January 28-31

January 28-31, 2019


PACIFICA FOUNDATION MISSION STATEMENT: http://www.pacifica.org/about_mission.php

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WHAT HAPPENED?
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AUDIO ARCHIVES
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BEHIND THE SCENES
Vote 2019: Election Schedule Redux
https://pacificainexile.org/archives/2683
NOTE: Electioneering postcards will be sent out to help simplify choices a bit.


NEXT FUND DRIVE
The next fund drive will begin Feb 12 and is projected to go through March 12th.
Our goal is $650,000. Our average funds raised daily from all fund drives for 2018 is $22,884


VACATION'S END
I am back this week from my vacation - the first in several years. Great thanks is owed to Buzz for taking over the helm. It's a relief that I can take time off without the show disappearing albeit temporarily. It is not an easy job and also tends to destroy daytime activities. BTW The timing of my time off was only coincidental with the government shutdown.


ALAN WATTS SUNDAYS 8AM
"The Spirituality of Aldous Huxley"
From Pacifica Radio Archives, 1 (800) 735-0230,www.pacificaradioarchives.org




MONDAY NIGHT, JANUARY 28


12:-1 Pema Chodron, "Noble Heart"
'A Self-Guided Retreat on Befriending Your Obstacles'


You can't get away from suffering. That's the good news, teaches Pema Chödrön. For at the core of your most painful experiences, perhaps more than anywhere else, you will find the seeds of your awakening.

On Noble Heart, this beloved American-born Buddhist nun shows you how vulnerability is your greatest spiritual resource on the path through life's difficulties. The noble heart, Ane Pema teaches, is one that sheds its armor, opening itself fearlessly to both heartache and delight. Using special meditations and traditional teachings, Pema Chödrön leads you, step-by-step, toward a full realization of your true strength, the strength that can come only through embracing the pain of your own experience.

Noble Heart was recorded as it happened, within the peaceful shrine room of Gampo Abbey, Ane Pema's home on the cliffs of Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia. Structured so that you can create your own retreat at home or at your meditation center, this complete curriculum brings you key teachings about how to recognize and cultivate the soft spot that is the gateway to your own noble heart.

Here is the promise of the Four Limitless Ones-maitri (loving-kindness), compassion, joy, and equanimity-and down-to-earth advice about how to draw strength from them every day, in any situation. Here, too, are the treasured teachings about the Six Paramitas: the Buddha's own map of the journey to enlightenment. Learn how to connect with your innately unlimited friendliness, and how it can grow big enough to contain the entire world.

With four complete meditations, unique heart teachings, and Ane Pema's trademark humor, Noble Heart invites you to discover for yourself the compassion and wisdom that have established her as a leading voice in American Buddhism. Includes more than nine hours of direct teachings from this revered acharya (master teacher).


Session 6 of 12: 'Unlimited Joy and Equanimity'
Going from limited to limitless. Working with strong emotions. Fundamental openness. "M&M." Basic goodness. Melting practice. Big sky mind. The eight worldly charms. More...

From Sounds True 1 (800) 333-9185,

https://www.soundstrue.com/store/noble-heart-4209.html

From Sounds True 1 (800) 333-9185,

https://www.soundstrue.com/store/noble-heart-4209.html




1-2:30 "Pema Chodron and Alice Walker 'In Conversation'"
(Last week's broadcast had technical problems)


How can human suffering become good medicine? Through tonglen: the ancient Tibetan meditation that transforms pain into compassion on the medium of your own breath.

'Pema Chödrön and Alice Walker in Conversation' reveals the revolutionary power of tonglen through a dialogue between two hearts and minds forged in very different cultures-and yet deeply joined in the simple practice of compassion.

Take a front-row seat as the Pulitzer Prize-winning author Alice Walker and American-born Buddhist nun Pema Chödrön reflect on anger, joy, fear, and the union of spirituality and social activism. Hear their personal experiences of the "giving and taking" meditation and how it has helped heal their lives. Let their combined wisdom illuminate the realm, available to us all, where the barriers between self and others dissolve.

Bhikshuni Pema Chodron is the first American-born woman to receive full ordination as a Tibetan Buddhist Nun. She is the director of Gampo Abbey in Nova Scotia, Canada and author of many best-sellers including 'The Wisdom of No Escape,' Start Where You Are,' and 'When Things Fall Apart.'

Alice Walker won the Pulitzer Prize and the American Book Award in 1983 for 'The Color Purple.' She is the author of numerous novels, short stories, essays, poems, and children's books. Ms. Walker served as executive producer of the independent film, 'Warrior Marks;' a documentary about female genital mutilation.

Introduction by James Meadows, a Buddhist Studies graduate student.

Recorded live at San Francisco's Palace of Fine Arts, Pema Chödrön and Alice Walker in Conversation comes with a seven-page booklet covering tonglen instructions and suggestions for further reading. Includes a lively Q&A session. (77)

From Sounds True, 1 (800) 333-9185, https://www.soundstrue.com/store/pema-ch-dr-n-and-alice-walker-in-conversation-3437.html



2:30-3:30 Jack Kornfield, "The Jewel of Liberation" #2 of 8

For four decades, Buddhist meditation teacher Jack Kornfield has shared practical instructions for awakening the wise and compassionate heart in the midst of all we experience. The Jewel of Liberation presents 10 pinnacle dharma talks (teaching sessions) hand-selected by Jack from his personal collection to illuminate the pathways out of suffering and into the natural freedom that is both our shared birthright and our greatest gift to the world.

Reclaim the Seat of Dignity, Compassion, and Lovingkindness

Meditation is the practice of awakening itself; it is the fundamental tool the Buddha offered to quiet the mind and open the heart. We begin our retreat with an examination of the art of meditation and how it empowers us to see things clearly and be gracious with the flow of this ever-changing life.

The Jewel of Liberation continues with guidance in managing our troubles, the "weeds" that arise even as we cultivate the seeds of abiding happiness. Our retreat culminates with an inquiry into the "laws of life," the understandings we must have if we are to experience freedom independent of our circumstances.

The Possibility of Freedom Here and Now

"The sure heart's release is found nowhere else but in our own direct experience-for it is who and what we are," teaches Jack Kornfield. "The world so much needs people who are free in this way, unafraid to love every being." Here is his invitation for each of us to "be a lamp of freedom for yourself and for all."

Session 2 of 8: 'Take the One Seat'
The river of change. The firm ground of emptiness. The foundation of mindfulness. Quieting the mind. Courage and surrender. Guided practice: Resting in Awareness.

Ten CE credits available!


All Info:
https://www.soundstrue.com/store/the-jewel-of-liberation-1850.html


3:40- 5:55 The Thom Hartmann Program
Thom's Website: http://www.thomhartmann.com


5:55-6 KPFK Community Calendar
KPFK Switchboard has written copy at hand - M - F 9am-5pm, 1 (818) 985-2711







TUESDAY NIGHT, JANUARY 29

12-1 CCS President Frank Cousineau and Vice President Charles Wintner co-host the Annual Cancer Control Society Convention, introducing 40 speakers over a three day period and moderating a Doctors' Symposium on day four.

Throughout the year, the Cancer Control Society distributes literature, books and videos on everything in Alternative Medicine from amygdalin to zinc. Lorraine Rosenthal, the organization's Co-Founder, answers many calls each day, giving direction and hope to those in need. She also attends many other conventions and public events throughout the year, distributing information on CCS and the latest findings in Alternative Therapies.

CCS also publishes its Green Sheet, a directory of doctors practicing Alternative Medicine, and its Patient Sheet, a list of names, addresses and phone numbers of patients who say they were controlled by Alternative Therapies. You are invited to call any of them.

The Cancer Control Society is a non-profit organization, dependent upon donations for its mission: to prevent and control Cancer and Other Diseases through Nutrition and Non-Toxic Therapies. For more information, please call The Cancer Control Society, (323) 663-7801.

The Cancer Control Society
2043 N. Berendo
Los Angeles, CA 90027
(323) 663-7801
www.cancercontrolsociety.com




12-12:30 Dr. David Steenblock M.D., D.O.
"The New Science of Youngering"


DAVID STEENBLOCK, M.D., D.O. was born and raised on a farm in Northern Iowa. His B.S. Degree was in Zoology and Chemistry from Iowa State University, Ames and his M.S. Degree in Biochemistry and his Doctor of Osteopathy (D.O.) Degree both from Des Moines, Iowa. Dr. Steenblock did a rotating Internship at Providence Hospital in Seattle, Washington and then for two years practiced in a rural logging town as a Solo Practitioner, Surgeon and Gerontologist. He did residences at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio and the University of Oregon Health Sciences Center in Portland, Oregon.


In 1978, Dr. Steenblock founded The Health Restoration Medical Center which evolved into The Brain Therapeutics Medical Clinic in Mission Viejo, California. He has been a Medical Editor of Total Health, Let's Live and a contributor to a variety of other scientific and health publications. In April 2002, Dr. Steenblock was awarded the Charles Farr Pioneer Award for Outstanding Achievement in Research and Development in Oxidative Medicine for his use of Hyperbaric Oxygen in his comprehensive rehab programs for stroke and other brain injured patients.


Dr. Steenblock uses Hyperbaric Oxygen, Intravenous Glutathione, Magnetic Therapies, Acupuncture, External Counterpulsation, Intermittent High Altitude Therapies, Physical Therapy (RPT), Nutrition, etc. for the prevention and treatment of stroke, brain injuries, cerebral palsy, autism, Alzheimer's Disease, intestinal disorders, diabetic complications, etc.
Currently Dr. Steenblock is working internationally with other scientists studying the application of umbilical cord stem cells for the treatment of a variety of health conditions. His Clinic phone is 949-367-8870 and his website is http://www.stemcellmd.org



12:30-1 Ricardo James, M.D.
"The Good Samaritan Medical Center"

RICARDO JAMES, M.D. graduated in 1981 from one of the most prestigious Medical Schools in Mexico, the University Autonoma in Guadalajara, which also receives students from the USA & many other countries.

Dr. James spent a couple of years in the conventional field but even then he was interested in the more natural ways of treating patients without drugs and using nutritional methods to heal.

In 1983 Dr. James started working at the Manner Clinic in Tijuana, Mexico. The Clinic was founded by the late Harold Manner, Ph.D., who was a pioneer in Metabolic Therapy. This provided Dr. James with a wide experience in treating cancer and arthritis, as well as multiple sclerosis. In total, Dr. James spent 7 years with Manner, treating patients in the USA as well as Mexico

In 1989, Dr. James became the Assistant Medical Director at the International Medical Center in Juarez, Mexico. This Center was founded by the late Ray Evers, M.D., who was known as the "Grandfather of Chelation Therapy" and a leader in Alternative Therapy.

After these many years of experience with Manner and Evers, utilizing different and effective protocols, Dr. James opened his own Clinic called "The Good Samaritan Medical Center" in Juarez, Mexico.
The Center features Chelation Therapy, Metabolic Cancer Therapies, Immune System Therapies and other Therapies such as Rejuvenation, Live Cell, Hyperbaric Oxygen, Ozone and Detoxification.

He may be reached at his office in El Paso, Texas by phone/fax 866-229-3720 email jesusencisco@goodsamaritanmx.com


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1-2 Dr. Samantha Brody, 'Overcoming Overwhelm'

(Scheduled in Guide last week but not played)


Dr. Samantha Brody is a licensed naturopathic physician, acupuncturist, and the founder of Evergreen Natural Health Center in Portland, Oregon. With Sounds True, she has published 'Overcoming Overwhelm: Dismantle Your Stress from the Inside Out.' In this episode of Insights at the Edge, Tami Simon speaks with Dr. Samantha about honoring intentions for the New Year rather than making easily broken "resolutions." They discuss how to approach overwhelm with greater equanimity by identifying your "true north"-those priorities and values that truly define how you want to live your life. Dr. Samantha considers what it means to make healthy, nourishing choices in alignment with your true north. Finally, Tami and Dr. Samantha talk about the revitalizing power of a good night's sleep and how to deal with the emotional overwhelm of a constantly changing world. (57 minutes)

Tami's Takeaway: As a naturopathic physician, Dr. Samantha Brody has worked with over 30,000 clients to help them "overcome overwhelm" and make lifestyle changes that support greater health and vitality. I pushed hard in this conversation to find out what Dr. Samantha feels is the chief characteristic of people who actually follow through on their intentions to live with greater health and balance (whether that involves a new diet, fitness plan, or some other approach to reducing stress). Her answer is my takeaway: The most important factor in overcoming overwhelm is a willingness to take 100 percent responsibility for our choices and the results that follow.


From Sounds True 'Insights at the Edge Series. For free download of audio and/or transcript go to:
https://www.soundstrue.com/store/weeklywisdom?page=single&category=IATE&episode=13657



2-3:30 Damien Echols: "Building the Light Body"

Damien Echols was wrongfully convicted of murder in the infamous "West Memphis Three" case and spent more than 18 years on death row before his exoneration and release. Now he teaches Western ceremonial magick-the same practice he credits with saving his life in prison. With Sounds True, Damien has published the book 'High Magick' and a practice-oriented audio companion, 'A Course in High Magick.' In this episode of 'Insights at the Edge,' Tami Simon speaks with Damien about magick and how it is meant to "constantly ingest more of divinity." Damien describes two of the central practices of magick-the Middle Pillar and the Lesser Banishing Ritual of the Pentagram-and details why they are so foundational to the modality. Damien explains how he first discovered magick while in solitary confinement and details the concept of "will" in relationship to the Buddhist concept of dharma. Finally, Damien and Tami talk about what it means to manifest a "light body" and the overall goal of spiritual liberation through magick.

Tami's Takeaway: Damien Echols is a "current-bearer"-someone who is able to pass to others an experience of boundless light. When I met with Damien in November of 2018 at a launch event for his new book, High Magick, I could tell that something had recently happened to him that had dramatically increased the intensity of this current. In this conversation, he describes how the practices of magick, which he calls "a Western path of enlightenment," brought him to an experience of ego dissolution, which he describes as "experiencing myself as a small handful of sand that someone threw into a tornado." The takeaway: an invitation to let go of any feeling of separateness, enter the abyss, and discover the interconnected light that awaits us.

From Sounds True 'Insights at the Edge' series. For a free download of audio and/or transcript go to:
https://www.soundstrue.com/store/weeklywisdom?page=single&category=IATE&episode=13643



3:40-5:55 The Thom Hartmann Program
Thom's Website: http://www.thomhartmann.com


5:55-6 KPFK Community Calendar
KPFK Switchboard has written copy at hand - M - F 9am-5pm, 1 (818) 985-2711






WEDNESDAY NIGHT, JANUARY 30

SPECIAL: We are taking a one week break from Dave Emory's manumental multi-part inter with Jim DiEugenio to look closely at some 'ignored' aspects of the current 'Russiagate' coverage by two multi-decade long experts in law, government, and 'security.'


12-12:30 Ray McGovern - "RussiaGate: The Absence of Evidence?" (ONE of TWO)

The material for this program literally landed on my doorstep with a personal challenge - would TUC radio and you who have listened over time be open to hearing arguments that there is no evidence that Russia interfered in the 2016 elections?
Given the speaker, former CIA analyst Ray McGovern, who I met and recorded before, beginning with the opposition to the war on Iraq; and given the expertise of the group of colleagues around him, the Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity, VIPS; and given that this group expressed their doubts about Russian interference already in December of 2016; and given that no major TV or print media have given them a voice - I picked up the challenge and am giving Ray McGovern and his colleagues this space and time and hope that you might find his arguments and evidence as intriguing as I did.
Ray McGovern served as a CIA analyst for 27 years, from the administration of John F. Kennedy to that of George H. W. Bush. His duties included chairing National Intelligence Estimates and preparing the President's Daily Brief to Ronald Reagan's security advisers from 1981 to 1985.
In January 2003, McGovern co-created Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS) to expose how intelligence was being falsified to "justify" war on Iraq. VIPS remains active to this day.
McGovern was recorded on August 4, 2018 at the Common Good Cafe in Seattle, WA. Thanks to KODX-LP FM radio for the recording.

From TUC Radio www.tucradio.org 1(707) 463-2654




12:30-1 Ray McGovern - "RussiaGate: The Absence of Evidence?" (TWO of TWO)

Includes a clip from Noam Chomsky explaining his skepticism of the RussiaGate claims.

Ray McGovern served as a CIA analyst for 27 years, from the administration of John F. Kennedy to that of George H. W. Bush. His duties included chairing National Intelligence Estimates and preparing the President's Daily Brief to Ronald Reagan's security advisers from 1981 to 1985.
After retiring he became a trusted source of information on the falsified intelligence about weapons of mass destruction that was used to bring the US into the disastrous war on Iraq.
For over two years McGovern has focused on what came to be dubbed RussiaGate and in part ONE you heard about his assessment of Julian Assange, and the so-called hacking of e-mails of the DNC. He raised questions about the company CrowdStrike that ran the computers of the DNC and why the FBI never investigated the so-called hacks.
In this program McGovern presents arguments and evidence for law breaking of senior official in intelligence organizations, the FBI and the Obama era Department of Justice. McGovern states that instead of RussiaGate we ought to be talking about FBIGate.
Ray McGovern was recorded on August 4, 2018 at the Common Good Cafe in Seattle, WA. Thanks to Mike McCormick of KODX-LP FM radio for the recording.
From TUC Radio www.tucradio.org 1(707) 463-2654



1-2 Gary Null: Progressive Commentary Hour - 01.23.19
"CONVERSATIONS WITH REMARKABLE MINDS - DAN SHEEHAN"

The National Security State and its control over Washington and the American public

Danny Sheehan is one of our nation's most important and influential Constitutional and public interest lawyers. During the past 45 years he has handled such public interest cases as the Pentagon Papers, the Watergate Break In, Iran Contra and the Silkwood murder case. He has represented victims of he Three Mile Island nuclear disaster and fought against the American Nazi Party on hate crimes. Recently Danny has been a lead attorney on behalf of the Native nations at Standing Rock and handling the dismissal of a case against Chase Iron Eyes for inciting a riot and felony trespassing. He is the founder of the Christic Institute and the Romero Institute, the latter being a nonprofit public policy center in Santa Cruz California. He holds a law degree from Harvard University and later returned to study at the Harvard Divinity School.. Danny is the author of "The People's Advocate: The Life and Legal History of America's Most Fearless Public Defence Lawyer," And his websites are DanielPSheehan.com AND RomeroInstitute.org

Free Download of program:

http://prn.fm/progressive-commentary-hour-01-23-19/




2-2:30 Chris Hedges, "On Contact"
Videos: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLagVUKF7CUTRiG64CklL1AN0mbmNaETfp




2:30-3:30 The Ralph Nader Radio Hour
Initially heard on KPFK Mondays 2 pm
http://www.ralphnaderradiohour.com


3:40-4:55 The Thom Hartmann Program
Thom's Website: http://www.thomhartmann.com


4:55-5:55 1-2 Gary Null: Progressive Commentary Hour - 01.23.19
"CONVERSATIONS WITH REMARKABLE MINDS - DAN SHEEHAN"

The National Security State and its control over Washington and the American public

Danny Sheehan is one of our nation's most important and influential Constitutional and public interest lawyers. During the past 45 years he has handled such public interest cases as the Pentagon Papers, the Watergate Break In, Iran Contra and the Silkwood murder case. He has represented victims of he Three Mile Island nuclear disaster and fought against the American Nazi Party on hate crimes. Recently Danny has been a lead attorney on behalf of the Native nations at Standing Rock and handling the dismissal of a case against Chase Iron Eyes for inciting a riot and felony trespassing. He is the founder of the Christic Institute and the Romero Institute, the latter being a nonprofit public policy center in Santa Cruz California. He holds a law degree from Harvard University and later returned to study at the Harvard Divinity School.. Danny is the author of "The People's Advocate: The Life and Legal History of America's Most Fearless Public Defence Lawyer," And his websites are DanielPSheehan.com AND RomeroInstitute.org
Free Download: http://prn.fm/progressive-commentary-hour-01-23-19/


5:55-6 KPFK Community Calendar
KPFK Switchboard has written copy at hand - M - F 9am-5pm, 1 (818) 985-2711




THURSDAY NIGHT, JANUARY 31






12-1 Alan Watts, "Time and the Future" Part 1 of 4
"In what sense is the future real and in what sense is time an abstract social convention, like the equator? Is there a way of measuring irreversible motion, or are our current notions of time absolute? And what of the religious hope for 'the life of the world to come?" (AW)
All info: http://www.alanwatts.org





1-2:00 Jack Gariss, "Bio-Meditation"
TBA


2:00-3:00 Caroline Casey, "Visionary Activist Show:"
The wedding of spiritual magic and compassionate social activism with host Caroline Casey.
From KPFA. Caroline's Website: http://www.coyotenetworknews.com



3-3:30 Science Fiction Break


3:40-5:55 The Thom Hartmann Program
Thom's Website: http://www.thomhartmann.com


5:55-6 KPFK Community Calendar KPFK Switchboard has written copy at hand - M - F 9am-5pm, 1 (818) 985-2711


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