Touching the Lives of
Millions with Enlightenment...

irato — former Fortune 500 corporate executive, magazine editor, world lecturer, shape shifter, practical psychotherapist, tantric master, and chronicler and "magnavox*" of the consciousness movement, is considered by many an icon and elder of the cultural creatives, and a communicator of the subtle yet radical paradigm shift.  

Founder, editor and publisher of New Frontier Magazine (a recognized international journal of expanding consciousness established in 1981), Virato moved to Asheville, North Carolina, from Philadelphia in 1994, mystically drawn to America's spiritual mountains. Said to be the oldest on the planet.

In 1995 Virato hosted his own radio program, New Frontier On The Air, Saturdays on WSKY in Asheville, NC...the last local consciousness program heard throughout the Asheville mountains. It was then that Virato felt he should "walk his talk," and in a vision decided to cease printing New Frontier Magazine on paper, and went 100% cyber. Soon after, WSKY was purchased by a fundamentalist coalition that immediately terminated Virato's popular program ending Virato's airborne rhetoric until January 2005. He spent the next decade travelling, including many times to Russia

In 2004 the $40 billion Clear Channel Communications, purchased Asheville's WPEK, and changed it to a "progressive station, 880 The Revolution, Asheville. In January 2005, Virato was again speaking to a thirsty audience. He immediately developed a loyal listenership that in 5 years exceeded 400,000 listeners every Saturday morning. Here's a sampling of guests Virato interviewed.

The Dance Continues...

On January 23, 2010 his radio program, VIRATO LIVE! entered its 6th year of broadcasting. However, on January 25, just two days after its 5th Anniversary, Clear Channel Communications, Inc., terminated VIRATO LIVE!   Reasons given were economic, including the bankruptcy of Air America.. Although the Arbitron rating for his show was one of the highest in Asheville, with outstanding guests and shows, some say Virato is too controversial...especially to certain corporate and religious factions.

From April-July 2010 Virato hosted a weekly live, two hour, television program with the same name VIRATO LIVE!  broadcasting to Charter Communications 157,000+ Asheville area subscribers and streamed online

Five years and now a new medium for Virato, a hybrid of radio, television, and the Internet within a and interactive multi-media presentation.  ASHEVILLE MAGAZINE! Think of it as an expanded form of communications.  The best of the Internet, print, TV and radio all together. Coming soon.... Another New Frontier for Virato

"...truly a master of media!"
- Mary Silva, Asheville Chamber of Consciousness

Virato, known by millions in many countries, has interviewed or dialogued with celebrities including author Deepak Chopra, James Redfield (Celestine Prophecy), Neale Donald Walsch (Conversations with God); John Robbins (Pulitzer nominated author of Diet for a New America); astronauts Brian O'Leary and Edgar Mitchell; Musicians Kitaro, Lou Reed, Steven Halpern; scientists Fritjof Capra, Rupert Sheldrake, Ervin Laszlo; actors/performers Alan Arkin (Catch 22), Tommy Chong (Cheech & Chong), Ellen Burstyn (Resurrection),  Liv Ullman (Mindlwalk) and mentalist Uri Geller; spiritual teachers Ram Dass and Sogyal Rinpoche, and hundreds of other noted figures, as well as the colorful, high kindred spirit people of the world too numerous to mention

Virato, with his captivating voice (he is the narrator of the award-winning film Anywhere, USA, (Sundance 2008 Drama Award, and several other film festival awards), and he is featured in the film Talking Tall a documentary on unique talks how hosts, as well as narrator for the Path 11 DVD production, Afterlife and is widely quoted in other conscious media. He was also a dynamic radio talk show host in New York City and Philadelphia, dating back to the late 60s, as well as a popular mainstream talk show radio and TV guest.

In addition to New Frontier Magazine, in 1996 Virato co-published the monthly holistically oriented newspaper, Asheville ReSource, and served on the founding Board of Directors of Asheville's  Chamber of Consciousness. In 2002-2003 he was also a columnist for Chattanooga's weekly entertainment newspaper, Chattanooga Outlook.

Virato is currently editor and publisher of Asheville Magazine, an online (soon to include interactive TV and radio and 3-D) journal exploring human consciousness, and frequently writes for Asheville media. Stories on Virato have appeared world-wide, and he has been a guest on over 500 radio and TV shows in America and Europe, including Russia, where he has been delivering mind-expanding lectures and consciousness workshops for nearly two decades.

 Virato's interviews and commentary are poignant, inspiring and penetrating--often humorous, and sometimes controversial. He dubs it his "Zen Shtick." He tells the truth and fears not banishment. Both light and enlightening, Virato reflects an uncanny depth of knowledge, and a uniquely wider perspective on an interesting variety of body, mind and soul subjects. Born in Brooklyn, New York, he has lived in Philadelphia, California, Tennessee, Maine, New Jersey, India and Russia, not that any of that matters. He now lives in the southern Appalachian mountains, in Asheville, North Carolina, where he shares gardening with, and experiencing the artwork of his beloved Dhiraja.

* magnavox: Latin for Loud Voice

Scorned by a few, loved by many, and certainly a legend in his own time...
Virato...a Holistic New Paradigm Revolutionary!

...more about Virato

Virato Bio | Metasphere | Some Virato Clips | Virato biography A Cup of Tea

His Mystical Journey to Asheville | Virato Dialogue with Sogyal Rinpoche

Virato's Prophecies

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