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“Biomimicry,” as sine qua non for life on planet… Again we are drawn to replay this most fantabulous show from the archives with Janine Benyus. Benyus describes herself as “Scientist, animist, poet,” founder of Biomimicry Institute. “Let’s learn democracy from bees! Before our arrogance destroys the bees, who truly know how to vote.” “Range voting.” Grief and ingenuity…innovation & limits From Fall 2008 – but so powerfully pertinent to now… www.JanineBenyus.com The post The Visionary Activist Show – Biomimicry (Replay) appeared first on KPFA.

Radical Magazine Spiraling forth Liberating Ideas (Moon 4+ Gemini sabian symbol) Anarcho *Entheo * Astro *Animism – Caroline welcomes return of Eddy Nix, who ” plays a bookseller in real life and has many projects operating in the dream world. He is founder and operator of Driftless Books and Music in Viroqua, Wi and was a founding teacher at Youth Initiative High School, and has a radio show on community radio station WDRT every Sunday. He identifies as a rhizome, or a verb, depending on circumstances. He has been many other things also. Post Eclipse magic honoring ancestral mentors: David Graeber, Peter Lamborn Wilson, Kropotkin, anomalous egalitarian city of Teotiohuacan….and the living mentors – Isabel Wilkerson, author of “Caste: The Origins of Our Discontent,” – the subject of Ava DuVernay’s profoundly pertinent movie “Origin,” And anything else to guide us at decisive time, that ‘Community’ eclipse ‘Cult’…. Support The Visionary Activist Show on Patreon for weekly Chart & Themes ($4/month) and more… *Woof*Woof*Wanna*Play?!?* The post The Visionary Activist Show – Anarcho *Entheo * Astro *Animism Radio appeared first on KPFA.

We’re in the Dark o Moon field of April 8th’s eclipse, traditionally a time of laying low, convening back-stage to guide the course of culture…. (Today’s radio guest, unavailable at the last minute, Caroline flys solo, weaving the themes of now) Tis a fluctuating quirky pre-eclipse shadowy field in which we be navigating…. So let’s work with it… Tomorrow, Eclipse magic for dangerous times, Caroline will be joined by the indefatigable Diane Wilson for Eclipse Texas Zoom Council (join by donation) at 2pm eastern / 11am pacific: https://coyotenetworknews.com/schedule/eclipse-texas-council/ The post The Visionary Activist Show – Pre-Eclipse Radio appeared first on KPFA.

Caroline hosts her long-time deep joy-ful co-cahooter…. Amikaeyla…..Chantress, drummer, calling in the Orishas, Executive Director / Founder, ICAHSI – International Cultural Arts & Healing Sciences Institute “Amikaeyla Gaston is an amazing vocalist and percussionist who comes from the Washington DC area. She has studied, recorded with, and shared the stage with many award winning artists, including Take 6, Sweet Honey In The Rock, Baba Olatunji, Mickey Hart, Gil Scott Heron, Wyclef, Ubaka Hill, Ferron, Vicki Randle, Linda Tillery, Chris Williamson, and Pete Seeger.” And Me! https://amikaeyla.com/ Amikaeyla organized the upcoming Music As Medicine Festival on April 5th (5-8pm) at EastSide Arts Alliance & April 6th (11-8pm) at Laney College in Oakland, CA. https://musicasmedicinefest.com/ Support The Visionary Activist Show on Patreon for weekly Chart & Themes ($4/month) and more… *Woof*Woof*Wanna*Play?!?* The post The Visionary Activist Show – March 28, 2024 appeared first on KPFA.

May Co-operation Eclipse domination Caroline welcomes Erica Gies – to guide our rogue species back to collaborative Earth Citizen manners (aka animism)…. by asking “what does water want?” …. Erica Gies is an award-winning independent journalist who writes about water, climate change, plants and critters for Scientific American, The New York Times, Nature, The Atlantic, The Guardian, National Geographic, The Economist, Washington Post, bioGraphic, Wired, and more. Erica is a National Geographic Explorer, served as a staff editor at various publications, and cofounded and edited two environmental news startups, Climate Confidential and This Week in Earth. She has received the Rachel Carson Award for Excellence in Environmental Journalism, lectures at the University of Victoria Southam, and was a finalist for the Falling Walls Science Breakthrough of the Year Award. Erica is the author of Water Always Wins: Thriving in an age of drought and deluge. The book begins by asking a revolutionary question: What does water want? Most modern development has erased water’s slow phases — wetlands, floodplains, high altitude grasslands and forests — that soften flood peaks, store water for droughts, and keep natural systems healthy. What water wants, say water detectives exploring this question, is a kind of un-engineering that reclaims these slow cycles, offering us greater resilience. Water Always Wins website: https://slowwater.world/ Erica Gies: www.ericagies.com Support The Visionary Activist Show on Patreon for weekly Chart & Themes ($4/month) and more… *Woof*Woof*Wanna*Play?!?* The post The Visionary Activist Show – May Co-operation Eclipse domination appeared first on KPFA.

St Patrick*Stormy Daniels*Equinox*Eclipse- Caroline re-re-re cahoots with Seán Pádraig O’Donoghue, as the Celtic Car Talk Gaias, with this week’s puzzler (so many) Seán Pádraig O’Donoghue is an herbalist, writer, and teacher, and an initiated Priest in two traditions. He lives in the mountains of western Maine. Seán’s approach to healing weaves together the insights of traditional western herbalism and contemporary science. He regards physical, spiritual, and emotional healing as deeply intertwined. Prior to becoming an herbalist, Seán was a political organizer in movements for peace, human rights, and global economic justice, and a freelance journalist documenting the human and ecological impacts of U.S. policies in Latin America. He grew up near Boston, a short distance from where his great-grandparents first landed when they arrived from Ireland. Since childhood, he has been an avid student of Irish history and folklore. He graduated from Dartmouth College in 1996 with a degree in English Literature and Creative Writing. https://otherworldwell.com/ Support The Visionary Activist Show on Patreon for weekly Chart & Themes ($4/month) and more… *Woof*Woof*Wanna*Play?!?* The post The Visionary Activist Show – Weaving the Themes of Now appeared first on KPFA.

Dark o Moon – before March 10th New Moon and Ramadan… Land Sovereignty…. Weaving guiding myth with Fund Drive show, honoring The Land in Our Bones: Plantcestral Herbalism and Healing Cultures from Syria to the Sinai by Layla K Ferghali… also learning about, and dedicating to composting, the planned illegal sale of West Bank property in NJ and NY synagogues… In The Land in Our Bones, Lebanese ethnobotanist, sovereignty steward, and cultural worker Layla K Feghali offers a layered history of the healing plants of Cana’an (the Levant) and the Crossroads (“Middle East”) and explores ways we become free from the wounds of colonization and displacement. Recounting vivid stories, Feghali shares lineages of folk healing and eco-cultural stewardship — including those passed down by matriarchs, plants and practices of prenatal and postpartum care, mystical traditions for spiritual healing, earth-based practices for emotional wellness, plant tending for bioregional regeneration, medicinal plants and herbal protocols, cultural remedies and recipes, and more. Layla K Feghali’s website: https://www.riverroseremembrance.com/ Support The Visionary Activist Show on Patreon for weekly Chart & Themes ($4/month) and more… *Woof*Woof*Wanna*Play?!?* The post The Visionary Activist Show – The Land in Our Bones appeared first on KPFA.

Caroline welcomes indefatigable Osprey Orielle Lake Founder and executive director of the Women’s Earth and Climate Action Network (WECAN), Osprey works internationally with grassroots, BIPOC and Indigenous leaders, policymakers, and diverse coalitions to build climate justice, resilient communities, and a just transition to a decentralized, democratized clean-energy future. She sits on the executive committee for the Global Alliance for the Rights of Nature and on the steering committee for the Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty. Osprey’s writing about climate justice, relationships with nature, women in leadership, and other topics has been featured in The Guardian, Earth Island Journal, The Ecologist, Ms. Magazine and many other publications. She is the author of the award-winning book Uprisings for the Earth: Reconnecting Culture with Nature. Her latest book is entitled The Story is in Our Bones: How Worldviews and Climate Justice Can Remake a World in Crisis. The Story is in Our Bones “reminds readers that another world is possible, and provides an antidote to the pervasive despair of our time.” Osprey lives in the San Francisco Bay Area on Coast Miwok lands. OspreyOrielleLake.earth Support The Visionary Activist Show on Patreon for weekly Chart & Themes ($4/month) and more… *Woof*Woof*Wanna*Play?!?* The post The Visionary Activist Show – The Story is in Our Bones appeared first on KPFA.

Waxing Full Moon Awooooh- welcoming Max Dashu, honoring her deep delving deft – resonant, latest book Women in Greek Mythography: Pythias, Melissae and Titanides excavating liberating counter narratives to orthodoxy…. “This richly illustrated ethno-historical sourcebook uncovers what they didn’t teach us about women in Greek myth, including pre-patriarchal cosmogonies of the titanides (female titans); women’s dance and ceremony, shapeshifting, Gorgons. How patriarchy transformed the goddesses over time.” Max Dashu has been restoring women & women’s history to cultural memory, political analysis, spiritual awareness since 1970. Through the Suppressed Histories Archives and her books she provides global perspectives, across the expanse of time, on the cultural record, from rock art, archaeology, Indigenous orature, written records, all testimony woven into an ever expanding collection. Max Dashu, Suppressed Histories Archives www.suppressedhistories.net Book Trailer: https://youtu.be/CKkhhRO47QY?si=Tn9sFMzK7ZXmfFWW Books, dvds, posters from Veleda Press: www.veleda.net Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Suppressed-Histories-Archives-333661528320/ This Friday Virgo Full Moon Council: Medicine Moon of Necessary Miracles with Caroline W. Casey & Seán Padráig O’Donoghue Friday, February 23rd · 8pm eastern / 5 pm pacific By Donation · Zoom · 90 minutes · Replay available after Join us! Support The Visionary Activist Show on Patreon for weekly Chart & Themes ($4/month) and more… *Woof*Woof*Wanna*Play?!?* The post The Visionary Activist Show – Women in Greek Mythography appeared first on KPFA.

Moon exalted in Taurus next to Jupiter (watch tonight!) and Uranus, on their rendezvous course, proffering the possibility of necessary miracles… Calling and dedicating to, daily acts of kindness, and Beauty… So, Caroline welcomes: Vicki Robin, in addition to co-authoring the international best seller, “Your Money or Your Life”, has been a serial social innovator, co-creating the Conversation Cafes, organizing her community for resilience in this time of unraveling, hosting the podcast What Could Possibly Go Right? and now writing poetry and essays about coming of aging, the possibility for liberation as we lose who we thought we were. Find her at https://vickirobin.com and her new substack, https://vickirobin.substack.com/ How then shall we live The world is in flames I am not burning Systems are collapsing I have never been more whole Our people are polarized There’s never been so much room in my heart We are shaking in our boots I root deeper We don’t resist collapse out there We let it transform us Even in grief, rage, and the next good idea. -Vicki Robin Support The Visionary Activist Show on Patreon for weekly Chart & Themes ($4/month) and more… *Woof*Woof*Wanna*Play?!?* The post The Visionary Activist Show – Transformation through Collapse appeared first on KPFA.

Dark O Moon- Convening the Flora Fauna Fungi Council: Caroline welcomes Seth Warner, author of “Welcome to Psilocybin – an easy Guide to Growing & Experiencing the Potential of Magic Mushrooms.” Seth Warner is a community advocate in the psychedelic space based in the Bay Area. In 2018 he began his journey directing the San Francisco Psychedelic Society and by 2019 helped decriminalize psilocybin in the city of Oakland, CA. Alongside his work with these initiatives, Seth began MycoRising to teach home-scale psilocybin cultivation and has taught thousands of new growers through his workshops and “Ready? Set. Grow!” online program. MycoRising hosts weekly microdose hikes in the SF Bay area as well as other online and in-person community and consciousness building events. https://www.mycorisingfungi.com/ Support The Visionary Activist Show on Patreon for weekly Chart & Themes ($4/month) and more… *Woof*Woof*Wanna*Play?!?* The post The Visionary Activist Show – Welcome to Psilocybin appeared first on KPFA.

Owen Ó Súilleabháin Brigid – Trickster Peace-maker part 2 – deeper delving… Caroline re-welcomes Owen Ó Súilleabháin, that we honor/welcome Brigid – Trickster Peace-maker…. to bring necessary miracles, to cool out the conflagration…. Owen Ó Súilleabháin is a singer, composer, and teacher. Most recently, Owen performed his new arrangements of Irish folk songs with his brother Moley and the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra string quartet. Drawing on his study of philosophy and ancient civilizations, Owen works with leaders in creativity, healthcare, and technology. https://www.turasdanam.com/ Support The Visionary Activist Show on Patreon for weekly Chart & Themes ($4/month) and more… *Woof*Woof*Wanna*Play?!?* The post The Visionary Activist Show – Brigid: Trickster Peace-maker part 2 appeared first on KPFA.

Caroline welcomes Owen Ó Súilleabháin, and Seán Pádraig O’Donoghue, that we honor/welcome Brigid – Trickster Peace-maker…. Uranus Nature’s evolutionary trickster genius be stationing, so the auguries be welcoming woofy… to bring necessary miracles, to cool out the conflagration…. Seán Pádraig O’Donoghue Owen Ó Súilleabháin Seán Pádraig O’Donoghue is an herbalist, writer, and teacher, and an initiated Priest in two traditions. He lives in the mountains of western Maine. Seán’s approach to healing weaves together the insights of traditional western herbalism and contemporary science. He regards physical, spiritual, and emotional healing as deeply intertwined. https://otherworldwell.com/ Owen Ó Súilleabháin is a singer, composer, and teacher. Most recently, Owen performed his new arrangements of Irish folk songs with his brother Moley and the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra string quartet. Drawing on his study of philosophy and ancient civilizations, Owen works with leaders in creativity, healthcare, and technology. https://www.turasdanam.com/ Owen Ó Súilleabháin, mother & brother offering free live virtual celebration of Brigid’s on her feast day, next Thursday February 1st at 9am Pacific, 12pm Eastern: https://www.turasdanam.com/2024/brigidofkildare The post The Visionary Activist Show – Brigid ~ Trickster Peace-maker appeared first on KPFA.

Global Truth Transit- may everyone be informed and participatory…. Caroline welcomes Daizy Gedeon, recently returned from the Hague, indefatigable reporter, film-maker… joining us at her midnight with expresso in hand….that we honor all the independent journalists doing the real work that mainstream is not… re ongoing carnage in West Bank, Gaza, everywhere past and present, that humans have been cruelly ripped from the land that they love…. www.daizygedeon.com The post The Visionary Activist Show – Global Truth Transit appeared first on KPFA.

New Moon Capricorn begins the prosecution of Israel for Genocide at International Court of Justice, Caroline welcomes Dr Rupa Marya, co- author with Raj Patel of “Inflamed”, “Deep Medicine and the anatomy of injustice.” Medicine and Metaphor…who is especially deft at weaving all the stories together…. Settler Colonialism, all over, crimes against land – brought to accountability… Dr. Marya founded the Deep Medicine Circle, a women of color-led organization committed to healing the wounds of colonialism through food, medicine, story, restoration and learning; Farming is Medicine. The grieving Earth, herself, brings this prosecution… on behalf of Flora Fauna Fungi link to full “Application instituting proceedings” document…. https://www.icj-cij.org/sites/default/files/case-related/192/192-20231228-app-01-00-en.pdf “South Africa … is making the present application to establish Israel’s responsibility for violations of the Genocide Convention; to hold it fully accountable under international law for those violations; and — most immediately — to have recourse to this Court to ensure the urgent and fullest possible protection for Palestinians in Gaza who remain at grave and immediate risk of continuing and further acts of genocide.” Support The Visionary Activist Show on Patreon for weekly Chart & Themes ($4/month) and more… *Woof*Woof*Wanna*Play?!?* The post The Visionary Activist Show – Medicine for the Earth, Justice for the People appeared first on KPFA.

Jewish revolutionary nonviolence Guiding Story strategies for Necessary Miracles! Caroline welcomes Rabbi Lynn Gottlieb “Explore legacies of Jewish and multi-heritage rituals born out of catastrophic loss and loving solidarity. Share how ceremony functions in contemporary emergent multi-heritage/faith networks dedicated to revolutionary nonviolence and social change Lynn Gottlieb, one of the first women to become a rabbi in Jewish history, is a pioneer Jewish feminist, activist, writer, visual artist, ceremonialist, community organizer, master storyteller and performing artist. She is co-founder of Shomeret Shalom Global Congregation and teacher of the path of the Torah of Nonviolence. Currently, Lynn is director of Youth and Family Programs at Chochmat HaLev Congregation in Berkeley, CA. Rabbi Gottlieb is the author of She Who Dwells Within, “a practical guide to nonsexist Judaism,” published on March 3, 1995. Drawing on Gottlieb’s own experiences as well as on traditional and feminist midrash (stories that comment on Biblical texts), the book combines thoughtful essays on gender and Judaism with new rituals for the important moments in Jewish women’s lives. The title is taken from a translation of the word Shekhinah, traditionally understood as the feminine manifestation or aspect of God. http://www.rabbilynngottlieb.com Support The Visionary Activist Show on Patreon for weekly Chart & Themes ($4/month) and more… *Woof*Woof*Wanna*Play?!?* The post The Visionary Activist Show – Jewish revolutionary nonviolence appeared first on KPFA.

We play a portion of last week’s Winter Solstice Council with Caroline Casey, astro-mythologist, entheo anarcho animist, and Amikaeyla Gaston, chanteuse, chantress, enchantress, drummer- invoker of the Orishas, living Intelligences of Nature…. “The longest Nights- the wheel is turning – what will we give to the night?” and what reciprocal blessings shall we ladle out of the Solstice cauldron – to prepare for the dangerous, worthy adventure that is coming for us… As the astrologer, (as well as poet) Rumi said “when fate and strife cross in the heavens – you cannot escape. Your only hope is to dance towards its embrace!” to Craft our Vessel – both be boats…. Our dedicated alchemical vessel, we craft this holy night, into which we then hop, and set sail… Our craft, “power from dedication,” likewise becomes our sturdy craft in the wild seas… Winter Solstice recorded Thursday December 21st 6 pm pt/ 9pm et Full replay (with video replay) available for donation on CoyoteNetworkNews.com The post The Visionary Activist Show – Winter Solstice Council appeared first on KPFA.

The Spark in the Dark – from which necessary miracles be born… Winter Solstice. Caroline & bard wizard, Seán Pádraig O’Donoghue proffering astro*mytho narrative to magnetize*animate all of our participatory skills … Inviting ancestral support, Mythic allies, that the desirable story of Kindom be born into incarnational actuality born from the spark in the dark…. this Sacred Night… https://otherworldwell.com/ From Seán Pádraig O’Donoghue, Dawn at Newgrange will be 8 am there 3 am east coast US: https://www.gov.ie/en/news/dda54-live-streaming-link-winter-solstice-at-newgrange-2023/ Tonight – Caroline animates the Winter Solstice with Amikaeyla Gaston via Zoom Council Ritual: https://coyotenetworknews.com/schedule/winter-solstice-2023/ The post Solstice Spark in the Dark appeared first on KPFA.

Caroline Welcomes Rabbi Lynn Gottlieb CWC: “The Guiding Stories for Necessary Miracles!” Rabbi Lynn “Okay. This will be a conversation about revolutionary nonviolence.” Lynn Gottlieb, one of the first women to become a rabbi in Jewish history, is a pioneer Jewish feminist, activist, writer, visual artist, ceremonialist, community organizer, master storyteller and performing artist. She is co-founder of Shomeret Shalom Global Congregation and teacher of the path of the Torah of Nonviolence. Currently, Lynn is director of Youth and Family Programs at Chochmat HaLev Congregation in Berkeley, CA. Rabbi Gottlieb is the author of She Who Dwells Within, “a practical guide to nonsexist Judaism,” published on March 3, 1995. Drawing on Gottlieb’s own experiences as well as on traditional and feminist midrash (stories that comment on Biblical texts), the book combines thoughtful essays on gender and Judaism with new rituals for the important moments in Jewish women’s lives. The title is taken from a translation of the word Shekhinah, traditionally understood as the feminine manifestation or aspect of God. http://www.rabbilynngottlieb.com Support The Visionary Activist Show on Patreon for weekly Chart & Themes ($4/month) and more… *Woof*Woof*Wanna*Play?!?* The post The Visionary Activist Show – The Guiding Stories for Necessary Miracles! appeared first on KPFA.

Caroline welcomes spicy, deep-delving Shambhavi Sarasvati Diving into the Dark Underworld where our souls can speak more deeply to us. Tyranny seeks to destroy Community, then creates the toxic mimic, which be a cult…. that must have conflict and cruelty on which to feed…. So we animate Community arising from the Earth, across all borders…. Community be dedicated to collective well-being- democracy- equal rights a cult be a prison….. wonder and responsive augury conversing. this ongoing crisis of cruel carnage – reminds us to practice everything we hold dear, & invite in power to resolve. Shambhavi is the spiritual director of Jaya Kula. Her principle training is in the View and practices of Trika Shaivism (a.k.a. Kashmir Shaivism or Shaiva Tantra) and the Dzogchen tradition of Tibet. Shambhavi emphasizes direct encounters with the wisdom of the heart through the more explicitly devotional teachings and practices of Trika Shaivism and Dzogchen. At one time, Shambhavi taught at Northwestern University. She left academia in 2004 in order to devote herself to practice, writing and teaching in her spiritual tradition. Shambhavi is the author of The Reality Sutras: Seeking the Heart of Trika Shaivism (2018), Nine Poisons, Nine Medicines, Nine Fruits (2017), The Play of Awakening: Adventures in Direct Realization Tantra (2012), Pilgrims to Opennness: Direct Realization Tantra in Everyday Life (2009), Returning (2015), and No Retreat: Poems on the Way to Waking Up (2016). In addition, she published an academic book, Avatar Bodies: a Tantra for Posthumanism. She holds an MFA in Fiction from Mills College and a Ph.D. in Modern Thought and Literature from Stanford University. jayakula.org timemedicine.org (a project of Jaya Kula) kindred108.love (articles) and her recent article, her shared last week: Mourning the victims of the cult of Israel https://www.kindred108.love/p/mourning-the-victims-of-the-cult The post The Visionary Activist Show – Diving into the Dark Underworld, Animating Community appeared first on KPFA.