Wiki Politiki

Aired Tuesday, 28 November 2017, 5:00 PM ESTWhat the Alt-Right and Alt-Left Both Know - That We ALL Need to KnowA Conversation With Alt-Left Journalist Mark Crispin Miller and Alt-Right Commentator Paul Craig Roberts“We need more forums, and fewer againstums.” — Swami BeyondanandaFriday … March 6, 1981.A notable date, and I’m willing to bet no one recognizes it or its significance. I only know it because I looked it up. It was the last broadcast Walter Cronkite made as anchorman on CBS Evening News. It was the last time he would say, “And that’s the way it is…” and have the majority of Americans regardless of which party they favored believe him.It was the beginning of the end of an era where Americans shared a common narrative, and a commonly-sensed faith in the “goodness” of America, its institutions, and its people. It was before the polarization brought on by the weaponized politics of Newt Gingrich, and the betrayal of America’s working people by neoliberal Democrats. It was 20 years before the 911 attac

Aired Tuesday, 21 November 2017, 5:00 PM ESTForgiveness and Healing the Body PoliticIt might seem a bit strange for a program called Wiki Politiki to do a show on something as personal and spiritual as forgiveness.And yet it makes perfect sense, particularly if we want to go above and beyond the current level of polarized discourse, where each side has dehumanized the other. If we truly want a healthy, thriving, vital, and wise body politic we have to metabolize the toxins of 5,000 years of the Rule of Gold: Doo-doo unto others before they can doo-doo unto you.There isn’t an ethnic group, religion (with the possible exception of the B’hai faith) or other tribe that hasn’t “done unto” some other group, and had it “done unto” them. The history of man(un)kind is filled with atrocities and silent holocausts that have left just about all of us with some form of PTSD.Seriously.South Africa took steps to heal (i.e., restore wholeness) through their Truth and Reconciliation movement a quarter century ago so that they

Aired Tuesday, 14 November 2017, 5:00 PM ESTConscious Evolution: Antidote to Mass-Extinction with Bruce Lipton“Crisis precipitates evolution, and if we look at our world in crisis, we see the chances of precipitation are 100%.” — Swami BeyondanandaAs we create a new foundation for “political climate change”, what better place to begin than biology itself, evolution, and where we humans fit (or don’t fit) in the web of life? So it’s “fitting” that my first interviewed guest on Wiki Politiki is my friend, colleague and co-author, Bruce Lipton.Bruce is a pioneer in epigenetics, and the author of bestseller and classic, The Biology of Belief. He and I co-wrote Spontaneous Evolution: Our Positive Future and a Way to Get There From Here, a book that suggests that the next phase of human evolution is seeing ourselves as cells in the body of a super-organism called Humanity — or as I prefer to call it, Humankind, because the currency of this new and evolved organism is human kindness.So, how are we doing?For one thin

Aired Tuesday, 7 November 2017, 5:00 PM ESTWiki Politiki Launches on OMTimes RadioAt 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.Join internationally-known author and humorist Steve Bhaerman and his alter-ego, the cosmic comic Swami Beyondananda, as they bring two “visionary, solutionary” voices to the show to offer their viewpoints, and then collaborate to find a wiser way forward. As the 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.”Learn more about the Wiki Politiki Radio Show here.