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.

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.

www.AlcoholCanBeaGas.com

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!

www.anielski.com

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 materia in alchemy, and our deteriorating global sanitation infra-structure which poses more risk, causes more death, than anything else we fear. Like the best of reggae - the darker the lyrics, the jauntier the tune, Rose George is a deft, witty and profound contributer catalyst to the conversations and resulting action we all must undertake.

www.rosegeorge.com

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.

www.mystrokeofinsight.com

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.

Full Venus Woof - Here comes the Energy of Amazon, Durga, Sekhmet, Nemesis, and the Trickster Wrathful Dakinis!
Caroline welcomes long-time astrological ally Daniel Giamario (www.shamanicastrology.com) to navigationally guide us through the Mars-Venus cycles of now (with whom all indigenous traditions are intimate) with their pertinence to our personal and collective lives.

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.
Despite our befoibled bad manners as a species, we humans are proffered an opportunity to make good, as the protoplasm of reality becomes particularly susceptible to imaginative reverence.

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.

Caroline re-plays Part One of her Spring Address: Green Fire! Vernal Equinox CSI with Celtic Harpist Lee Davenport.

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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.

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.

www.redzone.org

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.

www.AlcoholCanBeaGas.com

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.

www.GreenBuilding.com

Caroline welcomes a council of young leaders all of whom are skookum community catalysts for dynamic environmental, economic global and local change: Adrienne Marie Brown - Executive Director of Ruckus; Marcie Smith - senior at Transylvania University in Lexington, Kentucky; Juan Martinez - Cal State LA student from South Central LA; Indigenous Environmental Network leader Kandi Mosset from the Mandan Tribe in North Dakota; and Grant Joseph - Restoring Eden Evangelical youth leader from Minneapolis.

Let's invite Venus, art, beauty and intimacy back from her exile,
to be honored as a leading evolutionary ally, with author Denis Dutton, joining us from New Zealand, with his book, The Art Instinct, a Darwinian honoring of the evolutionary adaptogen leadership of art. (Link)

DENIS DUTTON, a philosopher, is founder and editor of the highly regarded web publication, Arts & Letters Daily (www.aldaily.com). He teaches the philosophy of art at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand, writes widely on aesthetics. and is editor of the journal Philosophy and Literature, and the author of the recently published The Art Instinct: Beauty, Pleasure and Human Evolution.

Yo Team take heart! Caroline welcomes long-time mega-effective community organizer green activist Trickster, Paul Glover, whose manifest solutions to Philadelphia can apply to any city. While composting the snark (of those who derive status and/or identity from fear, cynicism, privileged counter-democratic condescension)—as one of the ingredients from which the desirable future sprouts and blooms. Paul writes "To hell with tragedy. Let's quit dreading the news...There are Philadelphia solutions for every Philadelphia problem." and so for every other place of condition. Onward Team o' Tricksters.

Read Paul's article Prepare for the Best: A guide to surviving—and thriving in—Philadelphia's new green future.

http://www.paulglover.org

Caroline welcomes 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.

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Animating the Spirit of Democracy Animistic pantheistic conjuring at the Jefferson Memorial, Washington DC Three Native Washington DC women—Caroline Casey, Caroline Kenner, and Katrina Messenger convene a ceremony of Blessing and Woof with contributions from many earnest and/or playful traditions dedicating to the magic of this time—Inauguration 09.

For our live Brer Rabbit jump through the doorway into 2009, Caroline welcomes inspirational embodiment of Compassionate Trickster,Tim DeChristopher, who on December 19th, as a Trickster Agent of the CommonWealth, and supported by all the flora and fauna of this planet, saw the open door of opportunity and jumped right through to disrupt the BLM oil and gas auction by bidding against participating oil & gas companies. He ended up "winning" the leases for 22,500 acres of beautiful land near Moab. You can find more details at www.bidder70.org.

His actions have struck an inspirational resonant chord of support. Tim writes:

"In addition to the moving effect on me, this support has also opened up the real possibility of paying off the leases which I "won". The initial payment on this, required to secure the land, is around $45,000. After a good deal of struggling over this choice, I have decided to raise the money to secure the leases. With much advice from my legal team, it has become clear to me that making the down payment on the leases is the best way to protect the land until we can restore open, transparent and democratic procedures for determining the fate of valuable public lands.

Please donate to help protect these 22,500 acres of wilderness (and reduce the chance of prison for me). Together we can protect this land and show that we are all willing to make the sacrifices necessary for a livable future."

Broadcast of Caroline's Winter Solstice address, Making Light of Darkness with music by Imani As Empire goes down (ED = "Empire Disfunction") into the roiling Cauldron of Rebirth, the culture of collaborative ingenious reverent cahoots spirals up from the froth.

Navigating instructions for the transition from 2008-2009, complete with how to hitch a ride on a spiral.

As we dive into this Mother of All Winter Solstices, to compost tyranny within and without as rich nutrient for emergent culture of reverent ingenuity, Caroline welcomes Philip Slater, prolific author of the perennially pertinent "The Pursuit of Loneliness," the novel, "How I Saved the World," and the just released at this perfect time, "The Chrysalis Effect."

www.philipslater.com

On this Full Moon eve of Santa Lucia, Virgen de Guadelupe, pre Winter Solstice, Caroline takes it solo, to delve into the ancient festive astro*mythic*political news of now: I Ching divination Amanita Mushroom gloriouly pagan Lord of Misrule Christmas Winter Solstice story with late great ancestral ally Jack Langstaff. And for extra style Pluto conjunct the Winter Solstice Sun! Mega-death-re-birth transformation time.

Caroline welcomes Dr.Ethan Russo, neurologist, entheogenic scientist
lead author for the research team that discovered
oldest stash ever—2700 year old marijuana placed in shaman's grave in China,
"the oldest documentation of cannabis as a pharmacologically active agent"

Article Link  •  Journal of Experimental Botany Research Paper  •  Supplementary Data

Caroline welcomes prize-winning LA Times journalist Tim Reiterman, author of the recently re-published "Raven—The Untold Story of the Rev Jim Jones and His People." Reiterman was wounded on the jungle airstrip attack that killed Rep. Leo Ryan and 3 reporters and a temple defector 30 years ago.

30th anniversaries are opportune times to glean lessons about leadership, and the toxic-mimic of leadership—the tyrannical father, reminding us to never surrender our autonomy, to break the spell of the con, who lures people with the bait of the desirable community dream, into a death-dealing trap.

Caroline welcomes pragmatic mystic of food, Jessica Prentice,
author of "Full Moon Feast, Food and the Hunger for Connection"
recipes and guiding food wisdom. (Poisonous food as agent of coloniaism, instant food keeps a populace infantilised.
Local vital food encourages democracy to bloom!
May it be so!

Learn more: www.localfoodswheel.com  •  www.threestonehearth.com

We have elected Barack Obama,
which means "Bless the Good!"

Caroline welcomes back Pat Ewing, political operative, Biblical scholar, as we discern the practical, political and mythological strategy to animate the most desirable democratic pantheistic story.