April 12, 2008

Musician, songwriter Ross Falzone (www.rossfalzone.com) joins us in the studio in our first hour during which we'll try to determine whether Ross is an activist trapped in a musician's body or a musician trapped in an activist's body. To observors, Ross appears to have made creative peace with this dynamic tension as evidenced in his recent CD "Life Here on Earth" as well as his prior one "Radical Heart." Ross has gotten airplay on four continents and has been compared to Bob Dylan, Tom Petty, John Hiatt, Bruch Srpingsteen and others. Ross puts his money where his mouth is; this former army reservist, firefighter and homeless shelter worker has directed all CD proceeds to to, not for profit Youth Empowerment Programs. Ross will also talk about upcoming events in relation to Young Voices of Nashville, the program he developed with WRFN teaching high school teens about broadcasting.

Our guest at 9:00 Central time, Matthew Gilbert has many roles at Petaluma, California's Institute of Noetic Sciences (www.ions.org). Matthew is the Director of Communications as well as editor-in-chief of IONS quarterly magazine "Shift: At the Frontiers of Consciousness. He's authored two books as well as being featured in the anthology, "Einstein's Business: Engaging Soul, Imagination and Excellence in the Workplace" and was the statewide organizer of Green Party USA - Colorado.

IONS in it's 25th year was formed by Apollo 14 astronaut and scientist Edgar Mitchell upon returning from the moon in 1971. Dr. Mitchell was inspired by a personal epiphany as he viewed our beautiful Earth from outer space and IONS resulted. IONS has investigated the nature of consciousness through scientific research working with frontier researchers around the world. They produced a six hour television documentary "The Heart of Healing" have been involved in publishing many books as well as working with the producers of the film The Science of Peace (www.scienceofpeace.com)

We'll be talking with Matthew in particular about what IONS does and in particular about the 2007 and 2008 Shift Reports, Evidence of a World Transforming and Changing the Story of our Future amazing 80 page collections succintly describing the societal systemic breakdowns through which we're living, the multitude of factors contributing to how we've arrived here as well as the technological, spiritual, institutional transformations that are taking place often unnoticed by mainstream media. Don't miss these two hours and if you do, listen in a few days at www.seedsthestory.com/wakeup