VIRATO LIVE! 2009

Saturday, January 3
11:06 PM-Noon EST

with
Gabrielle Roth

Virato chats with legendary "Urban Shaman," Gabrielle Roth, author, recording artist, and performance guide who uses gentle and powerful dance/movement to transform consciousness. This is what Wikipedia says, "she is a musician, author, music director, dancer, philosopher and recording artist in the world music and trance dance genres, with a special interest in shamanism. Known as the "urban shaman," she is music director of the theatre company The Mirrors, and is a member of the Actor's Studio. She is founder of the recording label Raven Recordings. She has been a faculty member of both Kripalu and the Esalen Institute, and offers classes at the Omega Institute, often joined by her son, Jonathan Horan."

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

Virato chats with old friend, composer and world renown musician, Kitaro. (His music is used for the opening of VIRATO LIVE!) Winner of a Golden Globe Award for the movie Heaven and Earth, and 43rd Grammy Award for Thinking of You and Kitaro is also, recipient of multiple Grammy Award nominations. ,He is revered for his ability to embody the human spirit with music of passion and drama. Kitaro has released scores of albums and sold millions in the U.S. alone during his 33-year career. He continues to merge the finest of Eastern and Western cultures and traditions in his music. This program was originally broadcast on December 17, 2005, and this is the first time streamed, podcast and available for download.

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

with
Bill Walz

Virato chats with Ashevillian, Bill Walz, a teacher of mindful living and consciousness. Academically trained in cultural anthropology and clinical psychology, experientially trained in human potential and transpersonal psychology in the 70�s San Francisco Bay Area, His work for the last ten years has separated from the realm of professional psychology, reflective of his belief that its structures, methods and philosophy are extensions of, rather than an antidote to, the sickness of the contemporary world.

Walz's work has increasingly enfolded the wisdom and practice of Buddhist psychology with the insights of other cultures and Western transpersonal psychology to bring a path for evolving the human psyche towards its full potential. He has created a completely contemporary wisdom philosophy reflecting the healing power of increased awareness, presence and stillness, of mindful living, as the antidote to the flurry, suffering and confusion of the modern ego dominated mind.

Deeply inspired by the mid-twentieth century theologian/scientist Tielhard de Chardin, he believes in the evolution of consciousness as the healing salvation of individuals and human society. He teaches meditation not only as a practice to ameliorate the tension and confusion of contemporary living, but as a medicine, taken to return us to our natural healthy selves. Walz says, "The reintegration of the individual personality with the eternal witnessing ground of our deepest true nature is not just fancy metaphysical language in his work, but a growing living reality."

He became ordained in the Interfaith Church of World Service in 2001 to emphasize the transpersonal, spiritual nature of his healing work. He is also writes a column on consciousness for Asheville's art newspaper, Rapid River. Walz often refers to his teachings and work as The Omega Journey.

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Saturday, January 10
11:06 PM-Noon EST

with
Therèse Tappouni

Virato's guest today, author Therèse Tappouni, is a Somatic Intuitive Practitioner, and hypnotherapist who says she has combined wisdom and insight to create a spiritual path for her life and work. Her books include Lot�s Wife; Walking Your Walk: A Woman�s Guide to a Spirit Filled Life; and Night Gardening: Passionate Poems for the Beloved with her partner, Lance Ware. Tappouni has also written a novel for young people titled Escape from Iraq, and the novel A Time to Reap, a story of three generations of women finding the inner source of their strength through tragedy and blessings. Her latest non-fiction book is The Promise: Revealing the Purpose of Your Soul, the subject of today's discussion.

Tappouni has been published in many literary publications and anthologies, including the Grammy-nominated Grow Old Along With Me: The Best is Yet to Be, where her work was read by Alfre Woodard; and she was featured in Through a Child�s Eyes: Poems and Stories about War.

She leads workshops for women based on Walking Your Walk, and also co-conducts workshops for couples and singles focusing on relationship as well as writing workshops with her partner. She teaches the Sacred Feminine, and ways in which women can focus on spiritual growth in work and relationship while nurturing the feminine. She also conducts workshops for professional women.

Tappouni has served on many boards, including The Chopra Foundation, and also claims to be a �Time Dimension Therapist,� which Virato also probes in today's conversation.

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

with
Jurriaan Kamp
Editor, ODE Magazine

Jurriaan Kamp is the former chief economics editor of NRC Handelsblad, a prominent Dutch newspaper, and the co-founder of the international newsmagazine Ode . He has published numerous books in The Netherlands, with his first book published in English entitled, Because People Matter: Building an Economy that Works for Everyone.

A renaissance thinker, Kamp says our economy is focused on growth and profit. In any given business, success is measured by the flow of money, not the interest of the people involved."

In Because People Matter he tells us of better alternatives. Kamp argues that the world economy is not only based on money, but on human choices as well. It is those human choices that can promoted the change necessary to transform our current crisis into a healthier economy that serves everyone. He offers insight on subjects such as a new method of dealing with national income; a world trade based on reciprocity; money without interest; and the liability of shareholders and managers for negligence and environmental damage. Borrowing ideas from prominent economists, Kamp offers a coherent set of conditions for an economy in which it is the people who matter.

This philosophy is also the essence of ODE, which is now published in San Francisco, and the subject of today's interview by Virato.

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Saturday, January 17, 2009
10:06 AM-11 AM EST

North Carolina Cannabis Patients Network

Virato chats with Jean Marlowe, director of the North Carolina Cannabis Patients Network, NCCPN, and 20 year cannabis activist, and founding director of Patients Out of Time, Denis Petro, MD, Ukiah Morrison, and others about marijuana and what is being done in North Carolina legally and legislatively in terms of its medical use.

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Saturday, January 17, 2009
11:06 AM-Noon EST

with
Jen Blackert

irato's guest today says her entrepreneurial journey is one of spiritual growth and enlightenment. She claims that she was sent to earth, in this physical body, to fulfill a purpose. For those familiar with the film The Secret and its companion book, this is the essence of Jen Blackert's philosophy.

She says that until she went through a portal so to speak, her own journey had not led to success. She says she was a fraud. Blackert's definition of insanity is "doing the same thing twice and expecting different results." She says she changed how she was "being" and what she was "doing." "I stopped 'trying' to get clients, and I opened my mind up to all possibilities and that's when I started to do things differently and receive more clients." Blackert says she stopped worrying about money and starting "allowing" money to fuel her business. She stopped trying to make money, and started helping and serving others. Blackert says she completely changed herself inside, and started "being" different.

She says she live by a few simple principles that grow my faith and business consistently and with ease. I joke and say, "I play in the land of conscious creation."

Blackert spent 13 years in corporate America holding executive marketing and Internet marketing positions at large corporations, such as DELL Computers, Emerson Process Management and SIEMENS Medical, in the areas of marketing, advertising, branding, program management and web development.

After leaving the corporate grind she launched a successful online-on-the-phone coaching business. She now focuses her efforts on working with small business owners and providing them with step-by-step tools and marketing automation systems that helps them attract clients. A sought after motivational speaker, Blackert does a weekly blog radio program called Seven Dragons. She is the author of The Laws Of Attraction Marketing and her new latest, Seven Dragons: A Guide to a Limitless Mind, the subject of today's discussion.

Blackert has a B.S. in Nutritional Science, and is a Certified Professional Coach, NLP (Neuro-linguistic practitioner), and yoga instructor. She offers a deep bow of thanks to her teachers, Bob Proctor, Wayne Dyer, Caroline Myss, Abraham-Hicks, Jack Canfield, and His Holiness the Dalai Lama.

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Saturday, January 17, 2009
12:06 PM-1 PM EST

with
Eliza Mada Dalian

Virato speaks with Armenian born Eliza Mada Dalian who, separated from her mother at age seven and raised by her father and an abusive stepmother, learned self-sufficiency and strengthening of spirit early on. At age 24, she immigrated to Canada where she soon came across the teachings of the twentieth-century mystics Georges Gurdjieff and Osho. Deeply affected by their words, she left behind her training in education and architecture and devoted herself to the search for truth and spiritual enlightenment.

Years of focused and committed meditation blessed her with several profound experiences, which, she says, led to an ultimate awakening experience at age 33. She says she discovered first-hand the truth all awakened people point to: that we are not our body, mind, pain, and suffering but rather a manifestation of Love, Consciousness, and Cosmic Joy.

This life-altering experience took her some years to integrate into the ordinary world of day-to-day life. What sets Eliza Mada Dalian apart from other spiritual teachers is that she is also a practicing hands-on healer. In the late 1990s, she developed a new healing method which she dubbed the Dalian Healing Method, or DHM, which she says allows people to transform psychological and physical pain into health and expanded consciousness. What sets Dalian apart from other healers is that she is not primarily concerned with fixing symptom, but rather with helping people heal from unconsciousness..

Described by many as a medical intuitive, healer, oracle, mystic, and spiritual guide, Eliza Mada Dalian says she has dedicated her life to helping others towards healing and spiritual transformation. She lives in Vancouver, B.C. Canada.

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Saturday, January 24, 2009
10:06 AM-11 AM EST

with DeAnne Hampton

Virato's guest on Message from Asheville is DeAnne Hampton who uses and teaches vibrational awareness, astute intuition and energetic attunement. A certified teacher of DNA Activation, she has traveled world-wide with her seminars focusing on the principles of a 5th Dimensional World coaching human beings in empowering and transforming life to wholeness.

With a BS in Education, and a MA in Psychology (Magna Cum Laude Graduate) from the University of South Florida, Hampton's professional background began in traditional teaching Grades K-12 and School Guidance Counseling in Tampa, Fl. Coming to Asheville she developed, Supervised and taught The Academy, a self-contained school within a School for at-risk teens. The program expanded to Asheville High School and continues today. She wrote a book about the experience: Inner City Innocence, A Teacher's Journal of Joy and Despair.

Hampton wrote and received a grant to teach music to inner city children as a pilot program to enhance self esteem and improve academics. She piloted an advanced Creative Arts Program participating in bike ride through 5 countries in Europe, Back-packing Across Colorado and New Mexico, Mission Trips as an Educator to Guatemala, Belize and Haiti.

This is from her website. �Many will make the choice to not remain, to transition off the planet either before or during the profound changes to come, rather than to step up and do the work of their expansion now. And of course, this is a choice and there is no judgment. But to realize the New Earth, an expression of the new consciousness of our authentic nature, we must necessarily lift the frequency of all that we choose to engage; bringing light where there is none. If we are living love, joy, peace and harmony in all areas of our life of expression, without attachment of emotional distortion, then we will be carried energetically through all the coming Earth changes and dismantling of current power structures.�

Hampton also speaks �The Shining Ones,� one of many groups of advanced light races, are here to assist humanity through extraordinary changes in the cellular structure and DNA codex of our being. Her new book is called The New Human: Understanding our Humanity, Embracing our Divinity

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Saturday, January 24, 2009
11:06 AM-Noon EST

with Nikki Pattillo

Virato chats with Nikki Pattillo, author of of Children of the Stars: Advise For Parents and Starchildren. Pattillo graduated from Stephen F. Austin State University in Texas and began her career as a clinical and molecular biologist. As a child, Pattillo was psychic, conversing regularly with her angels and guides. This natural gift was not understood by her family or friends and consequently, like most of society, she shut down her abilities out of fear. It was these same angels and guides, she says, that came to her later in life and said that it was time for her to allow her gifts to grow stronger and open a path for others, especially children, to follow in peace and harmony and without fear of their gifts.

Pattillo says she wrote Children of the Stars as a guide to help parents understand their Star children, also called Indigo children, and to help each parent spiritually understand what is happening with these gifted children who are here to help us. It was written to help children understand and not be fearful of seeing and hearing things that others cannot see or hear.

Nikki says, �The most wonderful aspect of Star children is their willingness to take on the world and learn to make their own way through it. Star children will get to the point where they are able to mold society into something that reflects their energies and values. The truth that they hold and defend so well will reflect their integrity and spirituality and change the world as we know it."

She also writes numerous newspaper articles to help raise awareness in consciousness on both environmental and spiritual issues.

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Saturday, January 24, 2009
12:06 PM-1 PM EST

with Linc Alexander

oday Virato indeed goes outside the box. How does anyone explain a phenomenon that science says doesn't exist and yet does? If you're on the scientific side of the fence, UFOs, (forget about their Alien and human abductee occupants) are "impossible." Their flight defies the laws of our universe, science won't touch the UFO, they simply cannot exist. You may be a "believer" and have accepted the prevailing evidence, or you have a firm conviction because you have either seen a UFO or you know that you have been abducted. Whatever your persuasion, the phenomena of the UFO and the Alien doesn't lend itself to a simple, technological explanation.

Immediately after completing high school Linc Alexander, Virato's guest today, began a forty-five year flying career. He spent two years bush flying in Northern Ontario, six years with the Canadian Air Force, and flying is still very much a part of his life.. Since his teen-age years, Alexander has belonged to an esoteric society where man can learn about and develop latent mystical powers. Alexander also has an avid interest in cosmology, physics, the sciences and astronomy. His new book is entitled UFOs�Alien Thought Machines and is the subject of today's discussion

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Saturday, January 31, 2009
10:06 AM-11 AM EST

with
Joshua Jourdan

Virato chats with Joshua Jourdan, a graduate of Berklee College of Music, and host of morning classics on WCQS as well as host of Pathways to the Sacred on WPVM-LP, both non-commercial Asheville radio..

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Saturday, January 31, 2009
11:06 AM-Noon EST

Virato's guest is Ellen Evert Hopman, a Master Herbalist and lay Homeopath who holds an M.Ed. in Mental Health Counseling. She was Vice President of The Henge Of Keltria, an international Druid Fellowship, for nine years. Hopman is a founding member of The Order of the White Oak (Ord Na Darach Gile). She is a Bard of the Gorsedd of Caer Abiri, a Druidess of the Druid Clan of Dana and has been a member of The Order Of Bards Ovates and Druids and of ADF.

Hopman has participated in numerous radio and television programs including the Gary Null show in New York, and presented a weekly "herb report" for WRSI radio, Greenfield, MA for two years. She was a featured subject in a February, 1999 documentary on Druids on A&E Television's "The Unexplained". She has been on the staff of Keltria: Journal of Druidism and Celtic Magick and has been a contributing author to many New Age and Pagan journals.

She is the author of Tree Medicine:Tree Magic, A Druid's Herbal For the Sacred Earth Year, Being A Pagan (with Lawrence Bond), Walking The World In Wonder: A Children's Herbal and her latest, A Druids Herbal of Sacred Tree Medicine.

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Saturday, January 31, 2009
12:06 PM-1 PM EST

Created and Produced by

Sally Erickson and Tim Bennett

Virato chats with Sally Erickson and Tim Bennett creators of the documentary, What A Way To Go.

Timothy S. Bennett, Writer/Director, is an artist and filmmaker who began his inquiry into environmental and cultural issues in the 80s. His academic background is in anthropology, religion, education and film. What A Way To Go is his first feature-length documentary. He says his talent for �big-picture thinking,� along with the ability to see through the taboos, denials, and orthodoxies of the dominant culture, combined with his poetic writing style, have created a documentary experience that he feels is both compelling and informative.

Sally Erickson, Producer, is an artist, psychotherapist, community organizer, and organizational consultant. She was born in Washington State where she developed a love of, and commitment to, the natural world. Experiences during the last five years of wilderness vision-questing have deepened that commitment. She and Tim live in rural North Carolina. The mother of two grown children Sally brings maturity, insight, organizational development expertise and inspiration to What a Way to Go.

They say they recently had dinner with Michael Moore, which in itself will be interesting.

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Saturday, February 7, 2009
10:06 AM-11 AM EST

Michael Mamas
Michael Mamas

Virato speaks with spiritual teacher, Michael Mamas Michael Mamas. Mamas attended Ohio State University and was an honors student in physics and mathematics prior to obtaining a Doctorate in Veterinary Medicine and a Masters in Business Administration.

However, his life-long search for spiritual wisdom led him on a different path, one that had him study under saints and spiritual teachers from India and around the world. Out of the wisdom and knowledge he gained, Mamas says he derived a powerful and effective approach to health and spiritual growth, one that transcends traditional and alternative approaches.

Awarded the title of Adhyatm Vidhya Visharad (Spritual Master) from Bhagavan Yagnyavalkya Ved Tatavagyan Yogashram, the Sanskrit College at the University of Gujarat, in India, Mamas is the only person who is not a Brahmin, priest, or pundit to ever receive the award, and the only person from the West.

As an author, his work extends from a novel, The Golden Frog, to an in-depth Home Study Course, Unconditioned Spirit, to a children's book Lily's Magic Garden.

Those who have met Michael Mamas say he dedicates his life to bringing forth a wiser and more refined understanding of spirituality to society. He lectures internationally, offering a variety of programs, and is the developer of Mount Soma, a 360-acre community atop the Blue Ridge Mountains between Asheville and Waynesville, North Carolina.

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Saturday, February 7, 2009
11:06 AM-Noon EST

-- A DOCUMENTARY SERIES --

Virato speaks with Michael Habernig and April Hannah about their video creation, Afterlife, the first in The Path series,

Habernig is owner of Habernig Productions, and director of The Path, a planned series on higher consciousness films. After the death of many people in Habernig's life in a very short period of time, he question, "What's going on here?"

He says he felt a strong gut instinct to make a documentary about death, and about the paranormal, afterlife and different healing modalities. His goal, he says, is to inspire others who have lost someone dear to begin to heal, to release their fear of death and to learn that there is more to life than just living in this body. Along with running a video production company for 8 years, Habernig also worked as a director/producer at Time-Warner for 10 years.

April Hannah, the film's producer, has had an interest in the metaphysical world since she was a child. She grew up in a home with family members who had natural psychic abilities, and hearing these stories as a child were second nature. She began having her own psychic experiences as a child which later ceased and then re-emerged again in her early twenties. Hannah has a BA from SUNY Institute of Technology, and a Science in Education MS from The College of Saint Rose She is the founder of Hannah's Healing counseling and holistic healing therapies in Greene County, New York.

Michael Habernig and April Hannah were two separate souls, living 11 miles apart from each other, born in the same year, same month exactly one week apart but brought together in the winter of 2007 to set out on their life's path. They met on a whim of Michael looking for holistic practitioners to be in a documentary about healing and life after death. The first person he contacted was April and the rest was history. They were both on a mission to create a documentary about the souls purpose which then lead into the idea of not only making one documentary but to create a series of 4 DVD's dedicated to metaphysical, healing and paranormal phenomena.

They have been filming and editing their first documentary called The Path-Afterlife for almost a year and are planning on a release date of February 12, 2009. They interviewed 12 experts in the field of metaphysics, healing and psychic phenomena to discuss the afterlife.

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