In this week’s show our guest is Chase Robbins from Everyday-Sustainable.com, originally from Shelbyville, Kentucky (just east of Louisville), Chase and his wife Victoria have decided to take their kids Kendal and Sloan on an adventure in sustainability. They are transitioning from the typical suburban American life to living at one of the many intentional communities in North America. What prompted this change is the economic, political, environmental, social and social developments in the last...
May 08, 2017•1 hr•Transcript available on Metacast In this week’s show we interview Danica and Drake McCants a couple from Huntsville, Alabama; who has been searching for an ideal scenario for their family. We discuss intentional communities, permaculture, opportunities for a green life in an urban setting and what do young families need to thrive in this world.Danica is a graduate student at Green Mountain College partaking of their distance Masters of Science in Environmental Science program. Drake attended Tuskegee University and Alabama Agri...
Apr 26, 2017•1 hr 2 min•Transcript available on Metacast In this week’s show we interview Khilah Butler who has been practicing as a birth and postpartum doula since April 2015, after feeling a call to serve women through her personal pregnancy and loss journey. She started her practice, Three Moons – Medicine Women in Spring of 2016. In that time, she has discovered a profound respect for women in all seasons and cycles. As she explored her passion of holding space for women through birth and postpartum, she also found inspiration in becoming a facil...
Apr 24, 2017•1 hr•Transcript available on Metacast In this week’s show our guest is Ryan Ratigan a former host of the Mystic-Skeptic Podcast, he is also an attorney, activist and naturalist. We explore his involvement with movement to support the Standing Rock Sioux tribe in North Dakota. They not only want to reclaim their national sovereignty, protect their territory from corporations, but they want to preserve water resources and create a more ecological future for our descendants.As part of the Sojourners Series we explore the” Seven Generat...
Apr 23, 2017•1 hr•Transcript available on Metacast After a three month hiatus the Mystic-Skeptic Radio Show is back on Radio Free Nashville. We start this half season with the first episode of a series called “Sojourners” where we explore intentional living, personal growth and community creation. We see “Sojourners” as an opportunity to refocus our show to be more positive and have a greater impact on the world we live in. In the past three months it seems that we are all just surviving the current state of affairs and have lost touch with what...
Apr 22, 2017•1 hr•Transcript available on Metacast In this week’s show we are discussing America’s fascination with the Trump family. Our guest is Frank Morris, a Donald Trump supporter and resident of Lawrenceburg, TN. As Mr. Morris shares the evolution of his perspective, we would like to remind our audience that our show we like to hear dissenting voices including unpopular ones. We hope this program answers some of the questions some of us have about the relentless admiration for this public figure and celebrity who has gained the highest of...
Apr 17, 2017•1 hr 3 min•Transcript available on Metacast In this week’s show our guest is David Wharton. He received his Bachelor’s degree in Bible and Greek from Multnomah School of the Bible, studying with Dr. Gary Staats and Edward W. Goodrick. He also attended the American Institute of Holy Land Studies in Jerusalem with the late Dr. Douglas Young and others, including the late Prof. Shmuel Safrai. As well as Hebrew University in Jerusalem were he learned about the New Testament and Early Christianity with the late Prof. David Flusser and Chana Sa...
Apr 16, 2017•29 min•Transcript available on Metacast In this week’s show we are featuring Dr. Susannah Heschel, the Eli Black Professor of Jewish Studies at Dartmouth College. Her scholarship focuses on Jewish-Christian relations in Germany during the 19th and 20th centuries, the history of biblical scholarship, and the history of anti-Semitism. Today’s topic is her book "The Aryan Jesus: Christian Theologians and the Bible in Nazi Germany (Princeton University Press)." We will like to thank Dr. Leonard Greenspoon for providing us with p...
Apr 15, 2017•1 hr•Transcript available on Metacast In this week’s show we are honored to have as our guest Dr. Susannah Heschel, the Eli Black Professor of Jewish Studies at Dartmouth College. Her scholarship focuses on Jewish-Christian relations in Germany during the 19th and 20th centuries, the history of biblical scholarship, and the history of anti-Semitism. Her numerous publications include On Being a Jewish Feminist (Schocken), Abraham Geiger and the Jewish Jesus (University of Chicago Press), The Aryan Jesus: Christian Theologians and the...
Apr 14, 2017•31 min•Transcript available on Metacast In this week’s show our guest is Dr. Gerald Horne. He is the chair of the African American Studies at the University of Houston. He is a frequent guest on the following Radio Shows: Democracy Now and Connect The Dots and is a contributor to the Political Affairs magazine and is a prolific author. His books include The Counter-Revolution of 1776: Slave Resistance and the Origins of the United States of America; Cold War in a Hot Zone: The United States Confronts Labor and Independence Struggles i...
Apr 13, 2017•1 hr•Transcript available on Metacast In this week’s show we discuss The Flat Earth Conspiracy Theory with three different guests, Theo Wellington president of the Barnard-Seyfert Astronomical Society, Theologian Michael Heiser and skeptical scientific researcher Bryan Dunning. Most of our conversation is with Ms. Wellington who debunks the outrageous claims of the Flat Earth conspiracists. Dr. Michael Heiser author of the unseen realm discusses his struggle challenging Christians about this topic, while Brian Dunning of Skeptoid.co...
Apr 13, 2017•59 min•Transcript available on Metacast In this weeks show Brian Dunning returns to discuss false flag conspiracies and the Illuminati. The founder of the website Skeptoid: Critical Analysis of Pop Phenomena, Brian has a number of posts and audio recordings about different subjects such as pseudo –science, urban myths, consumer affairs and health fads.It is frustrating to see outrageous false flag conspiracy theories not being challenged. We discuss the historical truth behind false flag initiatives by some governments such as the Naz...
Apr 13, 2017•26 min•Transcript available on Metacast In this week’s show we feature an interview with Brian Dunning from the website Skeptoid: Critical Analysis of Pop Phenomena. The topic we are discussing is the vast number of Anti-Jewish Conspiracies online. Jews are blamed for almost all conspiracies out there; although they make up 0.2 percent of the world population. From living under the earth as reptile people, to controlling every government, to owning all media outlets or starting all wars Jews are under every rock according to Anti-Semi...
Apr 12, 2017•1 hr•Transcript available on Metacast In week’s show we discuss the ancient astronaut craze, our guest is Dr. Michael Heiser. He has a PHD from the Department of Hebrew and Semitic Studies from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He also earned an M.A. in Ancient History from the University of Pennsylvania (his major fields of study were Ancient Israel and Egyptology). He also earned another M.A. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in Hebrew Studies and attended Dallas Theological Seminary. Dr. Heiser is featured on the Debunk...
Apr 10, 2017•1 hr•Transcript available on Metacast In this week’s show we interview Joe Jordan, the President and co-founder of CE4 Research Group, an Alien Abduction investigation and research team based out of Cocoa, Florida. Joe has been a MUFON (Mutual UFO Network) Field Investigator since 1992. He has shared his research findings from his Alien Abduction investigations through many radio shows, newspaper and magazine articles, DVD’s, and lectures. His research findings on Alien Abductions have been written about in twelve different authored...
Apr 09, 2017•59 min•Transcript available on Metacast In this week’s show we conclude our discussion of early Christianity, Greco-Roman culture and Gnosticism with Robbert Conner. He is the author of The Secret Gospel of MarkThe description of the book is the following: “While cataloging material in the library of the monastery of Mar Saba in 1958, Morton Smith discovered a quotation from a letter of Clement of Alexandria copied in the end pages of a 17th century collection of the letters of Ignatius. After more than a decade of collaborative analy...
Apr 06, 2017•1 hr•Transcript available on Metacast “I command you, ghost of the dead (nekudaimon), by the powerful and implacable god and by his holy names, to stand beside me in the night to come, in whatever form you had…” Michael A. Morgan Sepher Ha-Razim: The Book of Mysteries., Chico, CA: Scholars Press, 1983., pg. 36,38.In this week’s show we continue our discussion of early Christianity, Greco-Roman culture and Gnosticism with Robert Conner. He is the author of Resurrection or Ghost Story? available on Scribd.During our program we discuss...
Apr 05, 2017•1 hr•Transcript available on Metacast This episode is part II of our interview with Robert Conner author of Jesus the Sorcerer and the website Magic in Christianity. His articles “The Romans meet Jesus” and “Faking Jesus” are featured on disinfo.com and Scribd respectively. Mystic-Skeptic Radio produces programs such as Uncensored & Raiders of the Unknown. Some of the ongoing series are: Jesus The Israelite, Anti-Semitism Rising & Paul's Legacy (all available on our YouTube channels). In the past 8 years we have feature...
Apr 05, 2017•1 hr•Transcript available on Metacast In this week’s show our guest is Robert Conner author of Jesus the Sorcerer and the website Magic in Christianity. His articles “The Romans meet Jesus” and “Faking Jesus” are featured on disinfo.com and Scribd respectively.We discuss the topic Magic & The Supernatural in the early church focusing on Jesus’ relation to Greek Culture and how the apostle Paul borrowed ideas from some of the mystery cults in the Mediterranean. We also discuss sourcery and demonology in the Greco/Roman culture of...
Apr 05, 2017•1 hr•Transcript available on Metacast In this week's episode we discuss the Christian roots of Anti-Semitism and what history and archeology can tell us about the original Jesus movement. The show comprised of two interviews. One with Amy-Jill Levine, University Professor of New Testament and Jewish Studies at Vanderbilt University and the other with Israel Knohl, the Yehezkel Kaufmann Chair of Biblical studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.Dr. Amy-Jill Levine’s discusses her book The Misunderstood Jew: The Church and t...
Apr 03, 2017•37 min•Transcript available on Metacast In this week’s show we are honored to have a world renown scholar who participated in the Jesus Seminar in the 1990’s. His books include Jesus: A Revolutionary Biography and The Historical Jesus: The Life of a Mediterranean Jewish Peasant. During our show John Dominic Crossan explains his view of the historical Jesus and elaborates on his reconstruction of the historical figure. In his research he portrays Jesus as a hellenized Jewish cynic philosopher, he also discussed Jesus Jewish heritage, h...
Apr 02, 2017•59 min•Transcript available on Metacast In this week’s show our guest is Juan Marcos Bejarano Gutierrez, a graduate from Siegal College and Spertus Institute of Jewish Learning and Leadership. He is a rabbi who received ordination from Yeshiva Mesilat Yesharim. He lives in Dallas and is a researcher in Spanish Jewish history. He is the author of Secret Jews: The Complex Identity of Crypto-Jews and Crypto-Judaism. As part two of our exploration of the surviving Jewish communities in Latin America which have encountered much the religio...
Apr 01, 2017•1 hr 3 min•Transcript available on Metacast In this week’s show our guest is David Ramírez, a former Counselor to the Board of Directors for Congregation Ess Hayim – the Spanish and Portuguese Jews of Houston. He is an independent researcher on Sephardic history and currently lives in Mexico.Our topic is the surviving Jewish communities in Latin America which have encountered much the religious persecution, since their massive exodus from Spain. There was a thriving Jewish community in Iberian Peninsula for centuries. The time period we d...
Mar 29, 2017•1 hr•Transcript available on Metacast In this week’s show we review the Fox TV Series “The Exorcist” which just completed it’s first season and is now available on Hulu.Based on the hit 1973 film by the same name (from a novel by William Peter Blatty), the show follows Father Tomas Ortega and Father Marcus Keane both exorcists from the Roman Catholic Church. The main victim of possession is Casey Rance daughter of Angela Rance played Geena Davis who is actually Regan MacNeil from the original story.The show expands “The Exorcist” un...
Mar 24, 2017•1 hr 1 min•Transcript available on Metacast In this week’s show we discuss the child abuse scandal in the Roman Catholic Church and review the film “Spotlight” with our Catholic friend Joe Balog.Why has the largest Christian church not taken this type of abuse seriously? In this episode address the issues around religious authority and lack of oversight.In this type of abuse there is an intrinsic attack on the soul of the individuals, which cannot be ignored. In the film, they discuss the number of predators working as priests to be as ma...
Mar 24, 2017•1 hr 8 min•Transcript available on Metacast In this week’s show we feature a review of the film “The Possession.” This story about a Jewish exorcist is a new take on the well-known Horror genre. Our guest is the writer of The Dibbuk Box Jason Haxton who offers insider information as he is involved with the production of the sequel and was an advisor for the original film which came out in 2012. Mystic-Skeptic Radio produces programs such as Uncensored & Raiders of the Unknown. Some of the ongoing series are: Jesus The Israelite, Anti-...
Mar 23, 2017•4 min•Transcript available on Metacast In this week’s show we discuss mysticism with Jason Haxton the owner of the dybbuk box; a wine box surrounded by mysterious events. This item first appeared on eBay and became popular in the 2012 Hollywood blockbuster “The Possession.” Mr. Haxton has been featured on many shows dealing with the supernatural for the SyFy channel, The Travel Channel and The History Channel.When I first heard about the movie I was afraid that Jewish folklore was being exploited for cheap thrills. I saw the movie an...
Mar 02, 2017•1 hr•Transcript available on Metacast In this week’s show our guest is Joseph Balog a friend of the show and Catholic theologian in training. We decided to bring him back to discuss demons and exorcism for our All Hallow’s Eve/Day of the Dead special. We delved deeply in the religious tradition of the Roman Catholic Church about how these spiritual entities operate. We discussed the demons influence on our health and the way Catholics deal with possession.The study of demons is a complex topic, as it taps into the most supernatural ...
Mar 01, 2017•37 min•Transcript available on Metacast In this week's show our guest is Dr. Brenda Shoshanna, psychologist, author and workshop leader, who provides therapy to individuals and couples who wish to find relief from stress, anxiety, depression, relationship difficulties, grief and more.She has been in private practice in New York for over 30 years, and is a best-selling author who has been published in over 13 languages. Dr. Shoshanna has provided over 500 talks and workshops on all aspects of relationships, personal and spiritual ...
Feb 16, 2017•1 hr•Transcript available on Metacast In this week’s show our guest is Dr. Jay Michaelson author of Evolving Dharma: Meditation, Buddhism, and the Next Generation of Enlightenment. The topic of our program is the relationship between American Jews and Buddhism. We also discussed buddhist principles and what different spiritualities have in common.Dr. Jay Michaelson is the author of six books and over three hundred articles on religion, sexuality, law, and contemplative practice. He is a columnist for The Daily Beast and the Forward ...
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