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KPFA - The Visionary Activist Show

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.

  1. The Visionary Activist Show – Navigating Grief Part II

    2 DAYS AGO

    The Visionary Activist Show – Navigating Grief Part II

    Navigating Grief as Venus descends into the Underworld, and we with her, to bring back skookum leadership to the 2 leggeds…. Caroline welcomes part 2 Eiren Caffall, and “All the Water in the World,” a novel that makes its way into our dreams, navigating the grief of a collapsing world…. resonant – pertinent to us all now…. “All the Water in the World,’ “The World As it Was” “The World As It Is” And the World that is coming for all of us…. EirenCaffall is a writer and musician. Her work on loss, oceans, and extinction has appeared in Orion, Writer’s Digest, Guernica, The Los Angeles Review of Books, Literary Hub, Al Jazeera, and other publications. https://www.eirencaffall.com/the-weight-of-all-the-water-in-the-world/     *Woof*Woof*Wanna*Play?!?* · www.CoyoteNetworkNews.com · The Visionary Activist Show on Patreon The post The Visionary Activist Show – Navigating Grief Part II appeared first on KPFA.

    57 min
  2. The Visionary Activist Show – Navigating Grief

    27 FEB

    The Visionary Activist Show – Navigating Grief

    Navigating Grief May collapse make us all kinder and kinned…. Caroline welcomes the return of Eiren Caffall, author of “the Mourner’s Bestiary,” And now, her novel, “All the Water in the World,’ “The World As it Was” “The World As It Is” And the World that is coming for all of us…. Eiren Caffall is a writer and musician. Her work on loss, oceans, and extinction has appeared in Orion, Writer’s Digest, Guernica, The Los Angeles Review of Books, Literary Hub, Al Jazeera, The Rumpus, and the anthology Elementals: Volume IV. Fire, (The Center for Humans and Nature, 2024). She received a 2023 Whiting Creative Nonfiction Grant, a Social Justice News Nexus fellowship, and residencies at the Banff Centre, Millay Colony, Hedgebrook, and Ragdale. Her books include her memoir The Mourner’s Bestiary (Row House Publishing, 2024) and her novel All the Water in the World (St. Martin’s Press, 2025).       *Woof*Woof*Wanna*Play?!?* · www.CoyoteNetworkNews.com · The Visionary Activist Show on Patreon The post The Visionary Activist Show – Navigating Grief appeared first on KPFA.

    1 hr
  3. Special Fund Drive Programming: Sacraments of Collaborative Kinship

    20 FEB

    Special Fund Drive Programming: Sacraments of Collaborative Kinship

    KPFA in Fund Drive Caroline welcomes James Fadiman and Jordan Gruber, whose most recent, book is “Microdosing for Health, Healing, and Enhanced Performance”- (offered as pledge incentive for $150)…. Timely, as we have out-sourced authority to those with cunning, but no heart, the devolutionary nadir of our rogue species…. …..So Sacraments of collaborative kinship, symbiotic mutualism and participatory animism especially welcome. Rip tide of science proving folklore, as Paul Stamets said “Johns Hopkins reporting that psilocybe mushrooms encourage curiosity, confidence and kindness. Those are qualities of true leadership.” https://www.jamesfadiman.com/ https://jordangruber.com/   The post Special Fund Drive Programming: Sacraments of Collaborative Kinship appeared first on KPFA.

    1 hr
  4. The Visionary Activist Show – ongoing – Anarcho*Entheo*Astro*Animism

    13 FEB

    The Visionary Activist Show – ongoing – Anarcho*Entheo*Astro*Animism

    ongoing – Anarcho*Entheo*Astro*Animism Composting the con of cults into nutrient for egalitarian Community……   Caroline welcomes the 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; 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.”   honoring ancestral mentors: David Graeber, Hakim Bey and team…. That we animate and hone  all of our collaborative liberating trickster skills… Let all tyranny serve as incentive for ingenious creativity….to compost cruel horror into compost for kind ingenuity     The post The Visionary Activist Show – ongoing – Anarcho*Entheo*Astro*Animism appeared first on KPFA.

    1 hr
  5. The Visionary Activist Show – Animating Astro*Mytho Participatory Skills

    6 FEB

    The Visionary Activist Show – Animating Astro*Mytho Participatory Skills

    All we have is us! Confluencing of Allies Caroline welcomes long-time ally Heather Roan Robbins, that we may animate all our participatory skills, invoke all our metaphoric allies Nemesis be on speed dial-she who brings down unjust Empire and Unjust Fortune.. “No fortune without a felony!” “Tis the practice of lightning to laugh through the storm….” (Rumi) Heather Roan Robbins M.Th. is a practical, intuitive, choice-oriented astrologer, interfaith minister, and author of the Starcodes Book, the Starcodes AstroOracle Deck, the weekly Starcodes forecast, and contributes to the We Moon calendar. She organizes the Shining Mountains Grove for the Order of Bards, Ovates, and Druids and has an on-line global practice based in Montana. www.roanrobbins.com The post The Visionary Activist Show – Animating Astro*Mytho Participatory Skills appeared first on KPFA.

    1 hr
  6. The Visionary Activist Show – Chapel Perilous

    30 JAN

    The Visionary Activist Show – Chapel Perilous

    As Uranus – Trickster Genius stations to go outward Caroline Welcomes the spirit of Robert Anton Wilson, through  his biographer, Gabriel Kennedy, aka Prop Anon,  author of “Chapel Perilous – the Life and Thought Crimes of Robert Anton Wilson”… Because we need this narrative guiding voice for now….. Gabriel Kennedy is a multimedia artist .His work has appeared in BoingBoing.net, Mondo2000.com He first interviewed Robert Anton Wilson in 2003, and was an original member  of Wilson’s remote learning website, the Maybe Logic Academy. “Chapel Perilous” is his first book. www.Chapelperilous.us www.Prop-anon.com The post The Visionary Activist Show – Chapel Perilous appeared first on KPFA.

    1 hr
  7. The Visionary Activist Show – Inauguration Auguries

    23 JAN

    The Visionary Activist Show – Inauguration Auguries

    Inauguration Auguries all our relations are Strictly Plutonic…. Caroline & bardic herbalist wizard, Seán Pádraig O’Donoghue proffering astromytho narrative to magnetizeanimate 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… 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. https://otherworldwell.com/   The post The Visionary Activist Show – Inauguration Auguries appeared first on KPFA.

    1 hr
  8. The Visionary Activist Show – Cooling Out the Conflagration

    16 JAN

    The Visionary Activist Show – Cooling Out the Conflagration

    Cooling Out the Conflagration Guiding Narratives from LA to World…. that we all dedicate to being Good Earth Citizens….   The Community of the grieving is globally expanding. All in this Dream together After Monday- all we have is us – Community- Mutual Aid.   Welcoming Mike Rothschild, denizen of Altadena, California whose eloquent elegy brought its convivial spirit alive from the smoldering ruins….into kinship….and teases all into pertinence for us all… Mike Rothschild, “journalist, author,conspiracy expert” His THE STORM IS UPON US | JEWISH SPACE LASERS https://themikerothschild.com/   Anything anywhere is everywhere…Los Angeles is everywhere…. The post The Visionary Activist Show – Cooling Out the Conflagration appeared first on KPFA.

    1 hr
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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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