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Announcing NEW Signs of the Upwising Podcast Interview with Performance Artist and Shamanic Cheerleader Raina Satori https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AbYQU9UeLgU “It’s time to bring red tribe and blue tribe together in sacred circle, to talk until they are purple in the face. The only way to overgrow corporate personhood is through purple peoplehood. “ -- Swami Beyondananda I am happy to announce t...

“We need a new PRECEDENT – government of the people, by the people, for the people where the government does OUR bidding, not the bidding of the highest bidder.”  – Swami Beyondananda Front and Center podcast “podner” Michael Maxsenti, a self-declared “Rebel for Truth” is running as an independent thinking Republican for Congress in California’s highly-contested 47 th Congressional District – and...

“Truth lives in our hearts. Beliefs lie in our heads.”  – Swami Beyondananda Some years ago I wrote an article for a progressive publication about Fox News and their propensity for spreading outright lies. I called the article “Come On Baby, Fight My Liar,” and I ended it by saying that conservatives obviously like being lied to – whereas progressives prefer lying to themselves. Needless to say, I...

“When you find yourself on a vicious cycle, for goodness sake, stop pedaling and get off.”   -- Swami Beyondananda Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXBh9F8Iunk From Steve Bhaerman: One of the biggest challenges for me in the wake of the election results has been speaking into the field of grief, anger, profound disappointment, hopelessness and despair so many of my progressive co-...

“If a speech falls freely in the forest and there is no one there to hear it, is it still free speech?” – Swami Beyondananda Watch here on Rumble: https://rumble.com/v5l72zy-beyond-censorship-mind-control.-you-cant-know-what-they-dont-show-you.html Watch here on Locals: https://frontandcenter.locals.com/ In 1974, the satirical troupe, Firesign Theatre, put out a comedy record, Everything You Know...

“It’s not vicious lies they are looking to censor. It’s those vicious truths they’re worried about.” – Swami Beyondananda Watch the most recent Front & Center with Mike and Steve podcast here. https://rumble.com/v5j2ln9-why-free-speech-is-a-life-or-death-issue-its-time-to-wake-up-and-smell-the-.html https://frontandcenter.locals.com/ Last week I wrote a post suggesting that free speech censors...

“They’ve taken the Bill of Rights and boiled it down to just one. You have the right to remain silent.” – Swami Beyondananda Watch the most recent Front & Center with Mike and Steve podcast here. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dXL_WYJzrbM In December 2008, Bruce Lipton and I were writing the final chapter of Spontaneous Evolution.  Barack Obama had just been elected President, and I had just...

“To make things simpler, they have taken the Bill of Rights and boiled it down to just one – you have the right to remain silent.” – Swami Beyondananda Join Steve and Mike as they discuss Mike’s recent trip to Washington, D.C. to be part of the Rescue the Republic rally, an independent political gathering convened by Bret Weinstein, and including luminaries like Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., Tulsi Gabba...

A Front and Center Conversation with Steve Bhaerman and Michael Maxsenti “We have a two-faced one-party system – and we the people haven’t been invited to the party.” – Swami Beyondananda When RFK, Jr. announced he was suspending his campaign to throw his support behind Donald Trump, I had mixed feelings. I had supported Bobby because he represented the “independent” movement, which I recognized a...

The Second Great Independence Movement is the Politics of the Future – If We Are to Have One A Conversation with INC Convener Christopher Life “Independents of the world unite. You have nothing to lose but your Cheneys …and Bidens …and Trumps.”  – Swami Beyondananda There’s a Buckminster Fuller quote that is perhaps more pertinent today than ever before: “You never change things by fighting the ex...

“The two-potty shit-show has been detrimental to us all, and now we have a chance to bring it down in one swell poop.” – Swami Beyondananda https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F_qrlIb7pCQ Here is the paradox of our current “bi-polar insanity” and “two-potty” political system. The two political sides seem more intractably polarized than ever, and yet there is a political movement emerging from what Cha...

“There are no sides, only angles, and when we see it from the right angle, we’re all on the same side.” – Swami Beyondananda As we find ourselves in the midst of another toxically-divisive electoral campaign (that’s where we spend $14 billion to elect a candidate nearly half the people despise and the rest merely dislike), don’t you think it’s time to put an end to this bi-polar insanity? We think...

“The idea of bringing heaven to earth for me, is not metaphoric. It's not a story. And I believe -- from my own experience -- that you can actually connect to the Transcendent as a power and it can be embodied within us.” -- Richard Flyer Greetings and welcome to what we hope will be a truly NEW New Year! Front and Center launches a new year of podcasts with a conversation with Richard Flyer,...

“The best way to overgrow the ‘deep state’ is by cultivating a deeper state.” -- Swami Beyondananda Here is the oxymoronic political contradiction of our times. We seem more polarized than ever, and yet the vast majority of us long to work together for mutual benefit. Perhaps the resolution of this seemingly impossible “shituation” can be found in the “real” American dream of our founders: individ...

“There are no sides, only angles and when we see it from the right angle, we’re all on the same side.” -- Swami Beyondananda We have three founding principles at Front and Center: From political battlefields to cooperative playing fields. Seeking the whole truth together. Putting the government on the side of the people. Each one is a challenge, to be sure, in these politically polarized times. Nu...

“Why should corporations pay taxes, when they can simply pay the legislators directly and eliminate the middle man?” -- Swami Beyondananda In case you haven’t noticed, there has been a key missing element in government of, by, and for the people – the PEOPLE! So … it’s up to the people on the outside to stir and move those on the inside.   Zen Honeycutt, our guest on Front and Center this week, is...

“The Status Quo Will Not Disrupt Itself” “Trickle-down economics is when all the wealth is at the top, and a small portion of it trickles down to the masses. That’s why they call the people at the bottom peons.” -- Swami Beyondananda When I interviewed Marianne Williamson after her 2020 Presidential campaign, she told me that she was shaken and a bit shocked at the meanness of campaign politics –...

Conversation with Independent National Conference Convener Christopher Life “We have a deeply divided body politic. Half the people think our system is broken. The other half believe it is fixed.” -- Swami Beyondananda Join Independent National Conference convener Christopher Life in a lively discussion about how we the people can stopping fighting one another and unite to restore the missing elem...

“It’s time to bring left and right front and center to face the music and dance together.” -- Swami Beyondananda Our Front and Center podcast is dedicated to inspiring our community to get off the political battlefield and onto the cooperative playing field, to seeking the whole truth together, and finding a “commonly-sensed common sense consensus” that represents the virtues and values we share i...

Conversation with Author and Propaganda Expert Mark Crispin Miller “Who needs conspiracy theories when we have con’s piracy facts?” -- Swami Beyondananda If you’re like most Americans I know, you are watching the train wreck that is American politics chugging down the track to oblivion, and wondering how it is that the likes of Washington, Jefferson, and Lincoln have devolved into the (dis)likes o...

Part 3 of conversation with Political and Community Activist Nancy Vogl “I believe in fundamental minority rights. Each of us has the right to be the individual we truly are.” -- Swami Beyondananda One of our missions at Front and Center is “finding the whole truth together”, and on a practical level it means unpacking narratives that have become too volatile to talk about. In part 2 of our interv...

Part 2 of Conversation with Political and Community Activist Nancy Vogl “Not only do hot-button issues activate the base, they activate the basest of the base.’”  -- Swami Beyondananda One of our missions at Front and Center is “finding the whole truth together”, and on a practical level it means unpacking narratives that have become too volatile to talk about. One such issue is “critical race the...

Conversation with Political and Community Activist Nancy Vogl “Even Jesus believed in evolution. Otherwise, he would have said, ‘Now don’t do a thing until I return.’” -- Swami Beyondananda As per a recent Atlantic Monthly article, the new phrase describing America’s ever-deepening political divide is “pernicious polarization”. That old phrase “I wouldn’t want my son / daughter to marry one”, that...

Conversation with Former US Congressman and CSP Founder Tom Campbell “We have a deeply-divided body politic. Half the people believe our system is broken. The other half believe it is fixed.”  -- Swami Beyondananda When asked if we need a new third party in the United States, our cosmic comic uncommontator Swami Beyondananda answered, “No. We need a new FIRST party in this country.”  And … what if...

Conversation with Integral Philosopher Steve McIntosh  “Instead of the familiar political tug-of-war pulling us apart, we need a tug of peace where we all pull together in the same direction.” -- Swami Beyondananda In this “bite-size excerpt” from our longer interview with Integral philosopher, Steve McIntosh, author of Developmental Politics: How America Can Grow into a Better Version of Itself,...