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

Own this classic interview for posterity, and share it with the world. Click here and buy it now

Order CD of this show

Back to Schedule

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....

Order CD of this show

Back to Schedule

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.

Order CD of this show

Back to Schedule

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

Order CD of this show

Back to Schedule

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."

Order CD of this show

Back to Schedule

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.

Order CD of this show

Back to Schedule

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.

.Sharings About The Program

Order CD of this show

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

Order CD of this show

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!

Order CD of this show

Back to Schedule

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...

Order CD of this show

11:50 AM-Noon EST

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

Back to Schedule

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!

Order CD of this show

Back to Schedule
.Sharings About The Program

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.

Back to Schedule
.Sharings About The Program

Order CD of this show

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!

Order CD of this show

Back to Schedule

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
"Virato is more penetrating, intelligent and spiritual than I have heard from George Noory or Art Bell of Coast-to-Coast AM, or Michael Toms, of New Dimensions Radio, and VIRATO LIVE! is challenging, unlike those bland, uninspiring local new age shows" -- �� 5

Order CD of this show

Back to Schedule

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.

Order CD of this show

Back to Schedule

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.

Order CD of this show

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.

Click here for special book offer!

Order a CD of this show
[they are usually listed 3 or 4 days after a show]

Back to Schedule

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!

Order a CD of this show

Back to Schedule

.Sharings About The Program

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

Order a CD of this show

.Sharings About The Program

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...

Order a CD of this show

Back to Schedule

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).

Order a CD of this show

Back to Schedule

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.

http://fluoridealert.org
http://fluoridation.com
http://fluoridedebate.com
http://fluorideaction.org

Order a CD of this show

Back to Schedule

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.

Order a CD of this show

Back to Schedule

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...

Order a CD of this show

Back to Schedule

Saturday, April 1
11:06 AM-Noon EST

VIRATO

Virato, April 1, 2006
LISTEN
ê ê ê ê ê

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!

Order a CD of this show

Back to Schedule

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.

See Shift Happens

Order a CD of this show

Back to Schedule

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

Order a CD of this show
[they are usually listed 3 or 4 days after a show]

Back to Schedule

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.

Order a CD of this show
[they are usually listed 3 or 4 days after a show]

Back to Schedule

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.

Order a CD of this show
[they are usually listed 3 or 4 days after a show]

Back to Schedule

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.

Order a CD of this show
[they are usually listed 3 or 4 days after a show]

Back to Schedule

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.

Order a CD of this show
[they are usually listed 3 or 4 days after a show]

Back to Schedule

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...

Order a CD of this show
[they are usually listed 3 or 4 days after a show]

Back to Schedule

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....

Order a CD of this show
[they are usually listed 3 or 4 days after a show]

Back to Schedule

Saturday, April 22
11:06 AM- Noon EDT

Paul Elder
and

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

Order a CD of this show
[they are usually listed 3 or 4 days after a show]

Back to Schedule

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

Ram Dass

Listen to Ram Dass

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.

Order a CD of this show
[they are usually listed 3 or 4 days after a show]

Back to Schedule

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.

Order a CD of this show
[they are usually listed 3 or 4 days after a show]

Back to Schedule

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.

Order a CD of this show
[they are usually listed 3 or 4 days after a show]

Back to Schedule

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.

Order a CD of this show
[they are usually listed 3 or 4 days after a show]

Back to Schedule

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

Order a CD of this show
[they are usually listed 3 or 4 days after a show]

Back to Schedule

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."

Order a CD of this show
[they are usually listed 3 or 4 days after a show]

Back to Schedule

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.

Order a CD of this show
Back to Schedule

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.

Order a CD of this show
Back to Schedule

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.

Order a CD of this show

Back to Schedule

Saturday, May 20
10:06 AM to Noon EDT
Click to Listen

Download & Podcast

Message From Asheville

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.

Back to Schedule

Saturday, May 20
11:06 AM to Noon EDT
Click to Listen

Download & Podcast

Click to Listen & Podcast

Back to Schedule

Saturday, May 20
12:06 PM-1 PM EDT
Click to Listen
Download & Podcast

Poison in our drinking water!

Guests

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

Click to Listen & Podcast

Order a CD of this show

Back to Schedule

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.

Listen

Download & Podcast

Back to Schedule

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).

Click to Listen

Download & Podcast

Back to Schedule

Saturday, May 27
Noon to 1 PM EDT
Click to Listen & Podcast

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

Click to Listen

Download & Podcast
Back to Schedule

Saturday, June 3
10:06 AM to 11 AM EDT
Click to Listen & Podcast

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.

Click to Listen

Download & Podcast

Back to Schedule

Saturday, June 3
11:06 AM to Noon EDT
Click to Listen

Download & Podcast

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.

Click to Listen & Podcast
Back to Schedule

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

Click to Listen

Download & Podcast

Back to Schedule

Saturday, June 10
10:06 AM to 11 AM EDT
Click to Listen

Download & Podcast

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."

Click to Listen & Podcast
Back to Schedule

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.

Click to Listen

Download & Podcast

Back to Schedule

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.

Click to Listen

Download & Podcast

Back to Schedule

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.

Click to Listen

Download & Podcast

Back to Schedule

Saturday, June 17
11:06 AM to Noon EDT
Click to Listen

Download & Podcast

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.

Click to Listen & Podcast
Back to Schedule

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

Click to Listen

Download & Podcast

Back to Schedule

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.

Click to Listen

Download & Podcast

Back to Schedule

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

Some other potential topics:

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

Click to Listen

Download & Podcast

Back to Schedule

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...

Click to Listen

Download & Podcast

Back to Schedule

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.

Go to DISCUSSION to ask questions or comment about this guest and topic.

Click to Listen

Download & Podcast

Back to Schedule

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.

Go to DISCUSSION to ask questions or comment about this guest and topic.

Click to Listen

Download & Podcast

Back to Schedule

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.

Go to DISCUSSION to ask questions or comment about this guest and topic.

Click to Listen

Download & Podcast

Back to Schedule

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.

Are You a burned-out "Baby Boomer"?
Be a part of today's program!

Call in 828-252-4348

Click to Listen

Download & Podcast

Back to Schedule

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.

Click to Listen

Download & Podcast

Back to Schedule

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.

Click to Listen
Download & Podcast

Back to Schedule

Click to Listen & Podcast
Saturday, July 15
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

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

Call studio on the air 828-252-4348
and ask questions...
be a part of the show!

Podcast

Back to Schedule

Saturday, July 15
11:06 AM-Noon
Click to Listen & Podcast

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.

Call studio on the air 828-252-4348
and ask questions...
be a part of the show!

Podcast
Back to Schedule

Saturday, July 15
12:06 PM-1 PM EDT
Click to Listen & Podcast

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.

Podcast
Back to Schedule

Saturday, July 22
10:06 AM-11 AM EDT
Click to Listen & Podcast

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.

Podcast
Back to Schedule

Saturday, July 22
11:06-Noon EDT
Click to Listen & Podcast

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.

Podcast
Back to Schedule

Saturday, July 22
12:06 PM-1 PM EDT
Click to Listen & Podcast

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.�

Listen at Noon EDT

Podcast
Back to Schedule

Saturday, July 29
10:06 AM- 11 AM
Click to Listen & Podcast

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.

Call in 828-252-4348 and get answers!

Listen at 10 AM EDT

Podcast
Back to Schedule

OPEN FORUM 11:06AM-1PM
Click to Listen & Podcast

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!

Podcast
Back to Schedule

Click to Listen & Podcast
Saturday, August 5
10:06 AM to 11 AM EDT

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

Go to DISCUSSION to ask questions or comment about this guest and topic

Listen FREE Live

FREE Podcast, Listen Past or Download

Back to Schedule

Click to Listen & Podcast
Saturday, August 5
11:06 AM to Noon EDT

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.

Go to DISCUSSION to ask questions or comment about this guest and topic

Call in 828-252-4348 and be a part of the show!
Listen FREE Live

FREE Podcast, Listen Past or Download

Back to Schedule

Click to Listen & Podcast
Saturday, August 5
12:06 PM to 1 PM EDT

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.

Call in 828-252-4348 and be a part of the show!

Listen FREE Live

FREE Podcast, Listen Past or Download

Go to DISCUSSION to ask questions or comment about this guest and topic

Back to Schedule

Click to Listen & Podcast
Saturday, August 12
10:06 AM to 11 AM EDT

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.

Listen FREE Live

FREE Podcast, Listen Past or Download

Go to DISCUSSION to ask questions or comment about this guest and topic

Back to Schedule

Click to Listen & Podcast
Saturday, August 12
11:06 PM to 1 PM EDT

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

Listen FREE Live

FREE Podcast, Listen Past or Download

Go to DISCUSSION to ask questions or comment about this guest and topic

Back to Schedule

Click to Listen & Podcast
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.

FREE Podcast, Listen Past or Download

Go to BLOG DISCUSSION to ask questions or comment about this guest and topic

Back to Schedule

Click to Listen & Podcast
Saturday, August 19
11:06 PM to Noon EDT

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

FREE Podcast, Listen Past or Download

Go to BLOG DISCUSSION to ask questions or comment about this guest and topic

Back to Schedule

Click to Listen & Podcast
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.

Unfortunatey this show was not recorded

Click to Listen & Podcast
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