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Caroline's Visionary Activist Radio Show is a constantly evolving experiment in Radio Magic. Her show provides the Mythological News, the Themes of Now, and has as guests anyone with a piece of the puzzle for Dreaming, Conjuring and Implementing a more lovingly ingenious world. Listen Live to the Visionary Activist Show!
Next Show: March 11, 2010 at 2pm PT. Most Recent Broadcasts of the Visionary Activist Show:
Sarah Palin a Populist?
On this last day of Fund Drive Caroline welcomes Charles Postel, author of "The Populist Vision"
Healing the Ocean!
Healing the Ocean! Full Moon High-tide now in Pisces is specifically
indigenously known as the Heal the Ocean Full Moon, so our timing is
apt. The currents and winds are with us...
Be the Change!
Caroline welcomes ally writer and documentary film maker Anneke Campbell, co-author with Thomas Linzey (The Democracy School) of "BE the Change: How to Get What You Want In Your Community"
Replay: Interview with Pir Zia from December 3, 2009
Caroline welcomes Pir Zia, the spiritual leader of the Sufi Order Interational, and dedicated to Green Hermeticism,, the ecologically- oriented revivification of Hermetic and alchemical wisdom. He is dedicated to cultivating awareness of the unity of existence and the qualities of heart that naturally arise from this awareness: nobility of character, genuine civility, and creative optimism.
Apocalyptic Buddhist Noir
Joining us from Bangkok, Thailand, Caroline welcomes back her favorite detective novel author, John Burdett, author of "Bangkok 8,"etc. and his latest, "The God-father of Kathmandu," (a multi-dimensional, deep-delving Underworld tour of Apocalyptic Buddhism, Tantric sex, "farang" (white people) spiritual third world narcolepsy, drug smuggling in service to Tibet, dedicated to the maturation of Global mind, profoundly pertinent, riveting,witty tale.
Carbon and Spirit:
Creating a Reverent Energy Economy
Caroline welcomes Chip Comins, long-time catalyst for a renewable
The New Green Economy
Caroline welcomes Bob Gough, secretary for Inter-Tribal Coup, and lawyer for the Lakota Sioux, indefatigable agent of Red Green Power, the development of Wind Power, allying ancient infinite Power with reverently collaborative new technology on Native American reservations. as we both report/cavort on the Conference on The New Green Economy being held in DC.
Medical Cannabis!
Caroline welcomes, at this mega-Saturn time, (Saturn stationing, Solar Eclipse in Capricorn) advocate for Saturn plant ally—Medical Cannabis—Stephen DeAngelo, Executive Director and Chief Inspirational Visioner of Harborside Health Center in Oakland, California. Stephen joins me here in DC where he is collaborating with activists to implement DC's Medical Cannabis Law (passed in 1998, vetoed by Congress, now impediments being eclipsed. May it be so!)
We closed last year with Dolphin Radio, we open this New Year with Wolf Radio, that we may mend our broken treaties with our fellow companions on this beautiful planet. Caroline welcomes global activist, Professor and conservation specialist and part-Wolf in human guise—Wolf advocate Rick Steiner.
Illuminating the Obscene to Save our Dolphin kin - see the movie "The Cove."
On this New Year's Eve Kinship with all life Full Moon in Cancer - Caroline welcomes Ric O'Barry, who created "Flipper", and the dolphin "entertainment" industry and has spent the last 35 years dismantling this same industry of enslaving and slaughtering dolphins. We encourage all sane and reverent people to be informed, see "The Cove," the movie which illuminates the obscene ("obscene" is a Greek Theatrical stage direction which mean "off stage, not shown.") slaughter and capture of dolphins in Taiji, Japan. As Ric will guide us, we must and we can stop this slaughter, and the marketing of highly toxic (mega-Mercury levels) dolphin meat. May we humans resolve to mend our broken treaties with the rest of creation.
December 24, 2009 Show
Convening the Compassionate Trickster Round Table to consider the guiding Cahoot of Now
astrological*political*mythological*story-telling with chief Trickster for Coyote Network News Caroline W. Casey that we may be ever more effective players on the Team of Creation at this time of Dire Beauty.
Spontaneous Evolution- Our Positive Future
Caroline welcomes the return of Bruce Lipton, joining us from the future in New Zealand, and his collaborative co-author of Spontaneous Evolution- Our Positive Future (and a way to get there from here) - Steve Bhaerman, aka Swami Beyondananda, that we all may cavort in justified defiant good cheer (with full acknowledgment of bleakness.)
The Work of Beauty is Before Us...
Caroline is joined by KPFA Craft Faire ally organizer Jan Etre to honor the souk, the fair, the realm of hand-made (and possibly - insh'allah, joined by ally Deborah Felmeth from the Mountains above Beirut to further honor the souk...)...That informed reverence for life and dedication to dynamic beauty may once again assume cultural leadership.
Caroline welcomes Pir Zia, the spiritual leader of the Sufi Order Interational, and dedicated to Green Hermeticism,, the ecologically- oriented revivification of Hermetic and alchemical wisdom. He is dedicated to cultivating awareness of the unity of existence and the qualities of heart that naturally arise from this awareness: nobility of character, genuine civility, and creative optimism.
Replay: Trickster Medicine - Pragmatic Mysticism and More!
Caroline plays a great portion of the collaborative presentation that she and Dr. Andrew Weil gave at Bioneers on October 17th.
"Had it with 2012 abdication of human responsibility?!"
Caroline welcomes long-time Scorpio, Josh Baran, founder aeons ago, of "Sorting it Out," for people leaving any spiritual group that had become tyrannical, so that we may dish on predictive non-sense, faux teachers and the myriad ways that humans try to weasel (apologies to actual) weasels out of responsibility for the rude planetary mess we as a species have imposed on everyone else.
November 12, 2009 Show
From the Streets to the Stars: Inviting and Directing Power via Artful Expressions of Dedicated Kinship!
Caroline welcomes agent of Green For All and co-founder of Art in Action, Alli Chagi-Starr, and Ashel Eldridge aka Seasunz, Hip Hop artist and Educator with the Alliance for Climate Education. They are two of the founders of the CommuniTree Project, and are promoting a cosmological tour with urban youth, "From the Streets to the Stars."
November 5, 2009 Show
Ocean to humans - "No more plastic."
Caroline welcomes back Marine acoustician, effective advocate for the Ocean, Michael Stocker,
The Power of Story
Prompted by listener enthusiasm, Caroline welcomes Charles Eisenstein the author of The Ascent of Humanity: The Age of Separation, the Age of Reunion, and the convergence of crises that is birthing the transition - a book about the history and future of civilization from a unique perspective: the evolution of the human sense of self.
Trickster Medicine - Pragmatic Mysticism and More!
Caroline plays a great portion of the collaborative presentation that she and Dr. Andrew Weil gave at Bioneers on October 17th. ![]() ![]()
October 15, 2009 Show
2009 Brower Youth Awards for Environmental Cultural Leadership
Traditionally elders and youth leaders would gather at this Dark of Moon to guide humans back into collaborative cahoots with all our relations...So, more than perfectly Caroline welcomes 2 of this year's Brower Youth Awards winners: Diana Lopez (age 20) from San Antonio Texas, who created the Roots of Change Community Garden in a contaminated industrial area (www.swunion.org), and Sierra Crane-Murdoch (age 21), co-founder and National Director of Power Past Coal, building national pressure to move past coal. Also joining this team will be Sharon Smith Program Director for Brower Youth Awards and its mother the Earth Island Institute.
(Amazingly still in) Fund Drive...
Caroline welcomes long-time ally, fellow esotericist, Occ-sci major Dr. Andrew Weil, whose latest book "Why Our Health Matters" contains great common sense and guidance.
Fund Drive
in which Caroline plays the first half of her Equinox address with Martin Shaw, The Wolf and Bear Travelling Medicine Show of Equinoctial Eloquence, and offers many enticements to support our beloved Mother-ship, KPFA.
Fund Drive
Caroline plays a goodly portion of her recent Equinox address, The Wolf and Bear Equinoctial Eloquence Medicine Show in collaborative cahoots with Dartmoorian story-teller Martin Shaw... No show was broadcast on 9/17/09
Marie Laveau's Birthday!
To honor the great Voodoo Queen of New Orleans, Caroline welcomes back (for the 1st portion of the show) New Orleans native, research professor of anthropology at the University of New Orleans, Martha Ward, author of the only reliable biography of Marie Laveau, Voodoo Queen.
Honoring New Orleans
(5th anniversary of Katrina) with 9th ward resident, creator of the Museum of House and Feathers, From the web site: Since 2006, the museum has become an important gathering place for scholars, activists, students, neighbors, and volunteers to talk about the history and culture of the Lower Nine, and to discuss the rebuilding of New Orleans. The museum has also hosted numerous meetings, workshops, and gatherings for people who are working to make things happen in New Orleans. Visitors to the House of Dance and Feathers experience the power of self-representation and the value of cultural exchange. Mr. Lewis is currently working with Rachel Breunlin and the Neighborhood Story Project to produce a museum catalogue. In his museum tours and public talks, Mr. Lewis speaks eloquently about the social significance of place, family, and cultural traditions in community-building, and he has been an outspoken advocate for a resident-led rebuilding of the Lower Ninth Ward.
Partners and Supporters of the House of Dance and Feathers
The Power of Eloquence, Story and Metaphor
The power of eloquence, story and metaphor: "Martin Prechtel is a master of eloquence and innovative language...whose work, both written and oral, promotes the subtle irony and pre-modern vitality hidden in any living language."
On Church and State (replay)
Barry Lynn, Executive Director of Americans United for the Separation of Church and State and author of Piety & Politics: The Right-Wing Assault on Religious Freedom. www.au.org Jeff Sharlet, author of The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power. www.jeffsharlet.com
Sailing with the Ancestral Boat of Allies—Honoring Rev. Ike
Rev. Ike, who died July 28th at 5:04 PM, poured forth Joy, bravado, enthusiasm, humor, eloquence, unexpected language in service to practical wisdom - to brew a powerful Medicine to contribute to our collective world elixir. http://www.youtube.com/user/giftofmoney | www.revike.org His Ministry offers free gifts of Rev. Ike's Thinkonomics e-book, a 7-lesson visualization course, and free audio prayer treatments. To sign up for these gifts go to www.ScienceOfLivingOnline.com
Replay of All the Shah's Men
Caroline interviews Stephen Knizer, author of All the Shah's Men.
Navajo Nation Leads Indian Country with New Green Jobs Legislation
Caroline welcomes Wahleah Johns and Enei Begaye, 2 Navajo Tribal leaders, co-founders of Black Mesa Water Coalition to celebrate, encourage and nourish the passing of the Navajo Green Economy Legislation on July 21st the Solar Eclipse Care-taking of Mother Earth New Moon in Cancer.
Honoring the Story-tellers Who are Leaving Us Now (and Fund Raiser)
Caroline pays homage to Rev. Ike who is leaving us now, "If we can dream it up we can dream it down,"
REPLAY: Raven Rattle Radio
A replay of Raven Rattle Radio with Carolyn Raffensperger and Alex Steffan, originally aired on 7/2/09.
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.
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 Kittredge Joining Caroline, to ride on the back of trickiness itself, are long-time allies Carolyn Raffensperger, Future Guardian, effective advocate for all us flora and fauna www.sehn.org "Look and listen for the welfare of the whole people and have always in view not only the present but also the coming generations, even those whose faces are yet beneath the surface of the earth - the unborn of the future Nation." -Constitution of the Five Nations
June 25, 2009 Show
Caroline Casey's Summer Solstice Celebration
The Wedding of Venus and Mars, spiralling all that has been falsely estranged back into dynamic harmony. with Amikaeyla Gaston
The Solstice Wedding of Mars and Venus This Solstice Wedding of Mars and Venus is a time for spiralling all that has been falsely estranged (a cheap trick of Empire)
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.
REPLAY: Green Fire for Spring - Alcohol Can Be a Gas! Part 2!
This episode of The Visionary Activist Show is a replay of Caroline's March 19 interview with David Blume. Caroline welcomes back long-time permaculture bio-fuels teacher activist genie, David Blume, Executive Director of the International Institute for Ecological Agriculture, dispelling objections with gleeful informed ingenuity, David opens the door for us all to go through into an ingenious and witty democratic community future (composting corporate tyranny as a bi-product). May every rude human kerfuffle catalyze human ingenuity! Onward team o tricksters and pragmatic mystics.
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 flourishing well-being of all life in dynamic accord. May it be so!
The Big Necessity, Human Waste and Why it Matters
Caroline welcomes Rose George, author of "The Big Necessity, Human Waste and Why it Matters,"
My Stroke of Insight
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 brain." She made her arduous journey of recovery, contributing essential narrative and knowledge to the collective elixir we are all brewing for the world at this time of dire beauty.
Slow Money
Caroline welcomes, in the midst of KPFA Fund Drive, with a few Mercury retrograde techno-kerfuffles, Woody Tasch, author of "Slow Money," an invocation of the necessary new slow earth-based local-global economy.
Restoring Intimacy with Everything
Full Venus Woof - Here comes the Energy of Amazon, Durga, Sekhmet, Nemesis, and the Trickster Wrathful Dakinis!
Full-Woof Venus: The Gods' Bail-Out Offer!
Caroline welcomes fellow Water Dragon astrological story-teller Antero Alli that we may animate the astro*mythological*political* meta-story of now, within which lies the bail-out offer to the humans from the rest of creation.
KPFA-Pacifica's Birthday Council of Calling in The Ancestral Voices
(welcoming presents— donations from the listening community to KPFA on this most auspicious solar return!) An astrological reading of KPFA-Pacifica's chart, both delineating the powerful transits that provide navigational guidance for Pacifica and for each of us, and inviting power from the ancestor voices (Pacifica Archives) to gather clarity and woof for us all to best contribute to the culture of reverent ingenuity emerging from the rubble of Empire. In accord, also playing Part 2 of Caroline's Vernal Equinox CSI address, and honoring all great gatherings, including the up-coming New Living Expo www.newlivingexpo.com. Purchase the full recording of Caroline's Vernal Equinox CSI address.
April 9, 2009 Show
Green Fire! Vernal Equinox CSI
Caroline re-plays Part One of her Spring Address: Green Fire! Vernal Equinox CSI with Celtic Harpist Lee Davenport.
Mending Our Broken Treaties with Flora and Fauna
To further guide us humans to dynamic collaboration with animals and plants, Caroline welcomes Scotty Johnson, Senior Outreach Coordinator for Defenders of Wildlife, lover of wild places, dedicated to protecting our wild kin, and guiding us to have ever more-informed reverence for life.
Exxon Valdez: Vernal Equinox-CSI
To animate this New Moon in Aries,Venus' Underworld journey, and the 20th anniversary of the Exxon Valdez oil spill in Prince William Sound, Alaska, on Good Friday March 24, 1989 - we activate our inner and outer CSI, to investigate the crime, gather force for redress, and greater determination to protect the wild beauty with which we are entrusted, Caroline welcomes back Gwitch'in elder, Sarah James, and pragmatic environmental mystic, Dune Lankard...Right Now Mount Redoubt is continuing to erupt 100 miles SW of Anchorage, placing Chevron's oil storage tanks on Drift River in jeopardy. Once again we send out the call to all pragmatic mystics at this time of dire beauty.
Green Fire for Spring - Alcohol Can Be a Gas! Part 2!
Caroline welcomes back long-time permaculture bio-fuels teacher activist genie, David Blume, Executive Director of the International Institute for Ecological Agriculture, dispelling objections with gleeful informed ingenuity, David opens the door for us all to go through into an ingenious and witty democratic community future (composting corporate tyranny as a bi-product). May every rude human kerfuffle catalyze human ingenuity! Onward team o tricksters and pragmatic mystics.
Caroline welcomes Pluto as this week's guest, in myriad forms: "Illinois declares Pluto is still a planet!" and in one of her favorite Plutonic life-forms, mega-influential Green Builder, David Johnston. Interested in engaging Caroline to speak at an upcoming event or to bring her Visionary Activist Trainings to your next conference? Collaborate! Save this page on del.icio.us: |
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