Revolutionary Wellness Talk Radio

In this final episode of Revolutionary Wellness Talk Radio, we speak again with Dr. Leny Strobel and Dr. Bayo Akomolafe about elegant disintegration. How do we live a beautiful life in the midst of a dying paradigm and while waiting for the emergent Story to be born. What practices can we count on? What can we learn from the indigenous worldview? What other sources of power are available to us that we struggle to access at this time? Join us as we get entangled with these questions.

We will speak with Laila Johnson and Gavain U'Prichard, creators of The World's Wake an old-time radio show style podcast that imagines a not-too-distant future in the United States in which things are very different from today. We'll speak about their creative process, the future they've imagined, and how The World's Wake might add to the conversation about these precarious times.

On this episode we speak with Tony Albrecht, attorney, entrepreneur, blogger, and co-founder of ACSAC, a support group for creative people. We discuss offscripting (moving out of more traditional paths for a period of time), navigating the unknown, and creating structure once it's time to put ideas into action.

On this episode we will speak with Alnoor Ladha, executive director of The Rules, (/TR), a global network of activists, organizers, designers, coders, researchers, writers and others dedicated to changing the rules that create inequality and poverty around the world. We will discuss the subtle ways that capitalism weaves its way into our lives, and what we can do to begin to shift the story.

In this episode we will explore Philip Shepherd's new book called Radical Wholeness that shows that the primary deficiency inflicted on us by our culture is the inability to feel wholeness--in the self, the body, and the world around us. Because we have been systematically trained to numb ourselves to wholeness and to confine our attention to the boundary of the self, we live in our heads, disconnected from the body and at odds with the world. We accept that it's normal to feel fragmented, reactionary, and stale. This book is a call to action to recover wholeness and to experience a new way of being. Philip Shepherd draws from neuroscience, anthropology, physics, art, and myth--as well as his extensive work as an international embodiment expert--to explain how our culture's limitations live in the body, and to help readers transcend them. You can find out more a www.philipshepherd.com

The signs of our time shout! An entire planet raises an increasingly insistent voice, challenging our entire species in its conceit as supreme. Water is Earth’s prophet. Harvey and Irma mere punctuation. Nigeria and Bangladesh a deep warning and test. La Tuna and Santa Rosa the voice running silent and hot. We have hardly even begun to listen. Will we ever? The time is late.

On this episode we speak with Lonny Grafman, professor of Appropriate Technology at Humboldt State University in California, self-described Practivist, and President of the Appropedia Foundation, sharing knowledge to build rich, sustainable lives. We discuss sustainable design and entrepreneurship – from solar energy to improved cookstoves, from micro-hydro power to rainwater catchment, from earthen construction to plastic bottle schoolrooms--and how to support communities in becoming more resilient. We also discuss Lonny's forthcoming book on rainwater catchment, available at rainbook.org

If you have been on a healing journey it is very likely that you have participated in spiritual bypassing which is the use of spiritual practices and beliefs to avoid dealing with feelings, unresolved wounds, and developmental needs. For those whose longing to be truly free is becoming stronger than the desire to distract ourselves from suffering this is the episode for you. Join us for this conversation on the healing power of emotional intimacy, learning to recognize and transform the obstacles that keep us from living life fully, and developing clarity for keeping it real in these challenging times. You can find out more at www.robertmasters.com

The Enneagram is an incisive tool for self-knowing. It gets to the heart of our recurring patterns of thoughts, feelings, & behaviors – those things we repeatedly do, some of which we wish we didn’t. Our habits are so hard to drop precisely because they are conditioned into our survival strategies as children. Actually, we are all in a prison of our own making in the ways we suffer our personalities. Sometimes, we really think our habits ARE all of who we are, but actually, we are so much more. People can grow & change. But, we cannot change what we cannot understand, what we cannot see. Seeing what we habitually do as only a part of who we fully are, gives us a flexibility inside, that choice – the “freedom” – to put down the things that aren’t working, & expand. During this 9 Prisons One Key series, we will dive into one of these nine personal prisons every month, leaving you with the compassionate, continual reminder that it is us who holds the key to our own real freedom.

This week we speak with Scott Morris, alternative currencies expert and founder of Ithacash, a local digital currency utilized in Tompkins County, NY. We will discuss Ithaca Dollars as well as other local and crypto-currencies beginning to spring up around the world, and examine how new economic models can help support needed changes both locally and globally.

This week we will speak to Day Schildkret, a visual artist, educator, and creator of Morning Altars--impermanent earthen art mandalas. What began as a daily practice to process grief has transformed into a movement that has inspired thousands of people worldwide to create impermanent earth art. We will discuss the history and practice of Morning Altars, and what this practice might teach us about our approach to living in these times.

In his studies of isolated non-industrialized peoples, Dr. Weston Price formulated the dietary laws necessary for ensuring the health and vitality of our children, generation after generation. In this episode we will explore the wisdom of ancient traditions that provide a firm foundation for nutritional approaches that will nourish both mother and child with the intention of bringing up healthy children.

Following a very successful talk about Gut And Psychology Syndrome on the Revolutionary Wellness Talk Radio on 9/22/2016, Dr Campbell-McBride will be talking about Gut And Physiology Syndrome – a major cause of many degenerative diseases in the modern world. Autoimmune diseases, chronic fatigue, allergies, neurological and hormonal problems are going to be discussed. Dr Campbell-McBride will also be discussing her new book Vegetarianism Explained that can be found at www.vegetarianismexplained.com.

The Enneagram is an incisive tool for self-knowing. It gets to the heart of our recurring patterns of thoughts, feelings, & behaviors – those things we repeatedly do, some of which we wish we didn’t. Our habits are so hard to drop precisely because they are conditioned into our survival strategies as children. Actually, we are all in a prison of our own making in the ways we suffer our personalities. Sometimes, we really think our habits ARE all of who we are, but actually, we are so much more. People can grow & change. But, we cannot change what we cannot understand, what we cannot see. Seeing what we habitually do as only a part of who we fully are, gives us a flexibility inside, that choice – the “freedom” – to put down the things that aren’t working, & expand. During this 9 Prisons One Key series, we will dive into one of these nine personal prisons every month, leaving you with the compassionate, continual reminder that it is us who holds the key to our own real freedom.

In this episode we will continue our conversation with Max Dashu, expert on the suppressed history of women and founder of the Suppressed Histories Archives. We will discuss historical women and cultures from around the globe whose stories have particular resonance for this time--stories that might help teach and guide us now.

This week we will speak with visual artist Mary Mattingly, whose current project, Swale, is a floating food forest built atop a barge that travels to piers in New York City, offering educational programming and welcoming visitors to harvest herbs, fruits and vegetables for free. Swale strives to strengthen stewardship of public waterways and land, while working to shift policies that will increase the presence of edible perennial landscapes. We will speak with Mary about Swale and her other projects, her commitment to making non-violent art, and her perspective on what these times ask of us in our art-making and our living.

How might we learn how to Dwell in a Place, learn how to be part of the landscape, or learn how to see and feel in a whole new way? By learning how to dance, chant, and do ritual? To greet the ancient redwoods in our backyards every morning and hug the trees in the garden? To put our hands in the soil and try to learn the names of all the non-human beings we live with? All these take time. Slowness is key. Practicing presence is difficult for us in this modern culture. We are latecomers to this way of being and while we may still feel resistance sometimes, this may be the essential practice to undo our current cultural conditionings. Join us for this conversation on disengaging from the intellectual life that demands a loyalty to the faculty of reason with the body and emotions served only as side dishes on the menu of the canon and learn how to bring your whole self  - body, mind, heart, spirit  - into the only life you have to live, because when you do it changes everything.

The Enneagram is an incisive tool for self-knowing. It gets to the heart of our recurring patterns of thoughts, feelings, & behaviors – those things we repeatedly do, some of which we wish we didn’t. Our habits are so hard to drop precisely because they are conditioned into our survival strategies as children. Actually, we are all in a prison of our own making in the ways we suffer our personalities. Sometimes, we really think our habits ARE all of who we are, but actually, we are so much more. People can grow & change. But, we cannot change what we cannot understand, what we cannot see. Seeing what we habitually do as only a part of who we fully are, gives us a flexibility inside, that choice – the “freedom” – to put down the things that aren’t working, & expand. During this 9 Prisons One Key series, we will dive into one of these nine personal prisons every month, leaving you with the compassionate, continual reminder that it is us who holds the key to our own real freedom.

On this episode of Precipice we speak with Max Dashu, founder of The Suppressed Histories Archives and author of Witches and Pagans: Women in European Folk Religion. We discuss the process of piecing together shards of the buried history of women, what was lost when that history was buried, and what makes the unearthed stories so important to this time.

On this episode of Precipice we will speak with Lyndsey Scott, a visual artist, gardener, song carrier, and yoga teacher who moved back to her rural home town four years ago, where the literal and figurative seeds she has been planting are blooming in unexpected ways. We discuss shifting our understanding of the small, the wisdom of the body and power of song, surrendering to the unknown, creating welcoming communities in a troubled time, and more. You read Lyndsey's beautiful writing, follow her adventures, and explore her art at www.seehere.info, or follow her on Instagram at lila.gaia. Selected artwork is available for purchase on Etsy: https://www.etsy.com/shop/Ghettomorphosis.