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
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 – 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
The Visionary Activist Show – May 7, 2009
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.
The Visionary Activist – April 30, 2009
Restoring Intimacy with Everything 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. … Continued
The Visionary Activist Show – 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. Despite our befoibled bad manners as a species, we humans are proffered an opportunity to make good, as the protoplasm of reality becomes … Continued