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Tuesday Apr 17, 2018
Tuesday Apr 17, 2018
Aired Tuesday, 17 April 2018, 5:00 PM EST
Can the “Food Revolution” Unite Us?
A Conversation with Food Activist Ocean Robbins
“We need to shift the focus from ‘identity’ issues that keep us divided to the ‘identical’ issues that unite us — clean food, clean air, clean water and clean government.” — Swami Beyondananda
Until now the two-party duopoly has kept us divided by “identity” issues so that we have been unable to unite around “identical” issues, those all of us share in common like clean air, clean water, clean food and clean government.
As more people from both the conservative and progressive “tribes” begin to awaken around the need for unadulterated, nutritious food — and also begin to explore medicine beyond drugs and surgery — there is a new potential for a unifying force that can “overgrow” the misrepresentations by big Pharma and agribusiness.
Our guest this week, Ocean Robbins, is a leading voice in food education and helping the public discern real information from industry “impropaganda”. In doing so, he has found himself working across ideological lines and creating some surprising alliances. Ocean grew up in a “food family.” His grandfather was co-founder of Baskin Robbins ice cream. His dad, John Robbins, was a pioneering food educator and activist who rejected dairy products in favor of a vegan diet, and wrote a best-selling book, Diet For A New America.
Ocean has been an activist, organizer and entrepreneur since he was a child. As founder of Food Revolution Network, has helped people choose cleaner and more nutritious foods, regardless of whether they are vegans or omnivores.
In this week’s conversation, Ocean will discuss this burgeoning clean food movement and its potential for connecting us beyond the divide. He will explore both the possibilities for and the barriers to transpartisan engagement around healthy foods and natural medicine, and share some success stories. He will also share some details on the upcoming Food Revolution Summit.
If you’re curious about how clean and healthy food can help build a strong body politic 12-ways, join us this Tuesday, April 17th at 2 pm PT / 5 pm ET.
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Tuesday Apr 10, 2018
Tuesday Apr 10, 2018
Aired Tuesday, 10 April 2018, 5:00 PM EST
Guns and the Right to Bear Arms – Beyond Victims and Villains
A Conversation with Progressive Gun-Owner Veronica Monet
“Every child should learn the appropriate use of arms — for hugging.” — Swami Beyondananda
The problem with “hot button” issues like gun control / 2nd Amendment rights is that they are “hot” — lots of heat, not nearly enough light. From the meta-view, they keep the culture wars alive, and this war prevents “we the people” from uniting around the larger issues of governance, what my friend and associate Joseph McCormick calls “who’s in charge of who’s in charge”.
So it may be that the Parkland students’ movement, while seeking to address the problem at a higher level, could easily be diverted into positionality that avoids the real problem. This week’s guest, self-described progressive and gun-owner Veronica Monet takes us deeper into the conversation: Why IS the school-shooting problem so indigenous to the USA? How do we protect the rights of individual citizens, and minimize harm to everyone else? Which weapons should be legal and which should not? How do we prevent these tragedies, and how much of that has to do with gun control legislation?
You may remember Veronica from our previous interview a few months ago on the #METOO movement, citing her own experience as a rape survivor, sex therapist and counselor. In this interview, she contrasts her revulsion at her father’s obsession with guns with her own experience — having them as handy protectors as she lived in the woods alone for eight years.
If you’re ready for common sense and uncommon wisdom on a complex and divisive issue, tune in this Tuesday, April 10th at 2 PM PT / 5 PM ET.
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Tuesday Apr 03, 2018
Tuesday Apr 03, 2018
Aired Tuesday, 3 April 2018, 5:00 PM EST
When We the People Become King… the Queendom of Heaven Will Be at Hand
Healing Martin Luther King’s Murder, and Embodying His Legacy
“The truth shall upset you free.” — Swami Beyondananda
This week on Wiki Politiki, we commemorate the 50th anniversary of Martin Luther King, Jr.’s assassination. And in the true spirit of “apocalypse”, we lift the veils both on the awful truth and the awesome opportunity.
The awful truth is that MLK wasn’t killed by the alleged assassin James Earl Ray, but was brought down by the FBI, the Memphis police, and other government agencies. How do we know? Because William Pepper, attorney for the King family, presented the case at a US Court in Memphis in 1999. The depositions, testimony and other evidence provided caused the jury to decide — after deliberating less than an hour — that indeed this was the case, and James Earl Ray was an innocent “patsy”.
Why doesn’t everybody know this?
Because we’re not supposed to know this, just as we’re not supposed to know that the phrase “conspiracy theory” was put into circulation by the CIA in the late 1960s to besmirch those who didn’t buy the Lee Harvey Oswald as “lone nut” narrative about the JFK assassination.
On this week’s Wiki Politiki, we shine a light on the dark perpetration that snuffed the life of America’s political and spiritual conscience … and we shine a light ahead of us as to how we can embody Martin Luther King’s legacy so that it is unstoppable.
First, we replay an interview with William Pepper I did a year ago where he tells the amazing story of how and why the lawsuit was brought, what he showed that convinced the jury, and how the story has been squelched for nearly twenty years. Then we talk with Pepper’s agent and representative Byron Belitsos about the latest developments in revealing the truth, and the story behind this week’s Washington Post story that gives at least partial credence to Pepper’s research.
Finally, we talk about the healing where we can now collectively — in YUGE numbers — embody, animate, and finally establish the dreams and visions of Dr. Martin Luther King, a nation based on love with liberty and justice for all. With the vast majority of us embodying these “King-ly” virtues, we can inaugurate the “Queendom of Heaven” where the feminine values of nurturance, care for Creation and kindness to others predominate over the dominator, and love prevails.
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Tuesday Mar 27, 2018
Tuesday Mar 27, 2018
Aired Tuesday, 27 March 2018, 5:00 PM EST
Living Room Conversations: Can A New “Parlor” Game Heal the Divide?
A Conversation With Living Room Conversations Co-Founder Joan Blades
“When we connect personally, we don’t take things poisonally.” — Swami Beyondananda
Did you know (From the Living Room Conversations website) … “Living rooms used to be the place where people would gather to socialize and relate with each other. Inviting someone into your home was to treat them as valued and worthy of respect. But before they were called living rooms these rooms were referred to as “parlors” – a term that comes from the French and means place for speaking.”
At a time when there’s been precious little civil discourse — let alone civic discourse — can transpartisan “living room conversations” heal the divide?
Joan Blades, co-founder of the very partisan MoveOn.org thinks so.
In 2010, she and conservative colleagues founded Living Room Conversations to “re-humanize” the other side (whichever side the other side is to you) by sharing stories and personal connections, and then discussing otherwise divisive issues together. Joan herself had a profound awakening in 2007 when she connected with Christian Coalition’s communication director Michele Combs at a retreat. The two became friends, and together the two organizations — MoveOn.org and the Christian Coalition — became unlikely partners in a successful campaign to preserve net neutrality.
On this week’s Wiki Politiki, Joan talks about the promise and the challenges of Living Room Conversations, and shares her own journey that took her from law school to a successful Silicon Valley start-up, to founding MoveOn, a pioneer organization in using the internet and social media for political campaigns.
If you’re curious — or skeptical — about civil discourse being able to breach what seem to be not only different viewpoints, but different realities, you’ll want to hear what Joan has to say. These conversations may not change people’s minds but it might change hearts — and that’s where real change must take place as we evolve into political (and spiritual) maturity.
Find Living Room Conversations here: https://livingroomconversations.org/
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Tuesday Mar 20, 2018
Tuesday Mar 20, 2018
Aired Tuesday, 20 March 2018, 5:00 PM EST
The New Republic of the Heart – From Emergency to Emergent Seeing
A Conversation With Integral Thinker and Author Terry Patten
“Can we undo the doo-doo that has been done, or will the done doo-doo be our undoing?” — Swami Beyondananda
There’s the classic story about the hiker who slips off a mountain trail, and the only way he can break his fall is by grabbing on to a thin branch. As he holds the branch, he sees that it’s only a matter of time before the branch breaks under his weight. So he begins to pray for God’s help. To his surprise the clouds part in the sky and he hears an unmistakable voice that says, “Let go.”
He continues holding the branch, and once again and louder the voice says, “LET GO!”
At that point, the hiker turns to the sky and asks, “Is there anyone else up there?”
That seems to be our human condition, and conditioning, when faced with the kinds of vexing issues we face today where our survival as a species is threatened, and yet we continue to do the very same things today that we did yesterday, things that only make the problem worse.
Our Wiki Politiki guest this week, author and integral thinker Terry Patten calls these kinds of problems “wicked problems” because like the “whack-a-mole” it’s hard to address these problems in one place because they keep popping up in another place. Even as we are aware of the dying parts of the oceans, the rising seas, the melting ice caps, and all the other burgeoning crises that seem to be gathering into one perfect storm, we seem collectively paralyzed even as we desperately seek a solution.
A student, practitioner and teacher of Integral Philosophy for more than 15 years, Terry co-authored Integral Life Practice: A 21st-century Blueprint for Physical Health, EmotionalBalance, Mental Clarity, and Spiritual Awakening with Ken Wilber, Marco Morelli, and Adam Leonard. His new book is A New Republic of the Heart: An Ethos For Revolutionaries, A Guide to Inner Work for Holistic Change, and the book faces unblinkingly the current “shituation” and offers a way through to the other side. He is quick to point out that our situation is dire, and there are no guarantees of success. And yet this “new republic of the heart” does have the potential to gather adherents and coherence … and may be the key to our species’ evolution.
Tune in for this rich conversation — sober yet ultimately hopeful — as Terry Patten offers examples of “evolutionary activism” and how we make the shift from “me to we”, heal the traumas of our collective human history, and find new ways to work together and use our inner transformation to transform the collective.
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Tuesday Mar 13, 2018
Tuesday Mar 13, 2018
Aired Tuesday, 13 March 2018, 5:00 PM EST
Wise Democracy, the Great Upwising and A New “Common Sense”
A Conversation With Evolutionary Activist Tom Atlee
“A revolutionary uprising to overthrow the system? Nah, that’s strictly old paradigm. What we really need is an evolutionary upwising to OVERGROW the system.” — Swami Beyondananda
While doing research for Spontaneous Evolution ten years ago, I came across a book that forever changed how I viewed the collective wisdom of we the people. The book was called The Tao of Democracy and it offered example after example of how the collective voice and view of ordinary citizens could provide more helpful and functional solutions than the best-informed experts.
The author of that book, Tom Atlee, has been an “evolutionary activist” for more than 30 years, focusing on the power of collaboration and collective intelligence. In 1996, he founded the Co-Intelligence Institute to aid in the “conscious evolution” of our society, and our species.
His work on “wise democracy” features his coined category of existing forms of “citizen deliberative councils” which he promotes in his books The Tao of Democracy: Using Co-Intelligence to Create a World that Works for All (2003) and Empowering Public Wisdom: A Practical Vision of Citizen-Led Politics (2012).
One of the objections those used to being in power have had against true democracy is their belief that ordinary people don’t have the capacity to consider the bigger picture, and cannot be trusted to govern themselves. The work that Tom Atlee has done over these past many years proves just the opposite — that given the tools for engagement, and the proper guidance for having a respectful conversation for co-creativity, the “wisdom of crowds” is wiser than the wisdom of elites.
If you recognize that it’s time to finally bring forth the missing element in government of, by and for the people — the PEOPLE — please join us for this enlightening and encouraging conversation. You’ll hear stories of how “citizen deliberation councils” have shown how common folks can bring forth uncommon wisdom, you’ll discover new rules of transpartisan engagement that cultivate respect, listening and breakthrough solutions, and discover “wise democracy pattern language” to help us speak and listen more effectively. Says Tom, ” All of this can be viewed as evolution becoming conscious of itself in the transformation of social dynamics that will cause humanity to either go extinct or become a radically better and regenerative form of itself.”
If you prefer evolution to extinction, this conversation will shine the light on the path ahead.
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Tuesday Mar 06, 2018
Tuesday Mar 06, 2018
Aired Tuesday, 6 March 2018, 5:00 PM EST
Conspiracy and Cons’ Piracy – Cultivating Deep Wisdom About Deep Politics
A Conversation With Author and “Conspiracy Literacy” Expert Mark Robinowitz
“In these times of fake news, it’s hard to know who to NOT believe.” — Swami Beyondananda
Did you know… that the term “conspiracy theory” was put into circulation by the CIA in the late 1960s to marginalize those who were questioning the official Warren Commission Report on the JFK assassination?
Our guest this week Mark Robinowitz knows that, and he also knows that many of the current viral “conspiracy theories” circulating are intentionally meant to discredit and “pollute” the real ones. Mark is a writer and researcher who focuses on the intersection of deep politics and deep ecology. He runs several websites, including OilEmpire.US – A Political Map, PeakChoice.org – Cooperation or Collapse, and JFKMoon.org about President Kennedy’s call to end the Cold War and convert the Moon race to a joint US – Soviet mission. Mark is based in Eugene, Oregon where he practices permaculture and encourages re-localization as a community response to Peak Everything.
I have long appreciated Mark’s ability to cut through BS, speak truth about the “unspeakable”, and help others be more discerning. Beginning with the John F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King assassinations, Mark brings deep insight and common sense understandings to these cover-ups, and the continues to unwrap and unravel the likeliest story around the 911 attacks. He also calls out and explains some of the more outrageous “conspiracy stories” and the purpose they serve to obfuscate the truth about “real” conspiracies.
As a researcher in the issues of peak oil, and peak everything else, Mark points toward the real issues we face as individuals, as a nation, and as a species. And… he addresses the all-too-real threat of the deep state from the “deeper state” of love, wisdom and spiritual awareness.
If you’re wondering how to discern “real” conspiracy narratives from false ones, and if you appreciate that we cannot build the world of the future by ignoring the lies of the past and present, tune in to this enlightening and ultimately encouraging conversation with one of the most highly-attuned — and largely unsung — thinkers of our time.
Tuesday Feb 27, 2018
Tuesday Feb 27, 2018
Aired Tuesday, 27 February 2018, 5:00 PM EST
If This Candidate Wins, We ALL Do
A Conversation With Sander Hicks, Congressional Candidate, NY’s 12th District
“The Republicans have sold their soul to the devil. The Democrats? They’ve just been renting theirs.” — Swami Beyondananda
Ah, New York, New York.
If you can make it there, you can make it anywhere.
There’s a forward-thinking, visionary, courageous and creative candidate running for Congress in New York’s 12th Congressional District, and if Sander Hicks makes it there, he wins for all of us.
Sander Hicks — writer, publisher, entrepreneur, musician, carpenter, and truth-seeker — is our guest on this week’s Wiki Politiki, and he is campaigning to win the primary and unseat a Democrat who has been in the pocket of the banking industry and the military industrial complex throughout the 26 years she has been in office.
Over the past generation, the Democratic (sic) party has devolved into the “other” corporate party, which is why disillusioned young voters stayed home in 2016, and working folks strayed into the Trump camp. Sander Hicks is tired of the Democratic Party being the “Wolfawitz in sheepowitz’s clothing,” the neoliberal companion to the neocons.
In addition to supporting progressive causes like Medicaid for all, ending the warring in the Middle East, and auditing the Defense Department budget, Sander advocates a “public interest venture capitalist bank.” He is also is an unabashed supporter of the Lawyers’ Committee for 9/11 Inquiry, a new organization, currently filing a Petition for a Grand Jury in Federal Court in NY, asking for a Grand Jury investigation into 9/11. As many of us have come to realize, one way the “right got right and the left got left” is because of progressives’ unwillingness and timidity in recognizing the evils perpetrated by the “deep state.” This caused many of those already familiar with these crimes to abandon Hillary in 2016 and cast their fate with Trump, falling for the narrative that HE would confront the deep state.
Whew. Talk about the perils of hopium.
Please join us for this enlightening conversation that will help us achieve a “deeper state” of understanding. You might even be moved to support Sander Hicks’ campaign because truly, if he wins we all do.
Tuesday Feb 20, 2018
Tuesday Feb 20, 2018
Aired Tuesday, 20 February 2018, 5:00 PM EST
To Know Water Is to Love Water
A Conversation With “Hydro-luminary” Jim Lauria
“We humans, without water, we’re sunk.” — Swami Beyondananda
Water is life.
It has been said many times and many ways … and it is true.
Not only do we humans require water, but every human endeavor does as well — agriculture, energy, industry, business, recreation. Even the “cloud” requires water, because the more information being stored and used, the more water is needed to cool the servers. The good news is, if we humans work together to manage our most precious “we-source”, we also create the pathway to manage all of our other collective problems.
Our guest this week Jim Lauria, has had a lifelong love affair with water. From his childhood in Queens at a time when New York City was famed for having the best water in the world, to his travels as an engineer to countries across the globe, to his current mission, a book called “To Know Water Is To Love Water,” Jim is a true “hydro-luminary”, a term created to describe those who hold a piece of the puzzle that will provide clean and abundant water to all.
While there are many clean water advocates out there, Jim’s experience is special in that he has spent his career actually CLEANING water. As an engineer and now VP, Sales and Marketing for Mazzei, a company that makes water treatment and management products, Jim sees the big picture and also understands the practical details of turning the ideal into the real deal.
Jim is also an expert at “mind-mapping” and on Leonardo da Vinci, particularly that great genius’ understanding of the science of water.
As we seek to find the “common sacred” amidst the divisiveness and political polarization, water is perhaps the one “identical issue” that all humans face beyond all the identity issues. Join us for this entertaining, enlightening, serious and humorous look at the looming water crisis, and the huge opportunity humanity has to work together to conserve, preserve and purify our greatest “liquid asset”.
Tune in this Tuesday, February 20th and learn more about the “da Vinci code” that can save all life on the planet, not to mention human civilization.
Tuesday Feb 13, 2018
Tuesday Feb 13, 2018
Aired Tuesday, 13 February 2018, 5:00 PM EST
Engaging the Other - Finding TRUE Common Ground in the Age of Polarization
A Conversation With Steve Olweean, Director Common Bond Institute
“Before we have peace in the Middle East, we first need to create peace in the Middle West.” — Swami Beyondananda
My colleague Bruce Lipton, cellular biologist, tells us that the next phase of human evolution is an evolution in consciousness, where we recognize that we are each and all cells in the larger body of humanity. If that is true, it’s easy to see how so much of our resource and intention is tied up in obsolete and “obsolethal” forms of interactivity that can best be seen as autoimmune disease. After all, when healthy humans on two sides of an issue spend their time and energy in combat, two things happen. First, warfare endangers not just the lives of those engaged in the conflict, but life on the planet. Secondly, precious energy and resources that could be used to work together is being dissipated and wasted.
That’s why last weekend’s Unrig the System Summit in New Orleans was so encouraging … 1,500 “proactivists” (i.e., proactively moving forward as an alternative to reactively resisting) who get what Bruce and I concluded in Spontaneous Evolution — that the Darwinian notion of “survival of the fittest” has now proven to be “thrival of the fittingest.” Those who cooperate, survive and thrive.
Indeed, this evolutionary upwising is well on its way, even if we don’t see it on the news.
Our guest this week, Steve Olweean from the Common Bond Institute is a therapist who has spent the past 35 years in community mental health, serving underserved populations, specializing in trauma and abuse recovery, victim/perpetrator dynamics, crisis intervention, dissociative disorders, and healing negative belief systems. Since 2001, he has focused on creating cross-cultural dialogue both here and abroad to create mutual trust and understanding between Muslim and non-Muslim populations.
This April, the Common Bond Institute under Steve’s direction will be holding its 8th annual Engaging the Other conference in Madison, Wisconsin. It is described as an interactive, working conference to:
* Address rising polarization and animosity in our society
* Advance a wider public dialogue about toxic images of “Us and Them,”
* and Promote positive joint action for compassionate remedies and healing in our relationship with a perceived “Other.”
Our conversation this week will focus on both the opportunities and challenges in “engaging the other”, and will focus his experiences both in the Middle East … and the Middle West. He writes: “The Other often conjures up images of strange faces, practices, and beliefs, usually in faraway places. At the same time that it challenges our understanding, our sense of normalcy, and sometimes our sense of security, it is a label we all share.”
In other words, we are each an “other” to each other.
Tune in this Tuesday, February 13th and find out how such “living laboratories” can unleash “the speed of trust” and turn conflict into collaboration.