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Glenn Aparicio Parry – From SCARED To SACREDNative Wisdom and Realizing America’s True DestinyAired Tuesday, August 4, 2020 at 2:00 PM PST / 5:00 PM ESTInterview with Glenn Aparicio Parry, Author of “Original Politics: Making America Sacred Again” “It’s time for political climate change – warmer hearts and cooler heads.”— Swami BeyondanandaThere’s disheartenment in the heartland.And while many blame that loss of heart due to heartlessness on the Trump presidency, more and more Americans are awakening to realize his “election” is more of a symptom than a cause. As Swami has said, “Donald Trump is America’s balloon karma payment.”American history – not unlike the history of humankind in general – has moved forward on two parallel and seemingly opposite tracks. One track, based on the Declaration of Independence, has sought to expand freedom, justice, equality and the common good. The other track has been the reactionary forces pursuing the obsolete and obsolethal meme, dominate-or-be-dominated.So those who dism

Meryl Nass – Death By CensorshipAired Tuesday, July 28, 2020 at 2:00 PM PST / 5:00 PM ESTHow Politicization of Science Endangers Our Lives, Our Liberty, and Our WellbeingInterview with Meryl Nass, M.D., Expert on Anthrax, Gulf War Syndrome and Vaccine-Induced Illness“There is so much misleading information out there that people don’t know who to NOT believe.”— Swami BeyondanandaThe world as we know it is brought to a screeching halt by a deadly novel coronavirus, and the entire world – doctors and scientists, world leaders, and ordinary people – work as one to share the best information as rapidly as possible so we can face this challenge as one united, purposeful species…Well, not quite.For a brief moment, there was the recognition that for the first time, all of humanity faced one common challenge, and that we had the worldwide communication network to find the best practices and adopt them as quickly as possible. But then “reality” set in – the reality of economic and political interests pushing their agen

Jim Lauria and Adam Tank – “Resetting” WaterWater Is A WE-Source But Not a FREE SourceAired Tuesday, July 21, 2020 at 2:00 PM PST / 5:00 PM ESTInterview with “Hydro-luminaries” Jim Lauria and Adam Tank“We humans, without water, we’re sunk.” — Swami BeyondanandaA benefit of the current COVID-19 crisis – if there is one – is that it offers human society a chance to stop, to pause, and if we are wise, to hit “reset.” Reset suggests a stop in linear action, and then using the pause to access the wisdom that “busyness as usual” keeps us from seeing. It means seeing anew, and allowing ourselves to imagine how things would look and feel if they REALLY worked, and if they reflected our connection to the web of life and the web of love.It’s fitting that we begin our Reset conversation with water – truly life’s most precious “liquid asset.” The Native Peoples say, “Water is life” because indeed everything we are, everything we have, everything we do requires water. Not only are we physically 70% water, but water is req

Dr. Rashid Buttar – Medical Choice Is Fighting For Its LifeFreedom and Responsibility in the Post-COVID WorldAired Tuesday, July 14, 2020 at 2:00 PM PST / 5:00 PM ESTInterview with Osteopathic Physician and Clinical Metal Toxicology Expert Dr. Rashid Buttar“Conflicting opinions from two doctors? A paradox indeed.” — Swami BeyondanandaAbout a month ago, I heard some really good news … and then I got angry.A chiropractor friend told me that a colleague of his had successfully treated more than 30 COVID-19 cases – including an 80-something man who had been sent home to die – using alternative means. However, his colleague could tell no one what he had done, lest he lose his license. Meanwhile, treatments as innocuous as intravenous Vitamin C therapy have been removed from Facebook by orders of the World Health Organization. (See my April 1st interview with Andrew Saul. https://wikipolitiki.com/mainstream-media-is-dissing-and-dismissing-vitamin-c-and-how-we-can-create-a-c-change/)As we hear of the COVID-19 casual

George Cappannelli – Can “Tell-A-Vision” Change Our Programming?Shifting Our Focus From What We DON’T Want to What We DO WantAired Tuesday, July 7, 2020 at 2:00 PM PST / 5:00 PM ESTInterview with George Cappannelli, Co-Founder of Age Nation and the “World I Want Collaboratory”“This is a make believe world … we make what we believe.” — Swami BeyondanandaSomething that seems to be true about we humans is, we are a lot more clear – and vocal – about what we DON’T want than what we DO want. Maybe it’s because that to survive, our ancestors had to be hyper-vigilant about anything that could be harmful, and visioning and designing a future different from our past was relegated to the luxury of leisure time. Add to this the programming that we are “sinners” and that creating a world that works is “utopian”, and we can see how we’ve arrived at the brink of a dark, dystopian reality.But as the Swami says, we have a choice. If we don’t want dystopia, we have to choose “dat-topia” – an alternative where we use our intel

Erik Goldman – Sick Care or Healing Practice?What COVID-19 Is Revealing About Our Unhealthy Health Care SystemAired Tuesday, June 2, 2020 at 2:00 PM PST / 5:00 PM ESTAn Interview with Erik Goldman, Founder of Holistic Primary Care – News For Health & Healing“We have a health care system that is neither healthy nor caring.” — Swami BeyondanandaThe current COVID-19 crisis has made our health care system front-burner news. On one hand, there are stories of dedicated and skilled professionals who have put their own wellbeing on the line as the front line in fighting the COVID infection. On the other hand, we have physicians who, alarmed at the ineffectiveness of the protocol, have spoken out and have been shut down. Not only that, but helpful non-drug remedies have been de-platformed by social media at the behest of the World Health Organization, and any information not consistent with the official CDC COVID-19 story has been blatantly censored.And that is just the tip of the iceberg. As a country, we pay mor

Shariff Abdullah – COVID-19 Crisis and OpportunityCaterpillar’s Last Stand, and How We Connect the Emerging “Imaginal Cells”Aired Tuesday, May 26, 2020 at 2:00 PM PST / 5:00 PM ESTAn Interview with Author and Activist Shariff Abdullah“Compared to downheaval, upheaval is the lesser of two heavals.” — Swami BeyondanandaAs more of us have come to recognize, fear – and the fight or flight response – puts us in our hindbrain, where we are hard-wired for survival. This is essential for the short term, but what about the bigger picture?Transformative ideas and evolutionary solutions, and out-of-the-box creativity come from our forebrain. In times of crisis and upheaval, the urgency of the shituation gets our attention. And … it’s the creative part of ourselves that must give us the INTENTION.Our guest this week, Shariff Abdullah, has cultivated the ability to hold two ideas simultaneously – the ideal and the real deal – and use the dynamic tension between the two to help us get from the urgent crisis to the emergent

Mark Robinowitz – Debunking the BunkHow To Discern Conspiracy Fact From Conspiracy TheoryAired Tuesday, May 19, 2020 at 2:00 PM PST / 5:00 PM EST Interview with “Conspiracy Literacy” Expert Mark Robinowitz“While you hunker in the bunker what better thing to do than debunk the bunk?” — Swami BeyondanandaWhile we’re sheltering in place, one of our natural pastimes has been cruising the Internet for information we are unlikely to get from mainstream corporate media, particularly as it is beholden to certain industries and their narratives. However, even though mainstream media gets an issue wrong doesn’t mean those outside the media matrix get it right.Our guest this week Mark Robinowitz has a distinct talent for distinguishing “conspiracy theories” from “con’s piracy facts”, and helping us all become more discerning about what we hear and see. Today’s conversation focuses on three movies – including one that isn’t out yet: “Contagion”, the prescient theatrical film from 2011; Michael Moore’s current controversi

Mark Crispin Miller – Fake News and Real LiesWho Needs Conspiracy Theories When You Have “Con’s Piracy Facts”?Aired Tuesday, May 12, 2020 at 2:00 PM PST / 5:00 PM ESTInterview with Journalist and Author Mark Crispin Miller“Censorship – it’s not the vicious lies they fear, it’s those vicious truths.” — Swami BeyondanandaThere is a telling quote I ran across, purportedly by Ronald Reagan’s CIA director William Casey: “We will know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false.”So if you’re confused about what is true in the age of COVID-19 … relax. It’s part of the plan. At a time when we have a pathologically blatant liar in the White House, a corporate media that cannot be trusted, and Google, You Tube, Facebook, and Twitter de-platforming dissenting opinions at the behest of the powers that be in power, who or what are we to believe? How do we practice discernment?Our guest this week, Mark Crispin Miller, is a voice in the bewilderness, whose views bridge and tr

Philip Goldberg – Spiritual Practice For Crazy TimesHow To Build Your Own “Sane Asylum”Aired Tuesday, May 5, 2020 at 2:00 PM PST / 5:00 PM ESTInterview with Practitioner, Teacher and Author Philip Goldberg “Timeless wisdom is always timely.”— Swami BeyondanandaAs our attention is drawn “out there” to the latest news or latest speculation or latest commentary about COVID-19, information given ostensibly to safeguard our health is making people more stressed, and consequently less healthy. The question is not so much how do we tune that information out, but how do we attune ourselves in to the resources that will help us process this information in a helpful, healthy way?Long-time meditation teacher, practitioner and author Philip Goldberg has a new book out that couldn’t be more timely – Spiritual Practice for Crazy Times. And anyone who doesn’t think these are crazy times must be nuts.Philip Goldberg has been studying the world’s spiritual traditions for more than 50 years, as a practitioner, teacher, and wri

Joel Searby – Activating the Sane and Sacred Center in AmericaIs There A “Radical Middle” – And If So, How Do We Get There?Aired Tuesday, April 28, 2020 at 2:00 PM PST / 5:00 PM ESTInterview with independent political consultant Joel Searby, “Better For America”“There are no sides only angles, and when we see it from the right angle, we are all on the same side.” — Swami BeyondanandaThe Presidential Campaign has often been characterized as a popularity contest, and a beauty pageant. However, if we think back to the 2016 campaign, featuring two of the least-liked candidates in history, it might better be called an unpopularity contest and an ugly pageant. Indeed, as my wife and I traveled the country that summer, the question everyone was asking was, “So … who are you voting against?”Now four years later, not much has changed. We are facing a contest between a candidate who has sold his soul to the devil – and another who is just renting his. Now I exaggerate, but not much. When every four years, the voter is

Andrew Saul – Mainstream Media Is Dissing and Dismissing Vitamin CAnd How We Can Create a “C” ChangeAired Tuesday, April 21, 2020 at 2:00 PM PST / 5:00 PM ESTInterview with Andrew Saul, World Authority on Vitamin C and Founder of Doctoryourself.com“The truth shall upset you free.”— Swami BeyondanandaTwo weeks ago there was a report that high-dose intravenous Vitamin C was being used to successfully treat COVID-19 patients in New York. According to the article, “The patients received 1,500 milligrams of intravenous vitamin C, which is sixteen times the National Institutes of Health’s recommended daily dietary allowance of vitamin C. The 1,500-milligram dose was administered three or four times per day.” They were apparently following a protocol that had been successful in China.Yet, at around the same time, as today’s guest Andrew Saul will tell us, the World Health Organization instructed Facebook to de-platform anyone promoting Vitamin C as a treatment, or even as a way of enhancing immune function.What’s go

Misa Hopkins and Stephanie James – How Women Reclaim Their Souls From Sexual AbuseHealing the Patterns of Domination Heals Us AllAired Tuesday, April 14, 2020 at 2:00 PM PST / 5:00 PM ESTInterview with Misa Hopkins and Stephanie James, Co-Hosts of the Women Emerging Summit “It’s time to evolve from a state of emergency to a state of emergent seeing.’” — Swami BeyondanandaThe #METOO movement enabled women to acknowledge and share stories of sexual abuse. The movement has moved mountains of dismissal and denial, not to mention ending the careers of several notable serial predators. And … now what?Now that the stories are revealed, how do women heal?Keeping in mind that the definition of healing means “restoring wholeness” how do those traumatized become whole again? And … how do we heal the whole story, the thousands of years of dominate-or-be-dominated culture? How do we acknowledge the discounting and oppression of the feminine, and the price we have paid for it? (Hint: Our dominator species is about to weave

Arthur Peña and Jacob Hess – Can We Disagree Without Becoming Enemies?Beyond Understanding and Empathy to Collaborating and “Co-Resisting”Aired Tuesday, April 7, 2020 at 2:00 PM PST / 5:00 PM ESTInterview with Arthur Peña and Jacob Hess, Co-Authors (with Randall Charles Paul) of “Inevitable Influencers: Why (deep down) We All Want—and Need—to Persuade Each Other of What We See as Good, Beautiful, and True“Q. How do I end an argument with someone I disagree with?A. Tell them, ‘You’re absolutely right. And so am I.’”— Swami BeyondanandaA gay Marxist Spanish teacher and a Mormon mindfulness practitioner walk into a bar – and that is NOT a joke.Despite seemingly opposite backgrounds, Arthur Peña and Jacob Hess have not only become friends, but also collaborators. And they have done so by boldly speaking their truths with, and listening to, one another. At a time when people are de-platformed and “canceled” for speaking their truth and political correctness is proving itself politically incorrect, how DO we use ou

Gerald Posner – Strung Out On DrugsGreed, Lies and the Poisoning of AmericaAired Tuesday, March 31, 2020 at 2:00 PM PST / 5:00 PM ESTInterview with investigative journalist Gerald Posner, author of “Pharma: Greed, Lies and the Poisoning of America”“The way the pharmaceutical industry has profited off our illnesses is enough to make you sick.” — Swami BeyondanandaWith the Coronavirus front and center in the news, and with talk of how quickly a vaccine can be developed and by whom, national and international attention is being focused on the pharmaceutical industry. So who better to have on Wiki Politiki Radio this week than the man who wrote the book – literally – on big pharma, investigative journalist Gerald Posner the author of “Pharma: Greed, Lies and the Poisoning of America”. Gerald Posner was at age 23 one of the youngest attorneys ever hired by the Wall Street law firm of Cravath, Swaine & Moore. A Phi Beta Kappa and Summa Cum Laude graduate of the University of California at Berkeley (1975), he wa

Duncan Campbell – From Big Brother to Bigger BrotherhoodThe Opportunity In Our Current CrisisAired Tuesday, March 24, 2020 at 2:00 PM PST / 5:00 PM ESTInterview with Duncan Campbell, Comprehensivist and Host of Living Dialogues Radio“We know a paradigm is bankrupt when reality checks start bouncing like crazy.” — Swami BeyondanandaThe current COVID-19 crisis is making these feel like “apocalyptic” times, and as you may know the original meaning of apocalypse is “the lifting of the veils.” Indeed, the veils are being lifted on the fundamental weakness of our “too big to fail” economic – and political – system, that seems to be teetering if not toppling under the weight of this crisis.Add to this a President who blatantly lies and then demands these lies be accepted as truth, and we truly have a shituation.This “up-is-down” and “down-is-up” rhetoric and impropaganda is certainly reminiscent of Orwell’s “1984.” As to why it has taken so long for 1984 to manifest in reality, the Swami has an answer: The Republica

Jed Diamond – The Ship Of Civilization Is SinkingWe Find Our Lifeboats By Shifting From Domination to CollaborationAired Tuesday, March 17, 2020 at 2:00 PM PST / 5:00 PM ESTInterview with Psychotherapist, Author and Men’s Health Expert Jed Diamond“We’re all in the same boat. The Titanic is sinking. And the lifeboat is the love boat.” — Swami BeyondanandaIn many ways, our top-heavy civilization seems like a sinking ship, and the current coronavirus crisis is just – please pardon the awful analogy – the tip of the iceberg.This current crisis is apocalyptic – in the original meaning of the word, “the lifting of the veils.” The veils are being lifted on the me-first culture and our me-first President, and more specifically we are seeing that the dominate-or-be-dominated worldview is obsolete and obsolethal.Our guest on Wiki Politiki this week, Jed Diamond, is an expert on men’s health and how we can use both the masculine warrior energy and the feminine nurturer energy to face and embrace the challenges of this n

Veronica Monet – The Surprising Truth About “Sex Trafficking”How Our “Myth-Perceptions” May Be Leading Us Down the Wrong TrackAired Tuesday, March 10, 2020 at 2:00 PM PST / 5:00 PM ESTInterview with Sexologist, Coach and Author Veronica Monet“You people who insist on shaming people because of their sexual practices – you should be ashamed of yourselves!” — Swami BeyondanandaSex trafficking – everyone agrees it’s bad, right?Well, that depends on what you imagine “sex trafficking” to mean. If the term conjures up innocent women and children being sold into a life of sexual exploitation and slavery, then we all should be against it. But what if “sex trafficking” actually applies to ANY sex for money, with mutual consent?Our guest on Wiki Politiki, Veronica Monet, is a one-time sex worker who is now a “sexual empowerment change agent” whose website, “The Shame Free Zone” offers “a safe place to explore feelings of shame without being judged.” As someone who sees her own career as a highly paid escort as an expres

Stephen Zunes – Can “Socialist” Bernie Prevail Over “Antisocialist” Trump?A Middle East Expert Weighs in On the Conflict in the “Middle West”Aired Tuesday, March 3, 2020 at 2:00 PM PST / 5:00 PM ESTInterview with USF Professor and Middle East Scholar Stephen Zunes“It’s time for the Democratic Party to become democratic.” — Swami BeyondanandaWith Bernie Sanders surging into the lead as we come to Super Tuesday, the “stop Bernie” forces on the moderate side insist that Bernie can’t win in November. But, what if he is the ONLY candidate who can truly overwhelm Trump?Can his movement of young people inspired to vote counterbalance those “moderate Republicans” who might switch from Trump to either a Biden or a Bloomberg?Weighing in on this issue on Wiki Politiki Radio is scholar and Middle East scholar Stephen Zunes, who recently wrote a piece for Truthout debunking the idea that a progressive candidate cannot win the general election. Zunes, who as a teenager worked for the George McGovern campaign, insists the c

Carol Smaldino – Is Political Climate Change An Inside Job? – How Our “Human Climate” Feeds Political Discourse … and DiscordAired Tuesday, February 25, 2020 at 2:00 PM PST / 5:00 PM ESTInterview with Carol Smaldino, Psychotherapist and Author of “The Human Climate: Facing the Divisions Inside Us and Between Us”“There are no sides, only angles. And when we see it from the right angle, we’re all on the same side.” — Swami BeyondanandaWith political discourse and political discord nearly synonymous, and with the phenomenon of “fake news” – where facts take a backseat to emotionally-fueled beliefs — maybe it’s time we look at the fact that feelings make more of a difference than facts do. Might this highly-charged politics “out there” have something to do with the emotional terrain “in here”?Our guest this week, psychotherapist Carol Smaldino thinks so … she has written a book that speaks directly to the stormy political climate, “The Human Climate: Facing the Divisions Inside Us and Between Us”, that examines t