A Better World with Mitchell J. Rabin

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Wednesday, April 9, 6pm EDT: Continuing a popular theme of A Better World, is looking at our food and the farm-to-table sequence. This story tells virtually the whole story of the potential of a magnificent life on Earth when in harmony with Nature's kingdoms of plants, animals, water and weather, and the severe disruption of this by self-interested business.

To continue to unravel this story, Mitchell's guest this evening is Ocean Robbins, co-founder and CEO of the 100,000+ member Food Revolution Network, adjunct professor in Chapman University’s Peace Studies Department, and co-author of Voices of the Food Revolution.

Ocean's father is the renowned pioneer and author of the Healthy Food Movement, John Robbins, whose seminal book, Diet for a New America, seeded our society with a whole new way of thinking about food, our own health and that of the planet's. It continues to be impactful and revolutionary in its vision of a world at peace in which all beings have plenty of food, and not just that, but nutritious food.

Inspired by his pioneering father who left the family's Baskin-Robbins ice cream empire, Ocean founded Youth for Environmental Sanity (YES!) at age 16, and directed the organization for 20 years. Ocean has spoken in person to more than 200,000 people and facilitated hundreds of gatherings for leaders from 65+ nations.

He is a recipient of the Freedom's Flame Award and the national Jefferson Award for Outstanding Public Service.

He is co-author of Voices of the Food Revolution: You Can Heal Your Body and Your World with Food!

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Wednesday, April 2, 6pm EDT: Continuing a central theme of A Better World of addressing the pressing issues of environmental and food pollution in our world and the psychological mind-set that allows such self-destruction to continue, Mitchell's guest is Frances Moore Lappé, the author or co-author of 18 books, including the 1971 Diet for a Small Planet.

Her most recent work is EcoMind: Changing the Way We Think to Create the World We Want.

Currently, she and Joseph Collins are rewriting their classic World Hunger: 12 Myths, to be published by Grove Press in 2015. Her books have been translated into 15 languages and are used widely in university courses. Frances is a co-founder the Oakland-based development think tank Food First; and with her daughter Anna Lappé, the Small Planet Institute and the Small Planet Fund.

She is the recipient of 18 honorary doctorates and makes frequent media appearances, including on the Today Show, Hardball with Chris Matthews, Fox News' Fox & Friends, WSJ.com, The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's 'The National', Frost Over the World, NPR, and the BBC.

She’s a regular contributor to Huffington Post and a contributing editor at Yes! Magazine and Solutions Journal.

Today on A Better World Radio, tune in and hear a dynamic dialogue between Mitchell and Frances, on solutions to the current crisis humanity and sentient life currently face.

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Wednesday, March 26, 6pm EDT: Mitchell's guest this evening is renowned author and journalist, Ben G. Frank, who is considered one of this country’s most distinguished travel writers & commentators on Jewish communities around the world into which he has done considerable research by being on location.

His travels throughout the Diaspora and Israel inspired and motivated him to write his just published book, “Klara’s Journey, A Novel,” (Marion Street Press), a war-time romance that takes place during the Russian Revolution and the Russian Civil War.

With the publication of The Scattered Tribe, Traveling the Diaspora from Cuba to India to Tahiti & Beyond, (Globe Pequot Press), he broke new ground in reporting on far-flung exotic Jewish outposts. He is the author of a number of Jewish travel guides on Europe, Russia and South America.

A former newspaper reporter, he has published articles in Hadassah Magazine and Reform Judaism Magazine,

He is a B.A., cum laude graduate of the University of Pittsburgh and an M.A. graduate of the Center of Israel and Jewish Studies at Columbia University.

Ben has spent considerable time in Ukraine and will be sharing with our audience his insights into the current hotbed of this location.

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Wednesday, March 19, 6pm EDT: To further understand higher brain development and its role in creating a higher-level of maturity in human beings, Mitchell's guest tonight is Dr. Michael Cotton, who, with more than thirty years as a leading authority in personal and cultural transformation, has developed a system called Higher Brain Living®.

Cotton has owned and operated six AWAKEN Higher Brain Living® centers with over 30 more centers slated to be opened by new HBL Facilitators this year. He has created and developed the Higher Brain Living® System for personal and cultural transformation. Cotton has provided academic support material being taught at Ken Wilber’s, (Deepak Chopra’s mentor) Integral Institute in Denver, Colorado.

He is currently teaching wellness practitioners worldwide how to change lives through the Higher Brain Living® System.

Tune in to hear what will be a dynamic dialogue between Michael Cotton and Mitchell Rabin, both committed to the greater fulfillment of human potential to lead to the creation of a more harmonious, sustainable society.

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Wednesday, March 12, 6pm EDT: This evening's guest is the internationally-renowned, holistically-minded doctor, healer, writer and thinker Dr. Larry Dossey.

Dr. Dossey is a physician of internal medicine, former Chief of Staff of Medical City Dallas Hospital, and former co-chairman of the Panel on Mind/Body Interventions, National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine, National Institutes of Health.

He is executive editor of the peer-previewed journal Explore: The Journal of Science and Healing.

He is the author of twelve books on the role of consciousness and spirituality in health, which have been translated into languages around the world. One of his most acclaimed books was on the power of prayer in healing, having aggregated hundreds of studies demonstrating its effects on health and healing.

Larry was a guest on A Better World Radio & TV a few years ago and it's long overdue to have him back.

His most recent book is ONE MIND: How Our Individual Mind Is Part of a Greater Consciousness and Why It Matters will be the focus of the interview and dialogue.

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Wednesday, March 5, 6pm EST: Tonight's interview discusses the use of art, in particular, theater, film, music and opera, as means of expressing the depths of our feelings about our relationship to Nature, including our own, and our willingness to both learn about and challenge those forces which jeopardize our sacred eco-systems and by so doing, our own lives.

Mitchell's guest with whom to discuss this is Nancy Rhodes, Artistic director of the Encompass New Opera Theatre, which creates and produces adventurous new music drama and opera that explores our place in the universe and our inter-connectedness with Nature through compelling human stories. Currently, Encompass New Opera Theatre is producing & hosting a powerful Film Festival in Brooklyn, from Feb. 25-March 9 on subjects regarding protecting indigenous culture and rain forest habitats among others.

ANGEL OF THE AMAZON, about protecting the rain forest, THE ASTRONAUT'S TALE about science and religion, and THE THEORY OF EVERYTHING, exploring quantum physics and indigenous cosmology were all produced in its Science & Arts Program.

Nancy Rhodes has championed American opera since founding Encompass New Opera Theatre with an award-winning production of Virgil Thomson and Gertrude Stein’s opera The Mother of Us All.

Nancy directed the 75th Anniversary production of Thomson and Stein’s Four Saints in Three Acts and Evan Mack’s Angel of the Amazon.

She is the librettist for The Theory of Everything, a new opera exploring science and alternate universes with music by John David Earnest.

Tune in to today's show to learn about how art reflects life but can also advance humans toward conscientious social action.

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Wednesday, Feb 26, 6pm EST: Continuing with the series on environment and Climate Change on A Better World Radio, addressing the activity of one of the leaders in the eco-activist field is www.350.org.

To learn of 350.org's current focus, Mitchell's guest this evening is one of the national spokespeople is Sara Shor.

Sara is  the U.S. National Organizer for 350.org, which, as the A Better World audience thoroughly knows, is an international climate change non-profit founded with the goal of building a global grassroots movement to increase awareness about climate change and effect policy and corporate behavior to reduce the human carbon footprint.

Sara co-coordinates the major issue of the Keystone XL campaign and works to support 350's grassroots groups across the U.S.

These will be subjects of tonight's interview and dialogue.

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Wednesday, February 12, 6pm EST: Mitchell's guest tonight is Marianne Williamson.

Marianne Williamson, is now stepping up to advocate independent politics and more, to participate. She is running for U.S. Congress in CA. as we speak.

Marianne Williamson, is now stepping up to advocate independent politics and more, to participate. She is running for U.S. Congress in CA.

Marianne was on A Better World Radio just over a year ago discussing her then latest book with Mitchell. (http://abetterworld.tv/marianne-wiliamson-spiritual-author-lecturer).

Tune in to learn about Marianne's run for Congress and for a dynamic dialogue between Mitchell and Marianne on subjects dear to them.

For the second half of the show, Mitchell will be talking to Sally Jewell Coxe, president and co-founder of the international non-profit organization Bonobo Conservation Initiative (BCI).

Known as “Mama Bonobo,” Sally has worked tirelessly for over 20 years to protect bonobos, preserve the Congo rainforest, and empower Congolese communities as leaders in conservation.

Her work has been recognized in Deni Béchard's book.

You can Listen on-line at www.abetterworld.tv

Purchase Marianne's Books & CDs

Purchase Deni Béchard's Book

Wednesday, February 12, 6pm EST: Mitchell's guest tonight is Marianne Williamson.

Marianne Williamson, is now stepping up to advocate independent politics and more, to participate. She is running for U.S. Congress in CA.

Marianne Williamson, is now stepping up to advocate independent politics and more, to participate. She is running for U.S. Congress in CA.

Marianne was on A Better World Radio just over a year ago discussing her then latest book with Mitchell. (http://abetterworld.tv/marianne-wiliamson-spiritual-author-lecturer).

Tune in to learn about Marianne's run for Congress and for a dynamic dialogue between Mitchell and Marianne on subjects dear to them.

For the second half of the show, Mitchell will be talking to Sally Jewell Coxe, president and co-founder of the international non-profit organization Bonobo Conservation Initiative (BCI).

Known as “Mama Bonobo,” Sally has worked tirelessly for over 20 years to protect bonobos, preserve the Congo rainforest, and empower Congolese communities as leaders in conservation.

Her work has been recognized in Deni Béchard's book.

You can Listen on-line at www.abetterworld.tv

Or listen by phone! 602 753-1860

Wednesday, Feb 5, 6pm EST: Mitchell's guest this evening is well-known musician Don Slepian, Electronic Keyboardist, combines unique skills in music and electronics with a lifetime of improvised keyboard music performance. Working in Renaissance, Baroque, and Romantic genres, he performs original classically-styled music on computer instruments of his own design.

Born into a scientific family, Slepian showed both musical and technical talent early in life. In 1968, he programmed computers and built electronic music circuitry, sculpting sound with classic electronic music studio tape techniques. In 1972, he was a tester on the early internet as a member of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA).

Don has been presented by WNYC’s “New Sounds” show in New York’s Lincoln Center, by the French Ministry of Culture at the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris, by the Karen Baptist Church for performances in the refugee camps at the border of Burma and Thailand, and has toured in Hong Kong and Singapore, among other venues, around the world.

He currently webcasts from his studio in the Pocono Mountains of Pennsylvania. He is President of Local 577, American Federation of Musicians and Music Minister at All Souls Christian Center of East Stroudsburg, PA.

Mitchell and Don first met and got friendly in the mid-1980's when they were both part of a spiritual community (Synchronicity Foundation) using music and language to create coherence between the two hemispheres of the brain, clear the subconscious mind  of old, bad habits and open the way for novel thought and development.

For more on Don's music and work: http://donslepian.com.

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