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Aired Tuesday, 29 January 2019, 5:00 PM ESTIt’s Time For Right and Left to Come Front and Center to UNRIG the SystemAn Interview with Represent.Us National Organizing Manager James Jameson“It seems that government of, by and for the people is missing a key component — the PEOPLE.” — Swami BeyondanandaI’ve said it before, and it is worth repeating.In these times of intense political polarization, we have a DEEPLY UNITED body politic. More than 90% of us agree — we aren’t being represented … the two-party system is rigged … we need to make sure that the “free speech” of unbridled campaign spending doesn’t drown out the free speech that points us beyond the status quo.Consider the 2014 study by Princeton University Professor Martin Gilens and Northwestern University Professor Benjamin Page that concluded that the USA is for all intents and purposes an “oligarchy” because the views of the general public have very little sway over what legislation does or doesn’t get passed — particularly when the public will is i

Aired Tuesday, 22 January 2019, 5:00 PM ESTEnlightened Capitalism – It’s NOT An OxymoronAn Interview with B Corporation Pioneer John Montgomery“It’s time for the Golden Rule to overrule the rule of gold.”– Swami BeyondanandaOur show today is about Enlightened Capitalism and NO that is not an oxymoron, at least not according to today’s guest. At the same time we have to acknowledge that UNENLIGHTENED CAPITALISM has been allowed to run rampant, and people are starting to notice, particularly young people.Last October, an astounding public opinion poll came out indicating that one third of Millennials identified as socialists.Might this be seen as a sign that capitalism as it has been practiced has failed us? Thanks to a meme cultivated by economist Milton Friedman over 40 years ago, the ONLY purpose of a corporation is to make profit for its shareholders, and since the Citizens United Supreme Court decision nine years ago, it seems that corporations have taken upon themselves the right to extract and exploit in

Aired Tuesday, 15 January 2019, 5:00 PM ESTFrom Monsanto to “Nonsanto” – Why Avoiding GMOs Improves Your HealthAn Interview with Author, Researcher and GMO Expert Jeffrey Smith“Weed killer is a chemical substance that kills living things, some of which are weeds.” — Swami BeyondanandaWhen Bruce Lipton and I published Spontaneous Evolution nearly ten years ago, in a chapter on our current economic / ecological / political dysfunction, we had a section called “Moneychangers In the Temple — Monsanto Clause Is Coming to Town”, where we talked about the lengths Monsanto (now part of Bayer — those wonderful folks who brought us Auschwitz) has gone to “own” life forms.Short-form, they have developed genetically-modified seeds they call “Round Up ready” because they and they alone can resist the toxic herbicide in Round Up, glyphosate. The idea is to poison the soil and all non-Monsanto plants, and then sell the “remedy” so that eventually Monsanto will own the keys to life.Despite convincing evidence glyphosate is a

Aired Tuesday, 8 January 2019, 5:00 PM ESTUnity Earth Festival Focuses On Culture, Youth and Regeneration of the EarthAn Interview with Adam Collett, Project Manager of Unity Earth Lift Off“We are all one with the same One, each of us totally unique just like everybody else.” — Swami BeyondanandaIt’s fitting that in 2019, fifty years after Woodstock a new festival has emerged to bring together the “imaginal cells” of a new generation, at a time when humankind (without the “kindness”) sits atop the endangered — and endangering species list.And this time — unlike Woodstock — there is a worldwide movement, an “upwising” if you will, seeking to bring together awakening youth and indigenous people to bring unity out of diversity. Instead of focusing on the “identity” issues that tend to keep us separate, this festival focused on working together around the IDENTICAL ISSUES that unite us — clean air, clean water, clean food, and clean government.The actual event, Unity Earth Lift Off is being billed as a “multigene

Aired Tuesday, 1 January 2019, 5:00 PM EST2019 – A Year of LuminosityThe Re-Evolution of Politics and EconomicsAn Interview with Visionary Success Strategist Jeanine Just“It’s time for ALL OF US to become interdependently wealthy.” — Swami BeyondanandaMany years ago, when I was a teacher in Washington, D.C. I had a wonderful colleague who loved channeling Mel Brooks’ 2000-year-old man, who for some reason spoke with a Yiddish accent. One day I ran into my friend, and knowing he was considering switching schools, I asked, “So what are you doing next year?”And he replied — with that exaggerated Yiddish accent — “Oh, they’re having another one?”So as we come to the end of another intense and challenging year where you can say both it was the best of times and worst of times… YES… we are having another one!Our New Year’s Day guest is my long-time friend and colleague Jeanine Just. She came on my radar when I watched an intriguing and inspiring movie, We The People: Re-Evolution of Politics and Economics, co-produ

Aired Tuesday, 18 December 2018, 5:00 PM ESTThe Latest REAL News on the 9/11 Attacks and Finding Truth in a Sea of LiesAn Interview with Andrew Kreig, Author, Attorney, Broadcaster and Founder of the Justice Integrity Project“Fake news is a ‘Colonel’ of truth, outflanked by Major Distortion and General Bullshit .” — Swami BeyondanandaDid you know that In a letter dated November 7, 2018, the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York notified the Lawyers’ Committee for 9/11 Inquiry that he would comply with the provisions of 18 U.S.C. § 3332 requiring him to present to a special grand jury the Lawyers’ Committee’s reports filed earlier this year of unprosecuted federal crimes at the World Trade Center?You didn’t? That’s because mainstream media makes it its business to insure that anything that points to the nefarious doings of the real deep state is “none of its business.” The misinformation, disinformation and missing information that pollute corporate news have created the perfect field for “real”

Aired Tuesday, 11 December 2018, 5:00 PM ESTThe Backbone Campaign Combines the Art of War and the Art of PlayAn Interview with Bill Moyer, Founder of the Backbone Campaign“We have one political party with not enough backbone and another with way too much front-bone.” — Swami BeyondanandaToday’s show is about activism — in a time of reactivism.With so much of the political discourse these days either “pro-Trump” or “anti-Trump” the one common denominator in either conversation is … Trump. As someone who feeds on media attention, he is paradoxically empowered by all the resistance and anti-Trump rhetoric.Which leads to the question … how DOES the body politic express itself when both electoral politics and the mainstream media seems so shut down to non-corporate views? How do we assert our political will in a way that gets noticed? And how do we influence our elected officials to follow when they are unable to lead?Our guest this week Bill Moyer, co-founder of the Backbone Campaign is a master of what he calls

Aired Tuesday, 4 December 2018, 5:00 PM ESTThe Eisenhower Moment – Part IIAn Interview with Simon Anholt, Founder of “Good Country”“It’s time to evolve from children of God to adults of Good.” — Swami BeyondanandaNearly 60 years ago, U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower said, “I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it.”I’ve been calling the times at hand “the Eisenhower moment” because we the people finally have the technological capability to communicate instantly and speak in one voice.Last week we spoke with Australian visionary activist Andrew Gaines about what he calls the Great Transition Initiative – a citizen led educational “movement of movements” to inspire mainstream commitment to transitioning to a life-affirming culture.A worthy intention, and a great beginning…And, the next question is, how will this intention be manifested, populated, and turned into a tangible movement for transformation?My guest this week, Simon

Aired Tuesday, 27 November 2018, 5:00 PM ESTThe Eisenhower Moment – Part IThe Great Transition To A Life-Affirming CultureAn Interview with Andrew Gaines, Founder of The Great Transition Initiative“Either we will have an awakening or we will have a wake.” — Swami BeyondanandaIn these times of great crisis and opportunity, there’s an idea that has gotten ahold of me that I call “The Eisenhower Moment”. Nearly 60 years ago, President Dwight D. Eisenhower said, “I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it.”As more and more of us are coming to understand, “peace” means more than an absence of war — although that would be a terrific beginning. Peace means the end of domination, one over the other. It means fundamentally adopting and applying the Golden Rule. And more apparently than ever before, it means living in harmony with the natural world.As the crises — ecological, economic, political, social and spiritual — seem to all be aris

Aired Tuesday, 20 November 2018, 5:00 PM ESTRadical Honesty in a Time of Fake News and Real LiesAn Interview with Psychotherapist Brad Blanton, Author of Radical Honesty“The truth shall UPSET you free.” — Swami BeyondanandaI first met Brad Blanton nearly 25 years ago, when his controversial book Radical Honesty: How To Transform Your Life By Telling The Truth, was first published. Our joke at that time was that our President, Bill “I-did-not-have-sex-with-that-woman” Clinton was a practitioner of “sporadical honesty.”We have now collectively evolved (or devolved) to a place where our current president practices “radical dishonesty”, and where paradoxically his followers consider him trustworthy because he is “honest” about being a liar. Think about it. What other politician in recent memory has been celebrated for “telling it like it is” while so blatantly telling it like it isn’t?My guest this week, Brad Blanton will offer his “radically honest” perspective on the “shituation”, and — knowing Brad — you can e

Aired Tuesday, 13 November 2018, 5:00 PM ESTThe Order of the Sacred Earth – A Truly NEW World Order to Help Us Overgrow the “Old World Odor”An Interview with Sacred Order Co-Founders Skylar Wilson and Jennifer Berit Listug“Earth — love it or leave it.” — Swami Beyondananda“I promise to be the best lover and defender of the Earth that I can be.”Can taking such a vow make a difference?Skylar Wilson and Jennifer Berit Listug, our guests on Wiki Politiki this week think so. They, along with Matthew Fox, the noted priest and father of Creation Spirituality, have founded a “spiritual order” for our times, the Order of the Sacred Earth.I am reminded of a famous Gandhi quote. When asked what he thought of Western Civilization, he replied, “I think it would be a very good idea.”While our civilization has excelled at science, technology, and the gleaning of material knowledge, we seem to be on the verge of flunking Wisdom 1.1. Ever since we put Descartes before the horse nearly four centuries ago, society has focused i

Aired Tuesday, 6 November 2018, 5:00 PM ESTDonald Trump Is Awakening People, Left and RightAn Interview with Dr. Chuck Baldwin, Moral Majority and Christian Coalition Pioneer, and Constitutional Party Presidential Candidate in 2008“Either we will have an awakening — or a wake.” — Swami BeyondanandaIn the summer of 2015, I was waiting to board the Larkspur Ferry to take me to San Francisco for a Giants game. In the waiting area, there was a huge TV screen tuned to CNN. Donald Trump was on, and the sound was off.As I watched Trump’s gesticulation, facial expressions, and fist pumping, I looked at a fellow passenger, and we both said it at the same time — Adolf Hitler.Now more than three years later, I have seen nothing to make me think otherwise. What was clear to me then is even clearer now. What I was looking at was a megalomaniacal sociopath, who would do anything and say anything to benefit himself, and who would ultimately destroy whatever he touched. I saw a pathological liar and demagogue, with no respec

Aired Tuesday, 30 October 2018, 5:00 PM ESTCan The Heart of the Goddess Help Us Overgrow the Dark of Heartlessness?An Interview with Hallie Igelhart Austen, Author of The Heart of the Goddess: Art, Myth and Meditations of the World’s Sacred Feminine“Time to replace rule by the scared masculine with the sacred feminine.” — Swami BeyondanandaIf there’s been any awakening in the wake of the 2016 election, it’s been the awakening of women’s power, and more recently, the Sacred Feminine. As we are more and more coming to understand, this is not just about boys and girls, boys and girls.The sacred feminine — as with matriarchal societies in the ancient world — is not about the feminine dominating over the masculine, but rather a co-equal partnership where there IS NO domination, bullying, violence or exploitation.And, the dominate-or-be-dominated meme that has characterized Western so-called civilization for millennia is a direct result of the absence of the sacred feminine. Consider how different our nation (and w

Aired Tuesday, 23 October 2018, 5:00 PM ESTDe-Programming and Re-Programming the Hidden Brain – From Hopelessness and Helplessness to Wisdom and CompassionAn Interview with Barry and Gayla Gordon, Authors of “Scientific Shamanic Healing”“The sociopathogens in our body politic are trying to convince us that their inhuman nature is our ‘human nature’.” — Swami BeyondanandaWhat our friend and colleague Caroline Casey calls “the dementors of doom” seem to be able to access the inner psyche of the masses to create fear, suspicion and chaos. “Thanks” to the work Edward Bernays began a century ago (Bernays, the nephew of Sigmund Freud was known as the “Father of Public Relations” and wrote a book titled simply “Propaganda”) those who wish to program our minds to serve their own ends, now have more sophisticated ways than ever to do so.No wonder so many people who can envision what Charles Eisenstein calls “the more beautiful world our hearts know is possible” are disheartened and alarmed by “the more ugly world” the

Aired Tuesday, 16 October 2018, 5:00 PM ESTFrom #METOO To #WETOO – Turning Sacred Feminine and Sacred Masculine Into Dynamic Duo Dance PartnersAn Interview with “Sacred Feminine Awakening” Author Misa Hopkins“We need to shift focus from the ‘identity issues’ that keep us separate to the IDENTICAL ISSUES that unite us — clean air, clean water, clean food and clean government.” — Swami BeyondanandaWhile Brett Kavanaugh was rightfully outed as a privileged, self-entitled, frat-rat sexual predator, as usual the Democrats stopped short of seeing the big, big picture — that the abuse of women, abuse of power, abuse of wealth and abuse of the natural world is all traceable to a Papal Bull issued in the 1450’s known as the “Doctrine of Discovery“.This document (you can hear more in the Wiki interview with Steven Newcomb and Shawna Bluestar linked above) essentially gave “white male Christians” the “official” MANdate to dominate, exploit, subjugate, enslave and kill all nonwhite non-“Christians” and take their lands.

Aired Tuesday, 9 October 2018, 5:00 PM ESTCultivating BOLD HUMILITY Hope, Democracy and Rethinking Fear and CourageAn Interview with Author and “Daring Democracy” Advocate Frances Moore Lappé“Of course love is more powerful than fear. Otherwise we’d be singing ‘All You Need is Fear’.” — Swami BeyondanandaEver since the disillusionment of Obama’s failed promise, hope has been given a bad rap. Hope has been considered a form of passivity, as a substitute for intention, activism, hard choices. Our guest this week, noted author Frances Moore Lappé believes that cultivating hope also cultivates grace and possibility.Frances Moore Lappé first gained worldwide fame with the release of her three-million copy Diet for a Small Planet, which the Smithsonian has described as “one of the most influential political tracts of the times.” Her nineteenth book, Daring Democracy: Igniting Power, Meaning, and Connection for the America We Want, coauthored with Adam Eichen, “extends concrete hope to those who feel politically hel

Aired Tuesday, 2 October 2018, 5:00 PM ESTEastern Spirituality and Political EvolutionAn Interview with Meditation Teacher and Author Philip Goldberg“Bob Dylan was wrong. You DO need a Veda man to know which way the wind blows.” — Swami BeyondanandaEver since the era of the “moral majority” and the Christian Coalition, we have seen how religion can impact our political conversations, and national destiny. But what about those “other” religions that come from the East? Our guest this week, Philip Goldberg, is an expert on how and why Americans have flocked to Eastern religions over the past half-century, and the impact this migration has had on our national consciousness.He speaks from experience. Growing up in a non-religious Jewish-Marxist household, Philip found his own way to spirituality by becoming a student of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi and a teacher of Transcendental Meditation. His book American Veda: From Emerson and the Beatles to Yoga and Meditation, How Indian Spirituality Changed the West offers a ric

Aired Tuesday, 25 September 2018, 5:00 PM ESTThe “Self-Health” MovementFrom Conventional to “Preventional” Medicine An Interview with Author and Holistic Medical Pioneer Dr. Elson Haas“Our entire body politic suffers from irony deficiency. Seeing a doctor won’t help, but seeing a paradox will. So here’s an irony supplement to munch on. The third leading cause of death in the US is medicine itself.” — Swami BeyondanandaIn these strange times when it’s hard to tell real fake news from fake real news, there are a lot of mixed messages coming from the health care domain. On one hand, we have big pharma and mainstream medicine promoting drugs and surgery. On the other, there are countless old and new ways to impact not just the linear activity of our cells, but also the “field” that determines how our cells behave.Getting the right distinctions can be literally a life or death decision.Our guest this week, Dr. Elson Haas, helps us sort through the hype and mythology and find out which approaches are best for you.

Aired Tuesday, 18 September 2018, 5:00 PM ESTWaking Up to “WE-ality” – We NEED Each OtherAn Interview with Intentional Community Advocates and Activists Bill Kauth and Zoe Alowan“We’re all one with the same One, totally unique just like everyone else.” — Swami BeyondanandaWhen I lived in Washington, D.C. in the 1970s, I knew someone who was a world-renowned expert on communal living.Unfortunately, no one could stand to live with him.As anyone who was part of the intentional community movement 40 or 50 years ago can attest, the challenge back then was to align the utopian ideal with the down-to-earth “real deal”. Not only were there the issues of many (often immature) egos, but the cultural changes as we’ve moved from a more communal rural existence to a more impersonal urban / suburban one.However, these days there is a growing awareness that the ability to connect, cooperate and collaborate with each other is an evolutionary trait, key to our survival and thrival.Our guests this week, Bill Kauth and Zoe Alow

Aired Tuesday, 11 September 2018, 5:00 PM ESTPolitical Prisoner! – Would YOU Go to Prison for Your Beliefs?An Interview with Johnny Light aka Johnny Liberty, One-Time Leader of the Sovereignty Movement“Here’s an irony supplement to munch on — we need a police state to protect our freedom.” — Swami BeyondanandaOver the past couple of years, we’ve been hearing a lot about the “deep state”, and a “secret government” that really runs things beneath the polarizing puppet show we watch on the news.On one end of the spectrum, we have authors like Mike Lofgren who acknowledge the interlocking directorate between corporations, the military industrial complex, the intelligence community, and government that has rendered the will of the people largely irrelevant.On the other — and particularly since the advent of Trumpism — we have the “deep state” as the secret government that will enslave us through the “new world order”. There are even people I know who voted for Bernie Sanders in the primaries, and then for Donald T