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9/26/04 - #438 - 29:00

Subject: Positive Energy, Part II
Guest: Judith Orloff, M.D.
Length: 23:00
Contact: www.drjudithorloff.com
Date Aired: 9/26/04
Summary: Dr. Judith Orloff, Psychiatrist, practicing intuitive, assistant Professor of Psychiatry at UCLA and author of Positive Energy: 10 Extraordinary Prescriptions for Transforming Fatigue, Stress & Fear into Vibrance, Strength & Love. She continued her discussion of the intuitive side of her genealogy, and prescriptions for building positive energy through a spiritual path, heart-centered sexuality and developing one’s intuition.

9/19/04 - #437 - 29:00

Subject: Positive Energy
Guest: Judith Orloff, M.D.
Length: 23:00
Contact: www.drjudithorloff.com
Date Aired: 9/19/04
Summary: Dr. Judith Orloff, Psychiatrist, practicing intuitive, assistant Professor of Psychiatry at UCLA and author of Positive Energy: 10 Extraordinary Prescriptions for Transforming Fatigue, Stress & Fear into Vibrance, Strength & Love. She discussed her background as a medical professional AND intuitive, what she calls the travesty of modern medicine’s refusal to understand the concept of life force and how some medical professionals are beginning to integrate this concept into their work.

9/12/04 - #436 - 29:00

Subject: Evolution of Philosophy – Reconnecting to the Natural, II
Guest: Kathleen Dean Moore
Length: 22:00
Contact: Riverwalking.com
Date Aired: 9/12/04
Summary: The former Chair of the Philosophy Department at Oregon State University, Kathleen Dean Moore, author of The Pine Island Paradox, continued her discussion of the disconnection to nature inherent in Western Philosophers like Rene Decartes and how the limits of that thought is endangering all the systems that make life on the planet possible.

9/05/04 - #435 - 29:00

Subject: Evolution of Philosophy – Reconnecting to the Natural
Guest: Kathleen Dean Moore
Length: 22:00
Contact: Riverwalking.com
Date Aired: 9/05/04
Summary: The former Chair of the Philosophy Department at Oregon State University, Kathleen Dean Moore, is the author of The Pine Island Paradox, a collection of essays about her experience and thoughts about the natural world. She discussed the disconnection to nature inherent in Western Philosophers like Rene Decartes and the ramifications of the transcendence of that philosophy such as the removal of large power-generating dams.

8/29/04 - #434 - 29:00

Subject: Corporate Social Responsibility, II
Guest: Jeffrey Hollander
Length: 23:00
Contact: 7th Generation
Date Aired: 8/29/04
Summary: Jeffrey Hollander is the CEO of Seventh Generation, an eco-friendly household products corporation. He continued his discussion of corporate social responsibility, how Wal Mart is the anti-thesis of this and other topics from his book: What Matters Most.

8/22/04 - #433 - 29:00

Subject: Corporate Social Responsibility
Guest: Jeffrey Hollander
Length: 23:00
Contact: 7th Generation
Date Aired: 8/22/04
Summary: Jeffrey Hollander is the CEO of Seventh Generation, an eco-friendly household products corporation. He discussed some of the early history of socially-responsible business efforts, the definition of social responsibility and other topics from his book: What Matters Most.

8/15/04 - #432 - 29:00

Subject: A Journey Through Autism, continued
Guest: Dawn Prince-Hughes, Ph.D.
Length: 23:00
Contact: www.apenet.org
Date Aired: 8/15/04
Summary: Dr. Dawn Prince-Hughes struggled with autism for 36 years before being diagnosed. She continued her discussion of the specifics of Asperger’s Syndrome, how she healed through working with gorillas and other stories from: Songs of the Gorilla Nation: My Journey Through Autism.

8/08/04 - #431 - 29:00

Subject: A Journey Through Autism
Guest: Dawn Prince-Hughes, Ph.D.
Length: 23:00
Contact: www.apenet.org
Date Aired: 8/8/04
Summary: Dr. Dawn Prince-Hughes struggled with autism for 36 years before being diagnosed. She discussed her childhood, which included alcoholism, homelessness and other coping strategies covered in her book: Songs of the Gorilla Nation: My Journey Through Autism.

8/01/04 - #430 - 29:00

Subject: Applying Quantum Physics and other Scientific Advances, Part II
Guests: William Arnst and Mark Valencia
Length: 23:00
Contact: What The Bleep
Date Aired: 8/01/04
Summary: William Arnst and Mark Valencia are two of the three co-producers of the hit cult film What The Bleep Do We Know. They discussed the movie, aspects of its production and some of the scientific advancements the movie tries to explain, especially the relevance to everyday life.

7/25/04 - #429 - 29:30

Subject: Applying Quantum Physics and other Scientific Advances
Guests: William Arnst and Mark Valencia
Length: 23:00
Contact: What The Bleep
Date Aired: 7/25/04
Summary: William Arnst and Mark Valencia are two of the three co-producers of the hit cult film What The Bleep Do We Know. They discussed the movie, aspects of its production and some of the scientific advancements the movie tries to explain, especially the relevance to everyday life.

7/18/04 - #428 - 29:00

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Subject: The Tibetan Art of Living, II
Guest: Christopher Hansard
Length: 22:00
Contact: Simonsays.com - Eden Medical Centre, Bon Medicine & July Canada Workshop Info
Date Aired: 7/18/04
Summary: A Tibetan Bon Healing Master, Christopher Hansard, continued his discussion of the philosophy of the Bon healing tradition, including how to help a dying person make a better exit to the next realm, and other items from his book The Tibetan Art of Living.

7/11/04 - #427 - 29:00

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Subject: The Tibetan Art of Living
Guest: Christopher Hansard
Length: 22:00
Contact: Simonsays.com - Eden Medical Centre, Bon Medicine & July Canada Workshop Info
Date Aired: 7/11/04
Summary: A Tibetan Bon Healing Master, trained from age 4 in that science, Christopher Hansard discussed the Bon healing tradition, how he was chosen to be a healer in this tradition and other items from his book The Tibetan Art of Living.

7/04/04 - #426 - 29:00

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Subject: Integrating Traditional and Modern Medicine, II
Guest: Leslie Korn, Ph.D.
Length: 23:00
Contact: Center for Traditional Medicine
Date Aired: 7/04/04
Summary: Dr. Leslie Korn is the Founding Director of the Center for Traditional Medicine in Olympia, Washington. She continued her discussion of the Center, traditional medicine, the role of nutrition in medicine and work with Native cultures in the Northwest.

6/27/04 - #425 - 29:00

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Subject: Integrating Traditional and Modern Medicine
Guest: Leslie Korn, Ph.D.
Length: 23:00
Contact: Center for Traditional Medicine
Date Aired: 6/27/04
Summary: Dr. Leslie Korn holds a Masters in Public Health from Harvard, a Ph.D. in Behavioral Medicine and Medical Humanities and is the Founding Director of the Center for Traditional Medicine in Olympia, Washington. She discussed the Center, its history, the effect of trauma on health and modalities used to reverse the effects of trauma such as therapeutic touch.

6/20/04 - #424 - 29:00

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Subject: Non-Violence and America’s Missed Opportunity after 911
Guest: Dr. Arun Gandhi
Length: 23:00
Contact: Gandhi Institute
Date Aired: 6/20/04
Dr. Arun Gandhi, the founder of the Gandhi Institute for Non-Violence in Memphis, Tennessee, continued his discussion of non-violence, how materialism is a corrupting influence on world peace and how he would have reacted to the September 11 terror attacks had he been President.

6/13/04 - #423 - 29:00

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Subject: Non-Violence and America’s Missed Opportunity after 911
Guest: Dr. Arun Gandhi
Length: 23:00
Contact: Gandhi Institute
Date Aired: 6/13/04
Summary: Dr. Arun Gandhi is the 5th grandson of the late Indian Spiritual leaer Mahatma Gandhi and the founder of the Gandhi Institute for Non-Violence in Memphis, Tennessee. He discussed the time he spent with his Grandfather as a young man, how his Grandfather’s suggestion that he keep an anger journal impacted his life and his founding of the Gandhi Institute for Non-Violence.

6/06/04 - #422 - 29:00

Subject: The Art of War critique of American Foreign Policy, II
Guest: Gary Gagliardi
Length: 21:00
Contact: The Art of War Plus
Date Aired: 6/06/04
Translator Gary Gagliardi, a 25 year student of the ancient Chinese book of strategy entitled The Art of War discussed how to think strategically in competitive situations and how that wisdom has or has not been utilized in recent American Foreign Policy, including the war on terrorism.

5/30/04 - #421 - 29:00

Subject: The Art of War critique of American Foreign Policy
Guest: Gary Gagliardi
Length: 21:00
Contact: The Art of War Plus
Date Aired: 5/30/04
Summary: Translator Gary Gagliardi, a 25 year student of the ancient Chinese book of strategy entitled The Art of War discussed his experience with the book, the specifics of his translation and how American foreign policy in Vietnam went against the strategy put forth in the 2,500 year old book.

5/23/04 - #420 - 29:00

Subject: The Life Forces: A Model of Understanding and Healing, II
Guests: Solihin and Alicia Thom
Length: 21:00
Contact: Being Human
Date Aired: 5/23/04
Summary: Solihin Thom is a Cranial Osteopath and Acupuncturist and Alicia Thom is a Master NLP practitioner. Co-authors of a book entitled: Being Human: Exploring the Forces that Shape us & Awaken an Inner Life, they discussed the model of the caduceus, how that aids them in helping people understand how life forces are misaligned in one’s body and how that can be rectified to release energy into more noble pursuits than extra suffering.

5/16/04 - #419 - 29:00

Subject: The Life Forces: A Model of Understanding and Healing
Guests: Solihin and Alicia Thom
Length: 21:00
Contact: Being Human
Date Aired: 5/16/04
Summary: Solihin Thom is a Cranial Osteopath and Acupuncturist and Alicia Thom is a Master NLP practitioner. Co-authors of a book entitled: Being Human: Exploring the Forces that Shape us & Awaken an Inner Life, they discussed the model of the Life Forces, how they manifest in humans and how, when misaligned, they cause dis-ease.

5/09/04 - #418 - 29:00

Subject: Storytelling as Healing Modality
Guest: Laura Simms
Length: 21:00
Contact: Laura Simms
Date Aired: 5/09/04
Summary: Storyteller Laura Simms continued her discussion of how the act of listening to stories is a healing modality, the difference between real stories and what passes for TV and movie entertainment in our culture and she shared a story from The Robe of Love: Secret Instructions for the Heart.

5/02/04 - #417 - 29:00

Subject: Storytelling as Healing Modality
Guest: Laura Simms
Length: 21:00
Contact: Laura Simms
Date Aired: 5/02/04
Summary: Laura Simms is a storyteller and author of The Robe of Love: Secret Instructions for the Heart. She discussed her youthful penchant for storytelling, how she learned about the craft from Native elder Vi Hilbert and how the act of listening to stories affects people more than the content.

4/25/04 - #416 - 29:00

Subject: The History of the Decline of Wild Salmon, Part II
Guest: David Montgomery
Length: 22:00
Contact: River History
Date Aired: 4/25/04
Summary: David Montgomery, Professor of Geomorphology at the University of Washington and author of: King of Fish: The Thousand Year Run of Salmon, continued his discussion of the history of salmon run decimation, focusing on the Pacific Northwest, including the one lone wild Redfish Lake Sockeye salmon who survived the run in 1992, the effect of dams on Native cultures and what can be done to co-exist with wild salmon runs.

4/18/04 - #415 - 29:00

Subject: The History of the Decline of Wild Salmon
Guest: David Montgomery
Length: 22:00
Contact: River History
Date Aired: 4/18/04
Summary: David Montgomery, Professor of Geomorphology at the University of Washington and author of: King of Fish: The Thousand Year Run of Salmon, discussed the power of wild salmon to alter streams, their resilience to natural disasters and the history of the decimation of salmon runs in Europe and the Atlantic Coast of North America characterized by Four “H’s” including harvesting, habitat, hydropower and hatcheries.

4/11/04 - #414 - 29:00

Subject: Spirit of Place in Northwest Literature continued
Guest: Nicholas O’Connell
Length: 22:00
Contact: The Writer's Workshop
Date Aired: 4/11/04
Summary: Nick O’Connell, author of: On Sacred Ground: The Spirit of Place in the Pacific Northwest, continued his discussion of Northwest Literature and how it encouraged the articulation of a more spiritual connection with the landscape, especially through contemporary writers like Barry Lopez and Gary Snyder.

4/04/04 - #413 - 29:00

Subject: Spirit of Place in Northwest Literature
Guest: Nicholas O’Connell
Length: 22:00
Contact: The Writer's Workshop
Date Aired: 4/04/04
Summary: Nick O’Connell is an Instructor at the University of Washington extension, founder of The Writer’s Workshop and author of: On Sacred Ground: The Spirit of Place in the Pacific Northwest. He discussed how Native Mythology forms the foundation of Northwest Literature and how it encouraged the articulation of a more spiritual connection with the landscape.

3/28/04 - #412 - 29:00

Subject: Pollution from our Oil Addiction and the Clean Energy Future
Guest: V.J. Vaitheeswaran
Length: 22:00
Contact: Vijay Vaitheeswaran
Date Aired: 3/28/04
Summary: Vijay Vaitheeswaran is the Energy and Environment correspondent for the Economist and author of Power to the People. He continued his discussion about how the world economy subsidizes oil, how some countries are moving to carbon taxes, rather than taxes on labor and how hydrogen fuel cell technology has the potential to transform the global energy business.

3/21/04 - #411 - 29:00

Subject: Pollution from our Oil Addiction and the Clean Energy Future
Guest: V.J. Vaitheeswaran
Length: 22:00
Contact: Vijay Vaitheeswaran
Date Aired: 3/21/04
Summary: Vijay Vaitheeswaran is the Energy and Environment correspondent for the Economist and author of Power to the People. He discussed how Americans are addicted to fossil fuels and three trends jeopardizing this practice, including the liberalization of markets, the popular appeal of environmentalism and the technology of hydrogen fuel cells.

3/14/04 - #410 - 29:00

Subject: Violence Against Women, Part II
Guests: Mary Ellen Stone and Lisa Stone
Length: 22:00
Contact: KCSARC & NW Women's Law Center
Date Aired: 3/14/04
Summary: Mary Ellen Stone, the Executive Director of the King County Sexual Assault Resource Center and Lisa Stone, Executive Director of the Northwest Women's Law Center continued their discussion of violence against women and discussed ways to end the cycle of abuse.

3/07/04 - #409 - 29:00

Subject: Violence Against Women
Guests: Mary Ellen Stone and Lisa Stone
Length: 22:00
Contact: KCSARC & NW Women's Law Center
Date Aired: 3/07/04
Summary: Mary Ellen Stone, the Executive Director of the King County Sexual Assault Resource Center and Lisa Stone, Executive Director of the Northwest Women's Law Center discussed their respective organizations, looked at the Gary Ridgeway case in the context of violence against women and discussed ways to prevent such violence.

2/29/04 - #408 - 29:00

Subject: Surviving Trouble in the Wilderness, II
Guest: Brett Nunn
Length: 22:00
Contact: Sasquatch Books
Date Aired: 2/29/04
Summary: Geologist-turned-writer Brett Nunn, author of Panic Rising: True Life Survival Tales from the Great Northwest, continued his discussion of folks who survived episodes of trouble in the Pacific Northwest wilderness.

2/22/04 - #407 - 29:00

Subject: Surviving Trouble in the Wilderness
Guest: Brett Nunn
Length: 22:00
Contact: Sasquatch Books
Date Aired: 2/22/04
Summary: Brett Nunn is a geologist-turned-writer who grew up hiking and canoeing in the Northwest. Author of Panic Rising: True Life Survival Tales from the Great Northwest, he discussed how he found subjects for the books, the hours he put in interviewing and the survival instinct that emerges when people get in trouble in the wilderness.

2/15/04 - #406 - 29:00

Subject: Economics of Terror, II
Guest: Loretta Napoleoni
Length: 22:00
Contact: Modern Jihad
Date Aired: 2/15/04
Summary: Loretta Napoleoni, author of Modern Jihad: Tracing the Dollars Behind the Terror Networks, continued her discussion of the dynamics of the terror economy, the history of Muslim-Christian religious conflict going back to the Crusades and how the U.S. economy is inextricably linked with the terror economy making war an ineffective strategy for combating terror.

2/8/04 - #405 - 29:00

Subject: Economics of Terror
Guest: Loretta Napoleoni
Length: 22:00
Contact: Modern Jihad
Date Aired: 2/8/04
Summary: Loretta Napoleoni is an economist, political analyst, journalist, and author of Modern Jihad: Tracing the Dollars Behind the Terror Networks. She discussed her entry into the world of the Red Brigade terrorist group in Italy, the legitimization of terror as a political strategy by President Kennedy and the dynamics of the terror economy.

2/1/04 - #404 - 29:00

Subject: Civil Rights for Gays & Lesbians: Same Sex Marriage II
Guest: John Fisher
Length: 22:00
Contact: Equal Marriage or Freedom to Marry
Date Aired: 2/1/04
Summary: John Fisher, Executive Director of Allied Rainbow Communities International, continued his discussion of the effort to legalize same sex marriages and also discussed how other world cultures have historically recognized the status of homosexuals.

1/25/04 - #403 - 30:00

Subject: Civil Rights for Gays & Lesbians: Same Sex Marriage
Guest: John Fisher
Length: 22:00
Contact: Equal Marriage or Freedom to Marry
Date Aired: 1/25/04
Summary: John Fisher is the Executive Director of Allied Rainbow Communities International, an organization dedicated to creating equal rights for Gays and Lesbians. He discussed his organization, the effort to legalize same sex marriages and rebuttals to common arguments offered by Conservative Christians who oppose such redefinition of traditional marriage.

1/18/04 - #402 - 30:00

Subject: Indigenous Culture and What Underlies the War on Terror, II
Guest: Rudolph Ryser, Ph.D.
Length: 22:00
Contact: CWiS
Date Aired: 1/18/04
Summary: Dr. Rudy Ryser, Co-Founder and Chair of the Center for World Indigenous Studies, continued his discussion of the American War on Terror and how, from an indigenous perspective is a war on the right of indigenous peoples and their self-determination and how resistance to U.S. Government dominance continues with Native Northwest peoples.

1/11/04 - #401 - 30:00

Subject: Indigenous Culture and What Underlies the War on Terror
Guest: Rudolph Ryser, Ph.D.
Length: 22:00
Contact: CWiS
Date Aired: 1/11/04
Summary: Dr. Rudy Ryser is the Co-Founder and Chair of the Center for World Indigenous Studies. From his perspective as an indigenous man, he discussed the Center, its history and mission and how the American health care system (and the ignorance of one's own culture) is a symptom for the need to dominate that underlies root problems with the health of Americans.

1/04/04 - #400 - 30:00

Subject: The Global Assault on Forests, Part II
Guest: George Draffan
Length: 22:00
Contact: Endgame.org or Derrick Jensen
Date Aired: 1/04/04
Summary: George Draffan co-author of Strangely Like War: The Global Assault on Forests, continued his discussion of the global corporate deforestation, how the U.S. with five percent of the world's population uses no less than twenty-five percent of its wood and paper products, how most of those products are used for unwanted packaging and tissues and some solutions, such as restoration ecology.