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He's been a CEO businessman, marketing consultant, United States Navy pilot, suburban husband, webmaster, vagabond, writer, atheist, agnostic, mystic, Christian missionary, consciousness promoter, spiritual teacher, newspaper columnist, magazine publisher and editor, world traveler, guru, film narrator and radio talk show host. Many love him totally, while some say he is one of the most invasive people they have met. He claims it is his Zen shtick. To some he is a guru, to others a scoundrel. Maybe its because of his unabashed truth and cutting irreverent humor, or perhaps its the beautiful women that cherish him, including his beloved wife, Dhiraja. Though controversial, people are nevertheless continually drawn to this legendary character.. Virato moved to Asheville, North Carolina, mysteriously drawn to America's "spiritual, new age mountain Mecca" from Philadelphia in 1994. Since 1981 he's been editor and publisher of New Frontier Magazine, a leading edge international journal promoting the expansion of human consciousness. In 1995 he hosted his own radio talk program, New Frontier On The Air, over WSKY in Asheville, NC which was the last local progressive, and highly conscious program heard throughout the mountains of Western North Carolina. Soon after, WSKY was purchased by a fundamentalist coalition which immediately terminated Virato's popular program ...ending Virato's airborne rhetoric, until January 2005 when he began VIRATO LIVE! on WPEK, 880 The Revolution in Asheville and streamed to the world Programs archived & podcast and some programs available on CD On January 25, 2010, two days after entering his 6th year on the air in Asheville, on WPEK 880AM A Clear Channel Communications station, Virato severed his relationship with this corporate giant, and will now be broadcasting nationally with little or no censorship. The program is also seeking national syndication on terrestrial broadcast radio stations.
Stories on him have appeared world-wide, and he has appeared on numerous television shows, and been heard on over 500 radio stations, including in Russia, where he frequently visits and lectures. In 2000, while in St. Petersburg, Russia he met Dhiraja (Dee-ra-zha). They were married on Valentine's Day, 2002, barefoot by a judge in a Chattanooga court house. "They bathe in the nectar of love" is what some have said of the relationship of Virato and Dhiraja.
Virato is known and loved by millions. His celebrated friends and guests include authors Deepak Chopra, James Redfield (Celestine Prophecy), and John Robbins (Pulitzer nominated Diet for a New America); astronauts Brian O'Leary and Edgar Mitchell; musicians Kitaro and Steven Halpern; scientists Rupert Sheldrake and Fritjof Capra; actors Alan Arkin (Catch 22), Tommy Chong (Cheech & Chong), Ellen Burstyn (Resurrection) and Liv Ullman (Mindlwalk); and spiritual teacher Ram Dass, as well as the colorful, high kindred spirit people of Asheville, North Carolina, and Russia. Here is a list of some of guests he has on his show over the last 5 years.
He was responsible for bringing CBS News to Asheville, dubbing it "America's New Age Mecca." View his "out-of-the-box" commentary in response to a reporter's question of a coal burning electric generation plant seeking to build in an adjacent town Virato also studied acting with the noted Peter Carver at Asheville-Buncombe County Technical Institute and is in Talking Tall, an irreverent film about southern talk show hosts....and a film with Virato as narrator, Anywhere, USA, won a Special Jury Prize at
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