AIM leader, poet troubadour, now agent of hemp -John encourages us to “develop loyalty to this planet,” by “cultivating coherence” whereby to be influential at this time of Dire Beauty. Hempstead Project Heart The post The Visionary Activist – Caroline hosts John Trudell! appeared first on KPFA.
The Visionary Activist – Mid-Winter Illumination
January 31, 2013 14:00 - 8 minutes - 10.3 MBProviding Light for Those Providing Light: Bradley Manning. Caroline hosts Kevin Gosztola,co-author of the book Truth and Consequences: The US vs. Bradley Manning and a writer for firedoglake.com. covers WikiLeaks, whistleblowing, the US drone program, the surveillance state and various civil liberties issues. http://dissenter.firedoglake.com/2013/01/31/saluting-bradley-manning/ The post The Visionary Activist – Mid-Winter Illumination appeared first on KPFA.
The Visionary Activist – January 24, 2013
January 24, 2013 14:00 - 8 minutes - 10.3 MBOn-going Inauguration Augury:Who Stole the American Dream, and how we can animate a larger better global guiding dream of collaborative kinship Caroline hosts Hedrick Smith, Pullitzer Prize winning reporter, Emmy Award-winnig producer, NY Times reporter, PBS producer, author of “The Russians”, “The Power Game” and now, “Who Stole the American Dream,” that we may fully know and break free of the hood-winking, bamboozling Plutocracy that has kidnapped the experiment of democracy, how short...
The Visionary Activist – January 17, 2013
January 17, 2013 14:00 - 8 minutes - 10.3 MBCaroline hosts Peter Janney, author of “Mary’s Mosaic, The CIA’s Conspiracy to Murder JFK, Mary Pinchot Meyer and their Vision for World Peace,” that anything we need to know to have a democracy may be revealed. Today is the traditional day of visiting trees to encourage them out of dormancy, to bear fruit, and to scare way evil spirits. Peter Janney and I took a walk to the tree where Mary Meyer was murdered, as we do telepathically this radio hour, to encourage the tree to bear the fr...
The Visionary Activist – Dark of Moon Preventing Arctic Drilling Mojo Intelligence of the Arctic Defying Shell drilling
January 10, 2013 14:00 - 8 minutes - 10.3 MBFrom 1980–2010, Rick Steiner was as a marine conservation professor with the University of Alaska, stationed in the Arctic (Kotzebue 1980-1982), Prince William Sound (Cordova 1983-1997), and Anchorage (1997-2010). Today, he conducts the Oasis Earth project (www.oasis-earth.com) –- a global consultancy working with NGOs, governments, industry, and civil society to speed the transition to an environmentally sustainable society. He continues to work on oil and environment issues, including...
The Visionary Activist – January 3, 2013
January 03, 2013 14:00 - 8 minutes - 10.3 MBThe Sabian Symbol for the Sun today is “In a Dense Jungle, A Perfectly Preserved Mayan Bas Relief Remains A Witness To A Long-Forgotten Culture;” And the Moon’s Image is “A Man Piecing Together An Ancient Manuscript,” confirming Caroline’s guest, and fellow Apocalypstero travelling team-mate, Arthur Dunkelman, Director and Curator of the J. Kislak Foundation. http://www.kislakfoundation.org/aboutus.html The post The Visionary Activist – January 3, 2013 appeared first on KPFA.
The Visionary Activist -Translating the Light – December 27, 2012
December 27, 2012 14:00 - 8 minutes - 10.3 MBTonight’s Full Moon translates the Light of Maya Solstice 2012. Caroline, just returned from Chichen Itza, inviting us all to toss the dross of spiritual colonialism into the year-end cauldron, and ladle out spirals of liberating grace and manners, that we invite the Trickster Redeemer to be born in all of our hearts… The Returning of the Light – We Get Another Chance! to set the world to order, as the Seven Lords of Time have reconvened to do, and we with them: to conjure wise leadership, ...
The Visionary Activist Show – December 20, 2012 at 2:00pm
December 20, 2012 14:00 - 8 minutes - 10.3 MBThe post The Visionary Activist Show – December 20, 2012 at 2:00pm appeared first on KPFA.
The Visionary Activist Show – December 13, 2012 at 2:00pm
December 13, 2012 14:00 - 8 minutes - 10.3 MBThe post The Visionary Activist Show – December 13, 2012 at 2:00pm appeared first on KPFA.
The Visionary Activist – December 6, 2012
December 06, 2012 14:00 - 8 minutes - 10.3 MBCaroline hosts long time ally Alex Steffen,Writer, public speaker, planetary futurist. author of Carbon Zero: Imagining cities that can save the planet (available as a thankyou for pledging to KPFA) ted.com/talks/alex_steffen.html http://www.alexsteffen.com/ The post The Visionary Activist – December 6, 2012 appeared first on KPFA.
The Visionary Acvtivist – Honoring Dec 21 2012
November 29, 2012 14:00 - 8 minutes - 10.3 MBCaroline hosts astro-colleague, phd paleo-climatology, and Aztec and Mayan astrological scholar Bruce Scofield along with Michael DiMartino, founder & producer of Synthesis 2012 has been leading groups through the Yucatan for 18 years; sharing the wisdom of the temples & pyramids, as well as the experience of the Kukulkan the return of the serpent, which is viewable from the naked eye, during the solstice sunset at the pyramid. Michael’s wisdom and insights about the Mayan’s and the Maya...
The Visionary Activist Show – November 22, 2012 at 2:00pm
November 22, 2012 14:00 - 8 minutes - 10.3 MBThe post The Visionary Activist Show – November 22, 2012 at 2:00pm appeared first on KPFA.
The Visionary Acvtivist – Electing the Earth
November 08, 2012 14:00 - 8 minutes - 10.3 MBNow that the ridiculous nightmare is dispelled, we can turn our resolve to the Big Nightmares before us, and deeply dedicate to a cultural Renaissance of Reverent Ingenuity by cooperating with the Genius of Nature. More than perfectly Caroline welcomes the return of Ellen LaConte and her guiding book, “Life Rules, Nature’s Blueprint for surviving economic and environmental collapse” (Why so much is going wrong everywhere at once and how Life teaches us to fix it.) http://www.ellenlacont...