Wiki Politiki Radio Show with Steve Bhaerman

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“We need more forums, and fewer againstums.”

— Swami Beyondananda

At a time when political polarization, dysfunction, and confusion seem to be at an all-time high, and when noise and static seem to be drowning out sane discourse … the Wiki Politiki Radio Show offers a heartening alternative:  Fun, laughter, constructive conversation, and insight.

Its purpose is to cultivate the wisdom of many perspectives, and create generative conversations to help us work together to find real solutions to the problems we face … or as Swami would say, “Let’s bring left and right front and center to turn the funk into function, and leave the junk at the junction.”

Each week on the Wiki Politiki Radio Show, host Steve Bhaerman (also known as cosmic comic Swami Beyondananda) will bring a “visionary, solutionary” voice to the show to offer their viewpoints, and then collaborate to find a wiser way forward.  We’re not expecting our guests to agree about everything.  That would be boring and unproductive!

We do expect that by speaking clearly and listening respectfully, there will be some “Aha’s” and new pathways for co-creation.  And there will be plenty of ha-ha’s as well, as Steve and Swami bring much-needed humor to the political landscape.

Even though the show is called Wiki Politiki, the topics and guests will represent a wide range of fields — from spirituality and psychology to economy and ecology, health and wellbeing, and of course, politics.  The politics will not focus on the entrenched and clichéd conversations between polarized tribes, but rather on the “meta-issues” that help us rise above and see from a higher perspective.

Every show will be archived, so these conversations can be enjoyed and listened to again and again

Steve Bhaerman – Host of the Wiki Politiki Radio Show

Steve Bhaerman is an internationally known author, humorist, and workshop leader. For more than 30 years, he has written and performed as Swami Beyondananda, the “Cosmic Comic.” Swami’s comedy has been described both as “comedy disguised as wisdom” and “wisdom disguised as comedy.”  Noted author Marianne Williamson has called him “The Mark Twain of our generation.”

An educator and political scientist by training (and no, he never did get to dissect a politician in poly sci lab), Steve Bhaerman spent a year teaching in inner-city Washington, D.C. and then co-founded an alternative high school, the New Educational Project.  He and co-founder Joel Denker wrote a book about their experiences, No Particular Place to Go:  Making of a Free High School (Simon & Schuster, 1972).  He then went on to teach labor history and ethnic studies at Wayne State University, and creative writing at the University of Michigan.  In 1980, he founded one of the first holistic monthly magazines, Pathways, in Ann Arbor.  Pathways saw the “birth” of the cosmic comic character, Swami Beyondananda, and Steve and his wife Trudy embarked on a full-time venture with his traveling Swami show in late 1986.

On the more serious side, Steve Bhaerman has co-authored with cellular biologist Bruce H. Lipton, Ph.D. Spontaneous Evolution: Our Positive Future and a Way to Get There From Here (Hay House, 2009).  He has been active in the transpartisan movement and co-authored (with conservative transpartisan activist Joseph McCormick) an e-book, Reuniting America.  He has also created a digital self-paced course, Defying Gravity:  Five Steps to Cosmic Comic Consciousness — Using the Super-Power of Levity to Overcome Gravity, to help people take humor more seriously and seriousness more humorously in these not-so-funny times.

Connect with Steve Bhaerman at https://wakeuplaughing.com