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 – September 25, 2008 at 2:00pm
September 25, 2008 14:00 - 8 minutes - 10.3 MBThe post The Visionary Activist Show – September 25, 2008 at 2:00pm appeared first on KPFA.
The Visionary Activist Show – September 18, 2008
September 18, 2008 14:00 - 1 hour - 101 MBThe World Belongs to the Story Tellers as part of our pre-election juju let’s return to the power of story: Caroline welcomes, from Beirut, master story-teller Rabih Alameddine, author of "The Hakawati" a fantabulously pertinent modern Arabian Nights novel of such power that to read it is to synchronously encounter it in life. The art of the frame story, (the story within which are stories) is indeed a woven carpet that transports us across all borders of time, geography, self and other htt...
The Visionary Activist Show – September 11, 2008
September 11, 2008 14:00 - 21 minutes - 24.5 MB911, missing money, market manipulation (Enron, Fannie and Freddie) and the greening of local economies. Seven year anniversaries are times of structurally implementing lessons from the initiatory event.May it be so! To animate this possibility: Caroline welcomes back Catherine Austin Fitts, former Assistant Secretary of Housing and investment advisor, so that we may inhale our financial chi from the shadow government corporate war dementors and exhalie vitality back into our communities to f...
The Visionary Activist Show – September 4, 2008
September 04, 2008 14:00 - 8 minutes - 10.3 MBCoyote Network News Republican Convention Coverage Caroline delineates the "Whoaaaaa Team" the dangerous game just got racheted up a notch, with Sarah Palin’s speech last night in St. Paul. Let’s explore the weird eroto-psychic-psychotic-tyrannical vs liberating forces romping across the telescreen of the collective,that we may be ever more effective players on the team of creation at this time of dire beauty. The post The Visionary Activist Show – September 4, 2008 appeared first on KPFA.
The Visionary Activist Show – August 28, 2008
August 28, 2008 14:00 - 8 minutes - 10.3 MBFrom New Orleans – Martha Ward, biographer of the Great Voodoo Queen Marie Laveau, once again joins Caroline so that we can prepare a ritual meal to unite the ancestors, spirits and humans, at this potent time when the living and the dead of New Orleans and the ancestress Marie Laveau are voting in this election. The post The Visionary Activist Show – August 28, 2008 appeared first on KPFA.
The Visionary Activist Show – August 21, 2008 at 2:00pm
August 21, 2008 14:00 - 8 minutes - 10.3 MBThe post The Visionary Activist Show – August 21, 2008 at 2:00pm appeared first on KPFA.
The Visionary Activist Show – August 14, 2008
August 14, 2008 14:00 - 8 minutes - 10.3 MB"You can build an environmental paradise anywhere." Caroline’s guest, John Schaeffer, Founder and CEO of the Solar Living Institute/Real Goods reminds us. Caroline, John, and Director of Development, Doron Amiran, creatively cavort in the realm of SolFest, renewable energy, Green Collar jobs for all, including inner city kids and veterans, as well as composting righteous grumpiness www.solarliving.org The post The Visionary Activist Show – August 14, 2008 appeared first on KPFA.
The Visionary Activist Show – August 7, 2008 at 2:00pm
August 07, 2008 14:00 - 8 minutes - 10.3 MBThe post The Visionary Activist Show – August 7, 2008 at 2:00pm appeared first on KPFA.
The Visionary Activist Show – July 31, 2008
July 31, 2008 14:00 - 8 minutes - 10.3 MBBush’s fall: "The Prosecution of George W. Bush for Murder." On this Solar Eclipse of 8/08, traditionally associated with the death of tyrannical Kings, Caroline welcomes, revered LA Prosecutor,Vincent Bugliosi, to animate this possibility – not the death of kings, but the death of kingship. May Bush tumble into the open arms of indictment, prosecution, conviction?www.prosecutionofbush.com The post The Visionary Activist Show – July 31, 2008 appeared first on KPFA.
The Visionary Activist Show – July 24, 2008
July 24, 2008 14:00 - 17 minutes - 20.5 MBIn the first hour of this 2 hour Visionary Activist Show, Caroline will riff with herself, playing excerpts of her Summer address, "Animating the Desirable Story!" and In the second hour she welcomes John Burdett (waking up in Thailand), author of the fantabulous Buddhist Noir novel "Bangkok Haunts", all about crossing borders of every kind, to solve and resolve a culture of sniff films, witty, ironic, profoind and sizzly.www.john-burdett.com The post The Visionary Activist Show – July 24, 20...
The Visionary Activist Show – July 17, 2008
July 17, 2008 14:00 - 8 minutes - 10.3 MBCompassionate Trickster in the Middle East presents One State Solution! Live from DC, Tel Aviv and Capetown to California, and spiralling out into world, fueled by the waxing Full Moon of Pragmatic Mysticism – Caroline welcomes Yehuda Atai, Israeli Peace Activist, Biblical scholar, alchemist, modern computer start-up wizard presenting the One State Solution – the Israeli-Palestinian Democracy!Because this bold imaginative ingenious experiment will require metabolizing justified bitterness int...
The Visionary Activist Show – July 3, 2008 at 2:00pm
July 03, 2008 14:00 - 8 minutes - 10.3 MBThe post The Visionary Activist Show – July 3, 2008 at 2:00pm appeared first on KPFA.
The Visionary Activist Show – June 26, 2008 at 2:00pm
June 26, 2008 14:00 - 8 minutes - 10.3 MBThe post The Visionary Activist Show – June 26, 2008 at 2:00pm appeared first on KPFA.
The Visionary Activist Show – June 19, 2008 at 2:00pm
June 19, 2008 14:00 - 8 minutes - 10.3 MBThe post The Visionary Activist Show – June 19, 2008 at 2:00pm appeared first on KPFA.
The Visionary Activist Show – June 5, 2008 at 2:00pm
June 05, 2008 14:00 - 9 minutes - 10.3 MBThe post The Visionary Activist Show – June 5, 2008 at 2:00pm appeared first on KPFA.
The Visionary Activist Show – May 29, 2008
May 29, 2008 14:00 - 8 minutes - 10.3 MBCaroline welcomes prolific populist progressive syndicated writer David Sirota, who is launching his new book, "The Uprising, a tour of the populist revolt scaring Wall Street and Washington." The post The Visionary Activist Show – May 29, 2008 appeared first on KPFA.
The Visionary Activist Show – May 22, 2008
May 22, 2008 14:00 - 8 minutes - 10.3 MBTheocratic Elite Hidden Fundamentalism versus Democracy – important yikes! Caroline welcomes Jeff Sharlet (contributing editor for Harpers and Rolling Stone, research scholar at NYU’s Center for Religion and the Media) who’s forthcoming book, "The Family," is essential reading for all concerned about our democratic experiment. Sharlet delineates the complex story of this secret theocratic society, known as "The Family" that lives at the heart of our democracy, and is connected to a huge glob...
The Visionary Activist Show – May 15, 2008
May 15, 2008 14:00 - 9 minutes - 10.4 MBThe Democracy of AnimismLive from allied station KGNU in Boulder, Caroline hosts fellow KGNU host Duncan Campbell and former Episcoplian Priest, now shamanic animist Peter Calhoun May we humans recover from our hubris and to our manners of reverently experimental egalitarian cavorting cahoots and fierce dynamic reciprocal blessing with all our relations at this time of dire beauty! The post The Visionary Activist Show – May 15, 2008 appeared first on KPFA.
The Visionary Activist Show – May 8, 2008
May 08, 2008 14:00 - 9 minutes - 10.4 MBHomage to the recently late Albert Hofman, "mystic Swiss chemist who gave the world LSD, and psilocybin," with fantabulous energy artist Alex Grey. (who will be offering 1 signed poster of Albert Hofman, as well as his book, "Transfigurations!") as we honor Hofamn, LSD, and its pertinence to Now.www.alexgrey.com The post The Visionary Activist Show – May 8, 2008 appeared first on KPFA.
The Visionary Activist Show – May 1, 2008
May 01, 2008 14:00 - 8 minutes - 10.3 MBMay Day Beltane – a Feast of Eloquence to Feed the Holy! May the truth of animism eclipse the hubris of humanism! Caroline welcomes back wildly popular life enthusiast, master of eloquence, teacher, writer, story-teller, keeper of Mayan rites of passage, Martin Prechtel.For info and his imminent California schedule – www.floweringmountain.com The post The Visionary Activist Show – May 1, 2008 appeared first on KPFA.
The Visionary Activist Show – April 24, 2008
April 24, 2008 14:00 - 8 minutes - 10.3 MBThe Tent of AbrahamA Rabbi and a Sufi walk into a bar where they meet a pantheistic animist, and this is our show today, as Caroline welcomes the co-authors of "The Tent of Abraham, Stories of Hope and Peace for Jews, Christians, and Muslims," Rabbi Arthur Waskow and Murshid Saadi Shakur Chishti (aka neil Douglas-Klotz.) The post The Visionary Activist Show – April 24, 2008 appeared first on KPFA.
The Visionary Activist Show – April 17, 2008
April 17, 2008 14:00 - 8 minutes - 9.52 MBProtecting Bonobos!Saving the World! "Waaah! Waaah!" (Bonobo greeting) Caroline welcomes Sally Jewell Coxe, president and co-founder of the Washington DC based non-profit Bonobo Conservation Initiative, whose work in the war-torn Congo with conservationists, villagers, and President Joseph Kabila, is creating not only the nearly 12,000 square mile Sankuru preserve, working intimately to improve the lives of villagers, but creates a crucial protypical model of indigenous people and their envi...
The Visionary Activist Show – April 10, 2008
April 10, 2008 14:00 - 8 minutes - 10.3 MBTibet – kinda – None of the Tibetan, or Tibetan-advocacy guests showed up – so Caroline took it solo on the news of now, and runs into some useful kerfuffle with caller at the end, and then great last caller regarding the over-simplification of the Tibet story. The post The Visionary Activist Show – April 10, 2008 appeared first on KPFA.
The Visionary Activist Show – April 3, 2008
April 03, 2008 14:00 - 8 minutes - 10.3 MBThe Future of Seeds, Food, Farming, Earth (addressing the threat of Genetic Engineering). Caroline welcomes ally Claire Hope Cummings, environmental lawyer, journalist, author of Uncertain Peril: Genetic Engineering and the Future of Seeds (Beacon Press, March 2008), that Informed dynamic reverence may be the fuel on which we run.May we mend what has been cut, availing ourselves once again of ancestral wise collaborative guidance of the seed and plant.world.www.clairehopecummings.com The p...
The Visionary Activist Show – March 27, 2008
March 27, 2008 14:00 - 8 minutes - 10.3 MBRestoring the Waters of Life to Democracy: Caroline’s Vernal Equinox AddressWhere There is Mars – Let There Be Venus- astrological * political * lecture * positive intrigue * theatre that we may be replenished and replenishing for the imminent adventures ahead, to toss the Ring of Power into the Crack of Doom, to re-animate the soul of this country that the world may bloom again. (edited to 58 minutes – for the complete talk visit www.CoyoteNetworkNews.com) The post The Visionary Activist Sho...
The Visionary Activist Show – March 20, 2008
March 20, 2008 14:00 - 8 minutes - 10.3 MBWay Holy Week!This Thursday is the Vernal Equinox, Persian and Afghani New Year, Maundy Thursday, the Eve of Purim, the 5th anniversary of the brutal invasion of Iraq, and.. the Full Moon! a week rife with symbolic and metaphoric guidance. So, more than perfectly, Caroline welcomes back long-time ally, religious scholar and political consultant Pat Ewing, that we may bring informed reverence for life to bear on our personal, collective spiritual and political lives, and cultivateliberating le...
The Visionary Activist Show – March 13, 2008
March 13, 2008 14:00 - 8 minutes - 10.3 MBWhere there is Mars – Let there be Venus! Oh, and let Americans know history!Caroline welcomes Stephen Kinzer, whose splendid book, "All the Shah’s Men," just out in paperback, and including an urgent hyper-pertinent preface, "The Folly of Attacking Iran," is a book truly that all Americans (certainly candidates) should read. Delineating not only the 1953 American coup that overthrew the democratically elected Mohammed Mossadegh, and installed the Shah, this book provides us with Venus, hist...
The Visionary Activist Show – March 6, 2008
March 06, 2008 14:00 - 8 minutes - 10.3 MB"God Bless the Grass"Caroline welcomes Sonoma County Activist, Lynn Hamilton and Mimi Kennedy, Progressive Democrats for America Chair (citizen action for a national healthcare plan), and the spirit of Grass Roots Activism quickening across the land and in each of our hearts, as we launch Healthcare Not Warfare. The post The Visionary Activist Show – March 6, 2008 appeared first on KPFA.
The Visionary Activist Show – February 28, 2008
February 28, 2008 14:00 - 9 minutes - 10.5 MBCaroline welcomes Dean Radin,Ph.D., Laboratory Director at the Institute of Noetic Sciences (worked at Bell Lab on telecommunications, two decades study on psychic phenomena in academia) that we may frolic in the Big Picture of inter-relatedness, and tease forth its implications into pragmatic mysticism. His most recent book is "Entangled Minds."www.deanradin.com The post The Visionary Activist Show – February 28, 2008 appeared first on KPFA.
The Visionary Activist Show – February 21, 2008 at 2:00pm
February 21, 2008 14:00 - 8 minutes - 10.3 MBThe post The Visionary Activist Show – February 21, 2008 at 2:00pm appeared first on KPFA.
The Visionary Activist Show – February 14, 2008
February 14, 2008 14:00 - 8 minutes - 10.3 MBCaroline welcomes, as a Valentine to us all, Joan Baez – one of the purest, most iconic, dedicated, beautiful and most beloved voices of our time. That we may compost grief into beauty, and re-dedication to music and art in service to dynamic peace. The post The Visionary Activist Show – February 14, 2008 appeared first on KPFA.
The Visionary Activist Show – February 7, 2008 at 2:00pm
February 07, 2008 14:00 - 8 minutes - 10.3 MBThe post The Visionary Activist Show – February 7, 2008 at 2:00pm appeared first on KPFA.
The Visionary Activist Show – January 24, 2008
January 24, 2008 14:00 - 8 minutes - 10.3 MBOn the Eve of Pluto’s entrance into Capricorn, (huge amplification of death and collapse re-birth and renewal), and we delve into the animating story of true leadership. Caroline welcomes Greg Sarris (author, Hollywood actor, professor at UCLA, HBO collaborator with Robert Redford, etc.) who has returned to his home in Sonoma, where he is Tribal Chief of the Miwok and Southern Pomo tribes. The post The Visionary Activist Show – January 24, 2008 appeared first on KPFA.
The Visionary Activist Show – January 17, 2008
January 17, 2008 14:00 - 8 minutes - 10.3 MBCoyote Network News Election Coverage- Part One.Caroline is joined by long-time astrological colleague-ally, Heather Roan Robbins that we may deeply delve and cavort via the astrological charts of now, the up-coming election, the founding of the country, the candidates, and how we can all be the most effective agents possible for democracy on behalf of all the critters with whom we share this planet.www.roanrobbins.com The post The Visionary Activist Show – January 17, 2008 appeared first on ...
The Visionary Activist Show – January 10, 2008
January 10, 2008 14:00 - 8 minutes - 10.3 MBCaroline welcomes back Aramaic Scholar, Neil Douglas-Klotz, who translates the teachings of Yeshua (aka Jesus), from the Aramaic, the richly poetic metaphoric vernacular of the day. (For instance: The Aramaic word for "snake," is "hewa," or "life energy", "Mother of Life", or "Eve.") Tune in for the liberating implications: that all religious war and subjugation of women and nature results from erroneous translation, both intentional, and inadvertent. www.abwoon.com The post The Visionary Ac...
The Visionary Activist Show – January 3, 2008
January 03, 2008 14:00 - 8 minutes - 10.3 MBWe begin this most auspicious year with David Aaron Holmes, whose book, "Psyche’s Palace," delineates "How the brain generates the light of the Soul." "Ablaze with the light of 100 billion sparkling neurons, the bioluminescent brain creates the sphere of the five senses and the persistent illusion of a separately existing self." The post The Visionary Activist Show – January 3, 2008 appeared first on KPFA.
The Visionary Activist Show – December 27, 2007
December 27, 2007 14:00 - 8 minutes - 10.3 MBCaroline Casey plays large portions of her In Trickster We Trust Winter Solstice presentation.(The whole address may be found at www.CoyoteNetworkNews.comor 1-888-741-GODS) The post The Visionary Activist Show – December 27, 2007 appeared first on KPFA.
The Visionary Activist Show – December 20, 2007
December 20, 2007 14:00 - 8 minutes - 10.3 MBThe Amanita Christmas Story Joining us from England to remind us of the derivation of Santa and the Raindeer and the Amanita mushroom Christmasstory is sacred plant devotee Ross Heaven The post The Visionary Activist Show – December 20, 2007 appeared first on KPFA.
The Visionary Activist Show – December 13, 2007
December 13, 2007 14:00 - 8 minutes - 10.3 MBAverting the Shopocalypse!In order to avert the dangerous distraction of the "Shopocalypse" O No! What Would Jesus Buy Caroline welcomes Rev. Billy and the Church of Stop Shopping and his now launched movie, "What Would Jesus Buy?" The post The Visionary Activist Show – December 13, 2007 appeared first on KPFA.
The Visionary Activist Show – December 6, 2007
December 06, 2007 14:00 - 8 minutes - 10.3 MBCaroline welcomes Naomi Wolf, author of The End of America: A Citizen Call to Action. We delve into the dangerous dismantling of democracy in America – that we may encourage the dynamic democracy movement which we are increasingly in cahoots. May it be so! Her site is americanfreedomcampaign.org. The post The Visionary Activist Show – December 6, 2007 appeared first on KPFA.
The Visionary Activist Show – November 29, 2007
November 29, 2007 14:00 - 8 minutes - 10.3 MBMedicine abounds! All of nature wants to heal us!Caroline welcomes botanist Stephen Buhner, whose book, "The Lost Language of Plants,"guides our indigenous souls to re-animate an informed intimacy with the world, (and thus to healsociopathic tyranny – which has gotten us all into this cruel global pickle. The post The Visionary Activist Show – November 29, 2007 appeared first on KPFA.
The Visionary Activist Show – November 22, 2007
November 22, 2007 14:00 - 8 minutes - 10.3 MBAs a holiday treat, Caroline plays a 2006 interview with listener favorite Michael Pollan, author of The Omnivore’s Dilemma. The post The Visionary Activist Show – November 22, 2007 appeared first on KPFA.
The Visionary Activist Show – November 15, 2007
November 15, 2007 14:00 - 8 minutes - 10.3 MBMars stations and retrogrades today on top of the US Sun in Cancer, signaling a necessary national vision quest to re-define heroism as cultivating and protecting life. As we re-direct our collective energy from vast to local, farming community, Caroline welcomes Mark Kastel, senior farm policy analyst for the Cornucopia Institute (check it out for useful chart of what mega-corporations have acquired "Organic" foods). The post The Visionary Activist Show – November 15, 2007 appeared first on ...
The Visionary Activist Show – November 8, 2007
November 08, 2007 14:00 - 8 minutes - 10.3 MBIn order to continue sucking the "g" out of "Kingdom," (May the Kindom of Heaven be at hand!) Caroline is joined by John Nichols, fellow presenter at this weekend’s Green Festival. Gore Vidal said, "Of all the giant slayers now afoot in the great American desert, John Nichols’ sword is the sharpest." Washington correspondent for the Nation Magazine, Nichols’ latest book,The Genius of Impeachment reminds us that the power of impeachment is in the hands of of the people rather than congress. T...
The Visionary Activist Show – November 1, 2007
November 01, 2007 14:00 - 8 minutes - 10.3 MBCaroline plays more fantabulous excerpts of her October 20th "In Trickster We Trust" delivered at Bioneers, and the recording slowly wrestled from them in bits and pieces, like Osiris’ body, being re-stitched together by the Isis-KPFA part of ourselves. The post The Visionary Activist Show – November 1, 2007 appeared first on KPFA.
The Visionary Activist Show – October 25, 2007
October 25, 2007 14:00 - 8 minutes - 10.3 MBFun Drive – Full Moon Edition in which Caroline plays a portion of her Bioneers Talk (from October 20) "In Trickster We Trust" – which is also offered as a thank you premium for donations to the Beloved Mother-ship KPFA! The post The Visionary Activist Show – October 25, 2007 appeared first on KPFA.
The Visionary Activist Show – October 18, 2007
October 18, 2007 14:00 - 8 minutes - 10.3 MBCaroline is joined by Kenny Ausubel, founder and co-president of Bioneers, a nonprofit educational organization that promotes practical environmental solutions and innovative social strategies for restoring the Earth and communities. Caroline is also joined by Nicole Sowaya, recently rehired as Executive Director of Pacifica. Sawaya’s firing as KPFA General Manager in 1999 shocked KPFA staff and listeners and led to a crisis which rocked Pacifica. The post The Visionary Activist Show – Octobe...
The Visionary Activist Show – October 11, 2007
October 11, 2007 14:00 - 8 minutes - 10.3 MBLove for the Ocean:Caroline is joined by long-time ally, Marine Acoustician Michael Stocker, www.ocr.org and senior scientist at the Ocean Conservancy, ardent ocean activist Wallace J. Nichols, that our willingness and wonder to work with the seas may eclipse our rudeness as a species, at this wild time of fluctuating force-fields where all stories can be changed. Wallace J. Nichols, Ph.D. (www.wallacejnichols.org) is a scientist, ocean activist, author and a dad. He’s senior scientist at the...
The Visionary Activist Show – October 4, 2007
October 04, 2007 14:00 - 8 minutes - 10.3 MBLove for the Ocean: Caroline is joined by long-time ally, Marine Acoustician Michael Stocker www.ocr.org and senior scientist at the Ocean Conservancy, ardent ocean activist Wallace J. Nichols www.wallacejnichols.org that our willingness and wonder to work with the seas may eclipse our rudeness as a species, at this wild time of fluctuating force-fields where all stories can be changed. Wallace J. Nichols, Ph.D. (www.wallacejnichols.org) is a scientist, ocean activist, author and a dad. He’s ...
The Visionary Activist Show – September 27, 2007
September 27, 2007 14:00 - 8 minutes - 10.3 MBPart one of Caroline’s Autumnal Equinox address "In Trickster We Trust", delivered in Washington, DC on September 23rd…The strategy and timing of Autumn, inter-woven with Balinese mythology, stories of light and dark, 9-11 eclipse, uncertain origin of bombings in Bali, as we swing into fluctuating balance in order to be agents of dynamic peace. The post The Visionary Activist Show – September 27, 2007 appeared first on KPFA.