The Visionary Activist Show

The Visionary Activist Show

2:00 PM Pacific Time: Thursdays

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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.

The Visionary Activist Show

The Visionary Activist Show – Rousing Rising Trickster Renaissance

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Caroline plays a portion of her recent Spring Equinox talk ‘Rousing Rising Trickster Renaissance’ recorded live in Washington DC with long-time collaborative ally, Amikaeyla, drumming and singing to call in the allies, living and ancestral. Gathering Woof (animal), Adamancy (mineral – means diamond), and Entheo-Enthusiasm (plant allies: enthusos means that which encourages the Divine within us to evanesce) to honor and animate this Re-birth Equinox, allying with the vitality of … Continued

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The Visionary Activist Show – Trickster Freedom from Bamboozling Con

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Caroline welcomes liberating satiric genius Tony Vigorito, author of (cannot recommend highly enough) spicy, liberating trickster novel, “Love and Other Pranks.” “May be the single wildest novel I’ve ever read. It rings the cosmic gong on so many levels, turns so many stereotypes inside out, one scarcely knows what to do but hold on and … Continued

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The Visionary Activist Show – [updated] Standing Rock Persisting Everywhere!

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This week, joyfully, Caroline welcomes influential Story Crafters for Sane Reverence: Phyllis Young, leader in American Indian Movement, and her ally film-maker Tricia van Klaveren, making “Guardians of the Water,” a film to debut at the Standing Rock Film Festival… Composting Colonialism into nutrient for Sane Reverence. And weaving in Mitchell Zephier, Executive Director of … Continued

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The Visionary Activist Show – Maria Moon on Butoh

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Caroline welcomes Maria Moon to explore how Butoh plays with the wild tide of now – re-establishing equilibrium and unification with a certain lovely strangeness.  Maria also proffers an invitation to the First Annual Birth of Butoh festival, taking place on Sunday March 12th at the Berkeley Art Center in North Berkley’s Live Oak Park from … Continued

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The Visionary Activist Show – Re*Play of Dark of Moon Council

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Slight backstage kerfuffles have shifted our plans – Today: Re*Play of Dark of Moon Council (01.26.17) – Caroline welcomes Patricia Ewing at our Dark of Moon Council, where we compost conniption fits and harumphitude, transform anger into desire, and derive our strategy from Aikido’s Art of Peace. Caroline planned to welcome influential Story Crafters for Sane Reverence: Phyllis Young, … Continued

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The Visionary Activist Show – Salam-Shalom!

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Salam-Shalom! “Peace is not the absence of war – but the presence of One!” sayeth Deborah Felmeth, whom Caroline welcomes as her guest today. Deborah files scouting reports of Defiant Joy, having returned from 3 months in Syria, her beloved home. She is the author of the beautiful book of her photographs: “Syria-Remember Me” http://syria-remember-me.com/ ” The … Continued

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The Visionary Activist Show – Liberating Satire and a Great Environmental Victory

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Our first guest Mark Bryan, a visual satirical genius: “Raised in the middle class suburbs of Los Angeles County during the 1950s and 60s, Bryan was immersed in the popular culture of that time and place. Low budget Sci-Fi and horror movies, Super hero comic books, Mad Magazine, surrealist art and later the psychedelic work of … Continued