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An interview with Courtney Wren-Mabbutt about her family constellation workshops. Family Constellation is powerful tool to use a group setting to explore and heal inherited trauma.

An Interview with author and keynote speaker Maria Kliavkoff about her new book "Healthy Mourning, Happy Loving - 52 ways to convert your grief to mourning".

This interview was done shortly after International Women’s Day. Its an interview with Gitta Ritter about her experience teaching Women’s Personal Safety to women in India over a period of eight years. Ana and Gitta discussed the conditions for women in India and their efforts to improve their lives. Gitta described the challenges women face in India, the things that have been accomplished to improve women’s rights there and the things left to do. We also talked about our experiences as mature women who lived through the Women’s Liberation Movement and what challenges women are facing in our current times, the impact of pop culture on women and our concerns about how far we haven’t come since the 60’s.

This week we shared our experiences in doing a couple of shamanic journeys with shaman Tommy Hopkins. The original reason for launching down this particular rabbit hole was because Ana has finally divorced herself from her toxic parents. Although she had said goodbye she was having a hard time feeling clear of their energy. In shamanic terms Tommy explains this as “cords” of energy that frequently tie us to our family. Carolyn Myss has quite a bit of material on this topic if you’d like to learn more about this but suffice it to say that Ana was wanting to sever the cords of connection to her parents and she asked Tommy for help. In this show we described the process and the outcome of that journey and a subsequent one by Jeff.

This week was a further conversation with an unconventional priest named Peter Fritsch. He talked about his spiritual approach, how he became a priest, and a bit about his dream analysis and workshops using your favourite fairy tale!

We did this show after returning home from the Christmas and New Years holidays spent with family. It was apparent after having been away that perspective allows you to see some pretty toxic patterns. We shared some of our own stories in the hopes that it helps you get some clarity on your own family's dysfunction.

This show is an interview with author Tom Wayman about the lack of democracy in the workplace. Tom maintains that no meaningful change can take place in our society unless we first democratize or workplaces. We discussed all of the implications of this, including our inability to respond to climate change, the increasing unemployment, mechanization, poverty, etc.

This week we spoke with David Swain, founder of Altitude Project about his upcoming book tour with Dorje Dorma, author of Yak Girl and the documentary The Only Son, about Dorje's family. David's charity supports 4 schools in the upper Dolpo region of Nepal.

This week we interviewed Dorje Dolma, author of the book Yak Girl. Dorje has an amazing story to tell about living as a young girl in the upper Dolpa region of Nepal - one of the most remote places in the world and then coming to America for a life saving surgery. Here's an excerpt: "I think life is both unexplainable and magical. How in the world does a girl from a 15,000-foot-high village with no schools–a girl who thought buses were giant cows–come to the U.S. and get into a university with 30,000 students so she can get her degree in Fine Arts? And how does she then go on to write a book about her life?"

This week we talked with Penny Hodgson, author of Mind Files - Perception, Perspective and Problems. Here's what Penny has to say about the book: "Our perceptions become our perspectives, and our perspectives can become so rigid that they create problems in our lives. Perception, Perspective & Problems takes a look at the mind's process of using the past as a reference in understanding what we are currently experiencing, and how that process interferes not only with the present, but the future as well. Delve into the filing cabinets of your mind, and learn how the conclusions you formed at the end of each and every experience created expectations, and why those expectations are at the root of all your unhappiness. Discover how to live the life you were meant to by reviewing, re-assessing and re-writing the files in the filing cabinets of your mind."

In this interview Episcopal Priest Peter Fritsch told us a little about his early life and the decision to become a priest, how he ended up moving to Hungary and the story of meeting his soul mate, marrying her and their decision to move back to the US.

This week we talked to Lorna Visser about what the Slocan Valley Legacy Fund is all about and why they exist. She gave us some of the history of Legacy Funds in Canada and BC and why they started one locally. Lorna and the board of the Legacy Society are very active and dedicated members of the communities in which they reside but Lorna was the one on the hot seat today so we asked her to share a little of her own motivations for volunteering.

A conversation with professor Frank Tessler about the potential for Guaranteed Basic Income in Canada. We explored the social implications, pros and cons and previous experiments with Guaranteed Minimum Income.

In this show we talk to anthropologist Mark Jeffreys from Dixie State University about the discovery of a new type of human DNA that scientists are discovering as they're doing DNA testing on modern humans.

We had a chance to interview Tennyson King while he was on a road trip through Western Canada. Tennyson is a young Canadian musician from Toronto who is brimming with talent.

This week we talked with shaman Tommy Hopkins about his work clearing ghosts from the Slocan Valley. Tommy found that there were many Japanese ghosts from the period that they were interred in the area. They wanted to return to Japan because of a Shinto belief that they needed to go to Mt. Fuji. He also talked about clearing the local health centre of Doukhobor ghosts and the ghosts of local residents.

Ana was at a conference on Public Participation in Government last week. She came into the studio on her way from the airport to talk a bit about the movement toward more public participation and why it's important.

While we were in Victoria this summer, Jeff came across a young homeless man that wanted to tell his story. His name is Thaddeus and we later found out from his father that he is struggling with schizophrenia. Thaddeus gave us a peek into his mind, his demons and his circumstances.

This week Ana shares more of her abusive past and how she healed. She shared her philosophy around healing and forgiveness... This was a frank and open discussion about the approach that she took to get well after discovering that she had made up a fictional childhood to hide the past from herself.

This week was the mid-term elections in the States and so we decided to talk about politics and false politics... We explored the lies that have been told and ways that we might be able to discern to truth. We talked about 9/11 and the questions about what really happened and why... we also talked about what we, as individuals, can do.

This week we talked to musician Tom Stephens about his new book "Best Seat in the House". Tom talked to us about what it was like touring with a blind but brilliant musician who didn't want to admit that he was blind.

This week we aired an interview with a woman who has done a lot of research into geoengineering named Juscha Grunther. Juscha shared her extensive research into the phenomenon which she believes is being done in secret by the US and Canadian governments. This was a very informative and sobering interview but well worth a listen.

This week we talked with Val Frasier, founding member of the Afterlife Ghost Investigators. Val talked about some of her experiences both proving and debunking hauntings.

This week we spoke with Jay Frasier, an award winning magician and skeptic about what made him the person he is. Jay shared his early life in an intense belief system and how that experience made him an atheist.

This is a conversation with a young homeless man named Thaddeus who lives in Victoria. He believes he is the target of a group of people calling themselves the Superheros who are trying to entrap him. We later found out that Thaddeus is schizophrenic and that his family has been trying to help him with no success.

In this episode we interviewed two performing artists: Baba Brinkman - a Kootenay born rap star who for the last three years has been performing off Broadway in New York with his unique form of Educational, Comedic and Scientific rap; and Lester McLean, a Toronto based musician who has been in the entertainment business (TSN for 22 years) for several decades. Both of these men will be performing in the Kootenays this August... but the subject matter of both interviews is more about how and why they do what they do, so listen in no matter where you reside... Enjoy

This is an interview with Sharon and Simon Bamber about their upcoming plein air expedition on The Way of St. James. They will be travelling 1000 miles along The Way from France to Santiago de Compostela in Spain, painting every 5 miles.

This week we talked about three different stories that are related - our use of technology to empower or disempower. The first was a story about the employees of Google rebelling against it's participation in Project Maven. They organized themselves and pressured management, eventually forcing them to agree to not take any more military contracts. The second story was about the use of technology in Barcelona to empower it's citizens. Barcelona has a new major who has begun the process of using the cities smart technology to empower it's citizens to participate in how the city develops and uses the information it has access to. The third was about the ways in which social media is manipulated to be addictive and why they care so much that you are obsessive about checking your social media accounts.

This is the first segment of a 4 segment interview with author and physicist Tom Campbell. Tom wrote the trilogy My Big TOE (theory of everything) where he claims that we are living in a Virtual Reality.

In this segment we asked Tom how much we can change reality… can we modify the rules and do things like de-age? How much can the larger consciousness system influence our lives and can it/they override our free-will? How should we deal with the negative circumstances going on in the larger world? What about the effects of violence? Is there ever a time when we should fight back?

This part 2 of a 4 part interview of an interview with physicist and author Tom Campbell. Tom wrote the trilogy "My Big TOE" where he claims that we are living in a virtual reality. In the first part we asked Tom to explain how the virtual reality works. In this part we asked him to explain how understanding the virtual reality helps us to navigate the world and our relationships. We explored how and why we would choose a particular avatar/body, what aspects of our past lives we bring forward into the next and why would anyone want to come into a life with really big challenges… it's a fascinating look at life through the eyes of Tom Campbell.

We have created this primer on Tom Campbell's theories in preparation for an interview to follow. Tom suggests that we are living in a virtual reality, that the purpose of this reality is to move away from entropy and toward order and the way to do this is to grow up and become love.

An interview with Keenan, manager of the Royal on Baker, who is doing his best to run a bar with a conscience. Keenan has partnered with several local charities including the women's shelter and homeless services. We talked to him about why he feels compelled to try to make a difference.

Jeff and Ana talk about the 3 year anniversary of Jeff's open-heart surgery with the aim of helping others in similar circumstances. Jeff has a genetic tendency to developing plaques in the arteries due to high Lipoprotein(a) or "sticky cholesterol". They review some of the misinformation about the relationship between cholesterol and heart disease, and also about the dangers of the recommended "heart healthy" diet. Jeff also talked about the side-effects of the statin drug he was taking and why he quit.

Kelly Aiello, nutritional adviser with Happihumans.com talks about the benefits of eating a low sugar, high fat diet.

An interview with Greg Walters, who helped build the site of the Woodstock Music and Art Festival. Due to the last minute withdrawal of most of the security personnel, he also ended up doing security for the stage during the festival. Greg reminisced about the festival and what it meant to the "hippie" generation... and what it means now.

This was a conversation with Gary Tacon about his experience working with Steven Baldwin on the movie The Journalist. The filming occurred on a leper colony in India and Gary talked about his experiences interacting with the lepers.

Our first conversation with Gary Tacon, RMT and stuntman for Alec Baldwin about his experiences working in the film industry and specifically with Alec. Gary spent years as Alec's personal stuntman and body worker.

Gary Tacon just finished working on a movie as the Movement Coach with Robert De Niro, Al Pacino and Joe Pesci. He has a system that he calls body tuning that allowed them to de-age their posture (or as Gary likes to call it "recreate their physical stature") for the purposes of portraying men 40 years younger than their current ages. We also went into the benefits of the same treatment for all of us as we age and the pillow that Gary invented to assist with the process.

If you don't know who Norman Seeff is, you certainly have seen some of his photos. He has taken some of the most famous photographs in our pop culture. You can see a selection on his website http://normanseeff.com. We talked to Norman today about the powerful events of his life, the people who affected him the most and where he's going in the future.

A conversation with Sheryl Yaremco of Tru Healthspan about the many benefits bio-identical hormone supplementation. Sheryl is an RN practicing functional medicine in Kamloops, BC. According to her, many of the illnesses associated with aging can and are being prevented with bio-identical hormones.

An interview with Sara Kinakin, who talks about her practice as a Mind Body and Dream Therapist.

An interview with Tai Chi master Shanti about the system of Tai Chi instruction she designed called the Shanti System. She shares the subtleties of what's actually happening and why she teaches in the way she does. Her system is founded in the Wu Ji standing mediation and explores the energy of the body/mind/spirit in great depth.

This is an interview with Stephanie Banks who had a near fatal accident while mountain biking. Shortly after recovering she began having strange experiences. She now channels and dedicates her life to helping people with their spiritual growth.

An interview with Steven Banks, practitioner of Psych-K. Psych-K is a system combining psychology and kinesiology to reset negative patterns established in childhood. After this interview Jeff did a Psych-K session with Steve and we were amazed at the results. It seems so simple but it's really effective!

We reviewed a selection of good news stories from 2017 including stories about sustainability, oil & gas, health, etc. We found links to a lot of these stories on the http://futurecrun.ch Good News blog.

An interview with Nick about the bi-weekly event called The Church of Good Times. This event is hosted in a pub (the Royal on Baker) so it's rather sacrilegious but the intention is to create a safe space for people to relax and share their philosophy in a safe and welcoming environment. We have also videoed the event and posted it on YouTube so check out our channel Shift Happens Media.