VIRATO LIVE! 2008

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Saturday, January 5
11:06 AM-Noon EST

with

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

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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Saturday, February 2
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 Namast� Yoga

On January 12, Virato experienced some telephone miscommunications while attempting to chat with Alex Jones, so we are having him back..

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

with
Alex Jones

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 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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Saturday, February 9
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

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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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Saturday, February 23
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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Saturday, March 1
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
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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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Saturday, March 8
10:52 PM-11 AM EST

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Dr. Jane Smolnik

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.