Paul Nelson first started conducting interviews in his early radio days, Chicago 1980. In 1990 he was promoted to News & Community Affairs Director of KKNW (106.9 in Seattle) and over the next 14 years created nearly 500 hours of innovative and compelling public affairs radio programs.
Building from his early interest in holistic medicine, his interviews soon began to see the holistic approach in all facets of life, as well as the
inadequacies of the industry-generated culture. In 1994 he interviewed Allen Ginsberg and three years later co-founded the Northwest SPokenword LAB in Auburn, Washington, now know as SPLAB and operating in Seattle’s Columbia City neighborhood.
If there was an “A” list of whole-systems luminaries, Paul interviewed many of them and is putting together a manuscript of some of the most fascinating interviews into a project called American Prophets. In 2011, the Occupy movement was born, expressing outrage and indignation at the worst abuses of the military-industrial complex, but Paul was there in 1990, interviewing authors, poets and activists, all of whom had an angle on how things could be and how things were evolving past the notion of human as machine and the competition/domination ethos (or lack thereof.)
Besides Allen Ginsberg, the archives created by Paul include interviews with Bhagavan Das, Jean Houston, Jerome Rothenberg, Father Matthew Fox, Riane Eisler, Michael Murphy, Wanda Coleman, Douglass Rushkoff, Anne Waldman, Beaver Chief, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Corrine McLaughlin & Gordon Davidson, Eileen Myles, Dominick DellaSala, Cecile Andrews, Ethelbert Miller, Gloria DeGaetano, Clarissa Pinkola Estes, Michael Meade, Diane diPrima, John Hogue, Leonard Schlain, Michael McClure, Rupert Sheldrake, Larry Dossey, Nikky Finney, Dennis William Hauck, Sam Keen, Mona Lisa Schultz, Robert Thurman, Joanne Kyger, Neil Jacobson, Tom Frank, Brooke Medicine Eagle, Paul Ray & Sherry Anderson, Hal & Sidra Stone, Maria Amparo Escandon, Sallie Ann Glassman, Judyth Reichenberg-Ullman & Robert Ullman, Ed Sanders, Andrew Harvey, Daniel Williams, Phyllis Curott, John Robbins, Jamal Rahman, Frances Moore Lappe & Anna Lappe, Susan Starbuck, Stephen Zunes, Sam Hamill, Andrew Schelling, Thom Hartmann, Kurt Elling,
Erica Helm Meade, Steven Hill, Medea Benjamin, Marita Dingus, Michael Shuman, Gary Ferguson, Kathleen Dean Moore, Ed Larson, David Montgomery, Peter Balakian, V.J. Vaitheeswaran, George Bowering, Arun Gandhi, Judith Orloff, Harriet Rubin, Jeffrey Hollander, Dawn Prince-Hughes, Solihin and Alicia Thom, Laura Simms, Loretta Napoleoni.
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