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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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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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Episodes
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The Visionary Activist Show – Whose Story is running the show?

7/31/2025
Whose Story is running the show? Caroline Pays homage to Tom Lehrer, Many songs: And especially his “Verner von Braun” Quirkily pertinent to us now, and the fate of the world… We delineate the connection between Elon Musk and Verner von Braun, That we are living in Verner and Elon’s dystopian sci-fi, infantile obsession with Mars. We need to know whose story is running the show, so we can craft our own better one… Songs and Lyrics by Tom Lehrer The post The Visionary Activist Show – Whose Story is running the show? appeared first on KPFA.
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The Visionary Activist Show – The Soul and Science of Forests

7/24/2025
Cooling out the conflagration: Caroline welcomes the return of Diana Beresford Kroeger, and her latest book, “Our Green Heart – The Soul and Science of Forests” Offered as a KPFA pledge enticement … “Diana Beresford-Kroeger is a world recognized author, medical biochemist, botanist and climate change visionary. She possesses a unique understanding of modern western science and ancient Celtic knowledge. Orphaned in Ireland in her youth, Beresford-Kroeger was educated by her Irish elders who instructed her in the Brehon knowledge of plants and nature. Told at a young age that one day she would need to bring this ancient Celtic knowledge to a troubled future, Beresford-Kroeger has done exactly that. Diana has been working to preserve the environment since the early 1960s when she identified climate change as one of the most important challenges we would face in the modern age. This set her on a course of rigorous scientific study where she achieved a masters in botany and two PHD’s – one in biochemistry and the other in biology.” The new book as described by her editor, Anne Collins at Random House Canada: “In a nutshell, these essays show us all the many ways we are bound for our survival to one another and to the natural world, bound from the atomic level to the planetary one. The simple message is to listen hard to the trees, which hold the cheapest, least intrusive means of ameliorating climate change there is: they are our lungs, our oxygen, and as Diana said in one of her blunter moments on the phone with me, our best means to stop ****ing everything up so our children and grandchildren will survive. Each essay show us a slice of the natural world, with all its wonders, through her unique lens, which stresses the way our health (individually and as a species) is tied to the health of the forest around us—a tie materialism and greed and ignorance tries hard to ignore, with dire and unfolding consequences.” calloftheforest.ca dianaberesford-kroeger.com/about-diana The post The Visionary Activist Show – The Soul and Science of Forests appeared first on KPFA.
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The Visionary Activist Show – Good Trouble

7/17/2025
We shall hear Morgan Freeman reading John’s last words to us – handing us the baton of Liberating Good Trouble and Dedicated Vision… Then will welcome Lucian Truscott IV, perspicacious prolific scouting reports https://luciantruscott.substack.com/ Wrote conservative letters for VillageVoice… Bringing his 6th great grandson of Thomas Jefferson, and military heritage….to the table – of what do we do now? The post The Visionary Activist Show – Good Trouble appeared first on KPFA.
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The Visionary Activist Show – Good Medicine Confluence

7/10/2025
Confluencing of Allies! Full Moon – Reverence for Life magnetized into incarnational actuality: Caroline welcomes Jesse Wolf Hardin founder of “Good Medicine Confluence” Aug. 17-20th Ghost Ranch, New Mexico, and long time ally and presenter at conference Seán Pádraig O’Donoghue….. “Your Storied Mission…” Healing and beautifying our lives and our world in these harrowing times might seem like a fairytale, but it’s a tale we can embrace, embody, and help right now to make come true… by adding to your knowledge, learning crucial skills, creating alliances with kindred healers, and living out your most beloved wishes and dreams. Designed to aid you in this quest, is the 17th Annual Good Medicine Confluence –– your opportunity to explore new approaches as well as ancient traditions, to dance to tribal beats, network with newfound friends, and deepen your personal connection to the healing herbs, the teacher mushrooms, and inspirited nature herself.” https://www.goodmedicineconfluence.com *Woof*Woof*Wanna*Play?!?* · www.CoyoteNetworkNews.com · The Visionary Activist Show on Patreon The post The Visionary Activist Show – Good Medicine Confluence appeared first on KPFA.
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The Visionary Activist Show – July 3, 2025

7/3/2025
The wedding of spiritual magic and compassionate social activism with host Caroline Casey. The post The Visionary Activist Show – July 3, 2025 appeared first on KPFA.
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The Visionary Activist Show – Democracy is calling

6/26/2025
Democracy is calling….Trickster recruiting! Caroline welcomes fellow Libra Dragon astrologer, pragmatic mystic Rachel Lang, that we honor our teammate, true Visionary Activist, Zohran Mamdani… and all the descriptive and navigational guidance available to us all….. With a Libra Sun and Taurus Rising, Rachel also weaves the astro-politico worlds — one foot in the mystical, the other in municipal leadership. As a public servant who holds an elected office in Ojai, California, she brings her spiritual insight and creative vision into every decision, believing that leadership should be both soul-centered and community-driven. https://rachellangastrologer.com/ *Woof*Woof*Wanna*Play?!?* · www.CoyoteNetworkNews.com · The Visionary Activist Show on Patreon The post The Visionary Activist Show – Democracy is calling appeared first on KPFA.
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The Visionary Activist Show – Equality for All Beings

6/19/2025
Yo team, KPFA station holiday For Juneteenth …. I didn’t find a Juneteenth themed show for re-play, but this be notable, thematically – and for reminding, for a long time, that Bibi needed a Repub prez and Congress to sell war with Iran… And here we be, Equality for All Beings ANARCHO *ENTHEO *ASTRO *ANIMISM original air-date: January, 9, 2025 Anarcho *Entheo *Astro *Animism – Facing the Global Conflagration with the Strength of 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 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. honoring ancestral mentors: David Graeber, Peter Lamborn Wilson, Kropotkin, And the Book “Occult Features of Anarchism” by living author Erica Lagalies, forward by Barbra Ehrenreich The post The Visionary Activist Show – Equality for All Beings appeared first on KPFA.
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The Visionary Activist Show – Art of changing the story

6/12/2025
Composting Tyranny into Nutrient for Democracy …… Caroline welcomes, encore, fellow Celtic Mytho Politico Animist, Sean Padraig O’Donoghue -together we suck the “g” out of Kingdom, blow it everywhere, leaving “the Kindom of Heaven is at hand.” Prep for Friday the 13th magic, and June 14th No Kings Day, welcoming storms and the Haboob (giant dust storm Genie from Africa), weaving in June 14 2006!!! “the day the police were driven out of Oaxaca”, inviting in spicy tricksters who outwit the devil… Art of changing the story, assuming cultural narrative lead *Woof*Woof*Wanna*Play?!?* · www.CoyoteNetworkNews.com · The Visionary Activist Show on Patreon The post The Visionary Activist Show – Art of changing the story appeared first on KPFA.
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The Visionary Activist Show – Composting tyranny into nutrient for democracy

6/5/2025
Composting tyranny into nutrient for democracy How shall we craft the redemptive Act V – from our current Act IV of cruel carnage ransacking (from Old Norse = “to pillage”) Community? Caroline welcomes Henry Giroux, deeply dedicated cultural critic, translator of complex liberating pedagogy into accessible vernacular….always the micro to the macro…. and ladling out of the cauldron redemptive strategy and vision to navigate through this dangerous crack-pot tyranny time… education essential to good citizenship- essential to democracy Prodigious contributor- authored or co-authored over 65 books, articles, lectures”No one is better than Henry Giroux at analyzing the truly dangerous threats to our society. He punctures our delusions and offers us a compelling and enlightened vision of a better way.” — Bob Herbert “Henry Giroux is one of the singular intellects in contemporary life, a sane, compassionate, and fierce voice against the society of domination, inequality and the madness of ruthless Imperialist conquest.” — John Steppling, Playwright, screenwriter, and essayist https://www.henryagiroux.com/ The post The Visionary Activist Show – Composting tyranny into nutrient for democracy appeared first on KPFA.

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The Visionary Activist Show – Dedication to the Desirable Outcome

5/29/2025
Disciplined dedication to the desirable outcome in dangerous times Welcoming the return of Seán Pádraig O’Donoghue, as Mythic News co-cahooter…. We be honoring Pluto, through the smokin’ embodiment of Letitia James, weaving to the chart of Kilmer Abridge Garcia (on the theme of “how we rescue our kin from Underworld”), and the US chart… “and grief, beauty and remembrance as currencies for liberation… from the Underworld. Three coins,” sayeth Seán ongoing -Anarcho*Entheo*Astro*Animism… Composting the con of cults into nutrient for egalitarian Community…… Rising to the Occasion, to dree our weird, honing our participatory skills… Otherwordwell.com *Woof*Woof*Wanna*Play?!?* · www.CoyoteNetworkNews.com · The Visionary Activist Show on Patreon The post The Visionary Activist Show – Dedication to the Desirable Outcome appeared first on KPFA.

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The Visionary Activist Show – May 22, 2025

5/22/2025
The wedding of spiritual magic and compassionate social activism with host Caroline Casey. The post The Visionary Activist Show – May 22, 2025 appeared first on KPFA.
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The Visionary Activist Show – Green Hermeticism

5/15/2025
Caroline re-plays her still humming with pertinence conversing with Pir Zia… from 2009….. Pir Zia is the first son of Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan and Taj Inayat, born in 1971 in Novato, California. He grew up in California, New York, and New Mexico. Since 2004 Pir Zia has served as Head of theInayati Order, guiding Sufi communities in the North America, South America, Europe, the Middle East, Asia, and the South Pacific. To provide opportunities for intensive Sufi study, Pir Zia founded the Suluk Academy. Based at the Abode of the Message in upstate New York, the Suluk Academy currently offers courses for Sufi initiates in New York, California, and France. https://inayativancouver.org/pir-zia-biography/ *Woof*Woof*Wanna*Play?!?* · www.CoyoteNetworkNews.com · The Visionary Activist Show on Patreon The post The Visionary Activist Show – Green Hermeticism appeared first on KPFA.
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The Visionary Activist Show – May 8, 2025

5/8/2025
The wedding of spiritual magic and compassionate social activism with host Caroline Casey. The post The Visionary Activist Show – May 8, 2025 appeared first on KPFA.
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The Visionary Activist Show – May 1, 2025

5/1/2025
The wedding of spiritual magic and compassionate social activism with host Caroline Casey. The post The Visionary Activist Show – May 1, 2025 appeared first on KPFA.
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The Visionary Activist Show – All in this Dream Together

4/24/2025
All in this Dream Together, at a “Time of Useful Consciousness” Dark O Moon convening encore with Seán Padráig O’Donoghue to further honor Pope Francis, That we may compost the nefarious into nutrient for the desirable good To convene in the Alam-al Mithral – the Dream world available and eager to be invited into the realm incarnational actuality.. Sean Writes: Thank you, Pope Francis, for your courage, your compassion, and your decency. Your devotion to the poor, to the Earth, and to the Mother were rare, beautiful, and profound. In a world that hangs in the balance, I mourn the loss of your moral weight on the global scale. *Woof*Woof*Wanna*Play?!?* · www.CoyoteNetworkNews.com · The Visionary Activist Show on Patreon The post The Visionary Activist Show – All in this Dream Together appeared first on KPFA.
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The Visionary Activist Show – LandBack & OceanBack

4/17/2025
Dune Lankard (both photos: Native Conservancy) “LandBack + OceanBack = People Back” Campaign Caroline welcomes return of Dune Lankard, on Good Friday Eve, Anniversary of Exxon-Valdez disaster, (twas Good Friday March 24th, 1989), Now partnering with Kelp! Ocean regenerative farming… Reverent ingenuity to protect and ally with our Flora Fauna Fungi Community emerging from cataclysm. Dune, creator of Eyak Preservation Council and the Native Conservancy, “which we set up in the wake of the 1989 Exxon Valdez spill — we have in the years since taken on numerous and endless frontline issues to protect our ancestral home, wild salmon runs, the ocean way of life, and support similar efforts elsewhere.” The post The Visionary Activist Show – LandBack & OceanBack appeared first on KPFA.
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The Visionary Activist Show – Emerging from Underworld

4/10/2025
Full Moon Venus Stationing, emerging from underworld, Caroline welcomes astrological scholar and practitioner Bruce Scofield, that we may discern the astro description and guiding story of now… Bruce Scofield holds a PhD in geoscience, is the author of 15 books, and numerous articles on astrology, science, archaeology, hiking, and travel. He maintains a private practice as an astrological consultant, speaks at conferences, and teaches for Kepler College. Bruce Scofield began studying astrology in 1967 and has earned a living as an astrological consultant since 1980. He maintains a private practice based in Amherst Massachusetts, working with clients via telephone and e-mail. Bruce is a frequent writer for the Mountain Astrologer magazine and the Llewelyn Moon and Sun Sign books. He has also had articles published in the NCGR Journal, Dell Horoscope, American Astrology and many other astrological magazines and journals. naturalastrology.com *Woof*Woof*Wanna*Play?!?* · www.CoyoteNetworkNews.com · The Visionary Activist Show on Patreon The post The Visionary Activist Show – Emerging from Underworld appeared first on KPFA.
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The Visionary Activist Show – Festival of Evolution

4/3/2025
For today’s radio, we excavate a fantabulous treasure from Caroline’s way-back archives – “Festival of Evolution” from the 1997 Cycles and Symbols Conference. *Woof*Woof*Wanna*Play?!?* · www.CoyoteNetworkNews.com · The Visionary Activist Show on Patreon The post The Visionary Activist Show – Festival of Evolution appeared first on KPFA.
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The Visionary Activist Show – Biomimicry (replay)

3/27/2025
Replay, from Fall 2008 – but so powerfully pertinent to now… Janine will be speaking at Bioneers (and will be re-joining us as a radio guest in the weeks to come!). “Biomimicry,” as sine qua non for life on planet… that humans humbly cooperate with Nature’s guiding design Genius 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 biomimicry.net/bios/janine-benyus *Woof*Woof*Wanna*Play?!?* · www.CoyoteNetworkNews.com · The Visionary Activist Show on Patreon The post The Visionary Activist Show – Biomimicry (replay) appeared first on KPFA.
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The Visionary Activist Show – Notes on the practice of re-enchantment

3/20/2025
Caroline welcomes fellow Water Dragon – Brooke Williams, scientist with soul of poet…. Let us all be Intimate with world by being able to read it symbolically…. Tis Spring Now….When we are reminded of the opportunity-responsibility of being human, to borrow qualities of Intelligence from the Flora Fauna Fungi with whom we share this Earth – now in so much peril….His latest book is “encountering dragonfly–notes on the practice of re-enchantment” Brooke Williams writes about evolution, consciousness, and his own adventures exploring both the inner and outer wilderness. He lives with the writer, Terry Tempest Williams near Moab, Utah, where they watch light and wait for rain. https://brookewilliams.site *Woof*Woof*Wanna*Play?!?* · www.CoyoteNetworkNews.com · The Visionary Activist Show on Patreon The post The Visionary Activist Show – Notes on the practice of re-enchantment appeared first on KPFA.