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At a time when political polarization, dysfunction, and confusion seem to be at an all-time high, and when noise and static seem to be drowning out sane discourse … the Wiki Politiki Radio Show offers a heartening alternative: Fun, laughter, constructive conversation, and insight. Its purpose is to cultivate the wisdom of many perspectives, and create generative conversations to help us work together to find real solutions to the problems we face … or as Swami would say, “Let’s bring left and right front and center to turn the funk into function, and leave the junk at the junction.” Each week on the Wiki Politiki Radio Show, host Steve Bhaerman (also known as cosmic comic Swami Beyondananda) will bring two “visionary, solutionary” voices to the show to offer their viewpoints, and then collaborate to find a wiser way forward. We’re not expecting our guests to agree about everything. That would be boring and unproductive! We do expect that by speaking clearly and listening respectfully, there will be some “Aha’s” and new pathways for co-creation. And there will be plenty of ha-ha’s as well, as Steve and Swami bring much-needed humor to the political landscape. Even though the show is called Wiki Politiki, the topics and guests will represent a wide range of fields — from spirituality and psychology to economy and ecology, health and wellbeing, and of course, politics. The politics will not focus on the entrenched and clichéd conversations between polarized tribes, but rather on the “meta-issues” that help us rise above and see from a higher perspective. Listen Live every Tuesday at 5 PM EST at http://omtimes.com/iom

Episodes

  • Norlyn Dimmitt - Activating the 76%

    30/12/2020 Duration: 56min

    Norlyn Dimmitt – Activating the 76%Can the “Beloved Community” Help us Rediscover Our Collective Core Values?Aired Tuesday, December 29, 2020 at 2:00 PM PST / 5:00 PM ESTAn Interview with Visionary Activist Norlyn Dimmitt“Of course Jesus believed in evolution, otherwise he would have said, ‘Now don’t do a thing until I return.’” — Swami BeyondanandaI’ve said it before, and it looks like this is going to become a broken record for my Wiki Politiki broadcasts for this coming year – we have a deeply UNITED body politic in that more than three quarters of us want to cooperate and collaborate, rather than fight one another.When this week’s guest, visionary activist Norlyn Dimmitt asserted that 76% of Americans want to come together to solve problems, it reminded me of something that happened nearly 25 years ago. I was listening to a talk by spiritual psychologist Patricia Sun, and she recounted a presentation she gave at a new age bookstore. Outside the bookstore were four fundamentalist Christians picketing the b

  • Marianne Williamson - Christmas In the Trenches, Revisited

    23/12/2020 Duration: 56min

    Marianne Williamson – Christmas In the Trenches, RevisitedCan America’s Warring Parties Emerge From Entrenched Positions and Find Our Sane and Sacred Center?Aired Tuesday, December 22, 2020 at 2:00 PM PST / 5:00 PM ESTAn Interview with Author and 2020 Presidential Candidate Marianne Williamson“It’s time for conservatives to come out of their Fox-holes, and progressives out of their NPR-holes – time to play truce or consequences.” — Swami BeyondanandaIt used to be that the “work of heart” I most associated with Christmas was the Frank Capra movie, “It’s A Wonderful Life.” But ever since my friend Shanti Norman recorded John McCutcheon’s song, “Christmas in the Trenches” in 2000, I have held that extraordinary piece of work as best symbolizing the light that can shine in times of greatest darkness.After World War I started in 1914, the Pope suggested a truce around Christmas time. The generals pursuing the war didn’t like this idea one bit, and in fact one of their concerns was that the enemy trenches were so c

  • Michael Lerner - Revolutionary Love

    16/12/2020 Duration: 56min

    Michael Lerner – Revolutionary LoveA “Humanifesto” for A Caring SocietyAired Tuesday, December 15, 2020 at 2:00 PM PST / 5:00 PM ESTAn Interview with Spiritual Political Activist Rabbi Michael Lerner“When a global Marshall Plan replaces the current ‘martial plan’ humankind will finally live up to its name.” — Swami BeyondanandaThere is a concept in Jewish theology called Tikkun Olam, roughly translated as the healing of the world. According to 16th century Rabbi Isaac Luria, in order to set the world right humans must be involved in this repair of the world. In our own times, this call for restoring wholeness has been taken up by this week’s Wiki Politiki guest, Rabbi Michael Lerner, founder of Tikkun magazine and of Beyt Tikkun synagogue in Berkeley, California.Rabbi Lerner is the author of several groundbreaking books, including The Politics of Meaning: Restoring Hope and Possibility in an Age of Cynicism, which caught the attention of Bill and Hillary Clinton, who invited him to stay at the White House. Te

  • Susan Sparks - Can Laughter REALLY Bring Us Together?

    09/12/2020 Duration: 56min

    Susan Sparks – Can Laughter REALLY Bring Us Together?This Trial Lawyer Turned Baptist Minister and Stand-Up Comic Thinks So Aired Tuesday, December 8, 2020 at 2:00 PM PST / 5:00 PM EST An Interview With “Stand-Up Minister” and Author Susan Sparks“If we want peace in the Mideast, first we need to have peace in the Midwest.” — Swami BeyondanandaWe’ve all heard the saying that laughter is healing, and you probably have heard the story about the writer Norman Cousins. Back in the 1970s, he was diagnosed with a life-threatening illness that was so serious I can’t even pronounce it. Instead of checking into a hospital, he checked into a hotel room with Marx Brothers movies and Candid Camera re-runs – and he got well. His book, Anatomy of An Illness, caused quite a stir, and medical science began studying the healing power of humor – which is kind of like, well it works in practice, but does it work in theory?Yes, laughter CAN heal … as we recognize that the true meaning of the word “healing” is to “restore wholenes

  • Steven Jay - Out of the Matrix and Into the Creatrix

    02/12/2020 Duration: 56min

    Steven Jay – Out of the Matrix and Into the CreatrixNew Collaborative Media Platform Is Where the REAL Reset Is HappeningAired Tuesday, December 1, 2020 at 2:00 PM PST / 5:00 PM ESTAn Interview With Grammy-Award Winning Producer and Mobilized.news Founder Steven Jay“If we don’t like the old news that is dividing us, time to make some new news together.” — Swami BeyondanandaThis coming year, 2021, will mark the 40th anniversary of Walter Cronkite’s final broadcast. It’s been that long since America’s most trusted newscaster said, “And that’s the way it is,” while all of America nodded yes.At a time when we seem to be living in two separate realities, despite the polarization, more than two thirds of us long for a trustworthy, independent, credible authority to help us address those three key questions – what’s so, so what and now what?Meanwhile, the COVID crisis is being used to accelerate the “global reset” agenda of the World Economic Forum and those who want to impose a top down global authority to rule the

  • Mark Gerzon - The Reunited States of America

    18/11/2020 Duration: 56min

    Mark Gerzon - The Reunited States of AmericaHow We Can Close the “Reality Gap” and Create a Sane and Sacred CenterAired Tuesday, November 17, 2020 at 2:00 PM PST / 5:00 PM ESTAn Interview With Author and Mediation Expert Mark Gerzon“Instead of the current tug-of-war pulling us apart, we need a tug-of-peace where we all pull together in the same direction.” — Swami BeyondanandaAt the most politically contentious time since the Civil War, can you imagine what it would take to “reunite America”? You can’t? Well our guest this week, Mark Gerzon, can. He has written a book called the “Reunited States of America,” and his life work for the past half-century has been bringing all sides together in fruitful conversation.Mark Gerzon is the president of Mediators Foundation and is one of the key architects of the field of global leadership and an experienced facilitator in high-conflict zones. He has advised a wide variety of organizations including the US Congress, multinational corporations, and UNDP. The author of n

  • Foster Gamble - From Survival to Thrival

    11/11/2020 Duration: 56min

    Foster Gamble – From Survival to ThrivalOff the Old Battlefield, On to a New Playing FieldAired Tuesday, November 10, 2020 at 2:00 PM PST / 5:00 PM ESTAn Interview With “Thrive” Film-Maker Foster Gamble “The true law of life is not survival of the fittest, but thrival of the fittingest.” — Swami BeyondanandaAs we in the US find ourselves in the midst of a toxic, contentious election season that threatens to continue indefinitely, two apparently contradictory ideas seem to be true. First, we are deeply divided, not just into two parties, not just into two narratives, but into two separate and seemingly incompatible realities.Second, the vast majority of the American people overwhelmingly agree – they want to work together to find solutions, and not just blame the other side. As Einstein famously said a problem cannot be solved at the same level it was created. The two political parties are locked in battle in a dualistic playing field, in the death throes of Newtonian politics, where equal and opposite forces

  • Arthur Firstenberg - 5G - Boon to Humankind or Fatal Mistake?

    04/11/2020 Duration: 56min

    Arthur Firstenberg – 5G – Boon to Humankind or Fatal Mistake?Time to “Clear the Air”Aired Tuesday, November 3, 2020 at 2:00 PM PST / 5:00 PM ESTAn Interview With Author and Microwave Radiation Specialist Arthur Firstenberg “The truth shall upset you free.”— Swami Beyondananda 5G stands for “fifth generation cellular technology” which promises to deliver data rates that are 10 to 100 times faster than current 4G. Not only does this mean much faster download rates, but 5G will also enable new technologies like self-driving cars and augmented reality. Mobile devices will be able to send and receive information in less than one-thousandth of a second, appearing instantaneous to the user.Wow. Faster internet, faster downloads on our smart phones … Fast, fast, fast. Well… not so fast, say some concerned citizens and scientists. As with cell phones, the radiation from this 5G technology is being linked to higher cancer rates. The cell phone providers and mainstream media insist all is safe, and there is no problem.

  • Glen Ford - The Race Issue and “Tools of Bamboozlement”

    28/10/2020 Duration: 56min

    Glen Ford – The Race Issue and “Tools of Bamboozlement”Black Lives Matter, White Power Structure Matters MoreAired Tuesday, October 27, 2020 at 2:00 PM PST / 5:00 PM ESTAn Interview With Pioneering Black Journalist Glen Ford“First we had Black Lives Matter, then Blue Lives Matter – and it seems to be working. The whole country is now black and blue.” — Swami BeyondanandaThis summer, the murder of George Floyd by police sparked a huge, nationwide protest movement and put Black Lives Matter into the headlines. Within days, hours actually, mass protests emerged across the country, and celebrities – from the entertainment industry to sports figures – all seemed to speak as one to support this movement.And…What impact has the movement had and will it have in the future to insure that actual black lives are impacted for the better? How do we replace a criminally unjust criminal justice system with one that works for all? What is this “defund the police” issue all about, and what actually happened in Portland and Se

  • Eleanor LeCain - What If Trump Refuses to Leave?

    21/10/2020 Duration: 56min

    Eleanor LeCain – What If Trump Refuses to Leave?How to Make Goliath “Go Lieth Down”Aired Tuesday, October 20, 2020 at 2:00 PM PST / 5:00 PM ESTInterview with Visionary and Political Strategist Eleanor LeCain “If it quacks like a duck and steps like a goose, there is something fowl afoot.” — Swami Beyondananda In 2005, journalist and NYU professor Mark Crispin Miller published a book, Fooled Again, presenting evidence that Republicans stole the elections in 2000 and 2004 using hacked voting machines and other nefarious means. While the mainstream press largely ignored the book, the so-called progressive press – including Democracy Now and Mother Jones — roundly condemned the book and dismissed Miller as a conspiracy theorist.Here we are a decade-and-a-half later and the most mainstream of mainstream Democrats are discussing the prospect of Trump stealing the election, and not abiding by the results he be defeated. Makes you wonder … had we handled the bullying party then, maybe we wouldn’t be dealing with this

  • Steve Bhaerman - Signs of the Upwising

    14/10/2020 Duration: 56min

    Steve Bhaerman – Signs of the UpwisingWhat I Learned From Three Years Doing Wiki Politiki RadioAired Tuesday, October 13, 2020 at 2:00 PM PST / 5:00 PM ESTInterview with … Myself!“Revolutionary uprisings just keep us on the wheel, going around in circles. We need an EVOLUTIONARY UPWISING to overgrow the current system.” — Swami BeyondanandaHard to believe that it’s nearly three years since I did my first interview with cellular biologist Bruce Lipton to launch Wiki Politiki Radio. Our interview, about conscious evolution as our alternative to mass extinction is even more relevant today than it was then.The current administration has brought us closer to our own species topping the Endangered Species list, as it makes its great leap backward toward feudalism. On the other hand, the best the Democrats can promise is that they are NOT Donald Trump. Their corporate agenda, however, cloaked in nice-sounding language and representing the dominance of technology is leading us forward to a brave new world of … neo-fe

  • Steven Machat - From Consumer to Citizen

    07/10/2020 Duration: 56min

    Steven Machat – From Consumer to CitizenHow We Replace Passive Public Opinion with Active Public WillAired Tuesday, October 6, 2020 at 2:00 PM PST / 5:00 PM ESTInterview with Entertainment Mogul, Attorney and Author Steven Machat“It seems like the dysfunctional function of mainstream media is to serve up ‘babblum’ – weapons of mass-distraction to make sure the body politic never gets out of diapers.” — Swami BeyondanandaJust a few days ago it came to me.The 2020s will be the Decade of the Citizen.It will have to be, because the entrenched and dysfunctional political, social and economic systems hopelessly addicted to money and power cannot reform themselves. What is required is an outside intervention by we the people, or else we will devolve into just another “turd world” country.Our guest this week, Steven Machat, has spent a lifetime in the entertainment industry, and has seen first-hand how consent is conceived and manufactured, how the industry feeds toxic memes, and how it disempowers originality and im

  • Richard Lang - Advisory Voting and an “Eco-System for Civic Engagement”

    30/09/2020 Duration: 56min

    Richard Lang – Advisory Voting and an “Eco-System for Civic Engagement”Restoring the Missing Piece in Government By the People – THE PEOPLE! Aired Tuesday, September 29, 2020 at 2:00 PM PST / 5:00 PM ESTInterview with Tech CEO and Author Richard Lang“Even more than a new President, we need a new PRECEDENT – government of, by and for the people where the government does OUR bidding, not the bidding of the highest bidder.” — Swami BeyondanandaAs we are caught in the swirl of the most toxic and dangerous election season in our lifetimes, citizens from across the political spectrum are asking two questions: How did it get this way? And, how do we restore the missing piece in government of, by and for the people – THE PEOPLE?If you’ve had the sense that the will of the ordinary citizen in America has little or no impact on what legislation actually gets passed — you’re right. A study conducted by Princeton University in 2014 concluded: “The preferences of the average American appear to have only a miniscule, near-

  • Barry James Dyke - Guaranteed Income - For Wall Street!

    23/09/2020 Duration: 56min

    Barry James Dyke – Guaranteed Income — For Wall Street!How the “Pirates of Manhattan” Steal From the Middle Class and Give to the RichAired Tuesday, September 22, 2020 at 2:00 PM PST / 5:00 PM EST Interview with Author and Financial Advisor Barry James Dyke “Who needs conspiracy theories when you have con’s piracy facts?”— Swami BeyondanandaWith the COVID lockdown and many businesses closed, there has been more talk this year about guaranteed income – a way to counteract trickle down economics with “bubble up”, payments from the bottom that bubble up and prosper everyone on the way up.Unfortunately, the only “guaranteed income” we have right now is going to Wall Street, not Main Street. For decades, conscientious folks looking to secure a reasonably prosperous retirement have followed the dictates of Wall Street and financial advisors who have steered them to funds that have enriched already high paid executives, and impoverished middle class Americans.This week on Wiki Politiki, we will go deeper into that s

  • Guy Crittenden - Resetting the “Reset”

    16/09/2020 Duration: 54min

    Guy Crittenden – Resetting the “Reset”Can A People’s “Upwising” Overgrow the Globalist Agenda?Aired Tuesday, September 15, 2020 at 2:00 PM PST / 5:00 PM EST Interview with Canadian Journalist, Author and Activist Guy Crittenden Swami’s Dictionary:Gobble-ization: The practice of mining the global economy (by saying “mine, mine, mine”) so that greedy turkeys gobble everything up.— Swami BeyondanandaWhen Bruce Lipton and I published Spontaneous Evolution in 2009, Barack Obama had just been elected President of the United States. In our first hardback edition of the book, we celebrated the election as a sign of a great evolutionary upwising, indicating that the majority of Americans prefer living into the “we’re-all-in-it-together” meme as opposed to the “every-man-for-himself” dominate-or-be-dominated paradigm.And while I still suspect that most of us would rather live by the Golden Rule as opposed to the rule of gold, the neoliberalism of the Obama Democrats has shown itself to NOT be the vehicle that will take

  • Harvey Wasserman - How We the People Can Protect the Vote in 2020

    09/09/2020 Duration: 56min

    Harvey Wasserman – How We the People Can Protect the Vote in 2020Making Sure Every Vote Counts, and Every Vote is Counted Aired Tuesday, September 8, 2020 at 2:00 PM PST / 5:00 PM ESTInterview with Author and Activist Harvey Wasserman“Those new ‘smart’ voting machines are so smart, they don’t even need voters.”— Swami BeyondanandaOne of the characteristics of a sociopathic conmen is that they will boldly and blatantly tell you ahead of time what they intend to do. Another characteristic is that they project their own evil intentions on to others. So it should come as no surprise to those who recognize Donald Trump as the sociopathogen he is, that he has already announced he will not accept the results of the election, if they are not to his liking. And he and his Vichy Republican enablers have continued to accuse the DEMOCRATS of voting fraud – as they have done everything in their abusive power to disenfranchise potential Democrat voters.Trump knows – as Josef Goebbels knew before him – that if you repeat a

  • Mark Crispin Miller - Masking Unmasked!

    02/09/2020 Duration: 57min

    Mark Crispin Miller – Masking Unmasked!A Journey to a Parallel UniverseAired Tuesday, September 1, 2020 at 2:00 PM PST / 5:00 PM ESTInterview with Author and Journalist Mark Crispin Miller“What a topsy-turvy time we are living in. These days, the ones WITHOUT the masks are the outlaws.” — Swami BeyondanandaOn this week’s show, we are going to take a journey to a parallel universe – a reality just as real as this one, maybe even more real, where people believe that wearing masks DOESN’T make most people safer during the COVID crisis. It’s a reality where thousands of Europeans have taken to the streets to protest lockdown, where a huge crowd listened to Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. speak out against mandatory vaccinations in the same spot where his Uncle John F. Kennedy spoke in Berlin nearly sixty years ago. It’s a reality where the people who showed up are not right-wing neo-Nazis as the New York Times proclaimed, but ordinary citizens from across the political spectrum alarmed by what they see as totalitarianism.

  • Bill Doherty - A House UNITED?

    26/08/2020 Duration: 56min

    Bill Doherty – A House UNITED?Restoring Civic Trust in Polarizing TimesAired Tuesday, August 25, 2020 at 2:00 PM PST / 5:00 PM ESTInterview with Author and Family Therapist Bill Doherty, Co-Founder of Braver Angels“We need more visionaries, and fewer divisionaries.”— Swami BeyondanandaHere is an irony supplement to munch on.America is in the midst of the most politically polarizing times since the Civil War … and yet, a 2018 Pew Research Center poll found that nearly 80 percent of Americans in each party believe it’s important for Republicans and Democrats to work together on issues.Huh? How could that be?Are we that schizophrenic … or, is there a deep longing to find our sane and sacred center at the heart and soul of who we are?Our guest this week on Wiki Politiki is family therapist and author Bill Doherty, co-founder of Braver Angels, an organization dedicated to bringing the polarized sides together to find a new angle – where instead of dehumanizing the other side, we re-humanize the other.The problem i

  • Fred Burks - Navigating the Apocalypse

    19/08/2020 Duration: 56min

    Fred Burks – Navigating the ApocalypseFacing the Awful Truth, Embracing the Awesome OpportunityAired Tuesday, August 18, 2020 at 2:00 PM PST / 5:00 PM ESTInterview with Fred Burks, Former Government Official and Journalist (PEERS and Want To Know)“It’s time to bring down the Irony Curtain, the invisible wall of impropaganda that separates we the people from the truth.”— Swami BeyondanandaTo paraphrase Dickens, it was the worst of times … it was the worst of times.No, wait a minute, that’s not right. But it sure seems that way. Welcome to the Apocalypse. As you may know the definition of “apocalypse” is “the lifting of the veils” and for anyone paying attention – or for that matter, not paying attention – just as the curtain seems to be going down on Western Civilization, the curtains seem to be rising to expose every manner of toxic perpetration.But that’s only part of the news.Along with the awful truth, we are being exposed to the awesome opportunity of awakening and conscious evolution. Our guest this week

  • Paul Levy - Confronting “Notseeism”

    12/08/2020 Duration: 56min

    Paul Levy – Confronting “Notseeism”How Looking Evil In the Eye Can Awaken Us From Our Collective Bad DreamAired Tuesday, August 11, 2020 at 2:00 PM PST / 5:00 PM ESTInterview with Paul Levy, “Wounded Healer” and Author of “Dispelling Wetiko: Breaking the Curse of Evil”“SWAMI’S DICTIONARY:Notseeism: A deadly disease of the body politic where otherwise good people choose to not seewhat they find too uncomfortable to look at.”— Swami BeyondanandaOver the past month or so, a few of my colleagues have written articles expressing alarm at how many “spiritual folks” have gone off the deep end embracing wild “conspiracy theories”, forsaking rational science and the material world view. Indeed, there are some wild and wacky scenarios out there – like Q-Anon claiming that Donald Trump is really a “good guy”, and at the right moment will bring forth his good friend, John F. Kennedy, Jr. who didn’t really die in that plane crash, to save the day.Just goes to show how far people will go to find a savior … without recogniz

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