VIRATO LIVE! 2006

Virato has a great time chatting with history-making Granny D. Born January 24, 1910 in Laconia, New Hampshire, Doris (Granny D) Haddock attended Emerson College for 3 years before marrying James Haddock (for which she was expelled from Emerson). She was awarded an honorary degree from the college in 2000. Haddock worked and raised her family during the Great Depression, and later worked in a shoe factory in Manchester for twenty years.

With her husband, Jim, she helped stop the planned use of hydrogen bombs in Alaska in 1960, saving an Inuit fishing village at Point Hope. The couple retired to Dublin, NH in 1972.

After the defeat of Senator McCain and Senator Feingold's first attempt to remove unregulated "soft" money from campaigns in 1995, Mrs. Haddock became interested in campaign reform and led a petition movement. On January 1, 1999, at the age of 89 she began a 3,200-mile walk across the country (she celebrated her 90th birthday on the road a few weeks later), to demonstrate her concern for the issue, walking ten miles each day for fourteen months and making speeches along the way. She walked through over 1,000 miles of deserts and climbed the Appalachian Range in blizzard conditions. She skied the last 100 miles into Washington, D.C. when a historic snowfall made roadside walking impossible. When she arrived in D.C., Granny D was met by 2,200 people, representing a wide variety of reform groups. Several dozen Members of Congress walked the final miles with her.

It took two more years to gain passage of the bills, during which she engaged in walking fasts around the Capitol, traveled to rallies in many states, and held demonstrations that twice landed her in jail. She helped connect AARP and other important groups to the cause, generating a flood of calls to Congress.

In 2003 and 2004, she embarked on a 23,000 mile tour of the "swing states," encouraging women and the residents of poor neighborhoods to register to vote. She walked through housing projects considered too dangerous to visit by many, and registering voters all along her way.

When no Democrat would run against popular US Senator Judd Gregg in her home state of New Hampshire, at the age of 94 she announced for the seat, with the idea that she would use the campaign to speak out against the Bush policies. Even through she was the official Democratic Party nominee for the seat, she refused all special interest PAC contributions, walking the neighborhoods of the state to talk to people directly. When the red state of New Hampshire turned blue in 2004 by a mere 9,000 votes, her campaign was given a share of the credit.

A great-grandmother of twelve, her memoir is entitled, Granny D: You're Never Too Old to Raise a Little Hell. She is also the author of Granny D: Walking Across America in My Ninetieth Year

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Saturday, January 7, 2006
11:06 AM-Noon EST

Healing Wisdom
of Africa
with

Malidoma

Virato chats with an old friend, Malidoma who, at the age of five, was kidnapped from his family by Jesuit missionaries and placed in a Jesuit "training" school several hundred miles from his home. At the age of 20 he escaped from the Jesuits, and returned to his village in Burkina Faso, Africa, but was unable to speak his native tongue, which was forbidden by the Jesuits.

Unlearned in the ways of his people, only his mother recognized him. Determined to spiritually and emotionally reconnect with his tribe, Malidoma urged the village elders to allow him to undergo the arduous process of initiation, a rite of passage usually undertaken at a much earlier age.

Malidoma passed the six-week long ordeal and was enthusiastically welcomed back into the tribe. He later went on to the Sorbonne in Paris, where he earned a doctorate in political science, and Brandeis University in Boston, where he received a Ph.D. in literature.

He is the author of Of Water and Spirit, The Healing Wisdom of Africa, and has two books coming out next year: Ritual, Power, Healing, and Community, and his autobiography, to be published by Jeremy Tarcher, Inc.

This CD will let you taste of enlightenment....

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Saturday, January 14, 2006
10:06 AM-11 AM EST

Natural Capitalism
with Hunter Lovins

Virato interviews Hunter Lovins, president and founder of Natural Capitalism Solutions, Inc. and co- creator of the Natural Capitalism concept. In 1982 she co-founded RMI with Amory Lovins, and proceeded to lead that organization as its CEO for Strategy until 2002. Under her leadership, RMI grew into an internationally recognized research center, widely celebrated for its innovative thinking in energy and resource issues. By the time she left, the institute had grown to a staff of 50 people and a $7 million annual budget, half of it earned through programmatic enterprise.

In 2001, Hunter was named one of four people from North America to serve as a delegate to the United Nations Prep Conference for Europe and North America for the World Summit on Sustainable Development. She is also a Commissioner in the State of the World Forum's Commission on Globalization, co-chaired by Mikhail Gorbachev, Jane Goodall, Jose Ramos-Horta, Vandana Shiva, George Soros and others.

Lovins has co-authored nine books and dozens of papers, and was featured in the award-winning film, Lovins On the Soft Path. Her latest book, Natural Capitalism, co-authored with Amory Lovins and business author Paul Hawken, was released in September 1999. It has been translated into a dozen languages and was the subject of a Harvard Business Review summary. Recent articles by her have appeared in World Link, World Business Academy Review, American Prospect, and Los Angeles Times.

Trained as a lawyer (JD, Loyola University School of Law, Los Angeles), Lovins has managed international non-profits, created several corporations, and is in great demand as a speaker and consultant. Her areas of interest and expertise include Natural Capitalism, globalization, governance, land management, energy, water, green real-estate development, and community economic development. She has taught at dozens of universities, including an engagement as the Henry R. Luce Visiting Professor at Dartmouth College. She is currently Professor of Sustainability at Presidio World College in the first accredited MBA program in Sustainable Management.

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Saturday, January 14
11:06 AM-Noon EST

Virato addresses this important public health issue with experts and others, including George Schwartz, M.D., author of Bad Taste: The MSG Syndrome, published in 1988 and Jack Samuels of the Truth In Labeling Association, who almost died from MSG.

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

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

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

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

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

Even your health and organic foods may be affected....

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

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Saturday, January 21
10:06 AM-11 AM EST

Liberty Dollars

Virato interviews Bernard von NotHaus, one of the world's foremost experts on private currencies and alternative economics. His work has been cataloged over the past three decades in television, radio, and print medias and featured in Super Structures: Making Money on The Learning Channel, Paul Harvey's News & Comment, Forbes Magazine, major newspapers, and numerous books and publications.

In 1997 von NotHaus wrote Free Market Currency and proposed the world's first working model for an Organic Monetary Standard. In 1998, with the support of other concerned Americans, he introduced the Liberty Dollar a free market, value-backed, private currency that is free from government control.

In 2003, he wrote The Liberty Dollar SOLUTION to the Federal Reserve, a 500-page treatise. He is well known in the numismatic community as an original thinker who relishes the type of complex problems he encountered while designing and developing the Liberty Dollar, a money owned by the people, not the Federal Reserve.

Currently he is the Monetary Architect at NORFED a non-profit, free enterprise corporation that to date has distributed $15 million Liberty Dollars to a network of over 100,000 people, and postulates Bernard's Law: "When the people own the money they control the government. When the government owns the money, it controls the people."

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Saturday, January 21
11:06 AM-Noon EST
God
Without Religion

Sankara Saranam

Virato dialogues with Sankara Saranam, a philosopher, ascetic, and tireless proponent of pranayama. He founded The Pranayama Institute long his ideal of making pranayama techniques available worldwide at no cost to students.

Sankara Saranam traveled extensively in Israel and India, writing the book Yoga and Judaism (Astrologue, 1997), showing that the Hebrew Prophets were practitioners of sense-introversion and asceticism. He is also the author of the highly acclaimed God Without Religion: Questioning Centuries of Accepted Truths (Pranayama Institute, 2005), which shares a far-reaching vision of human potential.

Sankara Saranam graduated from Columbia University magna cum laude, writing his thesis (Pranayama in Theory and Practice) as a student of religion. He has a master's degree in Eastern texts and Sanskrit from St. John's College.

He is also a poet, composer, and classical guitar player, and lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico with his wife and son.

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Saturday, January 28
10:06 AM to 11 AM
GMO's
Genetically Modified Organisms
Virato interviews experts on this issue, including Jeffrey Smith

OFFSPRING DIED WHEN RATS ATE
GENETICALLY
ENGINEERED SOY

By Jeffrey Smith

The Russian scientist planned a simple experiment to see if eating genetically modified (GM) soy might influence offspring. What she got, however, was an astounding result that may threaten a multi-billion dollar industry.

Irina Ermakova, a leading scientist at the Institute of Higher Nervous Activity and Neurophysiology of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS), added GM soy flour (5-7 grams) to the diet of female rats. Other females were fed non-GM soy or no soy at all. The experimental diet began two weeks before the rats conceived and continued through pregnancy and nursing.

Ermakova's first surprise came when her pregnant rats started giving birth. Some pups from GM-fed mothers were quite a bit smaller. After 2 weeks, 36% of them weighed less than 20 grams compared to about 6% from the other groups.

But the real shock came when the rats started dying. Within three weeks, 25 of the 45 (55.6%) rats from the GM soy group died compared to only 3 of 33 (9%) from the non-GM soy group and 3 of 44 (6.8%) from the non-soy controls.

Ermakova preserved several major organs from the mother rats and offspring, drew up designs for a detailed organ analysis, created plans to repeat and expand the feeding trial, and promptly ran out of research money. The $70,000 needed was not expected to arrive for a year. Therefore, when she was invited to present her research at a symposium organized by the National Association for Genetic Security, Ermakova wrote "PRELIMINARY STUDIES" on the top of her paper. She presented it on October 10, 2005 at a session devoted to the risks of GM food.

Her findings are hardly welcome by an industry already steeped in controversy.

GM Soy's Divisive Past

The soy she was testing was Monsanto's Roundup Ready variety. Its DNA has bacterial genes added that allow the soy plant to survive applications of Monsanto's "Roundup" brand herbicide. About 85% of the soy gown in the US is Roundup Ready. Since soy derivatives, including oil, flour and lecithin, are found in the majority of processed foods sold in the US, many Americans eat ingredients derived from Roundup Ready soy everyday.

The FDA does not require any safety tests on genetically modified foods. If Monsanto or other biotech companies declare their foods safe, the agency has no further questions. The rationale for this hands-off position is a sentence in the FDAs 1992 policy that states, "The agency is not aware of any information showing that foods derived by these new methods differ from other foods in any meaningful or uniform way." The statement, it turns out, was deceptive. Documents made public from a lawsuit years later revealed that the FDA's own experts agreed that GM foods are different and might lead to hard-to-detect allergens, toxins, new diseases or nutritional problems. They had urged their superiors to require long-term safety studies, but were ignored. The person in charge of FDA policy was, conveniently, Monsanto's former attorney (and later their vice president). One FDA microbiologist described the GM food policy as "just a political document" without scientific basis, and warned that industry would "not do the tests that they would normally do" since the FDA didn't require any. He was correct.

There have been less than 20 published, peer-reviewed animal feeding safety studies and no human clinical trials�in spite of the fact that millions of people eat GM soy, corn, cotton, or canola daily. There are no adequate tests on "biochemistry, immunology, tissue pathology, gut function, liver function and kidney function," and animal feeding studies are too short to adequately test for cancer, reproductive problems, or effects in the next generation. This makes Ermakova's research particularly significant. It's the first of its kind.

Past Studies Show Significant Effects

Other studies on Roundup Ready soy also raise serious questions. Research on the liver, the body's major de-toxifier, showed that rats fed GM soy developed misshapen nuclei and other cellular anomalies. This indicates increased metabolic activity, probably resulting from a major insult to that organ. Rats also showed changes in the pancreas, including a huge drop in the production of a major enzyme (alpha-amylase), which could inhibit digestion. Cooked GM soy contains about twice the amount of soy lecithin, which can also block nutrient assimilation. And one study showed that GM soy has 12-14% less isoflavones, which are touted as cancer fighting.

An animal feeding study published by Monsanto showed no apparent problems with GM soy, but their research has been severely criticized as rigged to avoid finding problems. Monsanto used mature animals instead of young, more sensitive ones, diluted their GM soy up to 12-fold, used too much protein, never weighed the organs, and had huge variations in starting weights. The study's nutrient comparison between GM and non-GM soy revealed significant differences in the ash, fat, and carbohydrate content, lower levels of protein, a fatty acid, and phenylalanine. Monsanto researchers had actually omitted the most incriminating nutritional differences, which were later discovered and made public. For example, the published paper showed a 27% increase in a known allergen, trypsin inhibitor, while the recovered data raised that to a 3-fold or 7-fold increase, after the soy was cooked. This might explain why soy allergies in the UK skyrocketed by 50% soon after GM soy was introduced.

The gene that is inserted into GM soy produces a protein with two sections that are identical to known allergens. This might also account for the increased allergy rate. Furthermore, the only human feeding trial ever conducted confirmed that this inserted gene transfers into the DNA of bacteria inside the intestines. This means that long after you decide to stop eating GM soy, your own gut bacteria may still be producing this potentially allergenic protein inside your digestive tract.

The migration of genes might influence offspring. German scientists found fragments of the DNA fed to pregnant mice in the brains of their newborn. Fragments of genetically modified DNA were also found in the blood, spleen, liver and kidneys of piglets that were fed GM corn. It was not clear if the GM genes actually entered the DNA of the animal, but scientists speculate that if it were to integrate into the sex organ cells, it might impact offspring.

The health of newborns might also be affected by toxins, allergens, or anti-nutrients in the mother's diet. These may be created in GM crops, due to unpredictable alterations in their DNA. The process of gene insertion can delete one or more of the DNA's own natural genes, scramble them, turn them off, or permanently turn them on. It can also change the expression levels of hundreds of genes. And growing the transformed cell into a GM plant through a process called tissue culture can create hundreds or thousands of additional mutations throughout the DNA.

Most of these possibilities have not been properly evaluated in Roundup Ready soy. We don't know how many mutations or altered gene expressions are found in its DNA. Years after it was marketed, however, scientists did discover a section of natural soy DNA that was scrambled and two additional fragments of the foreign gene that had escaped Monsanto's detection.

Those familiar with the body of GM safety studies are often astounded by their superficiality. Moreover, several scientists who discovered incriminating evidence or even expressed concerns about the technology have been fired, threatened, stripped of responsibilities, or censured. And when problems do arise, they are not followed up. For example, animals fed GM crops developed potentially precancerous cell growth, smaller brains, livers and testicles, damaged immune systems, bigger livers, partial atrophy of the liver, lesions in the livers, stomachs, and kidneys, inflammation of the kidneys, problems with their blood cells, higher blood sugar levels, and unexplained increases in the death rate. (See Spilling the Beans, August 2004.) None have been adequately followed-up or accounted for.

Ermakova's research, however, will likely change that. That's because her study is easy to repeat and its results are so extreme. A 55.6% mortality rate is enormous and very worrisome. Repeating the study is the only reasonable option.

American Academy of Environmental Medicine
Urges NIH to Follow-up Study

I presented Dr. Ermakova's findings, with her permission, at the annual conference of the American Academy of Environmental Medicine (AAEM) in Tucson on October 27, 2005. In response, the AAEM board passed a resolution asking the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) to sponsor an immediate, independent follow-up of the study. Dr. Jim Willoughby, the Academy's president, said, "Genetically modified soy, corn, canola, and cottonseed oil are being consumed daily by a significant proportion of our population. We need rigorous, independent and long-term studies to evaluate if these foods put the population at risk."

Unfortunately, there is a feature about GM crops that makes even follow-up studies a problem. In 2003, a French laboratory analyzed the inserted genes in five GM varieties, including Roundup Ready soybeans. In each case, the genetic sequence was different than that which had been described by the biotech companies years earlier. Had all the companies made a mistake? That's unlikely. Rather, the inserted genes probably rearranged over time. A Brussels lab confirmed that the genetic sequences were different than what was originally listed. But the sequences discovered in Brussels didn't all match those found by the French. This suggests that the inserted genes are unstable and can change in different ways. It also means that they are creating new proteins�ones that were never intended or tested. The Roundup Ready soybeans used in the Russian test may therefore be quite different from the Roundup Ready soybeans used in follow-up studies.

Unstable genes make accurate safety testing impossible. It also may explain some of the many problems reported about GM foods. For example, nearly 25 farmers in the US and Canada say that certain GM corn varieties caused their pigs to become sterile, have false pregnancies, or give birth to bags of water. A farmer in Germany claims that a certain variety of GM corn killed 12 of his cows and caused others to fall sick. And Filipinos living next to a GM cornfield developed skin, respiratory, and intestinal symptoms and fever, while the corn was pollinating. The mysterious symptoms returned the following year, also during pollination, and blood tests on 39 of the Filipinos showed an immune response to the Bt toxin�created by the GM corn.

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Saturday, January 28
11:06 AM to 11:48 AM EST

Healed By The Earth

with

Warren Grossman, Ph.D.

Virato interviews Dr. Warren Grossman who has been a psychologist for the last two decades. Dr. Grossman practiced conventional psychotherapy until 1987, when during a trip to Brazil a parasite laid its eggs in his liver. His physician gave him a week to live. When his illness failed to respond to traditional forms of medicine for nearly a year, his perceptions began to change. He discovered that he could perceive the life energy that was in all of nature and that he could draw on the energy to restore himself. He spent his year of recovery observing and expanding his relationship to the energy of life, coming to the realization that it was the source of healing and available to all.

A graduate of Kent State University, he is the founder and director of the Institute of Light where Warren heals and teaches others how to heal with nature's energy. This form of healing, an innate human function, is emerging as a new discipline. In his programs, Dr. Grossman trains those who wish to be healed and those who wish to heal others to integrate their lives with nature's energy.

The Institute of Light was formed for the purpose of teaching a step-by-step process to access the Earth's energy and deliberately open our hearts bringing physical, emotional and spiritual healing. There is a group of hundreds of students and alumni doing this simple and natural process of healing and teaching others, while thousands of others do the simple practices from his book To Be Healed By The Earth

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Saturday, February 4
10:06 AM-11 AM EST

Cosmic E-mail
Cosmic E-Mail
Cosmic E-Mail
Cosmic E-Mail
with Virato

Virato answers some of the many e-mails he has received from listeners who choose this method of communication rather than calling in. If you have a question--about anything--here's your chance to have it answered, and maintain full anonymity.
Send question to: virato@mindspring.com or better, call in during the show...You may ask during any show!

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Saturday, February 4
11:06-Noon EST

Everywhere you go these days, it seems, the Atkins "A" can be found. Yet warnings from medical authorities continue to pour in. In the first book of its kind, Dr. Michael Greger draws together decades of research to decisively debunk the purported "science" behind the low-carb claims. Carbophobia! documents just how ineffective the Atkins Diet and other low-carb plans have been in producing sustainable weight loss, and lists the known hazards inherent to the diet. This is not a case of academic �he said/she said.� It is a case of major food industry players choosing to ignore all the current evidence-based dietary recommendations to protect their financial interests no matter what the human cost.

Virato dialogues with Michael Greger, MD, a practicing physician, a founding member of the American College of Lifestyle Medicine, and an internationally recognized lecturer on nutrition and food safety issues. He was an expert witness in defense of Oprah Winfrey at the infamous �meat defamation� trial and is the Chief Medical Investigator at Farm Sanctuary. Dr. Greger is a graduate of the Cornell University School of Agriculture and the Tufts University School of Medicine.

This CD is a treasure for you...

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11:50 AM-Noon EST

Virato chats with a representative from
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals

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Saturday, February 18
10:06 AM-Noon EST

We're All Doing Time

Virato chats with Bo Lozoff who helps prisoners use their prisons as ashrams. He is author of We're All Doing Time a book that is gently remonstrative, chiding society for its soul sickness, for the way we exhaust ourselves with our wants and regrets, fretting, scheming, caught in a consumer culture that is only too happy to define our lives for us. The cure, Lozoff writes, lies in discovering the real meaning of our lives, the spiritual journey that erases the distance between people and God. That journey might begin with meditation or prayer, with the Bodhi tree or the crucifixion. Ultimately, though, it is the only way to walk away from all the crap, the only way to joy. The cure, Lozoff writes, lies in discovering the real meaning of our lives, the spiritual journey that erases the distance between people and God. Click here to listen to excerpt of another radio show with Bo Lozoff.

The Prison-Ashram Project began in 1973 . Bo Lozoff and Ram Dass came up with the idea to help prisoners to use their prisons as ashrams if they were tired enough of seeing themselves as convicts just biding their time until they were released. Ram Dass funded the work, and Bo began corresponding with prisoners and, with their feedback, developing spiritual materials especially suited to that environment.

Bo Lozoff and his wife, Sita, left an ashram to devote their lives to the project. With scant resources, the Lozoffs began to send inspirational material to prisoners, and to offer classes in meditation and yoga inside various correctional institutions. It seemed an unlikely venture--getting "hardened" criminals to ponder their dharma or practice pranayam or assume the sun posture; and yet, the response was overwhelming. Mail poured in seeking literature, requesting classes, asking for help and advice.

If Bo Lozoff is genuinely spiritual, he is cannily so. Blessed rain, the saying goes, seeks the tilled earth. Human Kindness Foundation has never borrowed money or participated in conventional fund-raising, yet its "financial profile" is impressive. Something about Bo Lozoff, his message and methodology, has hit a nerve. The Village Voice has named We're All Doing Time as one of the "100 books everyone in the world should read"; and Fred Rogers once listed Bo Lozoff, along with Albert Schweitzer, Jane Addams and Gandhi, as one of his personal heroes.

The foundation now has 500 donors, assets of more than $800,000, an annual budget of more than $200,000 and a 40,000-person mailing list. Bo himself has spoken at over 700 prisons!

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Saturday, February 18
11:06 AM-Noon EST

Living Foods

Brian Clement

Virato chats with Brian Clement, PhD, N.MD. director of the Hippocrates Health Institute, pioneering the integration of non-invasive medical technology with traditional medicine and pure lifestyle modalities. Dr. Clement and the institute are best known for the work they have accomplished with catastrophically ill people. Monitoring the program�s participants through medical blood profiles and dark-field microscopic analysis has created a watershed of data and research material that has been pursued for studies by New York's Colombia University, and is now being considered by the National Institutes of Health. Dr. Clement was one of the founding members of the Coalition for Holistic Health, a gathering of natural health care organizations, some twenty-five years ago. This group was formed to resist the frontal attack of the pharmaceutical industries and the U.S. government on traditional therapies.

He has taught in over thirty countries, worked with the Swedish, Indian, and Egyptian governments on their healthcare systems, consulted the Ministers of Health in Ireland and is an internationally known figure in the establishment of health policies. Under Dr. Clement�s directorship, the Hippocrates Health Institute received the status of number one medical spa in the world at the turn of the twenty-first century.

Dr. Clement has written seven books exploring various aspects of health, spirituality, and natural healing. His most recent best-selling book, Living Foods for Optimum Health, has been acclaimed by Marilyn Diamond, co-author of the book Fit for Life as "an important and eminently readable book for the new era of self care," and by Coretta Scott King as "a landmark guide to the essentials of healthy living.

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Saturday, February 25
10:06 AM-Noon EST

Diane Conway

Have you ever daydreamed about taking a risk but felt paralyzed by fear? Can you imagine finding your dream home, embracing a life you love, or simply taking time off to travel the world, with joy-filled exuberance?

In What Would You Do If Had No Fear, Diane Conway in this CD assists those ready to break through their fears to fulfill their lifelong dreams.

Humorous, touching, and real, Diane Conway turn "if only" and "I wish" into "I can" and "I will," and inspires you to take a leap of faith and truly live. She is a self-described "do over" queen and survivor, riddled with fears who lives her dreams anyway.

A speaker, author, and popular stand-up comic, she lives on a houseboat with her husband in Sausalito, California. Virato has spoken much about fear as well, so look forward to an very interesting and useful program...especially in this time of terror in which an entire society seems to be imprisoned in a bubble of fear.

If you're ready top get off this fear cycle and live in freedom again, get this CD!

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Saturday, February 25
11:06 AM-Noon EST

Fred Bell

A way-out journey today, as Virato chats with Fred Bell, whose great uncle was Alexander Graham Bell. His father Allan Bell, brought the London Bridge over from England placing it in the middle of the Arizona desert!
At age 14, Bell was working on nuclear energy projects at the University of Michigan and was also inducted into the US 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 he was interned at the United States Army Biological Weapons Division in Little Rock, Arkansas, and on his 17th birthday, he was transferred to the United States Air Force. There he began working on highly classified projects, several involving early warning radar defense systems and the detection and tracking of extraterrestrial craft.

After his tenure in the military, he worked in the private sector with North American Aviation, Autonetic and Rocketdyne, on projects such as Star Wars (the military version), laser development, Saturn Rocket second stage development, the Eylass Project (a subdivision of Star Wars), submarine and missile guidance systems, and finally the lunar lander project known as the Apollo missions. During this time he worked with Scott Crosfield, of X-15 fame, and the late Wernher von Braun. Dr. Bell had the privilege of working inside of all the Apollo modules - during the late night shift Dr. Bell used to push all the buttons and play astronaut!

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

Today, Dr. Bell still works with the government when the need arises. Just prior to the catastrophe of 9/11, Dr. Bell was working with d Dr. Steven Greer, a medical doctor and UFO researcher in de-compartmentalizing the various agencies that are working in concert with extraterrestrials, on such projects as advanced propulsion systems and star wars weaponry. This project was known as the Disclosure Project and was being presented to the United States Senate on the very day of 9/11.

His latest best-selling book is Rays of Truth, Crystals of Light
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Saturday, March 4
10:06 AM-11 AM EST

If you're into astrology or Tarot, this book goes beyond both. Even without the book, this CD will take explain it all...

In 1988 Robert Lee Camp discovered an ancient and secret method of determining people�s personal destinies. Using this Book of Destiny system, Robert has made successful predictions about many people in the news including Martha Stewart, Kobe Bryant, David Koresh, Michael Jackson, Ex-president Clinton, Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez, and O.J. Simpson. Since then he has written ten books that reveal the secrets of this ancient science to the public. The most notable of these, Cards of Your Destiny and Love Cards have become very popular and can be obtained in almost any bookstore in the United States. Through his work, Robert hopes to raise the conscious awareness of people around the world using the tools of Astrology and the Science of the Cards. His company, Seven Thunders Publishing, provides many products and services to help others achieve more personal power and happiness.

Among his clients, many of whom are well known names in Hollywood, Robert has performed readings for Glenn Close, Rae Dawn Chong, Woody Harrelson, Mrs. Robin Williams, Mrs. Dick Van Patten, and Mrs. Merv Griffin as well as many producers. Robert has appeared on hundreds of television talk shows across the United States and Canada. He has been on over 1000 radio shows.

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Saturday, March 4
11:06 AM-Noon EST

Biotechnology, Politics, and
Economics of Emerging Pandemics

Len Horowitz

You must hear this! Virato interviews a man that many people have credited as being "one of the bravest men in the world."

Dr. Leonard Horowitz is an internationally known authority in behavioral science, public health education, and health practice management. He received his doctorate from Tufts University, was awarded a fellowship to do behavioral research at the University of Rochester, and later earned a Master of Public Health degree in behavioral science from Harvard University and a Masters degree in health education from Boston's Beacon College.

One of healthcare's most captivating motivational speakers, Dr. Horowitz has served on the faculties of Tufts University, Harvard University, and Leslie College's Institute for the Arts and Human Development, where he directed a multidisciplinary health center for over a decade. He currently serves as President of Tetrahedron, Inc., a non-profit health educational corporation.

His appearances on network news shows and nationally syndicated radio programs have prompted political movements. His testimony on Capitol Hill regarding mercury-related vaccine toxicity, autism, and officially sanctioned negligence brought the hearing to an abrupt halt.

He is recognized as "a hero" internationally and invited frequently--from North America to Africa, and from England to China--as the most articulate, outspoken, and well-researched critic of vaccine policies and risky "immunization" practices - what he irreverently refers to as "the sacred cow of public health."

The author of nine books, including the best seller, Emerging Viruses AIDS and Ebola - Nature, Accident or Genocide?, Dr. Horowitz has even earned the respect of his greatest critics, including high level government health officials and leading pharmaceutical industry experts who have learned, the hard way...never to debate him.

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

Virato chats with Edwin Harkness Spina, author of the award-winning spiritual thriller, Mystic Warrior: A Novel Beyond Time and Space. Ed earned an MBA from the University of Chicago and a BSE from Tufts University. He has worked as a software designer, entrepreneur, venture capitalist and business consultant. He's also a mystic who loves to explore the powerful world of spirit. He currently makes his home in South Florida.

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Saturday, March 11
11:06 AM-Noon EST

J. Z. Knight
Channel for Ramtha

Virato speaks with J. Z. Knight, notorious channel for a 35,000 year old disincarnate being, Ramtha, and who appeared in the film What The Bleep Do We Know?! and the sequel What the Bleep!? Down the Rabbit Hole
She introduced Ramtha to the media in 1978 in her first public appearance channeling Ramtha. In fact she is credited with the first use of the term "channeling." She is known by millions, and is unafraid of controversy (just like Virato!)

The above photo is an earlier one of her that Virato likes. She is older now. She says things never heard before!

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Saturday, March 18
10:06 AM-Noon EST

The Essence of
James and Salle Redfield

A special, penetrating two-hour chat with record-breaking author, James Redfield and his wife Salle--from the beginning...including info on the Celestine Prophecy film to preview in Asheville, NC.

Based on James Redfield's worldwide best-selling novel, The Celestine Prophecy is a spiritual adventure film chronicling the discovery of ancient scrolls in the rainforests of Peru. The prophecy and its nine key insights predict a worldwide awakening, arising within all religious traditions, that moves humanity toward a deeper experience of spirituality.

Matthew Settle, Thomas Kretschmann, Sarah Wayne Callies, Annabeth Gish, Hector Elizondo, Joaquim de Almeida and Jurgen Prochnow head an international ensemble cast in this spiritual adventure based on James Redfield's worldwide best-selling novel, The Celestine Prophecy. The Celestine Prophecy movie is produced by Barnet Bain, Terry Collis, James Redfield and Beverly Camhe. Directed by Armand Mastroianni from a screenplay by James Redfield and Barnet Bain, Shot entirely on location in St. Augustine and Ocala, Florida, and Costa Rica, the film is a production of Celestine Films, LLC and Barnet Bain Films.

"If we pay attention, we can find a greater life, no matter where we are, no matter who we are, no matter what our circumstances are. If you tune into the mysterious coincidences in your life, if you discover and then follow your intuitions, you will find that there's a door of opportunity for a greater life for you. You can't be a victim and do it, but if you go beyond that, if you find a way out of whatever circumstance you're in, whatever block you think you might face, what happens is that it works. It always works. The only thing that holds any of us back is not believing that it works."-- James Redfield

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Saturday, March 18
Noon-1 PM EST

Message From Asheville
...a world spotlight on this
new consciousness Mecca

Meet local people from Asheville, North Carolina, USA, America's Mecca of Consciousness with a global vision, making a difference...members of the NEW Asheville. Virato is excited with this new addition to the program...putting Asheville lightworkers in touch with the world...

Today, Mary Silva and Bill Najger of the planned Center of Unlimited Possibilities, and Virato talk about Asheville being indeed a world center of human consciousness and holistic thought.

You are invited to participate. If you are from Asheville, why did you come to this place?

This is a world spotlight on Asheville...letting people taste of this community. Your telephone calls are most important. We ask that your calls speak to the world...

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Saturday, March 25
10:06 AM-11AM EST

Message From Asheville

Meet local people from Asheville with a global vision, making a difference...members of the NEW Asheville. Welcome this new addition to the program...bringing America's Mecca of Consciousness and its lightworkers to the air of Asheville...and to the entire world!!

Today's guest is Chad O'Shea who has served at Unity Center Mills River/Fletcher, in western North Carolina, since August, 1983. Under his leadership, Unity Center has expanded to over 350 member families who now meet in a lovely new facility built in 2000 on their 21 acre campus five minutes from the Asheville Regional Airport.

Chad has been with Unity since before 1977, and has served Unity Centers in Richmond ,VA, Warrensburg , MO, and Nashville, TN. In 1980 & 81 Chad and his wife, Lytingale, traveled across America sharing their musical medicine show, Mellowing the Drama with over 50 Unity centers. In 1981 Chad and Lyte left the road to found a New Age spiritual center called Gentle Spaces in Nashville, TN.

Since his birth in Om - Aha!, Nebraska, in 1934, Chad has evolved from the dubious wisdom of the second six-pack, that advised his earlier careers in retail management and used car sales, to a light-hearted eclectic, in love with the truth that set him free. A natural actor/speaker/showman, Chad weaves humor, stories, and magic into teachings that some refer to as a delightful blend of Ram Dass, George Carlin, and Jesus.

Drawing his inspiration from a diverse pool of awakened inspiration that includes in alphabetical order, Buddha, Ram Dass, Charles & Myrtle Fillmore, Jesus, Jack Kornfield, Lao Tse, Fritz Perls, Chogyam Trungpa, and Pogo, to name a few, he counsels that misery is optional reminding us that the Third Zen Patriarch put all our rationales for angst to rest when he observed that "the Great Way is not difficult for those who have no preferences."

Chad is a skilled golfer and angler, an enthusiastic guitarist, a devoted father to Michael (18) and Katie (12) and to his grown children, Chad Jr. and Matthew, and a delighted grandfather to Chelsey (5) and Trey (3).

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Saturday, March 25
11:06 AM-Noon EST

It's Slowly Poisoning Us!

Virato speaks with Dr. David C. Kennedy who has practiced dentistry for more than 30 years, and is currently the Information Officer on fluoride for the International Academy of Oral Medicine and Toxicology, that say water fluoridation is poisoning us, and in fact, decaying our teeth, rather than protecting them.

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

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

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

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Saturday, March 25
Noon-1 PM EST

Virato interviews Larry Dossey, MD, former Executive Editor of the peer-reviewed journal Alternative Therapies in Health and Medicine, the most widely subscribed-to journal in its field, and author of nine books and numerous articles. The primary quality of all of Dr. Dossey's work is scientific legitimacy, with an insistent focus on "what the data show." As a result, his colleagues in medical schools and hospitals all over the country trust him, honor his message, and continually invite him to share his insights with them. He has lectured all over the world, including major medical schools and hospitals in the United States --Harvard, Johns Hopkins, Cornell, the Universities of Pennsylvania, California, Washington, Texas, Florida, Minnesota, and the Mayo Clinic.

The impact of Dr. Dossey's work has been remarkable. Before his book Healing Words was published in 1993, only three U.S. medical schools had courses devoted to exploring the role of religious practice and prayer in health; currently, nearly 80 medical schools have instituted such courses, many of which utilize Dr. Dossey's works as textbooks. In his 1989 book Recovering the Soul, he introduced the concept of "non-local mind"--mind unconfined to the brain and body, mind spread infinitely throughout space and time. Since then, "non-local mind" has been adopted by many leading scientists as an emerging image of consciousness. Dr. Dossey's ever-deepening explication of non-local mind provides a legitimate foundation for the merging of spirit and medicine. The ramifications of such a union are radical and call for no less than the reinvention of medicine.

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Saturday, April 1
10:06 AM-11 AM EST
Message From Asheville

Her Name is Simply Yeva

Her name is Yeva. She was born in Russia and left for Liverpool when she was 18. Now she lives in West Asheville. She has a penchant for aliens--the out in space kind--and writes, paints and lives them. Today we find out why.

This is a world spotlight on Asheville...letting people taste of this community. Your telephone calls are most important. We ask that your calls speak to the world...

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Saturday, April 1
11:06 AM-Noon EST

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Swami Beyondananda

Once in many, many lifetimes comes a being so evolved, so enlightened, so pure that the entire world is transformed. Unfortunately, there doesn�t seem to be anyone like that around these days.

Fortunately, we do have Swami Beyondananda to help us maintain our jestive health in a world that has become less and less funny. As the Swami says, "Indeed, the world is in a grave state -- and the best way to overcome gravity is with levity."

Swami can truly say he came from humble beginnings. His parents operated a Humble gas station just outside of Muskogee, Oklahoma. At a very early age, it became apparent that young Swami was different from the other children. You know how children quietly put their heads down on the desk when they fall asleep in class? Well, Swami would float to the ceiling. His father realized he could not provide the spiritual training that his gifted young son needed, so he apprenticed him to the most evolved spiritual teacher in Oklahoma, the Native American shaman Broken Wind.

Broken Wind believed that we are traumatized as babies by intestinal gas or colic. The great shaman invented a technique called "gastral projection" to help release these traumas. His philosophy was simple: "To air is human ... but to really cut one loose is divine." Young Swami was a mischievous boy who liked to play pranks on his teacher while the latter was meditating. Often, he would sneak up on Broken Wind from behind, grab him around the chest in a kind of Heimlich maneuver, and squeeze as hard as he could. His good-natured teacher put up with this for a while. But one day, true to his name, he gastrally-projected his young charge across the room. Swami learned a valuable lesson that day: Don�t squeeze the shaman!

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Saturday, April 1
Noon- 1 PM EST

New Age Politic
with

Steven Bhaerman

Steve started an alternative high school in Washington, D.C. and co-authored a book about his experiences, No Particular Place to Go: Making of a Free High School.

A political science major, he later taught history to autoworkers at Wayne State University in Detroit as part of the Weekend College.

In 1980, Steve co-founded Pathways Magazine in Ann Arbor, Michigan, one of the first publications bringing together holistic health, personal growth, spirituality, and politics. He published a regular comedy feature in Pathways, and helped launch Steve�s career as the cosmic comic. Having spent his deformative years in Brooklyn, Steve earned a black belt in Borscht Belt, and has won numerous Irony-man competitions. He currently resides in Santa Rosa, California with his wife Trudy.

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Saturday, April 8
10 AM- 11 AM

Drs. Barry & Janae Weinhold

Message From Asheville
...a world spotlight on America's
New Consciousness Mecca

This is a world spotlight on Asheville...letting people taste of this community. Your telephone calls are most important. We ask that your calls speak to the world...

Meet local people from Asheville, North Carolina, USA, America's Mecca of Consciousness with a global vision, making a difference, creating the NEW Asheville. Virato is excited with this new addition to the program...putting Asheville lightworkers in touch with the world...

Virato's guests today are Drs. Barry and Janae Weinhold, lifelong teachers with a world of experience working with children, youth and adults. In addition to almost 60 years combined teaching experience, they have served for over five decades as licensed mental health professionals. Dr. Barry Weinhold is licensed as a psychologist and Dr. Janae Weinhold as a professional counselor. Co-founders of the Carolina Institute for Conflict Resolution & Creative Leadership, they specialize in the areas of developmental psychology, trauma, violence prevention, conflict resolution, cosmologies and consciousness studies. They are the authors or co-authors of 26 books. Barry is also founder of the Kindness Campaign

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Saturday, April 8
11 AM-Noon

Russell Kick, Ph.D.

In 1968 Russell C. Kick, Ph.D., CEO and Founder of the Self-Discovery Research Institute, Inc., had a near death experience which changed his life. While in the Light, Russell's life's purpose and potential were explained to him, and he was told he would soon meet the woman who was to be his wife. Two weeks later on a business trip he met Jane, his future wife, and one month later they were married.

Since his wondrous experience in the Light, Russell has researched the farther reaches of human potential and documented the truths he has discovered in his exploration of other realms. Russell has been told that now is the time to begin releasing what he has learned because the world is on the cusp of a great leap forward.

The Key to Self-Discovery, the first book in a series, presents a system of self-discovery, self-development and life mastery created by Russell called The Holistic Way. This book and system is the first realization of his research and life's purpose.

A native of Brooklyn, New York, Russell earned his Ph.D. at the University of Alabama. He has been a professor, researcher, author and entrepreneur for thirty years, and his primary areas of interest include computer science, information technology, systems thinking, education and human potential. His current focus is the application of online education to elevate humanity and the world, and the application of systems thinking and whole brain intelligence to realize individual and organizational potential.

He lives in Tucson, Arizona with Jane his wife of thirty-seven years.

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Saturday, April 8
Noon- 1 PM EST

Dannion Brinkley

Virato interviews and explores the life of Dannion Brinkley, author of the international bestseller Saved by the Light and At Peace in the Light. Made into a television motion picture, Saved by the Light has been shown in over 30 countries.

Dannion is loved and respected worldwide for his inspirational lectures on the Near-Death Experience, Palliative and Hospice Care, Complementary and Alternative Healing Practices, and self-awareness. Having survived numerous brushes with death, he is an expert in the dying process. Twice struck by lightning, Dannion has since survived heart failure, open-heart surgery, ruptured subdural hematomas, brain surgery and a massive seizure.

That first lightning strike, which left Dannion clinically dead for 28 minutes, radically changed his life. In the past 24 years of volunteer hospice and nursing home service, he has been at the bedside of over 320 people at the moment of their last breath and has accrued, personally, over 14,000 hours at the beside during their final months, days, and hours of life. These years of hands-on experience qualify him as a leading expert in the grief and bereavement process as well as being an authority in the field of necrophobic reduction.

In October 1999, Dannion Brinkley and Ira Byock testified in support of improved end-of-life care before the U.S. House of Representatives Oversight Committee on Government Reform.

Dannion has presented comment multiple times before the White House Commission on Complementary and Alternative Medical Policy and the National Institutes for Health. Among which are his presentation in October 2000, �Improving End of Life care with Complementary and Alternative Medicines�, July 2001, �You Cannot Drug A Child to Safety: Ways of Reducing Stress in America� and December 2001, �Prayer; The Ultimate Complementary Healing Tool�.

In October 2000, Dannion Brinkley participated in the meeting on The Science and Spirituality of Healing co-sponsored by Duke University Clinical Research Institute, the Duke and Wake Forest Divinity Schools, the Institute of Noetic Sciences, Lawrence S. Rockefeller and the Rockefeller Family Foundation, and Wake Forest University/Bowman Gray Medical Center.

On October 11, 2001 he provided testimony �Describing Death in America� to the National Cancer Advisory Board for the Institute of Medicine.

Dannion�s amazing story and insights have earned him appearances on Oprah, Larry King, CNN World News, Unsolved Mysteries, the BBC, and many other international television and radio shows.

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Saturday, April 15
10:06 AM- 11 AM EST

Message From Asheville
...a world spotlight on this new consciousness Mecca

All About Breath
with

Michael Grant White

Michael Grant White, LMBT, is a breathing development specialist, who has successfully helped thousands transform their lives through correct breathing.

Mike is a somatic educator using the breath as a focal point for stress management, emotional balance, self expression, and personal power. The founder and director of The Optimal Breathing School, he has combined key elements of Christianity, Tibetan Buddhism, Hatha and Kundalini Yoga, Pranayama, Chi Kung (Qi Gong), Reichian Therapy, and other healing modalities.

An Asheville resident, he delivers lectures and workshops worldwide His Optimal Breathing method is listed in a Rodale Press book on alternative healing entitled Alternative Cures.

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Saturday, April 15
11 AM-Noon

INNER VOICE

Our greatest joy is having the opportunity to reflect and confirm the peace, love and harmony that is eternally one's Self, Here, Now. We are a group of five human beings who have been claimed by the power of music. Different stories and different flavors with one intention: to allow the music that uses us for it's expression to be a tool for personal and planetary transformation. We take full responsibility to allow who we really are to shine, play, and sing through us. Thank you for giving us the opportunity to fulfill this role.

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Saturday, April 15
Noon- 1 PM EST

A True Story of Soul Travel, Spirit Guides, Soul Mates and the Reality of Love...

with
Paul Elder

Recent surveys reveal that more than eighteen million people in North America have survived a near-death experience. That�s an incredibly large number of people who have lived through a life-changing event. Remarkably, it is also estimated that as many as three times that number have experienced a mystical or spiritual encounter. Virato interviews the author of a new book, Eyes of an Angel, that carries a compelling message that these people and their families yearn to hear. Indeed, it is a message the whole world needs to hear.

It's an amazing account of Soul Travel, Angels, Spirit Guides, Soul Mates, and the Reality of Love. Written in a compelling, easy to read style, Eyes of an Angel conveys a unique and fascinating story. lt appeals not only to believers in the spiritual and paranormal, but also to the general population who want to believe that these things are true.

Former television news reporter and mayor of a Canadian city, Paul Elder is a real survivor of two near-death experiences�a drowning at the age of 12, and a heart attack at the age of 41. A previously avowed skeptic, Elder found, to his dismay, that his near-death encounters had opened within him a psychic doorway to the spirit world � a doorway he has been able to return through, time and time again. With the assistance of angels and spirit guides, he was systematically led through a series of stunning revelations. From reunions with departed souls to the discovery of soul mates and past lives, his re-education left him with incredible insights as to our true nature and purpose in the universe.

Eyes of an Angel is the true story of a main stream politician who
could not openly share or discuss the profound, spiritual experiences
changing his perspective on life. A book of hope and courage, it can
instantly change millions of lives. It will give readers of books like
Conversations With God inspiration to create their own dialogue with
their own spirit guides and God. It encourages people to truly listen
to their own knowledge and instincts, striving to live from their heart
centers, rather than just from their heads.

Expect a spellbound interview, as Virato probes the topic...

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Saturday, April 22
10:06 AM to 11 AM EDT

...Message From Asheville

A world spotlight on Asheville...letting people taste of this community.

Meet local people from Asheville, North Carolina, USA, America's Mecca of Consciousness with a global vision, making a difference, creating the NEW Asheville.

Today's guests are Rick and Wanda Wingate, local publishers of Natural Awakenings Magazine, who will share their journey with us today...

Virato is excited with this new addition to the program...putting Asheville lightworkers in touch with the world. Your telephone calls are most important. Here's your chance to speak to the world....

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Saturday, April 22
11:06 AM- Noon EDT

Paul Elder
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Virato explores Near Death Experiences (NDE) and Out of Body Experiences (OBE) with Paul Elder and Laurie Monroe, president of The Monroe Institute. The institute offers programs using sound technology that takes participants into non-physical realms and unusual states of consciousness, exploring the afterlife, and to receive verification of the reality of those experiences. Solely using the power of sound, a person without any previous psychic skills can have an experience that can prove to them that they will survive bodily death. Also see April 15 Program Info

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Saturday, April 22
12:06 PM- 1 PM EDT

Ram Dass

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Virato chats with Ram Dass, respected and universally loved icon of the consciousness movement.

Born Richard Alpert in 1931, Ram Dass received an Masters degree in psychology from Wesleyan and a Ph.D. from Stanford University. He served on the psychology faculties at Stanford University and the University of California, and from 1958 to 1963 taught and researched in the Department of Social Relations and the Graduate School of Education at Harvard University.

In 1961, while at Harvard, Ram Dass' explorations of human consciousness led him, in collaboration with Timothy Leary, Ralph Metzner, Aldous Huxley, Allen Ginsberg, and others, to pursue intensive research with psilocybin, LSD-25, and other psychedelic chemicals. Out of this research came two books: The Psychedelic Experience (co-authored by Leary and Metzner, based on The Tibetan Book of the Dead, published by University Books); and LSD (with Sidney Cohen and Lawrence Schiller, published by New American Library). Because of the controversial nature of this research, in 1963 Ram Dass, along with Timothy Leary, were dismissed from Harvard.

Ram Dass continued his research under the auspices of a private foundation until 1967. In that year he traveled to India, where he met his guru (spiritual teacher), Neem Karoli Baba, affectionately known as Maharaji. Ram Dass studied yoga and meditation, and received the name Ram Dass, which means "servant of God."

Since 1968, Ram Dass has pursued a variety of spiritual methods and practices from various ancient wisdom traditions, including devotional yoga focused on the Hindu spiritual figure Hanuman; meditation in the Theravadin, Mahayana Tibetan and Zen Buddhist schools; karma yoga; and Sufi and Jewish studies. He also practices service to others as a spiritual path.

In 1974, Ram Dass created the Hanuman Foundation, which developed the Prison Ashram Project, designed to help prison inmates grow spiritually during their incarceration, and the Dying Project, conceived as a spiritual support structure for conscious and dying. These projects are now directed under independent auspices. The Ram Dass Tape Library Foundation serves as the organizing vehicle for Ram Dass' teachings, and for the distribution of his books and tapes.

Ram Dass' interests include the support of psychedelic research, international development, environmental awareness and political action. He has written a number of spiritual books including Be Here Now, published in 1971 (over one million copies sold, 37th printing, Crown Publishers); The Only Dance There Is (Anchor/ Doubleday); Grist for the Mill (with Stephen Levine, Celestial Arts); Journey of Awakening (Bantam Books); Miracle of Love: Stories of Neem Karoli Baba (Hanuman Foundation); How Can I Help? (with Paul Gorman, Knopf); Compassion in Action: Setting Out on the Path of Service (with Mirabai Bush, Bell Tower Press) and Still Here: Embracing Aging, Changing and Dying (Riverhead Books); One-Liners: A Mini-Manual for a Spiritual Life (Bell Tower Press); Paths to God: Living the Bhagavad Gita (Harmony Books).

In 1996, Ram Dass began to develop plans for a talk radio program called �Here and Now with Ram Dass.� Seven pilot programs were aired in Los Angeles and the San Francisco Bay Area, and Ram Dass planned to launch the show on a nationwide basis the following year. But in February 1997, he experienced a stroke which left him with expressive aphasia and partial paralysis. The after effects of the stroke have made it necessary for him to postpone plans for his radio program, but he has been able to resume his other teaching commitments and is using the experience to explore the spiritual dimensions of suffering and the nature of the aging process.

Ram Dass is a co-founder and advisory board member of the Seva Foundation, an international service organization. He works with the Social Venture Network, an organization of businesses seeking to bring social consciousness to business practices. He continues to teach about the nature of consciousness, and about service as a spiritual path.

An outstanding DVD on the life of Ram Dass is available, called Fierce Grace.

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Saturday, April 29
10:06 AM to 11 AM EDT

Message From Asheville
...a world spotlight on this New Consciousness Mecca

Fear, Faith, Fact, Fantasy
with

John Henderson, MD

Virato chats with former Air Force colonel, Dr. John Henderson who suggests that harmful, intolerant religious beliefs, that are the cause of so much strife and warfare, must be contained. A local Asheville resident, he is the author of God.com: A Deity for the New Millennium and Fear, Faith, Fact, Fantasy

Saturday, April 29
11 AM-Noon EDT

The Hutchison Effect

John Hutchison

Canadian inventor, John Hutchison is credited with the discovery of a highly-anomalous electromagnetic effect which causes the jellification of metals, spontaneous levitation of common, non-magnetic, substances, and other effects resulting from what is believed to be a very complex scalar-wave interaction between electromagnetic fields and matter. He is claimed to have duplicated the Philadelphia Experiment in which an entire US Navy ship, crew and all, was mysteriously transported form Philadelphia to Virginia instantly! He is now being harassed by the Canadian government.

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Saturday, April 29
Noon- 1 PM EST

Virato leaves Kansas and goes on to the Yellow Brick Road to interview author Javier Farias who shares his insight into the spiritual significance of the characters and events in the story of the Wizard of Oz.

Parallels and comparisons are clearly defined between the book written by Frank Baurn and the MGM movie version of the story.

Unlike most stories involving a heroine, there was no handsome prince or knight in shining armor (not even a cowboy in a Stetson) on the way to rescue a helpless princess. This heroine was destined to work through her troubles without the help of a handsome prince.

Wisdom regarding our own spiritual paths can be gleaned from Javier's analysis of Dorothy's time in the poppy fields, the ruby slippers, and other aspects of this time-honored story.

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Saturday, May 6
10:06 AM- 11 AM EDT

Healing Without Fear
with Dr. Laurel Reinhardt

Laurel Ann Reinhardt has been interested in alternative spirituality Laurel Ann Reinhardt since her childhood. Her spiritual path has included: Christian Science, Congregational, Celtic/Druidic, the works of Seth/Jane Roberts, Parmahansa Yogananda, Jewish/Christian mysticism, and most recently the Diamond Path work of A.H. Almaas. She calls herself a Transformational Ally --a witness and support for people who feel trapped in a fear-based system.

Laurel has a Ph.D. in psychology and is a practicing psychologist and author of Healing Without Fear and Seasons of Magic: A Girl's Journey. In her work as a psychologist, she uses dreamwork and ritual to help people listen deeply to themselves in order to reconnect with their soul dreams, those yearnings that give meaning and purpose to life. She also writes about the changing face of psychology and its relevance for today's world.

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Saturday, May 6
11:06 AM- Noon EDT

Virato probes the mind of British author and researcher Philip Gardiner who says Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code is all hogwash. He has been described variously as - the anti-Christ, the Devil incarnate, a seeker after truth, shocking, the most interesting interviewee ever, challenging, controversial, the new Salman Rushdie, and was even banned from the United Arab Emirates.

Philip began his writing career with a book entitled Proof? Does God Exist?: Is There Any Evidence for the Existence of God? Published in 2002 and followed this up with his best selling The Shining Ones: The World's Most Powerful Secret Society Revealed, which launched in the UK and immediately became a best seller. His latest is Gnosis: The Secret of Solomon's Temple Revealed and and The Serpent Grail

Although he has been asked on numerous occasions to become �a member� of several institutions, Philip has strictly refused on the grounds of independence � seeing membership of certain organizations as being overtly influential on his research and understanding of the truths of mankind. Philip believes that some authors/researchers have been lead into membership of institutions or �societies� and are therefore of questionable authority. His background in the history of propaganda and the ancient and ongoing manipulation of mankind tell him that such things do indeed occur. He has however joined (upon being requested) a couple of what are known as secret societies in-order to find out what was happening inside�the conclusions of these journalistic forays appear in his books and he is no longer a member of any organization.

Before retiring to dedicate his time to researching and writing, Philip was giving lectures on the art and history of propaganda to various organizations including certain government bodies and companies.

Philip uses history, etymology, archaeology, mythology, symbolism and his own expertise of propaganda to prove his theories

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Saturday, May 6
Noon-1 PM EDT

How To Meditate
...With Your Dog

Virato speaks with James Jacobson,. author and CEO of Maui Media a publishing company dedicated to raising planetary consciousness by helping individuals raise their own consciousness. Sound ambitious? It is.

Jacobson says, "After all, most people don�t wake up in the morning thinking 'I�m going to raise my consciousness today. I�m going to become more centered, loving, and aware of the infinite connections between myself and all of the other living things on this earth.' There are many 'conscious consumers' out there, and many of them buy our books. But there are many more people who would never browse the Self Improvement or Spirituality sections of bookstores. We want those people to read our books. When it comes to raising planetary consciousness, we can�t just preach to the choir�or the congregation either, for that matter. We have to reach everyone."

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Saturday, May 13
10 AM- 11 AM EDT

Message From Asheville
...a world spotlight on this New Consciousness Mecca

Helen French Black

Trained in Reiki, Rebirthing and Integrated Awareness, Helen French Black has a Bachelor's degree in psychology and counseling, and is an experienced medical intuitive using several vibrational healing technologies and modalities in her vibrational medical practice. She brings to her spiritual ministry, a sixteen-year career in alternative health and healing.

Helen believes her purpose is to provide clarity and healing to those who seek a deeper understanding of their own lives, and to serve light workers that have allowed the burdens of the world to hold them back from their own unique contributions to the earth's well being.

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Saturday, May 13
11 AM- Noon EDT

Why Is This Happening
To Me...Again?

Dr. Michael Ryce

Dr. Michael Ryce is the founder and director of HeartLand, a self-healing center in the Ozark mountains. He is a world renowned lecturer and teacher on health and healing, with doctorates in Naturopathic Medicine and in Holistic Philosophy. The focus of his studies has combined body-mind principles, physics and ancient Aramaic studies into a unique body of pioneering work in the fields of self-healing, healing through relationships, anger and grief resolution, world peace and the inner process of Forgiveness.

His unique syntheses of information and tools is acclaimed, �a powerful blend of spiritual principles and intellectual clarity, guided by the heart!� His workshops explain, with profound simplicity, how the mind/body/emotion interaction affects health, every event in life, and impacts our relationships. In each self-contained workshop, effective tools are presented to assist in creating high-level wellness and eliminating upset, lack and conflict. His book, Why Is This Happening To Me...Again?!, is an international best seller.

In 2001 Dr. Ryce was appointed director of the Khaburis Manuscript Foundation and is currently editing translation work from the manuscript and writing a new book based on the Khaburis, The End Of Suffering, Resurrecting The Original Aramaic Jesus. The Khaburis Manuscript is the oldest known copy of the New Testament in its native, written language, Aramaic.

His work has been exposed to approximately 500,000 people in the last thirty five years. Michael has made a commitment to make the tools he has developed available to every mind on the planet and, as a result, his travel workshops are free so everyone--regardless of the ability to pay.

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Saturday, May 13
Noon-1 PM EDT

The Power of
Spiritual Technology

Gregg Braden

New York Times Best selling author Gregg Braden has been a featured guest for international conferences and media specials exploring the power of science and spirituality.

A former Senior Computer Systems Designer for Martin Marietta Aerospace, Computer geologist for Phillips Petroleum, and the Technical Operations Manager for Cisco Systems, Braden is considered a pioneer in bridging the wisdom of our past with the science, healing and peace of our future.

For more than 20 years Gregg has searched high mountain villages, remote monasteries, ancient temples, and forgotten texts to uncover their timeless secrets. His search led to the 2004 release of his paradigm-shattering book, The God Code, revealing words of the ancient message coded into the DNA of all life.

Between 1998 and 2005 Gregg's journeys into the monasteries of central Tibet revealed a forgotten form of prayer that was lost during the biblical edits of the early Christian Church. In his newest book, Secrets of the Lost Mode of Prayer, he documents this mode of prayer that has no words or outward expression, yet gives us direct access to the quantum force that connects all things.

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Saturday, May 20
10:06 AM to Noon EDT
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Benjamin Bernstein

Holistic Astrology

Benjamin Bernstein says that the basic premise of evolutionary astrology is that we are all evolving souls temporarily inhabiting human bodies. We each choose, before birth, the exact time and place where we will draw our first breath. This critical moment sets up a unique energy matrix, marked by the positions of the planets. The resulting natal chart serves as the blueprint for that lifetime. He suggests that the more we live in harmony with this blueprint, the more magnificent and fulfilling our lives becomes.

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11:06 AM to Noon EDT
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Saturday, May 20
12:06 PM-1 PM EDT
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Poison in our drinking water!

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Dr. Paul Connett, PhD - Professor of Chemistry, St. Lawrence University, New York

Dr. David C. Kennedy, DDS-- Past President, International Academy of Oral Medicine & Toxicology, San Diego. California

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Saturday, May 27
10:06 AM to Noon EDT

The Katuah Sudbury School

Virato chats with members of the Katuah Sudbury School in Fletcher, NC, where students learn how to think...not what to think. Where they learn to use Information Age tools to unearth the knowledge they need from multiple sources. They develop the ability to make clear logical arguments, and deal with complex ethical issues. Through self-initiated activities, they pick up the basics; as they direct their lives, they take responsibility for outcomes, set priorities, allocate resources, and work with others in a vibrant community. Children ages 4-19 explore the world freely, at their own pace and in their own unique ways. The young adults that emerge from this style of education are self-confident, motivated, and articulate. They have learned how to pursue their interests and passions from their own internal motivation and are unafraid to tackle a completely new challenge with total dedication. They are the kind of people you want on your side.

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Saturday, May 27
11:06 AM to Noon EDT

The Energetics
of Plants

Matthew Wood

Virato chats with Matthew Wood published author of four acclaimed books on herbal medicine: Seven Herbs, Plants as Teachers; Vitalism: the History of Herbalism, Homeopathy, and Flower Essences; The Book of Herbal Wisdom; and The Practice of Traditional Western Herbalism.

Matthew has been a practicing herbalist since 1982. In a period when many authors and lecturers are merely "arm chair herbalists" who offer theories and opinions based on book learning, and others have turned to the exotic traditions of India or China, he has been an active practitioner of traditional Western Herbalism. He has helped tens of thousands of clients over the years, with many difficult health problems. While Matthew believes in the virtue of many other healing modalities, he has always been inspired to learn, preserve, and practice the tradition of herbal medicine descending to us from our European, Anglo-American, and Native American heritage. He is a member of the American Herbalists Guild (registered herbalist) and is currently enrolled in the Masters of Science program, Scottish School of Herbal Medicine (accredited by the University of Wales).

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Saturday, May 27
Noon to 1 PM EDT
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Way of the Dreamer...

Robert Moss

Virato chats with Robert Moss, a world-renowned dream explorer, shamanic counselor, novelist and a former magazine editor and professor of ancient history at the Australian National University. His deep engagement with the Dreamtime springs from his early childhood in Australia, where he survived a series of near-death experiences, and has deepened through his visionary encounters with his Celtic ancestors and an ancient Native American woman of power. He teaches Active Dreaming � his pioneer synthesis of dreamwork and shamanism � all over the world and is the founder of a contemporary mystery school. His many books include Conscious Dreaming, Dreamgates, Dreaming True, Dreamways of the Iroquois and The Dreamer�s Book of the Dead, and She Who Dreams

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Saturday, June 3
10:06 AM to 11 AM EDT
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Message From Asheville

The Mountain Green Party

Virato chats with Kai Schwandes, Coordinator of the Mountain Green Party of Western North Carolina. Greens of all hues are emerging from their shelters to stand in a sun dimmed by America�s tilt so far to the right. With the hope that enough democracy survives to make recovery possible, Greens are forming throughout the state and along the western mountains under the banner of the North Carolina Green Party. As Corporatism gives way to something even darker and more threatening and as church and state merge into a form looking much like the nightmares of the past, Greens are gathering. As civil liberties stagger under the burden of the so-called Patriot Act, Greens are gathering. As the US moves from an illegal and criminal military assault on a nation to a permanent war footing with the world, Greens have begun to gather.

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Saturday, June 3
11:06 AM to Noon EDT
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Scott Ohlgren

Virato chats with Scott Ohlgren, author of The 28-Day Cleansing Program. He is a 49-year old enthusiastic student, teacher, and beneficiary of the natural healing paradigm. Raised in the heart of Wisconsin (The Dairy State), where Spam and Velveeta cheese were considered part of the 4 Food Groups, his introduction to the diet-symptom, diet-health connection came just in time. At the age of 19, tired of acne, a growing sinus problem and four years of tetracycline, a friend shoved a book into his hands, saying, "Change your diet, and those health problems will go away." Five weeks later, the symptoms were gone.

From that point on, periodic cellular cleansing has been a central part of his life and is the major reason why he hasn't used a single antibiotic or prescription drug since 1976.

He has since become an outspoken proponent, lecturer, and author for a drug-free, pain-free, and disease-free life, using real food nutrition as one's main medicine cabinet.

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Saturday, June 3
12:06 AM to 1 PM EDT
The Light Party

Da Vid, MD

Virato chats with human ecologist, artist and medical director of the San Francisco Medical Research Foundation, Da Vid, MD. Also founder of The Light Party, and director of The Global Peace Foundation, he is working on converting the old Alcatraz prison into a site for world peace and healing. For over 30 years Da Vid has been an active proponent of holistic health, alternative energy, eco-nomics and the regeneration of Earth's eco-system

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Saturday, June 10
10:06 AM to 11 AM EDT
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Message from Asheville
Zen Therapy

Bill Walz

Bill Walz is a local Asheville therapist and meditation teacher who has blended Zen Buddhist philosophy and skills into what he calls Zen Therapy. He says, "When we experience our lives with relaxed focus from the vantage point of the physical moment, there is a calm that our lives usually lack. There is a clarity of perception about what feels nurturing and what is and isn�t right in our world� what inspires us and what is out of integrity with what we might call our true nature."

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Saturday, June 10
11:06 AM to Noon EDT

Arsenio Rodriguez

Alliance For
A New Humanity

Virato interviews Arsenio Rodriguez, Secretary General of the Alliance for a New Humanity, an alliance of people based on the awareness of humanity�s interconnectedness. The organization, whose president is Deepak Chopra, believes that if enough people share the value of peace, war can be brought to an end. If enough people shift their awareness toward social justice, human rights, and environmental sustainability, then injustice, oppression, and the destruction of the eco-system can be stopped. Such a shift is already occurring--it now needs critical mass, which in turn needs organization. The Alliance aims to connect individuals, caring communities and groups at a global level. Mr. Rodriguez, was instrumental in the development of the United Nations and the World Bank.

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Saturday, June 10
12:06 PM to 1 PM EDT

How The Bible
Became the Bible

Donald L. O'Dell

The Religious Right, the Christian Coalition, and other evangelical groups place limits and strict legalistic parameters on what it means to be a "true believer." This is the same mistake the priestly class made during the times of the prophets in the Old Testament, and is also the same mistake the emerging Church made in the centuries immediately following the life and death of Jesus.

Virato chats with Donald L. O'Dell, author of How the Bible Became the Bible, who says that the Bible was dominated or overshadowed (and sometimes literally overwritten) by those who used predictable, guilt-based religiosity to shape their society and its laws. Sounds similar to some of the news we hear today, doesn�t it? O'dell holds a Master of Divinity from Princeton Theological Seminary and an undergraduate degree in history from North Texas. As an ordained United Presbyterian minister, he served as a street gang minister in Trenton, NJ.

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Saturday, June 17
10:06 AM to 11 AM EDT

Message from Asheville

Mountain Spirit
School of Herbalism

Virato explores the Mountain Spirit School of Herbalism with its director, Mimi Middleton. The school, [part of a healing/learning complex, The North Carolina School of Natural Healing], has created a program that blends scientific knowledge with traditional experience and intuitive awareness. It is quickly fulfilling the repute of being on of the best schools of its kind in the world,...and it's located in Asheville.

Holistic in scope, and as advanced as you wish to go, from the herbal hobbyist and the herbal or medical professional, to a conscious, spiritually based entrepreneurs who have their sights set on the natural products market and the gardening enthusiast who wants to learn more about the life enhancing gifts their land has to offer.

We are truly blessed here, high in the Blue Ridge Mountains, to draw inspiration from the rich complexity of the land...its people and its geophysical properties. From the imbedded trillion plus of tons of crystals... to world leaders in the conscious movement and cultural creative community... this is Asheville. A mountain town blessed indeed, with some of the finest alternative educational opportunities, with world-class expertise and teachers.

If you know of such a school or learning and growing space that fits into such a category, please let VIRATO LIVE! know of it. E-mail Virato. Also be aware that Asheville may also have its share of "new age scams" and weekend "wanabee" experts, so check them out well.

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Saturday, June 17
11:06 AM to Noon EDT
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Karma and Past Lives

Djuna Wojton

Virato chats with an old friend from Philadelphia. Medicine woman, seer, author, yogini, and visionary teacher, Djuna Wojton, (pronounced Juna Woton, rhymes with the Chinese soup) has established herself nationally as an eloquent, transformative force in contemporary metaphysics and holistic healing arts.

In addition to her knowledge of the ancient traditions of the tarot and astrology, Djuna integrates Reiki, shamanic curatives, flower essences, and hypnosis into her work, creating a unique synthesis of ancient and modern healing techniques. She has guided thousands, individually and in groups, in spiritual healing and counseling sessions, and past life regressions.

A vibrant, authoritative spokesperson for the New Age and cutting-edge spiritual technologies, Djuna has appeared on national television, hosted a popular radio show, produced meditation tapes, written extensively on the mind-body link, and was a columnist for America Online and New Frontier Magazine.

Her new book is called Karmic Healing: Clearing Past Life Blocks to Present Day Love, Health, and Happiness, oh, and she's a belly dancer.

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Saturday, June 17
12:06 PM to 1 PM EDT

Transforming
Business Culture

Jamie Walters

Virato chats with Jamie Walters, faculty member and forum guide for the Cultural Creative Network and Cultural Creatives Business Network. Jamie is on the advisory council of the Business Alliance for Local Living Economies (BALLE), and is an early adopter and ambassador for Zaadz, the social-change cyber-community for committed "norm-shifters." She is also a past-president of the board of directors for the San Francisco Chapter of the International Association of Business Communicators.

Author of Big Vision, Small Business, prior to leaping into entrepreneurship in '92, Jamie's livelihood-path included work for a New York State Assembly Speaker, a California Assemblywoman, a cosmetics manufacturer, an environmental engineering firm, and helping to set up an extensive and effective Superfund community outreach program in the Commonwealth of Virginia. Her website: http://www.ivysea.com

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Saturday, June 24
10:06 AM to 11 AM EDT

Heart Energy

Jackie Woods

Virato chats with Jackie Woods, author of Journey to Ultimate Spirituality, Spiritual Energy Cycles, and Soulmate or Cell Mate, Jackie is a regular guest on syndicated radio, and has made select appearances on broadcast and cable television. An expert in the field of self-actualization with more than 25 years� teaching experience, her teachings transcend traditional self-help and focuses on Empowering Your Heart for Extraordinary Living, identifying and facilitating true healing and accelerated personal growth. In 1998, her intuitive guidance directed her to leave her individual practice and move to Columbus, North Carolina where she founded Adawehi (Ah-dah-way-hee) Institute Healing School and Wellness Center.

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Saturday, June 24
11:06 AM to 1 PM EDT

What's On Your Mind?
First On Air New Paradigm "Town Hall!"

Welcome to
1st TOWN HALL MEETING!

Virato opens the program to everyone! From herbal healers to cures for Cancer...from aliens and astrologers to the nature devas....alternative health to One World Government, conspiracies, and how to move beyond it all...and much more. Be creative

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Side Effects, the new feature film comedy, clearly indicting the pharmaceutical industry
US Government and the connection to higher consciousness
What should we do?
A view of the VIRATO LIVE! radio program (suggestions, criticisms, general comments)
Gas prices pollution, obesity and an obsession for ecstasy
Community, Networking, and being a Light Bearer

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Saturday, June 24
12:06 PM to 1 PM EDT
Second Hour

What's On Your Mind?
First On Air New Paradigm Town Hall

Welcome to our Second Hour
1st TOWN HALL MEETING!

Some other potential topics:

Side Effects, the new feature film comedy, clearly indicting the pharmaceutical industry
US Government and the connection to higher consciousness
A view of the VIRATO LIVE! radio program (suggestions, criticisms, general comments)
Gas prices pollution, obesity and an obsession for ecstasy
Community, Networking, and being a Light Bearer
A burning one that you have to ask...

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Saturday, July 1
10:06 PM to 11 AM EDT

Animal Rights & Diet

Virato chats with Stewart David and Leslie Armstrong, members of Asheville's Carolina Animal Action, about being a vegan, free-range farming and other issues raised by those who see us one with animals.

Stewart David is president of Carolina Animal Action, an Asheville-based animal rights group. He is the former Outreach Coordinator of the North Carolina Network for Animals, and former Education Director of the Chicago Vegetarian Society. Stewart has traveled the country speaking out on behalf of animals enslaved for entertainment, food, vivisection and clothing. He is frequently quoted in the press and has appeared on TV and radio discussing the ethical considerations as well as environmental and health benefits of a plant-based diet. A retired CPA who also has a BA in Social Sciences, Stewart has lived in Asheville since 1990.

Leslie Armstrong moved to Asheville a year ago from SC. She has a BA in Political Science from Furman University and has taken numerous graduate level courses in counseling psychology and social work. She has worked as a litigation paralegal, victim advocate, circus specialist with PETA, and is currently the co-owner of Rosebud Video Store. A long time vegan and animal rights activist, Leslie continues her animal advocacy work in Asheville with Carolina Animal Action.

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Saturday, July 1
11:06 AM to Noon EDT

Soul Talk

Bill Bauman

Virato interviews Dr. Bill Bauman who spent four years studying theology at the University of Louvain in Belgium, and received his doctorate in Counseling Psychology at Arizona State University. He then served as a Catholic priest in Florida in the 1960's, and in the early 1980's, served as a licensed minister of the Church of Religious Science in Utah. He has studied, practiced and taught many of the other major world religions, Eastern and native as well as Western. Bauman worked as a psychologist and taught at a University Counseling Center in Minnesota, and then served as director of a community mental health center in Michigan. He later spent fifteen years as a licensed private practitioner and psychological consultant, first in Texas and then in Utah.

Bauman founded and directed three private businesses: a management consulting service, a treatment center for learning disabilities, and a holistic health center. He also developed and maintained a nationally-oriented personal empowerment seminar program for several years, in addition to maintaining his private practice as a psychologist.

The author of Oz Power, and graced with a state of both Christ-consciousness and Buddha-consciousness, Bill Bauman says he is here on earth with a mission to help humanity as a whole, and individual persons in particular to find their soul, connect to their inner truth, discover their unique nature and purpose, and lead their lives in ways that express their fullest destiny.

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Saturday, July 1
12:06 PM to 1 PM EDT

Jill Purce

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

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

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

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

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Saturday, July 8
10:06 PM to 11 AM EDT

Message from Asheville
Celebrated leaders, of national and international repute,
with a generally more holistic, conscious viewpoint,
who have made the Asheville area their home

Virato takes a look at "Baby Boomer Burnouts" with Brad Swift, who says there is a Path -- a Purposeful Path -- that exists between where you are today, and a not-to-distant future where you are crystal clear about your life purpose and living true to it moment by moment, day by day. Between these two points is the GAP between what is and what's possible. His life vision: A world where all people live purposeful, passionate and playful lives of service; lives of mindful abundance balanced with simplicity; and spiritual serenity. Brad has written well over 300 magazine articles for a diverse assortment of magazines including Omni, Entrepreneur, New Age Journal, Yoga Journal, Utne Reader, Unity Magazine, Better Homes and Garden, Modern Maturity, and many others.

Brad's first book, WINNING THROUGH COACHING: Building Your Business Through Building Your Team was published in 1997. Since that time he has also written Traveling the Purposeful Path: The 6 Passages to an Inspired Life On Purpose.

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Saturday, July 8
11:06 PM to Noon EDT

Kathleen Slattery-Moschkau

Michael Moore plans to take on the health care industry next year with his weapon of choice, the sledgehammer documentary.

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

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

Kathleen Slattery-Moschkau graduated with a degree in political science from University of Wisconsin-Madison. After college, Kathleen spent a decade working for the 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.

Fans of Katharine Heigl from ABC's season's hit, Grey's Anatomy are wondering if the likable actress will return to the hit medical soap opera next season after her character had an emotional and professional meltdown in the season finale. In the meantime, I'm sure fans will be interested in seeing her indie flick, Side Effects, that was heavily promoted during the show's commercial breaks in recent weeks.

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Saturday, July 8
12:06 PM to 1 PM EDT

Ervin Laszlo

Virato discusses Ervin Laszlo author or editor of sixty-nine books translated into 20 languages, with over four hundred articles and research papers and six volumes of piano recordings to his credit. He serves as editor of the monthly World Futures: The Journal of General Evolution and of its associated General Evolution Studies book series. Dr. Laszlo'a latest book is Science and the Reenchantment of the Cosmos.

Dr. Laszlo is generally recognized as the founder of systems philosophy and general evolution theory, serving as founder-director of the General Evolution Research Group and as past president of the International Society for the Systems Sciences. He is the recipient of the highest degree in philosophy and human sciences from the Sorbonne, the University of Paris, as well as of the coveted Artist Diploma of the Franz Liszt Academy of Budapest. His numerous prizes and awards include four honorary doctorates.

His appointments have included research grants at Yale and Princeton Universities, professorships for philosophy, systems sciences, and future sciences at the Universities of Houston, Portland State, and Indiana, as well as Northwestern University and the State University of New York. His career has also included guest professorships at various universities in Europe and the Far East. In addition, Laszlo worked as program director for the United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR). In 1999 he was awarded an honorary doctorate by the Canadian International Institute of Advanced Studies in Systems Research and Cybernetics.

Ervin Laszlo serves as founder and president of the Club of Budapest and head of the General Evolution Research Group, which he founded. He is an advisor to the UNESCO Director General, ambassador of the International Delphic Council, member of the International Academy of Science, World Academy of Arts and Science, and the International Academy of Philosophy. Dr. Laszlo is the former president of the International Society for Systems Sciences. He was nominated for a Noble Peace Prize in 2004 and 2005

A side note, is that Dr. Laszlo was a recognized child prodigy pianist at age 9, and by age 15 was playing concerts world-wide.

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10:06 PM to 11 AM EDT

Message from Asheville
Celebrated leaders, of national and international repute,
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who have made the Asheville area their home

Liz Lipski

There is currently an epidemic of digestive illness in this country, an epidemic that can be traced to the foods we eat and the way we live. An alarming number of children are now dealing not only with obesity, but also suffer from some sort of digestive problem, and faulty digestion is directly responsible for a vast array of other ailments--everything from bad breath, ulcers, heartburn, and constipation to colitis, Diverticulitis, and irritable bowel syndrome. These disorders left unchecked can lead to an onset of aliments in their adult life including arthritis, chronic fatigue syndrome, Fibromyalgia, migraine headaches, and degenerative diseases. Virato interviews Asheville's Dr. Liz Lipski, a clinical nutritionist who has worked in the field of nutrition and holistic health since 1979 and is the author of Digestive Wellness, Leaky Gut Syndrome and Digestive Wellness for Children. An excellent show. To download go to

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11:06 AM-Noon
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Grand Unified
Theory

Ross Tobia

Before Ross Tobia earned his Masters Degree in Psychology Research, he had independently studied chemistry, physics, astronomy, even astrology and yoga. Tobia attempts to explain a fundamental question: What is the place of life in the Universe? Today we explore other areas. Is this universe all there is? What is its shape and geometry? What is the nature of the electromagnetic spectrum? What is the scientific definition of life? Can anything resist gravity? Does astrology have a physical explanation?..and more!

Virato chats with the author about his book Grand Unified Theory, and other unique views of this author.

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12:06 PM-1 PM EDT
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A Healing Among Nations

Bonnie Mansdorf

Dr. Bonnie Mansdorf is the founder and Executive Director of The Foundation for A Healing Among Nations. Bonnie has initiated and brought forth projects including The Prayer Retreat, a private event of prayer and ritual with participants and advisory council of such notables as: Geshe Gyeltsen rep for the Dalai Lama, Native Elders such as Chief Arvol Looking Horse, Aruh Gandhi of the Gandhi Institute, Rosa Parks Institute, Thich Nhat Hahn, Neale Donald Walsh, Jack Canfield, Deepak Chopra, Joan Borysenko, Marianne Williamson, Mathew fox, Rabbi Zalman Schacter and many more. Ms. Mansdorf has also brought forth such innovations as the We Are One initiative through Vice President Gore's office and served as an interviewer for Steven Spielberg's, Shoah Foundation. She has been called to speak before huge and notable audiences on forgiveness and other sacred topics. She has an MA & Ph.D. in Esoteric Psychology and Philosophy and is a mother of two sons.

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10:06 AM-11 AM EDT
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Message from Asheville
Celebrated leaders, of national and international repute,
with a generally more holistic, conscious viewpoint,
who have made the Asheville area their home...
and of course some psychics, etc.

Page Bryant has been a professional intuitive counselor for twenty-five years. During that time she has enjoyed numerous accomplishments. From 1973 through 1990, Page had her own radio talk show in several major markets, and had her own television series in Tampa/St. Petersburg, Florida. While on KMPC in Los Angeles, Page was a daily-featured guest on the Gary Owens Show. A lecturer and workshop seminar facilitator, Page was the first apprentice of Sun Bear, and has been a teacher at Sun Bear's Medicine Wheel Gatherings for the past 14 years. Page Bryant books include: The Earth Changes Survival Handbook; The Magic of Minerals; Crystals and Their Use; Earth Changes Now!; Awakening Arthur! His Return In Our Time; The Aquarian Guide to Native American Mythology; Terravision: A Traveler's Guide to the Living Planet Earth; The Spiritual Reawakening of the Great Smoky Mountains. Her latest book, Starwalking: Shamanic Practices For Traveling Into The Night Sky explores the astronomy of the ancient peoples worldwide, what they knew about the stars, and how that knowledge influenced them and their lives, the loss humanity has suffered due to our disconnection from the stars, and ways by and through which we can rectify that loss through ceremony, meditation, and study.

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Saturday, July 22
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Wisdomkeepers of Virginia

Virato chats with Harvey Arden, co-author of Wisdomkeepers: Meetings with Native American Spiritual Elders. For 23 years he was a staff writer for National Geographic Magazine, producing many articles, including his September 1987 classic, The Fire That Harvey Arden Never Dies: The Iroquois Six Nations Confederacy. He is the author of Dreamkeepers: A Spirit�Journey into Aboriginal Australia and of Noble Red Man, which he is turning into a play. His latest book, Travels in a Stone Canoe, was published by Simon & Schuster in 1998. He serves on the Wisdomkeepers project as a Co-Producer, Writer and Technical Advisor and will participate in content and script development. In addition, Harvey will provide occasional narrative in the film as well as on-screen conversing with the elders. His knowledge, background, and intuition on the subject matter will benefit all parties when work on the film begins, and his creative vision and input will serve as a guide during all stages of production.

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12:06 PM-1 PM EDT
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Michael Peter Langevin

Virato talks with Michael Peter Langevin, CEO of CSI Media, and a Co-Founder of Magical Blend Magazine. A visionary and entrepreneur who befriends shamans, magicians, holy men and gifted psychics, Langevin has had many strange experiences and just as many wonderful opportunities as publisher of what Book-of-the Month Club calls "the most open-minded magazine in the world." He was the host of the �Magical Blend� TV show and has been interviewed on countless radio programs. His writings have appeared in many anthologies, and he has authored three books: Spiritual Business, Secrets of the Ancient Incas, and

Secrets of the Amazon Shamans.

For all his adult life, Michael Peter has been exploring the occult and ancient mysteries most people avoid and fear. He first visited Peru in 1973 at age 20. He has returned to Latin America countless times to deepen his shaman studies and widen his knowledge of ancient pre-Columbian cultures.

He founded Magical Blend magazine in 1980 and has studied with some of the most powerful spiritual leaders of our times. Michael Peter has been conducting workshops and lectures worldwide for large groups since 1985.

At this time, Michael is focused on giving back to the world in a larger way. He has begun teaching and sharing the knowledge he has gained as result of his years of gathered wisdom shared with him by many as publisher of Magical Blend Magazine. Michael Peter has enjoyed extensive study in fields of personal growth, the occult, ancient cultures, and spiritual development. He is now sharing this knowledge, through a series of Classes, CDs & DVDs, Personal Readings and Personal Intuitive Counseling are also part of what Michael Peter is offering in his spiritual role as a �Synergistic Weaver.�

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Message from Asheville
Celebrated leaders, of national and international repute,
with a generally more holistic, conscious viewpoint,
who have made the Asheville area their home

John Wilson

John L. Wilson, Jr., MD

Dr. Wilson received his medical education from the University of Minnesota, followed by Family Practice Residency in West Virginia. He served as clinical associate professor at the University of Minnesota Medical School and University of Minnesota-Duluth School of Medicine. He brought with him 14 years of experience in rural Family Practice when he joined Asheville's Great Smokies Medical Center in 1991, along with expertise in chelation, environmental, allergic and preventive medicine. Dr. Wilson is a Fellow of both the American Academy of Environmental Medicine and the American Academy of Family Physicians, a member of the American College for Advancement in Medicine, and member and Past-President of the Great Lakes College of Clinical Medicine and the American Academy of Environmental Medicine. He currently serves as chairperson of the Continuing Medical Education (CME) Committee of the American Academy of Environmental Medicine, and has extensive training and a special interest in Neural Therapy. Dr. Wilson lectures nationally to physicians� organizations and has an interest in the politics of medicine. He is married, has two grown sons, and enjoys keeping current on innovative medical advances.

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Bele Chere is Asheville's biggest street fare, they say, with some 300,000 participants hitting the street during the three day extravaganza. Come hear the director of the Great Smokies Medical Center [see above] talk about holistic health, and ask him questions. Meet him personally! If you have something in line with what the show is about, and would like to be a 5 minute guest on the show, call 254-6620, or simply stop by the booth and take your chances or simply to say hello. Of course, also meet Virato and his beloved Dhiraja, and spend some time with them after the show...

Perhaps Bele Chere is far from a new age, holistic event, and at times seems overflowing with Bud Lite consciousness, yet, if we do indeed create our own reality, then it is up to us to create our own Bele Cher, or simply tune in and listen to the folks there tell you about Bele Chere 2006. Invite people to come to the 880AM booth. Sorry no call-ins today. You are cordially invited come to Asheville and be a part of Bele Chere and VIRATO LIVE!

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Saturday, August 5
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Michael Mamas

Today, Virato dialogues with Michael Mamas, a former TM^� instructor. who claims to have a unique approach to personal development and a powerful means to attain happiness, health, abundance, and fulfillment, and that his teachings address the concerns of everyone, from the business professional or spiritual seeker, to the stressed individual or inquiring student.

His has ingested a long and fascinating road of study. Born and raised in Ohio, he attended Ohio State University, where he was an honors student in physics and mathematics, prior to obtaining a Doctorate in Veterinary Medicine and a MBA.

Michael's lifelong search for wisdom led him to study under saints and spiritual teachers from around the world, primarily India. Out of the wisdom and knowledge he gained, Mamas says he derived a powerful and effective approach to health, one that transcends traditional and alternative approaches. Michael also claims to have developed a revolutionary new approach to psychological health, one that frees the mind and supports an individual's true nature.

Author of a novel entitled The Golden Frog , Michael Mamas is currently director of Mt Soma, a 300 acre community between Asheville and Waynesville, North Carolina

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Creation
Spirituality

Matthew Fox

Virato dialogues with Matthew Fox, author of 28 books, including Original Blessing Fox holds a doctorate (received summa cum laude) in the History and Theology of Spirituality from the Institut Catholique de Paris, and was a member of the Dominican Order of the Roman Catholic Church for 34 years. Cardinal Ratzinger, chief Inquisitor and head of the Congregation of Doctrine and Faith (called the Office of the Holy Inquisition until 1965) for the Vatican, tried to shut the program down, and silenced Fox for one year in 1988 forcing him to step down as director. Three years later Fox was expelled from the Order.

Rather than disband his amazing and ecumenical faculty, Fox started his own University called University of Creation Spirituality nine years ago in Oakland, California. Its name has now changed to Wisdom University and Fox is president emeritus and a teaching professor there.

The principle objections from the Congregation of the Faith to Fox�s work were that he is a �feminist theologian;� that he calls God �Mother� (Fox has proven the medieval mystical tradition did exactly that); that he prefers �original blessing� to �original sin;� that he calls God �child�; that he associates too closely with Native Americans and people of the Wicca tradition; that he does not condemn homosexuals among other things

Matthew Fox is a well received lecturer who has spoken at many professional and community gatherings on many continents and in many countries around the world. Fox�s books have received numerous awards and he is recipient of the Peace Abbey Courage of Conscience Award of which other recipients have included the Dalai Lama, Mother Theresa and Rosa Parks.

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Exopolitics

Dr. Michael Salla

Virato probes the findings of Dr. Michael E. Salla, a pioneer in the development of Exopolitics, the scholarly study of the main actors, institutions and processes associated with an extraterrestrial presence that is not acknowledged to the general public, elected officials or the mass media. His interest

in Exopolitics evolved out of his investigation of the sources of international conflict and its relationship with the undisclosed extraterrestrial presence. He cites evidence of as many as sixteen different extraterrestrial races currently interacting with humanity in a variety of ways, with a number of other races simply monitoring the Earth. His groundbreaking Exopolitics: Political Implications of the Extraterrestrial Presence (Dandelion Books, 2004) presents the first scholarly framework for understanding the political implications of the extraterrestrial presence.

Dr. Salla is an internationally recognized scholar in international politics, conflict resolution and US foreign policy, and is the author/editor of an additional four books including The Hero's Journey Toward a Second American Century (Greenwood Press, 2002); Essays on Peace (Central Queensland University Press, 1995); Why the Cold War Ended (Greenwood Press, 1995); and Islamic Radicalism, Muslim Nations and the West (1993). He has also authored more than seventy articles, chapters, and book reviews on peace, ethnic conflict and conflict resolution. He has held academic appointments in the School of International Service & the Center for Global Peace, American University, Washington DC (1996-2004); the Department of Political Science, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia (1994-96); and the Elliott School of International Affairs, George Washington University, Washington D.C., (2002). He has a PhD in Government from the University of Queensland, Australia, and an M.A. in Philosophy from the University of Melbourne, Australia. He has conducted research and fieldwork in the ethnic conflicts in East Timor, Kosovo, Macedonia, and Sri Lanka, and organized peacemaking initiatives involving mid to high level participants from these conflicts

Virato's interview with Dr. Salla will focus on the variety of implications of what an overwhelming amount of evidence conclusively points to as an extraterrestrial presence on Earth that is known by clandestine government organizations who keep official knowledge of this presence secret from the general public and elected political officials. The evidence suggests that decision making is restricted to a small group of officials drawn primarily from the military and intelligence branches of various national governments who operate on a 'need to know' basis, and whose appointments are made in a way that 'stretches' or breaks accepted constitutional guidelines and processes.

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Saturday, August 12
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Robert Tennyson Stevens

Robert Tennyson Stevens, developer and CEO of Mastery Systems Corporation, is a pioneer in the influence of language, imagination, facilitation, and body language in our lives

For more than 30 years, Robert has developed systems for attaining heartfelt outcomes quickly. Robert�s compassionate nature combined with his humorous and interactive presentation style make learning fun and easy.

Author of Body Language Translations Book and an upcoming book Conscious Language, Robert is also a master herbalist and iridologist. He studied with Dr. Bernard Jensen, Dr. John Christopher, and Dr. John W. Ray, and developed Bio-Optic Holography, a unique method of identifying and transforming the body�s physical, mental and emotional reality by combining iridology with the application of Conscious Language and Outcome Facilitation.

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Damanhur

Virato speaks with members of the oldest intentional community in the world. Founded in the early 1970's, the Federation of Damanhur in Italy is now an internationally renowned center for spiritual, artistic and social research. Damanhur is an eco-society, a federation of communities and eco-villages with a continuously evolving social and political structure. The aims of Damanhur are: the freedom and re-awakening of the Human Being as a divine, spiritual and material principle; the creation of a self-sustaining model of life based on ethical principles of good communal living and love; harmonic integration and co-operation with all the forces linked to the evolution of Humankind

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Saturday, August 19
10:06 AM to 1 AM EDT

Virato visits Crystal Visions, a peaceful haven in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Western North Carolina, was begun in 1989 of a desire to serve Spirit and raise consciousness. Co-Creators Blair Justice and Joan Colburn have been continually blessed by Spirit and have gratefully accepted the guidance of many Spirit beings. This love and guidance has kept the primary focus on providing tools for personal and spiritual growth. Those tools include an array of new thought spiritual books, and all sorts of crystals, statutes. They also hold events everyday and weekend. Located in the town of Naples, NC about 16 miles from Asheville.

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A Trip to the
7th Dimension

Kahu Fred Sterling

In recent history, great energies have permeated the Earth plane, bringing information from sources not readily available to the human world. Today, Virato enters another dimension with Kahu Fred Sterling in Hawaii.

Sterling--master medium, minister and a messenger�is a Native American shaman who walks between the third dimensional world of human and the boundless realms of spirit. For more than 15 years, he has been the medium for a master spirit guide creating books, articles and recorded sessions for the seekers of Earth. As founder and senior minister of the Honolulu Church of Light, a non-traditional spiritualist church, he shines his own love and light upon both a local congregation and a blossoming international community of lightworkers via the Internet that reaches around the world.

Sterling channels Kirael a spirit guide from the seventh dimension that has committed his light into the Earth plane to help humanity heal, evolve and experience what he calls the "Great Shift" in consciousness.

He has authored several books with Master Kirael, including Kirael: The Great Shift, Kirael: The Genesis Matrix, Guide to the Unseen Self, and The Ten Principles of Conscious Creation, and shares his wisdom and Kirael�s message through frequent radio, Internet and television programs

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Saturday, August 19
12:06 PM to 1 PM EDT

Rupert Sheldrake

Virato chats with old friend, Dr. Rupert Sheldrake, a former Research Fellow of Britain's prestigious Royal Society. Dr. Sheldrake received his Ph.D. in biochemistry from Cambridge University, and was featured in a PBS TV series, A Glorious Accident. He is the author of more than 75 scientific papers and ten books: A New Science of Life: The Hypothesis of Formative Causation; The Presence of the Past: Morphic Resonance and the Habits of Nature; The Rebirth of Nature: The Greening of Science and God ; Seven Experiments that Could Change the World: A Do-It-Yourself Guide to Revolutionary Science; Dogs that Know When Their Owners are Coming Home, and Other Unexplained Powers of Animals (Winner of the Book of the Year Award from the British Scientific and Medical Network); and The Sense of Being Stared At, And Other Aspects of the Extended Mind; Chaos, Creativity and Cosmic Consciousness, with Ralph Abraham, Terrence McKenna and Jean Houston; The Evolutionary Mind ; Natural Grace: Dialogues on Science and Spirituality and The Physics of Angels: Exploring the Realm Where Science and Spirit Meet with Matthew Fox.

Dr. Sheldrake is one of the most controversial scientists in Great Britain, and has even had his books burned. Some have compared him to the Galileo of our times.

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Saturday, August 26
10:06 AM to 11 AM EDT

Message from Asheville...

The Center of Unlimited Possibilities
Largest 2 floor (over 31,000 sq. ft.) Cultural Creative Center in the world!

Next week The Center of Unlimited Possibilities opens its 32,000 sq. ft. facility next to Earth Fare in the Westgate Shopping Ctr., West Asheville, becoming the biggest Cultural Creative center in the world! Asheville again makes the international scene.

Virato, who witnessed and participated in some of CUP's genesis, chats with two of the board members, Bill Najger and Martin Doyle.

Virato has personally seen the synchronicities, magic and love that has gone into the creation of this center. With no outside money, no donations, no investors, or other funding, this major accomplishment rivals any venture, even in a major city.

Asheville CUP will offer a potpourri of products, services, philosophies, education, entertainment, resources and networking for those seeking, or in harmony with a lifestyle of the cultural creatives. It's about a new evolution...

Many of the techniques, philosophies, awareness, and loving spirituality embracing a new paradigm in this generation found their genesis in the '60s, when civilized society exploded beyond the suppression and unconsciousness of the '50s and earlier.

While for many this phase was superficial and short lived, a few saw the light, and "got it," so to speak, and carried the torch into the 21st Century.

Terms such a new age, holistic, inner directed, body-mind-spirit, rainbow, and new paradigm have attempted to label this growing awakenment, but all seem to fall short. And for that matter, the term cultural creative may have its lifespan as well.

The reality is that this fresh, new society is now quite visible, estimated at close to 100 million people in this country alone. You can witness their presence by the demand for organic food, books, films, and products reflecting a new consciousness, or what some call simple common sense. This significant portion of the population is having not only a sociological and spiritual effect, but also an economic impact.

We have reached a pivotal point on this little piece of land called planet earth, where some say we as humans and other life forms may have even passed the point of no return to our very extinction..

Maybe we really needed that kick in the butt to get our attention. With Al Gore's film on global warming, or simply watching the news, coupled with the seemingly uncontrollable violence and lack of human hood, including fear of some distant Arab, or our own American government. It is beyond political. It is even beyond moral.

The people that Asheville CUP will present come from all phases of life, presenting an enlightened viewpoint that supports a reality of freedom, health, happiness and love. The forms may vary from a massage therapist, to a chill out psychic. From the the latest MLM product/service, and natural living product, to an array of boutiques, books and media.

It will look like an ongoing Expo!

Asheville CUP plans to offer many multi-media performances by stage players, musicians, as well as films, lectures, workshops, and seminars. It can accommodate 350 people. Part of the media center of Asheville CUP will include broadcast and audio/video studio capability using the latest in high technology, as well as a free Internet Cafe, and well as providing wireless signal availability..

Today Virato explore A New Paradigm View...and more!

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Saturday, August 26
11:06 AM to Noon EDT

Virato has a lay-back, late summer chat with Peter Loewer, writer and artist, and a guy passionate about plants, from daffodils to orchids to the love of roses to the lore of poison ivy. Friends call him The Wild Gardener and he helps folks get the best from their garden and, along the way, offers some interesting and exciting insights into a world that, up to now, just might have escaped their notice. He calls himself the guy who brought back the evening garden and the night garden from oblivion, and that includes the night-blooming day lily (Hemerocallis citrina). Peter, a regular on Asheville's WCQS, besides writing for several publications, is the author of Native Perennials for the Southeast, and has updated and published Seeds: The Definitive Guide to Growing, History & Lore originally with The Macmillan Company in 1995, and now with Timber Press.

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Saturday, August 26
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Entangled Minds

Extrasensory Experiences
in a Quantum Reality

Dean Radin

Virato probes the mind of Dr. Dean Radin, author of Entangled Minds. Dean played classical violin professionally until age 25, then switched to fiddle and banjo and played in bluegrass bands for a number of years. Along the way he graduated with a degree in electrical engineering from the University of Massachusetts, a masters in electrical engineering from the University of Illinois, and a PhD in psychology, also from the University of Illinois.

He worked at AT&T Bell Labs and GTE Labs on advanced telecommunications R&D, and then held appointments at Princeton University, University of Edinburgh, University of Nevada, SRI International and Interval Research Corporation, where I was engaged in research on psychic or psi phenomena. At SRI he worked on the progenitor of what is now popularly known as the (formerly classified) psi research program codenamed StarGate. In 2000 he co-founded the Boundary Institute and since 2001 he�s been Senior Scientist at the Institute of Noetic Sciences. He also holds an adjunct appointment at Sonoma State University and is on the Distinguished Consulting Faculty for Saybrook Graduate School.

One of the most surprising discoveries of modern physics is that objects aren't as separate as they may seem. When you drill down into the core of even the most solid-looking material, separateness dissolves. All that remains, like the smile of the Cheshire Cat from Alice in Wonderland, are relationships extending curiously throughout space and time. These connections were predicted by quantum theory and were called "spooky action at a distance" by Albert Einstein. One of the founders of quantum theory, Erwin Schrödinger, dubbed this peculiarity entanglement, saying "I would not call that one but rather the characteristic trait of quantum mechanics."

The deeper reality suggested by the existence of entanglement is so unlike the world of everyday experience that until recently, many physicists believed it was interesting only for abstract theoretical reasons. They accepted that the microscopic world of elementary particles could become curiously entangled, but those entangled states were assumed to be fleeting and have no practical consequences for the world as we experience it. That view is rapidly changing.

Scientists are now finding that there are ways in which the effects of microscopic entanglements "scale up" into our macroscopic world. Entangled connections between carefully prepared atomic-sized objects can persist over many miles. There are theoretical descriptions showing how tasks can be accomplished by entangled groups without the members of the group communicating with each other in any conventional way. Some scientists suggest that the remarkable degree of coherence displayed in living systems might depend in some fundamental way on quantum effects like entanglement. Others suggest that conscious awareness is caused or related in some important way to entangled particles in the brain. Some even propose that the entire universe is a single, self-entangled object.

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10:06 PM to 11 AM EDT

Message from Asheville...

This coming Saturday, Asheville has its Annual fair to celebrate natural organic foods and products, providing even offering organic entertainment.

Today, Virato chats with Debi Athos, creator of Asheville's Organicfest about going organic. There will also be other guests, including Ronnie Cummins, Director of the Organic Consumers Association.

Here are some thought-provoking figures about our food supply:

More than 20,000 pesticides are registered for use in the United States. About 75% of the chemicals, some 2.2 billion pounds annually, are used on more than 900,000 US farms at an annual cost of about $8.3 billion, according to the Pesticide Action Network. Pesticide sales have increased more than 2,700% since 1962 and US users now account for one-third of the world pesticide market.

NBC News recently reported that 9000 people die each year in the US due to food insecticide/pesticide related illness. Exposure to man-made chemicals in the food we eat and liquids we drink is suspected of being a major factor in today's increased risk to cancer and other degenerative disease.

The Environmental Working Group found that "more than half of the total dietary risk from pesticides...was concentrated in just 12 crops. The pesticides that were found in these foods are classified by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) as probable human carcinogens, nervous system poisons and endocrine system disrupters."

Groundwater contamination caused by pesticides has spread pollutants to the world's rivers, lakes and oceans, killing fish, wildlife, and aquatic plants.

Greenpeace states that "numerous studies show that many pesticides cause health problems ranging from such long-term chronic effects as cancer, genetic damage, birth defects, harm to the immune system, kidneys and liver, to short-term acute effects such as nerve damage, dizziness, nausea and fatigue."

Some experts believe certain agricultural chemicals, such as toluene, can be toxic to fetuses.

Sixty percent of all herbicides, 90% of all fungicides and 30% of all insecticides are considered carcinogenic by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

A 1987 National Academy of Sciences (NAS) report estimated that 20,000 cases of cancer a year can be linked to US pesticide use.

Health experts long have warned of the dangers of high-fat foods that can lead to heart disease or cancer. New studies show that each fatty bite may also carry a dose of highly toxic chemicals.

Man-made chemicals, including traces of highly carcinogenic dioxins released into the environment, are turning up in fast-food and grocery store staples such as meat, fish and dairy products at levels that exceed US government standards by 200% or more, according to some studies.

"In industrialized countries you can avoid the intake of dioxins, to a certain extent, by eating food that is low in fat," says Dr. Arnold Schecter, an international medical expert on dioxins and an advisor to the World Health Organization (WHO). "But it is more desirable to avoid producing dioxins in the first place."

Dioxin is a toxic waste product formed when municipal and hazardous waste is burned, and when chemicals containing chlorine, such as pesticides and paper products, are manufactured. This product ends up in the food chain. When an animal eats food that contains this toxic chemical they accumulate in the fat.

Both WHO and the US EPA agree that dioxins cause cancer. "Besides cancer, minute amounts of these chemicals have been shown to lead to nervous system and liver damage, as well as to mimic hormones that disrupt reproduction and human development," says Schecter. "It is known that every person in every industrialized country has dioxins in their blood...but since about 96% of the general population's exposure to dioxins is through food, we wanted to see if certain kinds of food contained more dioxins than others," Schecter said.

While vegetables and fruits also contained trace amounts of these chemicals, the dose was significantly less than high fat foods. Advocacy groups such as the American Public Health Association (APHA) believe that governments should be doing more to protect people's health, especially in light of these new scientific findings.

Birth defects, learning disabilities and other development problems have been linked to dioxin exposure, according to the studies. This is because these chemicals "mimic" or "block" estrogen and progesterone, natural hormones that instruct the body on how it should develop. In just six months of breast feeding, a baby in the United States will, on average, consume the EPA's maximum lifetime dose of dioxin, Schecter says. Dioxins are also highly persistent in the environment and extremely resistant to chemical or physical breakdown.

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Saturday, September 2
11:06 PM to Noon EDT

Virato interviews William Lewis, award winning film-maker and creator of PoliceState21.com, a website which concentrates on the loss of civil liberties in the United States. More recently this web site has grown in popularity as an awakening public has become more aware of the liberties they have lost as the result of a government gone out of control.

Lewis says Big Brother is doing more than watching. He is the producer of One Nation Under Siege, a forceful unmasking of the U.S. government and those in powerful positions who wish to dismantle the United States Bill of Rights for their own corrupt purposes. Through the research of over a dozen internationally distinguished authors, journalists, doctors, and military experts you will begin to understand the massive and ceaseless control projected onto an unsuspecting populace by a government that has finally crossed the line from a representative republic to a fascist empire. What if everything you were told was a lie?

When the United States government allowed the terrorists attacks of September 11, 2001 to slip through their fingers, they set into motion a chain of events that will forever affect the freedoms held so closely to the hearts of peace-loving Americans. However, what if the official version of September 11 was fabricated or at the very least manipulated? What if the people of the United States had been deceived into waging a worldwide war on terrorism? Who would benefit the most? More importantly, will the spirit of the American people survive the most deadly blow ever to the U.S. Constitution and freedom as we know it?

Lewis, as CEO of the Bridgestone Media Group, has also produced 911 In Plane Sight, Beyond Treason and Eye of The Storm

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Saturday, September 2
12:06 PM to 1 PM EDT

You have been lied to, misled, deceived for nearly 100 Years. Like millions of others, you probably believe that the food you eat is safe and nutritious. You probably believe that the medicines you take have been sufficiently tested. Not so. Shockingly, the opposite is true. Consider these facts that the chemical, pharmaceutical and food processing industries desperately want to keep from you�but revealed exclusively in The Hundred Year Lie: 1,000 new chemicals are added to our �diet� yearly. There are more than 700 synthetic chemicals in our bodies. 100,000 man-made chemicals exist in our environment. The food industry purposely strips out essential nutrients from our food. The known side affects of drugs are often worse than the disease they are meant to treat Our immune and reproductive systems are so compromised that disease, birth anomalies, and species mutations are rampant!

Today, Virato Interviews Randall Fitzgerald, author of The Hundred Year Lie, former investigative newspaper reporter (Washington Post, Wall Street Journal,) and contributing editor for twenty years at Reader's Digest

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Saturday, September 9
10:06 PM to 11 AM EDT

Message from Asheville...

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Ah, you tried to click above and nothing happened. That's because you must call in [The studio call in number is 828-252-4348] live during the broadcast and be a part of the Open Forum on the air.. Do you have the secret to enlightenment, or are you seeking it? Is the blending of spirituality and politics an explosive combination, or is it indeed needed. What about religion? The coming end times? Marijuana? Politics? What's happening to Asheville? What do you want to know about Asheville? Share you consciousness or you gripes. Comments and suggestions about the show also welcome.

Virato will read from one of his favorite books, and he and hid beloved Dhiraja share a little of their recent 17 state tour of the Northeast..

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Saturday, September 9
11:06 PM to Noon EDT
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Virato chats with Margaret Ruby, author of DNA of Healing: A Five-Step Process for Total Wellness & Abundance and Messages From the Star Systems Oracle Deck. Margaret blends the ancient art of healing with cutting edge research in philosophy, physiology, biochemistry, and quantum physics. Her transformational techniques focus upon changing DNA energy patterns to create optimal health, emotional well-being, and enhanced life satisfaction.

Margaret has been on a life-long quest to find answers to the questions: How can we consciously create the life we want? What role do our belief systems play in our lives? If belief systems play an important part in our existence, then where do they originate and how can we change them to create a more satisfying way of life?

As she discovered the means to move beyond limiting thinking and began to experience her dreams and desires, her DNA patterning expanded, and in the process allowed her to access profound universal knowledge. Today, her mission is to share her knowledge with others by teaching them how to locate and change non-supportive belief systems stored within their DNA memory codes, as she changed hers. She believes that everyone can learn to work energetically with the DNA and return it to its original blueprint of abundance and vibrant health.

Margaret Ruby's teachings and techniques have helped thousands of people find relief with everything from allergies and emotional stress, to serious disease and life-threatening illness. She regularly teaches all across the United States and Canada, as well as England, Scotland, Australia, and South Africa. In addition to being a regular guest on radio, and appearances on TV, Margaret lectures throughout the USA.

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Saturday, September 9
12:06 PM to 1 PM EDT

Dr. Keith Scott-Mumby

Virato speaks with Dr. Keith Scott Mumby, author of The Food Allergy Plan (Unwins 1985), Allergies: What Everyone Should Know (Unwins 1986), The Allergy Handbook (Thorsons 1988), The Poisoned Tree (Pan Paperback 1990, with Kevin Taylor), The Complete Guide to Food Allergy and Environmental Illness (Thorsons 1993), To Fly Without Wings (Sri Lanka Publishing 2002),and Virtual Medicine (Thorsons 2004).

Dr. Mumby is founding member of the British Society for Clinical Ecology (now the British Society for Nutrition, Allergy and Environmental Medicine), Medical Advisor to the board What Doctors Don't Tell You (journal), scientific and medical advisor to the British Society for Homotoxicology, Member American Academy of Anti-Ageing Medicine (A4M) and Certified member of the American College for the Advancement of Medicine

He started the first successful food and environmental allergy clinic in 1979, which rapidly spread to Glasgow, Dublin and Stockholm. Those were exciting days in which he made many new discoveries. In 1986 he made medical-legal history, when a UK Crown Court accepted his evidence that food allergy was capable of making a youth murderously violent, and the youth was given a conditional release (condition: that he stick to Scott-Mumby's diet!)

By 1990 the press were calling him, "Britain's number one allergy detective." Since then, he has gone into other areas and started to search for answers as to why an individual gets allergies in the first place. The answers have led me into homotoxicology (complex homeopathy) and electro-dermal screening, using computers and the Chinese model, allied to a Western technological database.

He now writes and lecture internationally on the themes of energetic medicine and the new anti-aging science, which is his current forte.

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Saturday, September 16
10:06 PM to Noon EDT

Message from Asheville...

Virato speaks with Theresa Wilkes, Director of the North Carolina School of Natural Healing which includes a fully accredited multi- discipline massage school.

Their websites says, "Our programs are designed to open your heart and activate your soul. We place spiritual awareness, connection with each other and responsible social action at the center of our teaching. Our students sense a call from within to look deeper and serve the unfolding of peace on planet Earth. They are excited about making a meaningful contribution in life."

Indeed interesting fodder for good dialogue...

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Saturday, September 16
11:06 PM to Noon EDT

LSD Researcher
Developer of Holotropic Breathing

Stanislav Groff, MD

Virato probes the mind and soul of Stanislav Grof, MD, Ph.D., a psychiatrist with over forty years research into non-ordinary states of consciousness (induced by psychedelic substances and various non-drug techniques) and one of the founders and chief theoreticians of transpersonal psychology. He was born in Prague, Czechoslovakia, where he also received his scientific training,. an MD degree from the Charles University School of Medicine, and a Ph.D. from the Czechoslovakian Academy of Sciences.

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

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

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

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

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Saturday, September 16
12:06 PM to 1 PM EDT

Edgar Cayce

This past month Virato visited Virginia Beach, VA and home of the Association for Research & Enlightenment (A.R.E.), the organization that is the foundation of the Edgar Cayce Institute for Intuitive Studies. Today Virato interviews Charles Thomas Cayce, president of the A.R.E. and grandson of Edgar Cayce who retires this year.

Edgar Cayce was known as the "sleeping prophet." When he would go into his "self-induced" sleep state, he would be asked questions. His answers to these questions became known as Edgar Cayce readings. Over 14,000 of these readings were recorded by a stenographer and are now available for viewing.

It worked like this: Cayce would lie down, with his hands folded over his stomach. He would then allow himself to enter a "sleep state." Cayce's assistant would say the name and location of someone who requested a reading. The assistant would then ask Cayce questions about that person. Cayce would answer with remedies and cures to health issues, predictions of future events, etc. These answers became known as readings. Some of his famous remedies include: "bedbug juice" for dropsy; "oil of smoke," a remedy for a leg sore; and "fumes of apple brandy from a charred keg" a remedy for tuberculosis.

The underlying principle of the readings, as stated by the A.R.E., is the oneness of all life, tolerance for all people, and a compassion and understanding for every major religion in the world."

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Saturday, September 23
10:06 PM to 11 AM EDT

Elizabeth Mass

Originally a high school English teacher, Elizabeth Mass began teaching classes in meditation and creative mind power in 1974. Her interest in personal growth and spiritual development led to a Masters' degree in psychology from Columbia Pacific University, followed by a training program in psychotherapy, with a special emphasis on Intensive Emotional Release work, at the DiMele Center in New York City.

The author of Wake Up Your Power!, she is a pioneer in the field of Spiritual Therapy. Elizabeth has developed numerous programs to assist others in healing and awakening their inner potentials. She continues to explore the latest tools and techniques to facilitate healing and growth for herself and others.

Over the years, Elizabeth has trained and become certified in several therapeutic modalities, including Interactive Guided Imagery, Hypnotherapy, Energy Psychology, and Esoteric Tuning (Subtle Energy Balancing), a form of advanced Pendulum Dowsing.

A skilled therapist, a dynamic teacher, and an inspiring speaker, she has presented programs for the International Conference of the Association of Comprehensive Energy Psychology, the Institute of Noetic Sciences, the International Association of Counselors and Therapists, the New York State Institute of Basic Research, Global Sciences Conference, and many other groups and organizations.

Originally based in Staten Island, New York, Elizabeth now resides in Asheville, N.C. where she presents workshops and training programs, in addition to her private practice.

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Saturday, September 23
11:06 PM to Noon EST

Shift Happens
....moving into the next vibration

Will the World Really End on December 12, 2012? As we approach the calendar date predicted by the Mayans and other indigenous people as the end of our age, this question is becoming an increasingly burning concern. Will there be global war � possibly triggering a nuclear holocaust? Would the planet�s life forms finally succumb to the ecological quagmire that�s been building in our soils, oceans and atmosphere? Would the current steady increase of previously unknown diseases overcome our ability to defend against them? Or will we suddenly move into a new Golden Age in which the lion lies down with the lamb and struggle, pain, and suffering are gone forever? Virato chats with author Jean-Claude Koven about this most interesting topic.

Koven also says, "The popular advice offered by many new-age gurus is to shun the negative information flowing from our media. People are increasingly proud to announce that they no longer read newspapers or watch TV news, so they can keep their thoughts on more spiritual matters. I am not of that camp. Not only do I listen and read, I often discuss and probe the issues of the day with others, vitally curious to learn more about the points from which they view."

Do you agree or disagree? Do we create our own reality? Be sure and be a part of this program by calling in.

The author of Going Deeper, Jean-Claude Koven is one of those rare, independent, and adventurous free spirits who successfully combines practical enterprise and cosmic mystery. He is a highly successful entrepreneur who has launched more than a dozen business ventures over the course of four decades, during which time he studied with spiritual masters and led awareness-expanding workshops on six continents.

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Saturday, September 23
12:06 PM to 1 PM EST

The Madness of George W. Bush
A Reflection of Our Collective Psychosis

Virato is joined by psychiatrist, Ron Parks, MD as co-host in a probing spiritual-psycho exploration with author Paul Levy.

In 1981 Paul Levy experienced a life-transforming spiritual awakening, in which he began to wake up to the dream-like nature of reality. During the first year of his spiritual emergence, Paul was hospitalized a number of times, and diagnosed with having had a severe psychotic break. Much to his surprise, he was told that he had a chemical imbalance and had manic-depressive (bi-polar) disorder, and would have to live with his illness for the rest of his life. Fortunately, he was able to quickly extricate himself from the medical and psychiatric establishment. Little did the doctors realize that he was taking part in some sort of spiritual awakening/shamanic initiation process, which at times mimicked psychosis but in actuality was an experience of a far different order.

In 1993, after many years of struggling to contain and integrate his experiences, he started to share what he was realizing. In private practice for over ten years, he assists others who are spiritually emerging and beginning to wake up to the dreamlike nature of reality. In a dream come true, psychiatrists now consult with Levy and send him patients. A pioneer in the field of spiritual emergence, Paul is in the new book Saints and Madmen: Psychiatry Opens its Doors to Religion.

He has developed a unique and creative vehicle to introduce people to the dream-like nature of reality that he calls �The Dreaming Up Process,� which is based on the realization that the same dreaming mind that dreams our dreams at night is dreaming our life. Levy teaches this "dreaming up" process in Awakening in the Dream Groups where people who are awakening come together and collaboratively help each other to wake up in the dream together.

Deeply steeped in and inspired by the work of C. G. Jung, Paul is an innovator in the field of dreaming (both night dreams as well as waking dreams). He has had close to forty articles published on consciousness, dreaming and spirituality, and has lectured about his work at various universities.

A Tibetan Buddhist practitioner for over twenty years, he has intimately studied with some of the greatest masters of Tibet and Burma. A visionary artist, he is creating an art happening called Global Awakening, and is currently writing a book about his work in dreaming.

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Saturday, September 30
10:06 PM to 11 AM EDT
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Pasckie Pascua
Activist Publisher

Today, Virato chats with social activist and publisher, Pasckie Pascua. Born George Alfredo R. Pascua in Manila, Philippines, of northern tribal Filipino, Cherokee and Spanish lineage, he now lives in Asheville, North Carolina, where he edits and publishes three community magazines, The Indie, Wander, and Blue Sky Asheville, under his Loved by the Buffalo Publications. He also heads a non-profit arts/culture/music organization called, Traveling Bonfires.

Pascua begun his journalism career as a 14-year-old cub reporter in a �guerrilla-like, impoverished but defiantly courageous� newspaper called We Forum (later, Malaya/The Free). It was published and edited by the late Jose Burgos, a fiery and daring workhorse who dared challenge the Marcoses� genocidal twenty-year military rule.

With a degree in Mass Communication from the University of the Philippines, Pasckie studied film at the prestigious Tisch School of Arts, New York University. From late-70s to early-90s, he was a fulltime member of various respected activist/artist/media organizations in Manila, especially during the difficult years of the dictatorship. It's hard not to mention his name whenever premier, fountainhead arts/media/activist organizations in Manila are discussed.

In 2000, then leading anti-US bases Filipino Senator (twice presidential aspirant) Raul Roco read Pascua�s poem, Twenty Million Dollars before the Philippine Senate to climax a dramatic stand by the country�s nationalist and activist lawmakers against the Visiting Forces Agreement between Washington and Manila.

While in New York City, Pascua worked with the militant Philippine Forum for almost a year on consultancy level, and was very instrumental in securing a foundation grant for the organization. He severed ties with Philforum--an affiliate of the left-leaning Bayan (Nation) in the Philippines--a few weeks after the group obtained the grant. He then formed the first incarnation of The Indie and The Traveling Bonfires. The nucleus of The Indie-NY in 2000-2001 was composed mainly of young, newly-grad intellectuals from Cornell University, Harvard, New York University, and Columbia University, with a mix of "streetbred" New Yorkers and young Filipino writers, artists and musicians who grew up in the Philippines.

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Saturday, September 30
11:06 PM to Noon EDT
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Recent mind research has shown that the silent messages you emit can actually determine your success with finding love. Find out how to give off the best signal for attracting your ideal mate.

Virato's guest today, Dr. Margaret McCraw, is author of a new book called Tune Into Love. She says you can attract the love of your life instantly when you release your old vibration and begin exuding a new winning vibration!

By using a technique she calls Vibrational Matching, seekers can attract exactly the right person at the right time in their life. Vibrational Matching as she describes it, is the deliberate intention to energize one's desires (say, a romantic relationship) by vibrating at a level equal to them. In doing so, we are able to easily attract our desires.

Margaret McCraw, Ph.D., MBA is licensed psychotherapist and motivational speaker, with more than 25 years experience as a psychiatric, healthcare, and business consultant. As founder and president of The Institute of Vibrational Synchronicity, Margaret provides personal and executive coaching and training to a wide variety of professionals and organizations.

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Saturday, September 30
12:06 PM to 1 PM EDT
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Madman or Seer? You judge today as Virato probes the mind of Michael Sunanda. A student of the late Buckminster Fuller, Sunanda claims special awareness of the earth's energy systems. He says that sun cycles are impacting the Earth's climate, and that the sun is radiating several times more energy than it has in the past and it is still peaking. Sunanda says NASA is well aware of the sun's increased activity, but is keeping this information from the public. Paranoia or fact?

Sunanda who lives in Eugene, Oregon, says solar energy is being absorbed by Earth's magnetic field and pumped inside the planet, greatly intensifying underwater volcanic activity. The lava churned out by the undersea volcanoes is heating the oceans that affects the planet's climate, he says. Sunanda is also into geodesic domes, permaculture, weather control and anything that connects to his stream of chat
On June 29, 2006, Art Bell had him on Coast-to-Coast AM) broadcast on over 500 radio stations) for two hours. Madman or Seer?...maybe both?

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Saturday, October 7
10:06 PM to 11 AM EST

Today Virato explores the mysteries and benefits of Qi Gong an ancient Chinese health care system that integrates physical postures, breathing techniques and focused intention. His guest is Michael Winn
The word Qigong (Chi Kung) is made up of two Chinese words. Qi is pronounced chee and is usually translated to mean the life force or vital-energy that flows through all things in the universe.

The second word, Gong, pronounced gung, means accomplishment, or skill that is cultivated through steady practice. Together, Qigong (Chi Kung) means cultivating energy, it is a system practiced for health maintenance, healing and increasing vitality.

Michael Winn has been a key figure in promoting qigong in the west since 1980. He was a two term president of the National Qigong Association, and chairman of the Healing Tao Instructor's Association of North America for nine years, a network of about 150 qigong teachers affiliated with the Healing Tao system founded by Mantak Chia.

Winn was one of Mantak Chia's first western students, and played a key role in founding The Healing Tao in 1982. and directly wrote or heavily edited many of Mantak Chia's books on qigong as General Editor of Healing Tao Books.

Winn sees his life "as an alchemical journey flowing between outer adventures and inner adventures, a process of cultivating my "worldly life" and my "inner essence"." He traveled to 30 countries before the age of 17, and ran 35 whitewater rafting expeditions as a guide down the Grand Canyon by the time he graduated from Dartmouth College in l973 as a Senior Fellow with a degree in Russian/comparative literature. After a successful three year career in New York publishing he got fired "for being too creative".

He became a free lance war correspondent and adventure travel photographer that took him on 30 trips to another 50 countries in Africa, the Mideast , and Asia from 1977 to 1985. Included was a four month journey across China tracing Marco Polo's footsteps. In this period Winn, who is not Jewish, also ran an �underground railroad� smuggling white American Jews into Ethiopia and black Jews out of Ethiopia into Israel. In 1981 in New York's Soho district, Winn opened Abyssinia, the first Ethiopian restaurant in America, and operated it successfully for 20 years.

While in Africa Winn accidentally self-induced his first Kundalini awakening, which led him to begin studying and teaching Kundalini yoga in the late 1970's. This eventually led him to Taoist alchemy. "In college I studied comparative literature, " Winn says, "and in real life I found myself training in and comparing the esoteric alchemical methods from different teachers.

Winn, who now lives in Asheville, NC., maintains a private practice in qigong therapy. Winn is currently finishing a book on the energy science of how people can shape the life force to manifest what they truly need. The book is inspired by contact with a spiritual being who claims to have ascended with his body - at the age of 2,300 years old - into the "Stellar Mind", i.e. a full heaven immortal.

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Saturday, October 7
11:06 PM to Noon NY Time

Virato speaks with author, Wynn Free, who believes that not only is David Wilcock the reincarnation of Edgar Cayce, but that he also shares the same paranormal gifts that allowed �the sleeping prophet� to help others with health issues, give them information about their past lives, and share information about the future.
As a youth Wynn Free's main interest was electronics and ham radio. He attended the University of California at Berkeley, majoring in physics, but it wasn't long before my interests shifted to alternative politics, spirituality, metaphysics, and songwriting.

Wynn read a number of books about Edgar Cayce during this period and it stimulated his curiosity to possible understanding of realities far beyond my proclivity for science, rational explanations.

In 1999 he came across the website of David Wilcock, where David revealed in one section that he had a "resonance" with Edgar Cayce. I read David's story carefully and decided that if he was telling the truth, he had to be the reincarnation of Cayce. This led him to write of The Reincarnation of Edgar Cayce?

Two years into writing the book, in April of 2004, the story of my personal experience of inter-dimensional communication commenced where two girlfriends in a row spontaneously started to channel a voice which identified itself as the Council of Elohim. This experience included very precise future predictions, a miracle of healing, and wise personal counseling. I asked many questions about the premises of the book I was writing and received conformation from the Council of Elohim for many of the more far out premises in the book.

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Saturday, October 7
12:06 PM to 1 PM NY Time

Virato talks with business coach and author, Michael Losier, whose career is a marriage of high-tech and metaphysical. He has a background in business administration, eight years of information technology experience with the British Columbia government, a private practice as a business success coach and seven years of experience as a trade show producer. In 1995, Michael�s career took a dramatic shift when he earned a certificate in Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP) and started to study the Law of Attraction.

Now he teaches courses and Tele-seminars on a variety of topics including the Law of Attraction through TeleClass International, which he co-founded in 1999.

Michael is the author of Law of Attraction: How to Get More of What You Want and Less of What You Don�t. He lives in Victoria, BC, Canada

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Saturday, October 14
10:06 PM to 11 AM NY Time

Message From Asheville

Accem Scott

Virato dialogues with Asheville author Accem Scott, a Naturopath, Homeopath, Reiki Master/Teacher, Martial Arts Teacher, Spiritual Counselor and Acupuncturist. He is a contributing writer for several American and European magazines and journals on topics ranging from fasting to spirituality.
Accem began his journey through the healing arts in Western medicine, studying to become a medical doctor. However he was so turned off by my experience in medical school, and in the hospital as a surgical technician, that he abandoned this training and went to China to study martial arts. While there, he had a transformative healing experience and began to study acupuncture and Chinese Herbalism. As his travels continued, Accem pieced together global healing practices from around the world to form a way of life. These practices altered his life, and he began to share his discoveries with others. He continued to travel, studying the ways that cross-cultural practices are alike rather than different. What he found in his research took Accem to Thailand.

Accem returned from Thailand completely mystified and hungry to understand what had happened there. In his quest for understanding, he discovered quantum physics and devoured all the material I could find on it. He also returned to my original martial arts training and found there a lost pearl, Pakua. This mystical, circular art has allowed Chinese monks to perform incredible feats (such as what happened to me in Thailand) for centuries. It represents a circular practice of physical, mental, emotional and spiritual awareness.

This integration of Eastern and Western knowledge answered not only the Thailand story, but explained as well many of the mysteries of healing he had experienced in his life and work. Accem then stumbled across the Chinese Energetic Method. A technique that gives the conscious mind access to energetic blockages at multiple levels physical, mental, emotional, psychic, psychological, and spiritual, as well as the ability to correct them in an instant.
The circular life-style training that Accem has developed combines elements of all of these techniques with the purpose of quickly and easily releasing from the multiverse anything that binds us. He considers all things from the point of view of quantum physics: consciousness is behind and within everything we see and experience in this physical world. All things are seeking systems of freedom, which are circular and open, as opposed to rigid and dense. The circular system is life generating, and every ancient culture had ways to connect with this circular wisdom. In modern times it appears that we have lost that knowledge, but the good news is that we have only lost touch with it.
Accem is the author of the American Barefoot Doctor's Manual

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Saturday, October 14
11:06 PM to Noon EST

Virato speaks with John Robbins author of Healthy at 100: The Scientifically Proven Secrets of the World�s Healthiest and Longest-Lived Peoples (Random House, Oct.2006).
John Robbins is author of the Pulitzer nominated, international bestseller Diet For A New America: How Your Food Choices Affect Your Health, Happiness, and the Future of Life on Earth; The Food Revolution: How Your Diet Can Help Save Your Life and Our World; The Awakened Heart: Meditations on Finding Harmony in a Changing World; and Reclaiming Our Health: Exploding the Medical Myth and Embracing the Source of True Healing.

Widely recognized as one of the world's leading experts on the dietary link with the environment and health, John�s work has been the subject of cover stories and feature articles in The San Francisco Chronicle, The Los Angeles Times, Chicago Life, The Washington Post, The New York Times, The Philadelphia Inquirer, and many of the nation's other major newspapers and magazines. His life and work have also been featured in an hour long PBS special entitled Diet For A New America.

The only son of the founder of the Baskin-Robbins ice cream empire, John Robbins was groomed to follow in his father�s footsteps, but chose to walk away from Baskin-Robbins and the immense wealth it represented to "...pursue the deeper American Dream...the dream of a society at peace with its conscience because it respects and lives in harmony with all life forms. A dream of a society that is truly healthy, practicing a wise and compassionate stewardship of a balanced ecosystem."

Considered a most eloquent and powerful spokesperson in the world for a sane, ethical and sustainable future, John Robbins has been a featured and keynote speaker at major conferences sponsored by Physicians for Social Responsibility, Beyond War, Oxfam, the Sierra Club, the Humane Society of the United States, the United Nations Environmental Program, UNICEF, and many other organizations dedicated to creating a healthy, just, and sustainable way of life.

He is the recipient of the Rachel Carson Award, the Albert Schweitzer Humanitarian Award, and the Peace Abbey�s Courage of Conscience Award. The widespread media attention he has received has included numerous appearances on national shows including Oprah, Donahue and Geraldo. When John spoke at the United Nations, he received a standing ovation.

John serves on the Boards of many non-profit groups working toward a thriving, just, and sustainable way of life. He is the Founder and Board Chair Emeritus of Earth Save International http://www.earthsave.org, an organization dedicated to healthy food choices, preservation of the environment, and a more compassionate world. John is also the Board Chair of YES! http://yesworld.org, which connects, inspires and empowers young change makers to join forces for a thriving, just and sustainable way of life for all.

John�s life is dedicated to creating an environmentally sustainable, spiritually fulfilling and socially just human presence on this planet. He lives with his wife Deo, their son Ocean and his wife Michele, and their grandsons River and Bodhi in the hills outside Santa Cruz, California. The Robbins� offices and home run entirely on solar electricity.

In his new book, Healthy at 100: The Scientifically Proven Secrets of the World�s Healthiest and Longest-Lived Peoples John presents us with another view of aging, showing us how we can increase not only our life span, but also our health span. Through the example of four very different cultures that have the distinction of producing some of the world�s healthiest, oldest people, John reveals the secrets for living an extended and fulfilling life in which our later years become a period of wisdom, vitality, and happiness.
From Abkhasia in the Caucasus south of Russia, where age is beauty, and Vilcabamba in the Andes of South America, where laughter is the greatest medicine, to Hunza in Central Asia, where dance is ageless, and finally the southern Japanese islands of Okinawa, the modern Shangri-la, where people regularly live beyond a century, Robbins examines how the unique lifestyles of these peoples can influence and improve our own.

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Saturday, October 14
12:06 PM to 1 PM NY Time

Virato chats with Starhawk, author of The Earth Path, and one of the most respected voices in modern earth-based spirituality. She is also well-known as a global justice activist and organizer, whose work and writings have inspired many to action. Starhawk is the author or co-author of ten books, that have been translated into Spanish, French, German, Danish, Dutch, Italian, Portuguese, Polish, Greek, Japanese, and Burmese. Her essays are reprinted across the world, and have been included in numerous anthologies. Starhawk's writing is influential and has been quoted by hundreds of other authors, turning up in magazines, trade and academic press, and even inspirational calendars. Her books are often found in college curriculums. Her book The Spiral Dance has been continuously in-print for over twenty-five years and revised twice; in 1999 HarperSanFrancisco published the Twentieth Anniversary Edition.

Starhawk is perhaps best known as an articulate pioneer in the revival of earth-based spirituality. She consulted on, and contributed to the popular trio of films known as the Women's Spirituality series, directed by Donna Read for the National Film Board of Canada: Goddess Remembered, The Burning Times, and Full Circle. Starhawk and Donna Read recently formed their own film company, Belili Productions (belili.org). Their first release is Signs Out of Time, a documentary on the life of archaeologist Marija Gimbutas, the scholar made major discoveries about the Goddess cultures of Old Europe. Starhawk and Donna are at work on their next film, an introduction to permaculture.

Starhawk is a veteran of progressive movements, from anti-war to anti-nukes, and is deeply committed to bringing the techniques and creative power of spirituality to political activism. Together with Penny Livingston-Stark and Erik Ohlsen, she co-teaches EAT, Earth Activist Trainings, intensive seminars that combine permaculture design, political organizing, and earth-based spirituality (earthactivisttraining.org).

Starhawk travels internationally teaching magic, the tools of ritual, and the skills of activism. She lives part-time in San Francisco, in a collective house with her partner and friends, and part-time in a little hut in the woods in western Sonoma County, California, where she practices permaculture in her extensive gardens, and writes.

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Saturday, October 21
10:06 PM to 11 AM NY Time

Michael Stillwater

Virato chats with Michael Stillwater an inspirational consultant for releasing stress and enhancing creativity. An award-winning songwriter and accomplished musical artist whose songs are known and recorded around the world, he incorporates original song and story while helping audiences access their purpose and appreciation for life, tapping the wealth of their creativity. With a mastery born of 30 years of performing on the creative edge, Stillwater is also creator of SongCare, a therapeutic and intuitive artistry serving individuals, couples and organizations since 1982. Together with Emmy award-winning composer Gary Malkin, he created Graceful Passages: A Companion for Living and Dying, an innovative audio resource addressing the spiritual issues of mortality. An interfaith minister and consummate guitarist, Stillwater is a pioneer of contemporary chant and intuitive song, facilitating collaborative artistic expressions in schools, churches, and healthcare systems. He is currently sharing The Power of Song on tour in Asheville, the West Coast, and Europe, featuring music from his latest release, Chantwave at Grace Cathedral (chantwave.com). Co-founder of the nonprofit Companion Arts, dedicated to re-humanizing healthcare through its Care for the Journey Initiative (careforthejourney.net) Stillwater leads Art of Presence retreats in Europe and America. Stillwater evokes an atmosphere of joy, trust, imagination and possibility. He recently relocated to Asheville from the West Coast.

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Saturday, October 21
11:06 PM to Noon NY Time

Virato speaks with Dane Alexander, president and CEO of an international investment business who, for over twenty-four years, has often been called upon as a lecturer on economic trends and investments, as well as a financial columnist for Millionaire Magazine. Mr. Alexander is known nationally as a radio quest and commentator on economic matters.

Along with his business background, Mr. Alexander trained in a number of esoteric subjects, which gave him an understanding of the dangerous political and climatic course upon which this planet is proceeding and prompted the writing of this book. The result: a rare, balanced understanding of both modern science and ancient methodologies that can really "move mountains."

He has written a work of fiction called Maya, which teaches an ancient wisdom showing what you personally can do to stop global warming, terrorism, and all the other crises pushing this planet toward self-destruction. The book is for those who think outside the box-who were challenged by the mystery of The Da Vinci Code, the tingling, cliff-hanging adventures of Raiders of the Lost Ark, and yet who demand cold, hard science and real politics.

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Saturday, October 21
12:06 PM to 1 PM NY Time

The Unsecret Life
of Plants

Virato chats with Matthew Wood author of four acclaimed books on herbal medicine: Seven Herbs, Plants as Teachers; Vitalism: the History of Herbalism, Homeopathy, and Flower Essences; The Book of Herbal Wisdom; and The Practice of Traditional Western Herbalism. Matthew has been a practicing herbalist since 1982. In a period when many authors and lecturers are merely "arm chair herbalists" who offer theories and opinions based on book learning, and others have turned to the exotic traditions of India or China, he has been an active practitioner of traditional Western Herbalism. He has helped tens of thousands of clients over the years, with many difficult health problems. While Matthew believes in the virtue of many other healing modalities, he has always been inspired to learn, preserve, and practice the tradition of herbal medicine descending to us from our European, Anglo-American, and Native American heritage. He is a member of the American Herbalists Guild (registered herbalist) and is currently enrolled in the Masters of Science program, Scottish School of Herbal Medicine (accredited by the University of Wales).

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Saturday, October 28
10:06 AM to 11 AM NY Time

Message from Asheville

Music of Political Revolution
...and Green Revolution

Virato raps with Byron Belzak, writer and publisher during the day, and singer-songwriter by night. Seriously ... he has been holed up for the past thirty-some years writing and playing songs of politics and love for just his family and friends and, mostly, for his own pleasure with the hope ... someday I'll put out that CD; and he just early next year. The last time Belzak took a real stage was in the early 1970s at Millersville University in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, and at Duck Soup in Philadelphia. But he's ready to lay it all out there for his first-ever, live radio performance on Virato Live! with his words of "get out the vote and change the world" along with his mission of publishing practical news about sustainable living and building the greener home.

When he's not songwriting and strumming his Ovation guitar, Byron works as Associate Publisher of Rapid River Arts and Culture Magazine in Asheville. He also owns and manages a number of informational and journalistic websites, including DowntownAsheville.com, WesternNorthCarolina.com, and TheGreenerHome.com.

While he has been known to put on a suit and tie when he must, Byron Belzak is definitely an open-collar, open-minded, open-to-changing-the-world singer-songwriter whose original songs of passion and politics just might deserve a thoughtful audience. As a family man, he knows it's not about the 'me-generation,' rather it's about the 'us-generation.' Give a listen to Byron Belzak's revolutionary songs of love and hope that are a call to action, not despair."

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Saturday, October 28
11:06 AM to Noon NY Time

Truth Heals

with
Deborah King

Virato interviews Deborah King, Ph.D., a successful corporate attorney and hotel developer, who, when she was diagnosed with cancer, began a quest for healing that would radically change her life. Her profound recovery through energy healing over 20 years ago set Deborah on an intense course of education and hands-on practice of the world's healing modalities, from ardent Christian to Eastern to New Age.
Her revelatory new book, Truth Heals: Dismantling the Lies that Make Us Sick, explores the powerful relationship between the suppression of painful emotions and its impact on health and the human body. Through case histories of healing clients, celebrity profiles, and the telling of her own remarkable story in healing from sexual abuse, cancer, addictions and an eating disorder, she shares how each of us can lift the layers of internalized emotional and physical pain to heal illness and disease.

Deborah holds both a doctorate in law and a Ph.D. in Healing Science. She heals clients privately in her Los Angeles based practice and also guides thousands to recovery in public access healing events held across the country and around the world.

Deborah lives in the mountains of Malibu, California with her husband and horses. Her life and work are proof positive that the truth will set you free.

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Saturday, October 28
12:06 PM to 1 PM NY Time

Today Virato speaks with author, Native American story-teller and shaman, Lewis Mehl-Madrona who holds an M.D. from Stanford University and has been a practicing physician for over 20 years. An experienced healer who has led many Native American healing ceremonies, Mehl-Madrona has also headed traditional medical clinics, and conducting research. He is currently Associate Professor of Family Practice at the University of Hawaii School of Medicine.

Dr. Mehl-Madrona is affiliated with the Native American Research and Training Center at the University of Arizona College of Medicine in Tucson. He is a family physician, geriatrician, psychiatrist, and psychologist, and has worked many hours in rural emergency rooms. His book, Coyote Medicine, is about his struggles to integrate his traditional Native American heritage (Cherokee and Lakota) with modern medicine. He also teaches Mind-Body Medicine with Dr. Andrew Weil's program in Integrative Medicine.

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Saturday, November 4
10:06 AM to 10:50 AM EST

Message from Asheville
Open Mic
with

Omega & Virato

Omega joins Virato as co-host of an hour of Open Mic. He recently arrived from Sedona, and Virato took an instant liking to him. Omega is the author of several books on healing and spiritual awakening, Healing Immortal Self, Bravo Creations, Healing Prayers & Knowledge Beyond the Mind. and his latest, Book of Blessings, that includes poetry, stories, inspiration, prayer, wisdom & prophecy. In 1973 he had his first major spiritual awakening. He says he began feeling, seeing & hearing the presence of the Divine within him. He sees a Spiritual Awakening and Healing during these Miraculous End-Times!

In early September, 2006 Omega left Sedona, feeling an internal inspiration to move to Asheville.

Virato will dialogue with him, and has also invited him today to read from his new book.

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Saturday, November 4
10:52 AM-11 AM, EST

Virato chats with Gillian MacBeth-Louthan, with The Quantum Awakening, who tells about a special event happening in Asheville, NC on November 11, 2006. She discusses a day of downloading sacred energies and encodings, galactic star symbols and language, sound, music ancient wisdom, channeling and ceremony.

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Saturday, November 4
11:06 AM to Noon NY Time

Earth Changes Have Begun!

Virato speaks with Mitch Battros who began production of his syndicated television show Earth Changes TV in 1995. In November 2002, he switched to radio broadcasting and presents a live one hour broadcast every Tuesday and Thursday from 9 PM to 10 PM (Pacific time). The show is also streamed the internet.

On January 3^rd 1995 Mitch experienced his first ever earthquake, which measured at 5.3 magnitude near his home located in Seattle. It was almost immediately after this profound �shaking moment� that he knew his journey was to help people prepare for coming earth changing events. Within three months of his �moment of clarity,� Mitch signed up for training with the Red Cross Disaster Team, Mental Health Unit. Soon after, he also joined the Emergency Management Office and conducts field trainings.

Mitch produces a multimedia presentation detailing the ongoing unfolding which evidence earth changing events are real and increasing. He also uses his seasoned background as a Certified Trauma Resolution Therapist and Emergency Management Trainer, to outline what people are likely to go through as events escalate. Mitch has become one of the leading researchers related to the Sun - Earth connection. He published his �Equation� in 1997 showing this simple to understand relationship. His unique contribution suggest for the first time, a 48 to 72 hour causal effect to �weather� measured in hours, days and weeks. This has caused the scientific community to re-calibrate their paradigm from the better known theory related to �climate�, which is measured in decades, centuries and millennia. His ongoing research in this area embraces the ancient study of Mayan and Hopi Prophecy as well as many other spiritual disciplines.

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Saturday, November 4
12:06 PM to 1PM NY Time

...and

Jon Mundy

Virato speaks with author, lecturer Jon Mundy, Ph.D.   A university teacher since 1967, Jon currently serves as Lecturer in Philosophy at The State University of New York. He teaches courses on The History of Mysticism, The History of Philosophy, The Psychology of Religion, World Religions, and World Views and Values. In 1981 he co-founded the New Seminary for the training of Interfaith Ministers, and in 1989 the Cofounder of Interfaith Fellowship. During Jon�s twelve years at Interfaith (1989-2002) services were held in Cami Hall across the street from Carnegie Hall in New York City.

Jon is the author of eight books including What is Mysticism?, Missouri Mystic, Awaken to Your Own Call: A Comprehensive Introduction to A Course in Miracles, Listening to Your Inner Guide, The Ten Laws of Happiness, Money and Jesus, Search for the Center, and Learning to Die� He met Dr. Helen Schucman (the scribe for A Course in Miracles) and Dr. William Thetford in 1973. They, along with Dr. Ken Wapnick, introduced Jon to A Course in Miracles in April 1975 � fifteen months before its publication. Helen served as Jon�s mentor and �mother hen� until she became ill in 1980. A Minister for 45 years, Jon began serving 3 rural Missouri churches in 1961. He was ordained a Deacon by the United Methodists in 1971, an Elder in 1981, and as an Interfaith Minister in 1988.Jon has given more than 1,700 talks based on the teaching of A Course in Miracles, and as "Dr. Baba Jon Mundane" a standup philosopher/comedian.

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Saturday, November 11
10:06 AM-10:50 AM, EST

From Hollywood
to Metaphysics

Ann Palmer

Virato chats with Ann Palmer, today calling herself a Psychic, Reincarnationalist, and Healing Energy catalyst. But once she was actress who had roles in in Cleopatra, Love With a Proper Stranger, The Courtship of Eddy's Father, Bonnie and Clyde, Mail Order Bride, and TVs Chicago Hope, to name a few. She was also a popular fashion model and for 13 years played the faithful nurse on television's General Hospital. The author of two books Letter to the Dead and I know How A Butterfly Feels, today she lives in Asheville.

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Saturday, November 11
10:52 AM-11 AM, EST

A Natural Awakenings Moment

A few tidbits from Ric Wingate,
Natural Awakenings Magazine editor,
....and friends

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

with co-author Ross Heaven

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

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

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

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Saturday, November 11
12:06 PM-1 PM, EST

with Michael Sharp

Today Virato chats with Dr. Michael Sharp a guy who says... "I want to talk about building a bridge between the world of science and spirit".
By training, Sharp is a sociologist. He received his PhD, from the University of Alberta in Canada, then in his words, "went on to do standard sociological type things". He edits a journal, publishes sporadically, and fulfills his professional duties and family responsibilities as best as he can.

Nothing remarkable. But this traditional academic side is not the only side of Sharp. You see, a couple of years ago he found out that in addition to being a sociologist, he was also a mystic.

After doing a bit of what he calls "personal experimentation,� he began to have an expansion of consciousness. If he were to rigidly adhere to the dominant scientific cannon (i.e., materialism), he would be hard pressed to explain to his colleagues.

Sharp says he became sensitive to �energies� and �fields�, and, perhaps most interestingly, he began to write spiritual books.

He now says we are currently moving through a significant and prophesied transition in the life systems on this planet.

Virato saw this written about Michael Sharp: "Are you feeling tired and troubled? Is watching the slow decay of the Planet, Western Civilization, Democracy and Religion getting you down? Are you feeling like you want to become a part of the "Truth Movement" instead of the Bowel Movement that seems to be going on out there in the world right now? Are you ready to rediscover "fun?"

The reviewer of Sharp's Book of Light went on to say, "This is a book of hope in a twilight-zone world. I went from thinking the golden age of man was over and it was all down hill from here, to being more optimistic about the future than I have ever been. And along the way I seem to have recaptured the magic and imagination of my childhood."

The reviewer continues, "Michael has somehow found a way to clearly explain the seemingly unfathomable concepts of timelessness, of no beginning and no end, of creation, and of our purpose here on earth. The whole book is one big "Ah Ha!" Whether you have never given a second thought to spirituality; whether you're a Buddhist, Catholic or Agnostic; whether you're a frizzy-haired granola-eating New Ager or a bible-thumping Baptist...this book will light up your imagination.

Sounds like an interesting hour.....

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Saturday, November 18
10:06 AM-10:50 AM, EST

OPENMIC

Asheville speaks to the world...
Be a part of it!

Topics:

What part does religion play in world order?

What brought you to Asheville from afar?

What about politics?

Is love still an accepted word in society?

Your personal metaphysical experiences.

Your general comments about what I say or what a caller says

What's your take on the state of the world?

What's the best way to become enlightened?

If you live in the Asheville area, and meet both or either of the below, and would like to discuss your life and work on VIRATO LIVE! or know someone who would, contact us.

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Saturday, November 18
10:52 AM-11 AM, EST

A Natural Awakenings Moment

A few tidbits and news from Ric Wingate,
Natural Awakenings Magazine editor,
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Saturday, November 18
10:06 AM-10:50 AM, EST
PSIence

Marie D. Jones

Virato questions author Marie D. Jones on the latest discoveries in quantum physics and New Science, and the connection with paranormal phenomena such as UFOs, ghosts, poltergeists, mysterious apparitions, time anomalies, as well as psychic abilities such as ESP, telekinesis, and remote viewing. A metaphysics and paranormal researcher, and a trained field investigator for both MUFON (Mutual UFO Network) and CUFOS (Center For UFO Studies), Marie D. Jones is also renowned for her accomplishments in the field of metaphysics.

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Saturday, November 18
12:06 PM-1 PM, EST
the Occult World and
...the Illuminati

with Jordan Maxwell

Virato explores the occult world through Jordan Maxwell, a preeminent researcher and independent scholar in the field of occult and religious philosophy. His interest in these subjects began as far back as 1959. He served for three and a half years as the Religion Editor of Truth Seeker Magazine, America's oldest free thought journal (since 1873. His work exploring the hidden foundations of Western religions and secret societies creates enthusiastic responses from audiences around the world. He has conducted dozens of intensive seminars, hosted his own radio talk shows, and been a guest on more than 600 radio shows, as well as writing, producing and appearing in numerous television shows and documentaries (including three 2-hour specials for the CBS TV network, as well as the internationally acclaimed 5-part Ancient Mystery Series - all devoted to understanding ancient religions and their pervasive influence on world affairs today. His work on the subject of secret societies, both ancient and modern, and their symbols, has fascinated audiences around the world for decades. Considering the rapidly moving events of today, and the very real part that hidden religious agendas play in our modern war-torn world, he feels these controversial subjects are not only interesting to explore, but too important to ignore!

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Saturday, November 25
10:06 AM-10:50 AM, EST

Barbara & John Waterhouse

Virato chats with two folks who say that the symbol for their community is the Rainbow, which represents Universal Oneness. Co-directors of Asheville's Center for Creative Living, they say that when light arrives on Earth from the Sun it appears as pure white, but when that light moves through water droplets, it expands into a full spectrum of beautiful colors. For the Waterhouses, in their words, "this symbolizes Divine spirit, moving into physical form, individualizing as the creative presence within all things."
Virato explores their philosophy and John's new appointment with the Church of Religious Science nationally

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Saturday, November 25
11:06 AM-1 PM, EST

The best-selling book, The Survival of Civilization by John Hamaker and Don Weaver is regarded by a growing movement worldwide as a blueprint for the survival of the Earth, restoring ecological balance, and perhaps even recreating Eden.
The remineralization of forests, farms, orchards, and gardens with glacial gravel and rock dust is nature's way to regenerate and fertilize soils. During an Ice Age, as glaciers grind rock to a fine dust over millennia, a fertile soil is created. Adding finely ground gravel dust to soils is a tremendous boost to organic agriculture and can make it truly viable by adding up to a hundred elements and trace minerals needed by all life. Rock dust also nourishes the microorganisms in the soil, whose protoplasm is the basis of all living things.

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 glaciations, volcanic eruptions, and alluvial deposits.

Virato spends two hours today discussing this unique, yet necessary piece of planetary awareness. In the first hour he will be speaking with Joanna Campe, founder and president of a non-profit organization called Remineralize The Earth, Inc.. In our second hour we are joined by Don Weaver, co-author of the book, The Survival of Civilization.

Both Joanna and Don have been speakers at conferences in the U.S. and England, Ireland, Switzerland, Austria, Hungary, and Central America and made radio and television appearances to promote remineralization worldwide.

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Saturday, December 2
10:06 AM-11 AM, EST

Expanding
Children's Consciousness

Virato chats with Asheville area author, Jaileen Shepherd. Growing up in a one room cabin in the wilderness of Montana, Jaileen became aware of survival at an early age, watching her father adorn a modified horse harness to pull a hand plow guided by her mother to break ground for a garden. She lived off the land. After raising three children, managing a medical clinic, operating a wilderness lodge, cooking and managing several restaurants in several states, Jaileen searched for her own �last frontier�. She saw a t-shirt that read: �Alaska-Home of the individual and other endangered species�. She bought one and had seven bucks left in her pocket, an doff the the Yukon. That was March of 1981. A few years in Alaska awakened her to natural healing, alternative medicine and learning the business of care giving for all walks of life. Then she moved to Maui for a much needed rest. Eighteen years satisfied the experience of living on an island, and about a year ago she moved to the Asheville area, writing stories to enlighten those who have never known Mother Nature, and to break some of the fear regarding the animal kingdoms. She says. "The homes of our animals are being invaded by the times and unfortunately the confrontation of that effect is what most people get to know. My desire for writing is to show that animals are like humans and not that humans are like animals."
Jaileen is the author of a three-book series of mind expansion for children, Lea's Song, Anan, and Suzi-Q.

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Saturday, December 2
11:06 AM-Noon, EST

Drink Your MILK!?

Just when the vegans thought they had figured it all out, along comes this!

Virato speaks with Christopher Vasey, ND who formally studied naturopathy in Paris, and is now a naturopath living in Chamby-Montreux, Switzerland

In 1979 he started Dr. Vasey own practice. Alongside his therapeutic work, he continued his formation by studying the works of famous naturopaths such as Dr Paul Carton, Shelton, Robert Masson, R. Jackson, Kneipp, etc.

From 1981 he organized his own introductory courses to naturopathy for the public and started teaching in various health-oriented associations (natural medicine therapists, the staff health shops, etc).

His books on natural medicine books have been published in English by Inner Traditions, Vermont, U.S.A.and include The Acid Alkaline Diet, The Water Prescription, The Mono Detox Cure , and The Whey Cure (Oct. 2006), the subject of most of today's discussion with Virato.

Christopher Vasey's books are also available in French, German, Italian, Polish, Portuguese and Spanish.

Since 1994 he has also written books with a spiritual approach to health and nature. Available only in French (published by the Editions du Graal, Paris) the books discuss the mystery of the blood, laws of nature, and elemental beings.

Christopher Vasey gives talks in Switzerland, France, Belgium, Quebec, Germany, Austria and the U.S.A. He takes part in Book Fairs and natural medicine exhibitions, as well as participating in radio programs. He writes for several nature- and health-oriented magazines and spiritual publications, one of them in English, called �Grails World�

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Saturday, December 2
Noon-1 PM, EST

BRAD STEIGER

Virato chats with Brad Steiger, author/coauthor of 165 books with over 17 million copies in print, many bestsellers.
Steiger's first published articles on the unexplained appeared in 1956, and he has now written more than 2,000 articles with paranormal themes. From 1970-'73, his weekly newspaper column, The Strange World of Brad Steiger, was carried domestically in over 80 newspapers and overseas from Bombay to Tokyo.

In 1977, Steiger's bestselling biography of the great silent screen lover Valentino, was made into a motion picture by British director Ken Russell, starring Rudolf Nureyev. Articles about him have appeared in The New York Times, LA Times, Chicago Sun-Times, and dozens of other newspapers, and he has appearing on TVs Nightline with Ted Koppel, ABC Evening News with Peter Jennings, NBC Evening News with Tom Brokaw, This Week [with David Brinkley, Sam Donaldson, and Cokie Roberts]

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

Healing Gongs
with Richard Hite

Sound has always been a major contributor to achieving spiritual and transcendent states of consciousness, this is true for the voice, bowls and very specifically with hammered brass alloyed gongs.
Today Virato speaks with Richard Hite, a visionary educator and health care integrationist who has pioneered bringing alternative health care into mainstream medicine since 1987, when he began providing yoga therapy to hospitalized patients in Houston, Texas. Since that time, his primary mission has been to introduce and advance the practice and philosophies of holistic care and education to health care professionals and to lay persons. Richard demonstrates how attention to the delicate interaction between mind-body-spirit successfully promotes patient healing and how centuries old concepts and tools, such as gongs, can be used to maintain good health and an active lifestyle well into our older years. Using skills developed over thirty years of teaching, training, and professional speaking he has inspired and motivated thousands to create holistic healthy lifestyle changes

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Saturday, December 9
10:52 AM-11 AM, EST

Natural Awakenings Moment

Ric Wingate Publisher of Asheville's Natural Awakenings magazine presents this sponsored feature of local news and people and places of interest in the Asheville area. He is often joined by others...

Saturday, December 9
11:06 AM-Noon, EST

Inclusionality

with Dr. Alan Rayner

Virato dialogues with Dr. Alan Rayner at The University of Bath in England. Dr. Rayner is an ecological thinker who brings together scientific, artistic and spiritual perspectives in a radical new way of understanding evolutionary creativity, which he calls �inclusionality�. This understanding is based on an awareness of all form as flow-form, a dynamic relational inclusion--not an occupier--of space. It takes us beyond the divisive �to be or not to be� logic of independent objects that alienates humanity from our natural neighborhood. It liberates us from the self-imposed barriers that entrap us in all kinds of conflicts, obsessions, compulsions and addictions borne of our incompatible and insatiable desires for complete freedom and complete security in an uncertain, ever-changing world without fixed corners. It sees nature, divinity and evolution as synonymous and so finds no need for contest between neo-Darwinian and religious perceptions of our human place in the natural world. It dissolves the �clot� between �head� and �heart� - intellect and emotion - and so opens up possibility for the creative and lovingly receptive-responsive transformation that could enable us to live in sustainable, compassionate relationship with one another and our living space. This possibility is angrily rejected, however, by those most deeply attached to concrete notions of individual or collective free agency, power and control. Alan is author of Inclusional Nature: Bringing Life and Love to Science. Many of his writings and artworks can be found at http://people.bath.ac.uk/bssadmr.

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

Rabbi David A. Cooper

Virato interviews Rabbi David A. Cooper, author, lecturer, teacher and meditation guide. In earlier years he was a successful businessman, a student of both Eastern and Western spiritual traditions, a sailor and a world traveler. His best selling book, God is a Verb, has been translated into a number of different languages and has sold over 100,000 copies.
Rabbi Cooper has written four books on the subject of contemplative Judaism, including The Handbook of Jewish Meditation Practices, Three Gates to Meditation Practices; A Heart of Stillness: A Complete Guide to Learning the Art of Meditation; and Silence, Simplicity & Solitude: A Complete Guide to Spiritual Retreat.

In addition, Rabbi Cooper has recorded a best selling audio-tape sets with Sounds True. The Mystical Kabbalah. An additional set, The Holy Chariots also available. Finally, the audio-set Kabbalah Meditations present guided meditations that appear on the first set.

Cooper has authored a new book of instructions for advanced meditators with a CD called Ecstatic Kabbalah, published by Sounds True, which will be available in the fall of 2005. For an order form to purchase any of Cooper�s published works, click here: order form.

Rabbi Cooper and his wife Shoshana have produced a CD of Songs of Prayer and Silence, which includes many of the "niggunim" they use in the morning prayers on retreat. Much of the music was composed by Shoshana. For six years they have guided programs for advanced meditators at the Jewish Retreat Center, Elat Chayyim, in upstate New York. They have taught together at Omega Institute in New York, Mt. Madonna in California, the Open Center in New York City, as well as in Holland, Germany, Israel, and Poland.

Rabbi Cooper has been the keynote speaker at a half-dozen conventions on meditation, and he has taught dozens of courses in both meditation and Kabbalah. He has taught in 40 states at over 200 venues. Cooper has been interviewed on nationwide radio, NPR, as well as TV and has appeared in dozens of newspaper articles. A television documentary of him was telecast in Europe and Israel.

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

Jane Smolnik

Virato chats with naturopathic doctor, Jane Smolnik. Jane was raised near the ocean on eastern Long Island in Hampton Bays, New York. Being drawn to the country, natural living, and the mountains, she moved to Vermont as a young adult and raised her two children with her husband Bernie on their 70 acre medicinal herb farm.   Now living in the mountains near Asheville, North Carolina, she enjoys nature, and expanding consciousness. At a young age Jane became fascinated with the amazing creation of the human body, our connection to nature, and an infinite Divine source.
She was intuitively drawn to plant medicines, starting her studies almost 30 years ago. Her passion was to learn and teach others about all the healing qualities nature had to offer. Jane has trained with numerous herbalists and naturopaths throughout the years, including David Hoffmann, Rosemary Gladstar, Dr. Michael Murray, ND, Dr. Tierona Lowdog, and many others. She taught eight month certification courses in Holistic Herbal Healing Arts for many years on their 70 acre medicinal herb farm.   Jane is the company founder and formulator of Crystal Garden Herbs and Animal Botanicals, two medicinal product lines since 1991.

She received her doctorate in Natural Medicine at Trinity College of Natural Health, is a graduate of the International Institute of Iridology, a certified iridologist and member of the International Iridology Practitioners Assoc. A graduate of the Stillpoint Institute of Advanced Energy Healing and Intuitive Diagnosis, Jane is a Intuitive Healer, and Holistic Therapist. Jane has taught courses in belief and attention management skills for many years. Currently Jane is on the faculty of the North Carolina School of Natural Healing in Asheville, NC.

Today she chats with Virato about the application of intuitive and metaphysical principles in healing.

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Saturday, December 16
11:06 PM-Noon EST

Steven Halpern, Ph.D.

Virato chats with old friend, Steven Halpern, known popularly as the father of New Age music. For over 30 years, Halpern has pioneered and promoted the healing powers of music. His unique use of musical tone, time and space have helped millions to enjoy the stillness and peaceful place that lies within each of us. As the world's leading composer and recording artist of music for relaxation, wellness and "sound health," Halpern's music resonates in the key of the heart, and strikes a chord that we recognize and appreciate intuitively.

Steven Halpern, who began his pioneering research exploring sound, consciousness, and healing using brainwave biofeedback and Kirlian (aura) photography, is the author of Sound Health (Harper & Row, 1985), numerous articles, and a syndicated monthly newsletter. He is a popular keynote speaker at health and healing conferences, as well as massage, coaching and accelerated learning conferences.

He has produced over 60 recordings in the Inner Peace^� and the Soundwave 2000� subliminal self-help series. Seven's music is an ideal companion to yoga, massage, meditation, and healing arts practices of all kinds. His recordings are used in homes, healing centers, hospices, schools and business offices around the world.

Dr. Steven Halpern and his music have been on CBS's 48 Hours, ABC's 20/20, Oprah, and John Bradshaw's PBS-TV series, Homecoming and Creating Love.

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Saturday, December 16
12:06 AM-1 PM EST

Alan Cohen

Virato chats with old friend Alan Cohen, author of 20 inspirational books and CD's, including the best-selling The Dragon Doesn't Live Here Anymore and the award-winning A Deep Breath of Life. He is a contributing writer for the New York Times bestselling series Chicken Soup for the Soul. Alan's syndicated column, From The Heart, appears in new thought magazines internationally.
His articles and interviews have been featured in numerous magazines, including Science of Mind, New Frontier, New Realities, Unity Magazine, New Woman, First for Women, American Magazine, and many others.

Alan appears regularly on national radio and television, including FOX, CNBC, and many Morning shows around the nation. His seminars have regularly been broadcast via satellite on the Wisdom Channel. Alan brings a warm blend of wisdom, intimacy, humor, and vision to the path of personal and spiritual growth. He loves to extract lessons from the practical experiences of daily living, and find beauty in the seeming mundane. Many readers and seminar participants have reported that his teachings have brought them deep comfort, encouragement, and empowerment as they moved through a difficult or transitional phase of their life, and inspired them to believe in themselves and let their dreams come through.

Virato has said he knows of few on this planet walking their talk has nobly as Alan Cohen when it comes to love. Virato has often said that "Alan Cohen in a troubadour of love."

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Saturday, December 23
10:06 AM-11 AM EST

Virato interviews Tully Moss, former president of United Research, Inc., the Light Center, about his new book, Fantastic! The Life and Vision of James V. Goure, founder of The Light Center, and the mysterious history of this internationally known spiritual landmark in nearby Black Mountain. Tully, a skilled and articulate spiritual leader, known for his caring recognition of the Divinity in others has studied the teachings of a number of different spiritual masters, from which his multifaceted perspective of the Divine has emerged. He blends spiritual insights with stories about how those insights have manifested in the physical realm, with techniques on they can be experienced in daily life.

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Saturday, December 23
11:06 AM-Noon EST

The True Christmas Story?

Tradition tells us that after his appearance in the Temple at age 12, Jesus went down and worked in a carpenter shop in Nazareth. The next we hear of him is his baptism at the Jordan when he was 30. What happened during those missing 18 years--longer than the rest of his entire life? If all he was doing was making tables and chairs and bird feeders, then assuredly we should all take up woodwork straight away, since after that apprenticeship he was able to heal the sick, raise the dead and walk on water!! But the truth is not that nothing of any significance was happening that we needed to know about, but that some things so significant were happening that the powers that were decided it would be better for us not to know about them. As a result the message of Jesus and his relevance for us has been turned on its head because of the need to control the masses of humanity.

Today, Virato dialogues with Dr. Miceal Ledwith, author of the above words. Ordained a Roman Catholic priest in 1967, he was a professor at England�s Pontifical University, and became Dean of the Faculty of Theology there in 1979, and served a ten year term as President from 1985.

Ledwith was deeply involved in ecumenical relationships between the Churches in Ireland for two decades, and was a consultant to the Vatican Congregation for Education, which oversees those colleges and universities around the world who hold a Papal Charter. He lectured extensively at institutions and to groups involved in continuing education, throughout Ireland and Britain as well as all over Europe and North America. Ledwith�s research interests have always been in the fundamental areas of theology, summed up by the four great questions,� as he liked to call them: �Who are we; where did we come from; what should we do, and where are we going? None seemed to give any convincing information about what awaits us after death, what we should do while here that will help in some sense our spiritual development, and above all, there was no information whatever about what precedes life here on earth. He noticed that while many found God attractive, the religions who claimed to be God�s instruments seemed to be largely dismissed as irrelevant by an ever-increasing number of thinking people. It was apparent that none of the religions seemed to have lived up to the promises of their founders.
Miceal Ledwith set out to discover what had gone wrong and how the damage could be repaired. Inspired by the Ramtha�s [disincarnate being channeled by J. Z. Knight] teachings, Ledwith researches have involved the painful separation of time-conditioned modes of thought and views of how reality is, from fundamental beliefs about God and human destiny.
Author of several books including Science and Spirit: The Great Questions and How Jesus Became A Christ, Ledwith is a featured speaker at world-wide conferences, and also appeared in What the Bleep Do We Know?! and the sequel, Down the Rabbit Hole.

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Saturday, December 23
12:06 AM-1 PM EST

Virato speaks with Meredith Jordan, a psychotherapist and spiritual director in private practice in southern coastal Maine. For over twenty-five years, she has worked with adults and children who have embarked on a spiritual journey to develop or deepen a personal relationship with the Mystery many people call God. She is the author of Embracing the Mystery: The Sacred Unfolding in Ordinary People and Everyday Lives, and Standing Still: Hearing the Call to a Spirit Center Life. She is available as a conference presenter and as a facilitator of retreats seeking to deepen authentic connection to the Sacred Mystery at the heart of all life.

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Saturday, December 30
10:06 AM-11 AM EST

Virato dialogues with Koginka K'amaru Xue, an Andean Shamanic Practitioner of the silent, powerful, ever-living super science of the Sun. He claims to gather the perennial wisdom of that intelligent force, which sustains and rules with subtle light vibrations the course of life on planet Earth.
He says he has made contact with his Andes ancestors who guide him in his healing and teaching. He now calls Asheville his home, but often travels to students world-wide...including the Andes in South America.

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Saturday, December 30
11:06 AM-Noon EST

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Colin Tipping

Virato speaks with Colin Tipping, creator of a technology for personal and spiritual growth called Radical Forgiveness. He is the author of Radical Forgiveness: Making Room for the Miracle; A Radical Incarnation: The President of the United States Becomes Enlightened, Heals America and Awakens Humanity � a Spiritual Fantasy; Spiritual Intelligence at Work, Reconciliation Through Radical Forgiveness, and Radical Forgiveness: Making Room for the Miracle, which has become an international best-seller. Neale Donald Walsch, author of Conversations with God, says this of the book: "�the most exciting book on forgiveness to come out in a very long! I am recommending it to everyone."

One of the most profound applications of the Radical Forgiveness technology has been its use in the healing of �racial divides.� In 2001, Tipping launched a major initiative on the issue of reconciliation between aboriginal and white Australians and published a book in Australia entitled, �Reconciliation Through Radical Forgiveness.� An organization dedicated to promoting the principles of Radical Forgiveness has been established with great success in that country, as well as in Canada, Germany, Poland, and, of course, in the United States.

Tipping travels the globe as a keynote speaker at expos and conferences, including the Spirit at Work Conference, the Association for Global New Thought, the Annual Religious Science International Conference and the Big Sky Metaphysical Retreat.. An accomplished and entertaining speaker, he lectures widely to varying types of audiences and his workshops are renowned as life-changing experiences.

Born and educated in England, Tipping was a professor at London University before emigrating to the United States in 1984. Applying his skills as a teacher and a licensed hypnotherapist, Tipping worked extensively with cancer patients to achieve emotional and spiritual healing. With his wife, JoAnn, he founded the Georgia CancerHelp Program and Together-We-Heal, Inc.

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Saturday, December 30
12:06 PM-1 PM EST

irato chats about something taking place on the planet that he says all should know about. The Indigo phenomenon has been recognized as one of the most exciting changes in human nature ever documented in society. The Indigo label describes the energy pattern of human behavior which exists in over 85% of the children born in the last 15 years. This phenomena is happening globally and these experts say that eventually the Indigos will replace all other colors. As small children, Indigo�s are easy to recognize by their unusually large, clear eyes. They are extremely bright, precocious children with an amazing memory, high creativity, and a strong desire to live instinctively. These children of the next millennium are sensitive, gifted souls with an evolved consciousness. A growing number of intuitives and scientists say they have come here to help change the vibrations of our lives. Some say they are our bridge to the future...
Others say it started a long time ago, and is only now happening at an accelerated rate.
One of our guests is Susan Gale, co-author of Understanding Psychic Children: Indio Children
Any thoughts or research on the subject?
What do you think? Are you an Indigo Child? Were you?
Call us 828-252-4348 Saturday, December 30, Noon-12:45 PM EST

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Chandra Alexander Bruce Gernon Eric Pearl

Ted Andrews Jonathan Goldman Graham Phillips

Dianne Arcangel Michael Greger Deva Premal

Jose Arguelles Lester Grinspoon Robert Rabbin

Marc Ian Barasch Warren Grossman Dean Radin

Neal Barnard Stephen Halpern Ram Dass

Steve Bhaerman Stuart Hameroff Stephen Rechtschaffen

Fred Bell Simeon Hein Nick Redfern

Swami Beyondananda John Henderson James Redfield (1)

Helen French Black Leonard Horowitz James Redfield (2)

Joan Borysenko Barbara Marx Hubbard John Robbins

Gregg Bradon John Hutchison Michael Ryce

Dannion Brinkley Inner Voice Victor Sanchez

Dawn Bruke Jerry Jampolsky Bobbie Sandoz

Page Bryant Frank Joseph Sankara Saranam

Tommy Chong Byron Katie Gordon Michael Scallion

Deepak Chopra David C. Kennedy Richard Shulman

Diane Conway Russell Kick Gary Schwartz

Granny D Kitaro George Schwartz

James DeMeo J. Z. Knight Ronald K. Siegel

Lindsey Duncan Jean-Claude Koven Stephen Simon

Robert Lee Camp Viktoras Kulvinskas Jeffrey Smith (1)

Diana Christian Stephen Lewis Jeffrey Smith (2)

Brian Clement Irene Lippe-Biesterfeld Catherine Shainberg

Michael Cohen Bruce Lipton Rupert Sheldrake

Gabriel Cousens Hunter Lovins Freddy Silva

Bhagavan Das Bo Lozoff Starhawk

Larry Dossey Ray Lynch Michael Toms

Paul Elder Malidoma Neal Donald Walsch

Masaru Emoto Howard Martin Jerry Wennstrom

Robin Falkov Ralph Metzner Rosemary Williams

Javier Farias Laurie Monroe Marianne Williamson

Matthew Fox David Morehouse Michael Wohlfield

Caroline Myss Jim Motavalli Fred Alan Wolf

Alex Jones J. Michael Newton Yeva

Joseph Chilton Pierce Bernard von NotHaus Gary Zukav

Edgar Mitchell Fritjof Capra Alex Jones (2)

James Redfield (3) Barry & Joyce Vissell Gabrielle Roth

Jurriaan Kamp Neal Rogin Arielle Ford

Fritjof Capra Stuart Wilde

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