The Visionary Activist Show
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.
The Visionary Activist Show – The Hummingbird’s Daughter; Compassion Trumps Tyranny
Caroline welcomes Luis Alberto Urrea, the author of her current favorite novel in the world "The Hummingbird's Daughter."His ancestress, the historically based heroine, Teresita, follows the path of The Medicine Woman as antidote to colonial tyranny.She is the part of us that never wavers, no matter how great the cruelty, from reverent ingenious spiralling dynamic … Continued
The Visionary Activist Show – Raven Rattle Radio
"See, that raven rattle says, this is how we are, inextricably one with everything, however tricked, riding in fact on the back of trickiness itself." William KittredgeJoining Caroline, to ride on the back of trickiness itself, are long-time allies Carolyn Raffensperger, Future Guardian, effective advocate for all us flora and faunawww.sehn.org as well as Alex … Continued
The Visionary Activist Show – Summer Solstice Celebration
The Wedding of Venus and Mars, spiralling all that has been falsely estranged back into dynamic harmony. With Amikaeyla Gaston, recorded live at Ashkenaz in Berkeley, Sunday June 21, 2009
The Visionary Activist Show – This Solstice Wedding of Mars and Venus
Is a time for spiralling all that has been falsely estranged (a cheap trick of Empire) back into dynamic democratic accord. (Left and right hemispheres, pragmatism and mysticism, activism and magic, humans and pretty much everything else…all are called to this wedding dance.Sharing a dedication to the Compassionate Trickster, Caroline welcomes Dreaming Bear, Lebanese-Cherokee-American-Bard-Evangelical Juju … Continued
The Visionary Activist Show – Wedding the land
Caroline welcomes story-teller-bard Martin Shaw, author of "A Branch From the Lightning Tree, Ecstatic Myth and Grace in Wildness," to co-narrate the sky-earth story guiding us to the Summer Solstice wedding of Venus and Mars. We draw upon dark chivalry to invite the man and woman within us all to wed the land once more. … Continued
The Visionary Activist Show – The Economics of Happiness, Building Genuine Wealth
Caroline welcomes ally Mark Anielski, ecological economist, Professor of Business and Economics, currently advising the Chinese government on greening GDP accounting, president of his family-owned corporation, which specializes in the economics of well-being, author of "The Economics of Happiness.""A genuinely wealthy community is one which has articulated its values and lives accordingly," dedicated to the … Continued
The Visionary Activist Show – The Big Necessity, Human Waste and Why it Matters
Caroline welcomes Rose George, author of "The Big Necessity, Human Waste and Why it Matters," who, in the tradition of all great women, has journeyed to the Underworld, literally, and returned to tell a story essential to everyone who eats,"up-loads" and thus must "down-load." It is (way past) time to speak about the unspeakable, prima … Continued
The Visionary Activist Show – May 14, 2009
Caroline welcomes brain scientist, true Medicine Woman, Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor, presenter of the TED talk narrating her stroke, guiding us into intimacy with our brains, that we may remember, "we are the life force power of the universe, and may "choose to run the deep inner peace circuitry of the right hemispheres of our … Continued