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EPISODE #220: STANDING WITH GIANTS, AT MARIPOSA GROVE

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This is EPISODE #220: STANDING WITH GIANTS, AT MARIPOSA GROVE. Mariposa Grove was a sacred forest for millennia before it became part of the U.S. Yosemite Grant, lovingly tended by Yosemite Guardian Galen Clark for more than a quarter century.

Sacred groves and forests are protected for their spiritual and ecological importance. Such groves are found today throughout India (home of more than a million holy forests), Japan (many thousands of chinju no mori surrounding Shinto temples), and Ethiopia (35,000 primal forests circling Ethiopian Orthodox churches).  (more…)

EPISODE 164: OWL-EYE’S VIEW

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The owl looks down upon the little desert town

What has horns and flies overhead at night? The Great Horned Owl, that’s who. Although the “horns” are just the feather shapes — ear feathers! — and not actual horn material. As far as science knows. Join us at 10 p.m. tonight on KCDZ 107.7 FM or use your phone as the world’s most expensive pocket radio, as we examine the bird’s-eye view of the world, and what it can do for your state of mind.

It’s EPISODE 164: OWL-EYE’S VIEW. Hosted by Ken Layne with new soundscapes by RedBlueBlackSilver.

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EPISODE #149: EMPTY CHURCHES FOR FUN & (NON) PROFIT

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I'M GOING TO KILL BILL

Sure are a lot of mostly abandoned churches out here in the California desert. A lot of good community real estate. How do you take over churches? Like the little old run-down church—a religious non-profit—just sitting there. Nobody’s using it. Maybe all you’ve got to do is find the person who runs the joint. Maybe it’s down to the last person, the organist or whoever. The fourth deacon …. Now is the time for EPISODE #149: EMPTY CHURCHES FOR FUN & (NON) PROFIT.

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Tonight at 10 P.M. on KCDZ 107.7 FM in Joshua Tree & the Mojave High Desert, a new episode plus a weird classic at 10:30 P.M. We appreciate your support of the show on Patreon. New soundscapes tonight by RedBlueBlackSilver.

#078: BLESS US, SAINT MINERVA

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Saint Minerva, Joshua Tree

Have you heard the Good News about St. Minerva, patron goddess of the desert wilderness? Well here’s a fresh episode of Desert Oracle Radio, on that very topic.

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