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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.

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.

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.

Full Moon Lunar Eclipse Radio Participatory sizzle Mercury stationing late Friday, Venus descending into Underworld and we with her/him Much with which to cahoot, so welcoming fellow Libran, Venus in Scorpio, Moon in Virgo – Eli Painted Crow Eli PaintedCrow (Maya/Yaqui) is the Founder of Turtle Women Rising, a peace activist, a ceremonialist elder and an author. She is a retired Army Veteran, a mother of two veteran sons, and a grandmother of eight. She currently lives in Merced, California. Eli’s current work is centered on helping women remember and find their sovereignty and purpose. She devotes her time to participatory sane reverent ingenuity. She is the author of “Why You Matter: Wellness, Balance, and Wholeness Through Indigenous and Western Healing.” This work examines the intertwining of two roads, life led from an Indigenous point of view while living in a colonized world. She shares the values needed for humanity to heal historical and present-day wounds of the spirit and the perspective necessary for us to find significance in everyday living. https://www.turtlewomenrising.live/ The post The Visionary Activist Show – Full Moon Lunar Eclipse Radio appeared first on KPFA.

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.

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.

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 – The Visionary Activist Show – Sacraments of collaborative kinship appeared first on KPFA.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 – Anarcho*Entheo*Astro* Animism appeared first on KPFA.

We gather to con-sider, to avert greater dis-aster Trickster Version Project 2025: Tis not “ what’s gonna happen?” But What’s the assignment….?! What’s available with which to cooperate…./ Considering the path of evolutionary opportunity Caroline welcomes colleague from way back Rick Geer- “Rick Geer has been a professional astrologer for 50 years, specializing in mirroring the unique genius inside each person. He sees astrology as a master key to our own power and creativity, and the heroic story we are living out.””He sees the coming decade as a total reinvention of our world, for the first time since democracy itself took root with the American and French Revolutions.” “an Anarchist would pronounce, ‘There is no authority above yourself.’ An Indigenous Anarchist would offer, ‘There is no authority but nature.'” – Klee Benally *Woof*Woof*Wanna*Play?!?* · www.CoyoteNetworkNews.com · The Visionary Activist Show on Patreon The post The Visionary Activist Show – Trickster Version Project 2025 appeared first on KPFA.

The wedding of spiritual magic and compassionate social activism with host Caroline Casey. The post The Visionary Activist Show – December 26, 2024 appeared first on KPFA.

Still Point – Yosemite, Brer Ron Kauk Saturnalia – We go Darker – into the Still point (Solstice) Insourcing our autonomy – to suck the chi out of tyranny…. inhale it back into our hara, our center still point…from whence (our customized) Trickster Redeemer be born…. in all beings…. “Only those serving an apprenticeship to Nature can be trusted with technology…” -Sir Herbert Read We invite by setting the atmosphere, the tree, the candles, the music, which create the welcoming atmosphere conducive to the Desirable…. Caroline and Ami Winter Solstice zoom this Saturday info here *Woof*Woof*Wanna*Play?!?* · www.CoyoteNetworkNews.com · The Visionary Activist Show on Patreon The post The Visionary Activist Show – Winter Solstice preparation… appeared first on KPFA.

“Luminous Pragmatism” Let our Blessing Dreams Spiral Forth to guide us all through the Danger Fund Drive – honoring Rafeet Alareer and Harriet Tubman, that we may invite the best in them to live through us, guide us, at this harrowing time. Rafeet’s book “If I Must Die” published posthumously Dec 10th – is one of our pledge enticements…. As is Tiya Miles’ Book, “Night Flyer – Harriet Tubman & the Faith Dreams of a Free People”…whose effective participatory animism is exactly what we all need…. to ally with Flora Fauna Fungi, in Mutual Aid *Woof*Woof*Wanna*Play?!?* · www.CoyoteNetworkNews.com · The Visionary Activist Show on Patreon The post The Visionary Activist Show – Luminous Pragmatism appeared first on KPFA.

The wedding of spiritual magic and compassionate social activism with host Caroline Casey. The post The Visionary Activist Show – December 5, 2024 appeared first on KPFA.

The wedding of spiritual magic and compassionate social activism with host Caroline Casey. The post The Visionary Activist Show – November 28, 2024 appeared first on KPFA.

The Art of Grief – Hope and wonder in the face of environmental collapse… PART 2: Grief Artfully Expressed becomes a Sacrament of Kinship Caroline re-welcomes last week’s guest Eiren Caffall, science writer with the soul of a poet, the author of “The Mourner’s Bestiary” “Lyrical reports from the apocalypse” “The Mourner’s Bestiary is a meditation on grief and survival told through the stories of animals in two collapsing marine ecosystems—the Gulf of Maine and the Long Island Sound—and the lives of a family facing a life-threatening illness on their shores. The Gulf of Maine is the world’s fastest-warming marine ecosystem, and the Long Island Sound has been the site of conservation battles that predict the necessary dedications ahead for the Gulf. Eiren Caffall carries a family legacy of two hundred years of genetic kidney disease, raising a child who may also. The Mourner’s Bestiary braids environmental research with a memoir of generational healing, and the work it takes to get there for the human and animal lives caught in tides of loss.” Eiren Caffall is a writer and musician based in Chicago. Her writing on loss and nature, oceans and extinction has appeared in Guernica, The Los Angeles Review of Books, Literary Hub, Al Jazeera, The Rumpus, and the anthology Elementals: Volume IV Fire, forthcoming in 2024 from The Center for Humans and Nature. She received a 2023 Whiting Award in Creative Nonfiction, a Social Justice News Nexus fellowship, and residencies at the Banff Centre, Millay Colony, MacDowell Colony (waitlisted), Hedgebrook, and Ragdale. Her novel, All the Water in the World, is slated for release by St. Martin’s Press in early 2025. ErinCaffall.com Caroline W. Casey · www.CoyoteNetworkNews.com · Patreon The post The Visionary Activist Show – The Art of Grief appeared first on KPFA.