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January 5, 2008

10 AM-11 AM: Vibrational Healing with Joy Gardner

11 AM-Noon:  The World Without Us by Alan Weisman

Noon-1 PM: Gary Zukav


January 12, 2008

10 AM-11 AM: Majo John Madden, Life Lived More Deeply

11 AM-Noon:  9/11 Reality Check with Laurie Manwell

Noon-1 PM: Alex Jones LIVE!


January 19, 2008

10 AM-11 AM: Open Forum

11 AM-Noon:  Supernatural Meetings with the Ancient Teachers of Mankind with Graham Hancock

Noon-1 PM: Naomi Wolf and The End of America


January 26, 2008

10 AM-11 AM: Rasta Heart, A Journey into One Love with Robert Roskind

11 AM-Noon:  BIG Pharma...they're pervasive

Noon-1 PM: Fritjof Capra and The Science of Leonardo
 


February 2, 2008

10 AM-11 AM: Snatam Kaur and her music

11 AM-1 PM:   Endgame with Alex Jones


February 9, 2008

10 AM-11 AM: All about love for Valentine's Day

11 AM-Noon:  All about love  continues for Valentine's Day

Noon-1 PM: Chuck Hillig and Seeds For The Soul


February 16, 2008

10 AM-11 AM: The Dirt People

11 AM-Noon:  Bill Plotkin talks about Nature and The Human Soul

Noon-1 PM: The Way of the Explorer with astronaut Edgar Mitchell
 


February 23, 2008

10 AM-11 AM: Kailesh

11 AM-Noon:  Conscious Evolution with Barbara Marx Hubbard

Noon-1 PM: Backdoor to Enlightenment
 


March 1, 2008

10 AM-11 AM: The Bioneers are Coming

11 AM-Noon:  Happy for No Reason with Marci Shimoff

Noon-1 PM: The Way from Science to Soul
 


March 8, 2008

10 AM-11 AM: Bruce Stewart and NLP (Neuro Linguistic Programming)

11 AM-Noon:  The Spirit World of Victor Hugo

Noon-1 PM: Open forum on meditation and the passing of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi


March 15, 2008

10 AM-11 AM: Yogi Amrit Desai

11 AM-Noon:  Rebirthing & Immortality with Leonard Orr

Noon-1 PM: Sound Healing with Jonathan Goldman
 


March 22, 2008

10 AM-11 AM: Open Forum & K. Sridhar

11 AM-Noon:  Scott Kalechstein, New Age minstrel

Noon-1 PM: Beyond Death, with Nanci Danison
 


March 29, 2008

10 AM-11 AM: The Oprah and Eckert Tolle phenomenon with the Waterhouses of the Center for Creative Living

11 AM-Noon:  Shamanic Sound with Zacciah Blackburn

Noon-1 PM: Stephen Redding faced multiple deaths


April 5, 2008

10 AM-11 AM: Message from Asheville with Mario Rogers and the Unusual Paranormal

11 AM-Noon:  Galactic Messenger the One World Family Commune

Noon-1 PM: Washington, You're Fired!


April 12, 2008

10 AM-11 AM: Swami Beyondananda and his alter ego, Steve Bhaerman

11 AM-Noon:  The Freegan lifestyle

Noon-1 PM: Will Tuttle and The World Peace Diet


April 19, 2008

10 AM-11 AM: Open Forum

11 AM-Noon:  Truckin' to Enlightenment with Norio Kushi

Noon-1 PM:  Debbie Ford Why Good People Do Bad Things


April 26 , 2008

10 AM-11 AM: Jimmy Sexton, Chinese medicine and joy.

11 AM-Noon:  The Life You Were Meant to Live with Dan Millman

Noon-1 PM: Raymond Francis says Never Be Sick Again


May 3, 2008

10 AM-11 AM: Feng Shui with with Leslie Grotenhuis

11 AM-Noon:  Dr. Bob Hieronimus and the United Symbolism of America

 Noon-1 PM: Take Me to Truth


May 10, 2008

10 AM-11 AM: OPEN FORUM, Alone with Virato

11 AM-Noon:  When Healing Becomes A Crime with Kenny Ausubel

Noon-1 PM: Urgent Message from Mother, with Jean Shinoda Bolen, MD


May 17, 2008

10 AM-11 AM: Local Exchange Trading System

11 AM-Noon:  Dr. Fred Bell, Scientist to UFO Contactee

Noon-1 PM: Every Word Has Power with Yvonne Oswald


May 24, 2008

10 AM-11 AM: Conscious Freedom with Sara McIntosh

11 AM-Noon:  OPEN FORUM

Noon-1 PM: Excuse Me, Your God Is Waiting with Michelle Prosser


May 31, 2008

10 AM-11 AM: OPEN FORUM What is fiction what is reality?

11 AM-Noon:  To Bee, or Not to Bee

Noon-1 PM: The Shell Game by Steve Alten


June 7, 2008

10 AM-11 AM: Malidoma

11 AM-Noon:  The Unknown Universe with Richard Hammond, Ph.D.

Noon-1 PM:  Spiritual Marketing with Andrea Adler


June 14, 2008

10 AM-11 AM: Classical Homeopathy with Jane Cicchetti

11 AM-Noon:  Drunk with Wonder with Steve Ryals

Noon-1 PM:  The Allies of Humanity with Marshall Vian Summers


June 21, 2008

10 AM-11 AM: Pop Guru, Panache Desai

11 AM-Noon: Marcus Sircus live from Brazil

Noon-1 PM:  Vaishali, soul stripper


June 28, 2008

10 AM-11 AM: OPEN FORUM

11 AM-Noon:  Remineralize to prevent  a coming Ice Age

Noon-1 PM:  Walking Between Worlds, Belonging to None


July 5, 2008

10 AM-11 AM: Multi-Dimensional Beings, with Larry Harris

11 AM-Noon: The Work with Byron Katie

Noon-1 PM:  Sacred Secrets with Paula Godwin Coppel


July 12, 2008

10 AM-11 AM: Adair Cates and Live With Intention

11 AM-Noon: Susan Shumsky and How To Hear The Voice of God

Noon-1 PM:  Understanding A Course in Miracles


July 19, 2008

10 AM-11 AM: OPEN FORUM

11 AM-Noon: OPEN FORUM

Noon-1 PM:  Spiritual Delights & Delusions with Steve Posner


July 26, 2008

10 AM-1 PM: Broadcasting live from Live Bele Cher 2008, Asheville largest street fair attended by hundreds of thousands of people. Meet a tree


August 2, 2008

10 AM-11 AM:  I  Am Therefore I Am with Lawrence Doochin

11 AM-Noon:  2013 with Marie D. Jones

Noon-1 PM: 

Reincarnation & Past Lives with Walter Semkiw, MD
 


August 9, 2008

10 AM-11 AM:  Getting Back to Love with Asheville's Sarah and Joseph Malinak

11 AM-Noon: Neale Donald Walsch, Happier Than God

Noon-1 PM:  Crop Circles and Pythagoras
 


August 16, 2008

10 AM-11 AM:  Seeing True: The Way of Spirit with Ron Chapman

11 AM-Noon:  Eric Braverman, MD, Younger You.

Noon-1 PM:  Think Like a Millionaire with Marc Allen
 


August 23, 2008

10 AM-11 AM:  2012 Atlantean Revelations

11 AM-Noon: Dolphins

Noon-1 PM: Tommy Chong


August 30, 2008

10 AM-11 AM:  Organicfest 2008 Preview

11 AM-Noon:  Animal Rights Activism

Noon-1 PM:  Pushing Ultimates with Lew Paz
 


September 6, 2008

10 AM-11 AM:  Live at Organicfest 2008

11 AM-Noon: Live at Organicfest 2008

Noon-1 PM:  Live at Organicfest 2008
 


September 13, 2008

10 AM-11 AM:  Exploring Consciousness with Virato, an Open Forum

11 AM-Noon: Gangaji

Noon-1 PM:  The Spirituality of Pythagoras
 


September 20, 2008

10 AM-11 AM:  Corinna Wood and Southeast Women's Herbal Conference

11 AM-Noon: What is Enlightenment? with Andrew Cohen

Noon-1 PM:  Citizen-Alpha, fiction of reality
 


September 27, 2008

10 AM-11 AM:  August Worlery and sound technology for healing and enlightenment

11 AM-Noon:  Dr. Iyanla Vanzant

Noon-1 PM:  The Egypt Code
 


October 4, 2008

10 AM-11 AM:  OPEN Forum

11 AM-Noon:  Morgellons Syndrome

Noon-1 PM:  Gurdjieff and the 4th Way

 


October 11, 2008

10 AM-11 AM:  Corey-Pine Shane on Herbs

11 AM-Noon:  The Law of Attraction Plain & Simple with  Sonia Ricotti

Noon-1 PM:  Transcending the Speed of Light with Marc Seifer, Ph.D.

 


October 18, 2008

10 AM-11 AM:  Arjuna Da Silva and the Earthaven Eco-Community

11 AM-Noon:  Small Pleasures with Justine Toms

Noon-1 PM:  SOLITUDE with Bob Kull


October 25, 2008

10 AM-11 AM: Open Forum: Why do we go to war?

11 AM-Noon:  The Roswell Legacy

Noon-1 PM:  Kenneth Smith and Awakening the Energy Body
 


November 1, 2008

10 AM-11 AM:  Meditation & Yoga with Pandit Jerome Smith

11 AM-Noon:  Generation Rx with Kevin P. Miller

Noon-1 PM:  When the Soul Awakens
 


November 8, 2008

10 AM-11 AM:  Rain Hummingbird and Animal Mysticism

11 AM-Noon:  The Jaguar that Roams the Mind with Robert Tindall

Noon-1 PM:  One With the Herd with Liz Mitten Ryan
 


November 15, 2008

10 AM-11 AM:  All about Buteyko Breathing with Dorisse Neale

11 AM-Noon:  Dr. Rima Laibow and Codex Alimentarius

Noon-1 PM:  Unearthing Ancient America
 


November 22, 2008

10 AM-11 AM:  OPEN Forum

11 AM-Noon:  Dr. Susan Bustos and the healing power of Icaros

Noon-1 PM:  A Journey into life with Steven Hairfield
 


November 29, 2008

10 AM-11 AM:  Max the Crystal Skull

11 AM-Noon:  Survival Into the 21st Century with Viktoras Kulvinskas

Noon-1 PM:  Spiritual Nutrition with Gabriel Cousens, MD
 


December 6, 2008

10 AM-11 AM:  Spiritual Wisdom for a Planet in Peril

11 AM-Noon:  Inner Paths to Outer Spaces with Rick Strassman, MD

Noon-1 PM:  2012 and the Galactic Center with Christine Page, MD
 


December 13, 2008

10 AM-11 AM:  Robert Tennyson Stevens and Conscious Language

11 AM-Noon:  Marc Seifer on Nikola Tesla

Noon-1 PM:  Marc Seifer and Graphology
 


December 20, 2008

10 AM-11 AM:  OPEN Forum

11 AM-Noon: The 99th Money with Eliezer Sobel

Noon-1 PM:  Healing the Rift between Science & Spirit, with Leo Kim, PhD.
 


December 27, 2008

10 AM-11 AM:  Annual On Air New Year's Party

11 AM-Noon:  Original Instructions with Melissa Nelson

Noon-1 PM: A Better World with Mitchell Rabin 
 


 

 

 

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Saturday, January 5
10:06 AM-11 AM  EST


with
Joy Gardner

Virato chats with Joy Gardner, a recent arrival to Asheville who has been a pioneer in complementary health since 1972. Director of the Vibrational Healing Program, and author of 15 books on self-healing, she has taught throughout the United States, Canada, England and Australia.

Living in the Southwest and then in the Northwest, Gardner studied with the Hopi, Apache, and Coast Salish Indians, learning herbal, shamanic and sound healing. This she combined with her own ancestral Hebraic and middle Eastern traditions as the daughter of a precognitive mother and the granddaughter of a rabbi/cantor.

Starting her healing career as an herbalist, Gardner was educated in the field, living in a rural commune with 80 people on 200 acres of land. Her fellow communards provided the laboratory for one of the first contemporary experiments in holistic healing in 1966. From there, Joy worked at the Country Doctor Community Clinic in Seattle, where they published her first book, Healing Yourself, which has sold over 100,000 copies.

She also helped start the Siuslaw Rural Health Clinic between Florence and Eugene, Oregon, where she worked as an Alternative Practitioner. Later Gardner trained with death-and-loss pioneer Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, and helped start a hospice in Nelson, B.C., Canada, where she trained volunteers.

Her close relationship with nature gave rise to an intimate sense of communication with rocks and crystals, which led to the creation of her own unique method of healing, which she calls Vibrational Alignmentª

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Saturday, January 5
11:06 AM-Noon  EST


with

Alan Weisman
Alan Weisman

Virato converses with Alan Weisman. senior editor and radio producer for Homelands Productions. His reports, set in the United States, Mexico, Canada, Central and South America, the Caribbean, Antarctica, Europe, the former Soviet Union, and the Middle and Far East, have appeared in Harper's, The New York Times Magazine, The Atlantic Monthly, The Los Angeles Times Magazine, Orion, Audubon, Mother Jones, Discover, Condé Nast Traveler, Resurgence, and in several anthologies including The Best American Science Writing 2006, and have been heard on National Public Radio, Public Radio International, and American Public Media.

He is the author of An Echo In My Blood (Harcourt Brace, Inc., 1999); Gaviotas: A Village to Reinvent the World (Chelsea Green Publishing, 1998); La Frontera: The United States Border With Mexico (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1986); and We, Immortals (Pocket Books, 1979). and his latest, The World Without Us (Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press, 2007), the subject of today's conversation.

Dr. Weisman is Laureate Associate Professor in Journalism and Latin American Studies at the University of Arizona, where he leads an annual field program in international journalism.

Weisman has been a Fulbright Senior Scholar in Colombia, writer-in-residence at the Altos de Chavón Escuela de Arte y Diseño in the Dominican Republic, the John Farrar Fellow in Nonfiction at the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, and a contributing editor to the Los Angeles Times Magazine.

Among his radio awards shared with his Homelands colleagues are a Robert F. Kennedy Citation, the Harry Chapin/World Hunger Year award, and Brazil's Prèmio Nacional de Jornalismo Radiofônico. He has also received a Four Corners Award for Best Nonfiction Book; a Los Angeles Press Club Award for Best Feature Story; and a Best of the West Award in Journalism. His book, Gaviotas: A Village to Reinvent the World, won the 1998 Social Inventions Award from the London-based Global Ideas Bank. He and his wife, sculptor Beckie Kravetz, live in western Massachusetts.

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Saturday, January 5
12:06 PM-1 PM  EST

 


Gary Zukav

Virato dialogues with  with internationally acclaimed author and lecturer, Gary Zukav. Zukav the author of The Dancing Wu Li Masters: An Overview of the New Physics, winner of The American Book Award for Science in 1979, and The Seat of the Soul, a New York Times, USA Today, Los Angeles Times, and Publishers Weekly number-one bestseller. His books have sold over 6 million copies and  published in twenty-four languages.

Zukav is a graduate of Harvard and a former U.S. Army Special Forces (Green Beret) officer in Vietnam. After he began doing shows with Oprah Winfrey, The Seat of the Soul became a #1 New York Times bestseller and remained on the New York Times bestseller list fort three years

Zukav's gentle humor, sensitivity, and deep insights have endeared him to millions of readers and listeners. His spiritual partner is Linda Francis. They lecture internationally, and through Genesis: The Foundation for the Universal Human, they offer retreats, programs, and other events supporting the experience of spiritual partnership. They live in northern California.

In his words, "My life has been an unfolding vision of a planet without conflict, a world that reflects the values of the soul – harmony, cooperation, sharing, and reverence for Life – and that is filled with universal humans, humans who are citizens of the Universe, whose allegiance is to life. The more pain I see in the world, the more I see how it can be used to find and transform the parts of ourselves that are creating so violently and destructively into parts that create consciously and constructively. I see the potential for a new world being born in front of me and all around me, and I feel the only way to bring that potential into being is to know myself, and where necessary, change myself, to create authentic power, to align personality with soul, and I love sharing what I know about how to do that."

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Saturday, January 12
10:06 AM-10:50 AM  EST


Majo John Madden, Ph.D.

Virato's guest this morning is Majo John Madden who originally studied to be a Catholic priest and psychiatrist  at Loyola University.

But then he gave up a four-year scholarship to medical school when he realized that his whole young life had suddenly become programmed for him.

Instead he got a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from the University of Rochester and practiced psychology for over 20 years, specializing in Gestalt and other humanistic approaches to counseling and therapy.

He taught psychology at Alfred University in upstate New York and practiced organization development in major corporations for 15 years.

Madden says that for many years he immersed myself in meditative and spiritual disciplines including TM, Bhakti yoga,  Zen Buddhism (he studied with the Vietnamese Zen master Thich Nhat Hanh for four years) and Sufism.

He says he finally realized his true spiritual path is the “low road” to higher consciousness – progressively stripping away any attempt to be anything other than who you actually are.

Dr. Madden moved to Asheville from Chicago three years ago, to leave the management consulting and psychology world behind. Here in Asheville, his jobs have included restaurant server, taxi driver, and golf pro shop locker room attendant.  Along the way he created a web site
http://www.home.earthlink.net/~authenticcustomerservice and a blog http://www.authenticcustomerservice.blogspot.com  on what he calls “authentic customer service.”

He now leads retreats called Life Lived More Deeply. More information on this work is available at www.llmdongoing.blogspot.com.

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Saturday, January 12
10:52 AM-10:59 AM  EST


 Soul Medicine
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Saturday, January 12
11:06 AM-Noon  EST


 

Virato's guest today is Laurie Manwell, a researcher and writer for the 9/11 Truth Movement, and the  Journal of 9/11 Studies:

Two of her recent papers are "Faulty Towers of Belief: Part I. Demolishing the Iconic Psychological Barriers to 9/11 Truth" and "Faulty Towers of Belief: Part II. Rebuilding the Road to Freedom of Reason."

Using only mainstream  scientific research, Manwell's papers identify several basic psychological  phenomena that can work to prevent objective evaluation of evidence  that contradicts the official account of 9/11 proffered by the Bush  administration and their supporters.

The first paper breaks down these psychological barriers into categories and gives examples based on a summary of years of scientific study. The second paper suggests detailed ways to use this information to talk to people about the facts of 9/11 without arousing defensiveness in efforts to encourage  people to begin to question what they have been led to believe about  9/11.

She is working on presenting and publishing a paper in a panel at a conference in the USA on administration policy in the spring. The  paper, "In Denial of Democracy," will focus on the psychology of state crimes against democracy and how to encourage citizens to take responsibility for protecting their constitutional rights,  specifically in the context of the events of 9/11.

Manwell has a Bachelor's degree in Biology and Psychology, a MS in cellular, molecular and developmental biology, and  is currently a PhD candidate in Behavioral Neuroscience. Several papers on cognition, personality, social psychology, and molecular biology have been published and in press in mainstream journals.

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


Alex Jones

Virato probes the mind of Alex Jones. Jones has produced a series of videos about what he believes is the emergence of a totalitarian world government, based on what he views as the erosion of the United States' national sovereignty and its civil liberties, as well as the misuse of government power, corporate deception, and cohesion between disparate power structures.

Jones has been featured on Good Morning America, 20/20, 60 Minutes, in countless publications including The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, The Los Angeles Times, and in countless other media. He has been called, "an absolutely riveting television presence," by Patrick Beech of the Austin-American Statesman.

Jones is also the producer of numerous DVDs on the 9/11 cover-up, considered the most popular.

He is currently the host of a radio show on the Genesis Network and is now heard by millions.

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Saturday, January 19
10:06 AM-11 AM  EST


OPEN FORUM

So, what do you have to say?

Today Virato opens the phones to his listeners, inviting them to become the program Did you hear that on Friday, January 11, ABC's 20/20 did a special on Asheville, North Carolina saying it was a "city of bliss."

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Saturday, January 19
11:06 AM-Noon  EST

Supernatural

Graham Hancock Portrait

Today, Virato speaks with Graham Hancock,  author of the international bestsellers The Sign and The Seal, Fingerprints of the Gods and Heaven's Mirror. His books have sold more than five million copies worldwide and have been translated into 27 languages. His public lectures and TV appearances have put his ideas before audiences of tens of millions. He has become recognized as an unconventional thinker who raises legitimate questions about humanity's history and prehistory and offers an increasingly popular challenge to the entrenched views of orthodox scholars.

Born in Edinburgh, Scotland, Hancock's early years were spent in India, where his father worked as a surgeon. Later he went to school and university in the northern English city of Durham and graduated from Durham University in 1973 with First Class Honors in Sociology. He went on to pursue a career in quality journalism, writing for many of Britain's leading newspapers including The Times, The Sunday Times, The Independent, and The Guardian. He was co-editor of New Internationalist magazine from 1976-1979 and East Africa correspondent of The Economist from 1981-1983.

In the early 1980's Hancock's writing began to move consistently in the direction of books. His first book (Journey Through Pakistan, with photographers Mohamed Amin and Duncan Willetts) was published in 1981. It was followed by Under Ethiopian Skies (1983), Ethiopia: The Challenge of Hunger (1984), and AIDS: The Deadly Epidemic (1986). In 1987 Hancock began work on his widely-acclaimed critique of foreign aid, Lords of Poverty, which was published in 1989. African Ark (with photographers Angela Fisher and Carol Beckwith) was published in 1990.

In 2002 Hancock published Underworld: Flooded Kingdoms of the Ice Age to great critical acclaim, and hosted the accompanying British TV series. This was the culmination of years of research and on-hand dives at ancient underwater ruins. Arguing that many of the clues to the origin of civilization lay underwater, on coastal regions once above water but flooded at the end of the last Ice age, Underworld offered tangible archaeological evidence that myths and legends of ancient floods were not to be dismissed out of hand.

The subject of today's chat will be his latest book, Supernatural: Meetings with the Ancient Teachers of Mankind.

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Saturday, January 19
12:06 AM-1 PM  EST


Naomi Wolf

Virato chats with best-selling author Naomi Wolf, who, in a stunning indictment of the Bush administration and Congress, lays out her case for saving American democracy. In authoritative research and documentation Wolf explains how events of the last six years parallel steps taken in the early years of the 20th century’s worst dictatorships such as Germany, Russia, China, and Chile.

Naomi Wolf graduated from Yale in 1984 and was a Rhodes scholar at New College, Oxford University. She is the author of the best-selling books The Beauty Myth, Fire with Fire, Promiscuities, and Misconceptions.  The New York Times called The Beauty Myth one of the 70 most significant books of the century. 

Wolf was a consulting editor at George Magazine. Her essays appear regularly in The New Republic, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, Glamour, Ms., and other publications. Described by Camille Paglia as a "yuppie feminist," Wolf counseled Al Gore during his unsuccessful run for the U.S. presidency in 1999, for which she was heavily

Here's an excerpt of her November interview on WNYC  New York 

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Saturday, January 26
10:06 AM-10:50 AM  EST


with
Robert Roskind

Today Virato chats with Robert Roskind. Roskind, his wife, Julia, and their 19 year-old daughter, Alicia, have organized and hosted nearly 100 "One Love Events" in Jamaica and on Native American reservations, colleges and at public venues in the U.S. All are non-commercial, involve no sponsorship funding and are free to the public. They are non-denominational, apolitical and bring forward a message of universal love for all.

One of the largest was on February 6, 2005, Bob Marley's 60th Birthday Celebration, in Kingston, Jamaica with a live audience of tens of thousands and a TV and radio audience of almost two million. It included presentations by the Jamaican head of state, Governor General Sir Howard Cooke, the Minister of Education, the Minister of Tourism, Bob's daughter, Stephanie Marley, many conscious civic leaders and talk show hosts and twenty well-known recording artists also performed including Bunny Wailer, Culture, Luciano, Ernie Smith and Abijah.

These events have often led to a community-wide healing. Their five events on the Hopi reservation in Arizona led to the Hopis defeating reservation gambling and preserving their ancient ways. Their two events on the Havasupai reservation on the floor of the Grand Canyon led to the tribe electing a pro-environmental tribal council committed to protecting the Canyon. In Jamaica, their 54 concerts brought a much-needed message of love to a country in turmoil.

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Saturday, January 26
10:52 AM-10:59 AM  EST


 Soul Medicine
with Dr. Jane Smolnik




Saturday, January 26
11:06 AM-Noon  EST

Over 1/2 of commercial television advertising is for prescription or OTC pharmaceuticals. The propaganda techniques they use are sleazy. But that is only what you see on TV. On July 8, 2006 we aired this program, and feel the public airwaves must hear it again!

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 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 pharmaceutical 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.

As a side note, Katharine Heigl from ABC's  Grey's Anatomy is the film's star.

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Saturday, January 26
12:06 PM-1 PM  EST


Fritjof Capra

Today, Virato speaks with Fritjof Capra, Ph.D., physicist and systems theorist, and founding director of the Center for Ecoliteracy Berkeley, California, which promotes ecology and systems thinking in primary and secondary education. 

He is on the faculty of Schumacher College, an international center for ecological studies in England, and frequently gives management seminars for top executives.

In addition to his research in physics and systems theory, Dr. Capra has been engaged in studying the philosophical and social implications of contemporary science for the past 30 years.  He lectures widely to lay and professional audiences in Europe, Asia, and North and South America

Dr. Capra is the author of five international bestsellers, The Tao of Physics (1975), The Turning Point (1982), Uncommon Wisdom (1988), The Web of Life (1996), and The Hidden Connections (2002). He co-authored Green Politics (1984), Belonging to the Universe (1991), and EcoManagement (1993), and co-edited Steering Business Toward Sustainability (1995).

His most recent book, The Science of Leonardo, is the subject of today's discussion.

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10:06 AM-11 AM  EST


Snatam Kaur

This morning Virato chats with Snatam Kaur, one of the most popular New Age artists of our time, selling over 50,000 albums a year. Her CDs of Sikh-inspired chants ranked in the New Age Retailer’s Top 20 in 2004, 2005, and 2006. In 2005, Snatam was the only artist to place three albums in the Top 20

An international favorite with fans across the U.S, Europe, Asia, South America and the South Pacific, Snatam Kaur performs for tens of thousands each year, from the Bahamas to Singapore, and her enthusiastic audience continues to expand. One fan spoke for all when he admitted, “We come to Snatam’s concerts to experience the beautiful atmosphere her voice creates, to heal and grow.”

You’ll find enthusiastic press about Snatam’s music everywhere from the Houston Chronicle to the Hindustani Times. She’s also been featured on the cover of New Age publications such as the Light Connection and the Body Mind Spirit Guide.

Snatam is deeply committed to supporting the United Nation’s peace initiatives through her ongoing Celebrate Peace Tour, and is active in the interfaith movement, helping promote understanding and respect between the world religions. In addition to her concerts, she also teaches yoga and chanting workshops throughout the world as a way to share the tools for inner peace she practices each day.

Asheville will be graced with her presence on Friday, February 29, when she shares her love and inspiring voice. See Namasté Yoga

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Saturday, February 2
11:06 AM-1 PM  EST

 
 

with
Alex Jones
 
On January 12, Virato experienced some telephone miscommunications while attempting to chat with Alex Jones, so we are having him back..
Jones, who some have dubbed a more aggressive Michael Moore, has over the past 15 years, produced a series of videos about what he believes is the emergence of a totalitarian world government.

He says that he bases this on what he views as the erosion of the United States' national sovereignty loss of civil liberties, misuse of government power, corporate deception, and cohesion between disparate power structures as clear identification of the process.

Jones has been featured on Good Morning America, 20/20, 60 Minutes, in countless publications including The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, The Los Angeles Times, and in countless other media. He has been called, "an absolutely riveting television presence," by Patrick Beech of the Austin-American Statesman.

Jones is also the producer of numerous DVDs on the 9/11 cover-up, considered the most popular.
 
He is currently the host of a radio show on the Genesis Network and is now heard by millions. His latest DVD is called Endgame: Blueprint for Global Enslavement:

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Saturday, February 9
10:06 AM-10:50 AM  EST


Is The Answer

Today is all about love. A tribute to St. Valentine. Poems, stories, messages of love to your lovers,  Call in and share your love with the world. Is love the answer?

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10:52 AM-10:59 AM  EST



with
Dr. Jane Smolnik




Saturday, February 9
11:06 AM-Noon  EST



continues, with its various expressions

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Saturday, February 9
12:06 PM-1 PM  EST


Chuck Hillig

Today Virato chats with Chuck Hillig who presents an empowering worldview, combining the mysticism of eastern philosophy with the practicality of western psychology.

He has a BS in Social Studies from John Carroll University in Cleveland, an MA from St. Louis University, and an MA from Azusa Pacific University, and has been licensed as a marriage and family therapist since 1978.

Hillig is the author of the internationally distributed Enlightenment Quartet.  Number three in the quartet is Seeds For The Soul: Living as the Source of Who You Are, and the subject today's chat.

He is the author of seven books on spirituality and psychology.  Three of these books are currently in print in English, German, Dutch, Hungarian, and Russian

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Saturday, February 16
10:06 AM-11 AM  EST


In the future, environmental degradation has forced humanity to live within giant domed cities.  The Corporate Sponsors, which have supplanted nation states, have brought humans to the pinnacle of civilization through a social order determined only by wealth. Information along with everything else has become a commodity. Life is good and only silly myths about "Dirt Men" plague the society. Follow one man as he challenges the social order and witness his transformation to a reluctant revolutionary. These are the thoughts of Asheville author, Ray Bawarchi, Virato's guest this morning.

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Saturday, February 16
10:52 PM-11 AM  EST

A bi-weekly sponsored program about emotional clearing, soul retrieval and inner peace with Radavie. Today, Undoing your Hidden Past.

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Saturday, February 16
11:06 AM-Noon  EST


Bill Plotkin

Virato speaks with Bill Plotkin, PhD, author of Nature and the Human Soul" Cultivating Wholeness and Community in a Fragmented World.

Plotkin says that if we are to survive as a species, we must progress from our current egocentric, aggressively competitive, consumer society to an ecocentric, soul-based one that is sustainable, cooperative, and compassionate. At once a primer on human development and a manifesto for change, Nature and the Human Soul fashions a template for a more mature, fulfilling, and purposeful life — and a better world.

Plotkin is considered one of the nation’s leading authorities on vision quests and other nature-based spiritual programs and has lectured widely at home and abroad.  He pioneered one of the country's most popular training programs in wilderness rites that includes advanced courses on nature and soul and professional trainings in soul-centered psychotherapy, ceremony, and wilderness skills.  He has worked as a consultant to individuals, groups, government agencies, corporations, and public school systems on rites of passage and soul-centered human development.  His vision quests are sponsored and supported by Naropa University in Boulder, CO, Omega Institute in Rhinebeck, NY, and the Institute of Noetic Sciences in Petaluma, CA.

The founding director of
Animas Valley Institute, he has guided thousands of people on Vision Quests and other programs since 1980.  He has been a psychotherapist, research psychologist, rock musician, river runner, professor of psychology, and mountain-bike racer. As a research psychologist, he studied dreams and non-ordinary states of consciousness achieved through meditation, biofeedback, and hypnosis.

Currently an ecotherapist, depth psychologist, and wilderness guide, he leads a variety of experiential, nature-based individuation programs. Plotkin's previous book was called Soulcraft: Crossing into the Mysteries of Nature and Psyche. His doctorate in psychology (1976) is from the University of Colorado at Boulder.

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Saturday, February 16
12:06 PAM-1 PM  EST


with
Astronaut Edgar Mitchell

On January 31, 1971, US Navy Captain, Dr. Edgar Mitchell embarked on a journey into outer space that resulted in becoming the sixth man to walk on the moon. The Apollo 14 mission was NASA's third manned lunar landing.

This historic journey ended safely nine days later on February 9, 1971. It was an audacious time in the history of mankind. For Mitchell, however, the most extraordinary journey was yet to come.

As he hurtled earthward through the abyss between the two worlds, Mitchell became engulfed by a profound sensation "a sense of universal connectedness."  He intuitively sensed that his presence, that of his fellow astronauts, and that of the planet in the window were all part of a deliberate, universal process and that the glittering cosmos itself was in some way conscious.  The experience  was so overwhelming Mitchell knew his life would never be the same.

Scientist, test pilot, naval officer, astronaut, entrepreneur, author and lecturer, Dr. Mitchell's extraordinary career personifies humankind's eternal thrust to widen its horizons as well as its inner soul.

His academic background includes a BS in Industrial Management from Carnegie Mellon University, a BS from the U.S. Naval Academy, and a Ph.D. in Aeronautics and Astronautics from MIT

Dr. Mitchell has received many awards and honors including the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the USN Distinguished Medal and three NASA Group Achievement Awards.  He was inducted to the Space Hall of Fame in 1979 and the Astronaut Hall of Fame in 1998.

After retiring from the Navy in 1972, Dr. Mitchell founded the Institute of Noetic Sciences to foster research into the nature of consciousness.

He is the author of Psychic Exploration, and The Way of the Explorer , the subject of today's discussion with Virato.

Dr. Mitchell has devoted the last 35 years to studying human consciousness and psychic and paranormal phenomena in search of a common ground between science and spirit.

A side note: Living in Roswell, New Mexico when the "famous" UFO was to have crashed near his ranch when he was 13, soon after he began flying aircraft. Coincidence or....

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Saturday, February 23
10:06 AM-10:50 PM  EST

Jai Ma!

with
Om Kailash

Today Virato chats with Om Kailash, a man who worked for many years as a professor and scholar of communication studies (as Kurt A. Bruder, Ph.D.), exploring the relationship between our everyday interaction and our sense of self.  He ventured beyond the usual sources and methods of conventional social science, consulting the world's wisdom traditions and their procedures for transforming the practitioner's relationship to ego.

He says, "By the grace of my guru, Bhagavan Das, I now share some things that I've learned on my journey by participating in kirtans (interactive devotional chanting events) and conducting workshops on spiritually-relevant themes.

Kailash's latest book and CD combo is called Following Sound into Silence: Chanting Your Way Beyond Ego into Bliss, the subject of today's dialogue.

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10:52 AM-11 AM  EST



with
Dr. Jane Smolnik

This week: Getting Clear




Saturday, February 23
11:06 AM-11 PM  EST


Barbara Marx Hubbard

Today Virato chats with noted author, futurist, citizen diplomat, and social architect Barbara Marx Hubbard

Dr. Hubbard is at the forefront of an emergent 'post-conventional' worldview - - a quantum change comparable to the Renaissance and the Enlightenment periods - - that is unleashing evolutionary forces embodying creativity, deepening spirituality, and environmental systems awareness. Hubbard calls this worldview 'Conscious Evolution', and unlike futurists' usually grandiose visions, is actually codifying it into a cohesive social potential movement.

President of the Foundation for Conscious Evolution  Hubbard co-founded several major organizations including the World Future Society the Society For The Universal Human,  and the Global Association for New Thought.

In 1984 her name was placed in nomination for Vice President of the United States (along with Geraldine Ferraro) on the Democratic ticket, proposing an Office for the Future and a “Peace Room” in the White House to scan for, map, connect, and communicate what is working in the United States and the world. She has developed a plan for the Transformation of the American Presidency that came out of this experience.

Dr. Hubbard’s books include Conscious Evolution: Awakening the Power of Our Social Potential; Emergence: The Shift from Ego to Essence; The Evolutionary Journey: Your Guide to a Positive Future; The Hunger of Eve: One Woman’s Odyssey toward the Future; Revelation: Message of Hope for a New Humanity, and Our Crisis is a Birth.

Many people regard her as an heir to Buckminster Fuller; who once said she is "the best informed human now alive regarding Futurism" 

Hubbard hosted the PBS special Potentials: Envisioning The New Millennium, a stunning television series which featured Gene Roddenberry, Timothy Leary, Buckminster Fuller, Toni and John Lilly, Jerry Pournelle, and Ray Bradbury as guests and she is currently producing a seven part documentary series entitled Humanity Ascending: A New Way through Together. This transformational series presents vital elements to awaken the codes for our own conscious evolution and offers direction, meaning and a vision toward our birth as a new humanity.

She appears on many television and radio interviews and speaks internationally before audiences as wide ranging as NASA to the Inner city of Los Angeles. Space migration, life extension, and macro-political models are just some of the projects Hubbard has promoted over her more than thirty years of advocacy.

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Saturday, February 23
12:06 PM-1 PM  EST

Most everyone dreams of a better life. All the things you’ve ever wanted --happiness, loving relationships, well-being, abundance, and peace of mind -- are  qualities of enlightenment, a way of embracing our fullest potential that seemed unavailable, until now. Blending centuries-old insight from a Tibetan spiritual leader with contemporary wisdom from a bold and innovative non-Buddhist, they suggest that people can bypass the limitations of modern life and achieve lasting peace. There might not be a shortcut to your dreams, but how about ...a Backdoor!

Today, Virato chats with Tibetan monk Za Rinpoche and writer Ashley Nebelsieck about their new book, Backdoor to Enlightenment.

Za Rinpoche was recognized by the Dalai Lama as the sixth reincarnation of the ZaChoeje Rinpoche. In 1998, he led the Mystical Arts of Tibet Cultural Tour to sixty cities across the United States, and lectured at thirty universities. Ashley Nebelsieck is a writer and explorer who travels the world checking out sacred sites--from the Vatican, to the pyramids at Giza, to Callenish in the Outer Hebrides, to Angkor Wat in Cambodia, and countless others.

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Saturday, March 1
10:06 PM-10:50 AM  EST

There's a lot of talk about Global Warming, and other serious environmental concerns, but not much is being implemented on the local level. One organization stands out in this regard. Today Virato discusses Bioneers  a nonprofit organization dedicated to disseminating practical and visionary solutions for restoring Earth’s imperiled ecosystems and healing our human communities.

Virato speaks with Kenny Ausubel an award-winning social entrepreneur, author, journalist and filmmaker. He is the founder and CEO of Bioneers, a nationally and internationally recognized and active not-for-profit organization dedicated to disseminating practical and visionary solutions for restoring Earth’s imperiled ecosystems and our human communities. He launched the annual Bioneers Conference in 1990 with co-founder Nina Simons, his business partner and wife, who is President of Bioneers. The conference attracts well over 3,000 people each year in San Rafael, California, and is beamed live by satellite to about 20 localized Bioneers conferences across the US to another 10,000 attendees.

Since 2004 he has executive produced and co-written the award-winning national and international radio series Bioneers: Revolution from the Heart of Nature. He consults with third-party filmmakers, including acting as a central advisor to Leonardo DiCaprio’s 2007 feature documentary The 11th Hour, in which Ausubel also appears.

Ausubel also  co-founded the national company Seeds of Change in 1989 and served as CEO until 1994 to restore “backyard biodiversity” into the food web through marketing organic, biodiverse heirloom seeds to gardeners. Previously he produced several documentary films about alternative medicine including the award-winning feature documentary film Hoxsey: How Healing Becomes a Crime about the medical politics surrounding the suppression of promising unconventional cancer therapies. 

Ausubel attended Yale University, and graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Columbia University in 1972. He lives in the mountains outside Santa Fe, New Mexico with Nina and their two dogs.

Also on today's program will be Dorisse, a Bioneer member now living in Asheville and looking to start a Bioneer group in Asheville.

Bioneers offers pragmatic solutions that honor the living web of the natural world as the most fertile source of inspiration and models. It's all alive.

The Bioneers span all fields, cultures, ages and walks of life. The work ranges from science to spirit - local to global - academia to the grass roots - farm to city - business to public service - art to engineering. They celebrate the gift of life in all its diversity and mystery, conjuring a change of heart to renew our empathic connection with the web of life and the Earth, our home. It's all relatives.

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10:52 PM-11 AM  EST

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Saturday, March 1
11:06 PM-Noon  EST


with
Marci Shimoff

Today Virato speaks with NY Times best-selling author, Marci Shimoff with 6 best-sellers in the  Chicken Soup for the Soul, series, selling more than 13 million copies worldwide in 33 languages, and have been on the New York Times bestseller list for a total of 108 weeks. She’s also a featured teacher in the international film and book phenomenon, The Secret.
 
Shimoff is a top-rated trainer for numerous Fortune 500 companies, including AT&T, General Motors, Sears, Kaiser Permanente, and Bristol-Myers Squibb.
 
As an acclaimed authority on success and happiness, she is often approached by media for her insights and advice. She has been on more than 500 national and regional television and radio shows and has been interviewed for over 100 newspaper articles nationwide. Her writing has appeared in national women's magazines, including Ladies Home Journal and Woman's World.
 
Marci earned her MBA from UCLA and is a founding member of the Transformational Leadership Council, a group of 100 top leaders serving over ten million people in the self-development market.
 
Through her books and her presentations, Marci's message has touched the hearts and rekindled the spirits of millions of people throughout the world. She is dedicated to fulfilling her life’s purpose of helping people live more empowered and joy-filled lives.

Marci Shimoff's new book, Happy for No Reason: 7 Steps to Being Happy from the Inside Out, offers a revolutionary approach to experiencing deep and lasting happiness. It is the basis of today's discussion

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



Casey Blood, Ph.D.

Virato dialogues with Casey Blood who received his Ph.D. in physics from Case Western Reserve and served as a research assistant at Brookhaven National Laboratory. He was Associate Professor of Physics at Rutgers University, from which he retired after 20 years in 2000; retaining the title of Professor Emeritus of Physics.

Dr. Blood has had a lifelong interest in religion, has participated in Native American rituals for many years, and has studied and practiced Tibetan Buddhism and Sufism.

He is the author of a new book, The Way from Science to Soul: Integrating Physics, the Brain & the Spiritual Journey

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Saturday, March 8
10:06 PM-10:50 AM  EST


with

Bruce Stewart

Virato chats with Bruce Stewart, an independent consultant with 30 years of experience in what he says is, "helping people reposition themselves and make sound decisions."

After earning a
degree in psychology, Stewart set up one of the first Biofeedback clinics in the country, teaching self-control and mind-body coordination.
 
He has his master’s in Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) and studied extensively with the co-developers of this advanced communication field. He served on the faculty at Loyola University, Southeastern University, and the University of California in Santa Cruz.

In 2005, Bruce’s book, Your Way Home -The Psychology of Place Inside and Out was published. This book explores the impact that our surroundings have upon our psychology

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10:52 PM-11 AM  EST



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Saturday, March 8
11:06 AM-Noon  EST

Virato chats with author John Chambers about the spirit world of Victor Hugo. Chambers has a Master of Arts in English from the University of Toronto and spent three years at the University of Paris. His previous translations include Phase One: C. E. Q. Manifesto, in Quebec: Only the Beginning. He has been a full-time English instructor at Dawson College, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, and assistant editor at McGraw-Hill Publishing and managing editor at International Thomson Publishing, both in New York City. He has published numerous articles on subjects ranging from ocean shipping to mall sprawl to alien abduction, and is the author of Conversations with Eternity: The Forgotten Masterpiece of Victor Hugo (1998). Seven of his essays appeared in Forbidden Religion: Suppressed Heresies of the West, published by Inner Traditions in November 2006.  He is the director of New Paradigm Books Publishing Company and lives in Boca Raton, Florida, with his wife Judy. 

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Saturday, March 8
12:06 PM-1 PM  EST


Maharishi Mahesh Yogi  &  Swami Nostradamus Virato

Virato was supposed to chat with Susan Shumsky about her work and her life with Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, who recently left his body. However, we were not able to reach her by phone, so Virato did an impromptu show on meditation, and Susan called in during the last 10 minutes of the show

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Saturday, March 15
10:06 PM-10:50 AM  EST


Yogi Amrit Desai

Today, Virato chats with Gurudev Shri Amritji (Yogi Amrit Desai), an internationally recognized authority on yoga. Widely acknowledged for carrying the authentic voice of yoga to the world, he has been honored both in the U.S. and abroad. Some of his distinguished titles include Doctor of Yoga, Jagadacharya (Universal Teacher), and the rare Vishwa Yoga Ratna, awarded by the President of India.

Yogi Desai began teaching yoga in 1960t. Following a profound life-transforming Kundalini awakening, he developed a methodology that altered the popular notion of yoga as a physical discipline and reintroduced a spiritual dimension to the practice of Hatha Yoga. He named this approach Kripalu Yoga: Meditation in Motion, in honor of his guru, Swami Kripalvanandji.

The yoga society Yogi Desai founded eventually grew to become the Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health, one of the largest centers of its kind in America. 

Yogi Desai continues to develop and teach his innovative approach in the form of Amrit Yoga. His books include Kripalu Yoga: Book I and II, A Yogic Perspective on the 12 Steps and Amrit Yoga. As well, his chanting has been captured on Ecstatic Chanting, a CD of high energy chants.

Yogi Desai's teachings contain a powerful experiential component that creates profound shifts for those who are ready, receptive and open. He has integrated ancient wisdom into an impactful, practical methodology for dealing with the challenges of modern life.

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Saturday, March 15
10:52 PM-11 AM  EST

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Saturday, March 15
11:06 AM-Noon  EST


Leonard Orr

Virato chats with Leonard Orr,  founder of Rebirthing. Here's what biographer Pola Churchill has written about this man: "Who the hell is Leonard Orr? Is he still alive?  Didn't he disappear to India, and live in a cave with all those immortal yogis he was studying? What concoction of revolutionary ideas has he come up with this time?

Isn't he the guru that made his first million dollars selling air? Wasn't he the one that used to give prosperity seminars in the seventies, and wear dollar notes pinned to his jumper, and people would line up to pay him $100 bills ? Oh yes, I remember him, I went to one of his seminars that he was leading, he picked his nose and then he fell asleep in the middle of the lecture! Where is he now?"'

These are some questions and comments people asked me about Leonard Orr when I  began doing research on this man.. Leonard exudes an unusual mixture of being so ordinary and down to earth, yet so mystical and profound. Just being in his presence is healing and cathartic.

Let me tell you a little bit about this man. Leonard was a born again Christian, and majored in Bible and philosophy in college. His books are are considered revolutionary and very transformational, and they cover topics on health and rebirthing, healing, philosophy, psychology, business, prosperity and consciousness, physical immortality, and government without taxes, and democracy.  They are published in over ten languages." 

...and that's what Polo Churchill says about him.

A legend in his time, Leonard Orr has traveled the world ten times delivering his lectures. Over 20 million people have experienced his rebirthing breathing techniques directly or indirectly. He is considered an eccentric mystic by many, as well as a guru and avatar by others.

About rebirthing: While it is still banned in North Carolina and Colorado, the process is safe, gentle and powerful breathing technique that not only releases birth trauma, but clears the conscious and subconscious, emotional, physical and negative beliefs out of your body on a cellular level.  It also dates back to ancient India where it is called pranayama

Said to reverse the aging process, Rebirthing practitioners also say that in the breathing process you experience increased divine energy, more clarity, better health, and an overall sense of well being and happiness.

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12:06 PM-1 PM  EST



with
Jonathan Goldman

Virato interviews Jonathan Goldman an authority on sound healing, and a pioneer in the field of harmonics. Goldman is the author of Healing Sounds: The Power of HarmonicsShifting Frequencies; The Lost Chord; and Tantra of Sound which he co-authored with his wife Andi.

He has studied with masters of sound from both the scientific and spiritual traditions, including the Dalai Lama's Chanting Gyuto and Gyume Monks and has been empowered by the Chant Master of the Drepung Loseling Monastery to teach Tibetan Overtone Chanting. Jonathan holds a  Master's Degree in the Study on Sound Healing from Lesley College, and he is a lecturing member of the International Society for Music and Medicine.

Goldman is the director of the Sound Healers Association; the original organization dedicated to the education and awareness of sound and music for healing. He is also president of Spirit Music, which produces music for meditation, relaxation and self-transformation.

An internationally acknowledge Master Teacher, Jonathan facilitates healing sounds seminars at universities, hospitals, holistic health centers and expos throughout the United States and Europe. He has appeared on national television and radio, including Coast to Coast AM and has been featured in USA Today and The New York Times. His annual Healing Sounds Intensive attracts participants from throughout the world.

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10:06 PM-10:50 AM  EST

openforum

You are invited to call in and share with our audience. What about Chemtrails in our skies? Why are there 3 to 1, women to men involved in the consciousness movement? What do you wish for? What should we be aware of in Asheville? What and who should we have on the show?

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K. Sridhar

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a glimpse into deeper realms of healing
with
Dr. Jane Smolnik

Today: How to Manage Your Attention
and the Power of Focus !



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Saturday, March 22
11:06 AM-Noon  EST


Scott Kalechstein

Virato chats with Scott Kalechstein, an inspirational speaker who sometimes breaks out into song during his talks and workshops. He is also an inspirational singer who has been known to break out into speaking in between songs. Scott travels near and far, comforting the disturbed and disturbing the comfortable.

A pioneer in the field of intuitive song, Scott is known for his unique ability to spontaneously create songs for individuals or groups, about any topic presented. His "Song Portraits" are a unique display of creativity, and always leave people deeply touched, delighted and amazed by such an in-the-moment creation.

He has performed at the talks and workshops of popular authors and seminar leaders, such as Deepak Chopra, Marianne Williamson, Alan Cohen, Jack Canfield, Dr. John Gray, Dr. Bernie Siegel, and Barbara DeAngelis. Scott also conducts a variety of workshops of his own.

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Saturday, March 22
12:06 PM-1 PM  EST


with
Nanci Danison

Today Virato chats with Nanci Danison, a business lawyer in practice for 30 years. Danison graduated from Morris Harvey College with a BA in Psychology and a BS in Biology, and a Doctorate in law from The Ohio State University College of Law.

She continues to practice law, but now also writes books detailing her memories of a beyond-death experience in March 1994. After that experience, Danison left the security of a law firm and went solo, earned her private pilot's license, and became a licensed private detective.

Her beyond death experience provided her with the unique opportunity to view human life from the perspective of one who has transformed into a "being of light," like the beings of light other near-death experiencers encounter.

Danison says she learned how to consciously manifest reality, hold multiple, simultaneous levels of self-awareness, and access Universal Knowledge on a wide variety of subjects.

She claims she recognizes and experiences unconditional love, and utilizes many other abilities natural to us all in our spiritual state. Danison used access to Universal Knowledge to view the history of planet Earth and how religion developed and has been woven into the fabric of human evolution.

Just at the moment when she was to merge fully and finally into the what she call Source or God, she says she was told to return to her body in order to bring back messages of hope and love, which are contained in her books and CDs. An extensive summary of Nanci Danison's beyond death experience appears on NDE Research Foundation.

Her new  book Backwards (Virato says it is one of the books he receives that really impressed him and had an impact on him) is the subject of today's discussion.

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Saturday, March 29
10:06 AM-10:50  EDT


Oprah Winfrey reaches over 350 million people weekly via her television show.

Now Oprah says, "Are You Ready to Be Awakened" and she and Eckhart Tolle, author of the best-selling book, The Power of Now, present A New Earth in Oprah's worldwide classroom live Monday nights.

Asheville's Center for Creative Living is presenting this forum live in their center, on their center's movie screen Monday nights, 9-11 PM.

You may ask Oprah and Tolle questions before and during class as well as connecting with others who are seeking to become more aware of themselves—and the world around them.

Today Virato chats with John and Barbara Waterhouse, directors of Asheville's Center for Creative Living about this phenomenon, and how consciousness expansion is now happening at cosmic speeds. You are cordially invited to share your thoughts on the air.

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10:52 AM-11AM  EDT

A bi-weekly feature about emotional clearing, soul retrieval and inner peace with Radavie. Today's topic: Pathway of Relationship

Saturday, March 29
11:06 AM-Noon  EDT


with
Zacciah Blackburn
 

Virato chats with Zacciah Blackburn, an intuitive teacher, and sound healer, trained in classical healing and shamanic traditions, and sacred sound cultures.  He teaches internationally, and practices in Vermont, at the Center of Light Institute of Sound Healing and Shamanic Studies.

Zacciah uses sound coupled with sacred intention as a therapeutic tool, in mystical settings, for personal healing and transformation.  He is Director of Education at the Sound Healing Network, an international community of sound healers, & co-founder & Director of the World Sound Healing Organization, and the All One Now network of organizations working for global peace

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12:06 PM-1 PM  EDT


with
Stephen Redding

Crushed by a tractor., struck by lightning twice, frozen in a blizzard,  and stung 150 times by killer bees, If it's true a cat has nine lives, Stephen Redding could boast of living more lives than your average feline. From the age of four, when he was crushed by a tractor, until the second time he was struck by lightning, on through to the time he was attacked by a swarm of yellow jackets, Stephen's had his share of wild, weird and otherworldly experiences. Through it all, he's formed an optimistic and unique regard for this world and the others he has visited.

Stephen believes he was brought back to life after so many death-defying experiences for a reason--and his refreshing outlook will not only have you cheering, but will leave you breathless and inspired.

Today Virato chats with this man and discusses his new book, Something More, and the visitations he's received from otherworldly creatures sent to help him through crises.

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Saturday, April 5
10:06 AM-10:50 AM  EDT



Mario Rogers
 
Time to put your mind on the shelf again today as Virato chats with Mario Rogers who lives in Lake Lure, NC.

Rogers says he is visited by many entities (he claims there are several "species.") who, he goes on to say, enter into this third dimension through light (such as laser beams or a common flashlight).

Rogers does not seek notoriety or fame, and has no books, website, or mention on the Internet, and no public contact.

I visited him at unique and majestic home on Thursday, afternoon, April 3, where he showed Dhiraja and I his many photos, as well as an orgone generator on his specially designed property.

He discussed the sacred geometry of his house and property, and went on to tell us that in addition to entities, he also has received "in-the-body" visits from astrophysicists, Harvard researchers, and even MUFON.

He may or may not be on the program today. Interesting, huh?

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Saturday, April 5
10:52 AM-11 AM  EST



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Dr. Jane Smolnik
Today: Mysteries of the Soul




Saturday, April 5
11:06 AM-Noon  EST

Today Virato asks you to suspend all judgment and so-called rational mind process for one hour, as he chats with "Allen Michael" and other members of the One World Family Commune.

Remember, Virato's motto is not to believe, but simply to experience.

"Allen Michael." aka Allen Noonan, claims to be an incarnate spiritual master from Galactica, and a God-conscious soul dedicated to serving humanity.

His says his purpose is to fulfill the role of the New World Comforter (St. John 14, 15 & 16), and be the channel of the prophesied Everlasting Gospel (Rev. 14:1-6).

Noonan further says he is a cosmic adept with advanced ESP-PSI telepathic organs of perception being able to balance the negative energies of this planet’s aura.

He says he has been a direct channel of the Universal Mind since he experienced a cosmic initiation in 1947. The experience that transformed Allen Noonan, as he was then known, took place in Long Beach, California, where he was a pictorial sign painter.

While painting an outdoor signboard, Noonan says he was suddenly enveloped in a bright light, and found himself (the entity in the body, not the body itself) transported up into what he later realized was a "Galactic Mothership". Upon materializing onboard the spaceship, he says he appeared before a great Light. And a Voice spoke to him out of the Light, telling him that he was chosen to be the messenger who would fulfill the role of being the New World Comforter and channel of the prophesied Everlasting Gospel.

He was given the name "Allen Michael," and he accepted the mission, and from that point onward he says he has been in direct telepathic contact with the Universal Mind of ETI - Extra Territorial Intelligence - channeling the energies of the Spirit of Truth through the spoken and written word, as well as in deeds done that will bring this world up to and through our planetary cosmic initiation into the long awaited Kingdom of God.

In 1967, "Allen Michael" moved to San Francisco where, with a small group of people, he founded the One World Family Commune. There, on Haight street, they opened the Here and Now natural food restaurant - the first of 8 communally owned and operated natural food restaurants. In all of these projects, all of us served freely, with no one drawing wages or taking profits from the income.

In 1973, "Allen Michael" founded the Universal Industrial Church of the New World Comforter, based on the teachings of “Holding all things common and making distribution according to need” as brought forth in the book of Acts, chapter 4, verses 32-35, taught by Jesus, who Allen Michael" claims is another space messenger.

Through the years, "Allen Michael" has been a speaker at numerous public events and rallies and has been on hundreds of radio and television shows all across the country .He is presently featured on the “Galactic Messenger” television show, and continues to channel the Everlasting Gospel every day.

"Allen Michael" is in his 92nd year ...at least his body is!

See: http://www.galacticmessenger.com/gblog43

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Saturday, April 5
12:06 PM-1 PM  EST


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William Lewis

Today Virato chats with award winning independent filmmaker William Lewis. In 2000, Lewis founded the politically outspoken policestate21.com.  His ongoing concern for the loss of our civil liberties at the hands of an out-of-control government prompted him to take his love of film and music to a more "political" level, creating Bridge Stone Media Group, a motion picture production company that is committed to producing films that expose high profile criminal transgressions (government corruption) and lift the veil of secrecy surrounding international misconceptions (cover-ups).  Lewis has written and directed five documentaries to this end; 911 In Plane Site, the award winning Beyond Treason, One Nation Under Siege, 911 Ripple Effect, and his most recent, Washington, You're Fired!  

His quest for bringing these important issues into the American mainstream prompted Lewis is to found Take Back Washington, a movement to peacefully, and through education, bring the politics of Washington DC back into line with our country’s founding documents. 

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Saturday, April 12
10:06 PM-10:50 AM  EST


Swami Beyondananda
Today Virato jests with Steve Bhaerman internationally-known author, humorist, and workshop leader. For the past two decades he has written and performed as Swami Beyondananda, the “Cosmic Comic.” Swami’s comedy has been called “irreverently uplifting” and has been described both as “comedy disguised as wisdom” and “wisdom disguised as comedy.”

As the Swami, Steve is the author of three books, Driving Your Own Karma, When You See a Sacred Cow, Milk It For All It’s Worth, and Duck Soup for the Soul. Swami’s nationally-syndicated spoof advice column, Ask the Swami, has been read by millions, and his recent State of the Universe Address was reprinted in publications as diverse as Funny Times and Magical Blend Magazine.

Swami’s latest mission is to revitalize the body politic by turning spiritual “devotees” into political “votees.” He has founded the Right to Laugh Party (“one big party, everyone is invited”) and launched the Citizens for Precedent Campaign (“let’s choose a new ‘precedent’ – government of the people, by the people and for the people where the government does our bidding, not the bidding of the highest bidder – and a new President will surely follow”).

Swami’s alter ego, Steve Bhaerman, has had a varied career as teacher, author, and workshop leader. A graduate of Brooklyn College and Antioch-Putney Graduate School of Education, he was the co-founder of an alternative high school in Washington, D.C. when he was in his early twenties, and co-authored a book on his experiences, No Particular Place to Go: Making of a Free High School (Simon & Schuster, 1972).

In 1980, Steve co-founded Pathways Magazine in Ann Arbor, one of the first publications bringing together holistic health, personal growth, spirituality, politics and community. The Swami was a regular comedy feature in Pathways, and helped launch Steve’s career as the cosmic comic Swami. For the past 18 years, Steve has designed and led workshops on Comedy as a Healing Art, and has presented at numerous educational, psychological, spiritual and business groups. He currently resides in Santa Rosa, California with his wife Trudy Lite.

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Saturday, April 12
10:52 AM-11 AM  EST

A bi-weekly feature about emotional clearing, soul retrieval and inner peace with Radavie.



Saturday, April 12
11:06 AM-Noon  EDT


The "Freegan" Lifestyle
 
Today Virato chats with members of the Freegans--people who employ alternative strategies for living based on limited participation in the conventional economy and minimal consumption of resources. They embrace community, generosity, social concern, freedom, cooperation, and sharing in opposition to a society based on materialism, moral apathy, competition, conformity, and greed.

After years of trying to boycott products from unethical corporations responsible for human rights violations, environmental destruction, and animal abuse, many of them found that no matter what they bought they ended up supporting something deplorable. They came to realize that the problem isn't just a few bad corporations but the entire system itself.

Freeganism is a total boycott of an economic system, where the profit motive has eclipsed ethical considerations and where massively complex systems of production ensure that all the products they buy will have detrimental impacts most of which we may never even consider. Thus, instead of avoiding the purchase of products from one bad company only to support another, they simply avoid buying anything to the greatest degree they are able.

The word "freegan" is a composite of "free" and "vegan". Vegans are people who avoid products from animal sources or products tested on animals in an effort to avoid harming our fellow planet creatures.

Freegans take this a step further by recognizing that in a complex, industrial, mass-production economy driven by profit, abuses of humans, animals, and the earth abound at all levels of production (from acquisition to raw materials to production to transportation) and in just about every product people buy. Sweatshop labor, rainforest destruction, global warming, displacement of indigenous communities, air and water pollution, eradication of wildlife on farmland as "pests," the violent overthrow of popularly elected governments to maintain puppet dictators compliant to big business interests, open-pit strip mining, oil drilling in environmentally sensitive areas, union busting, child slavery, and payoffs to repressive regimes, are just some of the many impacts of the seemingly innocuous consumer products we consume every day.

Freegans employ a range of strategies for practical living based on our principles

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Saturday, April 12
12:06 PM-1 PM  EDT


Dr. Will Tuttle
Today Virato chats with Dr. Will Tuttle, an award-winning speaker, educator, author, and musician. Tuttle's music, writings, and presentations have touched countless hearts, minds and lives. He is the author of The World Peace Diet that has been called the most important book of the 21st century: the foundation of a new society based on the truth of the interconnectedness of all life.

Dr. Tuttle is currently giving a series of lecture presentations around North America on The World Peace Diet. He appears at conferences, retreats, and progressive churches and centers throughout North America.

A former Zen monk with a Ph.D. in education from University of California., Berkeley, he has worked extensively in intuition development, spiritual healing, meditation, music, creativity, vegan living, and cultural evolution.

In churches, he typically presents the morning Special Music, Meditation, and/or Message and later gives an educational seminar on developing intuition, as well as a concert, Piano Passion. These generate powerful energy for personal and planetary awakening.

He has also produced three CDs, Ascension: A Journey Beyond; Island of Light; Animal Songs; The Call; Ocean Prayer; and Sky High.

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Saturday, April 19
10:06 AM-10:50 AM  EDT


 
open forum
 

Virato's co-host for this hour is Kettle from England

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Saturday, April 19
10:52 AM-11 AM  EDT



a glimpse into deeper realms of healing
with
Dr. Jane Smolnik

Today: Masculine & Feminine

 




Saturday, April 19
11:06 AM-Noon  EDT


Norio Kushi

Today Virato chats with Norio Kushi who says, "We already have everything we could ever want. The only thing that prevents us from experiencing this complete fulfillment is our idea of a self.   He says it is the single root cause of all human suffering.

The son of Michio Kushi of macrobiotic fame, Norio Kushi is his own person. Throughout his life, he has followed his passion for wheels.  He bicycled 90 miles a day as a child, drove a taxi in Boston, started a bus company in Vermont, and pursued a career driving a big rig throughout North America.   While driving his truck, Norio stopped thinking for more than two weeks.  Through this experience, he realized that the "self" we think we are does not exist.  The "self" exists only in our minds.  By recognizing the illusion of the self, Kushi awakened to complete peace and unconditional love, a state that is accessible to us all.  He now welcomes the opportunity to  share his insights into the human condition.  

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Saturday, April 19
12:06 PM-1 PM  EDT


Debbie Ford
Virato chats with Debbie Ford, New York Times #1 bestselling author, internationally acclaimed workshop leader in the evolution of human consciousness.

Her work is based on the core belief that outer transformation occurs only when we experience an internal shift in perception.

Ford's books and programs have sold more than 1,000,000 copies, and have been translated into some thirty-two languages. Beginning with the publication of The Dark Side of the Light Chasers, her five books include Spiritual Divorce, The Secret of the Shadow, The Right Questions, The Best Year of Your Life: Dream It, Plan It, Live It. and her most recent title, Why Good People Do Bad Things, the subject of today's discussion.

She has also produced several audio books, including The Answers Are Within YouIn 2000 Ford founded the Ford Institute for Integrative Coaching at John F. Kennedy University. 

With a degree in psychology and an emphasis in consciousness studies from JFK University, Ford has co-taught with Deepak Chopra, M.D., and David Simon, M.D., of the Chopra Center for Wellbeing, Neale Donald Walsch, Jeremiah Abrams, Ph.D., and other acclaimed teachers, and she also appears in The Moses Code.

She has been featured on Oprah, Good Morning America, and recently as the expert coach on ABC's Ex-Wives' Club.  Debbie hosts a weekly radio program on Hay House Radio and recently launched an interactive website -- 

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Saturday, April 26
10:06 AM-10:50 AM  EDT




with
Jimmy Sexton
 

Today Virato chats with Jimmy Sexton, self-proclaimed 'joyist', and founder of Thrive!, a new health experience combining wisdom of the East with today's leading New Thought paradigms. After 10 years of combined college and training, Sexton obtained a Masters Degree in Traditional Chinese Medicine from Yo San University in Santa Monica, CA, that included a clinical internship at various hospitals and clinics in and around Shanghai, China.

A nationally licensed acupuncturist and Chinese herbologist, he has over 25 years of training in various internal and external forms of martial arts and chi gong (including the ancient 8 Treasures system) and is a certified instructor in the powerful, Hua Shan Pi style of Qi Gong. Sexton has operated clinics in Atlanta, GA, Destin, FL and Franklin, NC, and currently resides and practices in Asheville, NC and Franklin.

In addition to Thrive!, he is working on a documentary film and writing his first book about simply having more fun in life! Sexton is an experienced public speaker and has addressed professional and spiritual organizations and is developing a seminar and retreat program based on living a happier life.

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Saturday, April 26
10:52 AM-11 AM  EDT

A bi-weekly special feature about emotional clearing, soul retrieval and inner peace with Radavie. Today: Pathway of Service

 




Saturday, April 26
11:06 AM-Noon  EDT


with

Dan Millman
Virato dialogues with Dan Millman, former world champion athlete, university coach, martial arts instructor, and professor at Oberlin College . His best-selling books, including The Journeys of Socrates, Way of the Peaceful Warrior, and The Life You Were Born to Live have inspired millions of readers in 29 languages.

Dan's keynote addresses, seminars, and trainings world-wide have influenced people from all walks of life and all ages, including leaders in the fields of health, psychology, education, business, politics, sports, entertainment, new paradigm thinking and the arts.

Dan and his wife Joy live in northern California. He has three grown daughters and two grandsons.

In 2006, Way of the Peaceful Warrior was adapted into a feature film called "Peaceful Warrior" staring Nick Nolte.

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Saturday, April 26
12:06 PM-1 PM  EDT

Raymond Francis says

 

Today, Virato chats with Raymond Francis, chairman and CEO of Beyond Health Corporation on the cutting-edge of health technology. He has addressed health conferences in the U.S., Germany, Switzerland, Greece, and Egypt, and is the publisher of Beyond Health News, supplying alternative health information to the public. He is also the creator of the internationally presented Beyond Health Seminar, author of the Pathways to Health newspaper columns, and the best-selling book Never Be Sick Again.

For twelve years, Francis has been the host and producer of the syndicated radio talk show Beyond Health. He was the founder and Chairman of the Beyond Health Brain Trust, an interdisciplinary group of physicians and scientists proposing innovative solutions to health problems.

In September of 2000, Raymond founded and is now president of the nonprofit, Health-e-America Foundation (HeAF). The foundation’s purpose is to end the epidemic of chronic disease in America by using revolutionary technology to teach schoolchildren the basics of good health. HeAF is the sponsor of TPED (The Project to End Disease), a growing national movement.

Raymond holds a BS in chemistry and engineering from Boston College, an M.Sc. is chemistry from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and a D.Sc. in chemistry from Ashwood University.

He has served on and chaired numerous boards and committees, and is listed in standard references including: Who’s Who in the World, Who’s Who in America, Who’s Who in Finance and Industry, Who’s Who in Science and Engineering, and Who’s Who in Medicine and Healthcare. His memberships include: Association of American Physicians and Surgeons, Society for Orthomolecular Health-Medicine, Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, Center for Science in the Public Interest, Health Medicine Forum, National Health Federation, and the American Chemical Society. He is currently the president of the Northern California Chapter of Cancer Victors.

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Saturday, May 3, 2008
10:06 AM-10:50 AM  EDT


with
Leslie Grotenhuis
Can the placement of a mirror in your home or office bring you fortune or loss? Can the way your bed is positioned in your bedroom create good or ill health? Today we learn about the ancient art and science of Feng Shui as Virato chats with local Asheville Feng Shui practitioner, Leslie Grotenhuis.

Grotenhuis received her BA in Art and Art History from Hope College in Holland, Michigan, and after a four year stint as a production coordinator in the music industry, she began to study Feng Shui.

She received advanced certification from the American Feng Shui Institute created and directed by Master Larry Sang.one of the most influential practitioners in the teachings of Feng Shui. His talents have been utilized globally by Fortune 500 companies and governments from Asia to the United States. Dr. Sang's mission is to enlighten the western world to the benefits of Feng Shui and to clear up confusion that has been caused by people with limited knowledge of this science. In 2005 she began Asheville Feng Shui.

She currently reside with her family in the beautiful mountain town of Asheville, NC where good qi surrounds us all.

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10:52 AM-11 AM  EDT



a glimpse into deeper realms of healing
with
Dr. Jane Smolnik


Saturday, May 3, 2008
11:06 AM-Noon  EDT

 


with
Dr. Bob Hieronimus
 

Today Virato chats with Robert R. Hieronimus, Ph.D. a pioneer in the "new paradigm" movement for over 40 years. In the '60s Dr. Hieriniumus travelled with numerous rock bands sharing esoterica and designing posters and album covers. Today, his highly acclaimed occult and symbolic murals include the 2,700 square foot prophetic Apocalypse at Johns Hopkins University, that led to Dr. Hieronimus being called "one of this country's best muralists."

In 1969 he founded AUM, the first state approved school of esoteric studies in the country offering certificates in the occult sciences, mystic arts and religious metaphysics.

PBS documented his leadership and contributions in 1971 with the feature, The Artist of Savitria produced by Maryland Public Television and seen nationwide. Dr. Bob’s most famous “Artcar,” the Volkswagen bus, Light (better known as “the Woodstock bus”), was photographed by Associated Press and Rolling Stone at the original Woodstock Festival, and is still seen today regularly reprinted in media all over the world.  A diecast model of Hieronimus’s painted Woodstock bus will be produced by Sunstar Diecast in 2008 in recognition of Woodstock’s 40th anniversary.

In 2006, he painted his first Artcar in 20 years, transforming his Mercedes 300 SD into the Biodiesel-fueled “Founding Fathers Artcar” – the only bBiodiesel Artcar in the state of Maryland and a popular feature in regional parades.

Dr. Hieronimus received his Ph.D. from New York's Saybrook Institute in 1981. His doctoral thesis: An Historic Analysis of the Reverse of the American Great Seal and Its Relationship to the Ideology of Humanistic Psychology. His research on the Great Seal has been used in the speeches, literature, and libraries of the White House, the State Department, and the Department of Interior. His Independence Hall speech on the Great Seal's bicentennial was published in the Congressional Record, and his research was shared in a personal meeting with the late Egyptian President Anwar El-Sadat. Inner Traditions published a popular version of Dr. Hieronimus' doctoral thesis in 1989, entitled America's Secret Destiny: Spiritual Vision and the Founding of a Nation.

As a result of this book, Dr. Bob was featured on documentaries on the National Geographic, Discovery and History Channels. Secrets of the Dollar Bill has been repeated dozens of times on the History Channel.

In March 2008, his latest book was released,
United Symbolism of America: Deciphering Hidden Meanings in America's Most Familiar Art, Architecture and Logos, the subject of today's conversation.

It tells of how the Statue of Liberty, the Liberty Bell, the flag, the eagle, the Great Seal, and Washington DC became American icons.

Hieronimus has been a frequent guest on radio and television talk shows across the country since 1967 sharing his research in metaphysical symbolism, the founding fathers, America's Great Seal, and other esoterica.

Over the years his work has been featured on ABC World News, The Tonight Show, PBS, The Larry King Show, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The Washington Post, and numerous other publications.

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Saturday, May 3, 2008
12:06 PM-1 PM  EDT


with
Nouk Sanchez & Tomas Vierira

Australian born, Nouk Sanchez retired from a successfuRead more about the recommended resourcesl career in the cosmetics industry to dedicate herself to pursuing and teaching ego-release. In 1990, after being introduced to A Course in Miracles, Nouk and her small spiritual family embarked upon learning the Six Stages of the Development of Trust. Nouk says she learned how to enter the void, hold the faith and see the face of Truth. A simple and powerfully transformative, six-stage spiritual navigation guide is the culmination of her work.  Tomas Vieira has a strong commitment and desire to grow with his family that led to an almost total deconstruction of his life and belief systems. Everything was turned upside down and inside out. When he finally emerged from this process he says he realized that his journey paralleled that of Nouk Sanchez in terms of the very clear stages involved in awakening. Like Nouk, he realized that there was no simple guide available to explain the process of undoing the ego and discovering Truth. As a result, he embarked on a collaboration to write Take Me To Truth: Undoing the Ego, the subject of today's discussion with Virato.

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Saturday, May 10, 2008
10:06 AM-10:50 AM  EDT



Alone with Virato
 
"Ole fashioned talk radio" with the maestro of New Paradigm talk radio Virato.

Win plenty of prizes today, (giving over $500 worth of stuff [books, dinners, cash, acupuncture, etc.] in one hour!)

Just respond to a question or make quick comment to something Virato says, and give your info to our producer, and pick up your prize at the radio station (Mon-Fri, 10AM-4PM)

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Saturday, May 10, 2008
10:52 AM-11 AM  EDT

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Today: Pathway of Presence

 



Saturday, May 10, 2008
11:06 AM-Noon  EDT


with
 Kenny Ausubel
In 1840, Illinois horse farmer John Hoxsey found his prize stallion with a malignant tumor on its right hock. As a Quaker, he couldn't bear shooting the animal, so he put it out to pasture to die peacefully. Three weeks later, he noticed the tumor stabilizing, and observed the animal browsing knee-deep in a corner of the pasture with a profusion of weeds, eating plants not part of its normal diet.

Within three months the tumor dried up and began to separate from the healthy tissue. The farmer retreated to the barn, where he began to experiment with these herbs revealed to him by "horse sense." He devised three formulas: an internal tonic, an herbal-mineral red paste, and a mineral-based yellow powder for external use. Within a year the horse was well, and the veterinarian became locally famous for treating animals with cancer.

The farmer's grandson John C. Hoxsey, a veterinarian in southern Illinois, was the first to try the remedies on people, and claimed positive results. His son Harry showed an early interest and began working with him at the age of eight. When John suffered an untimely accident, he bequeathed the formulas to the fifteen-year-old boy with a charge to treat poor people for free, and to minister to all races, creeds, and religions without prejudice. He asked that the treatment carry the Hoxsey name. Finally, he warned the boy against the "High Priests of Medicine" who would fight him tooth-and-nail because he was taking money out of their pockets.

By the 1950s, Hoxsey was riding what was arguably the largest alternative-medicine movement in American history. A survey by the Chicago Medical Society showed 85 percent of people still using "drugless healers."

Hoxsey's Dallas stronghold grew to be the world's largest privately owned cancer center with 12,000 annual patients and branches spreading to seventeen states. Congressmen, judges, and even some doctors ardently supported his quest for an investigation. Two federal courts upheld the therapeutic value of the treatment. Even his archenemies, the American Medical Association and the Food and Drug Administration, admitted that the therapy does cure certain forms of cancer.

Then in the late 1950's the AMA lobbied legislators on the federal and state levels, saying that Hoxesy was a quack, and on the heels of a California law criminalizing all cancer treatments except surgery, radiation, and chemotherapy, the federal government finally outlawed Hoxsey entirely in the United States in 1960 on questionable technicalities.

Today Virato chats with Kenny Ausubel, CEO of the Bioneers, and author of When Healing Becomes a Crime.

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Saturday, May 10, 2008
12:06 PM-1 PM  EDT

Happy Mother's Day!





Jean Shinoda Bolen
 
Today, in celebration of Mother's Day, Virato chats with Jean Shinoda Bolen, MD,  a true pioneer and major player in the Feminist Movement. Dr. Bolen is an internationally known Jungian analyst, author of ten books, and clinical professor of psychiatry at the University of California at San Francisco, and a former board member of the Ms. Foundation for Women. Today's discussion focuses around her book, Urgent Message from Mother: Gather the Women, Save the World

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Saturday, May 17, 2008
10:06 AM-10:50 AM  EDT


It's time to reconsider how we deal with money. One of the paradoxes of money is that it is increasingly just blips of information - just a measuring system that we pretend is also valuable - but it does lead to some peculiarities.

Today Virato chats with the organizers and members of  the Asheville Local Exchange Trading System, LETS, and live from British Columbia, Canada, with Mike Linton creator of the LETS system,  and also live from Shanghai, China, James Taris, author of Travel Without Money. A LETS advocate since 1994, Taris has compiled an international LETS directory listing 1,500 community groups in 39 countries.

The LETS system restores local economic control through the community exchange of services, resources and advice, unlike direct trade (where both parties must want what the other offers and exchange in roughly equal amounts),

LETS members exchange services for credits (called, simply, "lets" instead of "dollars") which can then be swapped for the services of any other member in the network. using a centralized record-keeping arrangement (often online) to keep track of transactions. Members earn lets" in ways they could never earn "dollars," and they can get what they need without spending cash "dollars"

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Saturday, May 17, 2008
10:52 AM-11 AM  EDT



a glimpse into deeper realms of healing
with
Dr. Jane Smolnik\



Saturday, May 17, 2008
11:06 AM-Noon  EDT


Dr. Fred Bell

Virato chats with Dr. Fred Bell, grand nephew of Alexander Graham Bell, inventor of the telephone.

Dr. Bell's family is slightly eclectic, and some might say eccentric. For example, his father, Allan Bell, also a scientist genius brought the London Bridge from England and put it in the middle of the Arizona desert and built a city with a pond around it called Havasu City.

Because of his heritage. young Bell was propelled into science at a very early age. At age 14, he was not only working at the University of Michigan on nuclear energy projects, but was also inducted into the U.S. government's project called M. K. Ultra. This early mind control research covered such topics as past life regression, and the popular remote viewing used today by the CIA and other intelligence gathering factions worldwide.

At 16 years of age he moved on to join the U.S. Air Force. Although technically, he could not wear a uniform until his 17th birthday, he began working in the Air Force on highly classified projects, several involving early warning radar defense systems and the detection and tracking of extraterrestrial craft. He was one of the first to bring the awareness of the famed DDS Form-213 to public awareness.

When people began to exercise their freedoms to previously classified information, it was discovered that the DDS Form-213 was used in fact by the U.S. Air Force to report internally to the government of the presence of extraterrestrials and their craft. Today Bell still works on a program known as the Disclosure Project, along with Dr. Steven Greer, in de-compartmentalizing the various agencies that are working in concert with extraterrestrials.

His latest best-selling book, Rays of Truth: Crystals of Light covers these topics in-depth.

After Bell's time in the military, he worked in the aerospace industry on the military version of Star Wars, laser development, submarine and missile guidance systems, and finally the NASA Apollo missions. During this time he worked with he late Warner von Braun and Scott Crossfield, of X-15 fame.

After his NASA related work, Bell went into the private sector and consulted to over 3000 companies on topics such as computer science, biological science, medical science, environmental testing, quality control, weaponry, aircraft research, and a variety of other technical realities.

He then left this work and began studying with Himalayan Masters. During this time he became internationally known as a contactee to a Pleiadean group of extraterrestrial humanoids whom were here to help the people on earth save themselves from their own destructive tendencies. This group comes from a star system 500 light-years from earth. For this effort the Russian society of cosmonauts (astronauts), awarded Dr. Bell the distinguished scientific progress award.

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Saturday, May 17, 2008
12:06 PM-1 PM  EDT
 


with
Yvonne Oswald

Today Virato chats with Yvonne Oswald  a PhD candidate in clinical hypnosis and on the ethics committee of the Association for Integrative Psychology. A therapist and facilitator, Oswald is a teacher and hypnotherapy trainer. She is a master NLP and Time Line Therapy™ practitioner, and a regression therapist.

Oswald is the author of a new book, Every Word Has Power (Simon & Schuster April 2008) . She says that the words we say and think not only describe our world, but actually create it. She goes onto say, "They have a profound impact on our lives; in fact, our self-talk produces 100 percent of our results."

Oswald says that by simply filtering unsupportive words from our language we can transform our perspective, relationships, and ability to manifest our deepest needs and desires. She says she holistically blends the science of language, physical well-being, and emotional cleansing. to reconnect you with your original empowerment blueprint, and develop your understanding for a lifetime of success.

Yvonne Oswald is a keynote speaker ad she  regularly appears on local and national radio and television programs discussing personal growth and development. She lives in Toronto, Ontario.

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Saturday, May 24, 2008
10:06 AM-10:50 AM  EDT




with

Sara McIntosh
Have you ever asked yourself these questions: Why don't things seem to work out the way I want them to? Why is it that no matter what I do, I don't I ever seem to get what I want? Why do the same things keep happening over and over that don't help me? (relationships, jobs, etc.)

Virato's guest today, Sara McIntosh, says  the mind is programmed from birth, and that this programming creates your root beliefs. She says that these root beliefs create your thoughts, and that these thoughts create your feelings and actions.

She claims that once you establish an awareness and understanding of how this all happens subconsciously, you can free yourself of thoughts, beliefs and even language, that don’t serve your highest good.

A certified clinical hypnotherapist, McIntosh has studied with Carolyn Myss, Alan Clements, and Ken McCleod, among others. She interned and co-led groups with psychologist Peter Michaelson, author of Freedom from Self Sabotage, and has integrated the teachings of Sri Nisargadatta, Wayne Dyer, Louise Hay and Jerry and Esther Hicks into her life experience. 

She is a composer, and in addition to her hypnotherapy credentials, holds a certificate in NLP and has training certificates from the Zengar Institute in Neurofeedback; the study of brain wave activity and how it relates to body/mind states and conditions.

More than all of this, McIntosh is a visionary. At every crossroads in her life, she has looked to a more expanded view of what is possible, not only for her own life, but for what is possible for all human beings. She say her out-of-the-box view of it all brought her to the creation of the Conscious Freedom Intensive

McIntosh says her program is based on two premises; 1. Life is supposed to feel good. 2. If it doesn’t, the change we need will come from inside of us,

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Saturday, May 24, 2008
10:52 AM-11 AM  EDT

A bi-weekly special feature about emotional clearing, soul retrieval and inner peace with Radavie.


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Saturday, May 24, 2008
12:06 PM-1 PM  EDT


with
Michelle Epiphany Prosser
While atheists do listen to VIRATO LIVE!, for many, the search for the true self begins and ends with God. Certainly this is true for Virato's guest today, author Michelle Prosser. Prosser opens her life experiences to light the way for those who undertake their own journey of self-discovery.

There are many books that teach us how to use the Law of Attraction to bring into reality the life we really want. Excuse Me, Your God Is Waiting puts God front and center in the process and in our lives. We not only benefit from Prosser's many experiences but also from the numerous exercises she includes--exercises that allow us to get to know God, perhaps in a different way than we've ever experienced before. She shows us how to make God a part of each day, each experience, each trial, and each celebration.

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Saturday, May 31, 2008
10:06 AM-10:50 AM  EDT




 
Fiction. Does it have any play in the expansion of consciousness? Hour two and three today discusses fictional words that have a basis in reality. In this hour we ponder in to realm of the unreal vs the real

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Saturday, May 31
10:52 AM-11 AM  EDT



a glimpse into deeper realms of healing
with
Dr. Jane Smolnik



Saturday, May 31, 2008
11:06 AM-Noon  EDT



with
John Penberthy
Virato talks with author John Penberthy who says "great spiritual teachers speak not of learning more, but of letting go, of surrendering. This is can be difficult for adults because the familiar is so, well…familiar."

Born with an insatiable curiosity which he says made him  an ardent student of life and spirit, Penberthy's first conscious memory is that of "beeing" stung by a bee at age one.

Penberthy is the author of To Bee, or Not To Bee, which came to him in a meditation, not unlike Neal Donald Walsch and Conversations With God. Now in 11 languages, it has the aroma of Jonathan Livingston Seagull, The Peaceful Warrior and the Celestine Prophecy. It is fiction "cum-new age philosophy"

He says there’s a way to replace the angst and discontent which underlie life in the modern world with fulfillment and inner peace, and it’s easier than we think. Penberthy says the young are more open and have less to unlearn. He addresses the young in each of us. "This is why Jesus said, “Until you become like little children you cannot enter the kingdom of heaven.” 

To Bee or Not to Bee is an inspirational story of such innocent wisdom and how it leads one young worker bee to spiritual awakening. In the story, Buzz Bee who knows there’s got to bee more, is pulled into a spiritual journey which gradually teaches him some of life’s most important lessons. With the help of a new found mentor, and some harrowing experiences, Buzz comes to understand that life is too important to bee taken so seriously, and that the only way out is in, and that life is a journey from I to we

Though he thinks his search is for God, what Buzz ends up finding is himself.  And when his journey finally dumps him off, he finds that he’s not at the end, but at a whole new beginning.

Penberthy who also spends time in corporate America, and lives in Boulder, Colorado with his wife and daughter.

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Saturday, May 31, 2008
12:06 PM-1 PM  EDT


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Saturday, June 7, 2008
10:06 AM-10:50 AM  EDT



Malidoma

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Virato chats with Malidoma Patrice Some who holds three master's degrees and a Ph.D. and is the author of two books and several articles on spirituality. Most importantly, he is a bridge between two worlds, a man whose self- expressed goal in life is to convey his knowledge of the spiritual life of his people to the rest of the world. He is a living shaman form deepest Africa

Malidoma Patrice Some was born in the African community of Dano, in what was then known as Upper Volta, a colony of France. Today the nation is known as Burkina Faso. Although he does not know the date of his birth according to European calendar measurement, the year of his birth is listed as 1956 in government records. He was baptized in the Roman Catholic tradition as Patrice, shortly after his birth. Some's  grandfather held a naming ceremony as is Dagara custom and called him Malidoma, which means he who would "be friends with the stranger/enemy."

For the first four "rainy seasons" of his life Malidoma Some lived with his people, members of the Dagara, in their traditional style. His home was the community. The village was built around a courtyard where the women lived in a large oval mud and wood building called a zangara, and the men lived on the opposite side of the village in a more elaborate mud, wood, and cow dung structure. Several smaller buildings housed goats, chickens, and other animals. Malidoma's grandfather was the village elder, the highly respected spiritual head of the community. Malidoma's grandfather died when Malidoma was four years old.

Shortly after the funeral, Malidoma was taken from his home, "literally kidnapped," he says, by Jesuit priests in a nearby colonial town. He was placed in a Catholic boarding school, where he lived until he was 19. As reported in the Portland Skanner, he endured "years of physical and emotional abuse from the priests, who were determined to create another black priest." Malidoma left the school when he was 20 years old, walking the 125 miles back to his village, where he was greeted with tears by his mother and older sister.  Malidoma could not remember enough Dagara to speak to his parents or other villagers. He was viewed by many people in the village as a "white Black," a person to be looked upon with suspicion and fear because he was contaminated by the "sickness" of the colonial world. As Some himself said, he was "a man of two worlds, trying to be at home in both of them."

Malidoma's first few months back in the village were difficult ones. He was visited every day by his male mother; in Dagara life the mother's brother, or to those in the West, an uncle. The job of the male mother is to provide nurturing to a boy. "The male mother is thought of as someone who 'carries water,' the energy of peace, quiet, reconciliation and healing," said Some. Malidoma underwent several divinations by tribal elders as they tried to determine what to do with Malidoma. Eventually the village decided that Malidoma must undergo Baor, or initiation. The village elders said that Some had not yet returned home; his soul was still missing somewhere in the land of the white, and that initiation would bring back his whole being to the village.

Baor, or initiation, in the Dagara culture is a month-long process during which a boy becomes a man through a solitary journey away from the village. He was forced to find his own food and sleep in the jungle. Malidoma had never undergone this process because he had been at the seminary. During his month in the jungle Some learned about his own personal power. He also learned much about the supernatural world and the spirituality that the Dagara possess. His tales of his experience include seeing beings from the netherworld, visions from his grandfather, and viewing the beings that inhabit nature. These were new and frightening experiences for someone that had been raised in the Western view of the world.

After his initiation and welcome home the elders called on Malidoma to go out into the world and inform the white man about their world. Although frightened about going back to the white man's world, Some left for Ouagadougou, the capital of Burkina Faso. He earned bachelor's degrees in sociology, literature, and linguistics at the university there. He also earned a master's degree in world literature. Some related in his first book, Of Water and the Spirit that school was very easy for him after his initiation experience. He was able to look at the professors and learn the answers to test questions by reading the looks of their auras. After this he went to the Sorbonne in Paris, where he earned a master's degree, and Brandeis University in Massachusetts, where he earned yet another master's degree and a Ph.D. He believes much of his success comes from his talismans and divination objects that he has come to possess since his rite of initiation.

Malidoma says he came to the United States originally because the tribal elders said it was where he needed to be. They knew his role in life was to explain the Dagara culture, to be "swallowed" by the West, in order to teach others about the African world. He says that he is "able to be more African in the West than I am in Africa. In my country, a man with as many degrees as I have wears a Western suit and tries to act cosmopolitan. He has turned his back on 'superstition' and embraced 'progress.'" Some originally became a professor at the University of Michigan after completion of his doctorate. He has since become a full-time speaker and lecturer. He and his wife Sobonfu (which means keeper of the knowledge) are often found at conferences exploring spirituality and workshops in the Men's Movement.

Malidoma teaches the importance of learning from and respecting elders and ancestors. He speaks about supernatural aspects of life and the importance of imagination. In his native Dagara home he teaches villagers about the white man, about how he hopes that the Western world can learn to respect the world before it destroys itself.

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Saturday, June 7, 2008
10:52 AM-11 AM  EDT

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Saturday, June 7, 2008
11:06 PM-Noon  EDT


with
Richard Hammond, Ph.D.

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Virato's guest today talks about dark matter, cosmic rays, worm holes, the origin of the Universe and other things science still can't explain. Professor Richard Hammond is adjunct Professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and works for the Army Research Office as a theoretical physicist.

He has published numerous scientific articles in a wide range of fields, from general relativity to quantum mechanics, and has pioneered a new theory of gravitation that has received international acclaim.

Dr. Hammond has received awards from NASA for specific research, and international awards for his research on gravity. He was recently invited, and accepted, to Cal Tech's Jet Propulsion Lab to study solar system tests of Einstein's theory.

The author of From Quarks to Black Holes, and a new book, The Unknown Universe, he claims to bring the world of physics to a public audience.

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Saturday, June 7, 2008
12:06 PM-1 PM  EDT


with
Andrea Adler

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Virato speaks Andrea Adler, an international speaker, workshop presenter, and the author of three books on spiritual/holistic marketing.

Andrea specializes in supporting entrepreneurs, small and large business owners, and students on the relevance of spirituality in the workplace.

Adler is the founder of HolisticPR.com, and author of Creating an Abundant Practice, and The Science of Spiritual Marketing: Initiation into Magnetism. She has been a marketing and public relations consultant for over 30 years, representing Internet companies, multi-media companies, and artistic ventures in Europe, Canada, Mexico, Venezuela, and the US. Adler was responsible for writing marketing collateral for Bread for the World, EDF (Environmental Defense Fund), City Harvest, Food for Thought, and Co-op America.

In her early twenties, Andrea Adler was an actress on and off Broadway, on television, and in film. She also produced three videos for the American Film Institute.

Adler has studied meditation for over 30 years and lived in ashrams and meditation centers in India, Paris, New York, and California. She has continually integrated her meditation discipline with her evolving expertise in PR and marketing, helping people understand the spiritual and practical laws of abundance and applying these principals while doing business.

She teaches a practical philosophy of consciousness that demonstrates how to integrate spiritual practice and psychological self-inquiry into a concrete and fundamental transformation of people’s lives and their marketing approaches.

She has had featured articles published in: Body Mind Spirit, Spirituality and Health, Natural Awakenings (4 times), Tathaastu Magazine (5 times), Uno Mismo, Massage Magazine, Kripalu, Living natural (3 times). Marketing Holistico (3 times) and Alternativa (in Venezuela).

Based in Santa Fe, New Mexico, Andrea Adler consults with business owners, travels internationally, lecturing and presenting her workshop: The Tao of Marketing.
 

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Saturday, June 14, 2008
10:06 AM-10:50 AM  EDT



with
Jane Cicchetti

 

This morning Virato chats with Jane Tara Cicchetti who has been a consultant and teacher of homeopathy for over twenty years. She was Director of the Five Elements School of Homeopathy in New Jersey and has taught regularly on dreams and symbols in homeopathy to medical professionals in the U.S. and Holland. Her most recent course, Dreams, Symbols, and the Healing Process, integrates Jung's work on dream symbolism and alchemy into classical homeopathy.

With a life-long interest in meditation and transpersonal psychology. Jane is a student of Zen meditation and has studied Jungian psychology under the mentorship of a Jungian analyst for the past ten years.

Her books and tapes by include Dreams, Symbols, and Homeopathy (Random House); Homeopathy and the Jungian Archetypes; Role of Jung's Concept of Shadow in Homeopathic Treatment, and The Use of Dreams in Homeopathic Prescribing.

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Saturday, June 14, 2008
11:06 PM-Noon  EDT

We Are Divine Heroes!

Drunk with Wonder by Steve Ryals...Rock Creek Press

Today Virato chats with author Steve Ryals, who suggests that we are the heroes we've been waiting for, that each one of us contains an infinitely precious spark of the Divine. In his book Drunk with Wonder Ryals guides the reader to perennial wisdom echoed in the great traditions of Shamanism, Eastern and Western thought and contemporary science. He says our addiction to adrenaline shapes our experience and that we take on fear-based belief systems from parents, teachers, and our culture, perpetuating the story of "Them & Us." and that most people are trapped in victim consciousness.

Ryals, who says that only when we are able to face and embrace our ego can we make it a trusted ally, went from homeless and shooting drugs in San Francisco’s Haight-Ashbury at 17, to graduating from UC Berkeley on the Dean’s List six years later.

For the past 10 years, Steve has lived in the wild mountains of Mendocino County in Northern California with his beloved wife JoAnn. They thrive in an off-the-grid environment, producing most of their electricity from solar panels, with hydro in the winter. Drunk with Wonder was written, edited and designed with almost no help from fossil fuels.

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Saturday, June 14, 2008
12:06 PM-1 PM  EDT

"Extraterrestrials are among us,
and some are not altruistic!"


 

Virato asks you to put your mind on a nearby shelf, as he chats with Marshall Vian Summers, who says he was sent into the world to receive a special  message from God. In 1982, at the age of 33, he had a direct encounter with what he calls the "Unseen Ones," the angelic presence that he says had been guiding and preparing him all along. Soon after this encounter, Summers left the city to wander America's wilderness.

He is the author of 20 books from this presence. His first, Steps to Knowledge, he says was given to him for transcription over a 12-day period in December 1989. This angelic presence further informed Summers that he was to prepare for a particular transmission from a group of beings who have referred to themselves as the “allies” of humanity,

His latest book of transcriptions is called The Allies of Humanity, which he says is an urgent message about the presence in the world today.

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Saturday, June 21, 2008
10:06 PM-10:50 AM  EDT

Guru to the "pop" Culture


Panache Desai
 

“I want to make spirituality cool again,” says Panache. The Maharishi and Transcendental Mediation was it in the 1960’s through 70’s. It is time to make spirituality cool again in order to appeal to my generation.” So says Virato's guest this morning, Panache Desai. To that end he offers events that include meditations and a course specially designed for artists. Desai has been called a "master" by some.
From the time Panache was a toddler, he spent unusual amounts of time in the meditation center his father ran in London. “I loved chanting,” says Panache, “Sometimes I’d lead the chanting and play the drums.” As a teenager, he was a loner. He found his connection and acceptance in the area of music. This was a time in London when really cool music was underground. Panache hosted his own underground radio show on which he performed. “I found a place to communicate through music. The music unified everything,” says Panache, “ I found acceptance there.”

On January 5, 2003, at the age of 24, a profound spiritual transformation radically shifted the course of Panache’s life. For five days he had been struck by sudden, violent illness. He was short of breath and felt as if he was having a heart attack. He telephoned the shaman who had mentored him in New York, and was told “There is a part of you that has to die in order to transition into what you are here to do.” This was the final phase of Panache receiving his full gifts and abilities. Since that day, Panache says fe feels called to awaken and activate people. He has worked with people from all backgrounds in countries such as: Bali, England, Austria, Germany, Ireland, Spain and America. .

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Saturday, June 21, 2008
11:06 PM-Noon  EDT
 


with
Marcus Sircus
 

Despite the fact that allopathic medicine is poisoning and killing hundreds of thousands of people in the United States and millions of people around the world every year, deep within the heart of western medicine is a wisdom and power that is deliberately stymied by medical authorities and the pharmaceutical companies that stand behind them.

Inside the emergency room and intensive care wards, where many believe some of the most accurate medicine is practiced, are common but extraordinarily safe and effective substances that save lives everyday. Interesting no one has thought to harness these medical super weapons against chronic disease or cancer.

Today Virato interviews health activist Mark A. Sircus, director of the International Medical Veritas Association. Dr. Sircus has been particularly outspoken on the negative effect vaccinations on vulnerable infants, and is identifying the common thread of many toxic agents that are dramatically threatening present and future generations of children.  He also says that common baking powder has miraculous healing properties...even against cancer!

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.

He lives with his family in Brazil.

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Saturday, June 21, 2008
12:06 PM-1 PM  EDT

Vaishali

Virato chats with Vaishali, part Stand-up Comic, part Spiritual Teacher and full time Soul Stripper. Vaishali attended San Francisco State University where she graduated Magna Cum Laude with degrees from both the Religion & Philosophy Department as well as the Radio & Television Department. Her entire life has been devoted to the learning and sharing of esoteric wisdom. Vaishali has been teaching and providing Self Emergence individual consultations, since the early nineties. Vaishali has been enormously influenced by mystic Emanuel Swedenborg whose brilliant wisdom is the central core of her spiritual practice, and the remarkable Sir Oscar Wilde, which is where she says she gets her invincible sense of humor.

“What life has taught me,” Vaishali says, “is if you can’t beat em’ laugh at em’.” She has survived a life fraught with many personal challenge available to a human experience: the violent death of a loved one, lying cheating significant others, a messy and painful divorce, financial devastation due to life threatening illness and injuries complete with years of physical agony. These experiences have shaped her book You Are What You Love with honest heartfelt and deeply insightful knowledge on how to understand the purpose behind human life on Earth. Vaishali has worn only the color purple - exclusively, for over a decade, as her Spiritual uniform of choice. She currently resides in Florida and continues with her life purpose of Spiritual teaching and consulting as well as is working on her next book.

She broadcasts a weekly radio show on KTLK, Los Angeles, and KEST, SanFrancisco.

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Saturday, June 28, 2008
10:06 PM-11 AM  EDT


Virato goes into freeform... Sharing human awareness and consciousness with the world? This morning Virato also opens the program to the Asheville community.

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Saturday, June 28, 2008
11:06 PM-Noon  EDT


with
Joann Campe and Don Weaver
 

Maybe we shouldn't be worried about Global Warming, but rather a coming Ice Age!

There is evidence to suggest that as forests begin to die off worldwide, giving off carbon dioxide, the climate of the Earth is altered, triggering the transition from the warm interglacial to an Ice Age. We are hastening this process with the burning of fossil fuels. Undertaking the task of remineralization is urgent to restore our agricultural soils, to save the dying forests in the temperate latitudes, and to stabilize our climate.

Remineralization revitalizes soils by imitating natural processes and using materials that are a result of glaciation, volcanic eruptions, and alluvial deposits.

In the early 1980s, one of Virato's guests today, Joann Campe  felt  she wanted to make a contribution to healing the Earth and didn't want to leave the fate of the Earth in the hands of the "experts."  Soon after a friend gave her the book The Survival of Civilization by John Hamaker and Don Weaver. What had previously been "dirt" under her feet became for her a vast micro-universe that is the basis of all life. As an individual wanting to make a difference sheI felt the tremendous importance of Hamaker's work and joined together with him, Don Weaver and others to get the message out.

In 1995 Campe received a grant to create the non-profit organization Remineralize the Earth which facilitates the networking of a worldwide grass roots movement concerned with regenerating soils, forests, health and stabilizing the climate through remineralization. Campe has collected research on remineralization from all over the world, produced a newsletter for many years and the magazine Remineralize the Earth (1991-1998), co-produced the European part of the documentary film Stopping the Coming Ice Age  In 1994 she co-organized a conference at the USDA headquarters in Washington that included the USDA, the National Aggregate and Stone Associations and directed a two-year research project. Campe has been a speaker at conferences in the United States, England, Ireland, Switzerland, Austria, Hungary) and Central America and recently spoke at the World International Renewable Energy Conference (WIREC) and has made radio and television appearances to promote remineralization worldwide.

Virato's other guest today, Don Weaver has been an ecologist, for 30 years been  researcher, writer, and organic grower concerned with the health and survival of humanity and the Biosphere. He met the brilliant ecologist John D. Hamaker in 1978, and thrilled to learn how local and global soil remineralization with natural gravel (mixed rock) dust, to grow high-quality crops and trees, is such a powerful and practical foundation for regenerating the socio-ecosphere. Hamaker and Weaver subsequently collaborated to author The Survival of Civilization, produce 11 issues of Solar Age or Ice Age? Bulletin, plus write numerous articles for the magazines Remineralize the Earth, Acres USA, Living Nutrition, and others.

John Hamaker died in 1994 at age 80, but his devotion to saving humanity from the vast and generally unforeseen consequences of soil demineralization helped inspire me to keep sharing his crucial insights, along with others supportive of "Earth Regeneration" and "Reverence for Life." From 1997-2002 Waever researched and wrote To Love And Regenerate The Earth: Further Perspectives on The Survival of Civilization, which includes additional Hamaker writings in its 540 pages. Both Hamaker-Weaver books remain free at http://www.remineralize.org  as a planetary public service.

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Saturday, June 28, 2008
12:06 PM-1 PM  EDT

Virato speaks with author Ann Andrews, exploring new realms of possibilities where humanity takes its place as Cosmic Citizens; realizing our divine destiny where the Earth becomes a station of light, a point of great radiance and vitality, beaming out into the Universe.

"This is the story of Jason, my Indigo child…"Thus begins her story of a mother living in England with a unique experience to share about her life and her son, Jason. What sets Jason apart from the many other young children who are now being born with exceptional multi-dimensional abilities called “Indigo Children” is that Jason is not only an "alien abductee," but is himself of extraterrestrial origin. Jason explains that “Technically we are all Extraterrestrials, because there is none amongst you who ‘comes’ from here.”

After years of uncertainty, he progressed from an initial standpoint of fear and terror to a point in his teens when he began accepting “their” teachings and to acknowledge who he is – one of many Indigo or Star Children here on earth helping humanity to evolve to the next evolutionary step. Jason says he came to our planet with two purposes: “I wanted to experience what it was like to be human, and as a human, I would be in a better position to help the rest of you when the time comes.”

Now that Jason has “awakened” to who he truly is, he welcomes their interaction and works with the ETs. He has developed into a powerful psychic with amazing healing abilities. Walking Between Worlds – Belonging to None offers a fascinating account of strange and unusual events; yet it also takes us into new realms of possibilities where humanity takes its place as Cosmic Citizens; realizing our divine destiny in which Earth becomes a station of light, a point of great radiance and vitality, beaming out into the Universe.

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Saturday, July 5, 2008
10:06 AM-10:50 AM  EDT


with
Larry Harris

Virato chats with Larry Harris who says he was chosen to be a healer. He was a successful businessman and accountant, when most of his life fell apart. Partly for something to do, he started teaching people about energy awareness, which he studied many years before. About that same time, he claims he began receiving dreams and visions about how to heal himself and his life. After a period of resistance, Harris he started to use them. The techniques were effective, so he began to facilitate others in their own healing as well.

Harris calls this program Transformational Energy Release. The founder of the Transformational Energy Institute™, he says he is an  energy healing facilitator, Larry Harris be in Asheville on July 12.

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Saturday, July 5, 2008
11:06 AM-Noon  EDT


with
Byron Katie

Virato's guest today is Byron Katie, founder of a process called The Work, who says she has one job: to teach people how to end their own suffering. Katie became severely depressed in her early thirties. For almost a decade she spiraled down into depression, rage, self-loathing, and constant thoughts of suicide; for the last two years she was often unable to leave her bedroom.

Then one morning in February 1986, she experienced a life-changing realization. There are various names for an experience like this. Katie calls it "waking up to reality."

In that instant of no-time, she says, "I discovered that when I believed my thoughts, I suffered, but that when I didn’t believe them, I didn’t suffer, and that this is true for every human being. Freedom is as simple as that. I found that suffering is optional. I found a joy within me that has never disappeared, not for a single moment. That joy is in everyone, always."

Katie realized that what had been causing her depression was not the world around her, but the beliefs she'd had about the world. Instead of hopelessly trying to change the world to match her thoughts about how it should be, she could question these thoughts and, by meeting reality as it is.

Katie is the author or co-author of four bestselling books: Loving What Is: Four Questions That Can Change Your Life; I Need Your Love—Is That True?; How to Stop Seeking Love, Approval, and Appreciation and Start Finding Them Instead ; A Thousand Names for Joy: Living in Harmony with the Way Things Are; and Question Your Thinking, Change the World: Quotations from Byron Katie.

Since 1986, she has brought The Work to hundreds of thousands of people across the world, at free public events, in prisons, hospitals, churches, corporations, universities, schools, at weekend workshops,

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Saturday, July 5, 2008
12:06 PM-1 PM  EDT

By now you may have heard about The Secret by Rhonda Byrne. With The Secret teachers featured on Oprah and various other informational books and DVDs, the Law of Attraction has created a global sensation.

Virato's guest today is Paula Godwin Coppel, Vice President of Communications at the Unity School of Christianity, and editor of Sacred Secrets: Finding Your Way to Joy, Peace and Prosperity, a new book discussing the phenomena by presenting participants of the original The Secret and others espousing the essence of the Law of Attraction what it means, how it works, and how it rightly fits within a framework of spiritual awareness and understanding.

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Saturday, July 12, 2008
10:06 AM-10:50 AM  EDT

Live With Intention


with
Adair Cates

Virato chats with Ashevillian Adair Cates who says she lives with intention, passion and purpose and believes that now is the time to start living the life of your dreams! In the last year, Adair quit her teaching job, wrote the book Live with Intention: Ten Steps to Creating the Life of Your Dreams, became one of Bob Proctor's LifeSuccess Consultants, trained with some of the giants in the motivational industry (Harv Eker, Blair Singer, Mark Victor Hansen, Les Brown) and started a successful career as a professional speaker.

Adair has presented to groups of all ages and backgrounds, from high school students to network marketers to hotel executive directors. Some of her clients have included: AmeriCorps, Banana Republic, JHM Hotels, Silpada Designs, Mountain BizWorks and the University of North Carolina at Asheville. She has appeared as a featured guest on numerous radio and television shows inspiring and empowering audiences to live their best life NOW.

While most people her age are still trying to figure out what they want out of life, Adair is living her life on purpose and loving every minute of it. She is committed to living consciously and consistently grows to be the most effective and loving person she can be. She and her musician husband Chris live with their two cats in Asheville, NC and often do musical/motivational events as a team. In her free time Adair enjoys reading, writing, running, traveling, playing golf and co-hosting Speaking of Golf with Chris (where she has a segment called Golf with Intention).

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Saturday, July 12, 2008
11:06 AM-Noon  EDT


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Susan Shumsky
 

Virato chats with Susan Shumsky, author of Divine Revelation, in its 10th printing with Simon & Schuster, as well as Exploring Meditation, the award-winning Exploring Chakras, Exploring Auras, and Miracle Prayer, and her latest, How to Hear the Voice of God, the subject of today's conversation.

 

Shumsky has been a student of, and has practiced self-development disciplines since 1967--over 40 years. Her personal mentor was Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, founder of Transcendental Meditation, and guru of the Beatles and Deepak Chopra. Shumsky lived in Maharishi's ashrams in secluded areas, including the Himalayas of India and the Swiss Alps, for over 22 years, and was on his personal staff for 7 years. Then she studied New Thought and metaphysics for another 20 years.

Since 1970 Shumsky has taught yoga, meditation, prayer, and intuition to thousands of students in the U.S., Canada, Europe, and the Far East.

Dr. Shumsky has had over 400 speaking engagements and over 400 media appearances since her first book was published, including Woman's World magazine, Cosmopolitan, GQ, and National TV and Radio. She is the founder of Divine Revelation®, a complete technology for contacting the divine presence and listening to the inner voice.

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Saturday, July 12, 2008
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Virato's guest today is the founder of Fearless Books, D. Patrick Miller. As a collaborator, ghostwriter, or principal editor, Miller has helped other authors prepare manuscripts for publishers that include Viking, Doubleday, Warner, Simon & Schuster, Jeremy P. Tarcher, and John Wiley & Sons.

 

He has pioneered the “journalism of consciousness” through over 100 feature articles in a wide variety of magazines, including Reader’s Digest, Yoga Journal, Self, Natural Health, Healthy Living, Utne Reader, The Sun, and Intuition. and was the original publisher and editor of Gary Renard’s best-selling book The Disappearance Of The Universe.

 

Miller has been both a seeker and researcher of spiritual wisdom for over two decades. He is the author of A Little Book Of Forgiveness and Understanding A Course In Miracles, the subject of today's discussion.

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Saturday, July 19, 2008
10:06 AM- 10:50 AM  EDT


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Consciousness and Spirituality, are they mutually exclusive or can they be in harmony?

How do we handle all the fear? Doesn't A Course in Miracles say when their is any fear there can be no love?

Do some carry the love, like a candle to give to light others?

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Saturday, July 19, 2008
12:06 PM- 1 PM EDT


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Steve Posner


Virato chats with author
Steve Posner, who has been a spiritual teacher for more than 30 years. He has had many exciting adventures and mystical experiences on his long and fulfilling journey as outlined in his new book Spiritual Delights & Delusions: How to Bridge the Gap between Spiritual Fulfillment and Emotional Realities.  Posner says, "spiritual realism frees us from the fantasy of having to develop a perfect personality in order to consider ourselves enlightened."

He says the bedrock of spiritual realism is the spiritual practice of silence, and that we can become aware of our own inner silence any time, anywhere.

Posner's ideal of spiritual realism is fed by many wisdom traditions. He has meditated with Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, sat in silence with Mother Meera, been hugged by Amma, spent time in Palestine, and traveled across India and Israel with the spiritual guide Chalanda Ma.

Posner doesn't shy away from a hard look at the dangers and the delusions of terrorism and other violent confrontations of the postmodern world where religious hatred is thriving. He says he finds in the bounties of silence, a resource that can stand up to injustices and bigotry of all stripes.

Posner says inner peace can be achieved, but must not be seen as a ticket that enables us to escape the real world.

He has a Masters degree in Education from Harvard University, and teaches at the University of Southern California’s Center for Management Communications.

Posner's writings have appeared in the Washington Post, the Boston Globe, the International Herald Tribune, and numerous other publications. He lives in San Diego, California and Shanghai, China.

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Saturday, July 26, 2008
10:06 AM- 1 PM  EDT


Virato live from

This is the 4th consecutive year that VIRATO LIVE!  broadcasted live from Asheville's largest street fair, attended by several hundred thousand people. 

2008 marks the fair's 30th Anniversary of Bele Chere, and VIRATO LIVE! was the only radio show broadcasting live from the event.

Among the masses he meets a massage therapist who talks about 888, and energy healing, then and a real Asheville witch taking on the city of Asheville to save a Magnolia tree.. .by sleeping there under the tree in the open since July 26 for 19 days.

Enjoy Virato's spontaneous rhetoric. He says it was his vacation day!

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Saturday, August 2, 2008
10:06 AM-10:50 AM  EDT


with
Lawrence Doochin
 
At around age thirty, Virato's guest says he was blessed by God with the spark of remembrance,” that he says began his journey his of awakening.  Raised in a Jewish family in Nashville, Tennessee, Doochin attended services and had a Bar Mitzvah. However, he felt no relationship with God, he felt an emptiness that he did not understand. In the South the Jewish community was very small and insular. Christians who believed that Jesus had taken care of the sins of believers constantly surrounded Doochin.

Being Jewish, he felt very left out and isolated, and pushed thoughts of Jesus and God as far from him as possible. Emmett Fox’s Sermon on the Mount introduced Larry to the teachings of Jesus and the early Christians, while A Course in Miracles material continued his healing. Today, after much soul-searching and healing, Larry sees Jesus as a good friend and comforter, and a guide on the path of Love.

After years of therapy and spiritual study Larry began receiving revelations, which he recorded in his journal. Some of the revelations were experiences or concepts that he had integrated, while others were ones that he did not fully understand. As he wrote Larry had no idea that the revelations would become a book, I Am Therefore I Am: Finding God in Our Heart, the subject of today's conversation.

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Saturday, August 2, 2008
11:06 AM-Noon  EDT


with
Marie D. Jones

Marie D. Jones is the co-author of The Catastrophic Event that Changed the Course of Human History and Looking For God In All The Wrong Places, written with her father, geophysicist Dr. John M. Savino;  and author of Supervolcano;  Psience; and her latest, 2013: End of Days or A New Beginning: Envisioning the World After the Events of 2012 the subject of today's discussion.

She has contributed to over three dozen inspirational books and is a widely published national magazines, Chicken Soup books and online e-zines, and has also written and produced several nationally distributed video projects, including the award-winning children's video Pig Tales.

Jones considers herself a progressive activist, and is President of Progressive Democrats of San Diego, a chapter of Progressive Democrats of America. .She also spent fifteen years as a field investigator for the Mutual UFO Network and wrote for many paranormal magazines.

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Saturday, August 2, 2008
12:06 PM-1 PM  EDT

 


 

 

with
Walter Semkiw, MD

After obtaining his medical degree at the University of Illinois, Chicago,  Virato's guest today, Walter Semkiw, trained in psychiatry at the University of Colorado, Denver. Former Medical Director for Unocal 76, he is currently a board certified physician working at Kaiser Permanente in San Francisco.

Though trained in and proficient in science, Dr. Semkiw has always been attracted to the metaphysical world. In 1996 he unexpectedly found himself on a path which led to investigating objective evidence of reincarnation, as well as a past lifetime of my own. In 2001, he presented his reincarnation research to the International Association of Regression Research and Therapies (IARRT). Approximately a year later, Semkiw was elected to the Board of Directors of IARRT.

It is Dr. Semkiw's asserts that objective evidence of reincarnation is now emerging, from multiple independent research sources, that has the potential to change the world in a fundamental way. He suggests that evidence demonstrates that we retain similar facial features, personality traits and even writing style, from lifetime to lifetime. "We come back into life with people we have known before", says Dr, Simkiw, "and it appears that we all have a predetermined destiny or life path, which ensures that we rendezvous with souls that we are meant to reunite with, once again." He is the author of  Return of the Revolutionaries: The Case for Reincarnation and Soul Groups Reunited and Born Again.

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Saturday, August 9, 2008
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Joseph & Sara Malinak

Virato's studio guests this morning, Sarah and Joseph Malinak, say, "everyone deserves to have the best relationship possible! Relationships matter because the quality of our relationships determines the quality of our lives."

They claim that whether the relationship is with one's self, or another, or the Holy;  all relationships ground us, define us, challenge us, and free us.

The Malinaks live in Asheville, and are life coaches who specialize in helping people improve the quality of their relationships.

In 2005, they founded Ideal Relationships. Joseph has over thirty years of experience as a self-growth facilitator, and Sarah has a Master of Divinity degree in Pastoral Care and Counseling.

They are the authors of a book entitled Getting Back to Love: When the Pushing and Pulling Threaten to Tear You Apart, the subject of today's discussion.

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Saturday, August 9, 2008
11:06 AM-Noon  EDT


Neale Donald Walsch

Virato chats with Neale Donald Walsch, a modern day spiritual messenger whose words continue to touch the world in profound ways. With an early interest in religion and a deeply felt connection to spirituality, Walsch  spent the majority of his life thriving professionally, yet searching for spiritual meaning before beginning his now famous Conversation with God. His With God series of books has been translated into 34 languages, touching millions of lives and inspiring important changes in their day-to-day lives.

In addition to authoring the renowned With God series, Walsch has published 16 other works, as well as a number of video and audio programs. Available throughout the world, each of the CwG dialogue books has made the New York Times Bestseller list, with book 1 occupying that list for over two and half years.

The
With God
Series has redefined God and shifted spiritual paradigms around the globe. In order to deal with the enormous response to his writings, Walsch  created the Conversations with God Foundation, a non-profit educational organization dedicated to inspiring the world to helpHTG itself move from violence to peace, from confusion to clarity, and from anger to love.

Walsch's  work has taken him from the steps of Macchu Picchu in Peru to the steps of the Shinto shrines of Japan, from Red Square in Moscow to St. Peters Square in Vatican City to Tiananmen Square in China. And everywhere he has gone-from South Africa to Norway, Croatia to The Netherlands, the streets of Zurich to the streets of Seoul, Today we discuss his latest book, Happier Than God.

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Saturday, August 9, 2008
12:06 PM-1 PM  EDT



Bert JannsenVirato dialogues with  Bert Janssen, author and scientific researcher from the Netherlands. Janssen discusses the geometric designs of crop formations, pointing to the mystic creator of geometry, Pythagoras. Janssen is the author of The Hypnotic Power of Crop Circles and Crop Circle Reconstruction & Geometry. He suggests that beings or entities of another place, dimension or time are attempting to communicate with us in a mathematical way. He hints that they are testing us, or playing with us, simply by making the formation with geometric parts missing, that when overlaid, or added to, would create clear messages in a geometric language. Was or is Pythagoras perhaps an ET??

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Saturday, August 16, 2008
10:06 AM-11 AM  EDT




with

Ron Chapman

Virato chats with author Ronald Chapman, a contemporary motivational speaker, and founder of Magnetic North LLC.

With awards from Toastmasters International, and clients that include the UN World Health Organization, Chevron, Blue Cross-Blue Shield, etc., as well as a 10 year management stint with GE, Chapman says he applies holistic principles to his organizational development work. With an MSW from the University of New York, Albany, he is the author of What A Wonderful World: Seeing Through New Eyes, and his latest, Seeing True: ninety Contemplations in Ninety days.

Chapman will be coming to the Asheville area this month to deliver a workshop at Crystal Visions on August 20 presenting a workshop called Beyond Metaphysics: Into the Mystical Realm

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Saturday, August 16, 2008
11:06 AM-11:59 AM  EDT


Virato  Impromptu
 

Virato opens the microphone to callers as his scheduled guest cancels at the last minute. His guest from hour 1 stays on, and it is filled with free form dialogue and some new age trivia questions.

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Saturday, August 16, 2008
12:06 PM-1 PM  EDT

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Marc Allen

Virato chats with Marc Allen, internationally known author, and president and publisher of New World Library, which he co-founded with Shakti Gawain in 1977. He has guided the company from a small start-up with no capital, to its current position as one of the leading independent publishers in the country. Several of their authors have been guests on VIRATO LIVE!

Allen is the author of A Visionary Life, Visionary Business: An Entrepreneur’s Guide to SuccessThe Greatest Secret of All, The Type-Z Guide to Success, The Millionaire Course: A Visionary Plan for Creating the Life of Your Dreams, The Ten Percent Solution: Simple Steps to Improve Our Lives and the World, and his latest, written with Mark Fisher, and the subject of today's chat, How to Think Like a Millionaire.

Allen has also produced  and published a popular audio CD, Stress Reduction and Creative Meditations. and  a 12-CD audio version of his powerful seminar, The Success with Ease In-Depth Course.

Music has always been part of his life as well. He produced five albums of music for his label Watercourse Media. His first instrumental album, Breathe, has sold 100,000 copies.

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Saturday, August 23, 2008
10:06 AM-10:50  EDT


with
Sri Ram Kaa & Kira Raa


This morning Virato again asks you to place your mind on a nearby shelf as we meet today's guests on Message From Asheville. He's not suggesting you believe what you hear, but to reserve judgment and simply to experience fully, and to allow for all possibilities. That's all.

Five years ago, Sri Ram Kaa and Angelic Oracle Kira Raa say they came together in Sacred Union and accepted their mission. They gave up a “normal” life to spread the message of the Archangelic Realm to the world. They created a curriculum called Self-Ascension, and began traveling the world speaking to thousands about 2012, Earth changes, and the soul mission of each being

Sri Ram Kaa is a psychotherapist, medical intuitive, and healer. Kira Raa is said to be archangelic oracle. They say they are mystical teachers and a pure stream of Divine Connection.

Sri Ram Kaa and Kira Raa see humanity at a crucial choice point, and and that we have the power to choose to create a future that is evolved, awake, and full of joy. They call this Self-Ascension.

Sri and Kira are the authors of several books including Sacred Union: The Journey Home; The Path of Self-Ascension; 2012: You Have a Choice; Becoming a Mystic in a 9 to 5 World. and their latest; 2012: Atlantean Revelations,  The book has been described as an “Encyclopedia Galactica” that reads like a novel, and contains detailed information of our Atlantean past, and galactic contact.

They are also frequent guests on radio and television shows including Coast to Coast AM with George Noory and Good Morning America, and have been featured in Newsweek.

Sri and Kira will be in Asheville on September 5 at Crystal Visions.

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Saturday, August 23, 2008
11:06 AM-Noon  EDT


 

This is a repeat of an August 2005 program. On August 21, 2008 Virato was with the wild dolphins in the Atlantic Ocean off South Carolina, He asked them to listen to this program today, August 23, 2008.

The cetaceans (various species of whales and dolphins) are sending us messages. What are they, and are we receiving them? Some scientists say that they have been on the planet for some 20 million years! They have larger brains with more turns than humans. Some also say they are really extra-terrestrials, here to guide us in these endtimes..

Virato questions Bobbie Sandoz, (author of In the Presence of High Beings), and numerous others, including experts live from England dialoguing with others swimming with the whales in Hawaii.

Exciting and informative program, where Virato exposes his past in the United States Navy.

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Saturday, August 23, 2008
12:06 PM-1 PM  EDT

Tommy Chong Invasion!


 

This was supposed to be a repeat of the second hour about dolphins. Instead what was broadcast was a 2005 program we did with Tommy Chong of Cheech & Chong.

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Saturday, August 30, 2008
10:06 AM-11 AM  EDT


PREVIEW

Virato chats with Debi Athos, Director of Asheville annual Organicfest and president of Pure Foods Partners, and with other staff members of Organicfest 2008

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Saturday, August 30, 2008
11:06 AM-Noon  EDT


This is what animal testing looks like...

Virato's guest today is Shannon Keith who grew up in Los Angeles with a house full of animals and family roots in entertainment.

Ever since she was a small child, Shannon was always rescuing injured and homeless animals and nursing them back to health and finding loving homes for them. So, it came as no surprise that Shannon decided to become an animal rights lawyer.

Animals are considered property, and Shannon has been striving to change that while defending animal rights activists in the courtroom, saving dogs being prosecuted in Los Angeles by getting them off death row, as well as prosecuting those who abuse animals. In 2000, Shannon obtained the largest settlement against the City of Los Angeles for the beating death of a dog by a city employee.

Throughout her years as an animal rights attorney, Shannon has represented several controversial activists, bringing justice to those who dare speak and act up for the liberation of animals exploited.

Shannon has represented activists such as Kevin Jonas, SHAC, Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, and many more.

She has just completed her first documentary film on the Animal Liberation Movement entitled Behind the Mask, the subject of today's discussion

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Saturday, August 30, 2008
12:06 PM-1PM  EDT


with Lew Paz


During a childhood fatefully balanced between normal American boyhood and occasions in orphanage and reform school, Virato's guest today, Lew Paz, became uniquely attentive to the quality of his experiences.

At seventeen he joined the Air Force, again always balancing pursuit of knowledge with worldly experience. At the age of 20 he hitchhiked about the country for a year or so, and then re-enlisted in the military. After two years as an infantry paratrooper, Paz became one of the first anti-war protesters during the build up of the Vietnam War.

He spent a year in military prison, which he and a select group of other inmates used as a kind of monastery for the pursuit of significant knowledge.

From there, after establishing a career, at the age of 29, he walked away from a life of lucrative success in the physical world, to once again seek an existence on the edge, blending Zorba the Greek adventure with Socratic questioning of all things. His journey entailed years of hard road travel, working at every kind of labor, a year here, a semester there at varied colleges and universities, shamanistic explorations with drugs, plants and fungi, and countless sunup to sunset days in libraries great and small over half the earth, deeply delving into the quest for truth and wisdom.

Paz first learned meditation from the direct tutelage of Zen Master Shunryo Suzuki, and over the past thirty years merged Zen teachings with Hatha and Jana Yoga, the psychological insights of Carl Jung, and the mental and spiritual disciplines of Aurobindo and Gurdjieff. This rich background has given him the ability to transfer scholarly and esoteric spiritual text into comprehensible terms for the layman.

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Saturday, September 6, 2008
10:06 PM-1 PM  EDT


 

Today Virato will broadcast live from  Organicfest 2008 in Ashville, North Carolina. paying tribute to the earth. One of the largest events aimed at understanding the organic and "green" phenomena. Many guests and people off the street, such as the Honeybee Project.

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Saturday, September 6, 2008
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Virato continues with the  broadcast from  Organicfest 2008 in Ashville, North Carolina. paying tribute to the earth. One of the largest events aimed at understanding the organic and "green" phenomena. What is Organic?

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Saturday, September 6, 2008
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Virato  broadcast live from  Organicfest 2008 in Ashville, North Carolina. paying tribute to the earth. One of the largest events in the Southeast aimed at understanding the organic and "green" phenomena.

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Saturday, September 13, 2008
10:06 PM-11 AM EDT

Join in an Open Discussion exploring Human Consciousness and contemporary society. What role does spirituality play in your life, and what is the connection between higher consciousness, enlightenment and  metaphysics, spirituality and eating organic food, and being vegetarian, and war? For sure Virato will have his point of view. Virato also reads from Richard Odo, and talks about whether we need gurus, et. al.. A very lively show!

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Saturday, September 13, 2008
11:06 PM-Noon  EDT


with
Gangaji

Virato talks straight with Gangaji, a popular American spiritual teacher, or guru, who gives satsangs around the globe. She is said to have attained self-realization in 1990 after an encounter with Poonjaji (also known as Papaji), a disciple of Ramana Maharshi, who sent her back to the West to teach.

It all began in 1972, when she moved to San Francisco with the intention of exploring deeper levels of her being. In her quest for truth, she took the vows of a Bodhisattva, practiced Zen and Vipassana meditation, and helped facilitate a Tibetan Buddhist meditation center. During this period she also was exposed to the processing of Werner Erhardt and his EST training and she also was involved in ARICA, among other psycho-spiritual and healing programs. Between 1981 and 1987, she was a practicing acupuncturist in a clinic in San Francisco.

Despite her success, she still had a deep longing for fulfillment, and she prayed for a teacher. In 1990 she met with Papaji through a former student his, Andrew Cohen. In this encounter, she says, the fulfillment she had sought was revealed to her. Gangaji has described contracting an illness and high fever while in India, which preceded her experience of realization.  Papaji gave her the name "Gangaji," after the river Ganga (Ganges), and sent her back to America to teach.

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with
Peter Kingsley

Virato speaks with Peter Kingsley, internationally recognized for his groundbreaking work on the origins of western spirituality, philosophy and culture. Through his writings and lectures he speaks straight to the heart and has helped to transform many people's understanding not only of the past, but of who they are.

Kingsley is the author of three books, Reality; In the Dark Places of Wisdom; and Ancient Philosophy, Mystery and Magic. In the space of only a few years, his works have exerted a profound and far-reaching influence outside, as well as inside academia. He lectures widely--speaking to Native American elders and physicists, professional scholars and followers of different spiritual traditions, healers and medical practitioners as well as people who very simply are aware of the need to wake up to a reality greater than the one we are used to.

After graduating with honors from the University of Lancaster, England in 1975,  Kingsley went on to receive the degree of Master of Letters from King's College Cambridge before being awarded a PhD by the University of London. He has worked together with many of the most prominent figures in the fields of classics and anthropology, philosophy and religious studies, ancient civilizations and the history of both healing and science. The recipient of many academic awards, Kingsley was a Fellow at the Warburg Institute in London and has been made an honorary Professor both at Simon Fraser University in Canada and at the University of New Mexico.

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10:06 PM-11 AM  EST


with
Corinna Wood

Corrina Wood

Virato's guest this morning is Corinna Wood who has opened the hearts of thousands to the wisdom of the plants and their own bodies. Director of Red Moon Herbs, making herbal medicines from fresh, local plants, with a focus on women's health, her background includes an extensive apprenticeship with Susun Weed in 1993 as well as a B.S. in Biology. She is a certified herbalist, and lives with her family at Earthaven Ecovillage, an intentional community near Black Mountain, NC.

Over the last 15 years, Corinna has taught hundreds of educational programs in herbal medicine and women’s health & natural healing. In addition to her classes at the Appalachian School of Holistic Herbalism, Earthaven Ecovillage, and Red Moon Herbs, Corinna has been a presenter at numerous conferences including Medicines from the Earth, Carolina Farm Stewardship Association Conference, Southeast Women's Herbal Conference, and the Organic Growers School. She also is a frequent guest teacher at Warren Wilson College, University of North Carolina at Asheville, and Guilford College. 

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with
Andrew Cohen

Today Virato chats with Andrew Cohen who says that his life was changed by a spontaneous experience of "cosmic consciousness" at age sixteen.

Haunted by the memory of this event, Cohen abandoned his ambition to become a jazz drummer and began a quest to recapture this experience. Studying martial arts, then Kriya Yoga, then Buddhism from ages 22 to 30, Cohen eventually met the Indian mystic H. W. L. Poonja in 1986. After spending only two weeks with Poonja, having what he claimed was a “deep spiritual awakening,” Cohen, with the initial encouragement of Poonja, began teaching, Later a personal disagreement created a split between the two.

In 1988, Cohen founded EnlightenNext, a nonprofit educational and spiritual network committed to creating a new global culture. In addition to small groups of students located in various parts of the world, EnlightenNext has public centers in New York, Boston, London, Amsterdam, Frankfurt, Zurich, Paris, Copenhagen, Tel Aviv, and Rishikesh, India. The main center for EnlightenNext is a 220-acre (890,000 m²) retreat venue in Lenox, Massachusetts, where Cohen and his largest body of students currently reside.

Shortly after he began teaching, Cohen began to meet with other spiritual teachers in order to share his experience and engage in dialogue about the nature of spiritual enlightenment. In 1991, he founded the magazine What Is Enlightenment?, in order to share and further this investigation. As editor in chief of WIE, he believes that "it is on our shoulders to create the future," and sees the magazine and its associated programs as popular forums for dialogue and inquiry regarding the meaning of spiritual life in contemporary society.

Cohen is the author of My Master Is My Self (1989), Enlightenment Is a Secret (1991), Embracing Heaven & Earth (2000). and Living Enlightenment: A Call for Evolution Beyond Ego (2002)

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Patrick E. Peterson, DO, MD
 

After 1/2 hour of discussing fiction and its effect upon expanding human consciousness in an open forum, Virato delves into science fiction, with the author of a mind and consciousness stimulating book. When does science fiction become reality?  What happens when spirituality and science merge?

Here's a thumbnail sketch of the book:  Peter Jobe has just been named the unwilling leader of a study group of four other graduate students whose specialties range from neuroscience to religious studies.

The five come from different countries and different disciplines, but they quickly realize the synergy of their ideas could revolutionize the scientific and religious communities. But as Peters group is beginning to bond, another meeting of the minds is taking place halfway around the world. An unlikely collection of warlords and terrorists have pooled their resources and devised a devastating plan. As the countdown begins, Peter and his friends realize they may be the only ones standing between America and a nuclear holocaust.

Peterson is a board certified doctor of osteopathy, and a board certified medical doctor. He says, "If I can help create a spiritual awakening throughout society by planting one seed, maybe the world will one day be a better place."

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Saturday, September 27, 2008
10:06 PM-11 AM  EST

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August Worley

Virato's guest this morning is August Worley, a degreed Electrical Engineer with an associated minor in Performance and Music Composition Studies. Worley began his professional electronics career working for Moog Music in Buffalo, NY in 1980. Through his career, Worley has also designed commercial audio products for several internationally known companies such as B&K Components and Polyfusion, Inc.

In 1997 he was selected to tour with the reformed Emerson, Lake & Palmer as a keyboard technician, and to custom design a digitally sequenced pyrotechnics controller for Keith Emerson's always outrageous stage shows.

In 2002 he moved to Asheville, North Carolina to intimately work with legendary synthesizer pioneer Dr. Robert Moog in developing his latest keyboard, the MiniMoog Voyager synthesizer.

Also a tone therapist, Reiki Master, and musician, Worley has recently formed AUGUSTARA, Inc. to combine his engineering skills and his metaphysical insights to bring forth healing music and holistic therapy products such as PYRADYM.

He currently teaches electronics at AB Tech in Asheville.

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Saturday, September 27, 2008
11:06 PM-Noon  EST


A Path to Self-Empowerment for Women

with
Dr. Iyanla Vanzant
 
hile working with a group of women on public assistance   and creating lectures about changing their lives, in 1992 Iyanla Vanzant wrote Tapping the Power Within: A Path to Empowerment for Black Women . This book, containing basic spiritual principles, self-affirmations, and personal rituals, was used to uplift and motivate women on welfare. For Vanzant, this was the beginning of a new career. She started seeking spiritual growth, leaving her job as a public defender without giving a notice in search of growth and happiness.

Vanzant has written 18 books to date empowering women of all classes, races and socio-economic backgrounds. There are no boundaries in her self-help books. A regular on the Oprah Winfrey Show, she is a motivational speaker, spiritual counselor, ordained minister, and Yoruba priestess.

Her advice is good and well-put, with practical applications and examples. She likens the journey to completion within oneself to a house, where one must start at the basement, and work up to the attic. She feels that the only way one can have a fulfilling relationship with another person is to feel totally comfortable with oneself. Vanzant's role as a spiritual advisor shows through her words and examples. She makes it clear that spirituality is important in understanding life. Her advice centers around issues that pertain more centrally to people of color, but apply to all women.

Her latest from Hay House is called Tapping the Power Within: A Path to Self-Empowerment for  Women

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Saturday, September 27, 2008
12:06 PM-1 PM  EST

Virato interviews author Robert Bauval. Much has been written as to 'how' the Egyptians might have aligned their monuments with such high precision, but the question that has always remained unanswered is 'why'- why did the ancients put so much emphasis on astronomical alignments? And what could be the function, practical or symbolic, behind these mysterious alignments?

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Is it all Purple Haze?

Explore the expansiveness of our multidimensional universe with Virato. Every 6 weeks or so, Virato opens the program to his listeners.

Here are some questions for today:

Do you feel that traditional medical care offered at community health centers has advanced to adopt holistic methods, or have they sold out even more to technology and Big Pharma?

Does Yoga really offer any spiritual benefits?

What are the metaphysical implications, if any, in the American and world economy?

..or is it all purple haze illusion? 

What is it you most enjoy about listening to VIRATO LIVE!

Have your own question(s)? Call in 828-252-4348 and share it with the audience, or e-mail them to Virato.

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Saturday, October 4, 2008
11:06 AM-Noon  EST


A New Leprosy, Delusion, Nanotechnology implants?
. . . or?

Some are saying it's a mutant form of leprosy, others  are calling it a psychotic episode, and even others have suggested that chemtrails are to blame for nanotechnology transmitters being placed into our bodies. It's a mysterious and baffling condition characterized by pustules, the feeling of skin crawling, and the presence of strange fibers within the lesion, the fibers may be blue black or even red. Find out today, as Virato interviews world experts on the phenomena

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Saturday, October 4, 2008
12:06 PM-1 PM  EST
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[A poor phone connection and strong French accent make it hard for guest to be understood]

Virato chats with Pierre Bonnasse, author, international consultant in Sophrology, student of Fourth Way esoteric traditions, and researcher of religious sciences, hermetic philosophies, and “sciences of consciousness.”

Bonnasse explains the relationship between the Gurdjieff Enneagram and sacred geometry and harmonics. that the objective power of language--and art and music--lies in the ability to use symbols that will mean precisely the same thing to anyone.

In The Magic Language of the Fourth Way, Bonnasse applies the esoteric teachings of Fourth Way mystic George Ivanovitch Gurdjieff to show how to fully and properly activate the power of language.

Bonnasse shows how words can regain the strange magical powers they possessed in the first days of humanity, when words created the realities of what they described. This is a far cry from today’s world in which even writers lament the impotent nature of language.

He uses the relationship between the Gurdjieff Enneagram and sacred geometry and harmonics to reveal the power given to words by the notes of the scale. Bonnasse shows not only how to discover the objective power of words but also how to apply the relationship between language and living to maximum effect.

He explains that the objective power of language--and art and music--lies in the ability to use symbols that will mean precisely the same thing to anyone. The Magic Language of the Fourth Way serves as a clear and generous introduction to the complexities of Gurdjieffian thought as well as a descriptive how-to manual for Fourth Way aspirants on the uses of objective language for spiritual advancement.

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Saturday, October 11, 2008
10:06 AM-11 AM  EST


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Virato chats with Corey-Pine Shane, a holistic clinical herbalist, and director of Asheville's Blue Ridge School of Herbal Medicine. Fall elixirs, pharmaceutical alternatives, and how to become your own herbalist. Shane is considered by many to be Asheville's "herb guru."

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Saturday, October 11, 2008
11:06 AM-Noon  EST


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Sonia Ricotti

Virato chats with Sonia Ricotti, CEO and president of Lead Out Loud, a transformational leadership and personal development company. She is a motivational speaker, a corporate trainer and a personal and leadership coach in Toronto. A dynamic speaker and trainer and has been interviewed by many TV and radio shows, including Oprah Winfrey.

Her topics include leadership, personal growth, making a difference, and the universal law of attraction. She has held several senior level leadership positions over the years, including President of Club Training Forum, an international consulting and training company for the health club industry.

She is the author of  Mastering The Law of Attraction: 11 Transformational Steps to Creating an Extraordinary Life and her latest, and the topic of today's discussion, The Law of Attraction, Plain and Simple.

Ricotti decided to follow a vision and dream she has had for many years: to create positive transformational shifts around the globe. This vision and dream has resulted in the creation of Lead Out Loud, a transformational company dedicated to making a difference and developing extraordinary human beings who live their greatest lives.

She has participated in numerous humanitarian missions across the globe and is about to launch The Wave Movement: a compassionate peace movement with a “vibrational ripple effect” dedicated to creating world peace and world abundance.

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Saturday, October 11, 2008
12:06 PM-1 PM  EST


 

"If we are to come to a true understanding of the nature of the laws of the universe, there has to be a reconciliation between physics and metaphysics. The reality of the existence of our minds must be integrated into the structure of the space/time continuum. Such properties as awareness, purposeful action, organization, design, and even decision making are inherent not only in our minds, but also within the structure of matter," says today's guest.

Virato chats with Marc J. Seifer, Ph.D., who teaches psychology at Roger Williams University. Dr. Seifer who studied under Bruno Bettelheim, Herbert Meltzer, and Stanley Krippner and is the author of several books, including  Inward Journey: From Freud to Gurdjieff and the acclaimed Wizard: The Life & Times of Nikola Tesla and his latest, Transcending the Speed of Light, the subject for most of today's discussion.

Past editor of MetaScience, a journal on consciousness, Dr. Seifer has been featured in The New York Times, Scientific American, Technology Review, The Economist and The Washington Post. With articles in over 70 publications, he is also internationally recognized as an expert on the inventor Nikola Tesla  (the subject of his doctoral dissertation). He has lectured at the United Nations, Kings College, Cambridge University, Oxford University, University of Vancouver, City College of New York, Colorado College, Cranbrook Retreat, and West Point.

With a BS from the University of Rhode Island, five semesters at The New School For Social Research in New York, an MA. from the University of Chicago and a Ph.D. from Saybrook Institute, Dr. Seifer also teaches psychology at Bristol Community College and also Community College of Rhode Island, and is an expert graphologist.

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Saturday, October 18, 2008
10:06 AM-11 AM  EST


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with
Arjuna Da Silva

oday Virato chats with Arjuna Da Silva, long time friend, and co-founder of Earthaven, a world renown eco-community in the deep Appalachian mountains near Asheville, NC.

Da Silva's early experiences demonstrated to her the immense challenges people have in living together, especially while learning new ways and making new rules. At Earthaven, the community Council practices a decision-making process  called Consensus Decision Making.  While the joys of community do not exclude the issues and problems that face modern social human beings, people in close community tend to find and create unique ways of living, working and playing together.

Earthaven residents say they are a living seed in which they store the best of cultural heritage, and an incubator in which they seek to embrace responsibility as humans during the impending chaos. Their vision is to pass their mythology, technology, and community skills to their descendants, who they envision planting a poly-culture of survival strategies and help cultivate a sustainable renaissance. Through cultural exchange between tribes, they seek to create a world more abundant, beautiful, and peaceful. They say the success of their efforts shall be measured in these terms.

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Saturday, October 18, 2008
11:06 AM-Noon  EST


with
Justine Toms

Today Virato meets Justine Toms, co-founder and managing producer of New Dimensions Media/World Broadcasting Network, a worldwide media communications group that seeks to explore the changing landscape of possibilities in the world today. For more than three decades she and her husband Michael Toms have been “changing the world, one broadcast at a time.”

 

Justine has hosted many radio series, such as In Her Company: Deep Dialogues with Women of Wisdom and produced many award-winning radio series, including Deep Ecology for the 21st Century and Bioneers: Revolution from the Heart of Nature. and is a founding convener of the Millionth Circle Initiative, a grassroots volunteer organization dedicated to seeding, nurturing, and connecting circles of women around the world.

 

Besides her radio work, she leads workshops on “Living Life on Purpose” and is co-author with Michael Toms of True Work: Doing What You Love and Loving What You Do. Her latest is Small Pleasures: Finding Grace in a Chaotic World, the subject of today's interview..

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Saturday, October 18, 2008
12:06 PM-1 PM  EST

 

n 2001, Virato's guest today traveled to a remote uninhabited island on the rainy, wind-swept coast of Patagonia in southern Chile. More than a hundred miles and 10 hour by water from other people, he built a shelter and lived alone for a year to explore the physical, emotional and spiritual effects of deep wilderness solitude. He sought to explore the  body and mind and to find the spiritual answers he’d been seeking all his life.

Today, Virato chats with Bob Kull about his inner and outer experiences, and what it's like to live alone in the wilderness, surrounded by water. Alone, with only a cat and his thoughts as companions, he wrestled with inner storms while the wild forces of nature raged around him. The physical challenges were immense, but the struggles of mind and spirit pushed him even further.

Kull says, “Solitude is sometimes dark and difficult, but there is deep joy abiding in the flickering stillness. Moments when, as unexpected gift, boundaries and buffers dissolve and All is, as it always was, sacred and alive. Solitude can remind us there is no true spiritual freedom except through surrender to our own lives just as they are - here and now - in each moment.”

Born in Ventura, California, Robert Kull has spent years wandering North and South America working as a scuba instructor, travel guide, construction worker, logger, community organic gardening teacher, truck driver, bartender, dishwasher, firefighter, photographer, and professor. In 1985 he lost his lower right leg after a motorcycle crash in the Dominican Republic. He began undergraduate studies at age forty and now holds a PhD from the University of British Columbia. He lives in Vancouver, B.C. , and just published his first book...Solitude: Seeking wisdom in Extremes.

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Saturday, October 25, 2008
10:06 AM-11 AM  EST

Why do we go to war? Are we as humans destined to be aggressive?  Will we/they ever evolve? When? How? or are we being manipulated by the powers to be (bankers, government, illuminati, etc. ), in one way or another, to kill for "less than noble" reasons?. And what does love have to do with it? See Zeitgeist: Addendum and Asheville Goes to War. Current and former military members are invited to call in and consider a spiritual new age perspective, in that we create our own reality. ..or your opinion on aggression, violence and wars. Our boards filled on this one!

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Saturday, October 25, 2008
11:06 AM-Noon  EST


with Jesse Marcel, Ret. Lt. Col. USA

Virato speaks with Jesse Marcel, Jr., son of the first military officer on the scene of the Roswell UFO crash of 1947 and is the most recognized first-hard witness to the events of that time.

His father, Jesse Marcel Sr., reported bringing home parts of the wreckage the he and Jesse, Jr. examined. This wreckage included a piece of metal that when balled up or it's shape was changed it would expand back to it's original form as well as several structural pieces known as” I- beams” which had hieroglyphic symbols.

He has steadfastly repeated his recollection of that time in numerous interviews and wrote about his experiences, then and since, in the book, The Roswell Legacy. He is one of 200 witnesses to the events of July 1947, but his story has received international attention in no small part because Dr. Marcel, Jr. has led an exemplary life and his integrity is without question.

Marcell is a graduate Louisiana State University School of Medicine at New Orleans, graduating in July of 1961 with a degree in medicine. He joined the US Navy in 1962 and participated in the Cuban Missile Crisis attached to combat units as member of ship's company. He retired from the Navy in July of 1971 and entered private practice in Helena, Montana, then joined the Montana Army National Guard in 1973, then went through helicopter flight training as a flight surgeon at Ft. Rucker, Alabama, earning his wings in 1981.

During his career in the National Guard, he was appointed State Surgeon, State of Montana and retired from the military the second time in August of 1996 on his 60th birthday. Lt..Col. Marcel was called back to active duty in Iraq in October of 2004 shortly after his 68th birthday and consequently served as a flight surgeon for the 189th Attack Helicopter Battalion flying 225 hrs of combat missions. He was discharged from active duty again in December of 2005 to the Ready Reserve, ready to return at moment's notice to active duty at age 72.

He is currently a specialist in Otolaryngology at the Veterans Administration Hospital, Ft. Harrison, Montana.

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Saturday, October 25, 2008
12:06 AM-Noon  EST

Awakening the Energy Body

Each of us inhabits an energy body whose interactions are the principal determinant of all we see, feel, think, or otherwise perceive. Even as modern science is establishing the uncertainty of physical matter, it is asserting the reality of our existence as interconnecting quantum energy fields. For over 5,000 years, shamans of the Toltec tradition have studied and worked with the energy body, learning to recognize and understand its structure and perceptual capacities as well as mapping it as an objective, measurable part of our anatomy.

Today, Virato dialogs with Kenneth Smith, also known as Ken Eagle Feather, who has published several books on Toltec philosophy, including On the Toltec Path and Toltec Dreaming. He apprenticed with Toltec shaman, don Juan Matus, and has served on the staff of the Association for Research and Enlightenment, part of the Edgar Cayce legacy, and also on the staff of The Monroe Institute, founded by consciousness researcher Robert Monroe. He is executive director for Therapeutic Discovery, a medical science research institute, and lives in Richmond, Virginia.

In his latest book, Awakening the Energy Body, Smith’s grounding in the Toltec tradition allows him to bring forth an instructive overview for non-Toltec adherents of the latent possibilities available to the energy body and how to bring awareness and objective form to it.

Using evidence from the emerging scientific discipline of bioenergetics, which studies the flow and exchange of energy, Smith shows that conscious awareness not only creates our reality but enhances the functionality of the human energy body, allowing it to navigate the myriad realities of our world. He offers a specific set of strategies to manage the energy body in ways that are beneficial to both material existence and spiritual development. He will also discuss the ethical considerations of developing consciousness, and how one can quicken personal evolution in order to live a full and complete life, while revealing where the worlds of ancient tradition and modern science meet.

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Asheville continues to draw consciousness expanding groups from all over the world. Today Virato speaks with Jerome Smith, Spiritual Director of Meditation for Inner Peace and Self Mastery a non for profit Asheville organization founded by people who say they are dedicated to the service and upliftment of humanity. .Pandit Smith, as he is called, has been a student of the Himalayan Tradition since 1985. His studies include over two years of intensive training in India. He is an ordained Pandit in the Himalayan Tradition and in this capacity he teaches and guides other students of the tradition. He has lectured and taught for many organizations, corporations and educational institutions throughout the Chicago area. Smith has been on the staff of several integrative medicine programs where he uses the ancient teachings of Yoga and Meditation to help patients deal with stress and gain a positive perspective on health.

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Your school  children are on drugs, and unlike marijuana, these drugs are killing them...and they get the drugs in class, and you are paying for them. And what's amazing is that the school is supplying them. Not other students, but the school authorities!

Today Virato chats with Kevin P. Miller, an international-award-winning writer and producer whose films We Become Silent, Let Truth Be The Bias, The Promised Land, Kids In Crisis and The War Within have won him critical acclaim and numerous International Film and Television awards.

He is currently working on bringing his weekly news/health program called HealthCenter to nationwide television.

Miller's new documentary, Generation RX will be released worldwide on November, 2008, and is the subject of today's discussion.

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with
Nancy Seifer and  Martin Vieweg

Virato's guests today, Nancy Seifer and  Martin Vieweg, say that the opportunity now facing us is a spiritual one, involving a shift to a higher dimension of awareness.  With the daily shattering of illusions about the material world, growing numbers of people around the globe have felt impelled to search for higher truth.  For many, this search began in the 1960s and 70s, with the first wave of spiritual awakening sparked by the energies of Aquarius.  But events unfolding since 2001 have accelerated and intensified a collective search for what is genuine and real.  Millions of people are now engaged in a spiritual quest that is, at its core, a quest for the Soul.

A social and political activist early in life, Nancy Seifer served in the Peace Corps in Africa in the 1960s, and joined the staff of New York City Mayor, John V. Lindsay, becoming Aide to the Mayor for Ethnic Affairs in the early 70s.  She then worked at the Institute on American Pluralism, directing the Center on Women and American Diversity, where she wrote numerous articles, papers, and chapters for anthologies.  A monograph written at that time, and a book of oral histories—Nobody Speaks for Me!: Self-Portraits of American Working Class Women (Simon & Schuster, 1976)—are still being used in college courses.

In response to an inner call, she embarked on a quest for spiritual truth that led her to the Ageless Wisdom and to diverse experiences, including immersion in Soviet and post-Soviet Russia in the 80s and 90s as spirituality was reemerging there.  After writing Russian Odyssey (Xlibris, 2003), a spiritual memoir born of that experience, she began work on When the Soul Awakens in the goal of helping to make esoteric wisdom available to a wider audience.

Martin Vieweg has been a student, writer, and lecturer within the esoteric community for over three decades. Early in life, he pursued a wide range of spiritual teachings and practices from Ernest Holmes’ “Science of Mind” to Edgar Cayce’s “Search for God.” While working at the Association for Research and Enlightenment in Virginia Beach, he lectured on reincarnation, dream study, and extra-sensory perception. In the mid-70s, he enrolled in a program for esoteric training at the Lucis Trust, publisher of the Alice Bailey books. Later, joining the headquarters staff of the Trust in New York City, he served as co-director of a global meditation project and frequent lecturer. He currently lives in Northern Virginia, where he and his wife, Nancy, have co-authored When the Soul Awakens. You are invited to call in and ask questions or make comments.

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Saturday, November 8, 2008
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Virato chats with Rain Hummingbird who says she is dedicated to helping people expand their spiritual connection with their animal companions as well as themselves.

Her animal communication work focuses on fostering appreciation and mutual respect among all species. Rain is devoted to assisting people deepen their connection with, and understanding of their animal companions. The training and experiences that have contributed to Rain's success are many, primarily her first-hand education of communicating with the numerous animals she has contacted as well as her deep connection with the spiritual realm.

Rain has studied with Penelope Smith, the pioneer in the field of animal communication for over three decades .Anyone who has experienced communicating with an animal in anyway that you felt was mystical and beyond reality is invited to call and and share with us.

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Virato chats with Robert Tindall, author, musician and inveterate traveler, whose work explores themes of pilgrimage and the crossing of frontiers into other cultures and states of consciousness. He believes the true opportunity of globalization is the achievement of a multicultural ethic for humanity, not an enforced standardization into a one-size-fits-all economic and social model. For him, the practice of pilgrimage is an antidote to creeping mono-culturalism, reawakening us to our ancestral roots in a way now necessary for human survival. Tindall holds two Master’s degrees from San Francisco State University, one in English Literature and the other in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL). While attending the University of Hawaii at Manoa for his B.A. in English Literature, his love for the classical guitar awoke under the tutelage of Lisa Smith, and he has continued on to study with maestros in Spain, Germany, England, Mexico and Argentina.

His publications include accounts of journeys into Zapatista-held territory in Chiapas, Mexico; along the medieval pilgrimage route to Santiago de Campostela; and now his book-length depiction of the Amazonian world of ayahuasca shamanism, The Jaguar that Roams the Mind.

Tindall’s work has also deeply influenced by his practice of Zen Buddhism, which he began at age 19.

Tindall’s interest in journeying took an inward turn with his introduction to the paramount plant medicine used in the Amazonian healing tradition: ayahuasca. Finding an entirely new vista opening, one that combined his interests in meditative disciplines, traditional cultures and journeying into new worlds, he traveled to Peru with his soon-to-be wife, Susana Bustos. There they devoted themselves for a year to the practice of vegetalismo, mostly in the jungle under the direction of the master healer Juan Flores, an experience that served as fodder for both The Jaguar that Roams the Mind, and Susana’s Ph.D. dissertation on the healing songs of the shamans.

Since their return to civilization, he and Susana, who joins him on the air today,  have taken groups down to the Amazon to encounter the native healing tradition. Robert teaches English at the Academy of Art University, the College of Alameda and Skyline College.

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12:06 PM-1 PM  EST


with
Liz Mitten Ryan

Virato chats with Liz Mitten Ryan, a native of Vancouver, B.C., and a dedicated conservationist, and author who has dedicated her life to understanding, communicating with, and helping animals.

Through a long and illustrious art career, she has worked with conservation groups throughout the world, bringing awareness and financial support for areas and species in need of protection.

Her art and her writing are strongly spiritual. In her words, “It is in nature that I find life’s answers. It is there, that one can interface with the wisdom and truth behind all creation; a vast ocean of information that nourishes all who bathe in it.”

Liz has managed to touch many with her vision and her work has been presented to dignitaries throughout the world.

Over the last year Liz has written three books, One with the Herd: a Spiritual Journey, The Truth According to Horses, a literary first that was conceived of and authored by her horses and Life Unbridled: What animals have to teach us about Spiritual Freedom, which she co-authored with her dogs, cats and horses, and Sabbatical, Resting in the Miraculous Power of Isness.

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Saturday, November 15, 2008
10:06 AM-11 AM  EST

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All About


with Dorisse Neale

Virato speaks with Ashevillian Dorisse Neale about a unique method of breathing. The Buteyko Method is based on a very simple concept - i.e. habitual over breathing disturbs the human organism and is the genesis of a diverse range of health and mental problems. Exhaustive research has shown that all sufferers of asthma, allergies, high blood pressure, diabetes and some two hundred other "dis-eases" share one thing in common - all of them ventilate or breathe significantly above the physiologically recommended norm. And people who breathe within the physiologically recommended norm do not suffer with any of the diseases of civilization. Dorisse in a registered nurse, and holds a BS in Nursing from the University of Arizona, and spent 28 years in practice at various medical organizations, with an emphasis on breathing. A life-time asthmatic, in addition to Buteyko, she is also experienced in both Holotropic Breathwork. Rebirthing and other breathing methods.


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Saturday, November 15, 2008
11:06 PM-Noon  EST

Virato's guest today is Rima E. Laibow, M.D., a 1970 graduate of Albert Einstein College of Medicine, who believes passionately in the right of Americans to choose their own health paths. She has practiced drug-free, natural medicine for over 35 years by seeking the underlying cause of every illness and ailment and treating that root cause.

Dr. Laibow is co-founder and Medical Director of Natural Solutions Foundation, whose president and other co-founder (and Dr. Laibow's husband,) is Major General Bert Stubblebine III (U.S. Army, Retired) The foundation has as one of its prime endeavors educating the public about Codex Alimentarius

Because of Dr. Laibow’s awareness of the powerful natural, non-toxic options available to treat the underlying cause of disease she is focused on maintaining these choices for all Americans. Based on her understanding of the impact of poor nutrition and chemical/pesticide toxicity on the declining health of America, Dr. Laibow is determined to help Americans maintain the choices that allow them to protect themselves from disease and toxic harm.

Click here to contact Dr. Laibow. Make sure to read her Daily CODEX Update Blog for the latest on the campaign to protect America from CODEX. Dr. Laibow’s Resume is available here in PDF format

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Saturday, November 15, 2008
12:06 PM-1 PM  EST


with Frank Joseph

Virato speaks with Frank Joseph, author of Unearthing Ancient America, the subject of today's conversation. Joseph has gathered a group of respected scientists, scholars and experts who reveal new evidence that visitors from around the world arrived on our continent centuries before Columbus’ "discovery" of America.

From the Incas to Vikings, Templars, ancient Chinese, Stone Age Europeans and more––early explorers left their mark.

Joseph is editor-in-chief of Ancient American magazine founded in 1993. Since then, he has published twenty books in as many foreign editions, including The Atlantis Encyclopedia, Discovering the Mysteries of Ancient America, and Opening the Ark of the Covenant. A frequent radio talk-show guest, he has been interviewed by Shirley MacLaine, Art Bell, Jeff Rense, Rob McConnell, and numerous other broadcast hosts. 

His lecture appearances include presentations throughout Japan and Britain, including conventions and seminars with the Association for Research and Enlightenment (the Edgar Cayce organization) in Virginia, Illinois, Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, and Wisconsin, where Joseph lives today with his wife and son.

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Saturday, November 22, 2008
10:06 AM-11 AM  EST


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Discussion Topics

Politics & Metaphysics...what's the connection if any?

What's On Your Mind?
Are these the Prophesied End-times?

How would you define the VIRATO LIVE! listener?

 

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Saturday, November 22, 2008
11:06 AM-Noon  EST

 


with Susan Bustos
 

usana Bustos worked for over 10 years as a psychologist in Chile before receiving a scholarship from her country to conduct her doctoral studies at the California Institute of Integral Studies in San
Francisco, California. Her work in Chile included the creation of
psycho-educational programs, academic teaching at several major
universities, research on public health issues, and private clinical
practice. In her work she incorporated her passion for the field of
transpersonal psychology, for example, creating the first national
program on drug abuse prevention directed to school children which
included the spiritual experience as a protective factor. In the U.S.,
she utilized her background in music and drama therapy in her work
with offenders of violent crimes, most of them drug abusers, in county jails of the Bay Area.

For the last 9 years, Susana's work has focused on the study of
Amazonian vegetalismo, particularly of the use of songs (icaros)
during plant healing ceremonies, the subject of her doctoral research: "The Healing Power of the Icaros: A Phenomenological Study of Ayahuasca Experiences." She worked as a therapist and clinical supervisor at Takiwasi in the Peruvian jungle, a center for the
treatment of drug addiction integrating indigenous and Western
medicine. Presently, she is synthesizing her experience into a model on how to integrate experiences in expanded states of consciousness into ordinary life.

Susana has co-authored two books on health and drug abuse prevention. She has published on icaros in magazines such as Shaman's Drum and Uno Mismo. Her latest publication, "The Verse of the Plant We Follow," appears in Robert Tindall's The Jaguar that Roams the Mind (Inner Traditions, 2008).

Susana is a certified Holotropic Breathwork facilitator and, has led
workshops and given lectures on the theme internationally, co-founded the Latin American Association for Holotropic Breathwork and Transpersonal Psychology, and worked for Dr. Stan Grof and the Spiritual Emergency Network. She is a member of the Association for Transpersonal Psychology and the Association for Holotropic Breathwork International.

 

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Saturday, November 22, 2008
12:06 PM-1 PM  EST


 with
Steven L. Hairfield, PhD

t the beginning of his lectures and workshops, Dr. Steven L. 
Hairfield, Virato's guest today likes to ask his audience: “What if what you term as 'God' heard everything you thought and considered it a request to give you what you were thinking? Would you change the way that you think?” He also asks this, “Do you feel as though something is about to happen?”

After military duty in the Vietnam War, Hairfield's search for peaceful answers and higher understanding guided him to the walls of a Zen Buddhist monastery in Quang Ngai, South Vietnam, where he would take refuge and study whenever he could. Upon his return to the United States he studied for and received a B.A. in Psychology from the University of Washington, Seattle, and then went on for a Masters degree at Regent University, Virginia,

Following an inner urge, he traveled to India which led him to Tibetan Masters. They guided him through India, Nepal, and twice smuggled him into Tibet, (The Communist Chinese had closed borders at the time.) While in this part of the world he adapted to the life of a monk, and for many years he continued his research in the Far East and the path of Jesus while proving to himself that indeed Jesus had been there studying.

He knew by what he had already learned that there was another message contained in the idea of religion and the Bible. Thus some years later he went back to the books and received his Doctorate in Metaphysics.

In 2000 he was inspired to communicate his accumulated knowledge and experience to the world through a book. It is  and is titled Once Upon a Parable – A Journey into Life, now in its second printing”. Dr. Hairfield also authored Return to Innocence – Messages from the Ancients, and his most recent A Metaphysical Interpretation of the Bible. Two books have also been written about him, Interview with an American Monk I & II

Dr. Hairfield continues his writing, counseling, his lecture and workshop tours, and has even released two CD’s the first is the Seven Essene Mirrors of Relationship and The Power of Thought.

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Saturday, November 29, 2008
10:06 AM-11 AM  EST


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Nana Hendricks & Colby Collin

ImageVirato's guests today are Nana Hendricks and Colby Collins, co-directors of Earth Spirit Center in nearby Black Mountain.

Nana says she love to connect with her Angels and Spirit Guides. She holds the vision that Heaven and Earth are One. After a Kundalini awakening in 1999, she began to see and feel energies and get messages from Spirit Realms.

After traveling to Mt. Shasta California, The Redwood Forest and Sedona Arizona numerous times, Nana says spirit guided her to open a Spiritual Center in Safety Harbor, Florida. Many miracles lead to the opening of the first The Earth Spirit Center in September of 2003. The Center became a meeting place for kindred Spirits and seeking Souls.

Her journeys to North Carolina she says opened her to begin channeling the Ascended Masters for groups. In October 2006 she spent a week in Asheville at a retreat center in the mountains. She says she was shown that the New Earth is here [Asheville] and that it up to each of us to attune to it if we wish to ascend with the planet.


ImageColby Collins is a Usui and Karuna Reiki Master, Ordained Minister, Doctor of Metaphysics and also an intuitive/spiritual counselor and teacher in Reiki and other spiritual healing classes.

He says that he discovered early in life that he had the ability to "see" inside a person's energy system or aura and locate blockages that inevitably create disturbances in their physical body.