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Dedicated to “anything we need to know to have a democracy”: Democratic Animism, Pragmatic Mysticism, Applied Divination, Renaissance of Reverent Ingenuity. Hosted by Caroline Casey. Her guests are allies contributing to a culture of reverent ingenuity. Critique and Solution.

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Berkeley, CA

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Dedicated to “anything we need to know to have a democracy”: Democratic Animism, Pragmatic Mysticism, Applied Divination, Renaissance of Reverent Ingenuity. Hosted by Caroline Casey. Her guests are allies contributing to a culture of reverent ingenuity. Critique and Solution.

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English


Episodes

The Visionary Activist Show – Redemptive Thanksgiving of spiraling Blessings out into the World…

11/23/2023
Redemptive Thanksgiving of spiraling Blessings out into the World… Caroline, with some great music, reminds us that Thanksgiving not just a hallmark card smiley face on top of colonial destruction of Indigenous people and their kinship with Flora Fauna Fungi, but tis astrologically timed as first Thursday ( Jupiter’s Day) after Sun enters Sagittarius =Jupiter’s sign.. So tis an assignment to engage in blessing… for every humbling horror in world we gather to animate the antidote blessing… that lays the path for tangible good to unfurl…. The post The Visionary Activist Show – Redemptive Thanksgiving of spiraling Blessings out into the World… appeared first on KPFA.

The Visionary Activist Show – Cooling Out the Head

11/16/2023
Cooling Out the Head Caroline welcomes the return of Sean Padraig O’Donoghue that we may avail ourselves of all Flora Fauna Fungi relations to cool out in this hot reactive field…. www.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 – Cooling Out the Head appeared first on KPFA.

The Visionary Activist Show – Hungerstrike: Clean Water at Home and Beyond

11/9/2023
Encampment at Formosa ditch day 10 Caroline welcomes rapid return of Diane Wilson, in reciprocal blessing for her effective dedication…and protection…at this time when the dead are eager to speak and intervene…. indefatigable ally in perpetuity Diane Wilson, “Hey Caroline , I’m on Hungerstrike in ditch front of formosa plastics texas. Come and levitate the plant. Seriously. I have fought formosa on a material, a physical, and a legal level. Now I am fighting on a spiritual level.” “Diane Wilson is a fourth-generation shrimper, boat captain, mother of five, author, and an environmental, peace, and social justice advocate. During the last 30 years, she has launched legislative campaigns, demonstrations, hunger strikes, sunk boats, and even climbed chemical towers in her fight to protect her Gulf Coast bay…….” Won Multi-million $ settlement against Formosa Plastics, Goldman Prize winner etc… https://dianewilsonactivist.org/about/ “On October 31, 2023, Diane Wilson began her fourth hunger strike, this time to bring justice to the victims from the 2016 Formosa Steel disaster in Vietnam.” Click here to learn more and support the Hunger Strike 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 – Hungerstrike: Clean Water at Home and Beyond appeared first on KPFA.

Duration:00:59:57

The Visionary Activist Show – All Souls: back-channels opening

11/2/2023
All Souls – back-channels opening – for us all, to call in that which is more powerfully wise than our rogue species… Three Librans convening with Day of the Dead, All Souls, True Halloween – “A Libra is just an Aries that’s been to charm school!” (Jay Jacobs) Caroline hosts fellow politically engaged astrologer, Rachel Lang, elected to Ojai, CA city council. Who writes: “I just found out I’ve been selected to serve on the Community Services policy committee for the CA League of Cities… helping shape policies for health and human services, arts & culture, and care for the unhoused.” That all metaphysics be applied to supporting Flora Fauna Fungi democracy, or to hell with it… http://rachellangastrologer.com And indefatigable ally in perpetuity Diane Wilson, “Hey Caroline , I’m on Hungerstrike in ditch front of formosa plastics texas. Come and levitate the plant. Seriously. I have fought formosa on a material, a physical, and a legal level. Now I am fighting on a spiritual level.” We back her up Let’s all Have desired blessings lined up for animation…. “Diane Wilson is a fourth-generation shrimper, boat captain, mother of five, author, and an environmental, peace, and social justice advocate. During the last 30 years, she has launched legislative campaigns, demonstrations, hunger strikes, sunk boats, and even climbed chemical towers in her fight to protect her Gulf Coast bay…….” Won Multi-million 4 settlement against Formosa Plastics, Goldman Prize winner etc… https://dianewilsonactivist.org/about/ The post The Visionary Activist Show – All Souls: back-channels opening appeared first on KPFA.

Duration:00:59:58

The Visionary Activist Show – Finding a way outta no way

10/26/2023
Halloween Lunar Eclipse “Finding a way outta no way”, Caroline welcomes Sean Padraic O’Donohue, Bardic guide, at this time when the dead speak to the living, at this waxing Full Moon lunar eclipse, when we see the earth’s shadow, visible as it turns red over Gaza and Israel Saturday night, that we may do all we can to animate the desirable, invoke necessary miracles; That we honor the Moon, exalted in Taurus, the sacredness of all life, that it not be sacrileged by the cruel devolutionary nadir of our rogue species… The Moon’s guiding image will be “A cantilever bridge over a rocky gorge, finding a way to get from here to there.” 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 – Finding a way outta no way appeared first on KPFA.

Duration:00:59:58

The Visionary Activist Show – Agent of Equilibrium

10/19/2023
May those of us, not under immediate pressure of violence, agony and grief, conjure back-stage atmospheric support – for those who are. Caroline hosts denizen of Yosemite, Ron Kauk, born on Autumnal Equinox, as agent of Equilibrium, and the Taoist Rain-bringer, legendary rock-climber and Mentoring youth back to participatory kinship with Nature… https://www.sacredrok.org/about-ron-kauk * * * Audio issues abounding first 15 minutes … connection to KPFA was kerfuffled, but persist through (or skip to 16 min) and much good nutrient & beauty is in this hour of radio * * * The post The Visionary Activist Show – Agent of Equilibrium appeared first on KPFA.

Duration:00:59:58

The Visionary Activist Show – Pluto Eclipse Radio

10/12/2023
Pluto Eclipse Radio…. The dedication is more impossible and more necessary…So we convene back-stage in the participatory imaginal realms to conjure the impossible necessary miracle vision…that we then (a la Haruki Murakami) open the sluice gates, and let the desirable pour into incarnational actuality …. Composting the addiction to having an enemy, on which tyranny feeds….Animating the vision of actual community (that tyranny has always attacked, replacing with the toxic mimic of cults…) Caroline re-plays segments of July 17, 2008 show… Yehuda Atai, Israeli Peace Activist, Biblical scholar, alchemist, modern computer start-up wizard presenting the One State Solution – the Israeli-Palestinian Democracy! Because this bold imaginative ingenious experiment will require metabolizing justified bitterness into forgiveness, Caroline welcomes Rod Suskin, traditional Sangoma to offer the medicine of South Africa into our collective brew that we may animate this desirable, and once we hear it, irresistible story. The post The Visionary Activist Show – Pluto Eclipse Radio appeared first on KPFA.

The Visionary Activist Show – Liberating Lightning

10/5/2023
Caroline hosts Mary Greer, long-time, since 1971, divinatory ally, to honor her colleague, Rachel Pollack, whose book, The Beatrix Gate, we are proffering as a pledge incentive Mary K. Greer is one of the world’s leading Tarot scholars and experts, famous by her Tarot blog. She is an author, teacher, and professional tarot consultant known for her innovative teaching techniques. https://marykgreer.com/ Rachel Pollack, Transgender Activist and Authority on Tarot, Dies at 77 (NY Times): https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/13/arts/rachel-pollack-dead.html “Each card seemed a frozen moment in a story,” Ms. Pollack wrote in a 2015 essay for the Tarosophy Tarot Association. “The cards originated as images, not doctrines or the set of meanings we attach to them. This allows them to pull together strands and possibilities, to create stories that are meaningful in people’s lives.” In 1993, Ms. Pollack created DC Comics’ first transgender hero: Kate Godwin, also known as Coagula.Credit…via DC Comics “Kate Godwin, also known as Coagula, who could dissolve things with one hand and solidify them with the other.” The post The Visionary Activist Show – Liberating Lightning appeared first on KPFA.

Duration:00:59:59

The Visionary Activist Show – Full Moon Radio

9/28/2023
Full Moon Radio – Deep roots in Community allow us to rise to the occasion… cause ack requires the re-wedding of Politics and Magic…. Caroline plays segments of her Anarcho*Entheo*Astro*Animist Equinox address in Viroqua Wisconsin, with music by Sound Play… (the whole shebang available for down-load – for pledge of $50 call 800-439-5732) with Kropotkin’s “Mutual Aid” and Erica Lagalisse’s “Occult Features of Anarchism.” The post The Visionary Activist Show – Full Moon Radio appeared first on KPFA.

The Visionary Activist Show – Equinoctial anarcho*entheo*Astro*animism!

9/21/2023
anarcho*entheo*Astro*animism! Live from WDRT in Viroqua, Wisconsin to KPFA, to all; Caroline hosts Eddy Nix and Christopher Robin, Viroqua Community Citizen denizens, as we all be stepping into the Equinoctial still center of the storm – to dance all falsely estranged, (as a mean trick of the Reality Police) Back into dynamic harmonious equilibrium. Honoring Kropotkin’s “Mutual Aid” & Erica Lagalisse”s “Occult Features of Anarchism” both of which are proffered as pledge incentives for KPFA, in Fall Fund Drive – call 800-439-5732 (Yip-Yip!) or online here: https://secure.kpfa.org/support/ Eddy Nix 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. Christopher Robin: Curator and director of The Commons, Viroqua. Amatuer Astrologer and Musician. Knows Pooh. The post The Visionary Activist Show – Equinoctial anarcho*entheo*Astro*animism! appeared first on KPFA.

Duration:00:59:58

The Visionary Activist Show – New Moon Radio: Sacred Psychiatry

9/14/2023
New Moon Radio: Caroline welcomes, fellow Sun Libra, Moon Virgo, Judy Tsafrir, psychiatrist-astrologer, author of (the forth-coming 1.24) “Sacred Psychiatry: Bridging the Personal and Transpersonal to Transform Health and Consciousness.” CWC: We be crafting our alchemical vessels, in which we shall then set sail into the wild seas of unfurling now ..New Moon 21+Virgo, a degree of connecting with our lineage to bring alive through fresh expression (we pack in out craft) …for the personal/collective guiding most fortuitous for now, as Mercury, Hermes, Legba stations – direct the next day …Legba -open the way for us all! A board certified, conventionally trained adult and child psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, a Harvard Medical School faculty member, with a private practice of holistic adult and child psychiatry, Judy Tsafrira has a deep curiosity about development and healing, and an open mind about trying diverse approaches to help patients. Tsafrir is trained in a variety of energetic approaches including Body Intuitive, Reiki, Astrology, the Tarot and Shamanism. She believes that healing occurs through the integration of heart, mind, body and spirit. “It is only through healing ourselves, can we most effectively contribute to healing the planet.” www.JudyTsafrirMD.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 – New Moon Radio: Sacred Psychiatry appeared first on KPFA.

Duration:00:59:58

The Visionary Activist Show – Growing Down (Anniversary!)

9/7/2023
James Hillman! to honor the 27th anniversary of the Visionary Activist show – we re-play the first show from September 5, 1996, with James Hillman… a riveting relevant resonant romp, with which Caroline riffs for the remainder of the hour… (Note: Dream News Council open for one more week for registration…) 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 – Growing Down (Anniversary!) appeared first on KPFA.

The Visionary Activist Show – August 31, 2023

8/31/2023
Caroline welcome Sara Calvarese, astro anarchist ally, sharing enthusos for: “The US’ Pluto Return and the upcoming outer planet astrology (Pluto moving into Aquarius, Neptune moving into Aries, and Uranus moving into Gemini). And am always willing to have a good discussion about the 8th house.” “…a South Philadelphia based author, illustrator, astrologer, tarot reader, and owner of The 8th House, a brick and mortar retail space. She left her career in chemistry and engineering in 2020 to pursue full time creative work. Her projects to date include: The 8th House Tarot: An Astrological Tarot Deck, Prism Tarot, Mundane Magick Tarot, Stories: A Collaborative Oracle Deck, and Magick (IRL), an interactive tarot and astrology book.” (Re-connected by her anarchist publishing house pm press….Send me more occult anarchists!) It turns out I did a reading for Sara, 7-ish years ago, so all jolly – re-connecting. She says,”You’re probably the single biggest influencer of my astrology practice, so I have a lot to thank you for! Your work is always on my “recommended reading/listening” list for folks.” Yip-Yip! Her Latest is “Turning Terrestrial Tides Tarot” From PM Press – Sara Calvarese: “We’re in turbulent times. The US is experiencing its first Pluto Return, and Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto are all set to move into new zodiac signs in the near future. The astrology suggests that we’re collectively standing on the precipice of a major shift here on Earth.” So, how do we use this astrological energy of change to our advantage? The 78 tarot archetypes invite us to self-reflect and entertain curiosity around designing our future within our larger communities. During these times of intense transformation, tarot can act as both a mirror and an anchor for personal empowerment, reminding us that we write our tomorrow. This DIY quality is reflected in the Turning Terrestrial Tides Tarot artwork. The travel-friendly, poker-sized deck was created in the approachable cut-and-paste collage style of 90s zines and includes the astrological linkages to each tarot archetype as well as words to reflect on, both on the cards and within the included mini guidebook. Sara Calvarese on PM Press 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 – August 31, 2023 appeared first on KPFA.

The Visionary Activist Show – Dream News

8/24/2023
Dream News! Tis a description and an exhortation (and title of just now and more soon council) Caroline hosts Tom Cheetham, “a rogue scholar of the imagination in esoteric Islam interweaving the planes of the real into his continuous and wonderfully whacked-out song.” – Joseph Donahue author of (many books, including) “Imaginal Love – The meanings of Imagination in Henry Corbin and James Hillman” Ancestor Ally Mentors, the likes of Hillman, Henri Corbin, and Jung excavated and crafted keys which they are now handing to us. So let’s put the keys in the locks, and tease erudition into pertinent practice, the world being on fire, and all.. Tom :”There is an open field of reality accessible to us through the imagination.” Wonder, Curiosity, and Willingness partner with Imagination to open portals of participatory cahooting between worlds…. Because we humans cannot resolve any of the innumerable cruel conundrums we have imposed on our kin – by ourselves. Tis by ourselves that got us it into this pickle. Participatory Animism, Biomimicry, Mutual Aid – the way to go…. https://www.tomcheetham.com/ The post The Visionary Activist Show – Dream News appeared first on KPFA.

Duration:00:59:59

The Visionary Activist Show – August 17, 2023

8/17/2023
The wedding of spiritual magic and compassionate social activism with host Caroline Casey. The post The Visionary Activist Show – August 17, 2023 appeared first on KPFA.

Duration:00:59:58

The Visionary Activist Show – Cooperating with Guiding Auguries

8/10/2023
Guiding Auguries Cooling out the conflagration…. Caroline re-welcomes fellow anarcho*entheo*Mytho*animist Sean Padraig O’Donoghue, herbalist, Bard, wizard, writer part of our Rapid Metaphoric Response Team… https://otherworldwell.com “Nae King, nae Quin, we willna be fooled agin,” sayeth the Wee Free Men (via Terry Pratchett). 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 – Cooperating with Guiding Auguries appeared first on KPFA.

The Visionary Activist Show – As Above, So Below

8/3/2023
Underworld Arraignment Accountability Special! Barbie as Inanna (great essay by Meg Ellison), True Lammas, US Pluto return, & The Yes Men continue their liberating High Jinx Caroline welcomes return of fellow Libran Dragon, astro*mytho*politico Rachel Lang, author of Modern Day Magic and the new children’s book As Above, So Below. Rachel was recently elected to the Ojai City Council in Ojai, CA, That all metaphysics be applied to supporting Flora Fauna Fungi democracy, or to hell with it… Rachel serves on the boards of the National Council for Geocosmic Research (NCGR), the Stonewall Democrats of Ventura County, the Ventura Regional Sanitation District Board, and the Economic Development Collaborative. Upcoming Omega Institute workshop in October – Liberating Venus. Website: http://rachellangastrologer.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 – As Above, So Below appeared first on KPFA.

Duration:00:59:57

The Visionary Activist Show – anarcho*entheo*animism festival continues

7/27/2023
Caroline co-riffs with clips of 2 wondrous guests, Diana Beresford Kroeger, and Rachel Harris, and Peter Kropotkin whose books serve as pledge magnetizers in our on-going anarcho*entheo*animism festival… Mutual Aid, Peter Kropotkin + Swimming in the Sacred: Wisdom from the Psychedelic Underground, Rachel Harris + To Speak for the Trees, Diana Beresford-Kroeger = anarcho*entheo*animism The post The Visionary Activist Show – anarcho*entheo*animism festival continues appeared first on KPFA.

The Visionary Activist Show – anarcho*entheo*animism

7/20/2023
anarcho*entheo*animism Syncretism is a sacrament! Caroline re-hosts Charles Allison author of “No harmless power: The Life and Times of Ukrainian Anarchist Nestor Makhno” that we tease the dedicated vision, and myriad befoiblements of anarchist revolution into guiding pertinence, with special honoring of Kropotkin ‘s “Mutual Aid” … Both books being offered as pledge incentives, magnetizing money mojo for the Mutual Aid of KPFA 800-439-5732 Charlie Allison is an anarchist writer, storyteller, and activist who lives in Philadelphia. https://www.charlie-allison.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 – anarcho*entheo*animism appeared first on KPFA.

The Visionary Activist Show – Guiding Culture to Sane Reverence

7/13/2023
Dark o Moon radio, when Communitarians gather to guide culture to ingenious sane reverence, Caroline welcomes, ally Jamie Yeager. Jamie Yeager, “a lifelong Texas liberal, was press secretary for Senator Eugene McCarthy’s independent presidential campaign in 1976, and is now battling the modern Confederates.” The post The Visionary Activist Show – Guiding Culture to Sane Reverence appeared first on KPFA.