2:00 PM Pacific Time: Thursdays
Dedicated 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.
“How should America act in the world?” Caroline welcomes the return of Stephen Kinzer, great narrative guide of liberating lucidity re roots of American Empire, and U.S. messing with so may nations’ elections, just to keep our perspective…Deep delving and prolific, he is the author of “All The Shah’s Men,” and many other esssential books … Continued
Death, Sex, Money, Power, Age: all sacred – orthodoxed into Taboo, now liberated back to vernacular sacred, through the agency of Stephen Jenkinson – filing scouting reports from the life-death border… Guiding us to “Come of Age,” by honoring age. “Stephen is a teacher, author, storyteller, spiritual activist, farmer and founder of the Orphan Wisdom … Continued
Caroline hosts Dr. Joe Tafur, Colombian-American family physician originally from Phoenix, Arizona. After training at UCLA, Dr. Tafur spent two years in academic research at the UCSD Department of Psychiatry in a lab focused on mind-body medicine. After his research fellowship, over a period of six years, he lived and worked in the Peruvian Amazon at … Continued
Caroline welcomes fellow Pragmatic Mystic – Jihan McDonald, dedicated to “Beloved Community as a mycelial healing network.” “No isolated crises – all crisis of isolation…” Let us be deep delving detectives, that we may all be Culture Doctors. Jihan McDonald has received the Alpha Della Leadership Award and Change-maker Fellowship for developing allies for life. … Continued
Caroline welcomes the return of Marine Acoustician, Michael Stocker (Scientist, Jazz Musician), with a bevy of wondrous Ocean recordings to guide us into intimacy with that which we must protect from the on-going war on life. The present dangers and ways we can participate in protecting the Ocean. Honoring the Arctic Ringed Seal and their … Continued
Caroline welcomes two of her favorite humans, agents of Sane Reverence. In the first half hour, we welcome the indefatigable, intrepid agent of dynamic Peace (retired Col) Ann Wright, Code Pink ally, just returned from International Peace Conference in South Korea, held in the DMZ border city of Cheorwon. Ann writes, “We climbed a nearby … Continued
Caroline welcomes Lisa Gautier, as we animate the Rising Renaissance of Reverent Ingenuity, we concentrate on what we do want: the upcoming People’s Climate Summit in San Francisco, Matter of Trust’s hair and fur project for cleaning up diesel oils spills, Global compost project, heartening global work on clean energy, clean water, batteries, and the metaphysics … Continued
Caroline is currently in India convening a physically manifested Trickster Training Council, she returns for next week’s show. Today we air a selection of an oldie but goodie, “Scheherazade Saves the World” – this talk marks the beginning of the Scheherazade series and includes both Stephen Kent (on didgeridoo) and Ida Maxim (singing beauty into … Continued
This week on The Visionary Activist Show, we re·play an especially lively radio romp with poet, Aphorism Genie, Yahia Lababidi, while Caroline convenes a two-week council in Goa, India. “Salvation lies on the other side of danger.” -Yahia Lababidi [Show originally aired 11.09.2017] Support The Visionary Activist Show on Patreon for RSS podcast feed ($1/month), weekly … Continued
Caroline hosts long-time radio-guest ally, Deborah Felmeth, from Syria, joining us from Kuwait (may the gods of audio connection be willing!) on our Dark of Moon rendezvous path to convening Trickster Council in India. The syncretizing sacrament of crossing borders, and dissolving them as we do. Convening Bodhisattva Coyote’s astro*mytho cross-cultural Middle Eastern/South Asian cahoot. … Continued
