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Program Dates & Times

January 6, 2007

10 AM-11 AM: Indigo Children Part II

11 AM-Noon:  Your Immortal Reality, Gary R. Renard

Noon-1 PM: Child Prodigy and Spiritual Artist, Akiane


January 13, 2007

10 AM-11 AM:  Charley Castex, psychic

11 AM-Noon:  P.M.H. Atwater, NDEs and Past Lives

Noon-1 PM: End of the Natural Foods Biz?


January 20, 2007

10 AM-11 AM:  Ron Clearfield, new age musician

11 AM-Noon:  Steven Taylor, The Fall

Noon-1 PM: Patricia Diane Cota-Robles


January 27, 2007

10 AM-11 AM:  OPEN MIC

11 AM-Noon:  Dr. Brian O'Leary and the New Energy Movement

Noon-1 PM: New Energy Continued


February 3, 2007

10 AM-11 AM: Activism 

11 AM-Noon:  Plant Spirit Shamanism

Noon-1 PM: Communicating with Orca Whales


February 10, 2007

10 AM-11 AM: Serpentine Arborvitae, Science of Mind "jazz chanting."

11 AM-Noon:  Weather Warfare with Jerry Smith

Noon-1 PM: Noon-1 PM: Brian Weiss, MD Past Lives


February 17, 2007

10 AM-11 AM:  Musician, Marina Raye

11 AM-Noon:  Virato Impromptu

Noon-1 PM: The CODEX story with John Hammell


February 24, 2007

10 AM-11 AM:  Sacred Activism with Barry Weinhold

11 AM-Noon:  Sacred Activism continues with Jim Garrison

Noon-1 PM: Sacred Activism continues with Andrew Harvey


March 3, 2007

10 AM-11 AM:  The Vanished Messenger

11 AM-Noon:  Dr. Zhi Gang Sha

Noon-1 PM: Fluoride is a poison in your water supply!


March 10, 2007

10 AM-11 AM:  Paul Gallimore of the Long Branch Environmental Education Center

11 AM-Noon:  Journey Into Now with Leonard Jacobson

Noon-1 PM: Walter Starcke, Broadway Producer to Modern Mystic


March 17, 2007

10 AM-11 AM:  The Prama Institute

11 AM-Noon:  A Rediscovery of Free Will

Noon-1 PM: Advanced Chakra Healing Heart Disease


March 24, 2007

10 AM-11 AM:  OPEN Mic Call in!

11 AM-Noon:  UFO's The Cosmic Bridge

Noon-1 PM: Bishop Jordon Prophecies


March 31, 2007

10 AM-11 AM:  Tom Wright, The One Penny Millionaire

11 AM-Noon:  What Your Doctor May Not Tell you about... with Virginia Hopkins

Noon-1 PM: Judith Orloff, MD, intuition and healing


April 7, 2007

10 AM-11 AM:  Movement for Awareness with Lavinia Plonka

11 AM-Noon:  Hale Dwoskin, The Sedona Method

Noon-1 PM: The Power of Awareness with Richard Moss, MD


April 14, 2007

10 AM-11 AM:  The Bees are Disappearing: The End of Civilization?

11 AM-Noon: John English, author of The Shift: An Awakening.

Noon-1 PM: Your Immortal Body of Light with Mitchell Gibson, MD


April 21, 2007

10 AM-11 AM:  Asheville Celebrates Earth Day

11 AM-Noon:  Arjuna Ardagh, founder of the Living Essence Foundation

Noon-1 PM: The legendary rocker, Lou Reed ...into meditation music.


April 28, 2007

10 AM-11 AM:  Four Directions Solidarity Network

11 AM-Noon:  Common Passion with Joseph Giove

Noon-1 PM: Paul Krassner founder of The Realist and the Yippie movement


May 5, 2007

10 AM-11 AM:  All About Ayurveda

11 AM-Noon:  LSD, Breathing and more with Dr. Stan Groff, MD

Noon-1 PM: The Unifying Fields Foundation


May 12, 2007

10 AM-11 AM:  Open Mic, Open Forum

11 AM-Noon:  Krishna Das LIVE!

Noon-1 PM: Conversations with ETs?


May 19, 2007

10 AM-11 AM:  A Raw Food Diet

11 AM-Noon:  Urban sadhu, Jesse Arana

Noon-1 PM: Nathaniel Altman and The Oxygen Prescription


May 26, 2007

10 AM-11 AM:  Shamanic Mysteries of Egypt

11 AM-Noon:  Mastering Life's Energies with Dr. Maria Nemeth

Noon-1 PM: Back from the Dead with a Message


June 2, 2007

10 AM-11 AM:  FDA Expose and much more

11 AM-Noon:  Barbara Hand Clow, and The Mayan Code.

Noon-1 PM:  MSG, end the menace.


June 9, 2007

10 AM-11 AM:  Drs. Jane and Barry Weinhold, on Galactic Warming and the 2012 predictions.

11 AM-Noon:  OPEN

Noon-1 PM:  Marianne Williamson on The US Peace Dept


June 16, 2007

10 AM-11 AM:  Laughter As Healing with Lino Stanchich

11 AM-Noon:  Acoustic Brain Research with Tom Kenyon.

Noon-1 PM:  Steven Halpern on Sound & Healing


June 23, 2007

10 AM-11 AM:  Asheville OPEN MIC

11 AM-Noon:  Change or Die, with Alan Deutschman

Noon-1 PM:  Jill Purce, Urban Shaman


June 30, 2007

10 AM-11 AM:  I AM with Isa

11 AM-Noon:  The Journey of Robert Monroe, OBE explorer.

Noon-1 PM:  The deceit of the Pharmaceuticals and Side Effects


July 7, 2007

10 AM-11 AM:  Plant Spirit Healing

11 AM-Noon:  Sera Beak and The Red Book for women

Noon-1 PM:  The End Times with Jose Arguelles and Gordon Michael Scallion.


July 14, 2007

10 AM-11 AM:  Asheville's Namaste Yoga, a success story.

11 AM-Noon:  Activism and Consciousness, Wake Up America!

Noon-1 PM:  UFOs and the Big Picture with George Green.


July 21, 2007

10 AM-11 AM:  DNA & Sound/Music

11 AM-Noon:  Courageous Souls that plan life challenges before birth.

Noon-1 PM:  Betty and Barney UFO Experience


July 28, 2007

10 AM--1 PM:  Virato and assorted local guests live from Bele Chere 2007, Asheville, NC


August 4, 2007

10 AM-11 AM:  Chris Spheeris, Emmy Award winning New Age Musician

11 AM-Noon:  Marcus Sircus, natural medicine activist

Noon-1 PM:  Joseph Chilton Pearce, The Death of Religion and the Rebirth of Spirit


August 11, 2007

10 AM-11 AM:  Tara Luetkenhaus, and the Bountiful Cities Project

11 AM-Noon:  Seeds with Peter Loewer

Noon-1 PM:  Terry Cole Whittaker


August 18, 2007

10 AM-11 AM:  Natural Building and Kleiwerks

11 AM-Noon: Nanotechnology, and its implications

Noon-1 PM:  William Bloom, Challenging the New Age and counterfeit spirituality


August 25, 2007

10 AM-11 AM:  OPEN MIC with Virato and his beloved Dhiraja ...and YOU

11 AM-Noon:  Lawns to Food with Heather Flores

Noon-1 PM: Ainslie MacLeod, The Reluctant Psychic


September 1, 2007

10 AM-11 AM:  Organicfest 2007 with Debi Athos

11 AM-Noon:  Alignment 2012 with John Major Jenkins

Noon-1 PM:  PSI Spies with Jim Marrs


September 8, 2007

10 AM-11 AM:  Macrobiotics with Michael Rossoff

11 AM-Noon: Suddenly Psychic with Maureen Caudill

Noon-1 PM:  Rebirthing, The Divine Mother and more with Sondra Ray


September 15, 2007

10 AM-11 AM:  Rites of Passage with Kedar Brown

11 AM-Noon:  America, Fascism and God, by Davidson Loehr

Noon-1 PM: Cosmic Journeys with Rosie McKnight


September 22, 2007

10 AM-11 AM:  Asheville OPEN FORUM

11 AM-Noon:  Nick Pope, Skeptic to Researcher

Noon-1 PM: Program Pre-empted


September 29, 2007

10 AM-11 AM:  Dale Allen Hoffman and Jesus from the Aramaic

11 AM-Noon:  All about Marijuana

Noon-1 PM: More on Marijuana and also Tommy Chong


October 6, 2007

10 AM-10:50 AM: Interdimensional healing and animal communication with Nirado

10:50 AM-10:59 AM: Soul Medicine with Jane Smolnik

11 AM-Noon:   Is God Real with Tony Stubbs

Noon-1 PM: Caroline Myss and The Sacred Contract of America


October 13, 2007

10 AM-11 AM: Holistic Politics with Carl Milsted

11 AM-Noon:  Dr. Chet Snow, Mass Dream of the Future

Noon-1 PM: The 2007 Shift Report of the Institute of Noetic Sciences


October 20, 2007

10 AM-11 AM: Robert Zink and The Esoteric Order of the Golden Dawn

11 AM-Noon:  Forgiveness and more with Robin Casarjian

Noon-1 PM:  All about the Chemtrails in the sky.


October 27, 2007

10 AM-11 AM: Intimacy with Fred Keyser & Heidi Fox

11 AM-Noon:  Gay Hendricks, beyond breath

Noon-1 PM: Uri Geller LIVE!


November 3, 2007

10 AM-11 AM: OPEN FORUM

11 AM-Noon:  Your Deepest Intent with Deborah L. Johnson

Noon-1 PM: The Intention Experiment with Lynne McTaggart


November 10, 2007

10 AM-11 AM: Hans Christian King, psychic

11 AM-Noon:  Meredith Young Sowers, and an overview of the consciousness movement

Noon-1 PM: Souls Don't Lie, with Jenny Smedley


November 17, 2007

10 AM-11 AM: Living as love with Jeannie Zandi

11 AM-Noon:  Lt. Col. Karen Kwiatkowski, from the Pentagon says government lied, about 9/11 and Iraq war.

Noon-1 PM: James Twyman, Emissary of Light


November 24, 2007

10 AM-11 AM:  OPEN FORUM

11 AM-Noon:  The Montauk Project with Preston Nichols

Noon-1 PM: Allen & Linda Anderson and Angel Animals


December 1, 2007

10 AM-11 AM: Dr. Brad Swift, Life on Purpose

11 AM-Noon:  The Near Death Experience (NDE) of David Oakford

Noon-1 PM: Waking the Global Heart with Dr. Anodea Judith


December 8, 2007

10 AM-11 AM: Robert Eidus and Green Transit, Ltd

11 AM-Noon:  How Jesus Became a Christ with Michel Ledwith

Noon-1 PM: Guru Sri Vast from India


December 15, 2007

10 AM-11 AM: Celebration of Life with Kaleo Wheeler

11 AM-Noon:  Thomas H. Henriksen, Why Democracy Failed

Noon-1 PM: The Orb Project


 

 

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Program Dates & Times

January 6, 2007

10 AM-11 AM: Indigo Children Part II

11 AM-Noon:  Your Immortal Reality, Gary R. Renard

Noon-1 PM: Child Prodigy and Spiritual Artist, Akiane


January 13, 2007

10 AM-11 AM:  Charley Castex, psychic

11 AM-Noon:  P.M.H. Atwater, NDEs and Past Lives

Noon-1 PM: End of the Natural Foods Biz?


January 20, 2007

10 AM-11 AM:  Ron Clearfield, new age musician

11 AM-Noon:  Steven Taylor, The Fall

Noon-1 PM: Patricia Diane Cota-Robles


January 27, 2007

10 AM-11 AM:  OPEN MIC

11 AM-Noon:  Dr. Brian O'Leary and the New Energy Movement

Noon-1 PM: New Energy Continued


February 3, 2007

10 AM-11 AM: Activism 

11 AM-Noon:  Plant Spirit Shamanism

Noon-1 PM: Communicating with Orca Whales


February 10, 2007

10 AM-11 AM: Serpentine Arborvitae, Science of Mind "jazz chanting."

11 AM-Noon:  Weather Warfare with Jerry Smith

Noon-1 PM: Noon-1 PM: Brian Weiss, MD Past Lives


February 17, 2007

10 AM-11 AM:  Musician, Marina Raye

11 AM-Noon:  Virato Impromptu

Noon-1 PM: The CODEX story with John Hammell


February 24, 2007

10 AM-11 AM:  Sacred Activism with Barry Weinhold

11 AM-Noon:  Sacred Activism continues with Jim Garrison

Noon-1 PM: Sacred Activism continues with Andrew Harvey


March 3, 2007

10 AM-11 AM:  The Vanished Messenger

11 AM-Noon:  Dr. Zhi Gang Sha

Noon-1 PM: Fluoride is a poison in your water supply!


March 10, 2007

10 AM-11 AM:  Paul Gallimore of the Long Branch Environmental Education Center

11 AM-Noon:  Journey Into Now with Leonard Jacobson

Noon-1 PM: Walter Starcke, Broadway Producer to Modern Mystic


March 17, 2007

10 AM-11 AM:  The Prama Institute

11 AM-Noon:  A Rediscovery of Free Will

Noon-1 PM: Advanced Chakra Healing Heart Disease


March 24, 2007

10 AM-11 AM:  OPEN Mic Call in!

11 AM-Noon:  UFO's The Cosmic Bridge

Noon-1 PM: Bishop Jordon Prophecies


March 31, 2007

10 AM-11 AM:  Tom Wright, The One Penny Millionaire

11 AM-Noon:  What Your Doctor May Not Tell you about... with Virginia Hopkins

Noon-1 PM: Judith Orloff, MD, intuition and healing


April 7, 2007

10 AM-11 AM:  Movement for Awareness with Lavinia Plonka

11 AM-Noon:  Hale Dwoskin, The Sedona Method

Noon-1 PM: The Power of Awareness with Richard Moss, MD


April 14, 2007

10 AM-11 AM:  The Bees are Disappearing: The End of Civilization?

11 AM-Noon: John English, author of The Shift: An Awakening.

Noon-1 PM: Your Immortal Body of Light with Mitchell Gibson, MD


April 21, 2007

10 AM-11 AM:  Asheville Celebrates Earth Day

11 AM-Noon:  Arjuna Ardagh, founder of the Living Essence Foundation

Noon-1 PM: The legendary rocker, Lou Reed ...into meditation music.


April 28, 2007

10 AM-11 AM:  Four Directions Solidarity Network

11 AM-Noon:  Common Passion with Joseph Giove

Noon-1 PM: Paul Krassner founder of The Realist and the Yippie movement


May 5, 2007

10 AM-11 AM:  All About Ayurveda

11 AM-Noon:  LSD, Breathing and more with Dr. Stan Groff, MD

Noon-1 PM: The Unifying Fields Foundation


May 12, 2007

10 AM-11 AM:  Open Mic, Open Forum

11 AM-Noon:  Krishna Das LIVE!

Noon-1 PM: Conversations with ETs?


May 19, 2007

10 AM-11 AM:  A Raw Food Diet

11 AM-Noon:  Urban sadhu, Jesse Arana

Noon-1 PM: Nathaniel Altman and The Oxygen Prescription


May 26, 2007

10 AM-11 AM:  Shamanic Mysteries of Egypt

11 AM-Noon:  Mastering Life's Energies with Dr. Maria Nemeth

Noon-1 PM: Back from the Dead with a Message


June 2, 2007

10 AM-11 AM:  FDA Expose and much more

11 AM-Noon:  Barbara Hand Clow, and The Mayan Code.

Noon-1 PM:  MSG, end the menace.


June 9, 2007

10 AM-11 AM:  Drs. Jane and Barry Weinhold, on Galactic Warming and the 2012 predictions.

11 AM-Noon:  OPEN

Noon-1 PM:  Marianne Williamson on The US Peace Dept


June 16, 2007

10 AM-11 AM:  Laughter As Healing with Lino Stanchich

11 AM-Noon:  Acoustic Brain Research with Tom Kenyon.

Noon-1 PM:  Steven Halpern on Sound & Healing


June 23, 2007

10 AM-11 AM:  Asheville OPEN MIC

11 AM-Noon:  Change or Die, with Alan Deutschman

Noon-1 PM:  Jill Purce, Urban Shaman


June 30, 2007

10 AM-11 AM:  I AM with Isa

11 AM-Noon:  The Journey of Robert Monroe, OBE explorer.

Noon-1 PM:  The deceit of the Pharmaceuticals and Side Effects


July 7, 2007

10 AM-11 AM:  Plant Spirit Healing

11 AM-Noon:  Sera Beak and The Red Book for women

Noon-1 PM:  The End Times with Jose Arguelles and Gordon Michael Scallion.


July 14, 2007

10 AM-11 AM:  Asheville's Namaste Yoga, a success story.

11 AM-Noon:  Activism and Consciousness, Wake Up America!

Noon-1 PM:  UFOs and the Big Picture with George Green.


July 21, 2007

10 AM-11 AM:  DNA & Sound/Music

11 AM-Noon:  Courageous Souls that plan life challenges before birth.

Noon-1 PM:  Betty and Barney UFO Experience


July 28, 2007

10 AM--1 PM:  Virato and assorted local guests live from Bele Chere 2007, Asheville, NC


August 4, 2007

10 AM-11 AM:  Chris Spheeris, Emmy Award winning New Age Musician

11 AM-Noon:  Marcus Sircus, natural medicine activist

Noon-1 PM:  Joseph Chilton Pearce, The Death of Religion and the Rebirth of Spirit


August 11, 2007

10 AM-11 AM:  Tara Luetkenhaus, and the Bountiful Cities Project

11 AM-Noon:  Seeds with Peter Loewer

Noon-1 PM:  Terry Cole Whittaker


August 18, 2007

10 AM-11 AM:  Natural Building and Kleiwerks

11 AM-Noon: Nanotechnology, and its implications

Noon-1 PM:  William Bloom, Challenging the New Age and counterfeit spirituality


August 25, 2007

10 AM-11 AM:  OPEN MIC with Virato and his beloved Dhiraja ...and YOU

11 AM-Noon:  Lawns to Food with Heather Flores

Noon-1 PM: Ainslie MacLeod, The Reluctant Psychic


September 1, 2007

10 AM-11 AM:  Organicfest 2007 with Debi Athos

11 AM-Noon:  Alignment 2012 with John Major Jenkins

Noon-1 PM:  PSI Spies with Jim Marrs


September 8, 2007

10 AM-11 AM:  Macrobiotics with Michael Rossoff

11 AM-Noon: Suddenly Psychic with Maureen Caudill

Noon-1 PM:  Rebirthing, The Divine Mother and more with Sondra Ray


September 15, 2007

10 AM-11 AM:  Rites of Passage with Kedar Brown

11 AM-Noon:  America, Fascism and God, by Davidson Loehr

Noon-1 PM: Cosmic Journeys with Rosie McKnight


September 22, 2007

10 AM-11 AM:  Asheville OPEN FORUM

11 AM-Noon:  Nick Pope, Skeptic to Researcher

Noon-1 PM: Program Pre-empted


September 29, 2007

10 AM-11 AM:  Dale Allen Hoffman and Jesus from the Aramaic

11 AM-Noon:  All about Marijuana

Noon-1 PM: More on Marijuana and also Tommy Chong


October 6, 2007

10 AM-10:50 AM: Interdimensional healing and animal communication with Nirado

10:50 AM-10:59 AM: Soul Medicine with Jane Smolnik

11 AM-Noon:   Is God Real with Tony Stubbs

Noon-1 PM: Caroline Myss and The Sacred Contract of America


October 13, 2007

10 AM-11 AM: Holistic Politics with Carl Milsted

11 AM-Noon:  Dr. Chet Snow, Mass Dream of the Future

Noon-1 PM: The 2007 Shift Report of the Institute of Noetic Sciences


October 20, 2007

10 AM-11 AM: Robert Zink and The Esoteric Order of the Golden Dawn

11 AM-Noon:  Forgiveness and more with Robin Casarjian

Noon-1 PM:  All about the Chemtrails in the sky.


October 27, 2007

10 AM-11 AM: Intimacy with Fred Keyser & Heidi Fox

11 AM-Noon:  Gay Hendricks, beyond breath

Noon-1 PM: Uri Geller LIVE!


November 3, 2007

10 AM-11 AM: OPEN FORUM

11 AM-Noon:  Your Deepest Intent with Deborah L. Johnson

Noon-1 PM: The Intention Experiment with Lynne McTaggart


November 10, 2007

10 AM-11 AM: Hans Christian King, psychic

11 AM-Noon:  Meredith Young Sowers, and an overview of the consciousness movement

Noon-1 PM: Souls Don't Lie, with Jenny Smedley


November 17, 2007

10 AM-11 AM: Living as love with Jeannie Zandi

11 AM-Noon:  Lt. Col. Karen Kwiatkowski, from the Pentagon says government lied, about 9/11 and Iraq war.

Noon-1 PM: James Twyman, Emissary of Light


November 24, 2007

10 AM-11 AM:  OPEN FORUM

11 AM-Noon:  The Montauk Project with Preston Nichols

Noon-1 PM: Allen & Linda Anderson and Angel Animals


December 1, 2007

10 AM-11 AM: Dr. Brad Swift, Life on Purpose

11 AM-Noon:  The Near Death Experience (NDE) of David Oakford

Noon-1 PM: Waking the Global Heart with Dr. Anodea Judith


December 8, 2007

10 AM-11 AM: Robert Eidus and Green Transit, Ltd

11 AM-Noon:  How Jesus Became a Christ with Michel Ledwith

Noon-1 PM: Guru Sri Vast from India


December 15, 2007

10 AM-11 AM: Celebration of Life with Kaleo Wheeler

11 AM-Noon:  Thomas H. Henriksen, Why Demcaracy Failed

Noon-1 PM: The Orb Project


December 22, 2007

10 AM-11 AM: Natural pharmaceuticals from Asheville's Bent Creek Institute

11 AM-Noon:  The Star of the Magi with Courtney Roberts

Noon-1 PM: Science and the Re-enchantment of the Cosmos with Ervin Laszlo


December 29, 2007

10 AM-11 AM: New Year's Celebration

11 AM-Noon:  New Year's Party

Noon-1 PM: On Air New Year's Party


 

 


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Saturday, January 6
10:06 AM-11 AM EST

irato continues discussion about something taking place on the planet that he says all should know about. Stories on Indigo Children have  appeared in the New York Times, USA Today, and the list goes on. These children of the next millennium are sensitive, gifted souls with an evolved consciousness, yet some see them as warriors as well. A growing number of intuitives and scientists say they have come here to help change the vibrations of our lives. The Indigo phenomenon has been recognized as one of the most exciting changes in human nature ever documented in society. The phenomena is happening globally and these experts say that eventually the Indigos will be the new race...the new man. Are they our bridge to the future?

Others say it started a long time ago, and is only now happening at an accelerated rate.

Guests include, Susan Gale, into Edgar Cayce and the co-author of Understanding Psychic Children: Indigo Children; Adam Wolinsky, a young man that claims he is an Indigo human;  and Carol Crestetto who is conducting ground breaking research in this area.

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Saturday, January 6
11:06 AM-Noon EST

Today Virato speaks with author Gary R. Renard. In 1992, a mysterious couple, claiming to be Ascended Masters, appeared from out of nowhere to Gary in his living room. Over the next decade, he had numerous conversations with these beings. They revealed some shocking secrets of existence, and provided a new perspective on the popular A Course in Miracles. Gary R. Renard was born on the historic North Shore of Massachusetts, where he became a professional guitar player. During the Harmonic Convergence of 1987 he heard a Calling and began to take his life in a different direction. At the beginning of the 1990s he moved to Maine, where he underwent a powerful spiritual awakening. Gary is the author of  The Disappearance of the Universe and Your Immortal Reality

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Saturday, January 6
12:06 PM-1 PM EST

Akiane - child prodigy

irato speaks with spiritual artist and child prodigy Akiane who says she's been to Heaven. Born underwater at home, on July 9, 1994, in Mount Morris, Illinois, at age 12 she has already lived in Illinois, Missouri, Colorado and Idaho, experiencing poverty and affluence. Having attended both public and private schools, Akiane now is home-schooled with her three brothers, Delfini 14, Jean Lu 12 and Llia 3 years old.

She began drawing at 4, and painting at 6, teaching herself and learning mostly from her own keen observation and study. She speaks four languages: Lithuanian, Russian, English and Sign Language. At 4, she had a life-changing spiritual trans-formation, converting the family to Christianity. At age 7 she began  writing poetry and aphorisms. Her poems often arrive fully conceived. Akiane say the inspiration for her art and literature comes from her visions, dreams, observa-tions of people, nature and God. She paints from imagination, reference materials and models, and considers her style a universal blend of realism and imaginism that she calls Akianism. Akiane rises at 4 AM five or six days a week to get ready to paint in the studio and write, and works for about four hours a day.

The Journey by Akiane KramarikShe often works over a hundred hours on a painting, producing 8 to 10 paintings a year. Assessing her own character, she says she has a "daring heart and cautious mind." Her biggest wish: "that everyone would love God and one another."  She has appeared on the Oprah Winfrey Show, ABC World News Tonight, The Wayne Brady Show, CBS News, and Fox News, The Saturday Evening Post and TIME Magazine. Recently she has taken up the piano and is already composing her own music. She is a true Indigo star child.
  The Journey, painted at Age 9

3 Minute CNN News Video

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Saturday, January 13
10:06 AM-11 AM  EST


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Charley Castex

Virato chats with Charley Castex, Asheville's most recognized psychic. Starting in childhood, he demonstrated highly empathic sensibilities, finding himself often overwhelmingly in touch with the emotions and psychological dispositions of those in his presence. Through his years of natural youthful naïveté, Charley thought everyone felt and heard the glaring messages he perceived, naturally assuming that we all live in "glass houses."  Holding aspirations for becoming a priest and committing his life to his spiritual work at 10 years of age, he began the quest for a form to express the profound spiritual insights he experienced.

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Saturday, January 13
11:06 AM-Noon  EST


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P.M.H. Atwater

Virato speaks with old friend, P.M.H. Atwater who began intensive research into paranormal and altered states of consciousness over 30 years ago. With a background in hypnotic past-life regressions, sensitivity work, mediumship, and de-haunting houses, she movedThe New Children and Near-Death Experiences into dream and symbol interpretation, rune casting, divinatory and earth energy sensing. In 1977 she experienced severe health traumas resulting in death and the near-death phenomenon...three times in three months. The following year, in an effort to understand what had happened, and was still happening, she began to seek out and interview other near-death survivors. Her initial findings about the after effects of near-death were published in Vital Signs Magazine from 1981-85, and later became her first book, Coming Back to Life: The After-Effects of the Near-Death Experience (hardcover 1988 Dodd Mead & Co., paperback 1989 Ballantine Books, softcover, Citadel Press). Atwater also had articles published in Virato’s publication, New Frontier Magazine. After fifteen years of intensive research, speaking with or interviewing over 3,000 near-death survivors, her book, Beyond the Light: What Isn’t Being Said About the Near-Death Experience (hard cover 1994 Birch Lane Press, paperback 1995 Avon Books) represents the most complete compendium yet done of the phenomenon, its aftereffects and implications. She also published a sequel, Future Memory. (Birch Lane Press 1996, paperback Hampton Roads Publishing).

An international authority on near-death states, Atwater as served two terms on the Board of the International Association for Near-Death Studies. Her book, Children of the New Millennium, a major study of children’s of near-death experience states, rewritten with co-authorship by Joseph Chilton Pierce as The New Children and Near-Death Experiences (Inner Traditions/Bear & Co., 2003). With the help of David Morgan, she produced the world's first positive/negative, 360-degree compendium of the entire near-death phenomenon. Titled The Complete Idiots Guide to Near-Death Experiences, this 480-page Macmillan edition debuted March/April, 2000. Atwater has received numerous awards during her life. Her biography is in sixteen Who's Who books, half of them international editions.

Most recently her work has been published in the esteemed British Medical Journal, The Lancet.

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Saturday, January 13
12:06 PM-1 PM  EST

hat's going on? Ads for local supermarkets going green, including Wal-Mart. usually thought of as devil by the granola crowd. Word is that Earth Fare, a fast growing south eastern chain of natural foods supermarkets, has closed two of their stores. Then Slate Magazine breaks the below January 4, 2007 story. Virato chats with Troy DeGroff, Marketing Manager for Earth Fare a natural foods chain in the southeast, and Debi Athos of Organicfest, Pure Food Partners, and others

...The Story
© 2007 Slate Magazine

It's fashionable to be down on Whole Foods. In 2006, a year in which the stock markets rocked, shares of Whole Foods fell 40 percent. As upscale shoppers continued to spend with abandon, Whole Foods underperformed quotidian grocers like Safeway and Kroger. In November, analysts downgraded the company's stock, in part because its same-store sales growth fell into the mid single digits.

Whole Foods, which enjoyed two decades of growth, is catching flack from all sides. From below: Wal-Mart is making a push to sell more organic foods, and so are old-line grocers like Safeway and A&P. From above: As Whole Foods becomes mainstream, food snobs are going ever further afield, and local food aficionados have taken to joining the Community Supported Agriculture movement. Writing in Slate last year, Field Maloney argued that Whole Foods' efforts to supply organic foods year-round came at the expense of the environment. Meanwhile, purists can't abide its mixing of conventional and organic foods, and angry vegans complain about its meat-selling practices.

Whole Foods has hit the dip that afflicts many trendy, upscale lifestyle retailers when they expand beyond their natural habitat, from Restoration Hardware to P.F. Chang's. Yet a strong case can be made that Whole Foods isn't in trouble at all, but on the verge of even bigger success.

To start with, Whole Foods enjoys a rate of same-store sales growth that virtually any other retailer would envy. According to its most recent quarterly earnings release, same-store sales rose a very healthy 8.4 percent. Yes, that's below the average rate of the past five years. And, yes, older stores are growing more slowly than new ones. But growth at stores open for more than 11 years was 7.3 percent—more than twice the rate of national economic growth.

Unlike most food retailers, Whole Foods enjoys excellent margins. For the 2006 fiscal year, operating income as a percentage of sales was 5.7 percent. At Kroger, by contrast, it was 3.4 percent.

Whole Foods is also a beneficiary of some of the most significant trends affecting retailers. In a nation increasingly divided between retail haves and retail have-nots, Whole Foods—aka Whole Paycheck—is the big-box retailer to the legions of free-spending rich. Well-heeled professionals who enjoy choosing among eight different types of shrimp, or who love to scoop expensive curries from the Indian prepared food bar, continue to do quite well and have cash to spend. Whole Foods is also a destination for New Luxury trading-uppers, sophisticates who pinch pennies on staples but splurge on items such as Meyer lemons and bresaola.

And while it is a large big-box retailer—187 stores, 2006 sales of $5.6 billion—Whole Foods generally doesn't engender the type of resistance that hinders the expansion of many category killers. Grocery stores tend to be messy, waste-producing, low-wage establishments. Whole Foods, which pays above-market wages and benefits, is generally welcomed with open arms and makes an excellent anchor for upscale shopping, housing, and mixed-use developments.

But the best bull case for Whole Foods lies in the trend described in The United States of Arugula, the fine history of American foodies by David Kamp. Slowly but surely, Americans are trading in iceberg lettuce for arugula, mache, and mesclun, Wonder Bread for baguettes, Crisco for lardo. And as much as the culture of food snobbery may seem advanced in New York, San Francisco, and Seattle, it is still in its relative infancy in the vast spaces in between the coasts. "I think the whole idea of good food and gourmet eating has begun to transcend the PBS-store bag toter," says Kamp. Costco, he notes, doesn't merely sell enormous jars of Hellmann's mayonnaise, it also stocks sashimi-grade tuna and excellent wines. Organic is shedding its earthy-crunchy stereotype, and quality foods are shedding their Bobo geographical restrictions. Given that, says Kamp, "I think they can succeed beyond the yuppie liberal enclaves and the university towns."

The great challenge for a rapidly growing national chain is to continue to expand without cannibalizing existing stores. Whole Foods doesn't seem to be in much danger of doing that. Its list of stores in development shows the company has an ambitious expansion schedule. Whole Foods plans to open more than 80 new outlets. Yes, it is setting up shop in some predictable places: Madison, Wisc.; Park Slope in Brooklyn. But the list also includes plenty of virgin territory, places where Whole Foods won't compete with itself or with other high-end food purveyors: Birmingham, Ala.; Boise, Idaho; Glastonbury, Conn.; Sugarland, Texas; Richmond, Va.; and Manhattan's Lower East Side. Whole Foods also plans to open its first store in London next year. If the dollar remains weak, that store alone would be a huge contributor to rising profits.

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Saturday, January 20
10:06 AM-11 AM EST


Ron Clearfield

Virato chats with classically trained cellist Ron Clearfield who has worked with such classical music icons as Leonard Bernstein, Aaron Copeland and Seiji Ozawa. He has also accompanied such pop artists as George Benson, Linda Ronstadt and Dionne Warwick. He was a featured solo cellist on Judy Collins' Christmas Special for the A&E Television network. On his own recordings, Dream Manifestation, Music in the Silence, and Time On Earth, Clearfield skillfully blends the classical tradition with world music and jazz influences to create a highly atmospheric sound.

The grandson of a pianist and teacher who emigrated to the United States from Russia, and the son of a clarinet player, Clearfield studied violin from the age of ten. He switched to cello shortly afterwards. Receiving a Masters degree in cello performance from the New England Conservatory of Music, he made his professional debut with the Indianapolis Symphony, the same group that launched his father's career more than two decades before.

Clearfield remained with the Indianapolis Symphony briefly beforealbum cover he left to seek work as a freelance cellist in Philadelphia, Houston, New York and Miami. Building a studio in his home, he recorded three self-produced albums before signing with the EverSound label in 1998. His debut album, Dream Manifestation, was released a few months later.

For the past three decades, Clearfield has meditated regularly, using the techniques that he learned from his spiritual teacher Maharaji. He currently serves as associate principal cellist of the Asheville Symphony in Asheville, North Carolina and conducts the Asheville City/Buncombe County Schools Orchestra. He lives in Asheville with wife, and noted artist, Rachel Clearfield.

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Saturday, January 20
11:06 AM-Noon EST

Steve
Steven Taylor

Virato journeys to England, by phone, to chat with Steven Taylor, an author and teacher, whose main interests are spirituality, psychology and anthropology. The author of two books, Out ofSteve Taylor - The Fall Time and The Fall, his articles and essays have been published in Abraxas, New Renaissance, The Journal of the D. H. Lawrence Society, The Journal of Consciousness Studies, The International Journal of Transpersonal Studies, New Dawn, The Guardian and Resurgence. Taylor teaches unique courses on personal development (mainly on time perception and the psychology of happiness) at the University of Manchester, and also teaches at England's Salford College. He regularly gives talks and lectures, and is a member of the Scientific and Medical Network. Steven lives in Manchester, England with his partner, young child and new baby.

Steve Taylor gives convincing evidence that legends of a prehistoric Golden Age have their basis in fact. He argues that it is not ‘natural’ for human beings to kill each other, for men to oppress women, for individuals to accumulate massive wealth and power, or to abuse nature. The roots of our current malaise lie in an ‘ego explosion’ which occurred several thousand years ago as the result of an environmental disaster. ‘Primitive’, pre-civilization men and women were largely free of our social ills and had a more unified and harmonious state of being than us. Taylor offers an alternative to the wisdom of the last few centuries and changes the way we think about the human race’s past and future

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Saturday, January 20
12:06 PM-1 PM EST


Patricia Diane Cota-Robles

Today's guest says there is an awakening taking place within the hearts and minds of people all over the planet. This is causing them to ask the questions “Who am I?” “Why am I here?” In response to this heartfelt inquiry, the Beings of Light in the Realms of Illumined Truth have come through the veil to meet Humanity halfway, and to help awakening souls discover the answers they are seeking.

Virato probes the psyche of Patricia Diane Cota-Robles. A marriage and family counselor for twenty years, Patricia is co-founder of a nonprofit, educational organization the New Age Study of Humanity’s Purpose, Inc. An internationally known teacher and author, she has written eight books: Take Charge of Your Life; The Next Step…Re-Unification with the Presence of God Within our Hearts; Your Time Is At Hand ; The Awakening...Eternal Youth; Vibrant Health, Radiant Beauty; Stargate of the Heart; What On Earth Is Going On?; It Is Time For You To Be Financially Free; HOME…Heaven On Mother Earth.

Patricia is editor and publisher of the monthly newsletter, Take Charge of Your Life, and has a weekly online radio program by the same name. For over 30 years, she has traveled around the world lecturing and teaching workshops to help awakening souls fulfill their Divine Potential.

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Saturday, January 27
10:06 AM-Noon EST

 

OPEN MIC

Virato is joined by his beloved Dhiraja who had her own Russian radio show on WPVM in Asheville in 2006. They want you to be their guest today. Call the studio at 828-252-4348.
Some questions and topics already submitted below.

Your brief input on these and other topics is welcome...

  • Is it true that if a new government law, CODEX, goes into affect, every dairy cow (including those considered "organic") must be treated with bovine growth hormone (BGH)?
  • Pigs...third largest US Polluter, and most in North Carolina! (See current issue Rolling Stone)
  • What about Chemtrails in the sky?
  • Why don't we ever see anything in the general media on all the 9/11 films out there ?

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Saturday, January 27
11:06 AM-Noon EST


The New Energy Movement is dedicated to the study and promotion of advanced, clean, and sustainable energy sources for our imperiled planet. They say that the single most highly-leveraged opportunity for advancement towards solving our complex global problems lies in a transformation of the way human civilization generates and utilizes energy. NEM states that their primary task is to encourage intelligent public debate and action on how best to accelerate these advances, making a rapid transition away from our dangerous dependence on fossil fuels and nuclear power.

The research of NEM is deeply routed in the work of leading edge scientist, Dr. Brian O'Leary, Virato speaks with Dr. Brian O'Leary today by phone in Ecuador. Brain O'Leary is founding director of the New Energy Movement. O'Leary received his Ph.D. in astronomy from UC Berkeley in 1967, and then served as a NASA scientist-astronaut and assistant professor of astronomy at Cornell. During the 1970s he was on the physics faculty at Princeton University and taught technology assessment and energy policy at the UC Berkeley School of Law and Hampshire College. O'Leary was special consultant for the U.S. House Subcommittee on Energy and the Environment,  and has advised five presidential candidates on energy, space and science issues. From 1980 until the present, Dr. O'Leary co-founded and directed the International Association for New Science and the Institute of New Energy, and has authored many books, his most recent, Re- Inheriting the Earth: Awakening to Sustainable Solutions. Brian is a sought after speaker and given hundreds of seminars on the frontiers of science and energy.

Over the past decade, his main passion has been investigating the potential of new energy, having co-convened two international conferences, visited numerous researchers, and written two books and authored the New Energy Movement website.

Powerful new energy sources include zero-point energy devices, magnetic generators, and advanced hydrogen processes. Coupled with wind, solar, geo-thermal and other conventional alternative technologies, these advanced energy processes must be employed if we are to accomplish the Herculean task of shifting rapidly from our dangerous dependence on polluting technologies to clean, sustainable energy sources.

It is clear that without these advanced energy sources, we simply may not be able to act with the speed and scope demanded by the immense global emergency we now face.

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Saturday, January 27
12:06 PM-1 PM EST


...continued

Virato continues speaking with Dr. Brian O'Leary today by phone in Vilcabamba, Ecuador. O'Leary, founding director of the New Energy Movement received his Ph.D. in astronomy from UC Berkeley in 1967. He served as a NASA scientist-astronaut and assistant professor of astronomy at Cornell, was on the physics faculty at Princeton University and taught technology assessment and energy policy at the UC Berkeley School of Law and Hampshire College. O'Leary was special consultant for the U.S. House Subcommittee on Energy and the Environment,  and has advised five presidential candidates on energy, space and science issues.

From 1980 until the present, Dr. O'Leary co-founded the International Association for New Science and the Institute of New Energy, and has authored many books, and given hundreds of seminars on the frontiers of science and energy.

Powerful new energy sources include zero-point energy devices, magnetic generators, and advanced hydrogen processes. Coupled with wind, solar, geo-thermal and other conventional alternative technologies, these advanced energy processes must be employed if we are to accomplish the Herculean task of shifting rapidly from our dangerous dependence on polluting technologies to clean, sustainable energy sources.

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Saturday, February 3
10:06 AM-Noon EST

 

Virato chats with Asheville music teacher, and local representative for the Liberty Dollar, Kevin Innes, who, for well over a year now, has been presenting Asheville with documentary views of what is not being presented on television or heard on the radio. He has shown most of the 9/11 DVD's, discussions on the erosion of civil liberties, the New World Order, the monetary system, and income tax. Kevin does this by renting the library and other venues and uses his own equipment, and everything is by donation, meaning a lot of the costs involved come out of Kevin's pocket. He feels it is his mission to give people an opportunity to hear the facts and opposing views on important issues. He just does it... 

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Saturday, February 3
11:06 AM-Noon EST

Plant Spirit Shamanism: Traditional Techniques for Healing the SoulVirato chats with Ross Heaven a therapist and workshop leader in personal development and healing, who teaches Darkness Visible workshops internationally. Many of these are based on, and supported by his books that include The Journey to You, Spirit in the City, Vodou Shaman, Darkness Visible, and Mastering the Four Gates to Freedom. and his latest, Plant Spirit Shamanism.

Ross has worked  and trained  exten-sively in the shamanic, transpersonal, and psycho-spiritual traditions. His work has also featured in national newspapers, on radio and television, and in feature films.

Ross, as founder of The Four Gates Foundation, invites students overseas to work with the shamans and visionaries of many different spiritual traditions in the UK where the Foundation is based.

This is a repeat of our November 11, 2006 broadcast...

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Saturday, February 3
12:06 PM-1 PM EST

Animal Communicator Mary Getten

Animal Communicator Mary Getten

  ith all that has been  happening  that
 is endangering whales and other seas animals, Virato  felt it vitally important to hear from them...the animals. Today, Virato speaks with Mary Getten, whose journey into  animal communication began 1986 during the four years she worked at Washington's  Marine Mammal Center, a hospital for seals and sea lions. At the center Mary supervised an animal care crew and a harbor seal pup crew, and did rescues and releases. She was also a docent at Pier 39 in San Francisco after the sea lions took residence there. For almost a decade she was a coordinator of the San Juan County Marine Mammal Stranding Network, on staff at Wolf Hollow Wildlife Rehabilitation Center and a marine naturalist leading whale and wildlife cruises in the San Juan Islands.

Mary has spent more than 13 years getting to know the orcas of the San Juan Islands and several years interviewing these whales about their lives.  She lives on Orcas Island in the San Juan archipelago in the northwest corner of Washington State. Island life is slow paced and rural, a wonderful place to commune with nature and animals. Her last 25 years have been spent in spiritual pursuits and personal growth. She says animals are now her spiritual path and what brings her closest to the divine.

Mary Getten now  spends all of her time consulting with animals, giving lectures, teaching workshops and writing.

Orca links: http://www.orcalab.org/links-section/index.htm

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Saturday, February 10
10:06 AM-11 AM EST


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Serpentine Arborvitae

Today Virato is graced in the studio by the presence of Serpentine Arborvitae. Serpentine, now living in Asheville, has cultivated her rapturous vocal music from the roots of ancient cultures and the contemporary genres of ethereal pop, trance, jazz and dance music. In the early 1980’s she trained and performed with many esteemed jazz musicians in this country, including Ornette Coleman.

Prior to that Serpentine had already made her way into the performing arts community in New York. She was an actress in the Broadway hit Godspell and The Who’s renowned rock opera Tommy.

Drawn to the linguistic freestyle explored in jazz, and then later to Middle Eastern sounds, Serpentine formulated her own style of world-pop-music with a unique spiritual slant. In 1993 her solo debut release The First Coil broke new ground and convention with its highly erotic visceral performance and production.

Serpentine's Rock The Goddess in 1995 gained her a commission to write the score for what would become one of Lifetime Televisions most popular Intimate Portraits Series entitled, Witches narrated by Angelica Huston. Returning to her ancestral roots, Serpentine relocated to Israel for several years to experience the feminine energies of the holy land and recorded Temple Of The Heart released in 2000.

This past year Serpentine has placed her talents in service of illuminating the teachings of author Ernest Holmes. On her new CD Dream with Me, Serpentine gives full devotion and recognition to the principles expressed in embracing the spiritual experience of One Mind and the power of thought.

Jaya Ganesha Dream Mix, MP3 download

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Saturday, February 10
11:06 AM-Noon EST

"Others are engaging even in an eco-type of terrorism whereby they can alter the climate, set off earthquakes, volcanoes remotely through the use of electromagnetic waves."   -- US Secretary of Defense William S. Cohen, April, 1997

William Cohen made this statement at a conference on Terrorism, Weapons of Mass Destruction and U.S. Strategy in his official capacity as US Secretary of Defense; thus this can be taken as an official position of the United States. If the United States Secretary of Defense says that the earth and the sky have been turned into weapons, and are being used as such in present time, I believe we should take this statement very seriously.

So says Virato's guest today, Jerry Smith, author of Weather Warfare: The Military's Plan to Draft Mother Nature  who also says that all the conclusions reached in his book are the logical ones based on the presented facts. Smith is also author of the 1998 exposé HAARP: The Ultimate Weapon of the Conspiracy and co-author, with George Piccard, of Secrets Of The Holy Lance: The Spear of Destiny in History & Legend.

Despite the title, Smith's says Weather Warfare is not just about the Military, but rather about the whole environment: earth, air and sea; it is about a lot of players: academic, commercial and military; with a lot of objectives: financial, militaristic and political.

Smith covers the history of "weather control" from the Rain Makers of the 1890s through the development of cloud seeding in the middle of the twentieth century, to today's "off the shelf" technologies of precipitation enhancement, hail suppression and fog dispersal. I cover the many programs to manipulate hurricanes, such as Project Cirrus and Project Stormfury, and what evidence there is of being able to control hurricanes in the 21st Century.

Starting with Nicola Tesla's earthquake machine of the 1890s I trace the possibility of "earthquakes on demand" from the development of a "tsunami bomb" during World War II (as revealed by documents recently declassified by the New Zealand government), through Project Faultless which caused a massive earthquake in the Nevada desert after a high yield atom bomb was intentionally detonated on a fault line, to evidences of human initiation of several major quakes and the 2004 Christmas tsunami with "scalar" or other electromagnetic waves.

Smith also examines claims that chemicals are being deliberately injected into our atmosphere by high-flying planes that are criss-crossing our skies with "chemtrails," and says that Edward Teller, father of the hydrogen bomb and Associate Director of LLNL, actually advocated putting up a "sunscreen" to save the Earth. Many scientific boards and committees have looked into this proposal and found it technologically feasible, but recognized that the legal and environmental hurdles would be too high to overcome to implement such a project--if done openly, so some proposed doing it covertly! Are they? Listen and find out!

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Saturday, February 10
12:06 PM-1 PM EST


Brian L. Weiss, MD

Today, Virato interviews Dr. Brian Weiss. A graduate of Columbia University and Yale Medical School, Brian Weiss is Chairman Emeritus of Psychiatry at the Mount Sinai Medical Center in Miami.

As a traditional psychotherapist, Dr. Weiss was astonished yet skeptical when one of his patients began recalling past-life traumas that seemed to hold the key to her recurring nightmares and anxiety attacks. His skepticism was eroded, however, when she began to channel messages from "the space between lives," which contained remarkable revelations about Dr. Weiss's family and his dead son. Using past-life therapy, he was able to cure the patient and embark on a new, more meaningful phase of his own career.

He is the author of
Many Lives, Many Masters; Through Time Into Healing ;Only Love Is Real; Messages From The Masters ; Mirrors of Time: Using Regression for Physical, Emotional and Spiritual Healing; Meditation: Achieving Inner Peace and Tranquility in Your Life ; Eliminating Stress, Finding Inner Peace; and his latest Same Soul, Many Bodies

Dr. Weiss maintains a private practice in Miami. In addition he conducts national and international seminars and experiential workshops as well as training programs for professionals.

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Saturday, February 17
10:06 AM-11 AM  EST


with Marina Raye

Virato chats with Marina Raye, world-renowned as the "Feminine Voice of the Native Flute." Born in Africa, where she spent her first ten years, author and musician Marina Raye draws inspiration from her deep love for the Earth. She shares her vision of the possibility of peace in every heart. What makes Marina’s music so special is its deeply emotive quality which celebrates the essence of peace and harmony. Marina’s music is loved by many for its beauty, and is used by many in the healing professions  because it invokes a state of tranquility and a sense of closeness to nature. Trained as a classical musician, Marina has been called a sonic shaman because of her mastery of the native flute. Her instruments are hand-crafted by her husband, flute maker Charlie Oakwind. Marina and Charlie live in the mountains of western North Carolina, near Asheville, where they are building a solar-powered home. They are committed to living gently on the Earth.

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Saturday, February 17
11:06 AM-Noon  EST


Virato Impromptu

A guest, Walter Starcke, doesn't manifest and Virato is left holding the cosmos in his hands.... He defines talk radio from his perspective and gets into The Secret that was the subject on Oprah Winfrey two week in a row. People call in... It's Virato!

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Saturday, February 17
12:06 PM-1 PM  EST


Europe is already restricting natural health care, will the US follow?
People being jailed for having 500Mg of Vitamin C in their possession!

We Become Silent
View above documentary on Codex
written and directed by Kevin Miller
Windows Media Format 186 MB

Today Virato dialogues with John Hammell, president of International Advocates for Health Freedom, an organization started in 1996 to catalyze global awareness and opposition to a pharmaceutical industry driven effort to ban consumer access to vitamins and minerals within a therapeutic range via the United Nations Codex Alimentarius Commission.

Hammell subscribes to the views of G. Edward Griffin, founder of Freedom Force International.

In the past 17 years Hammell has consulted on legislation at the state, and federal levels, as well as on legislation in Canada, the UK, the EU, South Africa, Australia, and New Zealand.

In 1997 Hammell exposed International Alliance of Dietary Supplement Trade Associations (IADSA) via the IADSA Exposed Website as a controlled opposition group representing pharmaceutical interests. This phony health freedom group (intended as an umbrella group to represent the supplement industry at CODEX meetings) can't be trusted by any dietary supplement company belonging to any of IADSA's member trade associations--especially NNFA and AHPA in the USA, CHFA in Canada, or HFMA in the UK. IADSA was created to directly oppose IAHF's efforts to call the truth about the Codex vitamin issue to the attention of health food stores, alternative practitioners, small- innovative vitamin companies, and consumers.

Hammell, a lobbyist/organizer for the dietary supplement industry since 1989, witnessed crimes committed by the FDA at Codex meetings in Germany in '96 and in '98 as an observer on the US Delegation to the Codex Committee on Nutrition and Foods for Special Dietary Uses.

Recognizing that Codex is a totally rigged process, a form of high drama put on for public consumption in which the outcome of the meetings is determined in advance of their even taking place, Hammell sought to expose the questionable actions of US Codex Delegate, Beth Yetley at these meetings because they were totally inconsistent with US Dietary Supplement laws--an obvious attempt to set the USA up for harmonization to a very restrictive global standard.

In 2000, Hammell was kicked off the US Codex Delegation by Dr. Edward Scarborough, US Codex Manager, per the request of Dr. Yetley of the FDA, due to his efforts as a whistleblower seeking to expose her via congressional oversight. After being kicked off the delegation, Hammell demonstrated against the CCNFSDU meeting in Berlin in 2000 as part of Dr. Matthias Rath's demonstration.

On March 20, 2001, the congressional oversight hearing on the Codex vitamin issue which Hammell had pushed for for 5 years was whitewashed. He wasn't allowed to testify, his witnesses weren't allowed to testify, the only person who was allowed to testify was Karl Riedel, a co-chair of NNFA's International Committee who had been badly misled on the issue by his co-chair Randy Dennin, then an employee of Pfizer Pharmaceutical company as CEO of Capsugel, a subsidiary of Pfizer.

Hammell has appeared on more than 300 radio programs pertaining to the Codex vitamin issue including Coast to Coast AM; Sightings with Jeff Rense. This is his second time on VIRATO LIVE!

In 1999 Hammell received death threats for pushing for oversight on Codex and moved from South Florida to a remote location.

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Saturday, February 24
10:06 AM-Noon  EST

Virato chats with local new paradigm activist, and the originator and designer of the Asheville Kindness Project

Dr. Weinhold is Professor Emeritus at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs where he taught for over 30 years. He is a licensed psychologist and currently the Co-Director of the Carolina Institute for Conflict Resolution and Creative Leadership, here in Asheville. a non-profit, educational organization dedicated to helping create more conscious living.

He is the author or co-author of over 30 books in psychology and has served as a consultant to the United Nations on Family Life Education.

Currently, Barry and his wife Dr. Janae Weinhold head the Coalition for Sacred Activism that is conducting a weekend workshop on “Sacred Activism and the Emerging Wisdom Culture in Asheville” with Andrew Harvey and Jim Garrison.

Barry and Janae are also teaching Masters Degree courses in “Healing Developmental Trauma” with Wisdom University in San Francisco. Some of those courses are being taught here in Asheville, starting in this summer. 

He talks about his new passion, a unique, and conscious endeavor, Sacred Activism.

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Saturday, February 24
11:06 AM-Noon  EST


Barry Weinhold and
Jim Garrison of Wisdom University

Virato and Barry are joined by Jim Garrison, president and Chairman of Wisdom University

Jim is also founder and President of the Gorbachev Foundation/USA, which set the stage for the establishment of the State of the World Forum, in 1995. A San Francisco based non-profit institution, it was created to establish a global network of leaders dedicated to creating a more sustainable global civilization. With President Gorbachev as its Convening Chairman, the Forum convenes leaders from around the world and a spectrum of disciplines to its annual and regional conferences and has catalyzed the creation of several independent organizations. Garrison, born in China and raised in Taiwan, attended Pepperdine University (1969-70), and the University of Tel Aviv in 1972, and received a B.A. magna cum laude in World History from the Santa Clara University (1973). He then received a double Masters in Theological Science from Harvard Divinity School (1975); and a Ph.D. in Philosophical Theology from England's Cambridge University (1982).

Garrison published his first book, The Plutonium Culture (SCM) in 1980. This was followed by The Darkness of God: Theology After Hiroshima (SCM/1982); The Russian Threat: Myths and Realities (Gateway Books/ 1983); The New Diplomats (Resurgence Press/1984); Civilization and the Transformation of Power (Paraview Press/2000); and America As Empire: Global Leader or Rogue Power? (Barrett Koehler/2004). Garrison is also active in Mosaic Networks, a business development company of which he is a founding partner

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Saturday, February 24
12:06 PM-1 PM  EST
 


Andrew Harvey of Wisdom University

In this final segment, Virato and Barry are joined by Andrew Harvey. Andrew Harvey was born in south India in 1952 where he lived until he was nine years old. It is this early period that he credits with shaping his sense of the inner unity of all religious philosophy. He entered Oxford University in 1970 with a scholarship to study history, and at 21 became the youngest person to be awarded a fellowship to All Soul’s College, England’s highest academic honor.

In 1977, disillusioned with life at Oxford, Harvey returned to his native India, where a series of mystical experiences initiated his spiritual journey. Over the next thirty years he plunged into different mystical traditions to learn their secrets and practices. In 1978, meeting a succession of Indian saints and sages Andrew Harvey began his long study and practice of Hinduism. In 1983, accepted Mahayana Buddhist Bodhisattva vows, and in 1990, collaborated with Sogyal Rinpoche and Patrick Gaffney in the writing of The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying.

In 1984, Harvey also began a ten-year-long exploration and explication of Rumi and Sufi mysticism in Paris with a group of French Sufis and under the guidance of Eva De Vitray-Meyerovitch, the magnificent translator of Rumi into French.

He met Father Bede Griffiths in 1992.  Harvey says it was this meeting that helped him synthesize the whole of his mystical explorations and reconcile eastern with western mysticism.

In 2005, in the historic Santuario de Guadalupe in Santa Fe, New Mexico, Andrew Harvey delivered his vision of the contemporary crisis now confronting us in today’s world and its potential solution in what he has termed “Sacred Activism,” which he sees as the culmination of his life’s work. This extraordinary occasion was made into a documentary film by available on DVD at the Hartley Film Foundation.

Andrew Harvey has taught at Oxford University, Cornell University, Hobart and William Smith Colleges, The California Institute of Integral Studies, and the University of Creation Spirituality as well as at various spiritual centers throughout the United States. He was the subject of the 1993 BBC film documentary The Making of a Modern Mystic and appears also in Rumi Turning Ecstatic and The Consciousness of the Christ: Reclaiming Jesus for A New Humanity.

Andrew Harvey is currently Professor of Sacred Activism at Wisdom University, Executive Director of the Center for Spiritual Democracy, and Founder Director of the School of Sacred Activism.

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Saturday, March 3
10 AM to 11 AM


 

Virato talks with local author Randy Moser. Moser was born in the summer of love and spent his formative years in York, Maine. Virato worked in the funhouse at the amusement pier in Old Orchard Beach...also in York, Maine before the summer of love!

 

After defying the expectations set up for him by his high school, he graduated in 1998 from the University of Southern Maine with a bachelor’s degree in English. In 2004 he received a master’s degree in liberal studies from the University of New Hampshire.

 

He won first place in the Maine Press Association’s 2004 Critic’s Award contest for his searing movie review of Mel Gibson’s Passion of the Christ . He is the author of many published works of poetry and fiction, and is a freelance journalist known for his feature writing, including interviews with Bob Weir, The Zydepunks, and dedicated local artists.

 

In the early nineties he was a major contributor to the zine phenomenon. His early poetry was published in popular zines such as Nuthing Sacred and Panopticon. He also released independent titles such as Snug in the City of Hate and numerous one-offs.    

 

He currently lives in Asheville, North Carolina, with his wife and ferrets.  There is a statement in the back of book saying it was metaphysical. We shall see today... Do come by the book launch party at the Grey Eagle, Thursday, March 1, 8-10 PM

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Saturday, March 3
11 AM to Noon


Dr. Zhi Gang Sha

Today, Virato interviews, Dr. Zhi Gang Sha who says he began his journey at the age of five when he had a severe allergic reaction to penicillin and lost consciousness. Fortunately, his neighbor, an acupuncturist, saved his life, leaving a deep impression on his young heart and soul.

Dr. Sha received a western medical doctorate at Xian Medical University in China. Disappointed that Western medicine was unable to help patients more, he thought that integrating it with traditional Chinese medicine would combine the best of both systems. Consequently, he also became a doctor of traditional Chinese medicine.

In his late twenties, Dr. Sha was the personal physician to many of China’s top government officials. For the next two years, he also taught acupuncture, Qi Gong and Tai Chi to foreign doctors for the World Health Organization.

In 1988 he read a book by Dr. Zhi Chen Guo that inspired and excited him. He was convinced that this book, on the use of mind power, creative visualization, and hand positions for self-healing was the answer he sought. He would teach people that they have the power to heal themselves. He so passionately believed in this self-healing system that he taught it to his patients, offered free public seminars and shared it on television and radio.

Dr. Sha studied Dr. Guo’s revolutionary healing system, which later became the new medical science of Zhi Neng Medicine. It combines the essence of Western medicine and traditional Chinese medicine with energy healing and spiritual healing. Zhi Neng means “intelligence and capabilities of the mind.”

In 1994, Dr. Sha was appointed by Master Zhi Chen Guo to be his worldwide representative . Under Master Guo’s serious training, he deepened his spiritual development. He learned spiritual secrets so that he could communicate with the Soul World. Once his spiritual channels were widely opened, he became a medical intuitive.

Twelve years after first studying Master Guo’s revolutionary medical science, Dr. Sha created Power Healing, a breakthrough healing system based on Zhi Neng Medicine. To heal themselves and others, people use the Four Power Techniques™ of Power Healing: Body Power, Sound Power, Mind Power and Soul Power. Power Healing is ground-breaking because it uses the concept of Soul Power for healing.

After more than 40 years of spiritual study and practice of the ancient Chinese treasures and the healing arts, Dr. Sha created Soul Mind Body Medicine, a revolutionary medicine stemming from the foundation of Power Healing. Soul Mind Body Medicine emphasizes soul over matter plus mind over matter. Its essence is the power of pure love healing. Love will melt any blockage, and forgiveness will bring peace and healing.

Dr. Sha has presented his healing and spiritual teachings at many prestigious gatherings, including the Omega Institute, Grace Cathedral, Esalen Institute, and the World Congress on Qi Gong.

His contributions to spiritual and physical health have touched millions of people, and his teachings are offered through television, radio, books, CDs, DVDs, newspapers, magazines and his website. His book, Power Healing, became a NY Times best-seller, and his Power Healing system was featured in a PBS documentary, Power Healing with Master Sha. In recognition of his achievements, Dr. Sha was named Qi Gong Master of the Year at the 5th World Congress on Qi Gong.

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Saturday, March 3
12:06 PM to 1 PM


It's Slowly Poisoning Us!

This is a repeat of the VIRATO LIVE! March 25, 2006 program. Virato felt it needs to be heard again since nothing is being done to take this poison out of our water supply. Virato speaks with Dr.  David C. Kennedy who has practiced dentistry for more than 30 years, and is currently the Information Officer on fluoride for the International  Academy of Oral Medicine and Toxicology, that say water fluoridation is poisoning us, and in fact, decaying our teeth, rather than protecting them.

FluorideDental fluorosis is now pandemic in fluoridated areas. Fluoride ingestion in our children is clearly out of control given the sky-rocketing rise in dental fluorosis rates in fluoridated communities. Dental fluorosis is recognized by scientists world-wide as the first clinical sign of fluoride poisoning. The health problems caused by fluoride in other countries is well-documented and staggering. There are about twenty nations with health problems due to fluoride ingestion

Dr. Kennedy  recently visited villages in Inner Mongolia where he witnessed the conditions that now  afflicts 43 million Chinese children with dental fluorosis, 1.6 million  Chinese with severe skeletal fluorosis and an at-risk population in the endemic areas of 100 million, roughly 9% of the entire country.

Dr.  Kennedy and his wife, hosted by the China Medical University and the People‘s  Republic of China Department of Endemic Disease Control, produced a  documentary film titled Crippling Waters on the problems of excess  fluoride in drinking waters of China and their efforts to reduce fluoride  intake. This documentary has been viewed all over the world at scientific  conferences, both in Europe and Asia. It premiered at the Defluoridation  Conference in Chiang Mai, Thailand in November of 2000, and was widely  acclaimed by the participants as accurate, dramatic and revealing.  Tell everyone to tune into this program!

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Saturday, March 10
10:06 AM-11 AM EST

Virato chats with Paul Gallimore, educator, author, consultant, and planner in renewable energy, environmental design, permaculture, appropriate technology, and recycling/resource recovery. 

He is the Founder and Executive Director of Long Branch Environmental Education Center, Leicester, NC, 1974 – present, and the Coordinator of the Environmental Resource Assessment ServiceThe Center strives to encourage conservation of all natural resources, including air quality, water quality, soil, and all biological diversity; to educate the public about strategies relating to ecological literacy, natural resource conservation, renewable energy, community self-reliance, appropriate technologies, and practices of sustainability; to design and demonstrate sustainable systems; to advocate for conservation of all natural resources and biological systems; to engage in research programs in conservation biology, renewable energy, community self-reliance, appropriate technologies, sustainable systems, and to practice ecological restoration; and to encourage sustainability as a measure of every human endeavor.

He has served on the Board of Directors of the Center for Renewable Resources, Solar Lobby, National Recycling Coalition, Southern Unity Network for Renewable Energy Projects (SUNREP), North Carolina Coalition for Renewable Energy Resources (NCCRER), North Carolina Solar Energy Association, Carolina Recycling Association, Carolina Farm Stewardship Association and many other groups in the Southern Appalachian Bioregion. He has taught at Southwestern Community College, Sylva, NC, Blanton’s Junior College, Asheville, NC, and the University of North Carolina, Asheville.

One of the early projects that actively captured his attention and physical involvement was People’s Park in Berkeley, CA in 1969, one of the first grassroots’ attempts to create and reclaim urban greenspace in North America. The inspiration for People’s Park was that the human community could actively pursue peaceful, imaginative and creative ways to rediscover and physically restore the underlying harmony between humans and all other living beings. This inspiration continues to circulate through his ongoing efforts to promote the message of CEDARS – Conservation, Education, Design, Demonstration, Advocacy, Research, Restoration, and Sustainability.

His book, co-authored with Al Fritsch, Healing Appalachia: Sustainable Living Through Appropriate Technology will be published by the University Press of Kentucky in May 2007.




Saturday, March 10
11:06 AM-Noon EST

Virato dialogues with Leonard Jacobson, a spiritual teacher, mystic and healer deeply committed to helping others break through to the joyous experience of living in the NOW.

Jacobson has been running workshops and seminars for the past twenty-five years offering inspiration and guidance to those on the path of spiritual awakening and enlightenment. His teachings and his presence are a powerful reminder that the source of life and truth is within each one of us.

In 1981, he experienced the first of a series of spontaneous mystical awakenings that profoundly altered his perception of life, truth, and reality. Each of these enlightenment experiences revealed deeper and deeper levels of consciousness, filling his teachings and his writings with profound wisdom, clarity, love and compassion.

He lives in Santa Cruz, California and offers evening teaching sessions, weekend workshops, and longer residential retreats in the United States, Europe, and Australia.

He is the founder of The Conscious Living Foundation, a registered non-profit organization. In 2005, he was awarded the Peace Prize by Religious Science International, although he is not affiliated or associated with any religion or church. His teaching is both inclusive of and transcendent of all religions and spiritual traditions. It is for all those genuinely seeking to awaken, and for all those who do not yet realize that they are genuinely seeking to awaken.

Leonard Jacobson is the author of four books, Words from Silence, Embracing the Present, and Bridging Heaven & Earth and his latest book, Journey into Now.

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Saturday, March 10
12:06 PM-1PM

Today, Virato chats with Walter Starcke whose extraordinary life reads like fiction. On his quest for life’s ultimate answers Starcke has donned the role of modern mystic, Broadway producer, successful business entrepreneur, powerful keynote speaker and author of six best-selling books, It’s All God, The Third Appearance, The Double Thread, The Ultimate Revolution, The Gospel of Relativity, and Homesick for Heaven.

In his career on Broadway, Starcke co-produced I Am A Camera which led to the musical Cabaret, and resulted in his being one of the youngest producers to have received the New York Drama Critics Award. He also served as Assistant Director on the original production of Roger and Hammerstein’s The King and I. Starcke’s friends in his theater days ranged from such literary giants as Noel Coward, Cole Porter, and his own peer group of friends – Gore Vidal, Truman Capote, Tennessee Williams, Marlon Brando, and Paul Newman, who Starcke discovered and introduced to Paul’s first agent.

After serving as a Naval Officer in World War II, Starcke’s all consuming fire to find universal truths lead him to travel the world a half dozen times to study the major world religious philosophies. This trek took him from Lama Govinda’s ashram at the border of Tibet, to the Vedanta monastery in Southern California, with Swami Prabhavananda, in the days that Aldus Huxley and Christopher Sherwood were there. As Starcke says, “they were setting the patterns in the late forties for the explosion of interest in the mystical and metaphysical movement that is taking place today.”

His mentor and most influential teacher was the Christian mystic and author of The Infinite Way, Joel S. Goldsmith -- an association that began in 1946 and lasted until Goldsmith’s death eighteen years later. Starcke traveled extensively with Goldsmith, who introduced him from the platform at his first talk in New York and in London, and asked Starcke to lead many of his meditations.

After over 40 years of silence, Starcke now reveals the private side of Joel Goldsmith and the sometimes tumultuous and often inspiring experiences included in their eighteen year relationship in his latest book release, Joel Goldsmith and I: The Inside Story of a Relationship with a Modern Mystic.

At the International New Thought Alliance Conference in 2001, Starcke was awarded its Mystical Century award. Holding a Doctor of Divinity degree from Emerson Theological Institute, he currently sits on the Board of Directors of Unity School at Unity Village Missouri.

At the young age of 85, Starcke continues to amaze and inspire with his teachings that close the gap between our divinity and our humanity. He lectures nationwide, and offers seminars and intensives in select cities.

For more information on Starcke’s books, tapes and lecture dates contact the GUADALUPE PRESS, PO Box 865, Boerne, Texas, 78006 or call 830-537-4655.

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Saturday, March 17
10AM-11AM



Today Virato chats with Ramesh Bjonnes of The Prama Institute in nearby Marshall, NC, as well as Hanna Elias, the director of the award-winning film, The Olive Harvest. The institute provides facilities and programs for educational seminars and retreats in the area of spirituality, environmentalism, sustainable economics, holistic health, and other intellectual and artistic fields that contribute to human development and social change.

In 1990, 44 acres of beautiful forest and grass lands were purchased by the international yoga and meditation group, Ananda Marga, outside Asheville, North Carolina.. Named Ananda Girisuta (Daughter of the Mountain), the area had panoramic views of the Blue Ridge Mountains and became the foundation for a future eco-village.

At that time, P. R. Sarkar, founder of Ananda Marga, encouraged the development of eco-villages in all regions of the globe. The purpose of these eco-villages, he envisioned, was to serve the surrounding community through service and education and by encouraging a more spiritual and sustainable lifestyle.

As time passed, the natural resources and beauty of this land seemed ideal for the development of a holistic seminar center. An additional 100 acres of land was purchased in 2004, and The Prama Institute, a professional retreat and educational facility with 45 plus beds, was completed in the fall of 2006.

On April 26 and 29, at the Fine Arts Theater in Asheville, The Prama Institute presents The Olive Harvest, which won the Skyy Prize at the San Francisco Film Festival.  The screening will be followed by Q and A with the film’s writer/director Hanna Elias.

The Olive Harvest integrates an enchanting tale of romantic love, tradition and family loyalty into the larger climate of political and economic unease in a Palestinian countryside. The acclaimed film was made with an Israeli crew and a Palestinian cast. With this film, writer/director Hanna Elias wants to show that building trust and respect by living and working together is the best way "to deal with a conflict that has engulfed all of us in a hundred years of violence."

Hanna Elias will also conduct the following workshops at the Prama Institute:  How To Be An Indie Filmmaker And Love It, a workshop for experienced and aspiring filmmakers. Saturday, April 28, 1-4 PM

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Saturday, March 17
11:06 AM-Noon EST

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Today Virato converses with Dr. Fred Smith, founder of Raise the Level of the Pond, a not-for-profit spiritual organization, author of Conscious Concepts, and builder of this web site.

Frederick James Smith was raised in a small town in Montana. He received a typical Roman Catholic upbringing, attending a local Roman Catholic grade school, where his training for life was mostly religious and performance oriented, rather than spiritual and internal. He spent a lot of time day dreaming, both in school and out, nothing dramatic, just a lot of mind-time. His mother, who had pet descriptions for each of her children, called him "My little dreamer". His parents were supportive of his "dreaming", but had few skills with which to deal with their son's "inner space," and his upbringing remained mostly task oriented.

Later he would begin to sort out which inner processes were mind, which were brain, and which were spirit. Since that time he has constantly studied in the fields of religion, spirituality, psychology, metaphysics, and eventually, medicine. He became a Doctor of Medicine (University of Oregon), specializing in the field of Medical Neurology, which deals with the brain and nervous system, and worked in this field in private practice for twenty years. While practicing medicine, he expanded and refined his understanding of the brain and how the mind and spirit operate through it, learning through his interaction with thousands of patients and their families.

Dr. Smith has developed personal tools that have worked well for him, which he calls "Conscious Concepts". He has organized five of these tools into a teaching curriculum called A Rediscovery of Free Will, arranged in the same sequence that he teaches his students, face to face. Dr Smith has withdrawn from the formal practice of medicine in order to share his understanding, knowledge, and wisdom, on various topics, with individuals, groups, and over the Internet, with the intention of reaching a wider audience than would be otherwise possible. His journey has led him to be ordained as a minister, symbolic of the union of scientific and spiritual knowledge.

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Saturday, March 17
12:06 PM-1PM EST

Advanced Chakra Healing
Heart Disease

Virato chats with author Cyndi Dale, president of Life Systems Services, offering intuitive-based healing, destiny coaching and corporate consulting. She is the author of the newly released Attracting Prosperity Through the Chakras and Advanced Chakra Healing, the sequel to her bestseller: New Chakra Healing. Now entering its sixth printing since 1997, New Chakra Healing, published by Llewellyn Publishing, has been translated into nine foreign languages.

An internationally known presence in the healing arts, thousands of people have attended Cyndi’s workshops and seminars. Many of her clients are referred by professionals including psychiatrists, medical doctors and therapists. She is a frequent speaker at high profile events including the Whole Life Expos and has been featured on the Wisdom Channel, as well as other national media, including a nationally released documentary on healing, distributed through Blockbuster, and on the Mind Body & Spirit television show. One of her short stories has been included in Arielle Ford’s book, More Hot Chocolate for the Mystical Soul She is also the author of a children's book, The Littlest Christmas Star.

Cyndi has trained in several different healing modalities, including shamanism, intuitive healing, energy healing, family of origin therapy, Therapeutic Touch, the Lakota way and faith healing and holds a fourth degree mastership in Reiki. Her travels have taken her around the world, to Costa Rica, Belize, the Yucatan, Morocco, Japan, Venezuela, the British Isles, Greece and Italy, Hawaii and Peru, where she founded The Minga Project. She has taught business ethics at the University of Minnesota; served as a public relations consultant to 3M and Tonka and has been honored in “Who’s Who in American Business,” The American Women of Noteworthy Achievement and the International Association of Business. Cyndi lives in Minneapolis with her sons, Michael and Gabriel.

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Saturday, March 24
10AM-11AM EST

Today is your day on the radio, as Virato takes your calls. Is there anything about Asheville's metaphysical, Cultural Creative community you would like to share (no commercials please!). Let's create a dialogue, and make it fun as well. Consider it your show today!. You are cordially invited to call Virato at the studio between 10 AM and 11 AM, 828-252-4348. If you would like to speak to him before, call 828-254-6620.

If you'd rather, you can e-mail your questions, and we will post here.

Questions to-date:

How did you get to do this show?

Do you have a message or mission?

Who did you like to interview the most?

What about 2012?

What do you think of Coast-to-Coast AM?

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Saturday, March 24
11:06AM-Noon EST


Extraterrestrials and Abductions

The very words "alien abduction" suggest one of the greatest mysteries of our time. Who are these beings visiting us from the sky? Why are they here? What is their true relationship with us?

Today Virato interviews Craig Lang, author of The Cosmic Bridge which addresses these perplexing and vital questions head-on. We explore a new perspective on the close encounter phenomenon, that of an evolving relationship for the benefit of both humanity and the visitors.  Here, we develop a hypothesis of why they are here, and what it means to humanity.

For any hypothesis to be valid, it must be testable.  What must we see for the hypothesis to be correct?  How would a cosmic civilization interact with Earth?  What would be--or is--our reaction to open/overt alien contact?  How might humanity be interacting with the visitors, today?  These are some of the the ultimate questions of our time and in examining them, we begin to see an entirely new view of this enigma.

Craig Lang is a certified hypnotherapist with the National Guild of Hypnotists.  In addition to hypnotherapy, he is a field investigator with the Mutual UFO Network and research UFO sightings, anomaly reports and close encounters.

Craig has a full-time job in software engineering with a medical electronics company in St. Paul, Minnesota.  In addition, his other interests are astronomy, parapsychology, creative writing, spirituality and meditation.

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Saturday, March 24
12:06 PM-1PM


Bishop Jordon

Virato speaks with Bishop E. Bernard Jordan  a Christian who has a different view of biblical principles and ethics essential to successful living.

His messages on reformation and liberation have sparked both acclaim, as well as controversy, as he teaches what he calls "the unadulterated word of God."  A liberator in his own right, Bishop Jordan says he is charged with preparing the church for the New Millennium and stands with the heart of a father, acknowledging that he is but one of hundreds of thousands called by God to prophesy.

He says that poverty is a state of mind, and that people can plan and think their way out of poverty.  According to Jordan, “The rich think differently. That’s how they became rich! They don’t acknowledge limitations. The rich live in uncertainty and take risks.  They have faith in their ability to overcome uncertainty. They act on faith, not fear. Fear does not stop them.  The rich do not live in want; they know they are the key to unlock what they want.” 

Bishop Jordon says The Laws of Thinking is The Secret unfolded.  He says it's a manual on life that will catapult you to your destiny.  He probes such questions as: Who are you?  Who are you becoming?  What ideas do you have within you that could yield you great wealth?  Unlike The Secret, the bishop unveils 19 other laws of the universe that, he says can change the fabric of your mind, transform your life and reshape your world. 

Bishop E. Bernard Jordan is also a modern-day prophet. In 1989, he predicted Hurricane Katrina, which had a devastating effect on the people of the Gulf Coast. Sought after by nations of the world for his accurate prophecies, Bishop Jordan has prophesied to millions of people. The founder of Zoë Ministries in New York City, a prophetic gathering with a vision to impact the globe with Christ’s message of liberation, Bishop Jordan, has a Ph.D. in religious studies, and has written more than 40 books, including the bestsellers Mentoring, Spiritual Protocol, What Every Woman Should Know about Men, The Power of Money, and Cosmic Economics.

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Saturday, March 31
10:06 AM-11AM EDT


presents



Tom Wright

Today Virato chats with Ashevillian Tom Wright. In addition to creating and  disseminating the transformational seminar The One Penny Millionaire! throughout the world, Tom Wright has enjoyed a long and distinguished career in the roles of communicator, writer, and seminar leader. He is the published author of Acronyming POWER Your Life! and Be BAD! Do Good! How To Get What You Want In Spite Of Yourself!

Wright has been Executive Director and coursework creator The Mastery Project, conducted with prison inmates in Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Texas. He was Guest Seminar Leader for Landmark Educational Corporation (originated as the EST Training in the 70's), and staff member in New York and San Francisco, for the Six Day intensive for this organization.  He was Communications aide to U.S. presidents Richard M. Nixon and Gerald R. Ford in a non-political capacity. A professor of English, science fiction and short story writer, Wright is a published poet nominated for The Pushcart Prize In Poetry.

He was also Executive Editor at Xerox Corporation, editor at The Texas Review, editor of The Alfred Review. Founding Member and President of The Katuah Sudbury School in Asheville, Wright is also a licensed practitioner for the teachings of the Science of Mind, and active student of ancient Toltec wisdom. Wright currently resides in  Asheville, N.C. with his daughter, Alyssa and son Nicolas.

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Saturday, March 31
11:06 AM-Noon

What Your Doctor May
Not Tell You About...


Virginia Hopkins

Today Virato chats with Virginia Hopkins. Hopkins has been a writer and editor since she graduated from Yale University in 1976. She also has a Masters degree in Applied Psychology from the University of Santa Monica. Hopkins is the author, co-author, orEarl L. Mindell and Virginia Hopkins - Prescription Alternatives: Hundreds of Safe, Natural, Prescription-Free Remedies to Restore and Maintain Your Healthghostwriter of 30 books, including What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Breast Cancer, What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Pre-menopause, and What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Menopause: The Breakthrough Book on Natural Progesterone with John R. Lee, MD (Warner Books, 1996, 1998, 2004), all best-sellers, as well as Dr. John lee's Hormone Balance Made Simple. She also co-authored the book Prescription Alternatives (McGraw Hill, 2002), with Earl Mindell, Ph.D. and Save Your Sight (Warner Books, 1998), with Marc Rose, MD.

Hopkins was the managing editor of the Mindell Report and The John R. Lee, M.D. Medical Letter. She is currently the editor of the Virginia Hopkins Health Watch, a free e-mail newsletter.

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Saturday, March 31
12:06 PM-1 PM  EST

Judith Orloff
Judith Orloff, MD

Today Virato interviews Judith Orloff, MD. Transforming the face of psychiatry, Dr. Orloff asserts that we are keepers of an innate intuitive intelligence so perceptive that it can tell us how to heal--and prevent-- illness. Yet, intuition and spirituality are the very aspects of our wisdom usually disenfranchised from traditional health care.

Dr. Orloff, who comes from a family of 25 physicians, advocates "a democracy of healing," wherein every aspect of our being is granted a vote in the search for total health.

A board-certified psychiatrist and assistant professor of psychiatry at UCLA, Dr. Orloff draws upon her own intuitive abilities, evident to her since childhood. Her struggles acknowledging and then finally embracing her gift of heightened intuition are chronicled in Second Sight (Warner Books). Her second book, Dr. Judith Orloff's Guide to Intuitive Healing (Three Rivers Press) shows how breakthroughs in healing our body, emotions, and sexuality are accomplished by listening to intuition. Her latest book Positive Energy (Harmony Books) completes a trilogy of books around awakening intuition and subtle energy. Positive Energy is a New York Times and Los Angeles Times bestseller, and has been translated into 23 languages.

She has spoken at medical schools, hospitals, the American Psychiatric Association, Fortune Magazine’s Most Powerful Women Summit, and alternative and traditional health forums—venues where she presents practical intuitive tools to doctors, patients, and everyday people.

Dr. Orloff M.D. is featured regularly in print, broadcast and online media. Her work has been featured in O Magazine, Self, Cosmopolitan, Reader's Digest, The Washington Times and New York Post. She has appeared on The Today Show, CBS Early Show, CNN, PBS, and NPR

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Saturday, April 7
10:06 AM-11 AM  EDT


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Lavinia Plonka

Virato chats with Lavinia Plonka, known throughout the US as a dynamic and innovative teacher and writer who uses movement asWalking Your Talk a tool for personal development and health improvement.

She is the author of The Intelligent Body: Explore Feldenkrais with Lavinia Plonka; What Are You Afraid Of?: A Body/Mind Guide to Courageous Living; and her latest, Walking Your Talk: Changing Your Life Through the Magic of Body Language.

Her movement experience spans 30 years, and includes mime, yoga, the martial arts, and consciousness exploration. She was an artist in residence for New York's Guggenheim Museum and movement consultant for theater and television companies around the world, from the Irish National Folk Theater to Nickelodeon. Her popular workshops have been sponsored by organizations ranging from Esalen to the Feldenkrais Guild of North America to many hospitals and physical therapy clinics around the US. She is currently the director of Asheville Movement Center in Asheville, offering a complete movement curriculum as well as private Feldenkrais lessons

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with Hale Dwoskin

Virato dialogues with Hale Dwoskin, author of the New York Times best seller, The Sedona Method: Your Key to Lasting Happiness, Success, Peace and Emotional Well-being,

He is also one of the 24 teachers from the movie The Secret, and is the CEO and Director of Training of Sedona Training Associates which he co-founded in 1996 to teach courses based on the emotional releasing techniques originated by his mentor, Lester Levenson.

Dwoskin is an international speaker and featured faculty member at Esalen and the Omega Institute. For over a quarter century, he has regularly been teaching the Sedona Method to individuals and corporations throughout the United States and the United Kingdom, and leading facilitator trainings and advanced retreats since the early 1990s. He is also the co-author with Lester Levenson of Happiness Is Free: and Its Easier than You Think (a five-book series).

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Saturday, April 7
12:06 PM-1 PM  EST

Virato dialogues with Richard Moss, MD, internationally known and respected visionary thinker, teacher and author of six seminal books on transformation, self-healing, and the art of conscious living.

Richard left the practice of medicine after a life-changing realization at the age of 30, and dedicated his life to helping people realize their multidimensional nature and achieve fulfillment and wellbeing. Over the years his work has continued to evolve and bridges science, psychology, energy medicine, and spiritual/awareness practices. His philosophy is entirely pragmatic: work on consciousness must alleviate human suffering and address the root causes of why and how we create so much conflict in ourselves and our world.

Richard eschews dogmatic beliefs; rather he supports and encourages the kinds of practices that help each person realize their own sense of the sacred. He emphasizes enlightenment, not as a final state or achievement, but as a lifelong process of growing in presence, humility and the clarity to accomplish the things that fulfill one’s own life and improve life for everyone.

As a guide, rather than telling people how to live, or bringing simplistic formulas for the solution of life's problems, Richard constantly affirms that positive growth requires dedicated work, and to do that work people need effective tools and practices. He insists upon the importance of experiencing the higher potentials within oneself in order to know them directly. His work is primarily experiential and secondarily didactic. In his seminars and even in his short programs Richard proposes activities that support the embodiment of the dimensions and principles being explored and unites this with clear cognitive maps and specific practices that allow each participant to continue to mature that knowledge in their daily lives. He offers gatherings that awaken new levels of understanding and foster enduring emotional balance and spiritual maturity. As a leader, he speaks to the inner teacher within each person. He has the special gift of awakening individuals of all backgrounds and disciplines to greater meaning in their lives and guides them to utilize the power of their awareness to grow in happiness, wisdom, compassion, and service.

His books include: The I That is We (1981), How Shall I Live (1985), The Black Butterfly (1986), The Second Miracle (1995), all published by Celestial Arts, plus a collection of aphorisms entitled, Words That Shine Both Ways (self-published in 1997). His newest book, The Mandala of Being: Discovering the Power of Awareness, New World Library, is available Feb. 2007. His works have been translated into Spanish, French, German, and Danish and have sold more than 200,000 copies worldwide.

For over thirty years Dr. Moss has taught in North America, South America, Europe and Australia. He has been interviewed in many magazines and newspapers, and has presented at numerous conferences and at such institutions as Harvard University, Stanford University, University of Chicago Medical School, U.C.L.A., U.C. Berkeley, American University, Washington DC, Georgetown University, John F. Kennedy University, and Eli Lilly Pharmaceutical Company.

Richard Moss Seminars organizes and coordinates the conferences, talks, and seminars taught by Dr. Moss, as well as producing all of his audio and video materials. Three Mountain Foundation, a California not-for-profit charity, was founded in 1984 to support Richard’s work by providing scholarships and interest free loans to individuals in financial need who wish to attend his seminars.

Richard lives in Ojai, California, with his wife Ariel.

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Saturday, April 14
10:06 AM-11 AM  EDT

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Bye Bye Bees,
Bye Bye Humanity!

 
A mysterious decimation of bee populations has German beekeepers worried, while a similar phenomenon in the United States is gradually assuming catastrophic proportions. The consequences for agriculture and the economy could be enormous. Some say a very quick domino effect will end humankinds food supply within 4 years! It would happen virtually overnight! In fact, some scientists say it is already happening. This means we are on the glide path for 2012.

Albert Einstein once quoted: "If the bee disappeared off the surface of the globe then man would only have four years of life left. No more bees, no more pollination, no more plants, no more animals, no more man."  Events in recent months have suddenly made Einstein's apocalyptic vision seem all the more topical. For unknown reasons, bee populations throughout Germany are disappearing. And it's not only happening in Europe. We are seeing it in the US and around the globe...Right now.

Many are saying the cause is genetically modified food, or genetically modified organisms (GMO), others are saying it is the pervasive use of cell phone technology, and yet others see it as endemic, a part of the overall collapse of our ecosystem

Is this it? Can anything be done?

Virato's guests this morning are Debi Athos, founder and director of Asheville's annual Organicfest, Debra Roberts founder of The Honey Bee Project, and Carl Chesick, bee expert.

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Saturday, April 14
11:06 AM-Noon  EDT


John English

Virato chats with John English, author of The Shift: An Awakening Cover. English is an award-winning author, international speaker, shamanic healer and entrepreneur.  John first recognized the human capacity to dream one’s life into being almost two decades ago. This led him to the experiential path of shamanism, where he studied with Alberto Villoldo, Ph.D. and three other shamans. John is available for international speaking engagements, book signings, workshops, seminars and private shamanic healing sessions for businesses and individuals. John and his family reside in Phoenix, Arizona.

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Saturday, April 14
12:06 PM-1 PM  EDT
 

Your Immortal Body of Light

Virato chats with Mitchell E. Gibson, MD a board-certified forensic psychiatrist, writer, artist, software developer, public speaker, spiritual teacher, and author of a new book, Your Immortal Body of Light.

Dr. Gibson received his medical degree at the age of 25 from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He then completed his residency training at the Albert Einstein Medical Center in Philadelphia. During his last year of residency he served as Chief Resident in Psychiatry and received the Albert Einstein Foundation Research Award for his work in Sleep Disorders. Dr. Gibson is a former Chief of Staff at the East Valley Camelback Hospital in Mesa Arizona. Dr. Gibson has been the mental health consultant for  NBC-Affiliate KPNX-TV12 Phoenix for the past eight years.  Dr. Gibson has also been consulted by every major television, radio, and newspaper service in Arizona for his expertise in the fields of mental health and human behavior.

Dr. Gibson is also an accomplished contemporary artist and has shown works In New York, Los Angeles, Paris, Philadelphia, Scottsdale, San Francisco, and numerous other cities around the globe.  He recently received the Jury Prize for Creativity in the competition at the Museum of Fine Art in Paris and his art work is published in the Encyclopedia of Living Artists and New Art International. Dr. Gibson has consulted for feature articles for Upscale, Ebony Essence, the Arizona Republic, Phoenix Gazette, Arizona Informant, Arizona Business Journal, The Mountain Astrologer, The Astrological Reporter, American Astrologer, and a number of other business and trade journals. He was also the host of a regional weekly radio program entitled The Male Perspective on KFNX,1100AM Phoenix.

...and now the unusual part

What is most amazing about this man is that at work he watched hospital visitors and patients 'walk through' deceased patients loitering in the hospital hallways weeks after their deaths, leading him on a journey few will ever experience. He says he was shown the essential nature of The Living Soul and how we can choose to become immortal, if we believe it's possible.

Your Immortal Body of Light is a true story that takes Gibson out of his ordinary awareness and into the deeper realms of higher consciousness. Both fascinating and chilling, this is not your everyday spiritual awakening story. On his quest, he actually encounters an ancient ‘god of healing’ known as Djehuti (pronounced Dee-jan-tee), or Thoth. Being a board-certified psychiatrist, Dr. Gibson wavered more than once before accepting that he was indeed speaking with an actual spiritual entity.  The experience persisted and eventually Djehuti revealed profound information to Gibson regarding the formation of the soul, the higher nature of mankind, and the hidden spiritual causes of mental illness.

“For thousands of years, wise men and philosophers have told us that humans are created with a dual nature, the mortal self and the immortal self……coming face to face with one’s immortal half and learning to write about it rationally has been a sobering and enlightening experience.. … ,“ explains Dr. Gibson.

 

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Saturday, April 21
10:06 AM-11 AM  EDT

What are you or your organization doing for Earth Day 2007. Call us at 828-252-4348 and let us know, and we can have you on the show. You can also call in on the show with your view of the planet and the Asheville area. Is the air as polluted as rumor has it? What about fluoride in Asheville drinking water? Why don't the city busses run on hydrogen or solar power? Talk to us about land fills. Chemtrails...or whatever.

Also hear what Sandy Pfeiffer, president of Warren Wilson College, and  Asheville's Mayor Bellamy have to say to Virato about their participation in Earth Day 2007.

Your positive input can and will make a difference!

 

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Saturday, April 21
11:06 AM-Noon  EDT


Arjuna Ardagh

Virato interviews Arjuna Ardagh, founder of the Living Essence Foundation in Nevada City, California dedicated to the awakening of consciousness within the context of ordinary life. He is the author of Relaxing into Clear Seeing, How About Now, The Last Laugh (a novel), and the national bestseller, The Translucent Revolution as well as the creator of the Living Essence Audio Series.

Arjuna was educated in England, at King's School Canterbury, and later at Cambridge University, where he earned a Master’s degree in literature. Since the age of 14 he has had a passionate interest in spiritual awakening, and began to practice meditation and yoga. In his late teens he trained as a meditation teacher. After graduating from Cambridge, he devoted himself more fully to the call he felt inside him, and studied with a number of prominent spiritual teachers. In 1987 he founded the Alchemy Institute in Seattle WA, and trained several hundred people in a transpersonal approach to hypnotherapy.

In 1991, after returning to India, Arjuna met HWL Poonja and went through a radical shift of perspective. Rather than attaining anything of what he had dreamed of, he had the profound realization that he had been seeking for what he already was, and always had been. He realized that it was in the abandonment of seeking and wanting that the heart found its fulfillment.

In 1992 Arjuna returned to Seattle and began to share with other people what he had recognized to be true. He quickly discovered that this same realization was easily accessible to anyone who was willing to look in the right place, and that this had a profound effect on simple day-to-day life. He has been traveling, both in the U.S. and Europe, for the last 12 years, facilitating this kind of shift, and reflecting with people on the art of living life from this recognition. Arjuna has experienced that the shift is becoming progressively easier for ordinary people, with no formal preparation, and he has met with many other teachers and writers who have come to the same discovery.

Arjuna Ardagh and his wife Chameli have also been responsible for introducing a powerful transmission of energy, known as Deeksha, which rapidly accelerates the evolution of consciousness.  Deeksha can be given by the Deeksha-giver placing their hands on the head of the receiver.  It can also be given to a whole room of people at the same time, through intention, and it can also be given through the eyes.  The transmission of the Deeksha energy does not take more than a few seconds, but can also be given for longer periods.

Arjuna has also developed the Living Essence Training, which prepares people to be facilitators of this shift in consciousness with others, and to cultivate translucence. He and his staff have trained more than 450 practitioners in the U.S. and Europe. He speaks at many international conferences, and has appeared on TV, on the radio and in print media.

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Saturday, April 21
12:06 PM-Noon  EDT



Lou Reed

Virato talks with legendary guitarist, Lou Reed. Born March 2, 1942 in Brooklyn, NY, Reed co-founded and wrote most of the songs for the New York rock group The Velvet Underground (1965-70), the influential band which recorded such cult favorites as Heroin, Sweet Jane and Sister Ray. The Velvet Underground, at first associated with Andy Warhol and the singer Nico, was never a huge popular success, but it has been credited with influencing a generation of punk and post-punk rockers in the 1970s and '80s. During the '70s Reed and David Bowie were among the top acts in "glam rock," a theatrical style of gender-bending rock and roll. Reed's solo hits from the '70s include Walk On The Wild Side and Street Hassle, as well as re-vamped versions of several of his Velvet Underground songs. By the end of the 1990s, Reed was an elder statesman of rock and roll, a mature songwriter with a reputation for thoughtful urban ballads. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1997.

Lou Reed’s fans have learned to expect the unexpected, but his latest work may still come as a surprise. After four decades in the rock spotlight, Lou Reed has turned his attention to the world of meditation music, inviting listeners on a relaxing journey to the hidden territory of his inner landscape. With Hudson River Wind Meditations, the iconic “art rocker” presents his first album created specifically for quiet contemplation.

A practitioner of yoga and T’ai Chi for many years, Reed brings his unique sensitivity and knowledge of a broad spectrum of music genres to provide a tranquil bed of soothing harmonics that open the heart and settle the mind. The pieces on this hypnotic album wash away tension and negative energy with sparse instrumentation and subtle waves of electronic sound. Be forewarned...it's a different Lou Reed!

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Saturday, April 28
10:06 AM-11 AM  EDT


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Virato's guest this morning is the director of Four Directions Solidarity Network, a grassroots movement of both native and non-native people coming together from the four directions to preserve traditional indigenous culture, support the health of Elders and traditional keepers, as well as provide tools that return us to a sustainable relationship with our relations, and our Mother, the Earth.

We are not only talking Native Americans, we will discuss all indigenous tribes, including the indigenous Europeans known as the Iladurarrak or Moaene,, which means 'sacred moon people'.

The Iladurarrak were semi-nomadic tribes of hunter-gatherers whose
ancestors developed a rich society and culture over portions of the
European continent for more than 40,000 years, before giving away to the better known proto-Celt, Celtic, and Norse cultures. They are one family in the larger complex of Paleo-Mesolithic tribes that extended from the Iberian Peninsula in the west to Eastern Russia.

Now, after a long period of slumber, the Iladurarrak are returning as
people of European heritage are called back to the ways of their Asaba -their Ancestors during this great time of change. Hou! Hou!

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Saturday, April 28
11:06 AM-Noon  EDT


Joseph R. Giove

magine a global social collaborative of peace-creating groups whose purpose is social and environmental harmony, comprised of members from every faith and wisdom tradition. They would come together locally and globally, learn how to apply the findings of peace-creating social studies, and validate the social harmonizing effects of their combined efforts.

Today, Virato talks with Joseph Giove, Executive Director, Global Coherence Project, doing the above work.  He is a technologist, biomedical engineer and clinical hypnotist whose passion is the practical application of consciousness research at both individual and collective levels. He has created and orchestrated hundreds of global meditations through InfinityAffinity.org, which he founded in 1998.

Mr. Giove's professional experience spans many technology areas, from software development to aerospace and biomedicine. He has been CEO of Distributed Computing, Inc, a pioneer in web-performance testing using the distributed computing model; and founder and CEO of Biophor Corporation, a biomedical research and laser device manufacturing firm. Other tenures included manufacturing engineering for a two-terawatt laser fusion project for the British Government via a technology transfer program from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, and engineering for Kaiser Electronics' line of aircraft head-up displays.

Mr. Giove is a public speaker, corporate trainer and mind-body wellness expert (www.IntendBalance.com). His favorite topics: Embracing Change: Being Nimble in Hyper-Time; Winning with Your Team; The High-Performance Mind; and Thriving under Stress.

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Saturday, April 28
12:06 PM-1 PM  EDT


Paul Krassner

There is no question that the 1960s was a period of massive cultural revolution. Today, Virato chats with one of the icons of that generation, Paul Krassner.  Krassner, who calls himself an investigative satirist, was labeled by Don Imus as “one of the comic geniuses of the 20th century.”  On the other hand, a couple of FBI agents went to one of his performances and stated in their report, “He purported to be humorous about government policies.” His FBI files indicate that after Life magazine published a favorable profile of him, the FBI sent a poison-pen letter to the editor, complaining: “To classify Krassner as a social rebel is far too cute. He’s a nut, a raving, unconfined nut.” “The FBI was right,” says George Carlin. “This man is dangerous--and funny; and necessary.”

ABC newscaster Harry Reasoner wrote in his memoirs, “Krassner not only attacks establishment values; he attacks decency in general.” So Krassner named his one-person show Attacking Decency in General, receiving awards from the L.A. Weekly and DramaLogue. He is the only person in the world ever to win awards from both Playboy (for satire) and the Feminist Party Media Workshop (for journalism).

When People Magazine called Krassner “Father of the underground press,” he immediately demanded a paternity test. Actually, he had published The Realist magazine from 1958 to 1974. He reincarnated it as a newsletter in 1985. “The taboos may have changed,” he wrote, “but irreverence is still our only sacred cow.” The final issue was published in Spring 2001.His style of personal journalism constantly blurred the line between observer and participant.

Krassner covered the antiwar movement; then co-founded the Yippies with two other revolutionaries, Abbie Hoffman and Jerry Rubin. He published material on the psychedelic revolution; then took LSD with Timothy Leary, Ram Dass and Ken Kesey, later accompanying Groucho Marx on his first acid trip. He edited Lenny Bruce’s autobiography, How to Talk Dirty and Influence People, and with Lenny’s encouragement, became a stand-up comic himself, opening at the Village Gate in New York in 1961. Ten years later--five years after Lenny’s death--Groucho said, “I predict that in time Paul Krassner will wind up as the only live Lenny Bruce.” He was nominated for a 2005 Grammy Award in the Album Notes category for his 5,000-word essay accompanying a 6-CD package, Lenny Bruce: Let the Buyer Beware. Krassner rarely works the comedy-club circuit, preferring to perform on campuses, at theaters and in art galleries.

He has been a guest on Late Night with Conan O’Brien and Politically Incorrect with Bill Maher, and on Air America Radio with Janeane Garofalo and with Marc Maron.
 
Krassner's articles have appeared in Rolling Stone, Spin, Playboy, Penthouse, Mother Jones, the Nation, New York magazine, National Lampoon, Utne Reader, the Village Voice, the San Francisco Examiner, the Los Angeles Times, the L.A. Weekly, High Times and Funny Times.

He hosted his own talk radio show in San Francisco, was head writer for an HBO special satirizing the presidential election campaign, and did on-air commentary for the Fox network’s Wilton-North Report.

Mercury Records released his first two comedy albums, We Have Ways of Making You Laugh and Brain Damage Control. Artemis Records released his next four: Sex, Drugs and the Antichrist: Paul Krassner at MIT, Campaign in the Ass, Irony Lives! and The Zen Bastard Rides Again.

His autobiography, Confessions of a Raving, Unconfined Nut: Misadventures in the Counter-Culture, was published by Simon & Schuster, and his other books include: The Winner of the Slow Bicycle Race: The Satirical Writings of Paul Krassner, with an introduction by Kurt Vonnegut; a trilogy of anthologies--Pot Stories For the Soul, with an introduction by Harlan Ellison, Psychedelic Trips For the Mind and Magic Mushrooms and Other Highs: From Toad Slime to Ecstasy--Sex, Drugs and the Twinkie Murders: 40 Years of Countercultural Journalism; Impolite Interviews; Murder At the Conspiracy Convention and Other American Absurdities, with an introduction by George Carlin; and One Hand Jerking: Reports From an Investigative Satirist, with a foreword by Harry Shearer and an introduction by Lewis Black, to be published in Autumn 2005.

At the 14th annual Cannabis Cup in Amsterdam, Paul Krassner was inducted into the Counterculture Hall of Fame--“my ambition,” he claims, “since I was three years old.” In May 2004, he received an ACLU Uppie (Upton Sinclair) Award for dedication to freedom of  expression.

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Saturday, May 5
10:06 PM-11 AM  EDT


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Ayurveda is thought of by many scholars to be the oldest form of health
care in the world. Originated in India over 5000 years ago, it was
taught for thousands of years in an oral tradition from accomplished masters to their disciples. The purpose of Ayurveda is to heal, to maintain a high quality of life, and to increase the longevity of the individual. Aside from being the oldest system of herbal medicine, Ayurveda is also an art of daily living that has evolved from philosophical, spiritual and practical insight --from understanding the complexity of Creation to the daily individual needs and goals of each person.

Although used for thousands of years, Ayurvedic principles have never
changed, since they derive from universal laws of nature that are
eternally true. In Sanskrit, Ayurveda (Ayur-Veda) means the "science of
life," in the sense that life is the integration of body, mind and
consciousness. The Ayurvedic approach to health is truly holistic and
individualized, and Ayurveda states that the path to optimum health is
different for each person.

Today Virato chats with Asheville's leading authority on this ancient Vishnu Dass - Ayurvedic practitioner offering Ayurveda and Panchakarma as well as Asheville massage and Ayurvedic Asheville Day Spa packages, Asheville alternative medicine, ayurvedic physician north carolina
tradition. Vishnu Dass is an Ayurvedic practitioner and educator, and a Board Member of the National Ayurvedic Medical Association. He is the founder and director of Blue Lotus Ayurveda, an Ayurveda and Panchakarma Clinic in Asheville, NC, where he offers authentic Ayurvedic health care and therapies. Vishnu Dass, a graduate of the New Mexico School of Natural Therapeutics, a Professional Member and Board Member of the National Ayurvedic Medical Association, teaches and lectures on Ayurveda and yoga philosophy throughout the southeast and has published several articles on Ayurveda in both local and national publications, and is currently in the process of publishing an Ayurvedic herbology book.

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Saturday, May 5
11:06 PM-Noon  EDT
(This is a re-broadcast of the September 16, 2006 program)

Today, Virato probes the mind and soul of Stanislav Grof, MD, Ph.D., a psychiatrist with over forty years research into non-ordinary states of consciousness (induced by psychedelic substances and various non-drug techniques) and one of the founders and chief theoreticians of transpersonal psychology.

He was born in Prague, Czechoslovakia, where he also received his scientific training,. an MD degree from the Charles University School of Medicine, and a Ph.D. from the Czechoslovakian Academy of Sciences.

Dr. Grof 's early research in the clinical uses of psychedelic substances was conducted at the Psychiatric Research Institute in Prague, where he was Principal Investigator of a program systematically exploring the heuristic and therapeutic potential of LSD and other psychedelic substances. In 1967, he was invited as Clinical and Research Fellow to theJohns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD.

After completion of this two-year fellowship, he stayed in the US and continued his research as Chief of Psychiatric Research at the Maryland Psychiatric Research Center and as Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD. In 1973, Dr. Grof was invited to the Esalen Institute in Big Sur, California, where he lived until 1987 as Scholar-in-Residence writing, giving seminars, lecturing and developing Holotropic Breathwork with his wife Christina Grof. He also served on the Board of Trustees of the Esalen Institute.

Dr. Grof is the founder of the International Transpersonal Association (ITA) and its past and current president. In this role, he has organized large international conferences in the United States, the former Czechoslovakia, India, Australia, and Brazil. At present, he lives in Mill Valley, California, conducting training seminars for professionals in Holotropic Breathwork and transpersonal psychology and writing books. He is also Professor of Psychology at the California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS) in San Francisco and at the Pacifica Graduate School in Santa Barbara and gives lectures and seminars worldwide.

Grof has published over 140 articles in professional journals, as well as the following 18 books, which have been translated into German, French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Swedish, Danish, Russian, Czech, Polish, Bulgarian, Greek, Turkish, Japanese, and Chinese: Realms of the Human Unconscious: Observations from LSD Research, Viking Press, New York, 1975. Paperback: E. P. Dutton, New York 1976, The Human Encounter with Death, E. P. Dutton, New York, 1977 (with Joan Halifax), LSD Psychotherapy, Hunter House, Pomona, California, 1980, Beyond Death: Gates of Consciousness, Thames & Hudson, London, 1980 (with Christina Grof), Ancient Wisdom and Modern Science, State University New York (SUNY) Press, 1984 (ed.), Beyond the Brain: Birth, Death, and Transcendence in Psychotherapy, State University New York (SUNY) Press, New York , 1985, The Adventure of Self-Discovery, State University New York (SUNY) Press, 1987, Human Survival and Consciousness Evolution. State University New York (SUNY) Press, 1988 ( ed .), Spiritual Emergency: When Personal Transformation Becomes a Crisis, J. P. Tarcher, Los Angeles, 1989, (ed. with Christina Grof ), The Stormy Search for the Self: A Guide to Personal Growth Through Transformational Crises, J. P. Tarcher, Los Angeles, 1991 (with Christina Grof), The Holotropic Mind: The Three Levels of Consciousness and How They Shape Our Lives Harper Collins (1992), (with Hal Zina Bennett), Books of the Dead: Manuals for Living and Dying, Thames and Hudson, 1994, The Cosmic Game: Explorations of the Frontiers of Human Consciousness, State University New York Press, Albany, NY, 1998, The Transpersonal Vision: The Healing Potential of Non-Ordinary States of Consciousness, Sounds True, Boulder, CO 1998, The Consciousness Revolution: A Transatlantic Dialogue (two days with Stanislav Grof, Ervin Laszlo, and Peter Russell). Element Books, Rockport , MA, 1999, Psychology of the Future: Lessons from Modern Consciousness Research. State University of New York Press, Albany , NY , 2000, Call of the Jaguar, a science fiction novel available currently only in Russian translation (Institute of Transpersonal Psychology Press and K. Kravchuk Publishing House, Moscow, 2001) and Danish translation, When The Impossible Happens; Adventures in Non-ordinary Realities, Sounds True.

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Saturday, May 5
12:06 PM-1 PM  EDT

Cynthia Bissonnette and daughter Lisa and the

Virato chats with Cynthia Bissonnette and her daughter Lisa Carmichael. Cynthia runs The Unifying Fields Foundation and their transformational retreat center in northern Idaho. Its purpose is to inspire and support others in expanding beyond what is or has been in the past.

She has  created and facilitated groups working with the Awakening Your Light Body Course as presented by Sanaya Roman and Duane Packer. Other seminars completed with Roman and Packer include Writers Seminar, Spiritual Growth, Opening to Channeling, Radiance, Creating Money.  Another series she does is As You Are Workshops that deals with the healing of eating disorders, as well as trainings on how to find balance in the body and in life.

Cynthia has studied A Course In Miracles since 1976 and has assisted Marianne Williamson in presentations on the Course.

With four years training in Pathwork of Self-Transformation, she also completed The Avatar Training, Life Spring, The EST training, The Birkman Method, Workshops with Jordan and Marjorie Paul, and Stan and Helen Dale, The Ark, The Muirs Tantric Sex Workshops, Psychodrama Workshop, Ann Wilson Schaff workshop, Holotropic Breath Work, TransDance Workshops.

Lisa Carmichael is a dancer, teacher and healing artist.   She supports people in reconnecting into the present moment through the body. In her work she creates a container for one to  drop back into the essential self, allowing a space for the direct experience of truth.  She has embraced being an empath through living a life of balance and reverence for the Earth.  Lisa has a private healing practice in Agoura Hills, California and also does workshops internationally.

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Saturday, May 12
10:06 PM-11 AM  EDT


OPEN FORUM

Call if you'd like to be on the show call in during the discussion 828-252-4348. As topics come in they will be posted here. Virato encourages you to be a part of this "on air consciousness community." What is it all about?

The first question we have received is, What happened to Asheville's Center of Unlimited Possibilities and Spirit in the Smokies magazine?

Virato's co-host today is Ric Wingate, publisher of Asheville's Natural Awakenings Magazine.

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Saturday, May 12
11:06 PM-Noon  EDT


Krishna Das

In the winter of 1968, Krishna Das met Ram Dass, who had just returned from his first trip to India. After living and traveling with Ram Dass in the U.S., and hearing Ram Dass' many stories about Maharaj-ji (Neem Karoli Baba), Krishna Das traveled to India, where he was blessed to meet and stay with this extraordinary guru.

While living in India for almost three years, Krishna Das' heart was especially drawn to the practice of Bhakti Yoga—the yoga of devotion. Fanning the flames of his inner longing, Maharaj-ji led him deeper and deeper into the practice of kirtan—chanting the Names of God. As an appointed pujari (priest) for the Durga temple in Maharaj-ji's ashram in the foothills of the Himalayas, Krishna Das immersed himself in the worship of the Divine Goddess.

Krishna Das spent as much time as possible with Maharaj-ji over the years in India. Early in 1973, he was asked by Maharaj-ji to return to America.

Krishna Das says, "At what would turn out to be my last darshan of Maharaj-ji's physical body, I was petrified with fear about returning to the U.S. after so many years. I hadn't worn a pair of jeans or shoes for such a long time that I couldn't imagine what it would be like. I didn't want to ask Maharaj-ji what I should do in America, but all of a sudden I blurted out in anguish, 'Maharaj-ji! How can I serve you in America?'

'He looked at me with mock disgust and said, 'What is this? If you ask how you should serve then it is no longer service. Do what you want.' I couldn't believe my ears. How could doing what I wanted to do be of service to him? I didn't have that kind of faith. I just sat there, stunned. Then after a minute or so he looked over at me, smiling sweetly, and asked, 'So, how will you serve me?'

'My mind was blank. It was time for me to leave for Delhi, to catch the plane back to the States. He was looking at me and laughing. I bent down and touched his feet for the last time and when I looked up he, he was beaming at me, 'So, how will you serve me in America?' I felt like I was moving in a dream. I floated across the courtyard and bowed to him one more time from a distance. As I did, the words came to me, 'I will sing to you in America.'


Soon afterwards, during the full moon in September, Neem Karoli Baba left his body. Now he had to be found within. The chanting, the meditation, the puja and all the wonderful time spent with Maharaj-ji turned out to be seeds that he himself had planted in my heart... seeds that would keep growing and blossom by his Grace.

Over the years Krishna Das has made numerous pilgrimages throughout India, meeting teachers and saints of many spiritual traditions on his quest to open and purify his heart. Living in jungles, in ashrams, and in holy places throughout India, he has had an opportunity to absorb the ancient truths that have been held by the Indian culture for thousands of years. He has studied Buddhist meditation practices with Anagarika Munindra and S.N. Goenka, and has been initiated into Tibetan Buddhist practices by lamas from various lineages.

Today Virato chats with Krishna Das who has been chanting on a regular basis in yoga centers all over the world. He has taught with Ram Dass and sung for many yogis here and in India.

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Saturday, May 12
12:06 PM-1 PM  EDT


Dolores Proiette, Ph.D.

Do you have an unaccounted block of time? Are there unexplained, unusual marks suddenly occurring on your body? Do you have disturbing or upsetting dreams of visits aboard alien space craft? Have you experienced unusual or profound events with Beings not of this earth? Have you had unusual, profound encounters or visitations when you were a child? Are they still occurring?

Are UFOs real or imagined? ..and what about abductions? An abduction experience can be confusing, traumatic, and disruptive to a person's life. In some cases, the individual may not have conscious knowledge of the abduction, but subconsciously has been traumatized. Sometimes the individual may not wish to acknowledge the event. If he or she chooses to talk about it, friends and family often chastise them. Like other physical and emotional traumas, the experience for many people must remain secret, and the stress caused by these events and memories can negatively affect a person for years.

Yet in other cases, an encounter with an extraterrestrial being may enhance your skills or awaken you to another part of you and your connection to these beings.

An uncovering and, if the encounter was traumatic, releasing of these events through hypnotherapy can bring balance and harmony into the mind, body and spirit.

Is it possible that many of us have contact with ETs that is then ‘erased’ from our conscious mind, but is still left in our subconscious mind for hypnosis to reveal?

Virato's guest today is Dr. Dolores Proiette, a hypnotherapist who just wrote a book called Unveil the Past, Heal the Future through Hypnotherapy, says she became a believer in extraterrestrials after repeated hypnosis sessions with numerous clients.

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Saturday, May 19
10:06 AM-11 AM  EDT


Even in the rarefied world of dietary trends, where being a vegetarian is now almost passé, and where others eat bacon and chicken-fried steak to lose weight, raw foodists have been considered extremists. There's just something unsettling, uncomfortable even, about the idea of eating only uncooked fruits and vegetables.

Today's program explores a raw foods diet, and why it is vital that we eat such a diet. Local guests will explain it all.

"People think 'Raw food? Ah, she's just chewing on carrots.' No, we eat pasta and pizza and sandwiches and rolls,"  says a local raw foodist.

Of course, these kinds of prepared foods in a raw food diet are made from live (growing) or raw (uncooked) organic fruit, vegetables, nuts and seeds, which may or may not be dehydrated (the raw food version of cooking). There's no flour in sight. Grains, in fact, are sprouted, a lengthy process that involves soaking, rinsing, draining and exposing to sunlight just long enough for the seed to begin to grow.

But the result is fresh, nutrient-rich food with all of its enzymes and vitamins intact, food that hasn't harmed the environment via pesticides or wasteful packaging. And this, say raw foodists, is what it's all about. Eating vibrant, energizing food that feeds your body-and soul.

Virato's guests today are Angela Stokes   ===> and Gwendolyn Morton, both supporting a live foods lifestyle..

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Saturday, May 19
11:06 AM-Noon  EDT

Jesse in Boston

It was back in the 80s when Virato marched down Philadelphia's South St. singing/chanting  Hare Krishna with today's guest. It was around then that Jesse Arana came into his life. Jesse, still occasionally known as Japa, or Japananda, represents a unique New Paradigm Renaissance generation, and vibes well with Ritalin era people.

In his early 20s Japa connected with Virato at the New Frontier Magazine offices in Philadelphia, PA, USA.  This was about 5 years after Virato himself had returned from India.

Before his walk across the United States...and back...as a non-denominational monk, Japa spent several month's as Sales Manager for New Frontier, and in that time created more revenue than any one person ever is such a time period.

At times appearing a vagrant and other times the spiritual Czar of a palatial home in Atlanta's suburbs, this urban sadhu has authored at least two book we know of, started and ran a successful spiritual art newspaper in Philadelphia, and a few years ago founded the now-closed spiritual bookstore, cafe, and meditation center, Amma's Chai House near Atlanta.

A genius computer programmer, graphics designer and photographer,  he lives outside Atlanta.

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Saturday, May 19
Noon-1PM EDT

Scientists recognize that most disease states are caused by oxygen starvation at a cellular level. We receive most of our oxygen from the air around us, but breathing isn't always enough. There's a way you can actually generate more oxygen in your body to achieve optimum health and longevity.

Virato's guest today,  Nathaniel Altman, author of The Oxygen Prescription, says "bio-oxidative therapies," such as intravenous hydrogen peroxide, and medical ozone therapy, are effective on diseases such as cancer, osteoporosis, hepatitis, the flu, Candida, and malaria. He also shows how you can enhance the effectiveness of the different treatments through diet and the use of minerals, herbs, exercise, and visualization. 

Altman studied at the University de los Andes in Bogotá, Colombia and the University of Wisconsin Madison, from which he graduated in 1971. He has traveled extensively throughout Latin America, Europe, India, North America, Taiwan, Japan, Thailand and China, sharing his knowledge of oxidative therapies.

Altman has written or co-authored over fifteen other books on holistic health, diet, nature, and other metaphysical subjects, his first being  Eating for Life: A Book about Vegetarianism.

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Saturday, May 26
10:06 PM-11 AM  EDT

Today Virato chats with authors Nicki Scully and Linda Star Wolf..

Linda Star Wolf is Founder and Director of Venus Rising Institute for Shamanic Healing Arts and the Venus Rising Isis Cove Retreat Center, near Asheville. With an extensive background in psycho-spiritual, and shamanic work. She was initiated into the Seneca Wolf Clan by Grandmother Twylah Nitsch who gave her the name "Star Wolf."  She has led transformational workshops throughout the United States and Europe for the last 10 years, and has taught thousands of participants on "the nature of how people change."  With the musicians of Soulfood, she created the Spiral CD and teaches "Embodying Shamanic Consciousness in Everyday Life" in her workshops.

  Nicki Scully has been teaching healing and shamanic arts, andNicki Scully the Egyptian Mysteries since 1983. Techniques from her Alchemical Healing form are used internationally by thousands of practitioners.
She is a lineage holder in the Hermetic tradition of Thoth and maintains the Lyceum of Shamanic Egypt. She is ordained as a priestess of Hathor by Lady Olivia Robertson, co-founder of the Fellowship of Isis. During her first tour of Egypt with the Grateful Dead in 1978, Nicki experienced an epiphany on
  the top of the great pyramid, and realized that her purpose in this
  life is to bring forth the hidden shamanic arts of Egypt. Drawing on
  the knowledge she has gained through decades of study and
  practice, she enlightens and uplifts all whom study and travel with
  her. In the late '80s, Nicki founded Shamanic Journeys, Ltd., and
  has been guiding inner journeys and spiritual pilgrimages to Egypt,
  and other sacred sites. Nicki lives in Eugene, Oregon, where she
  maintains a comprehensive healing and shamanic consulting
  practice

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Saturday, May 26
11:06 PM-Noon  EDT
 

Everyone has had luminous moments — those instances when we experience the beauty and grace of life, whether we’re looking into the eyes of a newborn or watching the sunset over the ocean. But those moments are usually brief and difficult to intentionally create.

Many of us have been successful in attaining personal and professional goals, but we’re too exhausted to enjoy what we’ve accomplished. Or, we might walk around in a fog, feeling vaguely frustrated, resigned, or cynical and asking all the wrong questions about how to make our lives better. In either case, we miss the purpose of being alive: to wake up and fully become ourselves, to allow others to contribute to us and, in turn, to contribute our gifts to the world—fully savoring the journey along the way.

Virato's guest today is Maria Nemeth, Ph. D., author of Mastering Life's Energies,  with more than twenty-eight years' experience as a clinical psychologist

Former clinical professor in the Department of Psychiatry at University of California--Davis School of Medicine, Dr, Nemeth is the founder of the Academy for Coaching Excellence and Mastering Life's Energies, a personal and professional development seminar that she claims, "teaches people how to shift their relationship with money from scarcity to abundance." Her widely acclaimed work has been brought to the attention of a broader audience by her recent appearance on the Oprah Winfry Show. She is also the author of The Energy of Money.

Dr. Nemeth's new book offers specific methods for bringing luminosity into our lives on a consistent basis, allowing us to view the world with younger, more vibrant eyes. She says "it shows you how to use all the energies of your life — physical vitality, creativity, time, money, enjoyment, and relationship — to realize your goals and dreams and, even more important, to live a luminous life, filled with possibility and promise."

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Saturday, May 26
11:06 PM-Noon  EDT




with Shelley Yates

We are in a time when natural disasters like hurricanes, earthquakes, and tidal waves are dramatically affecting our planet, and our lives on it. We now have the power to destroy this beautiful Earth quickly, with atomic power, or more slowly, with pollution and devastation of our resources, and overpopulation.

Today, Virato chats with Shelley Yates, an ordinary woman on an extraordinary journey. She lives in Nova Scotia, Canada, and has not only died and come back, but has come back with a message of hope and love for our earth and its inhabitants.

Shelley and her son, Evan, drowned in 2002 when their car sank to the bottom of a flooded marsh. Trapped in the car, a voice told Shelley not to struggle or she would not be able to be revived when she would be rescued. She had never heard such a voice before this. She did not believe in God, and says, "I was a 'diehard atheist'." Yet, she did not struggle, and she drowned. It was 15 minutes before she was rescued.

After she was revived, she alerted the EMT's to find her son Evan, who was age 4 at the time. Close to 30 minutes passed before he was pulled from the water. It took more time for the EMT's to get him breathing again.

At the hospital, her son was diagnosed as brain dead with non-viable organs, and given less a 1% chance of surviving. However, Shelley was told by "the voice" that he would recover if many persons came and shared the energy of their auras for 20 minutes each. She was told that this would in effect "jump-start" Evan.

So, Shelley scheduled people to come to the hospital around the clock for three days. After 72 hours of constant vigil, Evan opened his eyes and recognized his mother. His recovery proceeded rapidly after that. He was in excellent shape after only six weeks. He did have a short-term memory problem, but now even that has been healed.

"The voices" also told Shelley that the earth needs the same help. We share energy with the earth in a living loop. However, because so many of us have disconnected from Source, our energy is so low that we are not returning energy to the earth. As a result the Auric energy field of the earth has been depleted and is disintegrating.

Shelley was told that we can "jump-start" the energy system of the earth if we combine the energy of our love and gratitude for one hour beginning at 11:11 AM. GMT on Wednesday, July 17, 2007 (That's 6:11 AM to 7:11AM. Eastern Time.) We are invited to join in a world-wide vigil for that hour, holding within our consciousness something that brings joy and for which we feel thankful. We are asked to extend gratitude to the earth because energy is sent out when we are in that state of mind. The resulting surge of energy will be a catalyst to enable the earth to sustain its own energy again.

The word has been spreading. The message, plan, and invitation have been translated into ten languages with two more soon to receive it. Local coordinators have been spreading the information in 200 countries. The plan is becoming common knowledge among youth. See her website.

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Saturday, June 2
10:06 AM-11 AM  EDT

All About the

Virato speaks with Arthur Evangelista, PhD, former investigator for the US Food & Drug Administration, who became a "whistle blower."

Now living in the Asheville area, he shares some of the hideous secrets going on in this sinister part of the federal government, as well as other ways the federal government is deceiving and manipulating its citizens.

He also has insight and knowledge of the Military-Industrial Complex, which he will be freely sharing with us.

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Saturday, June 2
11:06 AM-Noon  EDT


Barbara Hand Clow

Today Virato speaks with Barbara Hand Clow, an international author,Barbara Hand Clow lecturer and ceremonial teacher. She majored in philosophy at Seattle University, then behavioral psychology at the University of Washington, Seattle, and then began extensive reading and study of Reichian, Freudian and Jungian Psychology. In 1969, she discovered that astrology was an exceedingly accurate diagnostic tool, and she began her study and practice of astrology. In 1982-83, she earned a Master's degree in theology and healing with Matthew Fox in Chicago, and her thesis compared Jungian psychoanalytic technique and past life regression therapy. Clow is also a Mayan Calendar researcher. Her other books include The Pleiadian Agenda, Alchemy of Nine Dimensions, Catastrophobia, and Liquid Light of Sex, Heart of the Christos, Eye of the Centaur, Signet of Atlantis, The Pleiadian Agenda, Catastrophobia, and The Mind Chronicles,

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Saturday, June 2
12:06 PM-1 PM  EDT


End The Menace!

Virato discusses an important public health concern with experts, including George Schwartz, M.D., author of Bad Taste: The MSG Syndrome, published in 1988, and Jack Samuels of the Truth In Labeling Association, who almost died from MSG. We will also talk to actual patients seriously affected by MSG.

Almost 20 years later and MSG is still with us, and being ingested in quantities 300 times greater than in 1988! Why is this?!

MSG, Monosodium glutamate, is a drug and a neurotransmitter. Glutamate is a highly regulated chemical of the nervous system, and a proper balance is necessary for healthy brain and organ function. Over stimulation of these receptors—in the brain or elsewhere—can lead to numerous health problems, many of which may mimic other disorders (such as Fibromyalgia or heart arrhythmia), but can go undiagnosed for decades, all the while creating a life of misery and disability for the unfortunate sufferer. Scientists point at Cancer, and other degenerating diseases as a part of the MSG menace.

Its ever-expanding use by the food industry causes great concern in the medical profession because MSG over stimulates brain cell activity. It is neither a necessary additive, nor a harmless flavor enhancer like common table salt. MSG actually tricks your brain into thinking the food you are eating tastes good. Manufacturers can therefore use inferior ingredients to make a mediocre product seem tastier. Higher profits and low-quality products of little nutritional value prevail at the expense of consumer health.

MSG intolerance is not an allergic reaction, but a powerful drug reaction. Even in those people who do not suffer acute, immediate reactions to the substance, prolonged or acute exposure will destroy brain cells in anyone.

Restaurants also frequently add MSG to their menu items. Many that advertise "No MSG added" may not add MSG to the food once it is prepared, but MSG may actually be present in the individual ingredients used to prepare their food.

Even your health and organic foods sell foods laden with this poison...

Dr. Bragg's you ought to be ashamed, for selling almost pure MSG!

More resources:
http://msgtruth.org
http://rense.com/general52/msg.htm
http://truthinlabeling.org
http://fluoridealert.org
http://slweb.org/bibliography.html
http://livingwithout.com/feature_MSG.htm
http://powalliance.org
http://cfsan.fda.gov/~lrd/msg.html
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/foodmonthly/story/0,9950,1522368,00.html
http://www.fluoridealert.org/hp-epa.htm

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Saturday, June 9
10:06 AM-11 AM  EDT

By now everyone on the planet has heard of Global Warming, and its myriad theories of causation. But could it be bigger than Global? How about Galactic?

Today, Virato speaks with Drs. Barry and Janae Weinhold, local Asheville researchers, who suggest that it may indeed be a part of the 2012 phenomena.

There is solid scientific evidence that our whole solar system is warming up and perhaps even our whole galaxy and that Galactic Warming is related to cosmic cycles. For example, scientists discovered that since 1998 our sun has been in direct alignment with Galactic Center. The Mayans predicted this more than 1500 years ago when they charted the path of our solar system across the galaxy. They calibrated that the 26,000 year Mayan Long Calendar would end on December 21, 2012.

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Saturday, June 9
11:06 AM-Noon  EDT



.....and Beyond

Virato continues exploring the physical and metaphysical possibilities ahead with Janae and Barry Weinhold, and they invite you to participate by calling the studio when they are on 828-252-4348

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Saturday, June 9
12:06 PM-1 PM  EDT


Marianne Williamson

Virato chats with internationally acclaimed author and lecturer, Marianne Williamson. Williamson has published nine books, four of which - including the mega bestseller A Return to Love and Everyday Grace - have been #1 New York Times bestsellers. Her titles also include Illuminata, A Woman's Worth, and Healing the Soul of America. She also edited Imagine: What American Could Be in the 21st Century, a compilation of essays by some of America's most visionary thinkers.

She has been a popular guest on numerous television programs including Oprah, Larry King Live, Good Morning America, and Charlie Rose, and she has her own radio show airing on XM Radio called Oprah and Friends. Williamson was also on the cover of Virato's New Frontier Magazine back in the 80s, when Virato first met her heralding A Course in Miracles in Philadelphia .

A native of Houston, Texas, Williamson ventured into the Hollywood realm for a period, and lectured on consciousness since 1983. In 1989, she founded Project Angel Food, a meals-on-wheels program that serves homebound people with AIDS in the Los Angeles area. Today, Project Angel Food serves over 1,000 people daily.

Williamson also founded The Peace Alliance, a grass roots campaign supporting legislation currently before Congress to establish a U.S. Department of Peace. Virato will also be speaking with a representative of this organization today.

Williamson's book Everyday Grace: Having Hope, Finding Forgiveness and Making Miracles, was published by Riverhead Books in November 2002, and reached #1 on the New York Times best-seller list within one month!. Her newest book is, The Gift of Change: Spiritual Guidance for a Radically New Life. Marianne's next book, Miracles at Midlife, will be published by Hay House in September 2007.

In December 2006, Newsweek magazine named Marianne Williamson one of the fifty most influential baby boomers in the world.


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Saturday, June 16
10:06 AM-11 AM  EDT


Lino Stanchich

Over the past couple of decades, leading edge scientists have shown that laughter releases endorphins into the system, reducing stress, anger, fear and other emotions that have been closely linked to disease. Today's guest on Message from Asheville is the creator of the Laugh for the Health of It CD and claims he is a "Master Laugher."

Virato chats and laughs with Lino Stanchich, local Asheville author of three books on health and well being. An educator and researcher with over 30 years experience he is a respected teacher of the macrobiotic diet, philosophy, and lifestyle, and serves on the faculty of the Kushi Institute. Stanchich also includes specific body work, Qi Gong, and special eating techniques in his healing work.

A multi-lingual educator, he has lectured at many major macrobiotic centers throughout the world, as well as at universities, hospitals, medical schools, corporations, and at the United Nations Organization.

Lino has appeared on a wide variety of international radio and television shows, and today he tells us why laugher has become an important tool is his healing repertoire.

You'll pee your pants with this one as you heal your body!

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Saturday, June 16
11:06 AM-Noon  EDT



with Tom Kenyon

Today Virato chats with musician, researcher, author and therapist, Tom Kenyon.  Kenyon holds a Masters degree in psychological counseling and has over seventeen years of experience in private practice. In the course of his psychotherapeutic work he began to use sound and music to accelerate the therapeutic process.

Recognizing the power of sound as a healing modality, Tom founded Acoustic Brain Research in 1983 to scientifically document the effects of sound and music on consciousness. Through his scientific explorations, Tom became fascinated with the use of sound as a means to access altered states of consciousness and the more creative aspects of the brain/mind.

In addition, Tom has developed a system of "catalytic sound" using his nearly four-octave range voice to assist others in entering deeply altered states of awareness. A large portion of Tom's current work is in the synthesis of internal alchemy as a means to heighten awareness and to develop spiritual illumination.

He is the author of Brain States, and co-author of The Hathor Material with Virginia Essene. You will also physically experience brain wave manipulation.

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Saturday, June 16
12:06 PM-1 PM  EDT

 
Steven Halpern

Since the subject for today's first two hours has to do with sound and healing, Virato simply had to call his friend Steven Halpern, founder of Inner Peace Music.

In 1971, Steven Halpern, Ph.D., began his pioneering research exploring sound, consciousness, and healing using brainwave biofeedback and Kirlian (aura) photography. The author of Sound Health (Harper & Row, 1985), he has published numerous articles, and a syndicated monthly newsletter  on the effects of sound on the human system..

Halpern has also become the world's leading composer and recording artist of music for relaxation, wellness and "sound health." For over 30 years, he has pioneered and promoted the healing powers of music through his recordings, books, media appearances and workshops.

His unique use of musical tone, time and space have helped millions to enjoy the stillness and peaceful place that lies within each of us.  Steven Halpern's music resonates in the key of the heart, and strikes a chord that we recognize and appreciate intuitively. The free-floating ambience and luminous sound quality make it easy to heed the advice of spiritual teachers throughout the ages: "Be Still…and Know."

He has been heard on CBS's 48 Hours, ABC's 20/20, Oprah and John Bradshaw's PBS-TV series, Homecoming and Creating Love. Halpern has produced over 60 recordings in the Inner Peace® and the Soundwave 2000™ Subliminal self-help series.

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Saturday, June 23
10:06 AM-11 AM EDT


Open conversation with anything on your mind about anything. Call 828-252-4348 and share...  Let's make it family!

Here are some we have received:

  • How do you go about choosing your guests and why?
  • Why do you have some of the advertisers that you have on, many of which seem the opposite of what I think you are about?
  • Virato, what is your religion or spiritual path?
  • Does the radio station know of your guests in advance, and do they have a say so on who goes on the air?
  • Are you some kind of guru?
  • Do you consider the show New Age or Political, or a little of both?
  • How come we do not hear more about the 9/11 DVDs being shown in town? Did the government really create this whole 9/11 war, etc. scenario?

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11:06 AM-Noon  EDT

Today Virato chats with Alan Deutschman a 19-year career writer, who has been the Silicon Valley correspondent for Fortune and a contributing editor at Vanity Fair, GQ, and New York Magazine. HeAlan Deutschman, author of 3 books and business correspondent for several magazines is currently a senior writer for Fast Company

 His first book, The Second Coming of Steve Jobs, published in 2000, was a Business Week and Wall Street Journal business bestseller and has been translated into Japanese, Chinese, Korean, German, Italian, Portuguese, and Dutch. Deutschman's second book, A Tale of Two Valleys: Wine, Wealth and The Battle for The Good Life in Napa and Sonoma, published in 2003, was a San Francisco Chronicle regional bestseller.

His most recent book, Change or Die: The Three Keys to Change, debunks our myths about this crucial topic. and reveals some surprising truths about change.

He has appeared as a guest on NBC's Today Show and CNN, and his articles have also run in the New York Times Magazine, Wired, Salon.com, Premiere, ReadyMade, and the Best Food Writing anthology. A graduate of Princeton University, and longtime resident of San Francisco, he currently lives in Atlanta with his wife.

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Saturday, June 23
12:06 PM-1 PM  EDT


Jill Purce

You need to turn your speakers up for this one. Amazing!

Virato dialogues with urban shaman, Jill Purce, pioneer of the international sound healing movement through her rediscovery of ancient vocal techniques. Her work embraces power of group chant, and the spiritual potential of the voice as a magical instrument for healing and meditation, and she introduced Overtone Chanting and other Healing Voice Workshops into Europe, North America and Japan.

Through her workshops, Inner Sound and Voice; The Healing Voice; Re-enchanting the World; Ritual Resonance - Healing The Family; and Ritual Resonance - Healing The Ancestors she has taught internationally for thirty years, teaching diverse forms of sacred chant, and especially Mongolian overtone chanting.

She is the author of The Mystic Spiral: Journey of the Soul a book about the spiral and the evolution of consciousness in spiritual traditions, art and psychology, as well as numerous articles.

From 1973, as General Editor for many years of her pioneering series Art and Imagination, she produced over thirty beautifully illustrated books on Sacred Traditions, Art and Cosmology, published by Thames and Hudson, Seuil, Heibonsha.

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Saturday, June 30
10:06 AM-11 AM  EDT


This morning, Virato chats with Isa (pronounced ee-sah) also known as Barry Naster, Ph.D., who began his journey into awareness in the early seventies with Maharishi Mahesh Yogi and the Transcendental Meditation movement. In 1978, he took his family to Pune, India to visit one of the great enlightened mystics of modern times, Osho (then known as Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh). Isa says he first became aware of NOW and his oneness with the moment and everything contained within it, in Osho’s presence.  Isa's love, awe and gratitude to Osho were so fulfilling that he became a sannyasin (disciple) of Osho, and has remained so to this very moment.

During Isa’s departing darshan (meeting with a master) in India, Osho asked him to go out into the world and lead groups. Isa returned to the US and subsequently founded Inner Awareness Mastery NOW® , and has led classes, groups, seminars and adventures in I AM NOW for many years.

Isa was a professor and practicing psychologist at the University of South Florida over 15 years. The author of numerous books, chapters, journal and magazine articles, he has spoken to a vast array of audiences and has been a guest on numerous television and radio programs.

In 1992, after many years of meditating and self-examination, Isa says he was blessed with the ultimate accident...becoming awakened. In 1995, Isa left the world of academia and moved to nearby Lake Lure, NC, with Malika, his life partner of over 30 years. Today he no longer functions as a psychologist or a professor. Rather, he says, "I simply serve as a mirror for people who wish to wake up."

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Saturday, June 30
11:06 PM-Noon  EDT

Joseph Campbell defined the spiritual hero as one who learns to experience the supernormal range of human spiritual life and then comes back with a message. Such a hero was Robert Monroe.

Robert Monroe, was an adventurer from his early days: cadging rides first on freight trains and then on aircraft, taking time out to be a hobo, joining an orchestra without being able to read music, completing a degree while working in a foundry to earn enough to pay his way -- and then, thrilled by the focused attention of an audience watching a play he had written, deciding that his future lay in the world of entertainment.

It was radio that captured him; he moved to New York and within a few years he had more than twenty shows a week broadcast on main networks.  The money rolled in.  Before long, Monroe moved into ownership, first radio stations and then cable television.  He was the model of a successful businessman, wealthy, energetic, outgoing, innovative.

That was by day; but 1958 his nights were very different. It was in that, year while lying in bed, that he had his first out-of-body experience. Night after night these experiences continued. Was he going mad? Was he about to die?  Overcoming his fears, he sought to understand what was happening. He consulted doctors and researched the history of the OBE. He began to learn to control his out-of-body journeys. He kept detailed records of them – and the idea came to him that he ought not simply to understand what was happening but should bring together his experiences and all the information he could find and, to take the fear out of the OBE for other people, write his own book.  It was called Journeys Out of the Body and  was published in 1971. To date, about a million copies have been sold

Over the next years Monroe gained a growing reputation as a leading researcher into human consciousness, especially as it was affected by certain specific sound frequencies. Scientists, doctors, psychiatrists (including Elisabeth Kübler-Ross), journalists, astronaut Edgar Mitchell, came to see what was going on there. Even a US senator showed up and had an OBE.. The research began to produce interesting results. An impromptu team of individuals, known as The Explorers, took sessions in the laboratory and recorded their experiences while listening to the frequencies that Monroe and his scientists were developing. It was becoming clear that what Monroe had discovered might prove to be ‘something of value’ to humanity at large.  Now it had to be tested.

In 1981 Monroe bought 800 acres of pastoral land in Nellysford, Virginia. This became the home of The Monroe Institute, with a residential center, laboratory, conference hall and offices. Parcels of land were sold off and a community began to form on what was known as the New Land. The Gateway Voyage, as the introductory course was titled, quickly became popular. Interest was shown by the military and courses were arranged for selected personnel. Joe McMoneagle, who was to become the Army’s leading remote viewer, visited the Institute to hone his skills. Stories on Monroe appeared virtually everywhere, including the front page of the Wall St. Journal.

Over the years research has been conducted in hospitals and universities, and the Institute has extended its activities outside the USA, with many new courses, and product improvements.  A partnership with the Institute of Noetic Sciences has been formed.

Today Virato chats with author Ronald Russell, whose new book, The Journey of Robert Monroe, From Out of Body Explorer to Consciousness Pioneer.  documents this amazing man's life and  final chapter, Monroe’s importance in the understanding and exploration of human consciousness, establishing him as a major figure in this context, as well as examining the philosophy revealed in his writings. It is a justification for Robert Monroe's recognition by Russell as one of the most significant figures of his time.

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Saturday, June 30
12:06 PM-1 pm  EDT


Kathleen Slattery-Moschkau

Michael Moore takes on the health care industry with Sicko, his weapon of choice, the sledge hammer documentary which just opened.

Kathleen Slattery-Moschkau, a pharmaceutical sales rep for a decade, takes a different approach to exposing what she sees as the profit-driven deception in her old job. Side Effects is not a documentary, but a romantic comedy about a sales rep (Katherine Heigl) torn between her ethics (embodied by her new boyfriend) and her hefty paycheck (embodied by her new BMW)

The film deftly mixes in intriguing information about how the industry really operates amidst the drama. It's already caught the interest of the national media, with Slattery-Moschkau doing interviews in USA Today and on CNN, and now VIRATO LIVE!

Kathleen Slattery-Moschkau graduated with a degree in political science from University of Wisconsin-Madison. After college, Kathleen spent a decade working for the pharma-ceutical industry. She began documenting both amusing and frightening incidents that occurred in her daily career life as a sales representative for a big drug company. Kathleen then wrote a script based on these experiences, got an agent, and left her empty career in the pharmaceutical industry. When the powers that be in LA wanted her to dumb down the script into a generic Hollywood story, Kathleen decided to take a leap of faith and make the film herself. Miraculously, she raised the funding within two weeks and filmed in less than 18 days in and around Madison, WI. Side Effects is Kathleen's debut as a director.

Fans of Katharine Heigl from ABC's hit, Grey's Anatomy s will be interested in seeing her, Side Effects, that was heavily promoted during the show's commercial breaks in recent weeks. She is quite a different character in Slattery-Moschkau's film.

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Saturday, July 7
10:06 AM-11 AM  EDT


Virato's guests this morning include author, Pam Montgomery, and co-founders of Asheville's  Viriditas Healing Center & Apothecary. Micki Solomon and Maria Muscarella.

Pam Montgomery received training from Empire State College in Alternative Health Education. She is the originator of Green Terrestrial Herbal Products of Vermont and was one of the founding members of the Northeast Herbal Association where she served as their president for four years. For a decade, Pam was on the Executive Council of the Board of Directors of United Plant Savers, an organization dedicated to preservation of our native medicinal plants. Pam has been organizing the Green Nations Gathering for the past seventeen years and has presented the Spirit Healing Conference and the Healing With Flowers Conference. She teaches workshops internationally on herbal medicine, Plant Spirit Healing, and spiritual ecology. Pam is the author of Partner Earth; A Spiritual Ecology published by Inner Traditions and a contributing author in Planting the Future. Pam’s new book Plant Spirit Healing; A Guide to Working with Plant Consciousness will be published by Inner Traditions in 2007. Pam is an herbal and plant spirit healing practitioner who offers consultations and treatments from her home at Sweetwater Sanctuary.

Maria Muscarella has a BS in Nursing, and began her formal study of herbs at the North Carolina School of Natural Healing, under Peggy Ellis in 1999.  She started formulating herbal products and founded Full Circle Herbs Company. After completing her Clinical Herbalist internship, Maria began teaching for the Mountain Spirit School of Herbalism, and in 2006, sold Full Circle Herbs in order to concentrate on her teaching and clinical practice, and create Viriditas with Nikki Solomon.

Nikki Solomon has always had a deep connection and appreciation for nature, growing up in the foothills of the Appalachians in Alabama.  In 1999, she obtained her bachelors in nursing and has been working with mothers and babies in the Neonatal Intensive Care at Mission-St. Joseph Hospital for 8 years.  During this time she has  explored her roots of earth healing with Rosemary Gladstar, studied at the North Carolina School of Holistic Herbalism, apprenticed with Corey Pine Shane at the Blue Ridge School of Herbal Medicine, and has advanced and clinical herbal training from the Mountain Spirit School of Herbalism.  She is secretary of the NC chapter of the American Herbalists Guild and involvement with the North Carolina Plant Savers.  

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Saturday, July 7
11:06 AM-Noon  EDT

Today, Virato probes deep into the consciousness of  Sera Beak, a Harvard-trained scholar of world religions as well as an intrepid spiritual cowgirl.

She spent the last 12 years traveling the world exploring spirituality--from whirling with Sufi dervishes, to meeting the Dalai Lama on her 21st birthday; from taking the host from a Croatian Catholic mystic who had the stigmata (truly) to having life-altering visions with a shaman (and everything in between).

She is also author of a The Red Book: A Deliciously Unorthodox Approach to Igniting Your Divine Spark combustible cocktail of Hindu Tantra and Zen Buddhism, Rumi and Carl Jung, Kali and Mary Magdalene, goddesses and psychics, shaken with cosmic nudges, meaningful subway rides, dreams, and intuition.

In her own words, "It's a book that encourages women to live more consciously so they can start making clearer choices across the board, from careers to relationships, politics to pop culture and everything in between. For smart, gutsy, spiritually curious women whose colorful and complicated lives aren’t reflected in most spirituality books, The Red Book is an open invitation for women to find their true selves and start sharing that delicious truth with the world."

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Saturday, July 7
12:06 PM-1 PM  EDT

Today is 7-7-7. What better way to celebrate this day, then for Virato to talk with Mayan calendar, Harmonic Convergence, and 2012 celebrity, Jose Arguelles; and then Earth Changes maven Gordon Michael Scallion.

Jose Arguelles, (born 1939), planetary whole systems anthropologist, received his Ph.D. in Art History and Aesthetics from the University of Chicago in 1969. In a distinguished career as an educator, he taught at Princeton University, University of California, Evergreen State College, San Francisco State University, San Francisco Institute of Art, the Naropa Institute, the University of Colorado, and The Union Graduate School.

His pioneering books resulting from investigations into human whole systems include: Mandala (1972), A Psychophysical Aesthetic (1972), The Transformative Vision: Reflections on the Nature and History of Human Expression (1975) (1992), and most importantly, Earth Ascending: An illustrated Treatise on the Law Governing Whole Systems (1984, 1988)

As one of the founders of Earth Day, (First Whole Earth Festival, Davis, California. 1970), Arguelles is a career activist for peace and the planetary transformation of consciousness. With his wife and partner, Lloydine, they founded the Planet Art Network, promoting the revival of the Nicholas Roerich Peace Pact and Banner of Peace. Combining investigations of Russian artist Roerich and and his lifetime study of the mathematics and prophesies of the Mayan Calendar, Arguelles initiated the Harmonic Convergence, August 16-17, 1987, global meditation and planetary peace event.

Following his unraveling of the Mayan calendar code in his international best seller, The Mayan Factor: Path Beyond Technology (1987), Arguelles and his wife continued scientific and mathematic investigations of the timing frequency underlying the Mayan calendar system of ancient Central America. The result of their research was the discovery of the 12:60 - 13:20 timing frequencies and the breakthrough set of tools and proofs of the mathematics of fourth-dimensional time, Dreamspell: the Journey of Timeship Earth 2013 (1991, 1992), the Thirteen Moon Calendar (1992), A Treatise on Time Viewed from its Own Dimension (1992), and finally, Telektonon: the Talking Stone of Prophesy, the thirteen moon calendar, prophesy, game, and universal peace plan (1993-94).


Gordon-Michael Scallion, founder of The Matrix Institute, is a futurist, best selling author, and has been a teacher of metaphysics and consciousness studies for 25 years. Educated in electronics, He experienced a health crisis in 1979, which triggered a series of out-of-body experiences eventually leading him on path of self discovery and conscious communication with his dream guides, and the ability to access higher states of consciousness.

Notes from the CosmosHis insights and ability to forecast changes in Earth’s environment and social trends have been featured on NBC, CBC, CNBC, Fox Television, Unsolved Mysteries, The Discovery Channel, The Learning Channel, Coast to Coast, as well as online and print publications throughout the world. Scallion is a teacher of consciousness studies and metaphysics, author of the best selling book Notes from the Cosmos and he also created the Future Map of the World

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Saturday, July 14
10:06 AM-11 AM  EDT

Namasté Yoga
"Man must ceaselessly seek to attain the balance of material and spiritual needs. Then only will he achieve peace of mind" --
Haile Selassie

On today's Message from Asheville, Virato chats with Sean Bookman, founder and director of Namaste Yoga, Asheville's premiere venue for spiritually oriented teachers, musicians and pundits. With Sean will be another guest associated with Namaste, David Elrod, Manager of Altamont Recording Studio and Smashing Guitars, Asheville's popular musician support company.

From the mean streets of New York and the corporate blood shed, to heaven on Earth, Sean offers insights of running a successful spirit-centered business in the heart of downtown Asheville.

Namaste Yoga & Healing Center is a venue for sacred happenings and has hosted a myriad of successful spiritual events such as the Krishna Das Concert, The Buddhist Relics, Bhagavan Das, highly evolved Lamas, swamis from India, shamans from South America,  sacred music concerts, and healers and masters from around the globe. Namaste has become the hub for Asheville's ever growing spiritual community.

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Saturday, July 14
11:06 AM-Noon  EDT

America, Awake!  Portals to Higher Consciousness:: Exploring the Spiritual Domain

Michelle Mairesse and Norman Livergood

Portals to Higher Consciousness and America, Awake! to many "new agers" would seem in opposition. Is there a place in new age talk radio for political activism. Virato's guests today, authors and activists, Norman Livergood and Michelle Mairesse, are two that seem to have bridged the gap...or have they? Will Air America be introducing consciousness themes?

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Saturday, July 14
12:06 PM-1 PM  EDT

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George Green

UFO sightings are frequently reported, but how many people can actually say that they regularly communicate with "space beings?" Virato's guest today, George Green, President of Global Insights, Inc., says he made an agreement with ETs to publish extraterrestrial information to awaken those earthlings that choose to be in contact. He also says earth began as a "prison planet" -- a penal colony for the universe. Green will discuss how and when he saw his first spacecraft, subsequent investigation, and how space beings are today influencing governments. A former investment banker (Registered Financial Principal with the N.A.S.D.) and Securities Broker, Green is a frequent guest on radio and TV talk shows. Publisher of Handbook for the New Paradigm, which he claims is written by the ET's, Green lectures internationally, and has been on numerous talk radio shows and TV shows..

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Saturday, July 21,
10:06 AM-11 AM  EDT


DNA & Sound...
 

Today Virato interviews the founders of the meta-science multimedia group known as Shapeshifter. Gary & JoAnn Chambers founded Visionary Music in 1986. They claim their work, using mutli-dimensional music and sound is a way to activate our multi-strand DNA.

Since 1989, they have conducted private research with hundreds of clients. The culmination of this was a book entitled DNA Activation: Level One. Since then, over 50,000 people across the globe have engaged with these higher frequencies to enhance their unfolding journey of discovering their life purpose and mission work on the planet during this evolutionary cycle.
 
Gary started channeling music at the age of five  and with his highly attuned clairaudient abilities, he is able to capture sounds/frequencies from the higher realms and reproduce them using his computer/synthesizer technology. He considers his music to be "organic electronica."

JoAnn has been a shamanic healer since early childhood, developing knowledge and skills through many studies and disciplines.  Since working with multidimensional soundscapes, all her psychic/intuitive abilities expanded with her primary gift being her clairvoyant vision. She reads chakras, Auric fields and see past life imprints and does vibrational healing sessions to assist in processing this information. loves to sing, dance and drum.

Together they say they have uncovered many of their past lives together and have come to know that they incarnate on planetary systems when it is time for an evolutionary shift to occur. They shamanically extend out into multidimensional timelines and bring back these higher frequencies to be used in their soundscapes. These sounds are then used in the channeled compositions translated into music. When one learns to deeply engage with these sounds, many worlds of wonder and magic will unfold before you.
 
Their first CD entitled was Healing. Since then they have released 9 albums, 2 books and 2 DVDs, with a new CD on the way soon. This is their second appearance on VIRATO LIVE!.

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Saturday, July 21
11:06 AM-Noon  EDT


Do We Plan Our Life Challenges Before Birth?

Would you like to understand the deeper meaning of your greatest challenges?

So often, when something "bad" happens, it may appear to beRobert Schwartz meaningless suffering. But what if your most difficult experiences are actually rich with hidden purpose-purpose that you yourself planned before you were born? Could it be that you chose your life's circumstances, relationships, and events?

Today Virato speaks with  Robert Schwartz author of Courageous Souls  telling stories of ten individuals who-like you-planned before birth to experience challenges in this life. Working with four gifted mediums and channels, he discovers what they chose-and why. He presents actual pre-birth planning sessions in which souls discuss their hopes for their upcoming lifetimes. In so doing he opens a window to the other side where we, as eternal beings, design both our trials and our potential triumphs.

In a personal session with a medium in 2003, author Robert Schwartz was astonished to speak with non-physical beings who knew everything about him--not just what he had done in life, but also what he had thought and felt

Prior to his spiritual awakening, Schwartz was a freelance journalist for such publications as Life magazine and US News & World Report.  He has also worked extensively in the corporate sector in marketing and communications.  and holds a BA from Dartmouth College and an MBA from Case Western Reserve University.

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Saturday, July 21
12:06 PM-1 PM  EDT

Do you believe that UFOs are indeed real? Have earth beings been abducted? Part of some cosmic plan? You're not alone

We continue to "celebrate" the 60th anniversary of the claimed UFO crashes in Roswell, New Mexico.  Last week we got messages from ETs, via George Green, and this week...the Inside Story as Virato chats with authors Stanton Friedman and Kathleen Marden.  Virato again asks you to leave your mind at the door when you tune in....and hear about The Betty and Barney Hill UFO Experience.

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Saturday, July 28
10:06 AM-1 PM  EDT


with Virato, live from downtown Asheville,
at the year's biggest street celebration.
Stop by our booth and say hello...

 

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Saturday, August 4
10:06 AM-11 AM  EDT
 


Chris Spheeris

Today, Virato chats with, and plays the music of one of his favorite recoding artists, Chris Spheeris.

If you've owned a TV or radio in the past 15 years, in any of 40 countries around the world, you have probably heard the music of Emmy-Award winner, Chris Spheeris. In addition to having been a staple in the new age and smooth jazz radio formats, the music of Chris Spheeris has surfaced in the Olympics, in soap operas, world skating championships, commercials and behind countless documentaries. in his unassuming, yet profound way, Chris Spheeris continues to provide inspiration, joy, and beauty to the hearts of millions.

Raised in the Midwest he spent summers in his ancestral homeland of Greece, the cross-cultural foundation of his expression was in place long before his first melodies were ever written. Spheeris' earliest musical influences include the strains of classical piano played by his older sister, the Greek folk music sung by his mother and grandmother, and beautifully melodic and deeply mystical chants of the Greek orthodox church.

Chris sites his earliest musical training as the endless hours he spent listening and memorizing the melodies, harmonies and lyrics of the Beatles. it wasn’t until he was 13, spending a year in Greece, that he actually picked up his first guitar. by 14, he was composing songs and at 19 entered the field of music as a professional.

Under the influences of Joni Mitchell, Cat Stevens, The Talking Heads, and other visionaries of the era, Spheeris entertained and inspired restaurant, coffee house, symphony, and college audiences with a blend of all original highly progressive heart-felt music and lyrics.

At the age of 25, Spheeris entered a new dimension with a blend of instrumental music that helped found a new musical genre of new age music. Within three years  Chris caught the attention of Columbia Records and within weeks after contact, Chris Spheeris became one of the first new age instrumentalists to be signed to a major label.

Chris Spheeris continues to mature as an innovative and prolific composer and instrumentalist, touching the lives of millions in ways that are not always recognized by the media. Living currently in the high desert of Arizona, Chris Spheeris remains a consummate traveler, both creatively and geographically, and a student of world cultures. Spiritual by nature, he sums his perspective up in the following way: "I experience Divinity in everything and particularly in the process of creating . My medium is invisible. Working in this medium has taught me faith in the intangibles. Every day I do my work, I have an intimate exchange with God."

Chris Spheeris will be appearing in Asheville, NC August 9, 10 and 11th. For info see Asheville Magazine calendar

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Saturday, August 4
11:06 AM-Noon  EDT


Mark Sircus

Virato interviews health activist Mark A. Sircus Ac., OMD, director of the International Medical Veritas Association . Trained in acupuncture and oriental medicine at the Institute of Traditional Medicine in Santa Fe, N.M., and in the School of Traditional Medicine of New England in Boston, he served at the Central Public Hospital of Pochutla, in Mexico, and was awarded the title of doctor of oriental medicine for his work. He was harassed by the medical board of New Hampshire in the early 1980s for practicing medicine (acupuncture) without a license. This led him to diversify his healing work into other areas especially counseling and psychology. He soon became a national advocate for freedom in health care.

Dr. Sircus was particularly outspoken on the negative effect vaccinations have on vulnerable infants, and is identifying the common thread of many toxic agents that are dramatically threatening present and future generations of children. Today, Dr. Sircus is spearheading a dramatically different medical organization dedicated to unifying the various disciplines in medicine with the goal of creating a new dawn in healthcare.

He is the author of numerous books and articles, including HeartHealth, and his latest, Survival Medicine for the 21st Century

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Saturday, August 4
12:06 PM-1 PM  EDT

Joseph Chilton Pearce
Joseph Chilton Pearce

Today Virato interviews one of the icons of psychology and human social structure. Author of a new book, The Death of Religion and the Rebirth of Spirit: A Return to the Intelligence of the Heart, Joseph Chilton Pearce, forThe Death of Religion and the Rebirth of Spirit nearly half a century, has been probing the mysteries of the human mind.

Also author of best-seller, The Crack in the Cosmic Egg, his other books are Exploring the Crack in the Cosmic Egg; Magical Child; Magical Child Matures; The Bond of Power; and Evolution's End, one of his overriding passions remains the study of what he calls the "unfolding" of intelligence in children.

He is a self-avowed iconoclast, unafraid to speak out against the myriad ways in which contemporary American culture fails to nurture the intellectual, emotional, and spiritual needs and yearnings of our young people. Part scholar, part scientist, part mystic, part itinerant teacher, Pearce keeps in close touch with the most brilliant men and women in each field. He creates a unique synthesis of their work and translates the results into a common language.

World-renowned thinker, author, and advocate of evolutionary child-rearing practices, Pearce has expertise that spans a broad range of disciplines: psychology, anthropology, biology, and physics. He has been a seminal figure in the study of human consciousness and child development for over a quarter century. His greatest publishing success was the national bestseller, Magical Child, in which he delineated an exhaustive and visionary approach to child rearing, especially focused on support for the "nonviolent" birthing approach revived by LeBoyer, Lamaze, and Odent, and popularized by Sondra Ray. For over thirty years Pearce has written and lectured internationally on human development and the changing needs of children. He has recently completed The Biology of Transcendence, which explores the biological foundation for what we think of as "spiritual" development. He also coauthored Magical Parent, Magical Child: The Art of Joyful Parenting with Michael Mendizza.

He was a faculty member on child development at the Jung Institute in Switzerland. He is also a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Institute of HeartMath, and a faculty member at the Omega Institute.

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Saturday, August 11
10:06 AM-11 AM  EDT
 


Bountiful Cities Project

Virato chats with Tara Luetkenhaus, Outreach Coordinator for the Bountiful Cities Project whose vision is to enliven and empower self-reliance, cooperation, and a stronger sense of community in the Asheville area through providing an opportunity to grow, harvest and eat fresh, local produce.

They envision community spaces that serve as models for sustainability through organic food production, water conservation, ecological building, community celebration, and cooperative economics.

Their vision is becoming a reality at their two flagship gardens: a permaculture-based vegetable garden on Pearson Drive in Montford, and the Dr. George Washington Carver Edible Park at Stevens Lee Community Center which is home to over 30 varieties of fruit trees and an under story of berries and medicinal herbs

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Saturday, August 11
11:06 AM-Noon  EDT

Cover of Seeds

(This program was previously broadcast Aug. 26, 2006)

 
Virato has a lay-back, late summer chat with Peter Loewer, writer and artist from Asheville, NC.  Loewer is passionate about plants, from daffodils to orchids to the love of roses to the lore of poison ivy.

Friends call him The Wild Gardener and he helps folks get the best from their garden and, along the way, offers some interesting and exciting insights into a world that, up to now, just might have escaped their notice. He calls himself the guy who brought back the evening garden and the night garden from oblivion, and that includes the night-blooming day lily (Hemerocallis citrina).

Loewer, a regular on Asheville's WCQS, besides writing for several publications, including Ashewville's Mountain Xpress is the author of Native Perennials for the Southeast, and has updated and published Seeds: The Definitive Guide to Growing, History & Lore origin

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Saturday, August 11
12:06 PM-1 PM  EDT



Terry Cole Whittaker

There is a natural flow of Divine love, peace, opulence, and bliss coming from Spirit and through each of us all the time. When this Divine energy is unblocked there is the experience of joy, enlightenment, and vibrant health. But when this flow is blocked or constricted in any manner there is disease, unhappiness, loneliness, and poverty. So says Virato's guest today, Terry Cole Whittaker, world renowned inspiring and motivating teacher, television minister and producer, author of 5 books, including #1 New York Times Best seller What You Think of Me is None of My Business  as well as How To Have More in a Have Not World; The Inner Path From Where You are To Where You Want To Be; Love and Power in a World Without Limits; and her newest book, Dare to Be Great.

The executive producer and spokesperson of an Emmy winning, six-year international weekly television ministry that reached millions, Dr. Cole-Whittaker is listed in Laurel King's best-selling book 10 Women of Power, as one of the 10 most powerful and inspirational women in the world. The San Diego Press Club honored her as Woman of the Year, and two times as Headliner of the Year. She was the recipient of three honorary Doctorate degrees for her humanitarian work and contributions to society. Recently she was inducted into the Hall of Fame of her college.

Terry Cole Whittaker has been interviewed and featured for her work on over 800 television and radio programs including: Oprah, Larry King Live, CNN, Good Morning America, Donahue, Sally Jessie Rafael, Tom Snyder, and Regis Philbin, plus interviewed in People Magazine, US Magazine, Time Magazine, Newsweek, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The London Times.

She says she shares the sacred wisdom of the masters that will solve all personal and global problems and bring happiness, good health, love, and prosperity to all.

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Saturday, August 18
10:06 AM-11 AM  EDT
 


Natural Buildings
...truly living in nature

Virato chats with Janell Kapoor, founder of Kleiwerks about a worldwide movement that is reviving and refining the art and joy of earthen and other indigenous building techniques. It's a powerful and growing international network of visionary natural building and permaculture activists, educators, builders, authors, documenters, architects, artists, and students. As a 'movement,' they share a common thread: A dedication to learning, teaching and practicing sustainable ways of living, including how we shelter our selves.

Since 1998, Kleiwerks International and affiliates have provided more than 200 hands-on trainings, start-to-finish natural building workshops; permaculture certification courses; sustainability leadership programs; internships; public presentations and sponsorship of related events to people of diverse social, economic and cultural backgrounds from over 30 countries. Our events vary from 1-day to 6-months.

In 2007, while they continue planning for other international projects, Kleiwerks will be focusing our physical efforts and workshops in Asheville, NC ( Ashevillage Institute ) and El Cerrito, CA.

 

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Saturday, August 18
11:06 AM-Noon  EDT


...and the future of mankind

Today Virato chats with Kathy Jo Wetter, discussing the world of nanotechnology and the work of the ETC Group. This group addresses the socioeconomic and ecological issues surrounding new technologies that could have an impact on the world’s poorest and most vulnerable. They investigate ecological erosion (including the erosion of cultures and human rights); the development of new technologies (especially agricultural but also new technologies that work with genomics and matter); and they monitor global governance issues including corporate concentration and trade in technologies.

The group has challenged--and defeated--patents on crop species and human tissues. Working with partner organizations and people directly affected by abusive claims, we have successfully forced governments to revoke patents and have used public opinion to persuade patent owners in the US, Australia, Europe and India to surrender their exclusive monopoly claims.

Since 2001 Kathy Jo Wetter has worked in ETC Group's Carrboro, North Carolina office as a researcher and as the Assistant to the Research Director. She holds a Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and lives in Durham, North Carolina..

 

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Saturday, August 18
12:06 PM-1 PM  EDT


...and Counterfeit Spirituality


 William Bloom

Virato chats with William Bloom, PhD, a Fellow of the Findhorn Foundation and Director of the Spiritual Freedom Network. At the age of 22, Bloom became the youngest commissioning editor in publishing at Macmillan’s, where he founded the Open Gate imprint to promote counter-culture books. He campaigns for freedom of beliefs, particularly the idea that all life is sacred and has its meaning.

Since the late 1970’s Bloom’s writings and teachings have reflected his interest in new approaches to exploring consciousness and spirituality. He says it was after a two year spiritual quest, living on retreat amid the Saharan Berbers in the High Atlas Mountains of southern Morocco that his life was transformed

Bloom is the author of Solution: The Holistic Manifesto; Feeling Safe, The Endorphin Effect,  The Penguin Book of New Age and Holistic Writing,  The Holistic RevolutionWorking With Angels, Fairies and Nature Spirits,  Psychic Protection, Meditation in a Changing World, Devas, Fairies & Angels , First Steps—An Introduction to Spiritual Practice, The Sacred Magician, The Christ Sparks, and others.

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Saturday, August 25
10:06 AM-11 AM  EDT


Open
Mic/Open Forum

This is our periodic program where you can join in and ask questions, share your dreams, thoughts, suggestions, etc. Make it YOUR show!

Questions to-date sent by e-mail:

  • You broadcast on 880 AM which during the week calls itself "progressive." Does VIRATO LIVE! offer this also, or is your show only about new age, the paranormal and consciousness.  Where do you see your role in addressing what appears to be happening in Asheville with the recent series of events for civil rights freedoms as well as civil disobedience. And what about on a national level. Where does your show fit in? Do you take a political stance?
If as you often say Virato, we create our own reality, so why discuss the bad at all, why not see into the light and come only from the positive? The way of the Buddha was not of the sword, was it?
  • If Asheville is such a new age town, why isn't there a central place that people meet?  Whatever happened to the Center of Unlimited Possibilities and their 30,000 sq. ft. place in West Asheville? And what about the Chamber of Consciousness?

What happened to Spirit In The Smokies  Natural Awakenings, and Whole Health News  magazines?  Is this a sign that the consciousness movement is over in Asheville?

...and more!

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Saturday, August 25
11:06 AM-Noon  EDT
 

An urban gardener and activist, Heather C. Flores believes that the first step toward a healthier, more self-reliant, and more ecologically sane life is growing yourHeather C. Flores own food.

Gardening is a radical act, she says. Those who control our food, control our lives. Gardening empowers us, offering freedom from the industrial food market where profit, not heath and the environment, rule the day.

Flores envisions life-sustaining paradise gardens everywhere, from your own front yard, to an inner-city abandoned lot, or even the strip of grass between the sidewalk and street. Her step-by-step guide leads you through the practical steps of site selection and design, building nutrient-rich soil, and choosing appropriate plants.

But Flores doesn’t stop there. This lifestyle manual inspires readers to apply the principles of the paradise garden—simplicity, resourcefulness, creativity, mindfulness, and community—to all aspects of life.

Creativity, fulfillment, connection, revolution—it all begins when we dig our hands in the dirt. Flores’s Food Not Lawns: How to Turn Your Yard into a Garden and Your Neighborhood into a Community shows how the simple act of planting vegetables can transform not only your yard but your entire neighborhood. Much more than a gardening how-to book, Food Not Lawns is an inspiring tool for community organizers, and the subject of today's inquiry by Virato.

Flores offers small, easy steps we can all take: ride your bike; replace your toilet with an ecologically friendly composting model; collect rainwater for irrigation; and, most important, slow down and take time to talk to your neighbors. Planting home and community gardens is also an economical way to put fabulous vegetables and fruit on the kitchen table.

Heather C. Flores, a certified permaculture designer, holds a BA degree in ecology, education, and the arts from Goddard College. She offers environmental landscape design and consultation services. Flores’ next project is to use low-tech performance arts to bridge cultural and economic gaps in environmental education.

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Saturday, August 25
12:06 PM-1 PM  EDT


Today, Virato speaks with Ainslie MacLeod, who for over a decade,  has used his talents as a psychic exploring the soul and its impact on people's lives. Collaborating with elevated spirit guides, he claims to have developed the Instruction as  to help people understand their personal destinies.

Before becoming psychic, he was a successful illustrator, creating art for Coca-Cola, Paul McCartney, and Frito-Lay.

Despite the fact that several psychics had told MacLeod he would one day work as a psychic, it wasn’t until a decade ago, when he says he had an astonishing epiphany, that he accepted that this would be my destiny. He was initially uncomfortable about entering a field in which egotism and fraudulence abound, and it was several years before he fully embraced my new career. Even then, he still describes himself as the “Reluctant Psychic.”

MacLeod says he is an investigator of the soul, and that his aim is to help others to live a happier and more purposeful life by revealing who they are and why they’re here, helping them overcome many internal challenges, and connecting them with their souls and their spirit guides. He further says that his role is that of a messenger between this world and the next.

Originally from Aberdeen, Scotland, Ainslie is the author of a new book, The Instruction, Living the Life your Soul Intended, and is also a member of the Theosophical Society and currently lives on a tranquil island in the Pacific Northwest

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Saturday, September 1
10:06 AM-11 AM  EDT

Virato chats with Debi Athos, founder and director of  Organicfest , Asheville's second largest street fair, on September 8, and the role that the fest is having in waking people up to going organic.

Organicfest 2007 is presented in September to celebrate National Organic Harvest Month. The organic industry is one of the fastest growing, consumer driven industries in the United States. This special event, (co-sponsored by Asheville Parks & Recreation and other local businesses and organizations, including VIRATO LIVE!) is a wonderful opportunity to celebrate, highlight and promote the pure, organic food and products available in our community, create a connection to the people who grow and supply organic, and find out why organic is good for people and the planet

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Saturday, September 1
11:06 AM-Noon  EDT

photo by Donya Fronk during interview with Elizabeth Upton
John Major Jenkins


V
irato chats with researcher, John Major Jenkins who, for over two decades, has devoted himself to ancient Mayan cosmology and philosophy, leading to his Alignment 2012 work.

Traveling to Mexico and Central America seven times since beginning his odyssey of research and discovery with the Maya, Jenkins has authored dozens of articles and many books, including: Journey to the Mayan Underworld (Four Ahau Press, Boulder, CO: 1989);Mirror in the Sky (Four Ahau Press, 1991); Tzolkin: Visionary Perspectives and Calendar Studies (Borderland Sciences Research Foundation, Garberville, CA: 1992/1994); Mayan Sacred Science (Four Ahau Press, Boulder, CO: 1994) ; Maya Cosmogenesis 2012 (Bear & Company, Santa Fe, NM: 1998); His 2002 book, Galactic Alignment: The Transformation of Consciousness According to Mayan, Egyptian, and Vedic Traditions was released with Inner Traditions International (Rochester, VT) in August 2002; and  Pyramid of Fire, co-authored with Marty Matz, and coming soon Unlocking the Secrets of 2012

As a visiting scholar, Jenkins has taught classes at The Institute of Maya Studies in Miami, The Maya Calendar Congress in Mexico, The Esalen Institute, Naropa University and many other venues nationally and abroad.

He has been interviewed on numerous radio and television shows, including Coast-to-Coast, The Laura Lee Show, Dr. Patricia Hill's The Changing Paradigm, and has appeared in documentaries on Native American prophecy and the millennium such as The Fifth Gate (Milton Media, Denmark) and Earth Under Fire (Conscious Wave Video).  The Discovery Channel featured John's work on two episodes of the Places of Mystery series, which continues to be broadcast regularly on the Travel Channel, and has appeared in a documentary on the Maya broadcast on the History Channel. John's careful scholarship and cutting-edge insights into why the Maya chose 2012 to end a great World Age cycle have been endorsed by the most progressive thinkers of our day.

On July 1, 2007 The NY Times included his work in a feature they did on 2012.

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Saturday, September 1
12:06 PM-1 PM  EDT


Jim Marrs

Virato chats with Jim Marrs, a journalist who has been an active student of the JFK assassination since the day it happened. His book on the subject, Crossfire, has been popular for many years, and was used by Oliver Stone in planning his movie JFK.

Marrs has written three books since Crossfire. The first, Alien Agenda: Investigating the Extraterrestrial Presence Among Us, appeared in 1997. As the title suggests, it proposes that UFOs are real and that aliens from them live among us. The second book is Rule by Secrecy: The Hidden History That Connects the Trilateral Commission, the Freemasons, and the Great Pyramids.

Most recently, he has become interested in remote viewing, a system of allegedly being able to detect events from great distances. His latest book Psi Spies, deals with this subject, and is also the subject of today's interview.

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Saturday, September 8
10:06 AM-11 AM  EDT

Michael Rossoff, Photo by Caren Bakkum
Michael Rossoff

The art of  Macrobiotics comes to us via Japan, and involves lifestyle with a strong emphasis on diet, that finds its roots in ancient Taoist traditions..

Virato's guest today is Michael Rossoff, who began his journey in macrobiotics in 1969, when he traveled to Boston to study with Michio Kushi, who popularized this art in the United States. 

In the mid 70s he left Boston to start sharing macrobiotics with others. He moved to his hometown, Washington, D.C. area. There he and his wife taught classes and he began counseling and acupuncture and a third child was born. He remained in the Washington, D.C. area for the next 20 years,  and started a large Macrobiotic community in Bethesda, Maryland.

By 1981, he started a local newsletter that quickly became a national magazine, MacroMuse. Over the next 7 years MacroMuse would have an important voice in the expression of macrobiotics. It was subtitled, “Macrobiotic Forum Magazine.”  When MacroMuse ended and was sold to another magazine, Michael moved to Asheville, but continued to return to the D.C. area bimonthly, and continued his teaching in other cities too. During the 1980s and 1990s he taught Macrobiotics in many US cities, plus Toronto, Canada, England, Belgium, Switzerland, Italy and Israel. During the past two years he has resumed teaching in Italy.

He continues providing macrobiotic counseling in Asheville, plus travels occasionally to other cities for teaching and counseling.

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Saturday, September 8
11:06 AM-Noon  EDT

Suddenly Psychic

Virato dialogues with Maureen Caudill who graduated summa cum laude in physics from the University of Connecticut, and received a master’s degree from Cornell University. A former senior scientist for a major US Department of Defense contractor specializing in artificial intelligence and neural networks, she holds three patents for concept-based search and retrieval technologies, ontological parsing tech-nologies, and for clustering techniques in document analysis. 

Caudill  has written general science books and textbooks in the fields of neural networks and robotics for MIT Press and Oxford University Press. Several years ago she discovered her abilities as a psychic while attending a weeklong residential retreat at The Monroe Institute in Faber, Virginia. 

She has personally experienced all the psychic phenomena discussed in her latest book, Suddenly Psychic: A Skeptic's Journey and is now a practicing psychic, leading workshops in the U.S. and Canada on developing psychic talent and learning to access altered states of consciousness safely and reliably. She is an experienced public speaker, and has lectured internationally to wide acclaim.

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Saturday, September 8
12:06 PM-1 PM  EDT


Sondra Ray

Virato chats with Sondra Ray, known as one of the most eclectic spiritual leaders of the day.She is recognized throughout the world as a spiritual teacher, author, rebirther, lecturer, and healer.

Ray is the bestselling author of many books, including The Only Diet There Is, I Deserve Love, and  Pele’s Wish and her most recent, just published by New World Library, Rock Your World with The Divine Mother. An avid world traveler and one-time Peace Corps volunteer, Sondra is a teacher, seminar leader, and devoted student of spiritual disciplines. She constantly lectures around the globe.

Ray was launched into international acclaim in the 1970s as one of the pioneers of the Rebirthing Experience. She has trained thousands of people all over the world and is considered one of the foremost experts on how the birth trauma affects one's body, relationships, career and life. As she puts it, this breathing process produces extraordinary results because as one takes in the light, all else is revealed and let go of; thus one's heart is open to receive love, peace and joy. She is currently updating and refining the process to a whole new level to produce faster results.

She is also known for training sessions, some of which include: Loving RelationshipsTraining (also known as LRT), Rebirths, Rejuvenation, Cooperation, and Sacred Relationships as well as seminars on the Teachings and Aspects of the Divine Mother.

Ray has taken these seminars and trainings across the globe to countries such as England, France, Spain, Italy, Germany, Iceland, Ireland, Poland, Sweden, Russia, New Zealand, Australia, Singapore, Bali and Japan. She also takes groups to India for annual pilgrimages.

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Saturday, September 15
10:06 AM-11 AM  EDT



with Kedar Brown

Kedar Brown, M.Ed. is a licensed psychotherapist with over 23 years of practice. He is a certified Hakomi Therapist. He is co-founder and a ceremonial leader of the Rites of Passage Council, Inc. in Asheville, NC. Kedar blends many creative and expressive forms of depth psychology with ancient methods of healing through wilderness initiatory passage rites for men and women. He is a guide trained in the pan-cultural methods of vision questing by Steven Foster and Meridith Little in the Sierra Nevada Mountains and has apprenticed with the Men's Leadership Alliance in the Rocky Mountains using methods of ceremony, ritual process healing, and community building among men.

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Saturday, September 15
11:06 AM-Noon  EDT


 

Religion and politics have always been a potent mix. History is littered with times when that combination caused sweeping death and destruction, when it fueled aggression and oppression—and when it gave fascism a religious and diplomatic face.

Today Virato speaks with Davidson Loehr, who suggests we are  living in such a time in America today. On the Sunday following the election on November 2, 2004, Loehr, a liberal minister in Texas, delivered a sermon titled “Living Under Fascism”—a sermon that spread like wildfire through the Internet. “I mean to persuade you that the style of governing into which America has slid is most accurately described as fascism, and that the necessary implications of this fact are rightly regarded as terrifying,” the preacher told his congregation. “. . . and even if I don’t persuade you, I hope to raise the level of your thinking about who and where we are now.”

Loehr takes aim at the unholy alliance of corporate money, political power, and religious fundamentalism that is threatening both our political and our economic democracy. But Loehr’s words provide little comfort to liberals and progressives who have stubbornly clung to a radical individualism and an amoral secularism.

Loehr was a professional musician, Vietnam War combat photographer, and a carpenter before he entered the University of Chicago in 1979 to earn M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in philosophy and religion. He is senior minister of the First Unitarian Universalist Church of Austin, a 640-member congregation in Texas.

Loehr has been named Best Minister/Spiritual Leader by the Austin Chronicle in 2005.Loehr is the author of a new book, America, Fascism, and God, a call—first to understand that religion has been hijacked and debased. And then to take it back. It is the subject of today's discussion.

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Saturday, September 15
12:06 PM-1 PM  EDT


Rosie McKnight

Explorers are known for the journeys they take. Rosie McKnight explored the vast nonphysical dimensions of consciousness with famed out-of-body researcher Robert Monroe. She helped to further the understanding of human conscious-ness, and to demonstrate beyond doubt that we are more than our physical bodies.

Many of these pioneering sessions are presented in her book almost word for word, as they were taped, along with warm and inspiring observations of Bob Monroe and the early days of The Monroe Institute. Today, she will share with Virato her explorations of non-human energy systems, interactions with highly evolved beings, concepts about the makeup of the many levels of the universe, views of the afterlife and the animal dimensions, the nature of healing and guidance, a look at the future, and much more.

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Saturday, September 22
10:06 AM-11 AM  EST


OPEN FORUM

Call  828-254-6620 by 5 PM, Friday, Sept 21 and let us know what you would talk about on the program. Keep it about Asheville, and in line with the sorts of things listeners would like to discuss. What are some things you would like to hear on the program? Virato is looking for first time callers, and welcomes all his friends to share with him and Asheville today. How is Asheville fitting into the country, the world and the cosmos? Is there even such a thing as the "transformation of consciousness." 

Is it all over...like in the end? Is it illusion? All nonsense? Why save the whales or the world? Is it not all futile, especially if we see the world as "Maya," or illusion?  Why do revolutionaries always seem so serious, and border-line pathetic.

Did you read the front page of a recent edition of the Asheville Tribune saying The Global Warming Hoax Is Over! After all look at the historic perspective.  Just 7 years ago people were stockpiling for the end with Y2K. Should we all simply stay stoned, make love not war and go on piercing our nipples and genitalia? Or should we take arms against a sea of trouble.?

Hey dude don't you create your own reality? Nah, we're all just victims of the other guy, right? Not nice like us. Who needs LSD anyway, right? Hey Tommy Chong give us a call...

Are conservative, fear-based religions and philosophies a "spiritual cancer" on the planet? ...and really, what about 2012?

What defines a conscious person? What are the qualities of an enlightened being? Can we be partially enlightened? Who are you??

Asheville, here's your opportunity to share with us all.....

Remember, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 10 AM to 11 AM

Let's have an on-air party of love!

Call during the program at 828-252-4348 and open up to the world!

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Saturday, September 22
11:06 AM-Noon  EST


Nick Pope

Virato chats with Nick Pope who used to run the British Government's UFO project at the Ministry of Defense.  He resigned from the UK Ministry of Defense in October 2006, after 21 years of Government service.

Initially skeptical, his research and investigation into the UFO phenomenon and access to formerly classified government files on the subject convinced him that the phenomenon raised important defense and national security issues, especially when the witnesses were military pilots or where UFOs were tracked on radar. 

Pope also looked into other mysteries such as alien abductions and crop circles.  He now continues his research in a private capacity and is recognized as a leading authority on UFOs and the unexplained.  He does extensive media work, lectures all around the world and has acted as consultant on numerous television documentaries.

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Saturday, September 29
10:06 AM-11 AM  EST




Dale Allen Hoffman

Virato speaks with local Ashevillian, Dale Allen Hoffman all about the Aramaic Jesus and his teachings. Hoffman spent much of his youth immersed in both the Methodist and Episcopalian churches, and had already studied the entire Holy Bible from Genesis to Revelations twice by his 15th birthday.

 

A persistent feeling that something was “missing” from the King James bible drove Hoffman into his search for spiritual truth, even before he ever realized that he was searching. One afternoon at age of 9, while walking in the woods near his southern New Jersey home, Hoffman had what he calls, a “unitive” experience. He would not fully comprehend this experience until several years into his adult life, and had no idea how profoundly it would impact his consciousness.

Over the next 10 years, Hoffman’s powerful experience began to descend into his memory, but he was never the same again. He experienced an intensification of his emotional states, at times shifting from violent rage to desperate vulnerability to transcendent bliss in a matter of seconds. Hoffman also found himself taking every possible opportunity to roam alone into nature, often sitting in one position, breathing rhythmically for hours with eyes closed before opening them and basking in the awareness of his profound spiritual immersion within what he calls “The Absolute Only Being”.

In 1995, just months before his 23rd birthday, he was exposed to the teachings of Yeshua (Jesus) in ancient Aramaic, the language that Jesus spoke.  Hoffman's years of spiritual study and contemplation, including his long-time participation in Marianne Williamson’s A Course in Miracles study group in New York City, enabled him to comprehend the deep, transformative truth of these ancient teachings in their original context. The next 12 years found Dale studying the works of and with many of the worlds preeminent Aramaic language scholars, spiritual teachers, and religious figures.  

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Saturday, September 29
11:06 AM to Noon

Can
nabis

Health, Economics, and the Law

With local hemp activist, Ukiah Morrison,  Lester Grinspoon, MD, Professor Emeritus, Harvard Medical School, High Times editor, Steve Bloom, and Marti DeWolfe, a 13 year veteran Texas cop.

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Saturday, September 29
Noon to  1 PM

Executive Director of NORML, Allen St. Pierre
...and

The Legendary Tommy Chong!


   More on Marijuana

 

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Saturday, October 6
10:06 AM-10:50 AM  EST


Animal Communications

Virato chats with animal intuitive, Nirado. We each have our ownway of communicating with animals. Some of us are impaths, some are telepaths, and others communicate through feelings, sensations, pictures, etc.

Just as we are unique in so many other ways, we are also unique in our way of communicating with animals.  Animal communication is a new field that has recently seen much popularity. If each human were to find their own way of communicating. Nirado says that  some day humans will be talking with animals just as they do with each other. Each human just needs to find his or her own way of communicating.

Animal communication is essential to learning about our animals and how they think or feel. In a general sense, the human companion knows when they are happy, sad, depressed, wants to say something to us. Nirado received her BS Ed. and MS Ed. degrees from Southern Illinois University. In 1998 she began developing her telepathic abilities with animals doing intense training in animal communications.  

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Saturday, October 6
10:52 AM-10:59 AM  EST


Soul Medicine
with Jane Smolnik

We welcome a new feature on VIRATO LIVE! called Soul Medicine, with host Dr. Jane Smolnik. Today's program: Stress. It not only affects our physical and emotional bodies, but is actually an underlying 'Spiritual disorder' weakening our awareness and true power. Learn what we can do to strengthen our Souls and heal.

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Saturday, October 6
11:06 AM-Noon  EST

...or was God an ET who the wandering Hebrews encountered near Mount Sinai and turned into a legend? What is a soul? What happens when I die? What's really going to happen on December 21, 2012? Will the world end? Why are all the ETs here? Who are they and what do they want of us. These are some of the questions that Virato's guest today, author and seer, Tony Stubbs will address.

Born in Scarborough, England, Stubbs graduated from Liverpool University with a Bachelor’s degree in Electronic Engineering. He joined British Telecomms and also received a Master’s degree in Computer Science from London University. After moving to the United States in 1979, he continued in the computer field, but also ‘woke up,’ as he says .to metaphysics in 1980.

In 1988, he began cooperative writing with the Ascended Master Serapis, one outcome of which was his first book, An Ascension Handbook, which has enjoyed strong sales for 15 years. For many years, he maintained a close association with the members of Angelic Outreach organization run by Tashira Tachi-ren.

In 1996, he joined Oughten House Publications as Editor-in-Chief, where he managed the production of many fine metaphysical books. When Oughten House closed in 1998, he became an independent publishing consultant so that he could continue to help metaphysical writers bring their messages to the world. It is from this interaction with hundreds of spiritual authors, plus his channeling and extensive reading, that Living with Soul has sprung.

Tony now lives in Las Vegas, Nevada

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Saturday, October 6
12:06 PM-1 PM  EST

Caroline
with
Caroline Myss

Today, Virato chats with world renown Caroline Myss, a woman dedicated to creating educational programs in the fields of human consciousness, spirituality and mysticism, health, energy medicine, and the science of medical intuition.

Myss began her professional career as a journalist in 1974. After completing her Master's degree, she co-founded Stillpoint Publishing in 1983. From 1983 to 1990, Myss worked as head of the editorial department for her publishing company, which produced an average of ten books annually  in the field of human consciousness and holistic health. Simultaneously she began her career as a medical intuitive.

In 1984, Myss met Harvard neurosurgeon, C. Norman Shealy, who had an interest in the science of medical intuition. They began a colleagueship that continues to this day. During their early years together, Dr. Shealy helped Myss develop her skills by having her conduct health readings on his patients.

Through this research, Myss developed the field of Energy Anatomy, a science that partners specific emotional/ psychological/physical/spiritual stress patterns with the diseases that they create or influence. This research proved so accurate that it became the subject matter of a book co-written by Myss and Shealy: The Creation of Health.

As a result of this work, Myss earned a national as well as international reputation as a renowned medical intuitive. She is respected as the leading pioneer in the field and as a result of her work in opening this field, more than ten thousand practitioners are now active in the health field. From 1992 to 2004, Myss and Shealy developed an educational program to teach the Science of Medical Intuition. In 1996, they founded the Institute for the Science of Medical Intuition, which funds research in the field. This Institute remains active.

In 1996, Caroline compiled her years of research in medical intuition with her work in the field of human consciousness, releasing the book Anatomy of the Spirit. This book became a New York Times bestseller and has been published in 18 languages. To date it has sold nearly two million copies.

Eighteen years of research in medical intuition led Myss to explore more deeply the field of holistic health, specifically, the dynamics of healing. This research resulted in her study of why people do not heal. In investigating the underlying reasons why people sabotage their healing processes, she identified a syndrome she calls "woundology," characterized by a person's reliance on the power of illness for manipulation of his or her world, as opposed to attaining an independent, empowered state of health. As with her other ground-breaking research, this syndrome is now a recognized psychological condition. Her work in this area became the subject for her third book, Why People Don't Heal and How They Can. This book was Myss's second New York Times bestseller.

Following that research, she developed her interest in the language of symbols, myths, and archetypes. Her medical intuitive readings expanded beyond gathering data on health stress patterns to including the symbolic language inherent to each individual. As a result of that research, Myss was able to profile an individual's "Sacred Contract," a complex of 12 archetypal patterns that reflect in mythic language the agreements the soul made prior to birth. This research opened an entirely new area of work that drew interest from around the globe. As a result of this work, Caroline released her fourth book, Sacred Contracts, which became her third New York Times bestseller. This book has also been published in 18 languages and reports sales of well over 1.6 million copies. In 2003, based on the interest generated by her work in Sacred Contracts, Myss opened her own educational institute. Caroline Myss Education that now draws students from nineteen nations as well as across the United States.

Myss has just released a CD series, The Sacred Contract of America, the subject of today's interview

In 2004, she released her fifth book, Invisible Acts of Power, another New York Times bestseller.

In 2003, Caroline Myss established CMED, her own educational institute, which offers two programs, each running three courses per year, on Sacred Contracts and Mysticism. She also maintains a rigorous international workshop and lecture schedule and continues a consultation practice as a medical intuitive with physicians, psychiatrists, psychologists, and other health practitioners.

Throughout her career, Caroline Myss has taught in thirty-five countries, continuing her international work at present. In addition to writing six books, Myss is the leading recording artist for Sounds True, Inc., the major audio recording company in the holistic field, 30 different titles. Her entire library of recordings now numbers over 180. In 2003, Oprah Winfrey gave Caroline Myss her own television program on the Oxygen Network, which ran successfully for one year. She does an average of six radio shows per month and five newspaper or magazine interviews in both national and international publications.

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Saturday, October 13
10:06 AM-10:50 AM  EST




with
Carl S. Milsted, PhD

You hear them ranting on the radio “They’re trying to take away our freedom!” “They’re poisoning the planet!” “He is a pawn of the rich!” There is some truth to these accusations, but it is only half-truth. None of the political factions are as evil as their opponents claim they are. Few are as good as they think of themselves.

Virato's guest today is Ashevillian Dr. Carl Milsted who says, "The evils are not those of intentions, but of limited vision. Freedom, helping the poor, preserving the environment, securing the country, and encouraging good morals are all good things." "Yet the advocates of these good things are often at each other’s throats, because they dwell too much on the trade-offs and not enough on the available synergies. Consider the classic left-right political spectrum:

According to this political model we have either the choice of a massive bureaucratic state, or grinding poverty for the masses. Or, we can go for something “moderate,” “in between.” According to those on the left," Milsted quotes, " we have the choice between a European style welfare state vs. a corporate mafia scenario like in such movies as Rollerball, Alien, or Robocop. According to those on the right, we are faced with a choice between ruthless dictators with genocidal tendencies or great prosperity (if we allow the billionaires to do their magic).

There is great falsehood in this one-dimensional model. There is nothing equal in the relationship between Joseph Stalin and the millions he sent to gulags. There is nothing free about such “right-wing” dictatorships such as the National Socialist Germany.

Yet, despite the limits of this one-dimensional thinking it is being carried over to new areas of debate, such as the issue of cleaning up the environment and preserving species.

Radical environmentalists attack the luxuries of our civilization while radical defenders of prosperity and limited government have been known to point out that nature will replace the species we destroy after a few million years. Neither extreme is pleasant. But neither is compromise. How many species do we let die in order to add a point to the GNP? How many more burdensome regulations must we put up with in order to save each obscure rare insect?

While it is true that there are trade-offs between these values, it is also true that our current system is not efficient. There are a myriad of untapped opportunities to improve both opposing values at the same time."

Milsted is former Chairman of Buncombe County Libertarian Party, served on the Libertarian National Committee and is a columnist for the Asheville Daily Planet and a founder of  the Libertarian Reform Caucus  http://www.reformthelp.org 

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Saturday, October 13
11:06 AM-Noon  EST


Dr. Chet Snow

Today, Virato chats with Chet Snow, Ph.D., an internationally-acclaimed author, lecturer and regression therapist with degrees from Columbia University and the Sorbonne in Paris.  

Mass Dreams of the FutureOver a decade ago, Chet Snow authored Mass Dreams of the Future based on Helen Wambach’s pioneering concept of "future-life progressions".  He has also authored a guided meditation audio cassette, Transformational Journeys, and two videos: Earth Shift, and Star Visions, a history of the crop circle enigma.   In 1993 he helped Dr. Winifred Lucas with The Handbook of Regression Therapy  widely considered the most-serious textbook in the field.   Chet  has given over 500 past and future-life lectures and seminars in English, French and Spanish on three continents, including a lecture at the United Nations in 1994.  He has also been featured on Sightings, the Art Bell Show and NBC’s Ancient Prophecies, as well as in several documentary films.

Dr. Snow is former president of the Association for Past-Life Research & Therapies, a group of about 1,000 therapists world-wide.  He also edits the annual Mass Dreams Newsletter, updating his future predictions.   

In February 1991, Chet Snow was invited to meet with spiritual elders of the Hopi nation and allowed to photograph their sacred, prophetic petroglyphs.  Struck by the similarities between them and crop circle formations in Britain, he has personally studied this phenomenon since then, traveling to southern England every July for the last 10 years to compare the circles’ symbolism to ancient markings from indigenous cultures around the world.  

Dr. Snow lives with his wife Kallista in Sedona, Arizona

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Saturday, October 13
12:06 PM-1 PM  EST


with
Matthew Gilbert, Editor-in-Chief
Shift Magazine

Today Virato chats with the Editor-in-Chief of Shift Magazine,Shift Cover Matthew Gilbert, about The 2007 Shift Report: Evidence of a World Transforming. Gilbert is also Director of Communications at the Institute of Noetic Sciences, and editorial director of Noetic Books. A part of the Institute of Noetic Sciences, Shift Magazine is not necessarily a spiritual publication, a political-action platform, or a single-cause publication. Rather, it honors open-minded approaches and multiple ways of knowing, bring discernment to their work, and support diversity of perspectives on social and scientific matters.

Gilbert was formerly executive editor of a highly regarded trade magazine that tracked trends in body/mind/spirit publishing. He has written extensively about business, psychology, and spirituality, and has authored two books – Communication Miracles at Work and The Workplace Revolution: Restoring Trust in Business and Bringing Meaning to Our Work.

Gilbert was recently featured in the anthology, Einstein’s Business: Engaging Soul, Imagination, and Excellence in the Workplace, which also included chapters by Oprah Winfrey, Steven Covey, Peter Senge, Margaret Wheatley, Tom Peters, and Paul Hawken.

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Saturday, October 20
10:06 AM-10:50 AM  EST



Virato speaks with Robert Zink about one of the claimed oldest systems of angelic energy  written down in the 1500's by Rabbi Moshe Cordovero. Prior to that it was only ever transmitted from mouth to ear and then only known to a very few. Much is still only oral and, together with the philosophy of Hermes, is only now being considered ready for public awareness by the western mystical societies that have protected it for centuries.

The name of the system has become common, and known as the Kabbalah or Qabalah and is a part of The Tree of Life. There are many ‘pop' versions and readable books about the basics. Kabbalah is where the concept of angels originates, and many of the Biblical angels are described in detail in the Kabbalistic system. What people have not known is how to use this system to tap into some very advanced and high vibrational energies for healing.

The Ruach Healing Method, the subject of much of today's program, has been reformulated and is being given in to serious healers via the work of Robert Zink, who is a highly experienced mystic, Rosicrucian, author and the leader of one of the world's magical orders in the Light, the Esoteric Order of the Golden Dawn

Zink describes Ruach Healing as a sophisticated technique based on manipulation of specific energies, and transformation using Kabbalistic principles found in the Tree of Life, together with other aspects of Hermetic philosophy and symbolism. It helps the person work through their own spiritual alchemy to effect significant changes in their condition.

He will be visiting the Asheville area.

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Saturday, October 20
10:52 AM-10:59 AM  EST


Medicine for the Soul
with Dr. Jane Smolnik

Today Dr. Smolnik discusses the one item that would change the world if we all increased it!



Saturday, October 20
11:06 AM-Noon  EST



with
Robin Casarjian

Today Virato chats with Robin Casarjian, Founder and Director of the Lionheart Foundation.  Casarjian is author of Forgiveness: A Bold Choice for a Peaceful Heart; Houses of Healing: A Prisoner’s Guide to Inner Power and Freedom, and co-author, with Bethany Casarjian, Ph.D., of Power Source: Taking Charge of Your Life.

Her professional career began in 1973 when she received a graduate degree in education from Columbia University and became a teacher of special needs children. Casarjian moved on to direct a small alternative school for children with severe behavioral problems who had been excluded from the Boston Public Schools. She subsequently trained in the psychotherapeutic technique of guided imagery and music, using visualization as a powerful creative resource, and started a private practice. From here her career expanded as a public speaker and workshop presenter.

Volunteering in a Massachusetts state prison in 1988, Casarjian developed a course for inmates entitled "Emotional Awareness/Emotional Healing." Witnessing the profound impact this course repeatedly had on prisoners, she was inspired to bring her work to prisoners across the country.

Toward this end she wrote Houses of Healing: A Prisoner’s Guide to Inner Power and Freedom, with the intent of distributing free copies to all prison libraries in the US. She founded the non-profit Lionheart Foundation in 1992 in order to support this endeavor. She called the project The National Emotional Literacy Project for Prisoners.

To accompany this book, Casarjian developed the Houses of Healing Training Manual and later co-produced the Houses of Healing Educational & Training Video Series.

In Lionheart’s latest major initiative, the National Emotional Literacy Project for Youth-At-Risk, Casarjian collaborated with her niece, child psychologist Bethany Casarjian, Ph.D., on the publication of a program for at-risk teens and young adults that is being distributed nationwide to juvenile detention centers and other facilities serving at-risk youth .

In response to our nation's trend toward massively expanding its prison system while diminishing rehabilitation opportunities, Casarjian also conducts grassroots public education about the need to make prisons places for people to heal (and about the exorbitant cost to society of choosing otherwise). In the midst of public and political frustration and debate, Casarjian’s voice can be heard as a rational and informed call to achievable transformation in our prisons.

For her prison work, Robin Casarjian was awarded the Distinguished Service Award by Interfaith Counseling Services of Massachusetts and was honored by The Giraffe Project, a national program recognizing individuals who "stick out their neck" for the greater good.

Casarjian’s expertise in stress-management and forgiveness resulted in appearances on PBS and local and national talk shows, including ABC’s 20/20 and Oprah Winfrey. She has also been interviewed in numerous national magazines and publications.

Whether in inner-city classrooms, hospitals, corporations or prisons, Casarjian’s work has been widely acclaimed for its clarity, directness, and unwavering vision of the enormous potential within all people.

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Saturday, October 20
11:06 AM-Noon  EST

 
All About Chemtrails
Most people discover the reality of chemtrails by initially reading about it on the Internet and then going outside and looking up into the sky. They are shocked to realize that what they had been reading about (and studying photographs of) is also taking place right over their heads.

What some people had dismissed as mere "
jet plane exhaust" (because there are now scores of internet propaganda web sites trying to convince people that 'everything is well' and 'there's nothing to be alarmed about' and that unaccountable 'jet plane exhaust'  plumes are magically being converted into horizon-to-horizon overcasts of 'cirrus clouds' !!) are dismayed to realize that chemtrails are indeed the toxin-laden aerosols that have been described here and at other web sites since 1998 and they are not being sprayed for any benign or national security reason as the disinformation peddlers would have you believe.

 
Today Virato speaks with Clifford E Carnicom. Carnicom, who has been actively involved in bringing attention to the chemtrail phenomenon for a number of years. He was previously a research scientist and federal employee for 15 years with three different agencies, including the US Department of Defense, the Bureau of Land Management and the U.S. Forest Service. His technical background is extensive in the fields of geodetic science, advanced mathematics, computer science and the physical sciences.

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Saturday, October 27
10:06 AM-11 AM  EST

Fred Keyser & Heidi Fox
Fred Keyser & Heidi Fox

Their story is like many you've heard--just a couple of folks who tried to make it in a relationship and who had a horrendous time. By the time they happened upon some astonishingly useful tools they were caught in a whirlpool of screaming, jealousy, bouts of violence and walking out on each other.

After nine years of practicing and experimenting with tools from several teachers, and teaching in private and public settings, this book is comprised of what works....

Today Virato talks with Fred Keyser and Heidi Fox, local Ashevillians, who suggest that, while the value of being acknowledged and heard has been partially understood by our society, the all-pervasiveness of the urge to be deeply received has been almost completely overlooked. They say there are critical areas of human experience that remain mysteries in spite of the level of education or psychological training one might have. "As examples." they say "look at how often people go to war with each other, kill and beat each other on the streets, divorce, abuse, or feel abused by, their children."

Fred & Heidi are the authors of Making It Safe to Love.

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Saturday, October 27
11:06 AM-Noon  EST

Dr. Gay Hendricks

Virato chats with Gay Hendricks, Ph.D., one of the leading theorists in the field of body-mind integration, and author of over twenty books in education, transpersonal psychology and centering, including: Conscious Living, The Corporate Mystic, The Centering Book and Learning to Love Yourself. He served as Professor of Counseling for twenty-one years in the School of Education at the University of Colorado, where he began teaching in 1974 shortly after receiving his doctorate from Stanford University.

In particular, he has been known for his work in developing conscious breathing exercises, which proponents believe increase awareness, energy levels, and relaxation.

As a young child, Hendricks says he was able to see the auras of people around him.

Gay Hendricks is president of The Hendricks Institute, an international learning center that teaches core skills for conscious living, and conducts workshops on various mind and body topics with his wife Kathlyn.

Over the past 24 years Gay and Kathlyn have appeared on more than 500 radio and television programs, including Oprah where they were introduced to millions of people.

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Saturday, October 27
12:06 PM-1 PM  EST

URI GELLER LIVE!

Virato interviews the world renown Uri Geller.  Geller was born in Israel on December 20, 1946. His parents are of Hungarian and Austrian descent and he is distantly related on his mother's side to Sigmund Freud. At the age of four he had a mysterious encounter with a sphere of light while in a garden near his house.

He first became aware of his unusual powers when he was five. One day, during a meal, his spoon curled up in his hand and broke, although he had applied no physical pressure to it. His parents were somewhat shocked and Uri did not mention the incident to anyone else at that time. He developed these powers in school by demonstrating them to pupils. His mother thought he inherited them from Sigmund Freud.

When he was eleven, he went to live in Cyprus, where he remained until he was seventeen. He then returned to Israel, served as a paratrooper in the Israel army and fought in the Six-Day War of 1967 during which he was wounded in action.

In 1969 he began to demonstrate his powers of telepathy and psychokenesis to small audiences. By the end of 1971, however, his was a household name throughout Israel thanks to his numerous stage appearances. He was given a plug by the then Prime Minister, Golda Meir. When asked on a national radio program what she predicted for the future of Israel, she replied, "Don't ask me - ask Uri Geller!"

In 1972, Uri left Israel for Europe, where he immediately attracted widespread attention. In Germany, witnessed by reporters and photographers, he stopped a cable-car in mid-air using only the power of his mind. He then did the same to an escalator in a major department store. That same year he went to the United States at the invitation of astronaut Captain Edgar Mitchell of the Apollo 14 mission, the sixth man to set foot on the moon, and scientist, inventor and author Andrija Puharich, MD. Among the notable scientists he met were Professor Gerald Feinberg of Columbia University physics Department, Ronald Hawke from the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Ron Robertson of the Atomic Energy Commission and NASA's Dr Werner von Braun, " Father of the Space Age", who testified that his own wedding ring bent in his hand without being touched at any time by Geller.

In 1998 Uri met Brian Josephson, Professor of Physics, and winner of the Nobel Prize for Physics, and took part in various controlled laboratory experiments. These are described, with full documentation and astonishing illustrations, in a book The Geller Papers, (1975) Houghton Mifflin Co. edited by Newsweek science writer Charles Panati. They include:

Tests at Stanford Research Institute (now SRI International) in California, where carefully witnessed Geller Effects included the creation of "loss" and "gain"; in a gram weight measured on a high-precision balance, Uri's correctly calling of eight out of ten die-throws, against odds of a million to one and he also guessed correctly the location of some hidden targets at odds of a trillion to one! These tests are documented in the official SRI film, on this website. These important controlled experiments were published as a scientific paper in the prestigious British journal Nature.

Experiments at Birkbeck College, University of London, with a team of research physicists headed by Professor J. B. Hasted, Professor of Experimental Physics and Head of the Physics Department, and the eminent theoretical physicist Professor David Bohm, who has worked with Albert Einstein and has been honored in the naming of the Aharonov-Bohm effect in quantum mechanics after him. Here, Uri caused a Geiger counter to register 500 times its normal count, deformed a molybdenum crystal 1cm in diameter and caused part of another crystal inside a pill capsule to dematerialize. Witnesses at the Birkbeck experiments included the writer Arthur C. Clarke (Click here for Sunday Times article) and the late Arthur Koestler (sponsor of Great Britain's first University chair in Parapsychology), A. V. Cleaver Director of the Rockets Division of Rolls Royce, and Professor Arthur Ellison head of the electrical engineering department of City University. See the scientific pictures which show Uri Geller with leading scientists.

Virato will chat about Geller's new film, Staya Erusa: Together We Will Change the World and other stuff

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Saturday, November 3
10:06 AM-10:50 AM  EST

You've Waited Asheville,
and Now It's Here!

Your own Virtual Center and its free!
Tune in and tell friends in Asheville to do so as well.

Open Forum  Open Mic
 
  • Is there such a thing as a "new age, holistic community" in Asheville?
  • What part does metaphysics and the paranormal play in your life?
  • What are your opinions of various religions and spiritual philosophies?
  • Should VIRATO LIVE! be more or less political, or not political at all
  • How can we directly affect consciousness?
  • Can this be done locally as well as world-wide and beyond?
  • What is Enlightenment?
  • Does protesting help?
  • What about The Secret?
  • What about 2012...and the end times?
  • What is your pet Asheville peeve?
  • What should we be doing more of?

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Saturday, November 3
10:52 AM-10:59 AM  EST


 Soul Medicine
with Dr. Jane Smolnik

Today Dr. Smolnik discusses healing our Heart Energy and eliminating Heart Disease.




Saturday, November 3
11:06 AM-Noon  EST


Rev. Deborah Johnson

Today Virato speaks with Reverend Deborah L. Johnson, the founder of Inner Light Ministries, dedicated to spiritual transformation. A dynamic public speaker, known for her ability to bring clarity to complex and emotionally charged issues, she travels the nation teaching, training, and consulting on cultural diversity. A life-time civil rights activist, her work has been featured in numerous books, magazines, and television programs including appearances on The Donahue Show and ABC Nightline. Her message is one of possibility, inclusivity, empowerment and transformation.

Rev Johnson hosted the Say Yes To Life radio show on KNRY in Monterey, CA, and is the author of the The Sacred YES, Living the Sacred YES and her latest, Your Deepest Intent, the subject of today's discussion.

She is also founder and president of The Motivational Institute, an organizational development consulting firm specializing in cultural diversity serving the public, private, and non-profit sectors. Her clients range from Fortune 500 companies to community based organizations. Rev. Johnson has held positions as a sales representative for Procter & Gamble and a real estate investment manager for Prudential Insurance Company, Hewlett PackardThe Ford Foundation, Kaiser Permanente, and Pacific Gas and Electric.

As an advocate for continual and lifelong learning, Rev. Johnson is a faculty member at The Holmes Institute of Consciousness Studies  as well as UCLA's Anderson Graduate School of Business Executive Leadership Training Institute. Rev Johnson holds a BA in economics from USC, an MBA from UCLA, and a ministerial degree from the Holmes Institute.

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Saturday, November 3
12:06 PM-1 PM  EST

The Intention
Experiment


with
Lynne McTaggart

Virato interviews Lynne McTaggart, an internationally recognized spokesperson on the science of spirituality, and author of six books, including The Field, which has been published in fourteen languages and in the successful cult classic movie, What the BLEEP Do We Know!? She is also the co-executive director of Conatus, which publishes some of the world’s most respected health and spiritual newsletters, including What Doctors Don’t Tell You and Living the Field. Her latest book, The Intention Experiment is the subject of today's interview..

Presenting scientific evidence that every thought we have is a tangible energy with the power to transform and that consciousness affects matter, Lynne McTaggart sets the stage for the practice of using effective guidedintention. By recounting some of the most significant experiments ever conducted in the field of human consciousness, from research by a young graduate student at the University of Chicago that proves non-locality and quantum entanglement extends to objects outside of the quantum world, to the work of German physicist Fritz-Albert Popp who discovered that all living things constantly emit a tiny current of light, McTaggart offers readers comprehensive knowledge of how the components of our physical universe are capable of being fundamentally altered.

“We are only beginning to understand the vast and untapped human potential at our disposal: the human being’s extraordinary capacity to influence the world,” she writes. “This potential is every person’s birthright, not simply that of the gifted master. Our thoughts may be an inexhaustible and simple resource that can be called upon to focus our lives, heal our illnesses, clean up our cities and improve the planet.”

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Saturday, November 10
10:06 PM-11 AM  EST


Hans Christian King

Today, Virato chats with world-renown Asheville psychic and author, Hans Christian King. For over 50 years, King has been sharing his  ability to communicate with the spirits of humans and animals who have died. He works in partnership with four spirit guides to bring through information that is relevant to your life.

King says that at the age of three, he had his first visitation from his first guide, Red Cloud. He remembers having an out-of-body experience, and feeling a deep sense of responsibility. He started out by correctly guessing what his Christmas gifts were going to be, and by giving advice to neighbors several times his age.

A very important part of his work, he says,  is devoted, though not limited to proving the existence of life after death. King claims to be a direct-voice medium--that is, he receives a thought and then speaks it, often providing evidential proof of life after death, by giving a name or another verifiable fact. He also says he is  clairsentient, which means clear-feeling--he feels the emotions and personalities of the deceased. He is also clairvoyant, which means that he sees the actual spirit or loved one with whom he is communicating. At other times, they communicate with him through visual symbols or insights.

There are many people who remain skeptical about Hans and his abilities. Hans always says that he wouldn't have a practice without skeptics. He says that he does nothing but by the grace of God and the Great Spirit.

King is founder and director of The Hans Christian King School of Mediumship and Intuitive Development in Asheville, NC and Los Angeles, CA

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Saturday, November 10
11:06 PM-Noon  EST


Meredith Young Sowers

Virato dialogues with Meredith L. Young-Sowers, co-founder and executive director of the Stillpoint Foundation, a spiritual community and school located in Walpole, New Hampshire. Still Point Publishing, a significant part of the foundation, is a major new age, consciousness publisher.

In 1981, along with her husband, Jim Young and author Caroline Myss, she started Stillpoint Publishing . Their shared vision was to publish cutting-edge books about spirituality by authors capable of galvanizing the public's thinking. This vision infused the early books published by Stillpoint, many of which became bestsellers, by authors who were leading lights in the world of spirituality, including Jane Roberts, Robert Fritz, Helen Nearing,Sir George Trevelyan., and others

In this period, Meredith  also published Agartha  that went on to become a classic bestseller. As a result of this activity, Stillpoint developed a reputation as a small publishing company with an uncanny ability to find books that could shift public opinion. People in the world of books considered Stillpoint a publisher to be taken seriously.

She is also the founder/director of the Stillpoint School of Advanced Energy Healing, and has been teaching, counseling, and doing deep intuitive healing work for more than two decades. Considered by many to be a pioneer in the development of "energy diagnosis" methods, she lectures, offers workshops and tele-classes to audiences around the world. She says her work is a "new path to healing that brings greater love, joy, and peace to peoples' lives."

In the emerging field of energy medicine, her work centers on seven spiritual qualities that can be sensed in the body and amplified to aid healing and restore balance to body, mind, and spirit, using techniques and principles taught at the Stillpoint School.

The author of six books including Language of the Soul; Spiritual Crisis; The Souls of Animals; Spirit Heals; Agarthaa and the popular angelic messenger cards. Meredith and her new husband, Errol Sowers, expanded Stillpoint Publishing to also include books about sacred ecology. They published several blockbuster hits that included The Creation of Health by Caroline Myss and Norman Shealy, MD; Diet for a New America by John Robbins; and The Inner Athlete by Dan Millman.

An alumna and a recipient of a distinguished graduate award from Centenary College for Women, Meredith Young-Sowers holds both a Masters and a Doctor of Divinity degree from the Universal Brotherhood University. Her latest book, Spirit Heals: Awakening Woman's Inner Knowing for Self-Healing, will also be a part of the discussion.

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Saturday, November 10
12:06 PM-1 PM  EST


Jenny Smedley

Is a problem from a past life causing you stress and problems in your current life?

Today Virato probes the inner sanctum of Jenny Smedley. Based in beautiful Somerset, in the UK, Smedley is an author, TV and radio presenter/guest, international columnist, and spiritual consultant, specializing in the subject of past lives. Her own current life was turned around by a vision from her one of her own past lives. Problems and issues related to that life were healed and resolved in a few seconds.

The author of five books, Souls Don't Lie; The Tree That Talked; Past Life Angels, The Night of the Unicorn, and Coming Back to Life, Smedley has appeared on many TV shows and hundreds of radio shows, in the UK, USA, Australia, New Zealand, Iceland, Tasmania, The Caribbean, South Africa and Spain.

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Saturday, November 17
10:06 AM-10:50 AM  EST


Jeannie Zandi

Today Virato chats with Jeannie Zandi, a revolutionary of the heart, a mother, poet, and writer who embodies the spiritual warrior, tender sister-friend and spiritual guru.  She invites all into now to discover, what she says is "the true life we are meant to live." After a four year dark night of the soul, during which the illusion of the separate self with a will of its own was sandblasted into submission, love and presence set up housekeeping in Jeannie's stead.  

She says "Find the voice of love, the voice of full heart, the voice of openness, softness and incredible vulnerability that lives in you that perhaps you are not sure the world can take because it is so beautiful, and let the world hear that voice --even if it's one word that you utter."

Jeannie Zandi has an M.A. from Naropa University in Transpersonal Counseling Psychology, leads satsangs all over the country and will be in Asheville the end of this month.

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Medicine for the Soul
with Dr. Jane Smolnik

This is a repeat of the last presentation by Dr. Jane. It was appropriate for the rest of today's show. So, again today Dr. Smolnik discusses healing our heart.



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REVEALED!

Karen Kwiatkowski, PhD
Lt. Col. (Ret.) USAF

Virato interviews retired Lieutenant Colonel Karen Kwiatkowski, PhD, former Pentagon employee and eyewitness to the events at the Pentagon on 9/11, who says, "I believe the Commission failed to deeply examine the topic at hand, failed to apply scientific rigor to its assessment of events leading up to and including 9/11, failed to produce a believable and unbiased summary of what happened, failed to fully examine why it happened, and even failed to include a set of unanswered questions for future research. ...

"It is as a scientist that I have the most trouble with the official government conspiracy theory, mainly because it does not satisfy the rules of probability or physics.  The collapses of the World Trade Center buildings clearly violate the laws of probability and physics. ..."

"There was a dearth of visible debris on the relatively unmarked [Pentagon] lawn, where I stood only minutes after the impact.  Beyond this strange absence of airliner debris, there was no sign of the kind of damage to the Pentagon structure one would expect from the impact of a large airliner. This visible evidence or lack thereof may also have been apparent to the secretary of defense [Donald Rumsfeld], who in an unfortunate slip of the tongue referred to the aircraft that slammed into the Pentagon as a "missile". ...

I saw nothing of significance at the point of impact - no airplane metal or cargo debris was blowing on the lawn in front of the damaged building as smoke billowed from within the Pentagon. ... all of us staring at the Pentagon that morning were indeed looking for such debris, but what we expected to see was not evident.

The same is true with regard to the kind of damage we expected. ... But I did not see this kind of damage. Rather, the facade had a rather small hole, no larger than 20 feet in diameter. Although this facade later collapsed, it remained standing for 30 or 40 minutes, with the roof line remaining relatively straight. 

The scene, in short, was not what I would have expected from a strike by a large jetliner. It was, however, exactly what one would expect if a missile had struck the Pentagon. ...

More information is certainly needed regarding the events of 9/11 and the events leading up to that terrible day

Kwiatkowski has an MA in Government from Harvard University and a MS in Science Management from the University of Alaska. She is currently candidate for a PhD in World Politics at Catholic University; her thesis is on overt and covert war in Angola, titled A Case Study of the Implementation of the Reagan Doctrine.

She began her military career in 1978 as a second lieutenant, at Eielson Air Force Base in Alaska, providing logistical support to missions along the Chinese and Russian coasts. She also served in Spain and Italy, and was then assigned to the National Security Agency, eventually becoming a speechwriter for the agency's director. After leaving the NSA, she became an an analyst on sub-Saharan Africa policy for the Pentagon. From May, 2002 to February 2003, she served in the Pentagon's Near East and South Asia directorate (NESA).[3] While at NESA, she wrote a series of anonymous articles, "Insider Notes from the Pentagon,"  that appeared on the website of David Hackworth.[4]

Kwiatkowski left NESA in February, 2003 and retired from the Air Force the following month. In April 2003, she began writing a series of articles for the libertarian website LewRockwell.com. In June of that year, she published an article in the Ohio Beacon Journal, "Career Officer Does Eye-Opening Stint Inside Pentagon" which attracted additional notice. Since February, 2004, she has written a biweekly column, "Without Reservations", for the website Military Week.

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Saturday, November 17
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James Twyman

Virato converses with James Twyman, internationally renowned author, singer and “Peace Troubadour” who has a reputation for drawing millions of people together in prayer to influence events of world crisis. In 1995 he had an experience in the mountains of Croatia that led to his best-Emissary of Lightselling book Emissary of Light,  called “the second coming of the Celestine Prophesy” by Variety Magazine. His six books have been translated into over a dozen languages, and his CD’s are distributed around the world.

Twyman has been invited by world leaders to countries like Iraq, Northern Ireland, Israel, South Africa and Serbia to offer his insights on peace and perform the “Peace Concert,” often while conflicts have raged in those countries. He has performed twice at the United Nations in New York, as well as the US Capitol and the US Pentagon. His peace projects, including the “Cloth of Many Colors,” have inspired millions of people around the world.

In 2001 Twyman met a young boy named Marco who led him on a journey to Bulgaria. While there he met four psychic children who were being trained at a secluded monastery. Their message, which is the subject of Twyman’s book, Emissary of Love, The Psychic Children Speak to the World, was expressed in a question the children said they wanted to ask the adults of the world: “How would you act and what would you do if you knew that you are an Emissary of Love right now?” Since then Twyman has distributed many messages from these amazing children, and is in the process of organizing several conferences that will allow the consciously aware children the chance to express their wisdom.

He has also developed Internet courses to give those around the world the opportunity to learn tools for spiritual peacemaking both within themselves and in their communities. Over 80,000 people have participated in the courses.

Twyman is also the Executive Producer and Writer of the film Indigo which premiered at the Santa Fe Film Festival December 5, 2003.

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Saturday,
November 24
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Saturday, Nov. 24, 10:06 AM-10:50 AM  EST
  • Should VIRATO LIVE! be more or less political, or not political at all.
  • Is there such a thing as a "new age" community in Asheville?
  • What part does metaphysics and the paranormal play in your life?
  • What are your opinions of various religions and spiritual philosophies?
  • How can we directly affect consciousness?
  • Can this be done locally as well as world-wide and beyond?
  • What is Enlightenment?
  • What about 2012...and the end times?
  • What is your pet Asheville peeve?
  • What should we be doing more of?

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Medicine for the Soul
with Dr. Jane Smolnik

Today Dr. Smolnik probes into Metabolic Stress Syndrome, and what really needs to be healed.



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Saturday, November 24
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with Preston Nichols

Today, Virato ask you to place your mind on the shelf for one hour as he chats with Preston Nichols  Nichols received degrees in Psychology and Electrical Engineering from University of Tampa and attended Polytechnic Institute in New York.

After graduating, he went into Defense Electronics and worked at Brookhaven and the US Artificial Intelligence Laboratory.  In 1968, Nichols’s involvement with Montauk began.  He became involved with the tail end of stealth research at AIL.

Nichols claims to have actually read the final report of Project Rainbow - which we know as the Philadelphia Experiment.  The report named the Cameron brothers as being the Navy liaison in the experiment.  Next, he got pulled into the mind sciences project at Montauk.  They were working on interfacing a person's mind to the computer.  Nichols worked with Al Bielek on the psychic aspects of the Montauk Chair and the Montauk Boys program.  The Montauk Chair used subtle quantum fields to read a person's thoughts.  \

This chair was used for many purposes.  One was to open up a vortex for time travel.  Another was to collect and amplify the energy of fear generated from the Montauk Boys.  Many Montauk boys were lost forever to this program.  Preston still believes he is periodically pulled into working with these secret programs.  The people who abduct him don't seem to care much that he is talking about his experience.  Preston Nichols is the author, along with Peter Moon, of “The Montauk Project - Experiments in Time.”

Preston Nichols is an electrical engineer who graduated from the  He worked in the military industrial establishment for a number of years, including a number of secretive endeavors such as the Montauk Project. Subsequently he became involved in a small electronics manufacturing and R & D business based in Long Island, New York.

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Allen & Linda Anderson

Virato speaks with Allen and Linda Anderson, inspirational speakers and authors of a series of books about the spiritual relationships between people and animals. In 1998, the Andersons co-founded the Angel Animals Network, dedicated to increasing love and respect for all life through the power of story.

In 2004, they were recipients of a Certificate of Commendation from Minnesota's Governor Tim Pawlenty in recognition of their contributions as authors enhancing the economy and welfare of the state of Minnesota. In 2007, they were awarded the American Society of Journalists and Authors (ASJA) Outstanding Book Award for Rescued: Saving Animals from Disaster.

Allen Anderson is a writer and photographer. He was profiled in Jackie Waldman’s book, The Courage to Give. Linda Anderson is an award-winning playwright as well as a screenwriter and fiction writer. She is the author of 35 Golden Keys to Who You Are & Why You’re Here.

Allen and Linda teach writing at the Loft Literary Center, in Minneapolis, where Linda was awarded the Anderson Residency for Outstanding Loft Teachers.

The Andersons share their home with a dog, two cats, and a cockatiel.

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...Six Passages to An Inspired Life


with Dr. Brad Swift

Virato's guest this morning on Message From Asheville is Dr. Brad Swift. A resident of the Asheville area for as number of years, Swift is considered a leading authority on personal life purpose. He has been a Life On Purpose Coach for over 12 years and is the founder of the Life on Purpose Institute, an organization dedicated to offering spiritual growth 

Dr. Swift says, "you no longer have to spend years trekking through the wilderness and climbing a mountain to talk to the Great Guru." He claims to offer a "how-to manual" to uncover one’s reason for being.

Swift's life vision he says, is "a world where all people live purposeful, passionate and playful lives of service; lives of mindful abundance balanced with simplicity; and spiritual serenity."

Swift has written well over 300 articles for a diverse assortment of magazines including Omni, Entrepreneur, New Age Journal,  Yoga Journal, Utne Reader,  Better Homes and Garden, Modern Maturity, and many others

Swift is also the author of three book, Winning Through Coaching: Building Your Business Through Building Your Team ; Traveling the Purposeful Path: The 6 Passages to an Inspired Life On Purpose, and his latest Life On Purpose: Six Passages to An Inspired Life.

Dr. Swift was a guest on Virato Live! in July 2006

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 Soul Medicine
with Dr. Jane Smolnik



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Virato speaks with author David Oakford who says he had a near-death experience initially triggered by a fatal overdose. In his NDE, Oakford says he became bewildered then frightened to find that we do not “die.” Instinctively he knew to pray and was soon rescued by his own "guardian angel". Oakford will share what he was shown concerning the life-after-death realms: heavens, light beings, dark souls, the life-force, energy dynamics of our planet and its inhabitants, and the lessons-learned from a panel of evaluators. His account of the life, death, and rebirth cycle he says led him to this one realization: Love is the answer to life’s questions when all is said and done. He is the author of Soul Bared: A Metaphysical Journey and Journey Through the World of Spirit: God, Gaia, and Guardian Angels.    

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with


Anodea Judith, PhD

Virato interviews author Dr. Anodea Judith. Long concerned with the future of humanity, and passionate about awakening our collective potential, Dr. Judith has dedicated her life to healing the wounds in our personal and collective psyches, by addressing the archetypal splits in our guiding mythologies.  With the recognition that our world is teetering on a dangerous precipice, Dr. Judith decided to step back from bandaging the wounds that paraded through her private practice as a therapist, and instead take a stand against the beliefs and assumptions that were causing those wounds. 

With a proclivity for perceiving patterns, honed by two decades in the therapist chair, she now takes her lifetime study of history, psychology, mythology, and religion, to illuminate a guiding vision for humanity’s future.

Anodea Judith holds a doctorate in Health and Human Services, with a specialty in Mind-Body healing, and a Master’s in Clinical Psychology.  Her best-selling books on the chakra system, marrying Eastern and Western disciplines, have been considered groundbreaking in the field of Transpersonal Psychology and used as definitive texts in the U.S. and abroad.  With approximately 500,000 books in print, and translations in 12 languages, her books have won her the reputation of solid scholarship and international renown as a dynamic speaker and workshop leader.

Dr. Judith will be in Asheville this week.

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Saturday, December 8
10:06 AM-11 AM  EST

Message From Asheville

This morning Virato chats with old friend, Robert Eidus, President of Green Transit, Ltd.  that. seeks to provide and earth-friendly shared ride transportation service for Buncombe, Madison, Henderson and Haywood counties, as well as Asheville. The company will use  vehicles powered by alternative fuels, like bio-diesel, natural gas and electricity in order to help improve our mountain air.

The service is demand responsive for a subscription card holder. Users will be able to schedule rides by calling for service the next day. Riders are automatically matched with others needing the same trip, and they all have at least one thing in common- they care about the earth.

Eidus says that the existing transportation choices, such as the single occupant automobile, human service vehicles or private taxi service, which all rely on foreign petroleum, are not viable answers to rising concerns about air quality, congestion and future parking problems for a regional center like Asheville. He goes on to say, "When you share a ride with 2 or 3 other passengers, not only is there a reduction in the fare paid, you also triple or quadruple your fuel efficiency.". "A shared-ride experience with Green Transit, Ltd. will offer you the networking opportunity to meet other forward-thinking, environmentally conscious folks while enjoying a quality transportation experience."

Green Transit's fleet now consists of bio-diesel-fueled four passenger cars. In the near future they will add a Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) vans, and those using the latest fuel-cell technology. Their short range plan calls for adding an electrically powered bus in early 2008.

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Saturday, December 8
11:06 AM-Noon  EST

How Jesus Became a Christ: The Hidden Years. Vol. 2 of Deep Deceptions by Miceal Ledwith featured in What The BLEEP Do We Know!?


The True Christmas Story?
[previously broadcast December 23, 2006]

Tradition tells us that after his appearance in the Temple at age 12, Jesus went down and worked in a carpenter shop in Nazareth.  The next we hear of him is his baptism at the Jordan when he was 30. Whatt happened during those missing 18 years--longer than the rest of his entire life?  If all he was doing was making tables and chairs and bird feeders, then assuredly we should all take up woodwork straight away, since after that apprenticeship he was able to heal the sick, raise the dead and walk on water!!  But the truth is not that nothing of any significance was happening that we needed to know about, but that some things so significant were happening that the powers that were decided it would be better for us not to know about them. As a result the message of Jesus and his relevance for us has been turned on its head because of the need to control the masses of humanity. 

Today, Virato dialogues with Dr. Miceal Ledwith, author of the above words. Ordained a Roman Catholic priest in 1967, he was a professor at England’s Pontifical University, and became Dean of the Faculty of Theology there in 1979, and served a ten year term as President from 1985.

Ledwith was deeply involved in ecumenical relationships between the Churches in Ireland for two decades, and was a consultant to the Vatican Congregation for Education, which oversees those colleges and universities around the world who hold a Papal Charter. He lectured extensively at institutions and to groups involved in continuing education, throughout Ireland and Britain as well as all over Europe and North America. Ledwith’s research interests have always been in the fundamental areas of theology, summed up by the four great questions,” as he liked to call them: “Who are we; where did we come from; what should we do, and where are we going? None seemed to give any convincing information about what awaits us after death, what we should do while here that will help in some sense our spiritual development, and above all, there was no information whatever about what precedes life here on earth. He noticed that while many found God attractive, the religions who claimed to be God’s instruments seemed to be largely dismissed as irrelevant by an ever-increasing number of thinking people. It was apparent that none of the religions seemed to have lived up to the promises of their founders.

Miceal Ledwith set out to discover what had gone wrong and how the damage could be repaired. Inspired by the Ramtha’s [disincarnate being channeled by J. Z. Knight] teachings, Ledwith researches have involved the painful separation of time-conditioned modes of thought and views of how reality is, from fundamental beliefs about God and human destiny.

Author of several books including Science and Spirit: The Great Questions and How Jesus Became A Christ, Ledwith is a featured speaker at world-wide conferences, and also appeared in What the Bleep Do We Know?! and the sequel, Down the Rabbit Hole

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Saturday, December 8
12:06 PM-1 PM  EST

Time For A Guru


Sri Vast

Today Virato dialogues with Sri Vast from India, who is claimed to be an enlightened spiritual master, who teaches about the spiritual connection between humans and nature. Sri Vast was