“We need more forums, and fewer againstums.”

— Swami Beyondananda

At a time when political polarization, dysfunction, and confusion seem to be at an all-time high, and when noise and static seem to be drowning out sane discourse … the Wiki Politiki Radio Show offers a heartening alternative:  Fun, laughter, constructive conversation, and insight.

Its purpose is to cultivate the wisdom of many perspectives, and create generative conversations to help us work together to find real solutions to the problems we face … or as Swami would say, “Let’s bring left and right front and center to turn the funk into function, and leave the junk at the junction.”

Each week on the Wiki Politiki Radio Show, host Steve Bhaerman (also known as cosmic comic Swami Beyondananda) will bring two “visionary, solutionary” voices to the show to offer their viewpoints, and then collaborate to find a wiser way forward.  We’re not expecting our guests to agree about everything.  That would be boring and unproductive!

We do expect that by speaking clearly and listening respectfully, there will be some “Aha’s” and new pathways for co-creation.  And there will be plenty of ha-ha’s as well, as Steve and Swami bring much-needed humor to the political landscape.

Even though the show is called Wiki Politiki, the topics and guests will represent a wide range of fields — from spirituality and psychology to economy and ecology, health and wellbeing, and of course, politics.  The politics will not focus on the entrenched and clichéd conversations between polarized tribes, but rather on the “meta-issues” that help us rise above and see from a higher perspective.

Every show will be archived, so these conversations can be enjoyed and listened to again and again.

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Dr. Bruce Greyson – Near-Death Experiences and the Great Upwising

How the Prospect of “Life After Death” Informs Life BEFORE Death


 
Aired Tuesday, April 20, 2021 at 2:00 PM PST / 5:00 PM EST

Interview with Dr. Bruce Greyson, Author of “After: A Doctor Explores What Near-Death Experiences Reveal About Life and Beyond”

“I haven’t actually had a near-death experience myself, but I hear it’s out of this world.” — Swami Beyondananda

And now for something completely different…

While we think of politics as extremely “this-worldly”, this week we are going to explore the otherworldly domain of near-death experiences and their implications for how we perceive life and death, and conduct ourselves in this world.

This is a personal issue for me. When I was eight years old, my dad suffered a near-fatal heart attack, and afterward reported what would now be termed a near-death experience. While he was unconscious, his sister Betty, who had passed just a month before, beckoned to him from across a bridge. For some reason – possibly because he had two young boys to take care of – he declined the invitation and returned to this world. He lived another 18 years, long enough to see his boys grown up and on their way to fulfilling lives.

As a boy, I continued to read about these experiences in Reader’s Digest, probably the only publication in the 1950s and 1960s that would give the experience credence.

Fast-forward to 1980, when I was teaching a creative writing class for adults at the University of Michigan. One of my students was Dr. Bruce Greyson, at that time the emergency room psychiatrist at University of Michigan hospital. He was working on a story with a metaphysical theme, and one week when he was out of town, I was surprised to receive an installment from him in the mail in an envelope marked, “University of Virginia, Department of Parapsychology.” Needless to say, I was intrigued. When he returned, I asked him about it. He looked around to make sure I was the only one who could hear him. He then told me he did his psychiatric residency working with Ian Stevenson (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian_Stevenson), who was investigating children who remembered past life experiences. (I will save the full story for the interview itself.)


If you’re curious about what near-death studies have to offer both about life after death and life BEFORE death, please join us this Tuesday, April 20th at 2 pm PT / 5 pm ET.

To find out more about Bruce Greyson and his work please go here: https://www.brucegreyson.com/

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Dr. Bruce Greyson - Near-Death Experiences and the Great Upwising

Propaganda Expert Is In Trouble For… Teaching About Propaganda

Irony Deficiency and Truth Decay in “Not-See” America

Aired Tuesday, April 27, 2021 at 2:00 PM PST / 5:00 PM EST

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Interview with Author, Journalist and Professor Mark Crispin Miller

“Notseeism: Deadly disease of the body politic where people choose to not see what is too uncomfortable to look at.” — Swami Beyondananda

As the Swami has been telling us for years now, the body politic is one sick puppy, suffering from irony deficiency … truth decay … electile dysfunction … and most recently from bi-polar disorder.

As a result, what we used to call democracy is in the intensive care unit – and those who intensively care about its survival are finding themselves more and more marginalized. Fortunately, we still have that bastion of truth, academia, where in the spirit of the Free Speech Movement more than half a century ago, academic freedom is alive and well as professors and students freely and frankly discuss the most divisive issues of our time.

Oh … wait a minute.

That must be happening in a parallel universe.

In this universe, a professor who has literally written the book on propaganda – or at least wrote the preface to one – is on the verge of being fired for teaching about propaganda. His crime? Pointing out the propaganda being promoted by the university itself.

Fortunately, his colleagues at the university have bravely rallied around him, and …

Oh … OK. That too is happening in a parallel universe.

Oh, well. All’s well that ends Orwell.

Our guest today, Mark Crispin Miller, has been fighting “notseeism” for decades, courageously pointing out those uncomfortable truths that others choose to not see. Now he is embroiled in his own battle to keep his position at NYU, after unmasking the propaganda about masking, and being guilty of “hate speech” – now defined as saying anything that the power structure hates to hear.

Mark Crispin Miller earned his bachelor’s degree from Northwestern University in 1971, and his doctorate in English from Johns Hopkins University in 1977. He is currently a Professor of Media, Culture and Communication at New York University. He is the author of several books, including, The Bush Dyslexicon: Observations on a National Disorder, Cruel and Unusual: Bush/Cheney’s New World Order and Fooled Again: The Real Case for Electoral Reform (2007).

Miller is the editor of Forbidden Bookshelf, an e-book series that revives important works now out of print, most of which were variously killed at birth. He also wrote the introduction to the 2004 edition of Edward Bernays’ book Propaganda. He is also editor of News From the Underground.

If you believe in the credo of the Great Upwising, the truth shall UPSET you free, please join us this Tuesday, April 27th at 2 pm PT / 5 pm ET.

To watch an eye-opening and jaw-dropping conversation about Mark’s ordeal, please go here: https://www.corbettreport.com/interview-1633-mark-crispin-miller-exposes-propaganda-in-the-academy/

And to find out about and support his libel lawsuit, go here: https://markcrispinmiller.com/

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Jack Reed – Do We Need A “Vaccination” Against Deception?

A Sane and Sacred Community Will Help Us

Achieve Herd Immunity Against Unheard of Impunity

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Aired Tuesday, May 4, 2021 at 2:00 PM PST / 5:00 PM EST

Interview with Global Visionary Jack Reed, Author of The Next Evolution: a Blueprint for Transforming the Planet.

“Covering the mouth and nose to slow the spread of a viral disease is one thing. Being forced to cover our eyes and ears to stop the spread of novel viral ideas, that’s something else.” — Swami Beyondananda

When Lyndon Johnson was President, there was a popular riddle. How can you tell when the President is telling the truth? When he wiggles his ears, he is telling the truth. When he scratches his nose, he is telling the truth. When he rubs is eyes, he is telling the truth. When he opens his mouth … he is lying.

We the people have been acculturated to being lied to by politicians, and now it is becoming clear that it’s not just the politicians – it’s the entire political system, including the corporate media – that is lying to us.

Ever since the Jonestown massacre more than 40 years ago, the term “drink the Kool-Aid” has been used to describe weapons of mass-deception. Today however, that Kool-Aid has been rebranded as “fine wine”, as people are being asked to buy the notion that ONLY the vaccine will protect us from the deadly COVID germ and allow us to return to “normal.”

Our guest this week, Jack Reed, just wrote a compelling essay called “Kool-Aid”, where he lays out deception after deception, from the Gulf of Tonkin attack that didn’t happen, to the Patriot Act passed in the aftermath of the 911 attacks, to the current lockdown of both people and information during the COVID-19 crisis – each of which has increased the power of the state, and diminished the power of the people. In the middle of this essay, he suggests that maybe what we need is a vaccine against deception.

The closest we have to that is recognizing the patterns of deceit, and cultivating the courage to see them and call it out.

And the good news is … in addition to being able to unblinkingly look at the awful truth, Jack is a clear-eyed visionary able to point us toward the world we want instead – and offer practical ways to get there.

Jack Reed is a speaker, seminar leader, consultant for corporations and non-profit organizations, team-building facilitator, co-creator and trainer in the Community Planet consensus process, and author of The Next Evolution: a Blueprint for Transforming the Planet. in addition to 15 years experience living in an urban cooperative community where he was an active leader, Jack has created and facilitated consensus trainings for many groups starting with the Peace Theological Seminary in the early 90’s, in France, and most recently with the One Community team.

If you’re ready to face the awful truth and embrace the awesome opportunity, please join us this Tuesday, May 4th at 2 pm PT / 5 pm ET.

To find out more about the Community Planet Foundation and Jack’s work, please go here: https://www.communityplanet.org/

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Jack Reed - Do We Need A “Vaccination” Against Deception?

Dana Ullman – Sociopaths vs. Homeopaths

The De-Platforming of Natural Medicine

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Aired Tuesday, May 11, 2021 at 2:00 PM PST / 5:00 PM EST


 
Interview with Homeopathic Expert and Author Dana Ullman


 
“The body politic has become so inundated with toxic ironies that our skeptic system has overflowed.” — Swami Beyondananda

I was thinking of calling this podcast, “First, They Came For the Homeopaths.”

Anyone who grew up in the post World War II world is familiar with the confessional quote by German Lutheran pastor Martin Niemöller:

First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out— Because I was not a socialist.
Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out—Because I was not a trade unionist.
Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—Because I was not a Jew.
Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.

I am deeply saddened to report that we seem to be on a similar track here in “Not-see America.”

The COVID crisis and lockdown has been an excellent excuse to censor and de-platform many forms of alternative medicine, particularly those that cannot be owned or controlled by big pharma. This is nothing new. Only now, it has become more blatant.

Our guest this week homeopathic expert and author Dana Ullman, will discuss the issue of medical totalitarianism and what we can do about it. He will also reveal some research on what the 1919 pandemic got wrong, and how those misunderstandings are leading to deaths in 2021. He will also talk about a recent article in the San Francisco Chronicle that misquoted him and misrepresented his viewpoint, just so they could make a point about “anti-vaxxers.”

Dana Ullman is one of America’s leading advocates for homeopathy. He has authored 10 books, including The Homeopathic Revolution: Why Famous People and Cultural Heroes Choose Homeopathy, Homeopathy A-Z, and he co-authored the bestselling Everybody’s Guide to Homeopathic Medicines. Dana also created an e-course How to Use a Homeopathic Medicine Kit which integrates 80 short videos with his famous e-book that is a continually growing resource to 300+ clinical studies published in peer-review medical journals testing homeopathic medicines.

If you’ve wanted to understand homeopathy – and medical censorship – better, please join us this Tuesday, May 11th at 2 pm PT / 5 pm ET.

To find out more about Dana Ullman and his work, please go here: https://homeopathic.com/

You can read his Huff Post article on Wikipedia and homeopathy here: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/dysfunction-at-wikipedia-_b_5924226

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Dana Ullman - Sociopaths vs. Homeopaths

Steve Bhaerman – The Truth Shall Upset You Free

How And Why America Must Awaken Beyond Woke

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Aired Tuesday, May 18, 2021 at 2:00 PM PST / 5:00 PM EST

Interview with Wiki Politiki Host Steve Bhaerman

“Call me a tie-dyed-in-the-wool optimystic, but I believe we can achieve herd immunity without unheard of impunity.” — Swami Beyondananda

This week, we are going to turn the tables – or at least turn the mike. After doing more than 150 interviews on Wiki Politiki over the past three-and-a-half years, I’m putting myself on the other side of the mike, thanks to my colleague and co-heart, Veronica Entwistle, host of Paradigm Shifters Radio. She did an interview with me last month for her show and with her kind permission we are re-running it on my show.

I must say that in the time since we launched Wiki Politiki in the fall of 2017, I have learned so much and been so inspired by the evolutionaries and solutionaries I featured, that I wanted to offer a “we are here” assessment of our – you know the word – shituation at this point.


 
I guess this will be our official announcement, but as of July Wiki Politiki will be evolving to a video format, The Wiki Politiki Zoom Room, that will allow for more interactivity and personal contact with our guests. I am so grateful for Chris Buck and the folks at Om Times Radio for hosting us all this time, and I am going to miss that opening gong and OM that begins our show.

Before we here more from me, I would like to introduce Veronica Entwistle and Paradigm Shifters. Veronica is an intuitive and energy counselor who specializes in NEAR-LIFE experiences – helping her clients discover universal understandings to help them live more fully in the present time and in her words, “fully harness the potential of your inner-self.” As part of this work, she has been hosting Paradigm Shifters Radio, featuring those ready to shift the prevailing paradigm from dominate-or-be-dominated to thrival for each and all.

To hear this her interview with me on the latest in the Great Upwising, please join us this Tuesday, May 18th at 2 pm PT / 5 pm ET.

To find out more about Veronica Entwistle and Paradigm Shifters, please go here: https://veronicaentwistle.com/paradigm-shifters/

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Steve Bhaerman - The Truth Shall Upset You Free

Meryl Nass – Is COVID the New 9/11?

From “Conspiracy Theory” To Con’s Piracy Reality

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Aired Tuesday, May 25, 2021 at 2:00 PM PST / 5:00 PM EST

Interview with M.D. and Vaccine Expert Meryl Nass

“Call me a tie-dyed-in-the-wool optimystic, but I believe we can achieve herd immunity without unheard of impunity.” — Swami Beyondananda

In 2004, the renowned theologian and philosopher David Ray Griffin published a book called The New Pearl Harbor: Disturbing Questions About the Bush Administration and 9/11. He was referring to a document released in 1997 by neoconservative think-tank, Project For A New American Century (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_for_the_New_American_Century) called Statement of Principles, Rebuilding America’s Defenses/. The document declared that to mobilize public opinion to support America’s 21st century military agenda, a “New Pearl Harbor” would be needed.


 
Griffin (https://bohemian.com/unquestioned-answers-1/) and numerous other “coincidence theorists” noted how conveniently the 9/11 attacks were used to justify the War on Terror, the Afghanistan invasion and Iraq War that have become the Forever War, with no end in sight. It also produced the so-called Patriot Act, which has led to the routine, thorough surveillance of American citizens that we have been asked to accept as “the new normal.”

Well folks, there is now a NEW “new normal” thanks to the current COVID crisis, that seeks to install more surveillance and more encroachment of natural rights and human liberties. Our guest this week, is MD and vaccine expert Dr. Meryl Nass. She, along with Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. of Children’s Health Defense, has produced a well-researched – and frightening – document that offers damning evidence that effective early treatments for COVID-19 were intentionally withheld so that vaccines could be fast-tracked without trials as emergency measures.

Given how much we heard about how Donald Trump’s failure to handle the crisis and how many lives were lost as a result, it may be that many, many more lives were lost because these treatments were withheld.

Is this conspiracy theory or con’s piracy reality? Is there a smoking gun, and if so, what can be done about it?

Meryl Nass is on the front lines in this battle over – well, over which reality prevails.

Meryl Nass, MD, ABIM, is an internist with special interests in vaccine-induced illnesses, chronic fatigue syndrome, Gulf War illness, fibromyalgia, and toxicology. As a biological warfare epidemiologist, she investigated world’s largest anthrax epizootic, in Zimbabwe, and developed a model for analyzing epidemics to assess whether they are natural or man-made. She is also an expert on Gulf War Syndrome and its relationship to the anthrax vaccine given to troops. She has played a major role in creation of a coalition that has fought the Anthrax Vaccine Immunization Program, and is active in assisting legal teams defending anthrax vaccine refusers and ill service members in the U.S. and Canada.


 
If you’re ready to face some unpleasant truths that just might upset us free, please join us this Tuesday, May 25th at 2 pm PT / 5 pm ET.


 
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Meryl Nass - Is COVID the New 9/11?

Aired Wednesday, 6 January 2016, 7:00 PM ET

The cheer, the lights, the presents and the gatherings are over. What’s left? For many people it’s a kind of a black hole of wishing for the fantasies that the holidays foster: of the goodness of man/woman, the closeness of family, and the idea that all is well. What’s possible for you as you move forward? What if you could choose not to join the majority in their downer? What if you could actually move into a greater, more expansive YOU? Join The Irreverent Therapists for tips and tools to avoid the post holiday blues.

About The Irreverent Therapists

The Irreverent Therapists, Pam and Marilyn, have over 40 combined years as psychotherapists. After working with hundreds of people, both became aware that there were other ways of looking at and changing the issues that clients brought to the office. Instead of processing thoughts and feelings and the past endlessly, Pam and Marilyn use practical tools and very different perspectives to assist clients in creating the changes they desire.

The Irreverent Therapists - Slumps, Dumps and Humps: How to Avoid The Post Holiday Blues

Aired Wednesday, 6 January 2016, 9:00 PM ET

The Joe Show has some great musical talent on this week’s show. First we talk with Canadian Musician Errol Starr Francis joins us with his latest rendition of What if God Was one Of Us. It’s a cover version with Errol’s unique, talented spin of hip hop, reggae, rocking rendition. We talk with Errol about the Canadian Music Business too. Then we head south of the border in Nashville, TN and speak with Country artist JD Walker. JD is working on his newest album and just released this week to radio which you can hear on The Joe Show is one of JD’s latest singles Too Far From Heaven. We also have your Headlines, Word, Fact, Comedian of The Week…so join us for some great music and laughter!

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Aired Wednesday, 10 January 2018, 1:00 PM EST

Say Yes to You in the New Year

Too often we put everyone and everything else first, leaving our own wellness and needs on the back burner. Over time this leads to burn out, illness and an unconscious state of misery. For some, this low quality of life becomes a norm. Say ‘no’ to this way of life, and say YES to a stronger commitment to yourself this year. Join Joyce and Jennifer as they share motivational stories of personal challenges with this issue as well as tips and tools on how to make this your healthiest and happiest year yet.

Say Yes to You in the New Year

Aired Wednesday, 10 January 2018, 3:00 PM ET 

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Aired Tuesday, 30 January 2018, 5:00 PM EST

The Mondragón Experiment, Worker Ownership and Thrival for All

A Conversation With Georgia Kelly, Praxis Peace Institute

SWAMI’S DICTIONARY

Thrival: The stage beyond survival where we all weave a web of mass-construction and reap a “world win”. — Swami Beyondananda

There’s a famous joke purportedly told by a Soviet delegate during a meeting to discuss trade between the two countries during the Cold War Era:

What’s the difference between capitalism and communism?

In capitalism, man exploits man. In communism, it’s the other way around.

The 20th century offered up plenty of evidence that — given human nature, and the nature of the “dominator virus” that has dominated human affairs for the past 5,000 years — despite the best intentions, neither system has created social justice or sustainable economic well being.

The problem with any ideology is, while it might be a helpful place to be “coming from”, it doesn’t allow the flexibility required when we’re ready to stop defending positions and begin actually solving problems.

That brings us to this week’s program featuring the Mondragón Cooperatives in the Basque region of Spain. Writes Georgia Kelly, our guest this week:

It seems that Mondragón has taken the very best ideas from both capitalism and socialism and created a hybrid that supports people, as well as their ideas, health, education, personal development, and society. Whatever one calls it, it works. And, it works better for more people than any other economic system today.

And ironically, this “hybrid” that can look suspiciously like “socialism” was hatched by a Catholic priest in the mid-1950s during the Francisco Franco right wing fascist regime. Based on a philosophy of human values, respect, and equality, the mission of the Mondragón Cooperatives is to “create wealth within a culture, to foster a people-centered society instead of a capital-centered society, to honor work with dignity, and to limit the number of work hours.” Mikel Lezamiz, the recently retired Director of Dissemination at the Mondragón Cooperatives Corporation, said “People are the core, not capital. This is the main point. If capital has the power, then labor is simply its tool.”

Producing everything from computer chips and bicycles to elevators and auto parts, the Mondragón Cooperatives is the tenth-largest Spanish company and the leading business group in the Basque country. At the end of 2014, it employed 74,117 people in 257 companies and organizations in four areas of activity: finance, industry, retail and knowledge.

If you’re curious as to why and how this business has become so successful, and ways that their lessons and ideas can be applied in other places, like the USA, tune in to our interview with Georgia Kelly, who has visited Mondragón numerous times, and leads annual tours there.

If the name Georgia Kelly rings a bell, it’s because this is the same Georgia Kelly who was a world-renowned harpist, composer and recording artist in the 1980s and 1990s, whose albums have been listed in Billboard’s top ten in Classical Crossover and New Age charts. Currently she is director and founder of Praxis Peace Institute whose mission is to produce “cutting-edge educational programs that address the structural problems impacting social and political decision-making.” In addition to annual excursions to Mondragón, Georgia via Praxis has produced conferences in Dubrovnik, Croatia and most recently in Sonoma, California.

Join us this Tuesday, January 30th as we explore a workable model to “we-distribute” wealth and replace “trickle down” with “bubble up.”

The Mondragón Experiment, Worker Ownership and Thrival for All

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Moving On with Grace and Thanks

Aired Thursday, September 24, 2020 at 1:00 PM PST / 4:00 PM EST

Join Pennie and Jill for the last OMtimes radio show that Acorn to Oak will be hosting. So, how do you know when something has served its purpose? How do you let go and move on? Why is it important to reflect and gain the gold of completion with grace? By taking the time to complete well brings together any loose ends and leads to a clean exit without hurt or energy circuits not completed? Whether it’s a relationship, job, moving to a new house and area, we need to complete the energy and free ourselves to be 100% present for our next endeavour. Acorn to Oak wishes to thank OMtimes for all their help and support during this amazing, but strange time in our history and hope you have enjoyed Matthew’s Jill Pay and Pennie’s perspective on events and subjects over the past 18 months. We hold your highest will and good in our hearts and wish well for the future.


 
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Moving On with Grace and Thanks

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