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.
Theocratic 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, … Continued
The 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 … Continued
Homage 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
May 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 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.)
Protecting 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 … Continued
Tibet – 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 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 … Continued
Restoring 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 … Continued
Way 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 … Continued
