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Tatiana Kassessinoff PhD certainly knows her chemistry and knows how important a role science plays in our understanding of health and well being. She also has a clear understanding of the problems scientists face due to not seeing the proverbial forest for the trees. We constitute the forest and yes we BE the tree. The great dichotomy of delving perhaps too deeply into the chemical engines of our bodies, the protein machines that make us tick, comes down to this: Does it really make us whole, healthy and vibrant as human beings? Given the dismal track record of just how seriously our health has degenerated (if you doubt it walk outside and look at obesity, depression, chronic psycho-somatic syndromes and most of all lack of vivacity) we look deeper into the human condition in this episode. Drawing from a wealth of experience including transformational analysis, shamanism and work for the National Institute of Health in the US Tatiana shows us that rare talent of a true 'mad scientist' i.e. one who can step b

We start with a zen riddle in this interrupted-by-internet-breakdown interview, essentially asking how clouds really form. Professor Gerald Pollack is a world renowned scientist from the University of Washington whose landmark book, The Fourth Phase of Water challenged the long held belief (not fact) that water can only exist as a solid, liquid, or vapour. Long and patient research in his laboratory has revealed one more 'state' or phase of water..closer to a gel or a semi-crystallised snow flake. Even more astonishing that is the kind of water we are made of-in our cellular structures. With great humour and panache Dr. Pollack takes us through and past long held superstitions about water and shows us how light and electricity play a far greater role in water's movement than we have previously assumed. He shows us just how regimented science has become and how to overcome the limitations of its own restictive paradigms through the creation of the Institute for Venture Science. Since water molecules are so abu

Here we continue the second part of a wide ranging interview with futurist Benjamin J. Butler. Before the interview this most unusual futurist, one who has a rather more holistic view of the 'future' prediction paradigm, suggested we go for a dip in the chilly River Dart to better prepare ourselves. Having walked with him in the ancient forests of Devon to get there I can say that it did impact the quality of our conversation. Talking heads is an expression we come across often now. It means solely cerebral communication to many. But Benjamin prepared the interviewer better and I must say that we did have a more meaningful dialogue that the walk and the river ablution surely helped prepare us for. In part two Benjamin spends more time discussing the spiritual aspects of futurism, i.e.  human consciousness itself. Follow his work here.

What happens when Real Rover wanders into a foxhole? Whilst interviewing Satish Kumar at the Schumacher College in Devon our roving reporter wandered across the road and up the path to the massive Foxhole property-originally designed as an alternative educational institute based on the work of Rabindranath Tagore. Abandoned for years there is hope that here will emerge a new paradigm to help us all understand just what the hell is going on right now! Here we meet Holistic Science teacher and mathematician Philip Franses and the Emerging Future Institute's Benjamin Butler (himself a graduate of Schumacher College) in the newly created Global Synapse offices. Be a fly on the wall for a discussion (rather than an interview) that will take you far down the foxhole..maybe farther than you want to go :)

Meet futurist Benjamin J. Butler for the first part of a discussion on where we could be headed. Educated at King's College in London he is the founder of the Emerging Future Institute's grounbreaking approach to the tricky field of future prediction. Having a solid background in Korean zen practice Benjamin encompasses far more than a data-based analysis of trends His eclectic understanding rather eschews a holistic approach that takes into account consciousness itself and how an evolving  human understanding of its reality has begun to sense its own role in the creation of the future. He has addressed corporations, world leaders and successfully predicted events that are only now in the news..like Brexit and the re-unification of the Koreas. His full bio can be seen here: 

Imagine walking from the grave of your teacher's inspiration, Mahatma Gandhi on a marathon walk for peace that was inspired by the arrest of the UK philosopher Bertrand Russell. Satish Kumar, a Jain monk who became a disciple of legendary Gandhian activist and reformer Vinoba Bhave. He is perhaps Britain's best known spokesman for a sane and sustainable society. An educator who created the first truly holistic education to be accredited by regular university authorities he was also the long time editor of Resurgence magazine. Tirelessly campaigning for peace and simple elegance in our lifestyle he is a long term resident of the Uk and now lives in Devon where Schumacher College, his brainchild, is centred. In this interview the Indian concept of four ashranas, or stages of life is used to cover his journey as an earth pilgrim thus far. Satish Kumar truly is a man for our times since he combines a grounded vision of ecology, economy, science, art, crafts and right livelihood.  The key words Soil, Soul and soci

Imagine you could protect your precious assets with an advanced surface sealant. Think of your yacht, your plane or your car. Michael Bollam joins Real Rover to discuss the business of doing just that with his super advanced line of Aglaze products. Whether it is the Concorde or your old favourite car Michael has created something that can maintain your assets by protecting them longer. This interview was conducted live at the main office of Aglaze and its chairman Michael was kind enough to not only show me around the company but also drove me to the train station after the interview. 

Rob Garry knows more about this city of Victoria than most, having lived and worked here for most of his professional life.With several university degrees, a distinguished career as both a realtor and an arts patron of this city as well as being a wine conoisseur Rob shares with us the reasons why this city has become one of the top destinations for both tourists and for investors. A Meditteranean type climate lends a balmy air to this capital of British Columbia making it an easy rival of the more populated Californian destinations we usually associate with sun and fine real estate. The fact that Victoria is on an island has a significanace that we often forget about and according to Rob there is every good reason to expect that Victoria will continue its winning streak as a top destination for the foreseeable future. This is the first of several short business reports that will keep Real Rover's eclectic spirit of inquiry broad based and topical.

Medicine Beach lies just across the ocean from Alma Lightbody's home. For thousands of years the first people here knew that healing needs a medicine penetrating far deeper than the physical body alone.  Alma awoke to such energy medicine later in life as a medical technologist more familiar with the allopathic paradigm of treating ills. She combines the pragmatism of a successful entrepreneur with the sensitivity of one who knows that the healing comes from within us ultimately and that we ourselves must determine the conditions of our lives and health. During this interview we discover that Alberto Villoldo, a world renowned Light Body healer working with the Quero medicine men and women of Peru connects both the interviewer and the interviewee. Alma means soul in Spanish and Lightbody, her own original name means what it says. And so does she..

It was an AHA moment when a medical doctor realised why her child was crying constantly, a moment not even years of training had hinted at. In this passionately stated interview Dr. Koniver shares something you REALLY need to know about i.e. grounding your human body to Earth. With a refreshing and vivacious spirit of rebellion against a dead medical system that tries to keep people alive at any cost, her completely positive perspective on how we can transform our understanding of health today could be the best news you have ever heard. Rather than focus on the many years of double blind studies as well as a plethora of anecdotal evidence from her patients Dr. Koniver draws the broad strokes for us. In this no holds barred conversation about conductivity in every cell she shares why your brain, bones and blood need to get grounded to your planet for better sleep, for weight loss and mostly for a new quality in your life. Ultimately it is about the very real prospect of getting up every morning truly expectant

Parapsychology. How many people have an accredited degree in this field? One. Join Dr. Jeffrey Mishlove in a conversation about his decades long research and sharing of astonishing information about the still emerging new paradigms in science, healing, remote viewing, ancient archaeology, shamanism, dream research, spiritual experience, altered states, the afterlife and the most important of all: consciousness itself. His PBS television program enlightened millions from 1986 for almost two decades before he began the current New Thinking Allowed, available on youtube. He has interviewed hundreds of leading edge men and women in these areas with a careful, erudite and warm personality that this interview will clearly reveal. From the problems he has encountered as the first and foremost researcher to tackle issues that science still continues to belittle, through his singular study of a real psychokinesis subject the PK man, to where we are now in a world still amnesiac to the depths of the human soul he gives

Enso Coach Marie Dahlgren commits herself to paradigm shifting because she has done it herself. The black horse and the white horse haunted Marie in recurring dreams. She there sees the collapse of the USSR and the life that follows in an unfolding vision. She knows she is not her name, her identity or any other label. She has awoken to a deeper level of the energy..As she takes us from childhood in the Ukraine to the US, on the way a Tibetan monk shows her beyond looking at yourself in the mirror, Milton Erickson's teaching points beyond the past and a solid career in government and banking reveals its inherent limitations to her. With a vibrant spirit of entrepreurship Marie connects the intuitive with the rational and demonstrates the solid power of modern coaching techniques. She shares a prescient sense of how technology and spiriitual wisdom get combined as we begin to understand the two horses galloping together. We need never choose only one horse but rather saddle up for both at any time, in any plac

Urban shamanism: the proliferation of workshops and actual plant ceremonies in cities across the world is fast becoming a social statement perhaps of our dissatisfaction with the current medical approach to human dis-ease. Daren Ellis, a former graphic design artist provides a 'space' called Aho in East London where people can get connected to the profound power and transformative energy of sacred plants and other shamanic tools for exploring consciousness, purging our bodies of ill-ness and thus creating a stronger possibility of renewal. He shares his experiences with shamans from Siberia to Peru with a quiet understanding and a humble heart. Whether it is the Amazonian tree frog or the now (in)famous use of ayahuasca as well as techno-shamanic tools for hacking consciousness there is clearly a need for new ways and new understanding. This is where the 'archaic revival'  as Terence Mckenna so aptly called it, has resurged  into the social sphere the world's urban jungles..

For over two decades an Australian physicist has championed the revolutionary theory that our universe operates electrically. Though all of our modern science proves itself in mathematical theory it could actually have no true basis in fact. This potentially stunning conclusion becomes inescapable to any open minded enquiry as the interview unfolds. With a precise understanding of hard physics (as it used to operate), and a robust examination of the observed universe Thornhill has used a plethora of approaches to show us the obvious: our universe has its power source in electricity. His rational approach is multidisciplinary whilst never wavering from the fulcrum of real physics. He eschews the largely unintelligible gibberish of mathematical theory and grounds us in a return to sanity in science. Black holes, quantum physics, the expanding universe and multiple secret dimensions, the 'giants' like Einstein etc. all receive a thorough intellectual spanking by this master of understatement and poise. His calm

Earth Walker Paul Coleman takes us on a quixotic life journey planting trees all over the planet to address one of the most pressing problems of our age: what difference can we make in the midst of environmental catastrophe? His astonishing walk around the world truly matters. With no means of support, no sponsors at the beginning, and nothing but a fairy tale dream, inspired by Iceland, he shows you what one person can do who believes the vision. With unrelenting humour he shares the life that began as a Rolls Royce chauffeur to Royals, with all of the wealth and connections such a life bestows, and then completely shifted to that of a pilgrim wanderer on a quest to plant one tree for every person who died in the great wars of the twentieth century. He has accomplished at least ten percent of the 100 million trees target through sheer power of imagination and commitment. Now 63 he lives with his wife in a place he chose so she could be safe and happy, in a house they built themselves in Patagonia. After hear

Keiko Watt is a Japanese woman living in a very small community of British Columbia, Canada. She works as an animal 'soul leve'l communicator i.e. she can communicate at a deep levels with animals. She shares how it is their relationship with humans that reveals so much about both us and them. Her journey to this small town with only one shop, where she is the only Japanese, unfolds as a story of great determination against language problems, cultural difficulties and of course financing a huge shift in lifestyle-from Hokkaido in Japan's far North to Canada. She started  started a formal study of soul level animal communication in 2016 and is the only Japanese to graduate from the Danielle MacKinnon school of animal communication. You can find her website by googling Keiko Watt. Now a Canadian citizen she shows us how it is only deep determination against the odds that will move us from one country to another in the long run. This is the first of many interviews conducted entirely in Japanese. 

Koichi Hirano has a truly powerful message in this age of lukewarm Christianity, a message of increasing faith and hope just when so many have given up on an ancient religion. With warmth, wisdom and unrelenting optimism he shares a life testing his faith on both sides of the Pacific showing us what it means to act as if you really do have a father in Heaven. Trained in Japan after a teenage crisis led him God he went to America as a young man. Despite language obstacles, lack of funding and in a completely foreign milieu he established several very successful churches and ended up in the creme de la creme of places, Santa Barbara California. But with an unbelievable sense of obedience he listened to the call to return to a country that had completely changed in the two decades away. Now the women call the men cute, the women are powerful and the men are rather lost. Now abstentee fathers are the norm and marriage has ceased to be an aim of the women. In both the East and the West believers have forgotten tha

Join Bob Mueller for an hour of real inspiration, joy and tough-guy tactics. Follow his extraordinary life journey to age 61 as he transforms a Canadian carpenter into an emmy award winning artist. Learn from Bob how every life can become extraordinary as he gleans wisdom from almost half a century of Japanese martial arts practise in combination with the  hard working application of karate philosophy. The Law of attraction will never work until you take action, and that is what Bob does best. With an unassuming eloquence he shares the real journey, against all odds, of how a true blue fan of American football's greatest hero, Dick Butkus, takes that passion and rediscovers the artist in himself. Imagine Bruce Lee meeting Anthony Robbins..they are then joined by Matisse for a tete a tete. Bob is a true warrior artist who takes us to that inevitable fact: that we all came here with a unique vibratory signature .. that is what gives us the greatest joy. To find it you have to look for it first, really look! Dic

Pat Kennedy zeros in on a big issue: the use of mammograms in diagnosing breast cancer. Using four decades of experience as a registered nurse in Canada she carefully explains how 'informed consent' has been almost non-existent in this issue. A passionate and balanced defender of our right to know the risks involved in shooting radioactive material through a breast sandwiched between plates (with metal chips permanently embedded in the soft tissue!) often multiple times in one session, she offers a sane and safe alternative to knowing our body's condition. It is thermography i.e. minute measurement of temperature changes all over the human body. She does not claim to have all the answers and she is clear in stating what thermography can and can not do. Informative, wise, inspiring and most of all eloquent Pat gives us the highlights of a long career in helping people get informed about their own bodies, their own health. 

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