C-Realm Podcast
By KMO
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Podcast Description
The C-Realm is a weekly, interview-based program which features discussions on topics ranging from a possible technological singularity, to entheogenic exploration, the re-localization of community and agriculture, and the competing narratives by which we define ourselves and navigation our world.
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298: No Safe Path | KMO welcomes visionary and solution architect, Philip Horvath, back to the C-Realm Podcast to talk about the role of the artist, value creation versus value conversion, and the possibilities for personal and cultural transformation in 2012. Philip talks about why he'd rather face uncertain times in L.A. than in the comfort of his native Germany, and KMO explains his Doomer Bodhisattva Vow. Music by Mane Rok. | 2/22/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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297: The Temple of Biological Mysticism | KMO welcomes Joh Rappoport of NoMoreFakeNews to the C-Realm Podcast to discuss the institution of medicine as the religion of the modern age. Jon has spent 30 years as an investigative journalist, and his investigations have prompted him to ask questions which few journalists dare to ask. He challenges the methodology by which pathogens are identified as the causes of supposedly discrete diseases. The conversation turns to the slander of citizen journalists in Steven Soderberg's film Contagion, and KMO concludes with a reading to the essay "Introducing the Cultural Psychopomp" by Bodhi Paul Chefurka. Music by Dan Bull. | 2/15/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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296: A Dynamic Mirror | KMO continues his conversation on technology, transhumanism, and the technological singularity with Nikki Olson and Nikola Danaylov of the Singularity Weblog. Does death help clear the board and relieve human civilization of the weight of outmoded ideological commitments, or is it an unmitigated evil which must be overcome? Nikola talks about hard and soft takeoff singularity scenarios and Nikki muses over whether a hard takeoff might seem smooth to sufficiently augmented human minds. KMO voices skepticism at the idea that nanotechnology, even if it really does deliver us into an age of post-scarcity, will eliminate exploitation of the Third World by economic elites. Music by Hobo Kings (Jon Margulies and Sub Swara) re-mixed by April White. | 2/8/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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295: A Sociological Craving for Normality | KMO welcomes Nikki Olson and Nikola Danaylov back to the C-Realm to talk about technology and rationality. Nikola responds to a C-Realm listener's comments about the diminishing returns of technology, and Nikki explains why she thinks calling a technological development like the iPhone a "mini singularity" is like calling a gentle breeze a "mini hurricane." In the second half of the program, the conversation turns to the normality bias. Nikola says that we're all lazy by nature and that in a constantly changing environment we must remain adaptable or perish. KMO ends the episode with a rant about how NPR presents vicious propaganda and pseudoscience under the genteel aegis of informed medical opinion. Music by The Transpersonals. Gerard Sanacora, PhD, MD Professor of Psychiatry; Director, Yale Depression Research Program can be reached via email at gerard.sanacora@yale.edu | 2/1/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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294: Hypocrisy and Devil’s Advocacy | KMO welcomes Liz Reitzig of Raw Milk Freedom Riders back to the program to talk about the FDA's campaign against raw milk and families who trust their own judgment more than they trust that of federal agencies in state of regulatory capture by giant agribusiness corporations. KMO plays devil's advocate and mounts a strong challenge to his own libertarian ideals as they discuss the presidential candidacy of Ron Paul. KMO brings in the voices of Joel Salitin, Sheriff Richard Mack, and Mike Daisy to put the raw milk question into a larger context. Music by Dan Bull. Read Nicole Foss's essay The Storm Surge of Decentralization. Join Albert Bates and Cliff Davis for the 7th Annual Maya Mountain Research Farm Permaculture Design Course. | 1/25/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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293: Infinite Rehypothecation | KMO welcomes Nicole Foss (AKA Stoneleigh) of the Automatic Earth blog to the C-Realm to discuss the need for re-localization; something which central authorities will work to quash lest it interfere with the conveyance of wealth from the periphery to the center. Nicole explains what she means when she describes cash as "a pile of unmade choices" and why she cannot offer her uncomplicated support for political movements like the Tea Party or Occupy Wall Street. She does voice her strong support for permaculture and for restoring soil fertility. Music by Andrew Woods. Click here to learn more about the 7th Annual Permaculture Design Course at Maya Mountain Research Farm. | 1/18/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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292: Limited Hangouts and Perception Management | KMO welcomes Mark Robinowitz of OilEmpire.us back to the C-Realm to discuss economics, protest, and the management of mainstream worlviews by the corporate media. Mark explains why he regards the presidential election as a form a theater and why he holds no enthusiasm for the candidacy of Ron Paul. Music by Kurt Liebezeit. | 1/11/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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291: High Energy and Low Latency | KMO talks with Bruce Damer and Galen Brandt about what it's like to have crossed the threshold into 2012 after so many years of having our expectations built up listening to Terence McKenna talk about novelty and concrescence. Other topics of discussion include upgrading our personal and societal operating systems, the complexity of our world made by nerds, and the reality of the situation on the ground in Pakistan and how it differs from the worldview propagated by the screaming media. Music by Mawwal. | 1/4/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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290: This Anarchist Moment | KMO welcomes C-Realm Podcast regular, Eric Boyd, back to the program to talk about the protest movements of 2011, the need for, and roadblocks to, a debt jubilee, and whether there is any meaningful distinction to be drawn between extreme libertarianism and anarchism. They both stick their necks out and make predictions for 2012. Music by Garret Wayseer. | 12/28/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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289: Clinging to Dissolving Fictions | KMO welcomes Doug Lain back to the program to discuss his novella, Wave of Mutilation, a tale of bizarro fiction in the fourth-wall-shattering tradition of VALIS. The discussion, of course, turns to Occupy Wall Street, and Doug suggests that the prevailing anarchist mentality of the protest movement could learn something from Marxist Communism, even though Doug admits that he doesn't know enough about Marxism to call himself a Marxist. KMO concludes with readings from David Brin and David Graeber. Music by Tiny Machines. | 12/21/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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288: Ask the Oracle | What does 2012 hold in store? KMO put that question to Steve Keen, Nicole Foss and Thomas H. Greco. In the second half of the program, KMO shares recordings from this year's ASPO-USA conference and responds to questions from listeners. Music by Resist Not. | 12/14/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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287: American Brigadoon | KMO welcomes KunstlerCast host, Duncan Crary, back to the C-Realm to talk about his four-year intellectual apprenticeship which has culiminated in his new book, The KunstlerCast: Conversations with James Howard Kunstler. Duncan extols the virtues of life in Troy, New York, which requires of him neither cell phone nor automobile. The conversation turns to the Occupy movement, the Ecovillage Training Center, and, of course, podcasting. KMO concludes the podcast with praise for David Graeber's new book, Debt: The First 5,000 Years. Music by Deertick. | 12/7/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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286: Cats for Everyone | KMO welcomes filmmaker and novelist Timothy Scott Bennett back to the C-Realm to discuss vision quests and the search for a new story by which to orient the human relationship to our world. For 10,000 years, humans have lived the story that the world was made for our use, and this programming has brought us to the edge of ecological ruin. In the second half of the conversation Tim reads from his new novel, All of the Above, and Tim explains why he mixed concerns about peak oil and environmental degradation with aliens, UFOs, and other seemingly frivolous and fanciful elements. Monologist, Martin Dockery describes how the police could brutalize protesters without having to live with the consequences of having their actions captured on video. Music by Kyrstyn Pixton. | 11/30/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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285: The Rhetoric of Doom | This episode of the C-Realm Podcast features a conversation between KMO, Guy McPherson, Kurt Cobb, and Henry Warwick. Guy hopes for a crash of industrial civilization in the near term, Kurt warns that saying "collapse" in front of a general audience is like cursing around children, and Henry details his criticisms of ecological rhetoric; criticisms that apply to the peak oil and climate change crowds as well. Music by Tiny Machines. | 11/23/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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284: Stocks, Flows & the MEGO Effect | KMO welcomes anti-economist Professor Steve Keen to the C-Realm to detail the limitations of neoclassical economics as well as popular misconceptions promulgated by advocates of alternative economics. Professor Keen disposes of the "moral hazard" argument against the inevitable debt jubilee and provides some advice for weathering the looming economic tumult. Music by Fernando Tarango. | 11/16/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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283: To ASPO and Beyond | KMO travels to Washington DC for the annual ASPO conference and the NYC for Occupy This, a night of discussion on the topic of Occupy Wall Street. Featuring the voices of Dmitry Orlov, Aaron Wissner, Mark Robinowitz, and Dennis Meadows. Music by Tiny Machines. | 11/9/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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282: Techno-Hopes, Dreams & Expectations | KMO, Olga K, and Albert Bates take the C-Realm Podcast on the road. First Stop: the ASPO-USA conference in Washington DC. Podcasting from the home of C-Realm guest Gary Borjesson, KMO talks with Albert and Olga about the trip itinerary, and KMO plays conversations with James Howard Kunstler, David McFadzean, and Nikola Danaylov, AKA Socrates of the Singularity Weblog, on the topic of technology. Do accelerating returns in the advancement information technology yield corresponding improvements in human quality of life, or have we reached a point of diminishing marginal returns? Music by Kai Altair. | 11/2/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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281: The One Percent Narrative | KMO turns the first half of this week's C-Realm Podcast over to rational UFO researcher, Larry Lowe, who weaves together clips from the movie Network, a clip from last week's episode, and historical information about Project Mockingbird to demonstrate how the corporate media manages the opinions of the many for the benefit of the few. Later in the episode, Tim Bennett, creator of the film What a Way to Go: Life ant the End of Empire, talks about the difficult process of grappling with marginalized topics and fringe ideas. Both Tim and his partner Sally Erickson will be presenters at the upcoming Local Futures conference. Jay Smooth describes how the OWS movement is outing the corporate "ringers," and KMO concludes with a reading from a recent blog post by Matt Tiabbi about the most recent Corporate Media strategy to discredit the OWS movement. Music by Deep 1 and Rhiannon Giddens. | 10/26/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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280: OWS – the Spark | KMO covers the evolving Occupy Wall Street protests in New York City speaking with protesters and non-protesters alike, along with a volunteer army of citizen journalists, to provide an account of events on the ground to which the corporate media turn a blind eye or a baleful gaze. | 10/19/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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279: Overvaluing Genius | KMO talks with Jim Kunstler about the meaning of the Occupy Wall Street movement and about how damaged and clueless the youth of America have become. "Get off my lawn, you rotten kids!" | 10/12/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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278: Functional Interconnections | KMO welcomes permaculturalists Dave Jacke, author of Edible Forest Gardens, and Cliff Davis, co-director of Spiral Ridge Permaculture Gardens, back to the podcast to discuss permacultural consciousness and how it applies to ecovillages, marriages, as well as personal and societal transformation. Music by Tim's Myth. | 10/5/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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277: The Planes of Mind and Matter | KMO talks with John Michael Greer about magic, economics, and the contemporary allergy to anything that isn't cast in familiar modern tropes. | 9/28/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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276: The Lure of the Apocalypse Meme | KMO talks with John Micheal Greer about the history of the Apocalypse Meme. | 9/21/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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275: Nine Eleven Turns Ten | Mark Robinowitz guides KMO through the tangle of 9/11 conspiracy theories to differentiate between verifiable charges of complicity and wild and baseless fantasies. | 9/14/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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274: Victims and Pepetrators | KMO interviews Joanna Harcourt Smith about her book project which recounts her time with Timothy Leary. | 9/8/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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273: From the Heart to the Fringe | In the second half of KMO's recent face to face interview with Charles Eisenstein, the conversation picks up where the previous episode left off. Charles describe the coming gift economy, and KMO channels John Michael Greer to challenge the notion of a rapid, practically miraculous, transformation of consciousness and society. Near the end, the conversation veers to more esoteric and potentially treacherous narratives. | 8/31/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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272: Emperor of What? | KMO welcomes Charles Eisenstein back to the C-Realm Podcast to discus his new book, Sacred Economics: Money, Gift, and Society in the Age of Transition. Charles talks about interest and the economic imperatives that it fosters. If the value of money decreased over time rather than growing via interest, then it would be clear to everyone that the best thing one can do with one's money is to spend it quickly and close to home. In times of chaos and potential collapse, the best way to preserve wealth is to give your money away to those in need. Music by Inspired Flight. You can also hear Charles Eisenstein on the Stepping Off the Edge podcast. | 8/24/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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271: Criminality Pure & Simple | KMO and the Dopefiend talk about the UK riots. | 8/17/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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270: Money, Markets and Meaning | KMO discusses biochar and bioremediation with ETC visitor, Carolyn Hoagland. Albert Bates responds to critics of the use of biochar. Later, Kevin Jones of Social Capital Markets talks about using appropriate technology and markets as tools for improving the human condition. Music by Scott Sullivan. | 8/15/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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269: A Better Laugh Track | KMO welcomes Doug Lain of the Diet Soap Podcast back to the C-Realm to discuss creative destruction, the motives of financial elites, and the tradition of working class solidarity in France. The US abandoned the use of gold as money because we needed a money supply that could expact along with a rapidly growing economy. Why then is the money supply still growing now that the economy is contracting? Doug concludes the conversation by discussing how the global financial elites, the people Max Kaiser calls kleptocratic oligarchs, don't even need to believe their own self-serving ideologies when they have the market to believe it for them. | 8/4/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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268: Clockwork Follies | KMO talks with Erik Davis about DMT, Alex Jones, and Philip K. Dick. Music by Southside. | 7/27/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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267: Damaged Yet Dominant | KMO talks with Tony Wright about the degeneration of human cognitive capacity over evolutionary time scales. | 7/21/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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266: A Black Hole of Debt | Richard Heinberg and Dmitry Orlov compare notes on the economic black hole of debt that threatens to topple the current economic paradigm. | 7/13/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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265: Legal Tender and the Credit Clearing Function | Thomas H Greco, Jr. talks about money, interest, legal tender, and the undemocratic concentrations of power that "political money" makes possible. | 7/7/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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264: Made in the Schade | KMO welcomes researcher Carleton Schade to the C-Realm Podcast to discuss UN population projections for the 21st Century and whether those claims take things like resource depletion and degradation of agricultural land into account. Carleton explains why we are unlikly to find our salvation in the form of a demographic trend toward smaller families with fewer babies but rising consumption, a technological life-preserver, or a return to the economics of perpetual growth. That leaves a shift in human consciousness, as envisioned and described by Jeremy Rifkin, as the only remaining candidate visible on the scene. Music by Critter Jones | 6/29/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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263: Re-capturing the Awe | KMO welcomes psychotherapist, Neal M. Goldsmith, to the C-Realm to talk about the themes of his new book, Psychedelic Healing: The Promise of Entheogens for Psychotherapy and Spiritual Development. The quantitative, cut-and-control mentality gives humans great power to manipulate the natural world. Neal does not suggest for an instant that we abandon this very useful mental mode, but he does think that pyschedelics and indigenous peoples can offer us an expanded psychological repertoire that does not require that we renounce the control that the scientific paradigm affords us. Music by Hobotech. Links for further exploration of the topics discussed in this episode: The Future of the Body by Michael Murphy. Ken Wilber and Integral Theory Sam Harris on atheistic spirituality. Thomas Szasz on All in the Mind. Horizons NYC Conference. MAPS website and KMO's conversation with Rick Doblin C-Realm interview with Jacob Sullum on psychedelics and religious freedom. | 6/22/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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262: Assume the Can is Open | KMO talks with John Michael Greer about economics | 6/16/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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261: Friends, Neighbors, and Passers Through | Surviving collapse and the zombie apocalypse, finding work trade arrangements on the road, and self-promotion in an age when everything is in flux and trivial garbage can garner an audience of millions overnight. | 6/8/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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260: Utopias and Intentional Communites | Is there any such thing as a perfect human society even in theory? Are there any objective measures by which to compare actual societies and judge some as superior to others? KMO talks with Prof. Bob Rosenthal about the idea of Utopia. The conversation ranges from Plato's Republic and Sir Thomas More's vision of the perfect society to actual, functioning subcultures like the Anabaptists and intentional communities like the Farm. Music by Sarah Jarosz. | 6/6/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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259: The Paranormal Response | http://crealm.libsyn.com/259-the-paranormal-response KMO welcomes Paratopia co-host, Jeff Ritzman, to the C-Realm to discuss perspectives on the UFO phenomenon that are more subtle than the literal nuts-and-bolts extraterrestrial hypothesis (ETH). Many people have invested their identities in the ETH and reject efforts by the likes of Terence McKenna and Jacques Valee to frame it as anything other than astronauts from other star systems. Music by David Leakey. | 5/25/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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257: Intelligence and Ferocity | KMO welcomes author and blogger, Dave Pollard to the program to talk about transition. Dave thinks that industrial civilization is facing likely collapse, but he remains optimistic about the prospect of making a graceful transition to something more sustainable and humane. KMO plays Doomer's advocate. Early in the program, Tara Holste describes the heavy-handed tactics that the FDA employed against a group of families that have forged an alliance with a Pennsylvania farmer to provide fresh milk and dairy products to people who prefer them to the pasteurized, homogenized products of the commodity food industry. Music by Dave Leaky courtesy of Conscious Sounds | 5/11/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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256: The Columbian Exchange | http://c-realmpodcast.podomatic.com/entry/2011-05-04T12_07_15-07_00 KMO welcomes 1491 author Charles Mann to the program to talk about the economic, political, sociological, and perhaps most important, biological homogenization that began when Admiral Cristóbal Colón established the first European outpost in what is now the Dominican Republic. This so-called Columbian Exchange initiated a bonanza in global trade which lead to the first global economic crisis. Is that cat out of the bag, or is there still something to be gained by trying to put the breaks on this global free-for-all? Music by Woodland5. Book Links: http://www.orionmagazine.org/index.php/articles/article/6250 http://www.powells.com/biblio/62-9780307265722-0 http://astore.amazon.com/crealm/detail/0307265722 Other podcasts with KMO: ETC Voices Podcast: http://etcjournal.blogspot.com/ Z-Realm Podcast: http://zrealmpodcast.blogspot.com/2011/04/world-war-z-part-1-warnings.html | 5/4/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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255: Buddha of the Bowel | KMO concludes his talk with Fat Head filmmaker, Tom Naughton, who answers the question, "What makes people fat?" In the second half of the program, naturopath, Scott Cousland fills in some of the details about why animal fat gets a bad rap and grains get an undeserved pass. The Lipid Hypothesis had languished for a hundred years before the US Federal Government took it up in the wake of the Green Revolution. What a coincidence that the FDA championed a grain-based diet as the key to health just when a technological revolution in farming created an unprecedented surplus of grains. Music by Amy Thiessen. Interview on The Learning Channel from Scott Cousland on Vimeo. | 4/27/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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254: Mindset of the True Believer | This week's episode features a conversation about True Believers with Tom Naughton, the author of Fat Head, a film which takes a critical look at Morgan Spurlock's Super Size Me and the dietary orthodoxy it represents. At the beginning of the episode KMO reads from Tom's essay, The Vegan True Believers. Bob Hartwig described it as "a really insightful and challenging episode of the C-Realm podcast. KMO and guest touch on misinformation, postmodernism, libertarianism, and all manner of True Believers. They even discuss those among my fellow vegans who are not above propagating misinformation in the interest of advancing their agenda." Music by Fernando Tarango. | 4/20/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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253: Grasp the Nettle | http://crealm.libsyn.com/253-grasp-the-nettle KMO welcomes C-Realm regular, Neil Kramer, back to the program in an attempt to inject a bit of reasonable optimism to the C-Realm cavalcade of doom and gloom. Can changing consciousness change the external world? Many say that this is impossible, but according to Neil, no significant improvement in our external condition will take unless we lay the groundwork with a prior internal change. KMO reads an email exchange with Eric Boyd which makes reference to a recent Dark Mountain essay by Paul Kingsnorth and the book The Rebel Sell: Why the Culture Can't Be Jammed. Music by Kyrstyn Pixton. | 4/14/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Special: Boots and Mocha | Mocha sets out to catch a mouse and instead acquires the ability to think and speak. | 4/10/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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252: Your Chrismas Pony: Paleo or High Tech? | KMO talks with Lierre Keith and Tara Holste about agriculture and the civilizations to which it gives rise. Lierre argues that vegetarianism, no matter the motivation, destroys the Earth as readily as does a diet heavy with meat so long as it depends on annual mono-cropping. Her expression of this opinion has drawn scorn and physical assaults from vegan ideologues. Lierre wants humans to return to a pre-agricultural existence, and she does not admit of any possibility of moving beyond civilization into something sustainable yet distinct from the paleolithic mode of human existence. Music by Fernando Tarango A listener sent this link to the work of Thomas Linzey, the anti corporation lawyer Lierre mentioned in the episode. He has written Be the Change and has apparently appeared at the Bioneers Conference. E F. Schumaker Lecture: http://www.smallisbeautiful.org/publications/linzey_06.html Before the interview I read a short excerpt from this blog post by Kevin Kelly: http://www.kk.org/thetechnium/archives/2011/03/radical_optimis.php Be sure to check out the comments. | 4/6/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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251: Inherent Risks | http://crealm.libsyn.com/251-inherent-risks KMO presents the conclusion of Larry Lowe's interview with Nikki Olsen. They discuss the overlaps between the views of the Singularitarians and advocates of the UFOlogists; overlaps which will probably irritate members of both communities. Nikki explains that some risks are inherent when it comes to self-replicating and/or self-aware, super-intelligent technologies, but that relinquishment is not a workable solution. Music by Glöd Interview with Jaron Lanier: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8FYj1wKyaY | 3/30/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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250: Singularitarians and UFOlogists | http://crealm.libsyn.com/250-singularitarians-and-uf-ologists Larry Lowe talks with Nikki Olson, a Singularitarian blogger who attended the 20th Anniversary International UFO Congress. She noted a lack of tech-savvy young people at the event, and she took the audience to be overly credulous. Even so, both Nikki and Larry think that the usually insular UFO and Singularity communities each have something useful to offer one another. Larry does double duty as he admirably represents both the community of rational UFOlogists and the usual contingent of C-Realm concerns. The episode also features clips from Terence McKenna (taken from Psychedelic Salon episode 258) and James Burkeas well as commentary from Eric Boyd. Music by Kyrstyn Pixton Why the future doesn't need us: Our most powerful 21st-century technologies - robotics, genetic engineering, and nanotech - are threatening to make humans an endangered species. By Bill Joy Larry's Show Notes: Singularity Weblog http://tinyurl.com/6zlv2fn The Singularity and UFOs: Can ET Teach Us Anything about the Singularity? by Nikki Olson on March 4, 2011 The connections between extraterrestrial life and future technology are numerous, and have been widely discussed in science fiction literature and by physicists such as Michio Kaku. There is basic logic to the connection: if life in other galaxies is able to travel to our galaxy, it is thought, then we should assume their technology is more advanced than our own and that they have already reached their ‘Singularity.’ Travis Walton http://www.travis-walton.com/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Travis_Walton On Monday, November 10, all of Rogers' remaining crew took polygraph examinations administered by Cy Gilson, an Arizona Department of Public Safety employee. His questions asked if any of the men caused harm to Travis (or knew who had caused Travis harm), if they knew where Travis's body was buried, and if they told the truth about seeing a UFO. The men all denied harming Travis (or knowing who had harmed him), denied knowing where his body was, and insisted they had indeed seen a UFO. Excepting Dallis (who had not completed his exam, thus rendering it invalid), Gilson concluded that all the men were truthful, and the exam results were conclusive. Clark quotes from Gilson's official report: "These polygraph examinations prove that these five men did see some object they believed to be a UFO, and that Travis Walton was not injured or murdered by any of these men on that Wednesday". If the UFO was fake, Gilson thought, "five of these men had no prior knowledge of it". http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pRAZm40_KAc http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dIrxegLNGd0 Fire in the Sky http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9LhshgLJuuM In 1993, Walton's book was adapted into a film, Fire in the Sky, directed by Robert Lieberman and starring D. B. Sweeney as Travis Walton, Robert Patrick as Mike Rogers and Scott MacDonald as Travis's Brother Dan Walton. Clark writes that the film found "Moderate success, mixed reviews, and ufologists' complaints about its inaccuracies and exaggerations." (Clark, 650) Especially inaccurate was the portion of the film detailing his time on the UFO; it bears almost no resemblance to the original narrative. In the renewed publicity generated by the motion picture, Walton, Mike Rogers and Allen Dallis agreed to take polygraph examinations at the behest of "a skeptical ufologist, Jerry Black". (Clark, 650) Again, the tests were conducted by Cy Gilson, and the men all asserted that the events as they related them were true. Gilson concluded that all three men were truthful in regard to their responses about the events of November 5, 1975. Lloyd Pye http://www.starchildproject.com/dna2010.htm In Brief: A modified "shotgun" DNA recovery technique has been successfully used to recover coherent segments of the Starchild Skull's nuclear DNA. | 3/23/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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249: Episode Title To Be Decided | http://crealm.libsyn.com/249-episode-title-to-be-decided KMO talks with Farm School principal, Peter Kindfield about Tai Chi styles and lineages, education, intentional communities (the Farm in particular), Non-Violent Communication, politics, and the like. The two Farm websites that Peter and I referenced in our conversation are: http://www.thefarmcommunity.com/ (which seems to be broken right now) and http://www.thefarm.org/ Music by Fernando Tarango. | 3/18/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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248: Courage, Compassion & Creativity | KMO welcomes Guy McPherson, author of the Nature Bats Last blog, to the C-Realm Podcast to discuss population overshoot, the impact of city living versus rural living, energy descent, the Echo Chamber, confirmation bias and transhumanism. KMO shares feedback from the author of the neufneuf blog. | 3/9/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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247: The State of the Frakking Realm | http://c-realmpodcast.podomatic.com/entry/2011-03-02T05_54_57-08_00 KMO welcomes Karl Kline to the C-Realm Podcast to discuss the business and dangers of hydro-fracking before moving into an episode by episode recap of C-Realm Podcast episodes 239 through 246 with extra attention paid to KMO and Eric Boyd's response to Zeitgeist: Moving Forward in episode 245. Bonus Material: Bonus content is now available to listeners with the C-Realm iPhone app or the Android app. Z-Realm Podcast #14:Not the Teeth, Tammy Music by Mistle Thrush. | 3/2/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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246: Navigating the Coming Chaos | http://crealm.libsyn.com/246-navigating-the-coming-chaos KMO welcomes Carolyn Baker back to the program to discuss her new book, Navigating the Coming Chaos: A Handbook for Inner Transition. They weigh the merits of focusing on the machinations of the New World Order, and Carolyn explains why she thinks people are starting to see through the capitalist propaganda of the American Dream. Music by Mistle Thrush. KMO was the guest on the Shroom with a View Podcast and the Gut and Bone Show. | 2/23/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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245: Moving Forward | http://crealm.libsyn.com/245-moving-forward KMO welcomes Eric Boyd back to the podcast to discuss the new film by Peter Joseph, Zeitgeist: Moving Forward. KMO and Eric agree with a lot of the concerns that motivate the Zeitgeist project, but even Eric, who is confident that technological innovations will see us through the decline of petroleum without serious upheaval, thinks that Mr. Joseph and Venus Project mastermind, Jacques Fresco, hold unreasonable expectations for the power of computer and robotic technology to provide the organizational and muscle power for a high tech utopia. | 2/16/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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244: Facebook Jesus | http://crealm.libsyn.com/244-facebook-jesus KMO welcomes Dan Krotz back to the program. Dan and KMO conjure an image of the United States marked by widening disparity between the have-nots and the have-lots. College costs more than ever and no longer ensures the kind of professional job that will allow the graduate to escape the student debt that will keep them working for their creditors rather living the $80K a year lifestyle that the mainstream narrative tells them they are supposed to live. In spite of the Internet, Dan thinks we remain seriously disconnected from one another at a time when we ought to be collaborating and cooperating to create resilient communities. | 2/9/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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243: Embracing Your Own Authority | http://crealm.libsyn.com/243-embracing-your-own-authority KMO welcomes Gary Borjesson to the C-Realm Podcast to talk about dogs, human/dog interactions and the hierarchical aspect of dog social behavior -- something which probably gets way too much play in our thinking about how we relate to dogs. Author Jean Donaldson warns us not to anthropomorphize our dogs and attribute human motivations and concerns to them, but Gary advises us not to mistake dogs for wolves or underestimate the importance of humans to the thinking of dogs. Not even the great apes are as sensitive to the nuances of human gesture as dogs are. Getting along with humans is central to the dog's survival strategy, so the disposition of nearby humans is always high on any dog's list of concerns. Music by Mistle Thrush | 2/2/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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242: The KMO Roadshow | This episode features a presentation that KMO gave on his book, Conversations on Collapse, at the home of Gary Borjesson in Annapolis, Maryland. KMO reads the preface of the book, talks about the origin and evolution of the C-Realm Podcast, and talks about the human capacity to deny the obvious. Music by The Margins. | 1/26/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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241: Recognizing the box we’re in | Albert K. Bates returns to the C-Realm Podcast to share his experiences of the United Nations climate summit in Cancun, Mexico. Albert holds out hope that the U.N. can respond to climate change more adaptively than can nation states with their moribund politics. Music by Inspired Flight. | 1/19/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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240: Another Tenant in the Building | http://crealm.libsyn.com/240-another-tenant-in-the-building KMO talks with rational UFO researcher Larry Lowe about the possibility of a co-indigenous terrestrial intelligence as the source of at least some reported encounters with "aliens." KMO and Larry wrestle with the problem of "high stangeness" in experiencer accounts that renders them completely incredible regardless of the credibility of the witness. They also listen and respond to audio clips from George Knapp and Terrence McKenna and consider the possibility that the aim of the mysterious Other is to goad humans in the direction of a holistic, ecological style of consciousness. Music by Jungle Physicians. Bonus Material Update: This episode' bonus content is now available to listeners with the C-Realm iPhone app or the Android app. Links from Larry Lowe: Full George Knapp Interview on Joiner Report: http://www.angeliajoiner.com/?p=1152 Archive URL for the full mp3; http://www.floridauforadio.com/joinerreportgeorgeknapp.mp3 Psychedelic Salon episode 245 McKenna http://www.matrixmasters.net/salon/?p=318 NOTE: This podcast is a “companion” to KMO’s podcast #224 “Viral Disclosure”. http://c-realmpodcast.podomatic.com/player/web/2010-09-22T17_45_39-07_00 Lloyd Pye Starchild Skull: http://www.starchildproject.com/ Jacques Vallee http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques_Vall%C3%A9e Jacques Vallee, "Five Arguments Against the Extraterrestrial Origin of Unidentified Flying Objects," Journal of Scientific Exploration 4, no. 1 http://www.scientificexploration.org/journal/jse_04_1_vallee_2.pdf Controversial Science: http://www.controversial-science.com/tmatt/excerpt4.html The Art of Close Encounters: http://closeencounterspublishing.com/ The appearance of a Man by Daniel Pace http://www.theappearanceofaman.com/ Review: http://tinyurl.com/2ebqx7q Aliens living among us: http://tinyurl.com/4f9nqkv | 1/12/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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239: Democracy in a Box | http://crealm.libsyn.com/239-democracy-in-a-box KMO welcomes Afghanistan war veteran, Jacob George, to the program to talk about cycling for peace, war resistance from inside the military, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, Military Sexual Trauma, and the misguided attempt to impose Western social norms and political structures on the tribal societies of Afghanistan. Music by Madeline Ava. Veterans On Cross Country Biking Pilgrimage to Protest the War in Afghanistan by Nick Copeland You won't hear it in the episode, but in the conversation with Jacob I described this episode of the Diane Rehm show: http://thedianerehmshow.org/shows/2010-08-12/fight-against-taliban-afghanistan | 1/5/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Special: Songs from the C-Realm | Show notes to be added at a future point. | 12/31/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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238: A Permanent Low-Level Bardoness | http://crealm.libsyn.com/238-a-permanent-low-level-bardoness KMO talks with Erik Davis about his new book, Nomad Codes: Adventures in Modern Esotericism. Erik details the fundamental paradox of the counter-culture -- the communications technologies that let non-conformist freaks coalesce on the fringe can also render their scene mainstream and lame with shocking speed. A Bardo is a space between worlds, and the speed and ubiquity of cultural and technological change creates Bardos everywhere. KMO concludes with audio recorded on the road and some thoughts about his journey in 2010. Music by Float 23 and LouD Speka. | 12/29/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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237: Food Terrorism & Sedition | http://crealm.libsyn.com/237-food-terrorism-and-sedition KMO talks with Tara Holste and Liz Reitzig about the benefits and potential dangers of drinking fresh milk. A new package of legislation recently approved by the US Senate will, according to foodie advocates like Michael Pollan, give the FDA the authority they need to protect consumers from unscrupulous agribusiness and food processing corporations. Others see it as the next step in the on-going campaign to sabotage our health and autonomy and push people who want access to wholesome, local, farm products into the clutches of the industrial food behemoth. Music by Mistle Thrush. http://www.tolkienprofessor.com/lectures/chats.html You can find the Club Orlov entry from which I read here: http://cluborlov.blogspot.com/2010/11/americathe-grim-truth.html Be sure to read the comments as well as the entry. | 12/22/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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236: The Wedge of Hope | http://crealm.libsyn.com/236-the-wedge-of-hope KMO and Karl Klein visit Dr. David Murphy in his office at SUNY-ESF to discuss energy and economic growth. In the past, economic growth has required increased oil supplies, but where will we find the fossil fuel energy needed to keep industrial societies on the growth track? An increasing portion of our projected energy usage will come from as-yet-undeveloped and even undiscovered sources. Dave Murphy calls this growing slice of the energy pie "the Wedge of Hope." KMO rants about debt and moral hazard and closes the program with readings from Reverend Nemu on philosophy and knowledge and William Zinsser on verbs and adverbs. Music by Float 23 The C-Realm Podcast Android App is now available. http://www.appbrain.com/app/the-c-realm/tv.wizzard.android.crealm5 | 12/17/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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235: Depletion and Frakking Technology | KMO talks with Charles Hall about Peak Oil, economics, technology and the potential of natural gas to fill the energy shortfall long enough for us to adapt to diminishing energy from petroleum. Karl Klein expresses his concerned about proposed hydrofracking in upstate NY. Charlie weighs in and KMO shares excerpts from a Kathy McMahon talk and from Battlestar Galactica. Music by the David Wax Museum. | 12/8/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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234: It’s About Stuff | KMO sits down with Charles A. S. Hall for an explanation of biophysical economics. If all wealth comes from the land, why do we think of economics as being about money and labor rather than about energy and "stuff?" Prof. Hall details the unworkable assumptions of neoclassical economics and brings an ecological focus to the study of labor, capital, and economic activity. Music by the David Wax Museum. Upcoming Shows - see full calendar here Friday, Dec 3 - Brooklyn, NY - 3B (8:30 pm) - House Concert (RSVP on Facebook) Thursday, Dec 9 - Columbia, MO - Mojo's (8:30 pm) - supporting Langhorne Slim! Thursday, Dec 23 - Charlottesville, VA - Jefferson Theater (7 pm) - playing two songs in Sons of Bill's Rock and Roll Christmas Spectacular Friday, Dec 31 - Boston, MA - Cathedral Church of St. Paul (8:30 pm) - with Hey Mama at 7:30 pm Saturday, Jan 1 - Shelburne Falls, MA - Memorial Hall (7:30 pm) - supporting Redbird Thursday, Feb 3 - Cambridge, MA - Oberon (Harvard Sq) - CD release party!! | 12/1/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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233: Smack My Bernanke Up | http://crealm.libsyn.com/233-smack-my-bernanke-up KMO is on a couch-surfing book tour of the Northeast, and he took shelter in the swank crib of James Howard Kunstler. Jim inveighs against the money-for-nothing modus of Washington and Wall Street and laments the migration of gambling from the cultural margins into the mainstream of American life. They talk about Jim's new novel, The Witch of Hebron: A World Made by Hand Novel, before the conversation devolves into tipsy ramblings and laughter. | 11/24/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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232: Facing the Answer | KMO welcomes Frank Aragona of the Agroinnovations Podcast back to the C-Realm to share the glimmers of hope he sees in the emergence of a new consciousness around agriculture and ecological living. This episode was assembled before a live audience in a classroom at Onondaga Community College. KMO is the guest on Agroinnovations Podcast episode #111. The Terence McKenna clip comes from Psychedelic Salon Podcast episode #249. Music by Sugaree and John Henry. | 11/17/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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231: Salvage and Roadkill | http://crealm.libsyn.com/231-salvage-and-roadkill KMO talks with Carl, the nearest neighbor to the Ecovillage Training Center about the mentality that holds that if something finds its way into the trash, for whatever reason, then it belongs there and that to retrieve it is a sign of desperaton or mental illness. Later, Frank and Natalie share a story about eating roadkill deer. Music by Inspired Flight. | 11/10/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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230: Recapitulating the Trauma | http://crealm.libsyn.com/230-recapitulating-the-trama KMO welcomes Gaia University co-founders Andrew Langford and Liora Adler to the C-Realm podcast. Topics of discussion include liberating students and giving them the freedom to master subjugated forms of knowledge, healing through a recapitulation of trauma, and the practical benefits of self-examination. Music by Jesse Miller. u | 11/3/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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229: Zombies-R-Us | http://crealm.libsyn.com/229-zombies-r-us Author and esotericist Erik Davis returns to the C-Realm to talk about how the archetype of the zombie and the increasingly familiar narrative of the zombie apocalypse exemplifies a swarm of 21st century human anxieties. We fear our own lack of agency, a world on auto-pilot heading inexorably for disaster, and a ceaseless onslaught of troubles that multiply faster than we can deal with them. Music by The Billions. The short film that Erik mentioned is called "I'll See You In My Dreams." http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0395171/ You can find the Z-Realm Podcast here: http://zrealmpodcast.blogspot.com/ | 10/27/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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228: Drifting with the Plow | KMO welcomes Brian G. Bankston, the Keyline Cowboy, to the C-Realm Podcast to discuss how a plow and land management methodology developed in the 1950's in Australia can revolutionize and revitalize farming and farm communities in the 21st century American South. For Brian, getting the plow in the ground is more important than making money. He explains why he's willing to live out of his truck and drift with the plow. Music by Old Soul. | 10/20/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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227: Eternal Bliss, Now! | KMO welcomes psychonaut, bio-fueligan, myconesian, and meditationista Todd W. Jones to the C-Realm Podcast to talk about sustainability, transition, and moving baseline consciousness via meditation. Todd disposes of the 'Food not Fuel' propranda and considers whether 'Amish with Internet' is a coherent meme. Click here to go to the episode on Libsyn. Music by Tim's Myth Todd runs a retreat center called Syzygy House. Tom Barbalet and I talk 9/11, virtual and actual communities, publishing, the KMO moniker, Facebook, and zombies in episode 14 of the Stone Ape Podcast. | 10/13/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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226: Permacultural SF | KMO welcomes Eric Toensmeier to the C-Realm to talk about using permaculture as a tool for community regeneration in Holyoke, MA, their shared love of speculative fiction, and why we shouldn't reconcile ourselves to the idea of a post-internet future. They also praise the work of Michael Pollan, David Brin, and Murray Bookchin. Music by Inspired Flight Links to come. | 10/6/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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225: Perfect Imperfection | KMO sits down at the ETC with Dave Jacke, author of Edible Forrest Gardens, to talk about sustainability, regeneration, emergent properties and the concept of 'shifting the burden to the intervenor'. Albert K. Bates joines the conversation to discuss the dark recesses of human consciousness that leave people susceptible to the allure of ideologies, conspiracy theories, and fundamentalism. Music by Bradford White. | 9/29/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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224: Viral Disclosure | Do factions within the US government direct the depiction of UFOs and alien visitors in mainstream entertainment in order to manage the worldview of a credulous public? KMO welcomes Rational Ufologist, Larry Lowe, to the C-Realm to discuss the possibility that the new NBC series, The Event, serves as a sort of 'predictive programming' meant to prepare the public consciousness for revelations about the on-going relationship between humans and 'advanced beings' of some kind. Later, Marty, co-host of the Flickers from the Cave Podcast, shares his impressions and the pilot episode of The Event. | 9/22/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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222: Delusion and the Human Condition | http://crealm.libsyn.com/222-delusion-and-the-human-condition KMO turns the program over to guest hosts Doug Lain and Naill Murphy for this year's nine eleven check-in. Naill describes the passive acceptance of the creeping CCTV surveillance state in the UK and the details of the seven seven attacks in London that don't add up. Doug dismisses numerous nine eleven red herrings re-focuses the discussion on the least speculative aspects of the flawed mainstream narrative around nine eleven. KMO finishes out the program with a reading from 9/11 Conspiracy Theories: The 9/11 Truth Movement in Perspective by Phil Molé. | 9/8/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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221: The Rise of Women | http://traffic.libsyn.com/crealm/c-realmpodcast221.mp3 KMO welcomes Eric Boyd and Tara Holste back to the program to discus a recent Atlantic article, 'The End of Men' by Hanna Rosen. Are women better suited than men to excel in the 21st century corporate workplace? Why would parents looking to select the sex of their children choose girls three times out of four? Even if women do make up the majority of the workforce and continue replacing men as the big kahunas in the corporate dominance hierarchy, is that necessarily good news? Music by Sea Couch. Eric made repeated reference toThe Beauty Bias: The Injustice of Appearance in Life and Law byDeborah L. Rhode and The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves By Matt Ridley. At the end of the podcast, I read from this page on Riane Eisler's website. | 9/1/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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220: Red State Blues | http://traffic.libsyn.com/crealm/c-realmpodcast220.mp3 KMO talks with Daniel Krotz about the paradox of people who love their small towns but tell their children that they have to leave those small towns in order to "make something of themselves." Can liberal urbanites and red state evangelicals find common ground, and have banks become the new churches in small towns? Is a hundred years a long time? Given that children born today may well be alive a hundred years from now, how much comfort should we take in claims that we have a hundred years of natural gas reserves left to fuel industrial society? | 8/25/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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219: Too Weird to Fail | http://traffic.libsyn.com/crealm/c-realmpodcast219.mp3 In this episode KMO plays an interview that Neil Kramer recorded with writer and philosopher Ronen about the cultural, political and metaphysical influences that shape personal and collective experiences of contemporary America. Music by Jesse Miller | 8/18/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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218: Education is Where You Find It | http://crealm.libsyn.com/218_education_is_where_you_find_it KMO reads from a John Taylor Gatto-inspired graduation address by Erica Goldson and from the blog of Dale Pendell. Later KMO hooks up with an old friend for a bull session in which two jaded Gen-Xers talk about "these kids today." Hilarity ensues. Music by Sugaree, William Wardlaw, and Inspired Flight. | 8/11/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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217: The Success Trap | http://traffic.libsyn.com/crealm/c-realmpodcast217.mp3 KMO welcomes Future Pundit Randall Parker back to the program to discuss the possible responses to a looming energy shortfall that "Doomers" think will bring down industrial civilization. Randall doubts things will get that bad, but he fears that in succeeding in our quest for replacement sources of energy, we will continue to push non-human forms of life to the periphery and over the edge into extinction. Music by Sugaree and Shakedown | 8/4/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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216: Got Status? | http://traffic.libsyn.com/crealm/c-realmpodcast216.mp3 Are fears of a peak oil-fueled, civilization-wide collapse rational, or do Doomers crave a big crash to excuse their own failures? Does the very success of our global civilization breed resentment and stress that stems from our basic psychological needs as primates shaped by evolution to obsess over our rank in the status hierarchy? KMO discusses these concerns with bloggers Mickey Foley and Randall Parker. Later, a C-Realm listener who spent a week at the Ecovillage Training Center shares his experience of unplugging from the media mainline, and Gregory Landua discusses an upcoming Financial Permaculture event to be held on the Farm in September of 2010. | 7/28/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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215: The Social Cohesion Problem | http://c-realmpodcast.podomatic.com/entry/2010-07-21T15_19_05-07_00 KMO welcomes Neil Kramer back to the program to discuss the challenges and the possible advantages that the population of the United States faces as the shallow myths which provided cultural cohesion in the long period of economic growth give way to the reality of economic decline. The conversation traverses the treacherous terrain of race and ethnicity before escaping into pleasant recollections of the recent Transitional Alchemy couch-surfing tour. KMO concludes with a reading from Swann's Way by Marcel Proust. Music by Inspired Flight. | 7/21/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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214: Technogenic Catastrophe | If you translate "industrial accident"" into Russian and then back into English, you're likely to end up with "technogenic catastrophe." Might the Gulf Oil Spill be the American Chernobyl? KMO welcomes Dmitry Orlov back to the podcast to examine these questions and to explain why collapse is the optimistic scenario, why it isn't necessary or even helpful for his message to find a mainstream audience, and why working for reform of the current political establishment is not a credible or worthwhile activity. Music by Tibet2Timbuk2 I'll be meeting up with C-Realm listeners at the Flying Saucer in Raleigh, NC this coming Saturday. Leave a comment or send email (kmo at c-realm dot com) if you're interested in joining the crew: http://www.beerknurd.com/stores/raleigh/ | 7/14/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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213: Working within the system | Artist, community designer, and policy analyst, Michael E. Arth, is making a run for the Florida Governor's mansion. When he approached the Florida Democratic Party, he was told taht elections are about money; not issues, and that if he didn't have millions of dolalrs to spend that he should get lost. He's now running as an independant. KMO and Michael talk about the prospects for reforming a corrupt electoral system while working within the system. Music by Inspired Flight. | 7/7/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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212: Mean and Median | KMO welcomes attorney and transition theorist Jeff Vail back to the program to discuss a transitional mode between top-down vertical hierarchies and flat, peer-to-peer social organization that Jeff calls the Diagonal Economy. Does a bigger total pie make for a richer society if most of its riches go to a select few, or is it better to live within a more egalitarian society where the total pie is smaller but is shared equally? And if human satisfaction is our goal, what sort of metric could we use to measure the fulfillment of humanity's genetic ontogony? Music by Inspired Flight. I learned of Inspired Flight on BB's Bungalow: http://dopecast.libsyn.com/bb_s_bungalow_episode_34_with_special_guests_inspired_flight | 6/30/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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211: The Heidi Hypothesis | What is 'nature?' Is it the beneficent giver and sustainer of all life, or is it the source of human misery from which only ingenuity and technology can deliver us and offer us a life of possibilities worthy of our noble humam spark? KMO and independent journalist Nathanael Johnson wrestle with the vagaries of the competing narratives over the value of nature and those foods and processes that we call 'natural.' Whatever that means. Music by the Uptones. Links: The revolution will not be pasteurized: Inside the raw-milk underground By Nathanael Johnson http://harpers.org/archive/2008/04/0081992 Lyrics to Laws and Sausage by the Uptones: http://www.uptones.com/lyrics/laws-and-sausage/ Conversations on Collapse Kickstarter campaign: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1456628185/conversations-on-collapse Doug Lain's Pick Your Battle Kickstarter campaign: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1354151079/pick-your-battle-foraging-as-revolutionary-self-he | 6/23/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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210: Straw Bale Gardening | http://traffic.libsyn.com/crealm/c-realmpodcast210.mp3 KMO talks a lot about the need to de-couple from sprawling, impersonal, highly-centralized systems of social control and support, but really, very few people are going to stick with a project like gardening just because they know they "should" do it. Making it fun, cost effective and easy will help people discover the joys of growing their own food. Joel Karsten is helping people succeed at gardening without all of the labor and expense that usually come with it. Music by Old Soul. I have reached my 7 GB storage limit with PodOMatic, so now for every new episode I post I will have to remove an older episode from the archive. To get this week's show posted I had to remove Episode 18: Down Under from the archive. You can now find it on the Internet Archive: http://www.archive.org/details/Episode18_Down_Under I edited today's podcast in the kids' play area at the McDonald's in Lawrenceberg, TN. It is very loud in here, so please forgive me if the sound levels are off. | 6/16/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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209: Fish In the Water | http://c-realmpodcast.podomatic.com/entry/2010-06-09T14_26_27-07_00 KMO welcomes Tara Holste to the program to talk a bit about J.R.R. Tolkien and the so-called environment before moving into Tara's shift away from a pre-occupation with a standard bouquet of liberal ideological positions to a focus on food and farming, hearth and home. A Shannon Hayes clip from Diet Soap Podcast #59 and a reading from a recent blog post by Neil Kramer round out the episode. Music by The Same Damn Thing | 6/9/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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208: Mycoremediation & Agrocollapse | http://c-realmpodcast.podomatic.com/entry/2010-06-02T14_11_59-07_00 KMO welcomes Frank Aragona of the Agroinnovations Podcast back to the C-Realm to talk about a possible form of bioremediation which would make use of fungal mycelia to help restore the portions of the Gulf Coast befouled by the BP Deep Horizon oil spill. Later they discuss the merits of revelations received with and without the use of entheogens. The weeks readings come from Dmitry Orlov and Paul Stamets. Music by Thievery Corporation courtesy of The WIRED CD: Rip. Sample. Mash. Share. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mycoremediation The article Frank wrote on Mycoremediation: http://agroinnovations.com/index.php/en_us/blog/69-mushrooms/146-mycoremediation-in-the-gulf Stamets' article: http://www.fungi.com/mycotech/petroleum_problem.html | 6/2/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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207: Dominion & Sub-Creation | http://c-realmpodcast.podomatic.com/entry/2010-05-26T14_17_11-07_00 KMO welcomes Corey Olsen, the Tolkien Professor, to the C-Realm to channel J. R. R. Tolkien's crankiness about technology. Tolkien lamented the dawning of the Robot Age when machines cease to be the tools for the expression of human skill and replace humans entirely. Professor Olsen weighs in on the regular C-Realm themes and laments how TV news degrades human intelligence like nothing that has come before it. Music by Mawaca Links: The first part of my conversation with Professor Olsen: http://www.tolkienprofessor.com/audio/KMO.mp3 Kickstarter Campaign for Conversations on Collapse: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1456628185/conversations-on-collapse Rusty McLellan's Shift Podcast: http://shift.podomatic.com/ The Flickers From the Cave Podcast: http://flickersfromthecave.blogspot.com/ KMO on the Occult Sentinel Podcast: http://stellarrain.com/2010/05/occult-sentinel-podcast-30-kmo-hope-in-the-darkness/ Here are the two links that Professor Olsen sent regarding Middle English: Sir Orfeo: http://www.lib.rochester.edu/camelot/teams/launffrm.htm TEAMS Middle English library (priceless!): http://www.lib.rochester.edu/camelot/teams/tmsmenu.htm#menu | 5/26/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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206: Coming Soon | http://c-realmpodcast.podOmatic.com/entry/2010-05-19T09_39_29-07_00 KMO delves into exploitation cinema with C-Realm listeners Mike and Marty who will soon present their own movie-themed podcast, Flickers From the Cave. The conversation starts with the work of George Romero and covers a wide range of film-related topics from there. Gore, flesh, and an irrational hatred for all things Michael Bay work their way into a conversation that KMO ties to the regular C-Realm themes with a reading from Douglas Rushkoff's book, Life Inc. How the World Became a Corporation and How to Take it Back. | 5/19/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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205: The Fringe of the Fringe of the Fringe | http://c-realmpodcast.podomatic.com/entry/2010-05-12T09_25_44-07_00 KMO talks with ETC site manager, Jason Deptula, about the swollen population of the earth and how it might actually help us get through the coming transition with less upset than if there were fewer people on the planet. The conversation turns to the concepts detailed in the book Lost Star of Myth and Time by Walter Cruttenden including the possibility that our sun has a companion star. Music by Jesse Miller. The letter I read from katuah included the following link: http://community.nytimes.com/comments/www.nytimes.com/2010/05/10/world/africa/10aids.html | 5/12/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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204: What Are People Good For? | http://c-realmpodcast.podomatic.com/entry/2010-05-05T14_05_40-07_00 KMO welcomes SF author David Marusek to the program to talk about a science fiction future in which technological miracles help the affluent realize their every passing fancy while ordinary people left behind in a hyper-competitive marketplace band together to try to keep their heads above water. In a world where technology has rendered mass production and mass consumption irrelevant, where clones and AI do all the work and an affluent few derive all of the benefit, what are people good for? Music by Honeychrome. | 5/5/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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203: Power Down – Trade Up | http://c-realmpodcast.podomatic.com/entry/2010-04-28T15_22_52-07_00 KMO welcomes Eric Boyd back to the program to talk about the transformed role of technology in a possible energy descent future. Eric relates David Eagleman's 6 Easy Steps to Avert the Collapse of Civilization, all of which rely on the internet, and KMO reads from John Micheal Greer's blog for a grim view of a post-internet existence. KMO closes by reading a post from his ETC Journal blog. Music by The Plant. | 4/28/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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202: Empathy and the Long Lag Problem | http://c-realmpodcast.podOmatic.com/entry/2010-04-21T12_46_23-07_00 http://www.archive.org/details/202EmpathyAndTheLongLagProblem KMO welcomes Eric Boyd back to the program to discuss the themes of Jeremy Rifkin's new book, The Empathic Civilization. According to Rikfin, human consciousness expands as humans direct ever-larger energy flows into improving communication, but can we achieve an empathic singularity before we completely despoil the planet? Could our hypertrophied sense of individuality be the primary source for the anxiety and alienation that we feel in the midst of technological abundance? KMO reads opinions on the value of technology from Friends of the C-Realm. Music by Snowdrift. http://www.refresheverything.com/foodfromlawns | 4/21/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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201: The Light of Doom | http://c-realmpodcast.podomatic.com/entry/2010-04-14T10_36_27-07_00 In this episode KMO puts the thoughts and concerns of the C-Realm audience front and center. Feedback from the audience and kind words from Lorenzo of the Psychedelic Salon bookend a picnic table conversation between KMO, Albert K. Bates, and Joe of the Occult Sentinel Podcast. KMO closes by explaining why he has no intention of respecting the mainstream prejudices on the topic of "drugs" even if it means he will never cross over and find a bankable niche in the mainstream discourse. Music by Jesse Miller. Other links mentioned in the show: http://transitiontogether.org/ http://media.libsyn.com/media/twobeerswithsteve/The_Effect_of_Peak_Oil_on_Healthcare.mp3 http://www.canadaprepared.com/podpress_trac/web/173/0/Episode-22-CanadaPreparedPodcast.mp3 | 4/14/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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200: The Long Defeat | http://c-realmpodcast.podomatic.com/entry/2010-04-07T00_56_32-07_00 In this 200th episode of the C-Realm Podcast, KMO blends content from Corey Olsen (AKA the Tolkien Professor), James Howard Kunstler, and Doug Lain of the Diet Soap podcast to concoct a brew that mixes fantasy, politics, and personal narrative. What can the long defeat of the elves of Middle-Earth tell us about our societal psychology of previous investment? Is it noble to fight a battle that cannot be won, or does finding our direction begin with abandoning our long-held ambitions? Music by Woodland 5-Track. | 4/7/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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199: Velocity & Saturation | http://c-realmpodcast.podomatic.com/entry/2010-03-31T13_50_28-07_00 KMO welcomes Nathan A. Martin to the program to discuss the problems with debt-based money. Nate has a proposed solution in the form of Freedom's Vision and the accompanying methodology of SwarmUSA. According to Nate, we have reached the point at which further infusions of debt-based money into the economy have a negative effect on GDP and that if we fail to take back the power to control the creation of new money from private bankers and introduce a sustainable money methodology that we are in for what he calls a "Nation Changing Event" which dwarfs economic crises of the past. Music by Zarathrustra You can find a link to the unedited recording of my conversation with Nate here: http://recordings.talkshoe.com/TC-33530/TS-332759.mp3 | 3/31/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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198: Tools of Connection | http://c-realmpodcast.podomatic.com/entry/2010-03-24T10_41_17-07_00 KMO welcomes Carolyn Baker, author of Sacred Demise: Walking the Spiritual Path of Industrial Civilization's Collapse to the program to discuss ways that people can prepare themselves mentally, emotionally and spiritually to pass through the initiatory experience that the collapse of industrial civilization may present to us as individuals and to our communities. Carolyn will be teaching a distance learning course called Navigating the Coming Chaos of Unprecedented Transitions which will be offered through Post Peak Living. Carolyn and KMO discussion the spiritual dimension of the collapse scenario as depicted in the movie Book of Eli, and KMO manages to work in a zombie connection. Music by Mitch. | 3/24/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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197: The Ugly Duckling Didn’t Stop with the Swan | http://c-realmpodcast.podomatic.com/entry/2010-03-17T17_12_33-07_00 KMO turns the interviewing duties over to Jason R. for the conclusion of an interview with Paul Gude. Topics include the way ideas seem to bubble up at multiple points in the collective imagination all at once and how Paul's comics invoke a sense of Lovecraftian comedy and nostalgic bigotry. KMO reads from a story by Jorge Luis Borges. Music by Treasures Untold (who wants you to check out this movie) Read The Aleph by Jorge Luis Borges | 3/17/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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196: Built to be a Hobo Clown | http://c-realmpodcast.podomatic.com/entry/2010-03-10T15_12_19-08_00 Jason R. interviews Paul Gude. The narrative thread eats itself, and a precise summation would seem a fool's errand, but topics covered include psychedelic experiences in K-Mart, video games, emulating the future, cheat codes for reality, time travel, flying cars, video phones, and a synchronicity involving psychedelic mushrooms and the song "I Want a New Drug" by Huey Lewis in the News. Music by Zarathrustra. | 3/10/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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195: Recalcitrant Carbon | http://c-realmpodcast.podomatic.com/entry/2010-03-03T13_04_01-08_00 KMO welcomes Albert K. Bates back to the program to talk about the themes of his forthcoming book, The Biochar Solution. Could a form of homebrewed carbon sequestration provide a stopgap measure that could buy us time to implement effective atmospheric remediation? Should biochar be considered a form of geo-engineering? How do we prevent carbon credits from becoming the new credit default swaps? All this and music by Zarathrutra. CLICK HERE for a larger version of the comic. http://throbgoblins.blogspot.com/ | 3/3/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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194: Financial Permaculture | http://c-realmpodcast.podomatic.com/entry/2010-02-24T12_01_31-08_00 KMO and Albert Bates talk across the kitchen table at the EcoVillage Training Center on the Farm in Summertown, Tennessee. The first half of the conversation centers on the on-going process by which we are exporting more of our attention and cognitive capacity into our cybernetic prostheses and the abstract spaces they allow us to inhabit. In the second half of the conversation the discussion centers on the state of the economy and the performance of President Obama. Music by Tim's Myth | 2/24/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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193: Big Slide | KMO welcomes James Howard Kunstler back to the C-Realm to talk about the themes of his new play, Big Slide. Topics include, paranoid conspiracy theories, the lucidity of John Michael Greer's writing, post-traumatic embitterment disorder, and the possibility for class-based antagonism, economic meltdown, religious craziness, and plentiful firearms to produce a kind of homegrown fascism that JHK likes to call "Cornpone Nazism." | 2/17/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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192: Big Beachheads in the Land of Stupid | Is societal collapse and a Malthusian Correction a workable path to a better future? Alex Steffen of WorldChanging.org says, "No." Moral considerations aside, a population die back and the scarcity that prompt it would spell very bad news indeed for the Earth's natural systems. What's the best path forward? Create something that works which is bigger than your house but smaller than the world. | 2/10/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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191: Precipitated by Crisis | http://c-realmpodcast.podomatic.com/entry/2010-02-03T12_59_02-08_00 KMO welcomes Charles Cresson Wood to the program to talk about the need for a radical transition to a new style of consciousness, how crises might prompt the shift and how the internet will prove essential in facilitating the process. Charles encourages us to embrace unity consciousness, confront our fears and challenge the reigning assumptions about the value of selling the hours of our lives to corporations. | 2/3/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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190: Noam Chomsky and your Reptilian Overlords | http://c-realmpodcast.podomatic.com/entry/2010-01-27T13_11_47-08_00 KMO, on the day of the last stop on the West Coast leg of the Transitional Alchemy tour with Neil Kramer, presents a conversation recorded in Santa Cruz with Robert Forte. Topics of conversation include 9-11, UFOs, David Icke's "No Hassle Zone," shape-shifting reptilian overlords, and Noam Chomsky as left gate-keeper. | 1/27/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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189: Scale & Scope | http://c-realmpodcast.podomatic.com/entry/2010-01-20T13_17_46-08_00 In this whistle stop episode, KMO talks cybernetic consciousness with Eric Boyd and Neil Kramer. Might machine minds prove more resistant to being warped by warped circumstances than humans, or might they go with the amoral flow? Later, Gordon Wardlaw, who hosted a Transitional Alchemy Tour appearance at his home in Mendocino provides some feedback on the event. | 1/20/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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188: Hobbes & “Rousseau” | http://c-realmpodcast.podomatic.com/entry/2010-01-13T01_50_20-08_00 KMO welcomes Gyrus back to the program to discuss his book War & the Noble Savage. Prior to the advent of the state, a greater percentage of people died from violence than in modern industrialized Democracies, but does that mean that Hobbes was right? Rousseau never spoke of "the noble savage," but a cartoon straw man of Rousseau's position not only takes a beating from apologists for ensconced dominance hierarchies, but free marketeers also invoke it to justify unfettered competition in the capitalist arena. | 1/13/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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187: The Anthropomorphic Divide | http://c-realmpodcast.podomatic.com/entry/2010-01-06T06_25_01-08_00 KMO welcomes Noble Ape creator Tom Barbalet to the program to discuss the nature of intelligence. Is survival the best indicator of intelligence? Is there anything special about so called "general intelligence?" Tom thinks that the leading Singularitarians proceed in their thinking about simulation, technology, and intelligence based on some very naive premises. Has the technological singularity already occurred? Tom gives his reason for thinking that it took place in the 1980s. Tom is the editor of Biota.org, The Artificial Life Project and host of the Biota Live internet radio program. | 1/6/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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186: 2009 Wrap Up | In this final installment of the C-Realm Podcast for 2009, Doug Lain, host of the Diet Soap Podcast, joins KMO to revisit 2009 C-Realm interviews with Jeff Vail, Thomas Homer-Dixon, Joe Bageant, and Frank Rotering. Can inferences about the economy and social relationships legitimately be drawn from observations about the cyclical behavior of a forest ecosystem, or does this sort of comparison lend legitimacy to unjust power relationships? Can a recovering Libertarian and a wavering Marxist even hear one another through the ideological noise? Take heart. http://c-realmpodcast.podomatic.com/entry/2009-12-30T09_46_04-08_00 | 12/30/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Special: KMO & Ed Yersh on CKUT in Montreal | https://secure.ckut.ca//cgi-bin/ckut-grid.pl?action=showaudio&show=tuesday,07:00 December 15th, 2009 Photo by Neil Kramer | 12/29/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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185: The Beingness | Neil Kramer interviewed Maren C in August 2009, in a hotel lobby in the city of Bristol, England. They talk about consciousness, being, emotional intelligence, the frequency of love and re-wiring old behaviour patterns. She travelled to England in order to gain first-hand experience of the crop circle phenomenon. She worked with friend and podcaster Adam from the Psychonautilus – obtaining film footage and photographs of the mysterious and beautiful landscapes of Wiltshire and Somerset. Maren and Adam later met up with Neil Kramer and friends, inside the 29-Jul-09 Ogbourne St Andrew crop circle. Maren is currently working with Neil on the forthcoming 'Sacred Albion' project. Music by Glow! http://c-realmpodcast.podomatic.com/entry/2009-12-23T09_34_14-08_00 Neil Kramer is the featured guest in Diet Soap Podcast #37: The Control System and the Cosmic Christ. You can find the Terence McKenna special, Vertigo at History's Edge, here: http://c-realmpodcast.podomatic.com/entry/2008-02-23T10_41_25-08_00 | 12/23/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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184: What a Way to Go | KMO welcomes Sally Erickson and Tim Bennett, makers of the movie WHAT A WAY TO GO: LIFE AT THE END OF EMPIRE to the C-Realm. Covered topics include the shift in consciousness that occurs when one seriously delves into the vulnerabilities of industrial society and the fallout that it can have on one's relationships and the direction of one's life. Fast collapse vs. slow decline, living with uncertainty, and communication without craziness round out the list of topics. http://c-realmpodcast.podomatic.com/entry/2009-12-16T08_54_34-08_00 | 12/16/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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183: Back to Surrender Again | http://c-realmpodcast.podomatic.com/entry/2009-12-09T11_21_36-08_00 This installment features the conclusion of KMO’s conversation with Jason Horsley about the limits and pitfalls of entheogenic self-exploration and the utility of surrender. The second half of the program brings together clips from other podcasts and excerpts from Carolyn Baker’s book Sacred Demise: Walking the Spiritual Path of Industrial Civilization's Collapse to communicate the possibilities for transformation that collapse presents to each of us. At the end of your rope? Good on ya! Music by Jesse Miller of the Mystic Mind Podcast To learn more about the C-Realm/Cleaver Couch Surfing Tour or to lend a hand, please contact the following folks: Los Angeles: Jesse Miller Neil Kramer only. San Francisco: William Wardlaw Portland: Doug Lain Seattle: Volunteer Needed Vancouver: Justin Ritchie | 12/9/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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182: Giving Up | KMO welcomes Jason Horsley/Aeolus Kephas to the podcast to contemplate the value of total surrender. You'll feel much better once you have abandoned all hope. Other topics include the difference between the insatiable desires of the ego and easily-satisfied requirements for psychological well-being, and how dwelling on the big picture can prove counter-productive when it takes us out of what we know. Music by St. Augustine Please click the link below. http://c-realmpodcast.podOmatic.com/entry/2009-12-02T10_06_29-08_00 You can also hear Jason on this recent episode of the Diet Soap Podcast: http://dietsoap.podomatic.com/entry/2009-11-11T03_16_39-08_00 | 12/2/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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181: Raising Rock Bottom | KMO welcomes Charles Eisenstein back to the program to explore the metaphor of industrial civilization as an addict headed for rock bottom. In the service of a culture addicted to control, technology consumes the world, but after hitting rock bottom, might the destructive nature of technology be transformed along with human consciousness? In the second half of the conversation, Charles talks about the life and work of Weston A. Price and explores ways to reconcile the idea of doing sacred work with the demands of a money economy. Music by Big Dave http://c-realmpodcast.podOmatic.com/entry/2009-11-25T10_31_08-08_00 | 11/25/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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180: Universal Light Language | KMO welcomes Dr. Salo Stanley to the program to discuss the global transformation of consciousness in progress as it manifests in the form of psychic awakenings, spirit guides, UFOs, and crop circles. Dr. Stanley relates some simple techniques that anyone can use to induce a calm and receptive state of mind that is conducive to contact with helpful intelligences from the realms beyond the limitations of Monday Morning Reality. Music by Zarathrustra http://c-realmpodcast.podOmatic.com/entry/2009-11-18T07_50_34-08_00 | 11/18/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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179: Unspeakably Unlikely | KMO welcomes Bruce Damer back to the program to talk about the incredibly improbable development of an organic intelligence that creates virtual worlds and how the use of virtual worlds may reveal the mechanisms by which biological evolution got its start. Bruce says he feels like a character in a science fiction novel, and the conversation takes a tour through the realms of science fiction which has foreshadowed the global unraveling of industrial civilization in a world where information technology continues to proliferate and advance at an accelerating pace. Bruce explains why he thinks the mechanism of Moore’s Law is unlikely to spawn emergent machine intelligence. Music by Tim | 11/11/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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178: Needs and Limits | KMO welcomes Frank Rotering to the podcast to discuss ecological overshoot, the logic and institutions of capitalism, technology, and the expression of human biological drives in the economic realm. Frank Rotering contends that ideas like socialism are “solutions of the past” and that new ways of thinking will be required to meet the challenge of the historical singularity that we now face. Music by The Story Of And the conversation continues in episode 30 of the Diet Soap Podcast. | 11/4/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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177: The Alchemy of the Imagination | Show notes to be added when they can be located or re-created. | 10/28/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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176: Singing to the Plants – Part 2 | Show notes to be added when they can be located or re-created. | 10/21/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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175: Singing to the Plants | KMO plays the first half of a conversation between AyasminA and Dr. Stephan V. Beyer. Steve is the author of Singing to the Plants: A Guide to Mestizo Shamanism in the Upper Amazon, and in the conversation Steve details his lifelong odyssey into the deep regions of consciousness and spirituality which include fifteen years spent in the upper Amazon with the Mestizo keepers of the Ayahuasca tradition. Music by Joseph A. The excerpt from Steve's book that I read appears on Reality Sandwich: http://www.realitysandwich.com/singing_to_plants Here's the link to the YouTube video that Doug Lain put together that I mentioned at the end of the program: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tzf4r4QMQNA&feature=player_embedded | 10/14/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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174: Mandalas Everywhere | KMO welcomes Frank Aragona and Neil Kramer back to the program to discuss sacred geometry. Neil, immersed in the experiential study of crop circles, describes stepping into one as an encounter with paradox. Other topics include the use of sacred geometry in permaculture design, the suppression of sacred symbols, the extreme polarization of forces by industrial cultures, and the possibility of communicating with non-human intelligence via the language of fractal geometry. | 10/7/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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173: Investments in hyper complexity | Show notes to be added when they can be located or re-created. | 9/30/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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172: The Virtual and the Authentic | KMO welcomes James Howard Kunstler back to the program to discuss "green shoots" delusions, the diminishing returns of information technology, "favela chic," and the failure of virtual experience to provide a fullfilling substitute for authentic experience in our electronically mediated lives. Music by Ken Tucker and James Swafford http://video.reboot.dk/video/486788/bruce-sterling-reboot-11 http://www.coloco.org/fichiers/_squelettes_74954_Diaporama-gif-01-bis.gif | 9/23/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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171: The Tribe | 171_ The Tribe Lorenzo Hagerty returns to the C-Realm to discuss the themes of his audio-novel, The Genesis Generation. Is there a global psychedelic Tribe (with a capital T)? To what extent can a far-flung collection of people who share a set of values and experiences be considered a "tribe?" The discussion also touches on the fractal similarity between the American and Roman empires, the writings of Ayn Rand and our tendency to focus on individual actors in our societal drama when we would do better to focus on the inherent features of the systems in which we must make a living. Music by Andre Nobels | 9/16/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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170: Oh Nine Oh Nine Oh Nine | In this year's 9/11 extravaganza KMO welcomes Doug Lain, author, editor, and fellow podcaster, to the program to help make sense of some 9/11 themed commentary from James Howard Kunstler, John Horgan, Gwynne Dyer, and (indirectly) Douglas Rushkoff. Doug & KMO then continue the conversation in episode 22 of the Diet Soap Podcast. Lorenzo Hagerty of the Psychedelic Salon adds his perspective on attitudes surrounding 9/11 to the C-Realm mix in a prelude to next week's show. Douglas Rushkoff writes: Yes, I believe that 9-11 theorizing debilitates the counterculture. It robs us of some potentially creative thinkers. It replaces truly important questions with trivial ones. It marginalizes more constructive investigation of American participation in the development of Al Qaeda as well as its subsequent aggravation. And perhaps worst of all, it is precisely the sort of activity that government disinformation specialists would want us to be involved with. Link: http://www.arthurmag.com/2007/09/20/rushkoff-on-911-conspiracy-theorists stupidculture posted the following to the PodOMatic entry for this episode: As a long time fan of your podcast and someone who understands your ambivalence towards the topic yet is not afraid of pointing out the Naked Emperor at hand, I would HIGHLY recommend what activist Ken Jenkins has to say. Please check out: "Psychological Aspects Of 9-11" http://www.archive.org/details/snowshoefilms_KenJenkins_PsychologicalAspectsOf911 He would be a great guest on a future show on the topic. and ...IMHO. A more recent article by Ken Jenkins: "The Truth is Not Enough: How to Overcome Emotional Barriers to 9/11 Truth" http://www.cosmicpenguin.com/911/KenJenkins_9-11_psychology.pdf And there are two threads on the C-Realm Forum on the Grow Report on the topic of 9/11 eight years after the fact: Nine Oh Nine Oh Nine (#170) and 911/ oil/ Iraq. | 9/9/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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169: The Flesh is Primary | KMO welcomes Derrick Jensen back to the program to explain why individual lifestyle change cannot substitute for organized political resistance. What's the point of taking shorter showers when industry and agriculture account for 90% of human water usage? Derrick explains why he thinks the Malthusian Correction can't come soon enough and why the physical world must be the independent variable in all of our calculations. Music by Tonal Oak http://www.dharmawakenings.com/ http://www.waldeneffect.org/ | 9/2/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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168: Accelerating Future | KMO and Michael Anissimov of the Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence conclude their conversation on the promise and the dangers of the emergence of AI with an eye to the implications of the military aspects of its development and implementation, and then author Derrick Jensen offers a reality check and a counter-balance to Michael's optimism and exuberance. KMO closes the program with an excerpt from Ascent of Humanity by Charles Eisenstein on the diminishing utility of the technological program. Music by Oaltitudo | 8/26/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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167: Subjective Time & Evolved Morality | KMO welcomes Michael Anissimov, media director for the Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence and keeper of the Accelerating Future blog to the C-Realm to dispel some wholly-headed notions about robots, artificial intelligence, and the possible consequences of their emergence from the space of possibilities into the world of our visceral experience. Topics include the uncomfortable similarity of Ray Kurzweil's Law of Accelerating Returns to Terence McKenna's Time Wave Zero, the very contingent nature of human morality, and the need to build "friendliness" into our Mind Children to prevent them from morphing into our Vile Offspring. Music by Yon | 8/19/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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166: Knowing the Land | KMO turns the interview reins over to Neil Kramer of the Cleaver. Neil took a trip to Wiltshire county in the southwest of England to visit crop circle sites. While in the area he lodged at a B&B on James Sheppard's farm, and a crop circle appeared on the property during Neil's stay there. Neil and James discuss what the crop circle phenomenon means for farmers and how farming practices in recent decades have shaped the English landscape and the myriad life forms that inhabit it. Music by Aldbourne Band Neil Kramer's previous C-Realm appearances: 135: '08 Wrap-Up 134: Zombie Apocalypse Christmas Special 118: 21st Century Koans 117: Aliens Are "Real" 74: The Red Queen 71: Synchronicity Central Neil writes, "Please include these links in the podcast show notes, so listeners can see the land, the crop circle and get an idea of the surrounding area." http://www.cropcircleconnector.com/2009/ogbourne/ogbourne2009.html http://www.cropcircleconnector.com/2009/ogbourne/groundshots.html http://www.cropcircleconnector.com/2009/ogbourne/comments.html http://www.poultongrange.com/ http://www.aldbourne.org.uk/awg/portal/main/welcome.asp | 8/12/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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165: Robots Beyond | KMO welcomes Lane Adamson, editor of Robots Beyond, an anthology of unusual robot stories, to the C-Realm Podcast. Using Lane’s robot story patterned after The Grapes of Wrath as a backdrop, they examine the themes of robot religion and possible robot revolution as well as the role of the robot in popular culture and how the development of artificial intelligence might play out counter to our media-induced expectations. Music by Indole Ring The first mp3 that I uploaded to PodOMatic was corrupted somehow. I uploaded a slightly re-edited version on Thursday afternoon. Podcasters, reach a wider audience by uploading samples of your material to Vocalo.org. | 8/5/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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164: Climate of Conflict | War has been a constant in the human experience throughout recorded history. Does that mean that it is inevitable? John Horgan suggests that it is not. Scientific findings indicate that human nature does not compel humans to go to war, but Gwynne Dyer joins John and KMO in the C-Realm to discuss how climate change and efforts to deal with it are likely to lead to armed conflict in the near future. Gwynne Dyer's book Climate Wars was presented in a three part series on the CBC Radio program Ideas. You can find John Horgan's New Scientist article, Winning the ultimate battle: How humans could end war, here: http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20327151.500-winning-the-ultimate-battle-how-humans-could-end-war.html?full=true Click here to browse the shelves of the C-Realm Book Store. Music by Nine Inch Nails | 7/29/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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163: Pernicious Pedagogy | KMO welcomes Tommy Arlin Tony Monchinski, author of Critical Pedagogy and the Everyday Classroom (Explorations of Educational Purpose), to the program to talk about how patterning education on the corporate model and trying to run everything "by the numbers" in a massively top-down fashion contributes to the problems of modern education. The discussion ranges over some familiar C-Realm topics including psychedelics and the Drug War. Music by Money Tree http://www.myspace.com/moneytreeband Get a jump on next week's show: http://www.cbc.ca/ideas/features/climate-wars/index.html and http://www.archive.org/details/defarewell | 7/22/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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162: IOU | KMO reads a passage from Life, Inc about the feedbacks between the real economy and the speculative economy before playing a conversation with Web of Debt author Ellen H. Brown about the refusal of Citigroup, Wells Fargo, and JPMorgan Chase (which each got $25 billion in bailout money from the taxpayers) and Bank of America (which received $15 billion) to accept IOUs from the state of California to help overcome its budget shortfall. The discussion touches on the performance to date and possible motives of US President Barak Obama. Music by Tibet2Timbuk2 | 7/15/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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161: Echoes in the Podosphere | What does psychedelic ego inflation have to do with the debt trap perpetrated on the two-thirds world by parasitic oligarchs? Probably not much, but KMO strings together clips from the Psychedelic Salon, Black Light in the Attic, Shamanic Freedom Radio and the Media Squat and comes up with this unlikely metaphor. Music by Richard Grossman and Nine Inch Nails Links to shows sampled in this episode: Black Light in the Attic: http://blacklightattic.podomatic.com/ Diet Soap: http://dietsoap.podomatic.com The Psychedelic Salon: http://www.matrixmasters.com/podcasts/ Shamanic Freedom Radio: http://shamanicfreedomradio.podomatic.com/ The Media Squat: http://wfmu.org/playlists/RK In his blog, OpaqueLens has elaborated on the comments that I sampled for this episode: http://shamanicfreedom.blogspot.com/2009/04/matrixes-outside-matrix.html | 7/8/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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160: Flashing Lights on the Console | KMO welcomes Albert K. Bates back to the program, and they sit down together for a chat with Richard Heinberg, author of Peak Everything. Albert admits that he's finding it hard to maintain his "soft lander" status in the face of mounting evidence, and Richard talks about the themes in his new book, Blackout: Coal, Climate and the Last Energy Crisis. Later KMO plays a clip of post-interview banter with yoga instructor and musician Danny Paradise. Music by Glöd. | 7/1/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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159: Here Comes the (Zombie) Walrus | KMO welcomes cartoonist, author and performer Paul Gude (aka sgnp) back to the program to discuss the ideas underlying his zombie apocalypse novel, Love in a Time of Zombies. The zombie apocalypse stands as the absurd hyper-example of the sudden development that turns existing lifestyles, assumptions, and power structures upside down. Why do some people long for such a reversal while others deny the very possibility even as it sinks its undead teeth into their throats? Music by Southside. Click here for the full TalkShoe recording of KMO and Paul Gude. | 6/24/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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158: Natural Born Consumers | KMO welcomes Duncan Crary, host of the Kunstlercast and Chuck Burr, author of Culturequake: The End of Modern Culture and the Birth of a New World to the program for a wide-ranging discussion that touches on humanism, sustainability, the idea of humans (and all oxygen breathers) as natural born consumers and the allure of apocalypse porn. Music by Tibet2Timbuk2 Duncan writes that interested C-Realm listeners can: ...just visit audiblepodcast.com/kunstler . That will give them a free 14-day trial to Audible, through which they can purchase a discounted version of Day of the Triffids. It's really no biggie. I don't make money off that or anything. Just figured it would be a useful tip to your listeners if they want to listen to that book. Make sure to tell them to read the fine print! (They need to cancel their trial after they purchase the book if they don't want their membership to renew). | 6/17/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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157: Tilted Field of Giants | KMO welcomes Douglas Rushkoff back to the C-Realm to discuss the effect that corporations have on our lives, where corporations came from, and how they enjoy a playing field tilted in their favor by government regulation which insulates them from competition from more local and human-scaled alternatives. Douglas addresses these topics in his new book, Life, Inc.How the World Became a Corporation and How to Take It Back Later in the program, Douglas talks about how messages from Quetzalcoatl really aren't from Quetzalcoatl once they pass human lips and how the ayahuasca crowd really needs to get over 2012. Music by Patrick Ross "The Go" like "The Way" Lyrics and music by Patrick Ross Summer time and the lights are falling on my eyes Something tells me that there's much more we can do than sit around and think about the pain. Grab her by the hands and run across the room Don't look up, don't look down, just close your eyes and fly through places you have never been Before I go I say with you Remember that the Go is what we make it after all Remember that the Go is what we make it after all Remember that the Go is what we make it after all | 6/10/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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156: Insideous Hope | KMO welcomes Danny Paradise, world traveler, yoga instructor and musician to the C-Realm to look for signs of hope amidst the increasingly obvious markers that bode ill for our collective destiny. Later, KMO plays a clip from Doug Lain's Diet Soap interview with Neil Kramer. You can hear more of Danny's music on his MySpace page. | 6/3/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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155: Ethical Capitalism for the Earbud Generation | After finishing up the interview with James Howard Kunstler recorded at the Kunstler Kave, KMO welcomes Duncan Crary, the talent behind the talent on the Kunstlercast, to the C-Realm to talk about pod casting, appropriate technology, the relationship between the old and the new media, finding the sweet spot between opinionated reporting and delusions of objectivity, and creating a niche for "ethical capitalists" in the new economy. | 5/27/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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154: Just In Time vs. Just In Case | In this second installment of the Kunstler Kave symposium, KMO, JHK and two C-Realm listeners consider the human penchant for identifying patterns, even where none exist, the breakdown of the bicameral mind, and the wages of "success dependent planning." Neal Kramer checks in via the Diet Soap podcast, and KMO wraps up by reading from an essay by SF author David Brin. Music by East Forrest. http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=101252022 | 5/20/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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153: The Kunstler Konspiracy | KMO ventures into the Kunstler Kave with two C-Realm listeners to engage James Howard Kunstler, author of The Long Emergency: Surviving the End of Oil, Climate Change, and Other Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-First Century and Scooter the cat in a conversation on the topic of conspiracy, paranoid thinking, and the undeniable fact that humans at all levels of society do, in fact, collude with one another to advance their own interests and agendas. Other topics include the Obama administration's response to the ongoing financial meltdown, the impossibility of continuing to live on debt, and the maladaptive American penchant for grandiosity that distorts workable responses to challenging times into quixotic fantasies doomed to failure. Music by East Forrest | 5/13/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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152: Long Inferential Distances | KMO welcomes Eric Boyd of X-Prize Cars back to the program to patrol the borders of conceptual space and test the vigilence of the border holders whose extreme ideologies provide comfort to the mainstream. Familiar landmarks include "the tragic comedy of suburban sprawl" and the superlative visions of Singularitarians. Eric also waxes enthusiastic on the Hacker Space phenomenon by which Alpha Geeks "find the others" in meatspace and wrest control of technology from the self-serving agenda of global corporate capitalism. | 5/6/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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151: The Next Step | KMO welcomes Jarrett Sanchez to the C-Realm to discuss his new project, the Next Step Podcast. Later KMO compares competing worldviews concerning Peak Oil and reads a portion of an essay by Erik Davis about slowing down and getting out of the “zombies on speed” mode. In my closing rant, I make reference to a talk by Douglas Rushkoff that can be found here: http://rushkoff.com/podcasts/rushkoff_general_semantics_11-08.mp3 Music by Float23 | 4/29/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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150: Odometer Moment | In the 150th installment of the C-Realm Podcast, KMO chews over the same old themes with James Howard Kunstler of the Kunstlercast and reconciles the coincidence of opposites with Frank Aragona, host and creator of the Agroinnovations Podcast. The Quiet Coup by Simon Johnson Music by the Plant | 4/22/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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149: A Chemical Season of the Mind | KMO welcomes Joe Bageant, author of Deer Hunting with Jesus: Dispatches from America's Class War, to the program to examine the corporate media-fabricated bubble of hyper-propaganda that Americans perceive as the real world, the "Stockholm syndrome of the soul" by which we identify with the ideologies of our captors and align ourselves against our own interests, and what this snow globe of a society looks like from the outside. You can find selective transcripts from my conversation with Joe Bageant here: http://www.scottbrown.co.nz/?p=887 Music by Neon Brown | 4/15/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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148: Grokking the Connections | Sponsored by zaimoni Another Peak Oil episode? Yes, indeed. KMO welcomes Gail the Actuary, editor of the TheOilDrum.com, to the C-Realm to discuss the divergent channels in the Peak Oil reality tunnel. Topics covered include Peak Oil-inspired social alienation, the preponderance of atheists in the Peak Oil community, the link between Peak Oil and the financial crisis, and the possibility that we've reached "Peak Humanity" and now teeter on the doorstep of the "Malthusian Correction." Hey, Google, this is a PODCAST about "PEAK OIL!" Music by Neon Brown A Few Thoughts on Religions and on Belief Systems by Gale the Actuary Thanks to toucansanctuary for suggesting the interview with Gale and for making the initial approach. | 4/8/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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147: Permission and Forgiveness | Author and NPR correspondent Doug Fine returns to the C-Realm to explain why sustainability isn't just for hippies in Birkenstocks sitting outside a hut eating steamed dirt. Doug set out to get off petroleum without giving up any of his digital age comforts, and he answers questions from C-Realm listeners about his progress. Later, KMO and AyasminA track the thematic evolution of the C-Realm Podcast. You can find the full Doug Fine interview here: http://www.talkshoe.com/talkshoe/web/talkCast.jsp?masterId=22480&cmd=tc | 4/1/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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146: My Invisible Path | AyasminA returns to the C-Realm to help KMO plumb the darkness for landmarks along KMO's invisible path. In response to an email from the world's only credentialed "creative urbanist," KMO quotes from Kevin Kelly's blog entry about the fatal flaw in the anti-civilizationists' agenda. At the end of the program KMO enlists the words of Charles Eisenstein to anchor the over-arching theme of the episode. Music: Reggae Drift by Adam of the Psychonautilus. | 3/25/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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145: Pushing Chaos into the Future | KMO concludes his C-Realm conference call with Charles Eisenstein, author of The Ascent of Humanity: Civilization and the Human Sense of Self. Are exponential advances in technology providing diminishing returns? What new economic system might follow the demise of our currently over-built and tottering ediface? Charles Eisenstein explains what he means when he says that we are facing "a revolution in human beingness." Music by Tibet2Timbuk2 | 3/18/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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144: The Full Flush of Genius | KMO welcomes author and regular Reality Sandwich contributor Charles Eisenstein to the program to discus the ideas in his book The Ascent of Humanity: The Age of Separation, the Age of Reunion... and the Convergence of Crises that is birthing the transition. In a new twist on the familiar format, two C-Realm listeners join KMO on the line to help put questions to the guest. | 3/11/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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143: Catalyst Amazonia | KMO presents material recorded at the 4th Annual International Amazonian Shamanism conference held in Iquitos, Peru in July of 2008. Can plant consciousness interface with primate conscious to put us on a more adaptive course? KMO, David "Slocum" Hewson, Julian Haynes, AyasminA and other conference attendees explore the possibilities. Slocum's full presentation can be found here: http://erocx1.blogspot.com/2008/08/4th-amazonian-shamanism-conference-mp3.html | 3/5/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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142: Altered Traits | Hear the conclusion of AyasminA's interview with Dr. Tom Pinkson as they discuss the practical purpose of shamanism, giving our negative judgments to the fire, the importance of death and decay and the five steps to attitudinal healing on the topic of the end of life. You can learn more about the path that Tom walks at these websites: http://www.nierica.com and http://anewvisionofaging.com Music by Float23 | 2/25/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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142: C-Real Special: DIY Dispatch | Promised links: Thinkism by Kevin Kelly The Agroinnovations Podcast - Reprap with Adrian Bowyer Part I The Agroinnovations Podcast - Reprap with Adrian Bowyer Part II | 2/18/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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141: Maybe Gnosis | KMO welcomes Erik Davis back to the program to talk about Gnosticism as the underlying stream of Western esoteric experience as well as its modern manifestation in pop culture. Next AyasminA speaks with Dr. Tom Pinkson about life as a series of initiations and the real-life people and experiences that shaped the literary character of Carlos Castaneda's Don Juan. You learn more about the path that Tom walks at these websites: http://www.nierica.com and http://anewvisionofaging.com Music by Jeff Andrews & the Blessed Unrest | 2/11/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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140: The Growth Imperative | KMO welcomes Thomas Homer-Dixon, author of The Upside of Down, back to the program to discus the potential, connectedness, and resilience of adaptive systems like ecosystems and economies. Is restoring the growth trajectory of the global economy a viable means of securing long term prosperity? What impact is technology having on employment, and is full employment a workable or even desirable goal? Later, Tad reads from his forthcoming book, Carbon Shift: How the Twin Crises of Oil Depletion and Climate Change Will Define the Future You can find a transcript of (large portions of )this interview here: http://community.livejournal.com/the_recession/241224.html Thomas Homer-Dixon first appeared on the C-Realm Podcast in episode 36: Locus of Agency. I also played a portion of one his public talks in episode 86: Moments of Contingency. Music by Jeff Andrews. | 2/4/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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139: Memes & More… Much More | KMO welcomes Susan Blackmore, author of The Meme Machine to the program to discuss minds and the memes that make them, Buddhist meditation, the value of psychedelics, and the fabricated reality of the self. Music by Z deScathach. Musical interlude by Z deScathach: http://www.soundclick.com/bands/default.cfm?bandID=817450 Here's the Straight Dope on legislating the value of pi: http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/805/did-a-state-legislature-once-pass-a-law-saying-pi-equals-3 In my discussion with Sue,I mentioned Leonard Shlain's book The Alphabet Versus the Goddess. You can learn more about the idea that the transition from a pre-literate to a print-based culture involves a period of ideological mania and accompanying mayhem on the website devoted to the book: http://www.alphabetvsgoddess.com/ | 1/28/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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138: God & the Copying Rule | KMO welcomes Bruce Damer back the program to talk about what the pursuit of artificial life tells us about the possible nature and intentions of God. What limitations does the complexity of the human brain place on God's scope of action? Does God tinker with the universe to achieve a desired outcome, or did God establish the initial conditions and operational parameters of the universe, set it in motion and then let the process play out according to its own internal logic? Bruce Damer examined these issues in the chapter he wrote for the new book Divine Action and Natural Selection: Science, Faith, and Evolution. Music by Galen Brandt: http://www.dotolearn.com/happy_holidays/happy_holidays/holidays.htm Special thanks to the Two Zillion-Year-Old Hippie for his contribution to this episode: http://2zillionhippie.podomatic.com/ | 1/21/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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137: Embracing Petrocollapse | "C" stands for consciousness KMO has another go at finding "the upside of down," this time with Jan Lundberg of CultureChange.org and the Sail Transport Network. Could petrocollapse be right around the corner? Jan Lundberg thinks that it might be, and what's more, that might not be such a bad thing. Topics include the plastic plague, pedal powered produce, and unearthing sustainable living by de-paving paradise. Music by the Depavers. Mateo writes: I've been authorized by the Southern California Writer’s Conference, San Diego, which will be President’s Day Weekend, February 13th – 16th, to offer a $50 discount off the Full Conference registration for Psychedelic Salon, C-Realm, and BLITA Listeners. All they have to do is inform the conference that they heard it from Mateo on the podcasts. I’ve had a few great people come to my workshops and writer’s conferences who came via the podcasts. I’ll be teaching two late night "rogue" workshops at the conference as well as one-on-one manuscript consultations and there are lots of other workshops and speakers besides me. The Zombie Apocalypse thread on the C-Realm Grow Report Forum can be found here: http://www.thegrowreport.com/Forums/showthread.php?t=5752 | 1/14/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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136: The Peer-Polity Peter Principle | "C" stands for consciousness 136: The Peer-Polity Peter Principle KMO welcomes energy infrastructure analyst Jeff Vail to the program to talk about how growth-oriented hierarchies start to come unglued when they run up against the energy and resource limitations that prohibit continued growth. Listen in to hear how this idea relates to Professor Laurence J. Peter's famous principle. Music by Float. There's a good discussion of Jeff Vail's ideas in postrodent's journal. You can hear the original, unedited version of my TalkShoe conversation with Jeff here: http://www.talkshoe.com/tc/33530 | 1/7/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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135: ’08 Wrap-up | "C" stands for consciousness 135: '08 Wrap-up KMO looks back at the C-Realm Podcast's 2008 offerings, anticipates the challenges of the coming year, reads email from listeners and discusses the on-going C-Realm Project with guest Neil Kramer. This is a long one folks, so make yourself a hot drink, get comfortable, and settle in for 90 minutes of in-group preening and navel gazing. Music by Glöd. Links tomorrow. Happy New Year! | 12/31/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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134: Zombie Apocalypse Christmas Special | "C" stands for consciousness 134: Zombie Apocalypse Christmas Special KMO welcomes Neil Kramer back to the program to praise the films of George A. Romero and to judge those who carried on and/or ripped off his life's work. What does an animated flesh eating corpse symbolize? What can we learn about our fears and our beliefs concerning the people around us by pondering the shuffling corpses of 70's cinema and their fleet footed counter-parts in the 21st Century zeitgeist? All this and a quick trip Down Under to mash Mad Max into the mix. More links to come, but for now here are five scientifically plausible scenarios leading to Zombie Apocalypse! | 12/24/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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133: Jaguar and Pilgrim | "C" stands for consciousness Episode 133: Jaguar & Pilgrim KMO welcomes Robert Tindall to discuss the experiences that inform his new book, The Jaguar that Roams the Mind: An Amazonian Plant Spirit Odyssey. Topics discussed include the nature of addiction, the role (helpful or harmful) of so-called "Ayahuasca tourism," and the relationship between entheogenic exploration and psychedelic recreation. Music by EthnoSuperLounge. | 12/17/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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132: Transcendental Dependent Arising | "C" stands for consciousness 132: Transcendental Dependent Arising KMO talks with meditation instructor James Baraz about his Awakening Joy course which combines the traditional wisdom of the Buddhist meditative tradition with up to the minute neuroscientific perspectives to encourage "wholesome" states like generosity, gratitude and joy. On the program I read part of an email interview published at the Diet Soap website. You can find the full text of that interview here: http://www.dietsoap.org/2008/12/06/interview-with-kmo-of-the-c-realm/ Music by Eve Decker: http://www.evedecker.com | 12/10/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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131: Rocky Top | M. King Hubbert's peak is a perfect mathematical abstraction, and gliding over the top at speed might leave one with a giddy feeling of momentary weightlessness, but according to Albert K. Bates, the reality described by the mathematical object is more of a rocky mountaintop than a glassy smooth parabola, and moving over it's jagged topology won't (doesn't) feel much like gliding. Read Albert's thoughts on bio-char or learn more about the upcoming permaculture design course in Belize. The musical interlude in this episode features a track from Tibet2Timbuk2. You can find the Michael Pollan for Agriculture Secretary petition here: http://www.petitiononline.com/MPoll4Ag/petition.html | 12/3/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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130: Gravity Check | "C" stands for consciousness 130: Gravity Check KMO welcomes Professor Howard Margolis to the program. The idea was to talk about human cognition, but try as he might, KMO can't keep the C-Realm airship in the metashpere, and the conversation relentlessly spirals in on the topic of Peak Oil and the potential of nuclear energy as a means of avoiding the Malthusian Correction. Later, Albert K. Bates reminds us why we should not view nuclear fission as a panacea for our energy woes. Music by Dr. Richard Grossman: www.soundjourney.com Albert Bates links: http://www.thefarm.org/etc http://www.gaiauniversity.org http://ena.ecovillage.org http://www.i4at.org/ http://www.peaceroots.org/ http://www.thegreatchange.com | 11/26/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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129: An Affirmation of Your Own Sanity | "C" stands for consciousness 129: An Affirmation of Your Own Sanity Here are a couple of messages that I received concerning Michael Tsarion. The first comes from Neil Kramer of The Cleaver: KMO, For me, Michael Tsarion is, what we in England call, a diamond geezer. One of the good guys. The difficulty is, his work is so esoteric, so off the radar, that unless you have a grounding in the arcane and mystery-cult texts on Atlantis, Catastrophism, revisionist history, ET's, Secret Societies and the like, it is unduly hard to follow his thinking. Personally, I have done most of the homework and so have no issue with most of his theories. For him to constantly evidence and reference his theories during a brief radio interview would leave no time for the broader visions he is outlining. If people need to see the data, go read his scholarly and voluminous books. And the works of Comyns Beaumont, Conor MacDari, Graham Hancock, Zecharia Sitchin, Michael Cremo etc. Tsarion himself is perhaps somewhat of a modern day Ignatius Donnelly or Immanuel Velikovsky. The core of his work is solid. He is positively incapable of inauthentic behaviour, which is more than can be said for most alternative researchers. Personally, I like his energy and dogged no-compromise approach. If you were going into battle, Lord Of The Rings style, you'd want him at your side. With the dark forces loose in the world today, such considerations may not be altogether fantastical. I think it was a bold and creative choice on your part to include him on the guest roster. Conscious diversity is good. If his words open one more mind to the crucial importance of ancient history in today's current events - including the US elections - it's been worth it. Great work as ever, keep it coming. NK And from a happy C-Realm listener: KMO, Sorry to send this comment to you through direct email but unfortunately, I refuse to join another site where I have to get an account like livejournal, etc. I know this refusal to join anymore "gated" communities will limit my access to certain neighborhoods but I'm at peace with that. With that said, I'd like to say the following: I really, really like Michael Tsarion, always have and probably always will. I also realize that there are those who don't--kinda obvious don't you think. And honestly, I'm fine with that, each person should be able to decide what/who moves them and what/who doesn't. My concern is when these "dissenters" alter the way a guest is handled or portrayed. What I am trying to say is, I think you may have cut the session with Tsarion short last week to appease the naysayers and am afraid you might do the same this week. This would personally be very disappointing. I looked forward to the 3 weeks of Tsarion even if others can't take 5 minutes of him. I try to listen to the guest on yours and other shows with an open ear regardless of my personal opinions about them. Each speaker usually has a well thought out point and has backed up their efforts by authoring books (like Tsarion) and other venues for getting their ideas out (like podcasts and conferences, etc.) and though this doesn't make them someone to be in awe of or blindly followed they do deserve credit for their work, efforts and scholarship. At least they have the courage to put themselves out there for criticism. Instead of catering to people who don't like a certain guest, how about suggesting they write a few books, speak at several conferences, maybe make a good youtube video or DVD for sale and then you can have them on as a guest--better yet accept their displeasure with a guest selection but move on as you decided. The publishing/entertainment/education industries don't eat people up because they actually have a large creature that "eats" people, instead people slowly conform to the wishes of others till there original vision is lost. Maybe, I'm jumping the gun here a little, and if so, please accept my apologies. | 11/19/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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128: Irish Origins & the Roots of Tyranny | "C" stands for consciousness 128: Irish Origins & the Roots of Tyranny KMO welcomes Michael Tsarion back to the program to explore the extent of the Irish influence not only on so-called "Western Culture" but on the ancient world as well. Lots of feedback on last week's political discussion, music from Peter Kilbryde, and a visit from Ayasmina. Entheogenesis Australis When I sent Peter Kilbryde the clip from our interview that I was going to play, he wrote back to say: Hi, KMO. Well, I dont know why you would want to broadcast the drunken egotistic and more importantly....out of tune....ramblings of mine. They seem of little value to me...but do proceed if you see fit. You might say that I gave a presentation concerning Irish Icaros at the Conference and would relish the opportunity to give it to any interested groups and you can pass out this e mail address. You can find recordings of all of the presentations given at the 4th Annual International Shamanism Conference here: http://erocx1.blogspot.com/2008/08/4th-amazonian-shamanism-conference-mp3.html You can reach Peter Micheal Kilbryde at. | 11/12/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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127: The Cube Remains the Cube | "C" stands for consciousness 127: The Cube Remains the Cube KMO explores the middle ground between techno-utopianism and and Peak Oil collapse fetishism with Digital Crusader, Eric Boyd, who attended the recent Singularity Summit. The Michael Tsarion provides his perspective on the mechanisms of political power and the significance of the Obama electoral victory. Micheal Tsarion: http://www.michaeltsarion.com/ Eric Boyd: http://xprizecars.com/ Eric recommended some essays that can be found on Marshall Brain's webpage: http://www.marshallbrain.com/ | 11/5/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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126: Horticultural Consciousness | "C" stands for consciousness 126: Horticultural Consciousness What is Thinkism? And what does it have in common with Peak Oil Doomerism? Was agriculture a good idea? What are the prosepects for giving it up? KMO discusses these and other burning questions with Toby Hemenway and Eric Boyd in this week's installment of the C-Realm Podcast. Musical interlude by Tibet2Timbuk2: http://www.ethnosuperlounge.com/tibet2timbuk2/index.html C-Realm Amazon Store: http://astore.amazon.com/crealm Please, vote for the C-Realm Podcast in the Culture / Arts category at http://www.podcastawards.com . You can hear Cody's McKenna/Kramer mash-up here: http://blacklightattic.podomatic.com/entry/2008-10-28T10_35_25-07_00 | 10/29/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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125: Apocalypse, Not! | "C" stands for consciousness 125: Apocalypse, Not! KMO welcomes Toby Hemenway to the program to talk about the virtues of rural and urban living. Does living in the boonies do Gaia any favors, or are rural homesteads basically just suburban McMansions with bigger yards and longer commutes? Listener email, music from Andy Warren, and a preview of a talk given by Fred Alan Wolf at the Coalessence Festival. Links tomorrow. | 10/22/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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124: Pot Luck | "C" stands for consciousness 124: Pot Luck KMO talks with Erik Davis about the novels of Philip Kindred Dick and the movies they inspired. Warning, this segment includes unchecked ranting by the host. Later, Professor Lefty of Lefty's Lounge stops by to chew the fat and reflect on life as a podcaster. Musical Guest: Andy Warren The podcast ends when the rooster crows. Any copyrighted musical material that may follow on after the closing rooster crow is not part of the podcast, and I wouldn't have any idea how it got there. | 10/15/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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123: Eyes of the Numerati | "C" stands for consciousness 123: Eyes of the Numerati KMO surveys the emerging statistical panopticon with Stephen Baker, author of the Numerati. How much do we reveal about ourselves and our lives via the information that leaks out from our cell phones, web browsers, and credit card purchases? Who collects that information, and what can they deduce about us by applying arcane mathematical methodologies to the statistical detritus of our lives? Musical interlude: Beautiful Night by Tom Langford. http://www.myspace.com/tomlangford In the beginning of the podcast I read a short passage from Postsingular by Rudy Rucker. You can download the entire novel for free here: http://www.rudyrucker.com/postsingular/ | 10/8/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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122: A Random Walk w/ Bruce Damer | "C" stands for consciousness Episode 122: A Random Walk w/ Bruce Damer KMO welcomes Bruce Damer to the C-Realm to discuss a range of topics including space colonization, artificial intelligence, the singularity, and some more realistic but still heady possibilities that arise from the technological trends shaping human experience here on the cusp of whatever it is that seems poised to overtake us. Some of the books discussed include Stand On Zanzibar, Rainbow's End, and Postsingular The podcast includes a song by Sharon Little called "Accidentally" from her album "Perfect Time for a Breakdown." Sharon Little's website: http://www.sharonlittle.com/ A Gigantic Unplanned Experiment … on You | 10/1/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Special: Reinventing Reality C-Realm | "C" stands for consciousness Reinventing Reality C-Realm Special KMO welcomes Daniel Pinchbeck and Dmitry Orlov to the program to discuss their visions of the challenges and opportunities that pesent themselves in this liminal moment in human history. Might our economic system be on the verge of collapse? Would that necessarily be a bad thing? How might we reinvent ourselves and our society as we search for a new guiding communal myth? Later, KMO talks with Corey Call about the upcoming Coalessence Festival in Eureka Springs, Arkansas. Reality Sandwich: http://www.realitysandwhich.com Club Orlov: http://cluborlov.blogspot.com Coalessence Festival: http://www.coalessencefest.com Crossing the Event Horizon by Nassim Haramein More links to come. | 9/26/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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120: The Long Decent | "C" stands for consciousness 120: The Long Descent KMO welcomes author and Archdruid, John Michael Greer, to the program to discuss his new book The Long Descent: A User’s Guide to the End of the Industrial Age and explore the possibility that Peak Oil may play out more like a fall down the stairs than like a plunge from a third floor balcony. Do the worldviews of Peak Oil aficionados, Singularitarians, and Trekkies all spring from the book of Revelations, and are modern visions concerning progress and the human future really just ancient religious myths in secular drag? http://thearchdruidreport.blogspot.com/ John Michael Greer made reference to Limits to Growth. I would recommend an episode of the Electric Politics podcast in which host George Kenny interviews Dr. Dennis Meadow, one of the three co-authors of Limits to Growth: http://www.electricpolitics.com/podcast/2008/07/modeling_planetary_dynamics.html I read portions of Rapture of the Nerds, Not by Steven Smithee and made reference to the upcoming Singularity Summit: http://www.singularitysummit.com/ | 9/17/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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119: Who Benefits from 9-11? | "C" stands for consciousness 119: Who Benefits from 9-11? Guest: Richard Grove of 8th Estate Public Media and Research Links: Codex Alimentarius: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Codex_alimentarius Judi Dench-narrated video on Codex Alimentarius: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3273956447915041292&ei=dN3HSJesAYigrwLykJ3MAg&q=codex+alimentarius&hl=en The main codex video: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5266884912495233634&hl=en Official site of the opposition: http://www.codexalimentarius.net/web/index_en.jsp If you click this link: http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Partnership_for_a_Drug-Free_America You'll find that DuPont, Heinz, Bayer (i.e. IG Farben), JP Morgan, etc. all support the "Partnership for a Drug Free America." 8th Estate films: http://exposureroom.com/search/?q=8thestate&t=0 Black Light in the Attic Podcast: http://blacklightattic.podomatic.com/ Radio Orbit for Wednesday, May 23, 2007 Bin Laden Construction Company Worked on the World Trade Center: http://kentroversypapers.blogspot.com/2007/04/bin-laden-construction-company-worked.html | 9/10/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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118: 21st Century Koans | "C" stands for consciousness 118: 21st Century Koans link: http://crossingpointoflight.blogspot.com/2008/02/comet-17p-holmes-was-shown-in-crop.html There are a couple of places in the intro in which the completely wrong word came out of my mouth. I didn't notice until I went to edit those bits, and by then my window of quiet time had passed, so I didn't go back and re-record. Hopefully, I will return to "normal" cognitive function in the near future. Here are a couple of emails of the sort that I like to read on the show. I just didn't leave myself time to do so this week: Hi KMO, I just sent you a Paypal donation from my other email account. It's not much, but hopefully it won't be the last one. It sounds like you can use as much as you can get right now. Speaking of your current situation... you've always done a good job on the C-Realm of adhering to classic principles of journalism: keeping out of the way of the topic, overtly expressing your personal positions only insofar as they clarify or enhance the information, and warning your listeners of when you do "get personal" in an interview. As a former editor and student of media and society who is appalled by what passes for journalism in the mass media today, I've deeply appreciated this..... but it does mean that many of your listeners know very little about your ongoing personal situation, myself included. I'm assuming that those who were lucky enough to attend ceremony with you in Peru know what's up, but maybe you could edify the rest of us? I tend to think (idealistically, I'm sure) that the community of C-Realm listeners is, in fact, a community, albeit one that doesn't get to meet face to face very often. And people in communities help each other out. I know I alone can't possibly contribute enough money to pay your rent, or convince your wife that the C-Realm is a legitimate and highly needed enterprise worthy of your efforts. However, if Maryland doesn't work out, I'd be happy to engage my social network to help you find work, housing, or even just someone to take care of your cats. And I'll bet I'm not the only C-Realm listener whose wealth lies more in connections than in dollars. Be well, katuah Hi KMO, Just sent you a donation, because I know moving can be expensive! But it's small because I just moved too ;) Very much enjoyed this week's podcast about aliens. It seems like a good time to point you to some material I've found to be particularly interesting: http://www.lawofone.info/ The body of work is essentially an interview with an extraterrestrial, spanning several years in the early 80s. The interviewer was Don Elkins: a pilot who had seen a UFO and, in the course of investigating the phenomenon, was lead to channels who claimed to be in contact with them. The interviewee was RA: the 'social memory complex' that evolved from Venus, as channeled by Carla Rueckert and transcribed by James McCarty. While admittedly an extraterrestrial, RA stressed the relative unimportance of UFO phenomena. These visitations are described as wake up calls for those who need to be reminded that mystery underlies existence. Having occurred throughout history, they take whatever form the current culture is prepared to accept - as UFOs, spirits, angels, gods, etc. There are many different beings visiting us via several different mechanisms, and each experience is tailored to the individual's expectations - hence the wide variety of reports. I laughed out loud hearing of McKenna's encounter... so perfectly his! RA was not manifest on earth during the interview, but describes visiting the ancient Egyptians in a bell shaped craft and walking among them for an extended period. RA worked with the priests of that culture to create the higher arcana of the Tarot (as a tool for meditation on archetypes) and built the first of the pyramids there (as chakra balancing centers). | 9/3/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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117: Aliens are ‘Real’ | "C" stands for consciousness 117: Aliens are 'Real' KMO welcomes Neil Kramer back to the program to talk about aliens, crop circles, Terence McKenna, and alternative ways to connect the dots. The following links were provided by wakingsleep13: Psychedelic Salon #150: UFOs http://www.matrixmasters.net/blogs/?p=302 The Cleaver http://thecleaver.blogspot.com/ The Psychonautilus http://the-psychonautilus.podomatic.com/ The episode with the KMO interview is here: http://the-psychonautilus.podomatic.com/entry/eg/2008-02-24T09_21_36-08_00 Red Ice Creations Radio Programs w/ Neil Kramer http://www.redicecreations.com/radio/2007/12dec/RICR-071213.php http://www.redicecreations.com/radio/2007/12dec/RICR-071213-SUB.html Links from Neil Kramer: Great video intro to Crop Circles:- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uFKJJ5VMfWA Comet 17P Holmes & Crop Circles:- http://www.cropcircleconnector.com/anasazi/time2007g.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/17P/Holmes Particularly stunning 2008 circles:- http://www.cropcircleconnector.com/2008/barbury/barbury2008a.html http://www.cropcircleconnector.com/2008/ridgeway/ridgeway2008a.html http://www.cropcircleconnector.com/2008/westwoods/westwoods2008.html http://www.cropcircleconnector.com/2008/southfield/southfield2008.html http://www.cropcircleconnector.com/2008/wayland/wayland2008a.html http://www.cropcircleconnector.com/2008/cherhill/cherhill2008.html http://www.cropcircleconnector.com/2008/080808/080808.html http://www.cropcircleconnector.com/2008/Etchilhampton/Etchilhampton2008a.html Good Crop Circle resources and information:- http://temporarytemples.co.uk/imagelibrary/ http://www.cropcircleconnector.com/2008/2008.html http://www.bertjanssen.nl/cropcircles.html http://www.cropcirclesecrets.org/education.html http://theconversation.org/booklet2.html | 8/27/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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116: Know Your Trances | "C" stands for consciousness 116: Know Your Trances KMO talks with Dennis R. Wier, author of The Way of Trance, about how trance states can disable short term memory and inhibit cognitive function, erode individual autonomy and impair judgment. Other topics covered include meditation addiction, trance abuse, and the tendency of so many of us to stay in trance all day every day so as to dull the pain of our existence. http://trance.edu/drupal/node | 8/20/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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115: Good to Know | "C" stands for consciousness 112: Good to Know In this 115th installment of the C-Realm Podcast, KMO welcomes author Carol Ekarius back to the program to discus the recent move by the US Congress to ban chemicals called phthalates from consumer products in the United States. In the second half of the program, former spy Robert David Steele explains the merits of Open Source Intelligence (OPSINT) and why you can learn a lot more by scrutinizing publicly available data than you can with expensive, high-risk, cloak and dagger shenanigans. Thanks to Kent Bye of the Echo Chamber Project for recording the interview with Robert David Steele and for distributing it under a Creative Commons license. Thanks to C-Realm listener, Afgod for turning me on to Robert David Steele with the following links: http://www.thelasthope.org/media/audio/64kbps/Earth_Intelligence_Network_World_Brain_as_EarthGame.mp3 http://www.thelasthope.org/media/audio/64kbps/Spy_Improv_Everything_You_Ever_Wanted_to_Ask_and_Did_Not_Kno.mp3 http://www.thelasthope.org/media/audio/64kbps/Spy_Improv_Everything_You_Ever_Wanted_to_Ask_and_Did_Not_002.mp3 http://www.thelasthope.org/talks.html The musical interlude is by Beehive. You can download their singles "Pretty Little Theives" and "Better Than Lies" FOR FREE here: http://files.godigitalmedia.net/download/?plt.mp3 (Pretty Little Thieves) and here: http://files.godigitalmedia.net/download/?Beehive-Better_Than_Lies.mp3 (Better Than Lies) More of their music is available on iTunes, Napster, Rhapsody, etc. | 8/13/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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114: Community – Local, Distributed & Transient | "C" stands for consciousness 114: Community - Local, Distributed & Transient In this 114th episode of the C-Realm podcast, KMO reads listener email and plays a conversation recorded with a C-Realm listener in Iquitos, Peru to provide you with a hint of the flavor of the first ever C-Realm jungle retreat. Later in the episode, KMO plays a conversation that he recorded at the Congress for the New Urbanism event in Austin, Texas back in April of this year. Roger Eastman, a city planner in Flagstaff, Arizona and Chad Emerson, a professor of property law and author of The SmartCode Solution to Sprawl talk about the forces that have left pedestrians stranded in a landscape built for the convenience of cars and the prospects for a return to human scale urban living. | 8/6/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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113: Appropriate Faith | "C" stands for consciousness 113: Appropriate Faith I'm back in the States (but not firing on all cylinders just yet). Here's the first podcast built from material I collected on my recent trip to Peru. I make only a token appearance in this one, but I'll provide an account of my experiences on future programs. In this episode, you can hear the main part of Dennis McKenna's address to the 4th Annual International Amazonian Shamanism Conference. Enjoy. | 7/30/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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111: Stop Digging | C-Realm Podcast "C" stands for consciousness 111: Stop Digging KMO welcomes Peak Shrink, Kathy McMahon of PeakOilBlues.com back to the program to talk about practical steps people can take to move in the direction of independence and preparedness. KMO also reads a passage about denial and social inertia from The Upside of Down: Catastrophe, Creativity, and the Renewal of Civilization by Thomas Homer-Dixon. 26 things you can do to RIGHT NOW manage your anxiety by Kathy McMahon You can hear my 2007 conversation with Thomas Homer-Dixon here: http://c-realmpodcast.podomatic.com/player/web/2007-05-30T13_24_49-07_00 And my conversation with Michelle Espinosa here: http://c-realmpodcast.podomatic.com/player/web/2007-08-22T20_34_57-07_00 At the end of the episode, I mentioned that I had scripted something to read in place of my usual ad lib closing comments. Here's what I wrote: Being a cheerleader for collapse. A while back, I posted a poll to C-Realm.org about whether people wanted to see global oil production peak in the near future. Sixty five people participated in the poll, and here are their responses: First, I would have you notice that the two most popular answers are both flavors of "yes." The most popular answer involved a desire to live in balance with the interdependent natural systems that sustain us. The second most popular answer involved a desire to see the end of global corporate capitalism. Most of the people who said they didn't want to see global oil production peak said it was because they wanted to avoid the human suffering that would accompany Peak Oil. One person said that they wanted to see the end of cheap oil because they hated humans and welcomed the Malthusian Correction, but nobody said they didn't want Peak Oil to arrive because it would cause the destruction of global corporate capitalism. Now, obviously, people who find themselves at the C-Realm website do not provide representative cross sample of opinions and attitudes about global corporate capitalism. If I'd designed the poll for the general public, I would have added one more answer: "Peak Oil? What's that?" Even so, I think the poll results tell us something about the inner lives of the supposed beneficiaries of cheap energy and the system of high tech, global corporate capitalism it makes possible. We live longer now than we did before the coming of the industrial age, and most of us, even those with very little financial clout, don't have to do much physical labor. In fact, the opportunity to do physical labor in exchange for wages is now a much rarer thing thing that it was a generation ago. Even those of us who aren't exactly "making it" in this post-industrial landscape live long lives compared to people in pre-industrial history, and we don't have to toil for our bread, and yet we have no love for this system which has brought us to this seemingly blessed state. I'm getting ready to travel to the Peruvian Amazon. I like to visit the two thirds world because at least in the places that I've visited, it seems that people enjoy a better quality of life there than we do here. There are certainly parasitic forces at work in their lives, and they have adversarial institutions in their lives just like we do, but those institutions don't seem to intrude into their lives and consciousness to nearly the extent that they do for us. People are more physically engaged with their world than we are. They know their neighbors, and they have a lot more free time. And yet almost all of the people there with their copious free time and rich community connections would gladly trade places with me and willingly spend all of their time working in an office, driving to and fro, and spending the bulk of their non-working hours in solitude in their suburban castle watching television. They've never experienced that life, but they're pretty sure it would be an improvement on their current situation. | 7/9/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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110: A Crash Course in Burning Bridges | "C" stands for consciousness 110: A Crash Course in Burning Bridges KMO welcomes Zachary Nowak, author of Crash Course: Preparing for Peak Oil to the program to discus the utility calculus of preparing for tough times. Later KMO gets a head start on next week's interview with Peak Shrink, Kathy McMahon. Finally, Terence McKenna speaks across the years from the early 90's to share the good news about living in a world that's out of control. In introducing Crash Course: Preparing for Peak Oil, I read an excerpt from a review by Frank Kaminski. You can find the full text of that review here: http://www.energybulletin.net/node/45566 | 7/2/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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109: Women Are Medicine | "C" stands for consciousness 109: Women Are Medicine In this final podcast in the series of Friday shows meant to raise awareness of the 4th Annual International Amazonian Shamanism Conference, AyasminA talks with heterogeneous curandera, Wendy Luckey, about the path, about not fitting in, and about the role of women in humanity's collective healing. http://wendyluckey.com/cms/ | 6/27/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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108: Methane Burps & Tele Everything | "C" stands for consciousness 108: Methane Burps & Tele Everything KMO welcomes Dennis M. Bushnell, chief scientist of the NASA Langley Research Center, to discuss climate change and ways of combating it that don't produce Big Brother on steroids. Mr. Bushnell also discusses the existential risks that could arise from the "simultaneous IT, bio, nano, quantum, energetics, double exponential tech revolution." Dennis M. Bushnell's Lifeboat Foundation bio: http://lifeboat.com/ex/bios.dennis.m.bushnell In our conversation, Dennis Bushnell makes several references to and speaks very highly of a book by Peter D. Ward called Under a Green Sky: Global Warming, the Mass Extinctions of the Past, and What They Can Tell Us About Our Future. | 6/25/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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107: Truth & Fear | "C" stands for consciousness 107: Truth & Fear AyasminA returns with an interview with visionary artist, Roberto Venosa. In addition to delving into his personal history and development as a visionary artist, Ayasmina and Roberto explore the dark side and ask whether evil exists as a thing in and of itself. They also examine the question of the reality of the subject matter of visionary art. At present, Roberto's wife, Martina Hoffmann, has her work on display at the MicroCoSM Gallery in NYC. Roberto's work will soon be featured in a MicroCosM exhibit: http://www.microcosmgallery.com/ Raw Shock by Roberto Venosa | 6/20/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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106: A Sense of Proportion | "C" stands for consciousness 106: A Sense of Proportion Science writer John Horgan, author of Rational Mysticism, joins KMO in the C-Realm and takes a turn in the Total Perspective Vortex. Topics include the ego-inflation that overtakes some psychonauts, the nihilistic abuses of cult leaders, the unfulfilled promises of artificial intelligence, and the glorious visions of Singularitarians. You can find John Horgan's Bloggingheads.tv interview with Eliezer Yudkowsky here: http://bloggingheads.tv/diavlogs/11693 You can find Eliezer's reflections on the encounter here: http://www.overcomingbias.com/2008/06/bloggingheads-y.html Michael Anissimov described the Horgan/Yudkowsky piece as a "trainwreck." Checkitout: http://www.acceleratingfuture.com/michael/blog/2008/06/bloggingheadstv-interview-horgan-and-yudkowsky/ | 6/18/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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105: Caught in the Web | 105: Caught in the Web AyasminA returns with another ayahuasca-themed interview. This time she connects with visionary artist, Martina Hoffmann to talk about the connection between the visionary states induced by ayahuasca and the visions on canvas that they leave in their wake. Other topics include honoring the divine feminine and finding a balance between living in direct connection with nature and losing ourselves in a haze of techno-mediated busy work. http://www.martinahoffmann.com/ AyasminA can be found at: http://people.tribe.net/5ce45b25-bcdd-488a-917d-e8707eef9081 http://www.amazonconvergence.com http://www.soga-del-alma.org/ConferenceSite/presenters.html | 6/13/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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104: C of Hype | KMO welcomes Bob Seidensticker, author of Future Hype, to the program to bust a few techno-myths. Later we hear from John Horgan, author of Rational Mysticism about why he prefers mystical gurus with a dash of Irish wit and a knowing wink over those who claim to have it all figured out. http://www.future-hype.com/ | 6/11/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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103: Learning from Flawed Teachers | "C" stands for consciousness 103: Learning from Flawed Teachers Guests include David Rosdeitcher and Neil Kramer. The cover art from this and several other recent shows comes from the Flickr stream of C-Realm listener D. J. Golderg: http://flickr.com/photos/dc-bw2736/ | 6/7/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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102: A Vocabulary of Control | KMO talks with Ellen Hodgson Brown, author of Web of Debt, about the dirty secrets of our financial system, its likely fate, and our prospects for steering a workable economic course in the near future. I'll try to get these notes into better shape here in the next day or two, but for now, if you'd like to follow up on the things Ellen and I talked about in this episode, you can start here: http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/2007/07/12/spiraling-us-federal-debt-triggers-decline-of-dollar-by-ellen-hodgson-brown/ and here's an article by Hellen Brown about increasing global food prices: http://www.webofdebt.com/articles/global-food-crisis.php Also, you can hear the Mike Hagan interview with G. Edward Griffin that I mentioned here: http://www.mikehagan.com/2012/mp3/091204_ED_GRIFFIN.mp3 | 6/4/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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101: Pyramid Consciousness | C-Realm correspondent AyasminA returns with a new interview. Julian Haynes is building an ayahuasca-inspired, floating, wooden, Egyptian-style pyramid in Iquitos, Peru. AyasminA asks him how and why and then returns to the question of whether interest in ayahuasca shamanism harms the indigenous cultures that spiritual seekers think they're honoring. http://www.pyramidperu.com Covert art by David Slocum Hewson: http://www.davidhewsonart.com/ | 5/30/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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100: Interfacing with the Panopticon | In this 100th episode of the C-Realm Podcast, KMO welcomes SF author Charles Stross (AKA autopope) to the program to discuss the convergence of massively multi-player online games, live action role-playing games, and the emerging infrastructure of the surveillance society. After that he considers listener feedback on the topic of whether human intelligence is somehow privileged or more important than that of other forms of life. Charles Stross is the author of many books including Accelerondo, The Jennifer Morgue, and Halting State. He has also written an essay entitled The Panopticon Singularity which provides much fuel for thought for anyone concerned with the future of civil liberties and privacy. | 5/28/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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99: Slapping the Monkeys Upside the Head | KMO gets an ayahuasca retreat update from Matt W. of the Temple of the Way of Light. After that Dennis McKenna manifests in the C-Realm to solve the riddle of consciousness and shine the light of his awareness on such topics as environmental degradation, the evolution of machine intelligence, and, of course, Amazonian ayahuasca shamanism. | 5/23/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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98: Beyond Civilized and Primitive | First, Dmitry Orlov, author of Reinventing Collapse: The Soviet Example and American Prospects, details the Collapse Party Platform: a list of initiatives that acknowledge the danger of collapse and, if implemented, would make near-future America a more livable place than the destination that political business-as-usual will produce. After that, Ran Prieur shines a harsh but instructive light of reality on a few cherished neo-primitivist fantasies. Ran makes multiple references to 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus by Charles C. Mann and describes it as a major influence on the ideas that he articulated in his essay, "Beyond Civilized and Primitive." | 5/21/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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97: Molecules and Messengers | In this episode, KMO creates an audio mash-up of material taken (with permission) from the radio documentary 'In Search of the Divine Vegetal' and previous episodes of the C-Realm Podcast to address the question of whether First World spiritual seekers are stealing or corrupting the spiritual traditions of the Two Thirds World. Voices heard include: Dennis McKenna, Jeremy Narby, and A. Andrew Gonzalez. If you will be attending the 4th International Amazonian Shamanism Conference in Iquitos because you learned about it or decided to attend because of what you heard on the C-Realm Podcast, please write to Alan Shoemaker and let him know so that I will get credit for your attendance. Alan's email address is sogadelalma (at) yahoo (dot) com . Thank you. | 5/16/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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96: Kollapsnik & the Ripping Yarn | KMO talks first with James Howard Kunstler about his new novel, World Made By Hand. Next he speaks with Dmitry Orlov about the 5 stages of collapse and about his book, Reinventing Collapse: The Soviet Example and American Prospects, which has just been released. KMO closes the podcast with a reading on the difference between "breakdown" and "collapse" from Thomas Homer-Dixon's excellent book, The Upside of Down: Catastrophe, Creativity, and the Renewal of Civilization. Dmitry Orlov mentioned two books during our conversation which figured prominently in the formation of his thoughts on collapse: The Mountain People by Colin M. Turnbull The Collapse of Complex Societies by Joseph Tainter | 5/14/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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95: The Art and the Outrage | In this episode, former guest AyasminA turns C-Realm correspondent to interview artist David "Slocum" Hewson who makes Iquitos, Peru his base of operations and where he is contributing to the construction of the Pyramid Peru project. AyasminA and Slocum discuss the role of ayahuasca and other visionary plants in the creation of Slocum's art before moving on to an examination of the relative harms done by ayahuasca tourism versus the effects of trans-national petroleum, mining and timber corporations on the people and the ecology of the Amazon. http://www.davidhewsonart.com/ http://www.pyramidperu.com/ http://www.redambientalloretana.org/ http://www.amazonconvergence.com (Another event in Iquitos this summer that Jeremy Narby will attend. Jeremy Narby appears in episodes 25 and 26 of the C-Realm Podcast.) | 5/9/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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94: Xen & the Art of Perfecting Humanity | KMO talks with author D.J. Solomon who reads a long passage from his novel from the future. Is the human soul amenable to improvement? If you were designing a plague that would remake humanity, what would you change? What would you leave untouched? Who would live, and who would die? How would men and women relate to one another on the morning after? http://www.xenbook.com | 5/7/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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93: Diet and Preparation | KMO welcomes Matthew J. Pallamary, author of Land Without Evil, back to the program to talk about the preparations one can make prior to departure in order to get the most from one's ayahuasca experiences. Here is a list of dietary 'do's and 'don't's from Ayahuascero Javier Arevelo Shahuano, who will preside over the Temple of the Way of Light program that the C-Realm listeners can attend prior to the 4th Annual International Amazonian Shamanism Conference: List of foods used at the Temple of the Way of Light Chicken (free range) Game Fish (only certain fish are allowed) Potatoes Eggs Oats Salads (standard and more exotic Amazonian) Herbal teas Spaghetti / pasta Rice Quinoa Tapioca Apples Advocados Tomatoes Beetroot Bananas Green Plantain (grilled, roasted or boiled) Carrots Broccoli Cauliflower Yucca Manioc Onions Garlic Wholemeal bread Coconuts and coconut milk Olive oil is used sparingly in the cooking List of foods not allowed when working with Ayahuasca / on a medicinal plant dieta No sugar No salt No alcohol No pork No red meat No vegetable / sunflower oils No sweets / chocolate No vinegar No condiments / seasoning No spices No chilli / hot peppers No ginger No fermented foods (soy / tofu, etc) No ice / ice cold drinks No caffeine No cheese No pickled foods No canned foods Additional restrictions No sexual activities Avoidance of man made / synthetic soaps, perfumes, toiletries, etc No prescription drugs (please contact us with more information if you are currently taking any medication / anti-depressants / antibiotics) If female participants are menstruating, then they will not be able to partake in the Ayahuasca ceremony Ayahuasca is not compatible with pregancy | 5/2/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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91: From Apprehension to Respect | In this special Friday episode, KMO welcomes Alan Shoemaker back to the program to talk about the upcoming International Amazonian Shamanism conference in Iquitos, Peru and revisit some of the topics that KMO covered in episode 89 with AyasminA. Cover Art by David Hewson - http://www.pyramidperu.com/Art_DavidHewson.htm | 4/25/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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90: Kiss of C | KMO welcomes science writer Chip Walter, author of Thumbs Toes and Tears and Other Traits that Make Us Human, back to the podcast to discuss the evolutionary origins of kissing and the role that this curiously delightful behavior plays in making us distinctly us. You can hear my first interview with him in episode 13: Skillful Means and episode 14: Enter the (Queer) Ninja! Chip's book, Thumbs, Toes, and Tears: And Other Traits That Make Us Human, was recently released in a paperback edition with a foreword by Ray Kurzweil. If you want to read what Ray Kurzweil has to say about Chip's book, you can find that foreword along with Chip's article, Why Language Is All Thumbs on Ray Kurzweil's website. Later in the program, KMO discusses the eco-village project that Alan Shoemaker has embarked on in Iquitos, Peru. Alan will return on Friday's podcast to talk about the 4th Annual International Amazonian Shamanism Conference. In the episode KMO reads from Prometheus Rising by Robert Anton Wilson and The Post-Petroleum Survival Guide and Cookbook: Recipes for Changing Times. Of course, you can find both books in the C-Realm Amazon store, but you can also read Prometheus Rising on-line for free: http://www.rawilsonfans.com/downloads/prometheus.pdf | 4/23/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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89: Ayahuasca, Alcohol, & Marijuana | KMO talks with AyasminA, who deflates the ayahuasca hype balloon and re-sets expectations with a much needed reality check. KMO and AyasminA also compare notes on the role that alcohol and marijuana play in the evolving global ayahausca consciousness. The mp3 on PodOMatic is broken and will remain so until Monday. You can download the full episode here in the mean time: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=Y667J5TP | 4/18/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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88: Making a Living | In this episode, KMO sits down with Daniel Quinn, author of Ishmael, Beyond Civilization, and The Holy, to discuss animism, civilization, population, and tribal ways of making a living. You can find Daniel Quinn's website here: http://www.ishmael.org/ I particularly recommend his essay, The New Renaissance: http://www.ishmael.org/Education/Writings/The_New_Renaissance.shtml | 4/16/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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87: The Way of Light | KMO welcomes Matt W. of the Temple of the Way of Light to talk about the experiences that lead him to start this community in the Amazon and what awaits the C-Realm listeners who join KMO for a pre-conference retreat there in July of 2008. If I didn't respect intellectual property rights on the podcast I would have played 'The Light' by Love and Rockets. | 4/11/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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86: Moments of Contingency | In this episode, KMO plays a talk that he recorded in Austin, Texas this past weekend. James Howard Kunstler addressed the Congress for the New Urbanism and emphasized the need for trains and sleazy waterfront flop houses for sailors. After that KMO plays a clip from a Thomas Homer-Dixon talk that amplifies a theme touched on in Jim Kunstler's contribution and ends with a call to unspecified action. The full Thomas Homer-Dixon speech of which I played a short segment can be found here: http://www.ecoshock.net/eshock08/ES_080404_Show.mp3 | 4/9/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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85: Belief & Experience | KMO welcomes Dr. Martin Ball back to the program to compare the Amazonian Ayahuasca traditions with the Peyote traditions of North America. Later, they explore the topic of the law and the evolving consciousness in the USA surrounding these sacred medicines. | 4/4/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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84: No More Addiction | Host KMO talks with New York Times best-selling author Steve Alten about his new book The Shell Game. Was 9/11 a false flag operation? Will the next attack result in a canceled 2008 election and an indefinite extension of the Bush-Chaney regime? How far will the Neo-cons go to indulge the appetites of the Saudi "royals," and what won't they do to shield the House of Saud from the consequences of its many crimes? In the interview, Steve made many references to Crossing the Rubicon: The Decline of the American Empire at the End of the Age of Oil By Michael C. Ruppert, which you can find in the C-Realm Amazon store. Steve Alten interviewed by Alex Jones: http://www.alexjonesfan58.com/mp3/20080307_alexjones_stevealten.mp3 Steve Alten on the Jim Bohannon show: http://www.alexjonesfan58.com/mp3/20080306_jimbohanon_stevealten.mp3 And here's Steve presenting his uncompromised message on a corporate media TV news talk show: http://abclocal.go.com/wpvi/media?id=6059274 | 4/2/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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83: Goats & ROATs | KMO welcomes Doug Fine, NPR correspondent and author of Farewell My Subaru An Epic Adventure in Local Living to the C-Realm to discuss the intricacies replacing gasoline with veggie oil, fording raging rivers for a two-day supply of goat chow, and kicking the Wal*Mart habit. Check out Doug's website to read his Dispatches from the Funky Butte Ranch and to see a video based on his book. At the end of the show, I read an excerpt from The Spell of the Sensuous by David Abram, one of my all time favorite books. | 3/26/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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82: American Bardo | In this episode, KMO welcomes Techgnosis author Erik Davis back to the program to discuss the idea of the Bardo and consider possible ways to make the most of it. In the second half of the program, after a few excerpts from a talk by Terence McKenna to set the stage, KMO and Erik Davis dig into the question of whether there's any purpose behind the human enterprise and whether that purpose could possibly be worth the obvious harm that it is causing to Mother Earth. | 3/19/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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81: Imaginal Identity | As the start of the fourth and final season of Battlestar Galactica draws near, KMO uses BSG to dig into questions of the continuity of individual identity over time with philosophy professor Amy Kind. Professor Kind has contributed a chapter to the new book, Battlestar Galactica and Philosophy. In the second half of the program, we hear from Techgnosis author, Erik Davis. Erik details the need to employ tactical skepticism in negotiating the Mundus Imaginalis and dealing with its inhabitants. Amy Kind's contribution to Battlestar Galactica and Philosophy is called "I'm Sharon but I'm a Different Sharon: The Identity of Cylons" | 3/12/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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80: Higher States of Collapse | Higher States of Collapse KMO responds to a query concerning the best place in the US to ride out the Malthusian Correction and later enlists the aid of former guests of the program to answer a listener's question about whether entheogens really do produce spiritual experiences or "higher" states of consciousness. Folks who knowingly contributed to this episode: Dennis McKenna Matt Pallamary Neil Kramer Lorenzo Unwitting contributors: Dmitry Orlov - The Five Stages of Collapse Stanley Krippner - The Future of Religion Ben Goertzel - Unification of Science and Spirit: Chapter 8 The Psychedelic Experience Musical links to come. | 3/5/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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79: The Red Queen | First up Dmitry Orlov and Albert K. Bates explore visions of a post-collapse America, and later KMO talks food, consciousness, and the forces of darkness with Neil Kramer of the Cleaver. Dmitry Orlov is the author of Reinventing Collapse: The Soviet Example and American Prospects, and Albert K. Bates is the author of The Post-Petroleum Survival Guide and Cookbook: Recipes for Changing Times. In the podcast, Dmitry makes mention of Better Off: Flipping the Switch on Technology by Eric Brende You can find my appearance on the Chronicles of the Psychonautilus here: http://the-psychonautilus.podomatic.com/entry/eg/2008-02-24T09_21_36-08_00 I recently spoke with Matt Pallamary in a recent episode of the C-Realm Podcast about the same topics I discussed with Adam on the Chronicles of the Psychonautilus. In fact, both conversations took place on the same day. And you can find Martin Ball's Entheogenic Evolution podcast here: http://entheogenic.podomatic.com/ | 2/27/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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78: Fuel vs Food: NOT! | KMO and author David Blume spell out the difference between ethanol as a huge corporate/government boondoggle and ethanol as a strategy for re-localization and bio-remediation. After that KMO visits with organic farmer Patrice Gros and two of his energized and idealistic interns. David Blume is the author of Alcohol Can Be a Gas!: Fueling an Ethanol Revolution for the 21st Century. In the podcast, I mentioned that we didn't have time for David to reproduce all the points about ethanol that I've heard him make on other programs. If you're interested in hearing more from David Blume on this topic, I would direct you to Alan Graf's Third Planet Report. David also appears in two episodes of Peak Moment. Here's the first: You can find David Blume's website here: http://www.permaculture.com You can find the cyberspace home of Ross & Rebecca Williams hre: http://www.thedirtyway.com You can learn more about Patrice Gros at the Foundation Farm website: http://www.foundationfarm.com/ | 2/20/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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77: AI (Agricultural Intelligence) | In this installment, KMO speaks with Colin Tudge and David Blume about the possible applications of high technology, genetic engineering, robotics and artificial intelligence in farming. Both of the guests on this week's program have long and impressive bios which I did not even attempt to do justice when I introduced them. Here is a tasty tidbit from David Blume's bio: KQED, San Francisco’s Public Broadcasting System station, asked Dave to put his alcohol workshop on television, and together they spent two years making the ten-part series, Alcohol as Fuel. To accompany the series, Dave wrote the comprehensive manual on the subject, the original Alcohol Can Be A Gas! Shortly after the first show aired, in 1983, oil companies threatened to pull out their funding if the series was continued. KQED halted the distribution of the series and book (see this current book’s Introduction for the whole story). And here's a snippet from Colin Tudge's bio: CT nurses the conviction that human beings are basically both sensible and nice and that if only democracy could be made to work—creating societies based on people's real desires and values, as opposed to those assumed by economists and governments—then the world would be a much better place. After so many decades of muddle-headedness and abuse, it may well be too late to keep the world in a tolerable state. Yet this still may be achievable, and is surely worth a try. At the end of the show, I mentioned Martin Ball's new podcast, the Entheogenic Evolution. You can find it here: http://entheogenic.podomatic.com/ Laboratory AIDS And I also made mention of a recent episode of Mike Hagan's RadiOrbit program which features an interview with Ed Boyd Graves. You can download that episode here: http://www.mikehagan.com/2012/mp3/020408_BOYD_GRAVES.mp3 Do NOT ignore the black man with the flow chart! Finally, here is a sample from the journal of Russian sociologist, Pitirim Sorokin that C-Realm sponsor, Lorin K. sent to me: | 2/13/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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76: Feeding People | Guests: Gyrus founder of the Dreamflesh Journal, and Colin Tudge, author of Feeding People is Easy. The excerpt I read on the topics of Nutritionism and the Problem of the Fixed Stomach comes from In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto by Michael Pollan. At the end of the program, I read part of my correspondence with Digital Crusader Eric Boyd which was sparked by Stuart Staniford's essay, The Fallacy of Reversibility: Why Peak Oil Actually Helps Industrial Agriculture. Another former guest of the C-Realm Podcast, Sharon Astyk has written an excellent response to Staniford. If I promised any links in the podcast that you don't find here, please post a comment and let me know. | 2/6/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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75: Archaeologies of Spirit | In this episode, KMO discusses the temptations of power on the shamanic path with Matthew J. Pallamary and techniques for reconstructing the prehistoric human mind with Gyrus. Matt Pallamary (or Mateo as he likes to be called) is the author of Spirit Matters and Gyrus is the author of Archaeologies of Consciousness. You can find either book in the C-Realm Amazon Store, or you can order directly from the publishers. Normally I would encourage folks to order through Amazon so that the C-Realm Podcast earns a commission, but in this case, you might want to get the books directly from the publishers. The authors get a larger share of your purchase price when you order directly from the publisher. Mateo's publisher: http://www.mysticinkpublishing.com/ At the end of the show, I read an excerpt from American Vulgar: The Politics of Manipulation versus the Culture of Awareness by Robert Grudin. Gyrus' publisher: http://dreamflesh.com/projects/archaeologies/ KMO interviewed Matt Pallamary in May of 2007 for the Psychonautica podcast. You can find that episode here: http://dopecast.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=211038 | 1/30/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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74: Big Hat No Cattle | In this episode KMO concludes his conversation with Dr. Kathy McMahon of PeakOilBlues.com about common reactions to learning about the implications of Peak Oil including the pathological faux-optimism she calls "Panglossian Disorder." KMO wraps up with a look at the Singularitarian faith as reflected in Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed, by Jared Diamond. Quote from Navigating the Collapse of Civilization: a Spiritual Map by Carolyn Baker, Ph.D: For most Americans marinated in materialism, heads anchored firmly in the sand, never having heard the words “Peak Oil,” still driving their gas-gulping SUVs, reveling in suburban sprawl, and gullibly counting on their pensions and 401Ks to be there when they need them, the notion of civilization's collapse is ludicrous and merely the latest obsession of the lunatic fringe. For other Americans of the rapidly-vanishing middle class who are only one paycheck or one catastrophic illness away from financial oblivion—who between mortgage, car payments, monthly bills, medical expenses, gas prices, and doubling monthly credit card bills, realize that not only will they not be able to pay for their kids’ college education but that every day they are now walking over an economic tightrope across a gaping precipice with a thousand-foot drop. Those folks know in their bones the reality of collapse—they feel it, smell it, taste it, but may not yet be able to allow the words to pass from their lips. Others, such as the individuals I've named above, are the prophets and John the Baptists of our time who get in our faces and scream “Repent!” or in less biblical language: “Wake the hell up!” | 1/23/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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73: Cui Bono | In this episode, KMO concludes his conversation with James H. Kunstler, author of The Long Emergency: Surviving the End of Oil, Climate Change, and Other Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-First Century. Later, we hear from Kathy McMahon, founder of PeakOilBlues.com about the range of psychological reactions which commonly manifest themselves in people who come to appreciate the implications of peak oil. In addition to the long emergency, Jim Kunstler wanted folks to be aware of his forthcoming novel, World Made by Hand: A Novel. Promised Links: Coming Clean, an audio seminar by Catherine Austin Fitts: http://www.solari.com/store/free_offer/ Century of the Self a BBC documentary by Adam Curtis: http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=the+century+of+the+self | 1/16/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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72: The Long Emergency | KMO welcomes author Dmitry Orlov back to the program for a discussion of keeping people fed in times of turmoil and for a reading from Orlov’s soon-to-be-published book, Reinventing Collapse: The Soviet Example and American Prospects. After that, James H. Kunstler, author of The Long Emergency: Surviving the End of Oil, Climate Change, and Other Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-First Century, drops by to talk about the fate of surburbia in the post-petroleum era. Dmitry Orlov appeared in C-Realm Podcast episodes twenty and twenty one. Toward the end of this episode, I make reference to an interview that I heard with Michael Tsarion on Red Ice Radio. Also, toward the end of the program, I read a passage from American Vulgar: The Politics of Manipulation Versus the Culture of Awarenessby Robert Grudin about physical and spiritual survival. I took the Terence McKenna clip that I played between the interviews with Dmitry Orlov and James H. Kunstler from Episode 119 of Lorenzo's Psychedelic Salon: "A Crisis in Consciousness." (No links because that page seems to be broken at the moment.) | 1/9/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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71: Synchronicity Central | In this episode, KMO welcomes Neil Kramer, keeper of a blog called the Cleaver, to the C-Realm to discuss synchronicities, entheogens, the Matrix, and the limited utility of pursuing "conspiracy" research. Past episodes of the C-Realm Podcast featuring Albert K. Bates, author of The Post-Petroleum Survival Guide and Cookbook: Recipes for Changing Times Episode 29: Corporatized Episode 30: Vine of the Soul Episode 31: Life on the Farm - Part 1 | 1/2/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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70: Who’s “We” | In this final episode of 2007, KMO concludes his talk with futurist George Dvorsky about the wisdom of human enhancement and then wraps up the year with a look at the real world Amish and the lure of Collapse Fetishism. You can find the first 18 episodes of the C-Realm Podcast here: http://www.archive.org/details/c-realmpodcasts | 12/26/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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69: The L Word | In this 69th installment of the C-Realm Podcast, KMO speaks with author Bill McKibben and futurist George Dvorsky about the ethical implicatons of the Transhumanist agenda and what it means to remain human in an engineered age. | 12/19/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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68: Durable Communities | In this 68th episode of the C-Realm Podcast, we continue the conversation with Lorenzo of the Psychedelic Salon about the opportunities for community-building and a rapid change in human consciousness that arise in moments of crisis, then KMO talks with Bill McKibben, author of Deep Economy about the advantages of establishing more resilient and self-sufficient local economies. You can find Bill McKibben's address at the Stanford Singularity Summit here: http://sss.stanford.edu/speakers/mckibben/ | 12/12/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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67: The Shift | In this installment of the C-Realm Podcast, KMO speaks with Nate Hagens of theOilDrum.com about the various fantasies for replacing fossil fuels with bio-fuels, synthetic fuels, or anything else that will supposedly take up the slack when global oil production peaks and keep our first world of happy motorists shuttling great distances everyday in their shiny metal boxes. Later KMO speaks with Yasmeen Grant about the new CBC radio documentary, "In Search of the Divine Vegetal," and finally we hear from fellow podcaster, Lorenzo, about how sudden disruptions to business as usual can effect an instantaneous change in consciousness that evaporates the ethnic, economic, and ideological barriers that divide our communities. One might be tempted to think of the CBC as Canada's version of NPR, but unlike NPR, they don't seem to keep an archive of their shows on-line for folks to stream or download. They only seem to sell their old programs on CD. You can listen to the entire program for free here: Part 1: http://www.sendspace.com/file/5pnemo Part 2: http://www.sendspace.com/file/aoikic C-Realm Listener Veeg has pointed out another podcast that actually features excerpts from the CBC radio segment on Search for the Divine Vegetal. You can find that podcast here: http://www.drugtruth.net/007DTNaudio/COL_120407.mp3 You can find the full text of the material from Richard Heinberg that I used to introduce Nate Hagens here: http://globalpublicmedia.com/richard_heinbergs_museletter_peak_everything Check back tomorrow for the extended interview with Yasmeen Grant. | 12/5/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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66: Cultivating Spiritual C | In this week's episode of the C-Realm Podcast, KMO concludes his conversation with RadiOrbit's Mike Hagan and author Dr. Martin Ball about the big change on the horizon and on the ways in which the spirit works with, around, and in spite of our rationalistic belief systems to effect the necessary transformation. In this episode, I read from two books by Robert Grudin, author of Time and the Art of Living and American Vulgar: The Politics of Manipulation Versus the Culture of Awareness. If you would, please click on one of the book titles in the previous sentence and read the sample material available for either book. | 11/28/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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65: Shaman’s Orbit | In this 65th installment, KMO welcomes Mike Hagan of RadiOrbit back to the program to discuss the changing media landscape and the transformation of consciousness that the evolution of the media reflects. Later, Dr. Martin Ball joins the conversation to talk about his work with Mescalero Apache medicine people in New Mexico, music, visionary plants, and the Big Change. Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow. -Melody Beattie | 11/21/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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64: Attention and Devotion | In this episode, KMO concludes his talk with meditation instructor Heidi Smith of the Center for Soulful Living and then rounds out the discussion of the relative merits of drug-free meditation vs. entheogen-assisted explorations of consciousness with Jan Irvin of Gnostic Media and Daniel Siebert of the The Salvia divinorum Research and Information Center. Be the first kid on your block to own a C-Realm Coffee Cup! Available only from the C-Realm Podcast Cafe Press store! | 11/14/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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63: Pretty Amazing! | KMO and meditation instructor Heidi Smith of the Center for Soulful Living pick up the conversation started on Psychonautica examining the friction between proponents of pharmacologically assisted spirituality and zero-tolerance advocates of drug-free meditation. Peak-oil oriented feedback, clips from the Psychedelic Salon and admissions of chronic absent-mindedness. I mentioned a Guardian article in the program that deals with the forces behind a looming global food crisis. Global food crisis looms as climate change and fuel shortages bite Be the first kid on your block to own a C-Realm Coffee Cup! Available only from the C-Realm Podcast Cafe Press store! Our tendency to identify ourselves with our acquired skills rather than our natural gifts is one of the less desirable habits of the ego. (...) Because the ego's identity is so heavily invested in these acquired skills, it does not want to acknowledge the natural, untrained, effortless gifts over which the ego has no ownership or control. -Parker J. Palmer, author of The Active Life: A Spirituality of Work, Creativity, and Caring | 11/7/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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62: Over-extended | In this episode, KMO talks with Chris Clugston of WakeUpAmerika.com about the coming adjustment in our material standard of living. KMO then acknowledges the possibility that business as usual for another 20 or 30 years might still be possible, if less than desirable. Be the first kid on your block to own a C-Realm Coffee Cup! Available only from the C-Realm Podcast Cafe Press store! | 10/31/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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61: The Case Against Drug Tourism | [edit: 15 Aug 2008] Marlene Dobkin de Rios, ten months after this episode first appeared on the web, has decided that she doesn't like it. She insisted that Melitta Tchaicovsky assert control of the copyright and instruct me to remove the interview from the internet. Obviously, this is a profoundly clueless request as I do not control the entire internet (actually she wanted me to remove "the tape" from the internet), but I have removed the interview from the official C-Realm Podcast archive, which is all that I have the power to do. You can find a discussion of this development on the C-Realm Forum at the Grow Report: http://www.thegrowreport.com/Forums/showthread.php?t=4321 In this 61st episode, KMO plays a recording of Marlene Dobkin De Rios on why she condemns the practice of ayahuasca tourism. Before that, KMO plays a conversation that he recorded back in July in the Iquitos home of Alan Shoemaker with Melitta Tchaicovsky & Pepe Ozan of ArtNetwork Productions. Be the first kid on your block to own a C-Realm Coffee Cup! Available only from the C-Realm Podcast Cafe Press store! Erowid Character Vaults: Marlene Dobkin de Rios: http://www.erowid.org/culture/characters/dobkin_derios_marlene/dobkin_derios_marlene.shtml Also, on the podcast, I mentioned Rick Kleffel's Agony Column Podcast. You can find his audio interview archive here: http://trashotron.com/agony/indexes/audio_interview_index.htm | 10/24/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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60: Thoughts Alive! | Also available on Archive.org: http://www.archive.org/details/Episode60ThoughtsAlive In this episode we hear the conclusion of KMO's talk with Brian Trent with extra emphasis on the psychological appeal and the sociological implications of movies about the living dead. KMO also examines atheism, psychedelic shamanism, burning man, and the neo-zombie flick, 28 Weeks Later. Special guest appearance by C-Realm Listener Hanrahan. Guest: Brian Trent So PodOmatic seems to be back to it's normal self. That means slow and cantankerous, but basically predictable. I've created a Feedburner account. That's supposed to give me some extra insurance against crashes like this most recent fiasco from PodOmatic as well as some useful tools for managing the podcast. | 10/17/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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59: Reflexive Memebots | In this episode, KMO talks with novelist Brian Trent about ideologically reflexive behavior that the echo chamber corporate media has instilled in us. Later, KMO revisits the clashing belief systems of 2012 prophets Whitley Strieber and Daniel Pinchbeck. Brian Trent is an acclaimed columnist, journalist, and the author of the historical novels Remembering Hypatia: A Novel of Ancient Egypt and the recently released Never Grow Old: The Novel of Gilgamesh. His articles have appeared on Populist America, American Chronicle, The Humanist, and numerous other venues including being featured in last year's National Debate on civil liberties. Trent writes from a nonpartisan, freethinking perspective and tackles a variety of subjects on culture, religion, technology, and politics. Website: http://www.briantrent.com/ Here's the email I sent to Brian Trent to invite him to the C-Realm Podcast: Hi Brian, My name is K@#$% M. O'*@*##*$ (podcasting as KMO), and I'm the host and creator of a weekly interview-based podcast called the C-Realm Podcast. C stands for "consciousness." I heard you recently on Mike Hagan's RadiOrbit show and enjoyed the conversation quite a bit. While the interview left me wanting to read your books, I have not yet done so. I have, however, been reading your on-line articles and essays, and I'm now listening to your appearance on the Infidel Guy podcast. I'd very much like to get you on the phone (or Skype) to record a conversation for the C-Realm Podcast. What I'm most interested in talking about is the topic of political cults and the shallow, combative, reflexive ideological postures that the echo-chamber media has trained people to adopt in our culture. I scrupulously keep the C-Realm podcast free of anything that smacks of partisan political talking points, and while it would be fair to describe me as an atheist libertarian, I find that atheists and libertarians can come across as some of the most ideologically hide-bound, strident, push-button meme-bots out there, every bit as knee-jerk in their "catagorize-and-dismiss" reactions to anything that smacks of mysticism or sentimentality as your coffee shop Political Correctness enforcer was in her reaction to your talk of native Americans and their failure to produce a technologically advanced empire along the lines of the Egyptians or Chinese. I'd be interested in getting your take on that topic. On the topic of apocalyptic thinking, the two varieties that I encounter most (not including the Christian fundamentalist variety which, living in Arkansas, I simply filter out for the sake of my own sanity) are the psychedelic community's scheduled 21 December 2012 eschaton (a la Terence McKenna) and the notion of a technological singularity (a la Ray Kurzweil and Vernor Vinge). When the topic of conversation on Mike Hagan's show turned to the emerging technologies of longevity, I got the impression that you had something to say along Singularitarian lines but chose not to voice it. I would invite you to explore that topic on the C-Realm Podcast. Finally, I've had a number of guests on the show talking about peak oil, resource depletion, and the possibility of a massive human die-back (what I've been calling a "malthusian correction"). There seems to be an apocalyptic mania at work there as well, and I must admit, it's siren song pulls at the vulnerable places of my own psychology. I started the previous paragraph with "finally," but there's one other topic I wanted to discuss with you: Zombies! Douglas Rushkoff wrote an essay recently about the sociological significance of the zombie genre which sparked a few ideas that I'd like to bounce off a thoughtful interlocutor. There was also a zombie piece in Reason magazine earlier this year. I feel a strong revulsion for contemporary horror films and avoid them all except for the zombie flicks. I generally see fewer than five | 10/10/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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58: Turning Catastrophe Upside-Down | It's the First Anniversary non-special. In this episode, KMO welcomes Wendy Luckey and Philip Horvath back to the program to talk about 2012, giving up our meat bodies, the technological singularity, and the nature of catastrophe. KMO reads lots of emails from C-Realm listeners who chipped in to save Ungo, KMO's dog. | 10/3/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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57: The Curandero’s Apprentice | KMO interviews Chip "Carlos" Tanner, a gringo apprenticing under a Peruvian curandero and explores the spirit realm with Wendy Luckey, with whom he participated in a San Pedro ceremony in Iquitos in July of 2007. Ever wondered why KMO bleeps out the profanity? KMO explains all and provides audio glimpses into two very different ayahuasca ceremonies. To introduce Wendy Luckey on the program, I read from the first paragraph of her Amazonian Shamanism Conference bio. You can find the rest of that bio here: http://www.soga-del-alma.org/ConferenceSite/curanderos_wendy.html and here: http://www.wendyluckey.com/ And Carlos Tanner, who also spoke at the conference, has a bio here: http://www.soga-del-alma.org/ConferenceSite/guests_carlos.html and here: http://www.ayahuayra.org/WSC/MainWSC.htm In connection with bleeping profanity, I mentioned an episode of Fresh Air with Terry Gross that I heard "a few months ago." Well, I just tracked it down, and it turns out that the show is four years old! Wow. Anyway, here it is: http://www.npr.org/templates/rundowns/rundown.php?prgId=13&prgDate=20-Nov-2003 | 9/26/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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56: Quality of Life | In this episode, KMO reads more listener email than regular listeners would probably expect to hear. He then takes a short quote from Vernor Vinge and spins it out for half the show talking with Professor Cornelia Butler Flora about the difference between "standard of living" and "quality of life." Guest Cornelia Butler Flora is the Charles F. Curtiss Distinguished Professor of Agriculture and Sociology and the Director for the North Central Regional Center for Rural Development. You can find here bio and CV here: http://www.ncrcrd.iastate.edu/about/people/flora.html The clip I played from Vernor Vinge came from a podcast interview with Cameron Daley which you can find here: http://gdayworld.thepodcastnetwork.com/2007/07/31/gday-world-271-vernor-vinge-sf-author-extraordinaire/ From his Wikipedia Entry: Vernor Steffen Vinge (IPA: [ˈvɪndʒi]) (born October 2, 1944 in Waukesha, Wisconsin, U.S.) is a retired San Diego State University Professor of Mathematics, computer scientist, and science fiction author. He is best known for his Hugo Award-winning novels A Fire Upon the Deep (1992), A Deepness in the Sky (1999) and Rainbows End (2006), his Hugo Award-winning novellas Fast Times at Fairmont High (2002) and The Cookie Monster (2004), as well as for his 1993 essay The Coming Technological Singularity", in which he argues that exponential growth in technology will reach a point beyond which we cannot even speculate about the consequences. You can read Rainbows End for free here: http://vrinimi.org/rainbowsend.html Or if you prefer atoms to bits: Rainbows End Here are the pics that Cannabis King sent of his Burning Man 2007 adventure: | 9/19/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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55: The Simplest Path | KMO reads Yin and Yang accounts of the 2007 Burning Man event. Author Carol Ekarius talks about toxic body burden, and author Vincent Casspriano Jr. unpacks Albert Bartlett's lecture on population. | 9/12/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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54: Malthusian Memes | Guests Prof. Albert Bartlett - retired physics professor and modern-day Malthusian. One way or another, argues Prof. Bartlett, we will achieve zero population growth. This is a long interview and is intended as a follow-up to his Exponential Function lecture. Carol Ekarius is a return guest. She joined me for episode #6 and we talked about living off-the-grid and about keeping animals. She is the author of many books including Hobby Farm, How to Build Animal Housing, and Small-Scale Livestock Farming: A Grass-Based Approach of Health, Sustainability, and Profit. Vincent Casspriano, Jr.: Carl Sagan meets Carlos Castaneda meets Richard Dawkins meets the Buddha … Vincent Casspriano, Jr.'s The Simplest Path to Personal and Planetary Awakening, Step One: FREE YOUR MIND: 10 Keys for Unlocking Your Personal Potential, Achieving Spiritual Awakening, ... of Humanity's Ultimate Cosmic Destiny cuts through all the Traditional Religious and New Age mystic mumbo jumbo to reveal a simple step by step path anyone can follow to the attainment of personal enlightenment and the positive transformation of our world. An amazing achievement! ~ Esra Free, author of Wicca 404: Advanced Goddess Thealogy | 9/5/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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52: Creatures of Imagination | In this 52nd episode, KMO speaks with film-maker Michelle Espinosa about her adventures in Peru and Ecuador. Later we hear from visionary artist A. Andrew Gonzalez about his use of entheogens as tools in the creative process. After our interview, A. Andrew Gonzalez wrote to me with the following: Forgot to mention....Something you could add For your listeners heading out to Burning Man. I will have a few large reproductions of my work at the Gaia Maitreya Temple at the Entheon Village http://www.entheonvillage.com/content/view/27/40/ Guests : Michelle Espinosa is a writer/filmmaker from Los Angeles. She graduated from the American Film Institute, received the Silver Platter at the Chicago Film Festival for her film, Pinfeathers, wrote and directed a series of small films as well as a play for the New City Theater in Seattle. After graduating and optioning a few screenplays, Michelle began writing fiction. She took time out from her career to steal a younger man through the window of his family's house, flee to Las Vegas to marry at a drive through and begin an outlaw life that landed them in a motel in a border town in Mexico with the car thieves, hired killers, coke dealers among other residents. They lived there for almost a year until finally able to move to Guadalajara. That was only the beginning of her many adventures all of which are captured in her stories. She has written a novel and is currently writing a non-fiction book about her experiences in Peru and Ecuador. A. Andrew Gonzalez, of San Antonio, Texas, is an award-winning figurative artist whose work has been exhibited in several countries. Born on October 13, 1963, and raised in a creative family, Andrew's art education is largely self-taught. His artist father, Anthony A. Gonzalez, encouraged his early interest in drawing and painting but gave him no formal training. In the year 2000, Andrew Gonzalez had the distinct privilege to work closely with the well-known Fantastic Realist artist Ernst Fuchs in Monaco and Austria. Photos of the experience can be seen at L. Caruana's website. The paintings of Gonzalez are created with airbrushed acrylics on panel or canvas. Forms, values and highlighting are created by lifting pigment with an abrasive eraser, followed by the application of transparent layers of pigment. Influenced by idealism in the mystical, visionary and esoteric traditions, the artist describes his work as a contemporary Tantric or Transfigurative Art that explores the dramatic union of the sensual and spiritual. His work is akin to a revival of classical neoplatonic ideals centering on the figure as temple and vessel sublimed by transformative forces. http://www.sublimatrix.com/html/gallery.html One contributor to this week's podcast mentioned that he had just started reading Accelerondo by Charles Stross. You can download the entire novel for free here: http://www.accelerando.org/book/ I'm "stealing bandwidth" with this image. It's hosted here along with lots of other great images: http://www.arthistoryarchive.com/arthistory/contemporary/A-Andrew-Gonzalez.html | 8/22/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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51: Still Integrating | In this 51st episode, KMO speaks with Dr. Richard Grossman, Yasmeen Grant, and C-Realm listener, Earthmansurfer about their experiences surrounding the 3rd Annual International Amazonian Shamanism Conference held in July of 2007 in Iquitos, Peru. Cover art: My one remaining Plymouth Rock Barred hen now has two chicks of her own, with many more eggs in the nest waiting to hatch. | 8/15/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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50: Fifty! | This "best of" show draws from the most memorable interviews of the first 49 episodes of the C-Realm Podcast. Featured guests include: Douglas Rushkoff, Jeremy Narby, Catherine Austin Fitts, Dmitry Orlov, and Thomas Homer Dixon. Start here for an excellent introduction to the major (non-psychedelic) themes of the show | 8/8/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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49: A Julian Simon kind of Optimism – Part 2 | Progress toward a more abundant material life does not come like manna from heaven, however. My message certainly is not one of complacency. The ultimate resource is people—especially skilled, spirited, and hopeful young people endowed with liberty—who will exert their wills and imaginations for their own benefit and inevitably benefit the rest of us as well. -Julian L. Simon, from a report to the Cato Institute Cover art by David Hewson, AKA Slocum, whom I met at the conference in Iquitos. Guests: Eric Boyd is the author of the Digital Crusader blog. Please visit his site and poke around a bit. So far, the C-Realm Podcast represents the second biggest incoming vector to Eric's site. SECOND? Philip Horváth is the co-founder of the Center for Conscious Creativity. They help creative people find their financial footing and develop their creative vision. | 8/1/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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49: The Dharma of Conscious Creativity – Part 1 | In this episode, KMO welcomes Digital Crusader, Eric Boyd, back to the program to talk about Transhumanist perspectives on the environment and sustainable living. Later we hear from Philip Horvath of the Center for Conscious Creativity, and finally KMO talks with BrainPaint creator, Bill Scott, about the potential of EEG biofeedback technology for ADD therapy, meditation, and self-improvement. Guests Eric Boyd is a co-founder of Stumbleupon.com, and he shares his forward-looking mindset with brainy readers in his Digital Crusader blog. This is Eric's second time on the show. You can listen to his first outing in episode #34 of the C-Realm Podcast: Principles of Precaution. Philip H. Horváth, co-founder of the Center for Conscious Creativity and an independent agent, is a multi-talented compulsive creative and synthetic systems thinker. A counselor, coach, and consultant, all his activities are marked by three key components: immersion, integration, and innovation. Complete bio Bill Scott is the principal investigator and first author of an addiction research project that yielded a 79% success rate with Native American alcoholics. This study was with Dr. Eugene Peniston (in press). An interview with Bill by the Psychiatric Times was published as a feature article. Bill Scott has also presented research at the American Association for the Advancement of Science with Dr. David Kaiser. Bill trained the researchers Dr. John Gruzelier and Dr. Tobias Egner (members of Department of Cognitive Neuroscience and Behaviour, Imperial College Medical School) in the use of alpha-theta protocols. The results of this research project so improved music abilities among Royal Conservatoire of Music students that the Conservatoire has made these protocols a mandatory part of the school’s curriculum. Complete bio EEG Biofeedback Links: Bill Scott's Brain Paint technology: http://www.brainpaint.com/ EEG Spectrum: http://eegspectrum.com/ Open Source EEG: http://openeeg.sourceforge.net/doc/ | 7/25/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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48: Return, Reflect, Re-integrate | Back from the shamanism conference in Iquitos, KMO relects on his experiences with C-Realm listener, Pio, who journeyed with him, and gives a rundown of the other podcasts that feature prominently in his consciousness at the moment. Links: Agony Column Podcast interview with Charles Stross: Economic influences, space opera, gender swapping, Victorian Work ethics Secrets, Cubes and Corporations: Doug Rushkoff on Inside Scoop David Brin on Evaluating Horizons: The kind of political stuff that's in my head but which I keep out of the podcast. Viking Youth #75: Ibrahim for Citizen Psychonautica011: Ego Death Iboga links from Kevin: Ibogaine.org Demitri on Ibogaine with Paul DeRienzo Plus one more that showed up in my inbox today from Google: A Home for Ibogaine in Barcelona Download "Calling All Cars" (mp3) from "Big Black Hole And The Little Baby Star" by Sean Hayes Sean Hayes Stream from Rhapsody More On This Album Javier Arévalo Shahuano's bio (Translated with Bablefish): I was born in the community Progress again, Napo River, in the department of Loreto - Peru; I am I complete of 4 generations of the Shahuano Family that practice the shamanismo, in my adolescence (17 years) I realized that the chamanismo would be my future. To the 20 years I underwent the lost one of my father (Julio Arevalo) because of virote (dart poisoned in the spiritual world) sent by a jealous and malevolent wizard in my community. Learning the Shamanismo Comence' my learning of 2 years in the virgin tropical forest, without having no contact with the outer world, having like teacher my Grandfathers (Antonio Shahuano, by who I began to know the properties curativas the plants, during the learning of the shamanismo is necessary to make a very strict diet on the daily feeding of a person, by who it could not eat foods that contain condimentos, sugar and salt, nor either frituras, to only fed me on which the forest provided to me, those were the conditions to get to be a good vegetalista doctor (they shaman). During my study in the forest the spirits of the plants and the animals made me include/understand that the shamanismo was not to make badly other people but to make the good and to cure diseases using the traditional medicine. Javier Arevalo Shahuano Here's the original Spanish. Obviously, the machine translation remains pretty rough. If anyone wanted to clean it up and send me the polished English text, I'd be much obliged and would certainly provide props and a link. Javier Arevalo Shahuano, nací en la comunidad de Nuevo Progreso, Río Napo, en el departamento de Loreto – Perú; soy el ultimo de 4 generaciones de la Familia Shahuano que practican el shamanismo, en mi adolescencia (17 años) me di cuenta que el chamanismo sería mi futuro. A los 20 años sufrí la perdida de mi padre (Julio Arévalo) a causa de un virote (dardo envenenado en el mundo espiritual) enviado por un brujo celoso y malévolo en mi comunidad. Aprendiendo el Shamanismo Comencé mi aprendizaje de 2 años en la selva tropical virgen, sin tener ningún contacto con el mundo exterior, teniendo como maestro a mi Abuelo (Antonio Shahuano, por el cual comencé a conocer las propiedades curativas de las plantas, durante el aprendizaje del shamanismo hay que hacer una dieta muy estricta sobre la alimentación cotidiana de una persona, por el cual no podía comer alimentos que contengan condimentos, azúcar y sal, ni tampoco frituras, sólo me alimentaba de lo que la selva me proporcionaba, esas eran las condiciones para llegar a ser un buen médico vegetalista (shaman). Durante mi estudio en la selva los espíritus de las plantas y de los animales me hicieron comprender que el shamanismo no era para hacer el mal a otras personas sino para hacer el bien y curar enfermedades utilizando la medicina tradicional. Javier Arevalo Shahuano | 7/18/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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47: Laughter in the Jungle | Neither Ron Wheelock nor Wendy Luckey have websites for me to link to. | 7/12/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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46: Steady State | In this Independence Day edition of the C-Realm Podcast, KMO talks with Brian Czech of the Center for the Advancement of a Steady State Economy (C.A.S.S.E.) about the tension between our finite material resources and the expectation of never-ending growth. Later KMO reads from an essay by Stanley Krippner, "Consciousness and the Mythologies of Society," in which he holds the central driving myth of the so-called First World up to the light of consciousness. How long can we afford to plot our course by the Grand Narrative of Progress? The Center for the Advancement of the Steady State Economy (CASSE) is a non-profit, tax-exempt organization dedicated to advocating a sustainable economy with stabilized population and consumption. This economy is called a "steady state economy." http://steadystate.org/ Here's an article that looks relevant, though I haven't read it yet: http://www.countercurrents.org/parsons270407.htm | 7/4/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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45: Letcher vs. Irvin | Letcher vs. Irvin. We hear the conclusion of KMO's conversation with Jan Irvin, and KMO contrasts Jan's presentation with passages from Shroom: A Cultural History of the Magic Mushroom by Andy Letcher. Who won? This is only the first round. We also hear about funny from Some Guy Named Paul. If you'd like to follow up on the debate between Jan Irvin and Andy Letcher, read this: http://www.egodeath.com/ViewsOnEntheogensInReligiousHistory.htm You can find C-Realm Podcast #3 (which includes Paul's first appearance on the show) here: http://www.archive.org/details/Episode3TalkinboutTheSingularity | 6/29/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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44: East Star & The Deep Self | Viking Brian is a founding member of the Viking Youth. Jan Irvin is the co-author of Astrotheology and Shamanism: Unveiling the Law of Duality in Christianity and other Religions. You can find all kinds of good stuff from Jan and his co-author, Andrew Rutajit, including numerous audio interviews at Gnostic Media. Email from Black Beauty: Hi KMO,Please accept this small donation as a humble gesture of my gratitude for the time and effort you spend in bringing your listeners regular C-Realm installments. I see a definite value (both tangible and intangible) in the knowledge and discussions shared with listeners like me through your shows. I have even started my own herb garden for our cooking and go out of my way to frequent Organic and 'Slow Food' Farmer's Markets here in Melbourne - a far cry from having chickens but being an 8-to-6 corporate-type, living just 5 minutes from the inner city it's all I can manage right now! I listen to your shows quite regularly and make a point to be doing nothing else but listening and walking or sitting. Often it is on my 45 minute bus trip to work or perhaps during a forced lunch break at the large park behind my corporate offices. Going for a walk in this park and listening to my MP3 player is a fortune that many take for granted but each time I step foot outside, it is with humility that I thank the powers that be for allowing me to do so. Free from torture, slavery, unemployment and poverty. My mother came to this country (Australia) from a remote area of Indonesia where healthcare, schooling, clothing and education have been a rarity up until the last few years. Each time I visit, I am awed that my mother came up against such adversity to leave this small town and consequently prospered in Australia. My mother is one of only 2 or 3 others that managed to make a life for themselves outside of Indonesia and I am so proud of what she achieved. My mother worked hard and long as a factory worker, kitchen hand and cleaner up until weeks before her death in April 2006 from a long fight with cancer. Even to the end, she refused to stop working - seeing having a job as a privilege. So many people around me take employment for granted. Instead, choosing to complain about their boss, their colleagues, their commute to work, the rising coffee prices at the cafe downstairs. In her home town in Indonesia, unemployment is high. There is no social welfare system and combined with a lack of education and professional* healthcare, I see the increasing population being a further strain on the resources and lack of infrastructure growth in the region. In my family house alone, there are close to 6 related families staying on the property. On my recent visit, I shrugged off suggestions of staying at a hotel, instead offering to 'camp out' in one of the small rooms in the house. My father quickly chided me, reminding me that to stay in one of the rooms would be literally forcing a family out first! (I have attached a photo of the 'kitchen' at our house in Indonesia - that's me standing up with the fan in my hand. My family have a roof on their house (many houses do not even have a door). They are fortunate also to have many of the second-hand clothes passed on from my mother and I but we still struggle to provide them with things such as shoes and optical aids). With the expanse of the internet, I have stumbled upon an increasing number of resources about women who are happy with being 'Childfree', either by deliberate choice, circumstance or health problems such as infertility. However, it wasn't until now that I am facing my 30th birthday and many of my friends are having children that I feel uncomfortablly compelled to conform to society's view of females as being mothers. Strangely, your recent Podcast (Episode 42: Tragedy of the Bathroom) has prompted me to make this much-overdue donation and write you this email. Since I was about 18, | 6/27/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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43: Numinous Neuroscience | This episode consists mainly of a presentation given by Frank Echenhofer at the 2nd Annual International Amazonian Shamanism Conference in Iquitos, Peru. KMO also reads from the artists statement of visionary artist, A. Andrew Gonzalez, the sponsor of this week's episode. You can find the cover of MAPS Bulletin Volume XV Number 3, by A. Andrew Gonzalez here: http://www.maps.org/news-letters/v15n3-html/images/fc.jpg | 6/22/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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42: Tragedy of the Bathroom | You can find the text of the Sciforums posts that I read on this week's show here: http://www.sciforums.com/Population-and-Genocide-t-4933.html Enough with the freakin' bathroom metaphor Already! by Sharon Astyk Excerpt: What the bathroom metaphor actually does is equate "freedom" with "no limits" - it says that freedom and dignity are constructs of privilege and lack of constraint. That is, you have the perfect freedom of the bathroom when you never have to wait, or accomodate anyone else, adapt to or respect anyone else's needs. But that is *not* what freedom is - and I think this is an important point, because our consumer culture tells us over and over again that freedom is the ability to have whatever you want, whenever you want it. Freedom is "freedom of choice" and that is the equivalent of 63 choices of soda on the grocery store aisle, rather than the freedom from want, or freedom from repression - freedoms that only work when other people are aware of and attentive to others. Freedom, according to Dick Cheney, is the American way of life being "non-negotiable" rather than an egalitarian, shared and just life that extends beyond the borders of America. The bathroom example perpetuates the "freedom is choice" notion - that being free means never having to say, "excuse me." I think that's truly and deeply wrong, and if we think this way about the population issue, we are perpetuating our most foolish habits of thought. Freedom is the right to assert your wants and needs in a world where others exist, and the right to have them respected, but it is not the right to never have to accomodate anyone else or share, and I think that's a really important point. If we believe that freedom is the right to always have what you want, when you want it, we will persist in equating freedom with wealth and privilege. And some versions of the overpopulation argument seem to basically go like this "there are too many people - they are impinging on my right to have the stuff I want - if there were less of them, I'd have to make fewer accomodations to other people, and that would be better." That's not freedom, but greed. We all have it, we're all greedy folk, but we need not give our our own selfishness and greed a pretty cloak to wear and call it science. For an extremely relevant discussion of human germ-line genetic modifications that would greatly help with the problem of population pressure, check out this post from Charles Stross: http://autopope.livejournal.com/265753.html The Solitary Reaper . Behold her, single in the field, Yon solitary Highland Lass! Reaping and singing by herself; Stop here, or gently pass! Alone she cuts and binds the grain, And sings a melancholy strain; O listen! for the Vale profound Is overflowing with the sound. No Nightingale did ever chaunt More welcome notes to weary bands Of travellers in some shady haunt, Among Arabian sands: A voice so thrilling ne'er was heard In spring-time from the Cuckoo-bird, Breaking the silence of the seas Among the farthest Hebrides. Will no one tell me what she sings?— Perhaps the plaintive numbers flow For old, unhappy, far-off things, And battles long ago: Or is it some more humble lay, Familiar matter of to-day? Some natural sorrow, loss, or pain, That has been, and may be again? Whate'er the theme, the Maiden sang As if her song could have no ending; I saw her singing at her work, And o'er the sickle bending;— I listened, motionless and still; And, as I mounted up the hill, The music in my heart I bore, Long after it was heard no more. -William Wordsworth Read and Post Comments on Livejournal | 6/20/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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41: Norma Panduro | A presentation given by Peruvian Curendera, Norma Aguila Panduro Navarro at the 2006 International Shamanism Conference in Iquitos, Peru. Episode 41: Norma Panduro http://www.demonoid.com/files/details/792371/775222/ Film-maker, Jan Kounen will be a presenter at the 3rd International Amazonian Shamanism Conference in July. If you register for the conference, please indicate on the registration form that you were referred by KMO. | 6/15/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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40: Aye, Ayahuasca! | In this 40th installment of the C-Realm Podcast, KMO talks across months and continents with Lorenzo of the Psychedelic Salon, Max Freakout of Psychonautica, and Viking Brian of the Viking Youth Power Hour. Leave a comment | 6/13/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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39: The Three Pound Universe Part 1 | In this 39th installment of the C-Realm Podcast, we get a nuts&bolts explanation of the neurophysiology of the psychedelic experience from Dennis McKenna as presented at the first International Amazonian Shamanism conference in Iquitos, Peru in 2005. Download Part 2 here: http://www.archive.org/details/Episode39Part2TheThreePoundUniverse | 6/9/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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38: Psychoactive Sacraments | In this episode, KMO talks about psychoactive sacraments and the law with Jacob Sullum, author of the Reason Magazine article, "Spiritual Highs and Legal Blows: The power and peril of religious exemptions from drug prohibition." Jacob Sullum is the author of Saying Yes: In Defense of Drug Use and For Your Own Good: The Anti-Smoking Crusade and the Tyranny of Public Health. You can find the Church of Cognizance website here: http://coc.enlightener.net/cgi-bin/index.cgi 3rd International Amazonian Shamanism Conference | 6/6/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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37: Flailing in the Dark | KMO talks with Alan Shoemaker about the practicalities of lodging at the Soga del Alma site, and then we hear Peter Gorman's presentation entitled "Flailing in the Dark" about his experiences in the Peruvian Amazon with ayahuasca and other plant teachers. Peter Gorman's Website: http://www.pgorman.com/ | 6/1/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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36: Locus of Agency | In this 36th episode of the C-Realm Podcast, KMO talks with Thomas Homer-Dixon, author of The Upside of Down: Catastrophe, Creativity, and the Renewal of Civilization about the fragility of our vast centralized systems, the need for resiliency & diversity, and the possibilities for renewal and reinvention which only present themselves in historical moments of disintegration and collapse. Thomas Homer-Dixon has a great website, so I'll direct you there rather than put together a bio for him here. To read about Zachary's thoughts on scientific materialism and consciousness, check out his blog: http://web.mac.com/jupiterspaceport/iWeb/Cyclotron%20Majesty%27s%20site/Blog/37845EBD-62A4-4C9A-96B2-C29CDD288638.html | 5/30/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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35: Ayahuasca & Human Destiny | In this episode I play the talk by Dennis McKenna that opened the first Amazonian Shamanism Conference back in 2005. It's called "Ayahuasca and Human Destiny" and is followed by a Q&A session. Dennis McKenna "I have a long-standing interest in natural products, and in the potential for plant-derived medicines leading to the discovery of new modalities in health and healing. The integrative, cross-disciplinary perspective that characterize the Center make it the ideal venue in which to pursue research and education in the area of botanical medicines and natural products." Dr. McKenna brings more than 25 years experience in biosciences, biochemistry and pharmacognosy to the Center for Spirituality and Healing, where he is a senior lecturer on topics that include ethnopharmacology and botanical medicines in health care. Dr. McKenna earned his Master's degree in botany at the University of Hawaii in 1979 and his doctorate of botanical sciences at the University of British Columbia in 1984. Since that time, his wide-ranging experience includes serving as the Director of Ethnopharmacology at Shaman Pharmaceuticals and as senior research pharmacognosist for Aveda Corporation in Minneapolis, Minn. He is the founder and executive director of the Institute for Natural Products Research and editor-in-chief of two publications: The Natural Dietary Supplements Pocket Reference (INPR, 2002) and Botanical Medicines: The Desk Reference for Major Herbal Supplements (Haworth Herbal Press, 2002). He serves on the Advisory Board of the American Botanical Council and the Editorial Board of Phytomedicine, the International Journal of Phytotherapy and Phytopharmacology. he is the author or co-author of more than 35 scientific papers in peer-reviewed journals. Dr. McKenna has special interest Ethnopharmacology, botanical medicines, natural products and drug discovery and medical applications of psychedelic agents. You can find the full text of Dennis McKenna's essay here: http://www.futurehi.net/archives/000815.html And you can learn more about the 3rd International Shamanism Conference here: http://www.soga-del-alma.org/ConferenceSite/ | 5/25/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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34: Principles of Precaution | In this episode, we finish up the conversation with NLP instructor and "motivational mind-reader" Rex Sikes, and then KMO talks environmentalism and transhumanism with Digital Crusader, Eric Boyd. Guests Rex Sikes: Rex Sikes is a Professional Mentalist/Mind Reader, Keynote Speaker, and Seminar Leader who demonstrates the amazing powers of the human mind. Originally from Los Angeles, Rex performs as a Mind Reader, and has appeared in movies, on television and radio. You may have seen him on numerous news programs, and on such shows as NBC's "The Other Side" The Learning Channel's "Perfect Proposal" or "Inside Edition". As an expert in non-verbal communication and persuasion, Rex is a consultant for TV News shows and celebrity trials including the OJ Simpson trial. He has authored numerous books and home study programs on personal and professional development. "You Can Read Minds Too!" and "How To Get People To Do What You Want" are among his titles. From his first stage appearance at age 8, Rex easily moved onto movies, televsion, and stage in Los Angeles. He performed in nightclubs and theaters and everything in between. His appearances include intimate private parties, large-scale events, local small businesses, and international corporations. For over 30 years now, from Northern Canada to the tip of Southern Australia, Rex is a sought after Speaker and Presenter on the powers of the mind. Sikes is the Founder of IDEA Seminars, Inc., where he trains students from all over the world in personal and professional development and influential communication. Link: http://www.amazingrex.com You can find the unedited version of my interview with Rex here: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=TZ35AU7Z Here's the Skeptic's Dictionary entry for NLP: http://skepdic.com/neurolin.html And the Wikipedia entry: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuro-linguistic_programming Eric Boyd (A.K.A. Digital Crusader): Eric Boyd lives and works full time in the heart of Silicon Valley, California. In addition to his work as an engineer, he enjoys kung-fu, gardening, becoming more, being green, and meeting with fellow geeks. His blog serves as his external memory - a place to record cool things and share them with others of a like mind. It's also a public platform for his evolving book in progress. And don't forget the 3rd Annual Amazonian Shamanism Conference. | 5/23/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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33: Amazing Rex | Guests Rex Sikes (A.K.A. Amazing Rex): Rex Sikes is a Professional Mentalist/Mind Reader, Keynote Speaker, and Seminar Leader who demonstrates the amazing powers of the human mind. Originally from Los Angeles, Rex performs as a Mind Reader, and has appeared in movies, on television and radio. You may have seen him on numerous news programs, and on such shows as NBC's "The Other Side" The Learning Channel's "Perfect Proposal" or "Inside Edition". As an expert in non-verbal communication and persuasion, Rex is a consultant for TV News shows and celebrity trials including the OJ Simpson trial. He has authored numerous books and home study programs on personal and professional development. "You Can Read Minds Too!" and "How To Get People To Do What You Want" are among his titles. From his first stage appearance at age 8, Rex easily moved onto movies, televsion, and stage in Los Angeles. He performed in nightclubs and theaters and everything in between. His appearances include intimate private parties, large-scale events, local small businesses, and international corporations. For over 30 years now, from Northern Canada to the tip of Southern Australia, Rex is a sought after Speaker and Presenter on the powers of the mind. Sikes is the Founder of IDEA Seminars, Inc., where he trains students from all over the world in personal and professional development and influential communication. Link: http://www.amazingrex.com Albert Bartlet (bio cribbed from his Wikipedia entry): Albert A. Bartlett is an emeritus Professor of Physics at the University of Colorado at Boulder, USA. Professor Bartlett has lectured over 1,500 times on Arithmetic, Population, and Energy. Bartlett is a modern-day Malthusian. Professor Bartlett often explains how sustainable growth is an oxymoron. His view is based on the fact that a modest percentage growth can equate to huge escalations over short periods of time. He has famously stated that "The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand the exponential function." He regards overpopulation as The Greatest Challenge facing humanity, and promotes sustainable living. Bartlett opposes the cornucopian school of thought (as advocated by people such as Julian Lincoln Simon), and refers to it as The New Flat Earth Society. J. B. Calvert (1999) has proposed that Bartlett's Law will result in the exhaustion of petrochemical resources due to the exponential growth of the world population (as per the Malthusian Growth Model). When I record the long interview with Prof. Bartlett, I will assume that the audience has already listened to his talk,: http://globalpublicmedia.com/lectures/461 I'll flesh this entry out a bit later, but just now, it's time for me to get on home. Stay well. | 5/16/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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32: Life on the Farm – Part 2 | The "extended" part of "extended show notes" will have to wait, as it's time for me to go pick up my oldest son from school, but here's the link to the article that Patrick/Cakestr sent me: http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/15.05/feat_popup.html Also, the Wikipedia entry for Permaculture is worth checking out: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permaculture And, of course, the the link to Alan Shoemaker's Amazonian Shamanism Conference is: http://www.soga-del-alma.org/ConferenceSite/ | 5/9/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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31: Life on the Farm – Part 1 | Guests Albert Bates founded the Ecovillage Training Center on the Farm, and as Alan Graf says in our three-way interview, can also be described as a recovering lawyer. Albert appeared on episodes 29 and 30 of the C-Realm Podcast. Alan Graf (A.K.A. "Hippie Lawyer") is a civil rights attorney and a podcast. He podcasts his Third Planet Report from the Farm twice a week. Albert Bates and I appear in a recent episode of his podcast talking about the corporate media and independent media, like podcasts. Stephen Gaskin lead the spiritual movement which resulted in the exodus of 300 some hippie seekers from San Francisco in 1970 to, eventually, Summer Town, Tennesse, where they established the Farm. You can find his bio here: Stephen Gaskin: http://www.stephengaskin.com/ You can find the first chapter of Stephen's classic book, Monday Night Class, here: http://www.thefarm.org/lifestyle/mnc.html I am now officially promoting Alan Shoemaker's Amazonian Shamanism Conference. If I can get 10 people to enroll, that will cover my costs, and I will join those C-Realm listeners in the jungle for an ayahuasca ceremony. When filling out the application form, be sure to indicate that KMO referred you, and do send me an email (kmo@c-realm.com) to let me know that you enrolled. Third Annual Shamanism Conference: http://www.soga-del-alma.org/ConferenceSite/ | 5/2/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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30: Vine of the Soul | Guests Albert K. Bates: He's got a Wikipedia entry and a website, so go explore. Take a walking tour of the Ecovillage Training Center on the Farm with Albert: http://www.current.tv/studio/media/12013640?cpg=vmmA&video=Ecovillage+Tour Please click on the C-Realm A-Store graphic. Alan Shoemaker: When you Google for "Alan Shoemaker," his essay "Magic to Miracles: Curanderismo - Mestizo Ayahuasca" turns up at the top of the search results page. You can read that here: http://www.csp.org/nicholas/A12.html He also has a bio on the Soga Del Alma site: http://www.soga-del-alma.org/ConferenceSite/guests_alan.html Folks interested in the 3rd Annual Shamanism Conference can learn more about that here: http://www.soga-del-alma.org/ConferenceSite/index.html If you register, be sure to indicate on the form that KMO sent ya'. I'll receive a portion of your registration fee. If 10 C-Realm Listeners sign up, then that will cover my travel expenses, and I will be able to attend the conference. We'll have a special C-Realm ayahuasca ceremony during the conference. If you sign up, be sure to send me an email and let me know. You can see photos and read trip reports from our month-long stay with Alan and his family here: http://www.c-realm.com/away.cgi Music Download "Somptin Happnin'" (mp3) from "Polymorphic Convolutions" by Various Artists Electronic Soundscapes | 4/25/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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29: Corporatized! | Guests Douglas Rushkoff: Like any public intellectual worth his salt, Douglas has a Wikipedia entry: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Rushkoff He's a pretty famous guy, so I forgive me for not saying much more about him here. Here. Check out his website: http://www.rushkoff.com/ Albert K. Bates: Again, he's got a Wikipedia entry and a website, so go explore. Or have a gander at this: http://www.energybulletin.net/28857.html Take a walking tour of the Ecovillage Training Center on the Farm with Albert: http://www.current.tv/studio/media/12013640?cpg=vmmA&video=Ecovillage+Tour Please click on the C-Realm A-Store graphic. Music Download "Somptin Happnin'" (mp3) from "Polymorphic Convolutions" by Various Artists Electronic Soundscapes | 4/18/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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28: Building a Better Monster | We start off with some listener submitted content, and then KMO talks with Novamente founder Ben Goertzel about kinds of minds; straight-laced and psychedelic, evolved organic and autogenous "artificial" agents. The Dopefiend makes an appearance to dream big about the future of podcasting, and we end with a teaser for next week's interview with Albert Bates. Salvia-Inspired Creation Myth: You can find Ryan Nagel's animated videos on his YouTube page: http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=rnnagle Ben Goertzel His name in the headline font above acts as a text link to Ben's site. You can find all you need to know there or on Ben's blog, but just to make this page look like it's got some content to it, here's an out-of-date bio for Ben that I swiped from here: http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/bios/goertzel.html BEN GOERTZEL is founder Chairman, and Chief Technology Officer of Webmind Inc., and the chief architect of the Webmind AI system which not only understands the meaning of concepts expressed in text, speech and numerical data patterns, but also creates its own ideas based on the information it accesses. Webmind, a Java-based software system, evolves its own "digital intuition," which it uses to pose and answer questions. It deals with textual and numerical information on an equal footing, freely making generalizations that span different types of data. Goertzel holds a PhD in mathematics from Temple University, and has held university faculty positions in mathematics, computer science, and psychology, at universities in the US, New Zealand and Australia. He is author of numerous research papers, a biography (Linus Pauling: A Life in Science and Politics) and five scholarly books dealing with topics in the cognitive sciences. In his spare time, he composes avant-garde music and writes surrealist fiction and poetry. If you want to learn more about the concept of autogeny, you might want to check out the website of the coiner of the term, J. Storrs (Josh) Hall, PhD: http://autogeny.org/ Ben and I talk about SF visualizations of the Singularity with many references to Accelerondo, by Charles Stross (AKA autopope). You can read Accerlerondo on-line for free here: http://www.accelerando.org/ The Dopefiend has made several previous appearances on the C-Realm Podcast, but if you're new in town and haven't heard of him before, you can find out more about him as well as my other podcast, Psychonautica, here: http://www.dopefiend.co.uk Please click on the C-Realm A-Store graphic. Music Download "Somptin Happnin'" (mp3) from "Polymorphic Convolutions" by Various Artists Electronic Soundscapes | 4/11/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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27: Trans-Metro-Shamanism | Trans-Spirit You can learn more about Mike LaTorra's Trans-Spirit Project here: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Trans-Spirit/ and here: http://jetpress.org/volume14/latorra.html And you can find the episode of Changesurfer Radio I excerpted for this week's show here: http://www.radio4all.net/pub/files/jhughes@changesurfer.com/87-1-20070310-0310latorra128.mp3 And you can find a podcast of an introductory Trans-Spirit lecture by Mike LaTorra here: http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/tv04latorra/ Nat Bletter Nat Bletter is Ph.D. candidate at City University of New York and New York Botanical Garden in Ethnobotany and he specializes in medicinal plants of Peru and Mali, quantitative ethnobotany, and stimulant plants such as cacao. He has also work as a computer graphics and virtual reality researcher for 7 years, and created sculpture, graphic art, music, electronic art, and fire art from an early age. He is the author of a chapter on the psychoactive effects of chocolate in the recently released book Chocolate in Mesoamerica: A Cultural History of Cacao (Maya Studies). You can learn more about Nat Bletter here: http://sciweb.nybg.org/science2/Profile_45.asp and here: http://nat.myphotos.cc Please click on the C-Realm A-Store graphic. Music Download "Somptin Happnin'" (mp3) from "Polymorphic Convolutions" by Various Artists Electronic Soundscapes | 4/4/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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26: The Voice of the Other | In this 26th episode of the C-Realm Podcast, host KMO actually reads some listener email. Later he talks with author Jeremy Narby about entheogens, the mysterious teaching “voice” of the Other, and the pervasiveness of intelligence in the non-human world. Guests Jeremy Narby is the author of three books, The Cosmic Serpent, Shamans Through Time (pb reprint), and most recently Intelligence in Nature. You can read a Q&A with Jeremy here: http://deoxy.org/narbystew.htm I had planned to ask Jeremy about Graham Hancock's new book, XXX, but I didn't get around to it in the interview. I asked him by email, and this is what he had to say: I liked Hancock's book, I have been a fan of his for a long time, I think he is courageous and he marshals the evidence like a professional. He does not fear the difficult questions. I think that he favors open- minded inquiry above all, and on that count I am certainly on his side. Please click on the C-Realm A-Store graphic. Music Maybe you noticed... maybe not, but I did not put any music behind the interviews this week. The only music I used this week, aside from the the unofficial C-Realm Podcast theme, Somptin Happnin' (which you can download for free at the Promonet/IODAlliance website) was some music originally created by Dr. Richard Grossman for C-Realm Podcast Episode 8: Healing Songs. He named the file "ocarina & kuo xiang" which identifies the instruments he used. If you're interested in it, send me an email and I'll email it to you. Download "Somptin Happnin'" (mp3) from "Polymorphic Convolutions" by Various Artists Electronic Soundscapes | 3/28/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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25: Origins | In this 25th episode of the C-Realm Podcast, KMO talks with Jeremy Narby, author of The Cosmic Serpent: DNA and the Origins of Knowledge. We also sample from the Psychedelic Salon and talk to Lorenzo about interfacing with hard core rationalists. We also touch on the matter of podcasting without an Internet connection. Guests Lorenzo is the creator and host of the Psychedelic Salon Podcast and author of The Spirit of the Internet: Speculations on the Evolution of Global Consciousness. Jeremy Narby is the author of three books, The Cosmic Serpent, Shamans Through Time (pb reprint), and most recently Intelligence in Nature. You can read a Q&A with Jeremy here: http://deoxy.org/narbystew.htm Please click on the C-Realm A-Store graphic. Music Maybe you noticed... maybe not, but I did not put any music behind the interviews this week. The only music I used is the unofficial C-Realm Podcast theme, Somptin Happnin' which you can download for free at the Promonet/IODAlliance website. Download "Somptin Happnin'" (mp3) from "Polymorphic Convolutions" by Various Artists Electronic Soundscapes | 3/21/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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24: Catalyzing agents | In this 24th episode, KMO talks with two people whose path with heart lead them to Maddison County, Arkansas. After that we'll re-visit the Technological Singularity with Ran Prieur. Guests: Karen and David don't yet have a website for their arts retreat. When they do, I'll link to it. Ran Prieur has written a lot of groovy essays and articles which you can find on his website: http://www.ranprieur.com How to Drop Out stands as his most popular essay. Other Podcasts: Psychedelic Salon: Trialouge MINI Changesurfer Radio: Trans-Spirit with Mike Latorra All In The Mind: Prospects for a Transhuman Mind with Leda Cosmides Music Maybe you noticed... maybe not, but I did not put any music behind the interviews this week. The only music I used is the unofficial C-Realm Podcast theme, Somptin Happnin' which you can download for free at the Promonet/IODAlliance website. Download "Somptin Happnin'" (mp3) from "Polymorphic Convolutions" by Various Artists Electronic Soundscapes | 3/14/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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23: Dream Like a Viking | C-Realm Podcast Give it a listen! Enjoy! -KMO Guest Viking Brian: Brian is one quarter of the degenerate quartet known as the Viking Youth. They do a podcast. You might check it out. (Look at their main page. In the picture where three of them are wearing viking hats, Brian is the bald one.) Music Maybe you noticed... maybe not, but I did not put any music behind the interviews this week. The only music I used is the unofficial C-Realm Podcast theme, Somptin Happnin' which you can download for free at the Promonet/IODAlliance website. Download "Somptin Happnin'" (mp3) from "Polymorphic Convolutions" by Various Artists Electronic Soundscapes | 3/7/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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22: Ways of Knowing Redux | In this 22nd episode, KMO questions former Lafayette, Colorado back-up associate judge, Leonard Frieling about his decision to resign his post rather than participate in a policy that would have drastically increased the penalties for minor marijuana possession or paraphernalia charges. After that we "conclude" the conversation with Margaret Wortheim about our changing conceptions of space and knowledge. Psychonautica: I'm now doing a fortnightly podcast for the Dopefiend.co.uk Podcast Network called Psychonaughtica. This podcast, while largely my own creation, can also be considered a fulfillment of the long-standing promise for a Max Freakout psychedelics podcast. Max is my co-host and primary interview subject. For a thorough-going preview of the show, have a listen to Dopecast Episode 63. link: http://www.dopecast.co.uk/ Guests: Leonard Freiling: Lenny is a former back-up judge in Lafayette, Colorado. He resigned in protest over a proposed drastic increase in legal penalties for marijuana possession in his municipality. You can read the full story here or hear it on episode 64 of the Dopecast. Margaret Wertheim: [cribbed from her Wikipedia entry] Margaret Wertheim (born 1958, Brisbane, Australia) is a science writer and the author of several books on the cultural history of physics. These books include Pythagoras' Trousers: God, Physics, and the Gender Wars, a history of the relationship between physics and religion in Western culture, and The Pearly Gates of Cyberspace: A History of Space from Dante to the Internet. From 2001-2005 Wertheim wrote the Quark Soup column for the LA Weekly and is currently a contributor to the New York Times and Los Angeles Times as well as a contributing editor to Cosmos, the Australian-based literary science magazine, and Cabinet magazine, the international arts and cutlure quarterly. In 2004 she was the National Science Foundation visiting journalist to Antarctica, and in 2006 her writing on the Antarctic was awarded the print journalism prize from the American Institute of Biological Sciences. In 2003, she founded the Institute For Figuring, an organization based in Los Angeles that promotes the public understanding of the poetic and aesthetic dimensions of science and mathematics. Through her work with the IFF she has curated exhibitions at galleries and museums, including Apexart, Machine Project, Santa Monica Museum of Art, Art Center College of Design, and forthcoming at the Museum of Jurassic Technology. Books I didn't read excerpts from any books this week. I did read an excerpt from "The Age of Batshit Crazy Machines" by Ran Prieur, which you can find here: http://www.ranprieur.com/essays/machines.html If you would, please click on the C-Realm Amazon Store icon above. That way, if you do make a purchase from Amazon in the near future, C-Realm will earn a small commission for the sale. Music Maybe you noticed... maybe not, but I did not put any music behind the interviews this week. The only music I used is the unofficial C-Realm Podcast theme, Somptin Happnin' which you can download for free at the Promonet/IODAlliance website. Download "Somptin Happnin'" (mp3) from "Polymorphic Convolutions" by Various Artists Electronic Soundscapes | 2/28/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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21: Space | In this 21st episode, we conclude the talk with Dmitry Orlov which includes a rough detour through singularitarian meme-space. After that we hear from Australian science writer Margaret Wertheim and talk about our evolving notions of space. Psychonautica: I'm now doing a fortnightly podcast for the Dopefiend.co.uk Podcast Network called Psychonaughtica. This podcast, while largely my own creation, can also be considered a fulfillment of the long-standing promise for a Max Freakout psychedelics podcast. Max is my co-host and primary interview subject. For a thorough-going preview of the show, have a listen to Dopecast Episode 63. link: http://www.dopecast.co.uk/ Guests: Dmitry Orlov: is the author of Closing the 'Collapse Gap': the USSR was better prepared for peak oil than the US which you can find on the Energy Bulletin website: http://energybulletin.net/ You can also find the 'Collapse Gap' presentation on Dmitry's website: http://www.ClubOrlov.com And if you want to read more from Dmitry on the topic of collapse, try this: http://lifeaftertheoilcrash.net/PostOilBulletin/IssueNumberTwo.html Margaret Wertheim: [cribbed from her Wikipedia entry] Margaret Wertheim (born 1958, Brisbane, Australia) is a science writer and the author of several books on the cultural history of physics. These books include Pythagoras' Trousers: God, Physics, and the Gender Wars, a history of the relationship between physics and religion in Western culture, and The Pearly Gates of Cyberspace: A History of Space from Dante to the Internet. From 2001-2005 Wertheim wrote the Quark Soup column for the LA Weekly and is currently a contributor to the New York Times and Los Angeles Times as well as a contributing editor to Cosmos, the Australian-based literary science magazine, and Cabinet magazine, the international arts and cutlure quarterly. In 2004 she was the National Science Foundation visiting journalist to Antarctica, and in 2006 her writing on the Antarctic was awarded the print journalism prize from the American Institute of Biological Sciences. In 2003, she founded the Institute For Figuring, an organization based in Los Angeles that promotes the public understanding of the poetic and aesthetic dimensions of science and mathematics. Through her work with the IFF she has curated exhibitions at galleries and museums, including Apexart, Machine Project, Santa Monica Museum of Art, Art Center College of Design, and forthcoming at the Museum of Jurassic Technology. Books This episode features an excerpt from Consilience: The Unity of Knowledgeby E. O. Wilson Music Here you'll find links to musical tracks that I use frequently. I use them with permission in exchange for these links. You can download any of these tracks for free at the Promonet/IODAlliance website. Download "Somptin Happnin'" (mp3) from "Polymorphic Convolutions" by Various Artists Electronic Soundscapes Download "Jairamji" (mp3) from "Arcana" by Various Artists Interchill Records More On This Album Download "Electric Gypsy" (mp3) from "Worlds Within" by Govinda Intentcity Buy at iTunes Music Store Buy at eMusic Buy at RealNetworks / Rhapsody Buy at Napster Stream from RealNetworks / Rhapsody More On This Album Download "MCMXXXVII" (mp3) from "Instrumentals" by The Shanghai Restoration Project Undercover Culture Music Buy at iTunes Music Store Buy at eMusic Buy at RealNetworks / Rhapsody Buy at Napster Buy at GroupieTunes More On This Album Download "Arabian Dance - Instrumental" (mp3) from "Ancient Echoes - Music from the time of Jesus and Jerusalem's Second Temple" by SAVAE San Antonio Vocal Arts Ensemble World Library Publications Buy at iTunes Music Store Buy at eMusic Buy at RealNetworks / Rhapsody Buy at Napster Stream from RealNetworks / Rhapsody Buy at GroupieTunes More On This Album | 2/21/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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20: Closing the Disinfo Gap | http://crealm.libsyn.com/20-closing-the-disinfo-gap In this 20th episode I speak with Gary Baddeley of the Disinformation Company about moving memes from the lunatic fringe into the mainstream. Then I chat with Dmitry Orlov about the end of the world as we know it, and I feel fine. Guests: Gary Baddeley is the co-founder of the Disinformation Company. You can find them on the web at www.disinfo.com or on MySpace: http://www.myspace.com/disinfo The Disinfo Company is the American Publisher of Graham Hancock's new book, Supernatural: Meetings with the Ancient Teachers of Mankind. Dmitry Orlov is the author of Closing the 'Collapse Gap': the USSR was better prepared for peak oil than the US which you can find on the Energy Bulletin website: http://energybulletin.net/ Music Here you'll find links to musical tracks that I use frequently. I use them with permission in exchange for these links. You can download any of these tracks for free at the Promonet/IODAlliance website. Download "Somptin Happnin'" (mp3) from "Polymorphic Convolutions" by Various Artists Electronic Soundscapes Download "Jairamji" (mp3) from "Arcana" by Various Artists Interchill Records More On This Album Download "Electric Gypsy" (mp3) from "Worlds Within" by Govinda Intentcity Buy at iTunes Music Store Buy at eMusic Buy at RealNetworks / Rhapsody Buy at Napster Stream from RealNetworks / Rhapsody More On This Album | 2/14/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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19: Piratization | KMO discusses structural economic inequities with Catherine Austin Fitts. Enjoy! -- KMO Guests Catherine Austin Fitts: Catherine Austin Fitts offers a unique perspective on the global financial system and on the political economy. Her background includes: Wall Street: Managing Director and member of the Board, Dillon Read & Co. Inc.; Government: Assistant Secretary of Housing - Federal Housing Commissioner; Entrepreneur: President and founder of Hamilton Securities investment bank. Catherine has designed and closed over $25 billion of transactions and investments to-date and has led portfolio strategy for $300 billion of financial assets and liabilities. Check out her website: http://www.solari.com Music Here you'll find links to musical tracks that I use frequently. I use them with permission in exchange for these links. You can download any of these tracks for free at the Promonet/IODAlliance website. Download "Somptin Happnin'" (mp3) from "Polymorphic Convolutions" by Various Artists Electronic Soundscapes Download "Jairamji" (mp3) from "Arcana" by Various Artists Interchill Records More On This Album | 2/7/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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18: Down Under | KMO and fellow podcast, the Dopefiend, compare notes on Australia, podcasting, and other topics. Guests The Dopefiend of the Cannabis Podcast Network: I posted his bio in the notes for last week's show. Llamabox of the Ethnoring: I don't know a lot about this fine fellow other than he grew up all over the globe, he's into plants, and he likes to share his knowledge and resources. That's enough to make him a person worth knowing as far as I'm concerned. Books The opening excerpt comes from the short story collection Axiomatic by Greg Egan. You can read lots of great short stories for free on his website. Music Here you'll find links to musical tracks that I use frequently. I use them with permission in exchange for these links. You can download any of these tracks for free at the Promonet/IODAlliance website. Download "Somptin Happnin'" (mp3) from "Polymorphic Convolutions" by Various Artists Electronic Soundscapes Download "Jairamji" (mp3) from "Arcana" by Various Artists Interchill Records More On This Album | 1/31/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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17: Ned Ludds Legacy | Guest: The Dopefiend The dopefiend leads a double life. By day, he is a talented media professional with wide-ranging experience within the Media Industry and a keen eye for a story. By night he is a vociferous critic of the world's approach to drug legislation, a campaigner for the rights of Medical Cannabis users, and an outspoken commentator on Current Affairs. "The double life that most Cannabis users live has always been an interesting concept to me," Remarks the dopefiend. "Because of the barrage of anti-Cannabis propaganda that has been spewed out over the years, the world's smokers have been forced into hiding. Doctors, lawyers and teachers are so terrified that their habit will wreck their career that they often promulgate the anti-Cannabis line themselves. I'm no different!" Cannabis, according to the dopefiend, will be legal in the United Kingdom within ten years. "It's been a long, slow process, but I think some moves have been made over the past few years which seem to be steps along the right road. I know there's a lot more to do, but the pro-cannabis lobby has been growing stronger and more determined, and they're not going to let this one die." The dopefiend believes his career puts him in an ideal position to create what he calls "an informative and entertaining read which gets the facts straight but pulls no punches". He speaks regularly with the world's foremost experts, commentators, campaigners and politicans on a variety of current issues. He also has access to news wires and factual content from around the globe, keeping him abreast of world matters. The dopefiend believes his weekly Dopecast is unique and important. "There really is nothing quite like it on the web; there are other Cannabis podcasts, of course, but they're either too straight or too light. The Dopecast strikes an important balance between the two; it reports the news, but there's a bit of humour and music thrown in." Books In this week's show, I read excerpts from two books; The Age of Spiritual Machines: When Computers Exceed Human Intelligence by Ray Kurzweil, and Living Homes: Integrated Design & Construction by Thomas J. Elpel. I also read a portion of a speech entitled "Essences, Orcs and Civilization: The Case for a Cheerful Libertarianism" that science fiction author, David Brin, gave in front of a crowd of dyed-in-the-wool Libertarians. You can find the full text of that speech here: Link: http://www.davidbrin.com/libertarianarticle1.html Other Podcasts The Dopecast Existence is Wonderful Sentient Developments Music Here you'll find links to musical tracks that I use frequently. I use them with permission in exchange for these links. You can download any of these tracks for free at the Promonet/IODAlliance website. Download "Somptin Happnin'" (mp3) from "Polymorphic Convolutions" by Various Artists Electronic Soundscapes Download "Electric Gypsy" (mp3) from "Worlds Within" by Govinda Intentcity 04 October 2007 - show moved from Podomatic Archive to C-Realm Archive at Archive.org. The following comments were posted to Podomatic: 2 comments at 12:47PM Thursday on January 25, 2007, cannabistourist said: dude, you're blowing my mind one week at a time! at 11:07AM Friday on January 26, 2007, KMO said: Right on, CT. Thanks for tuning in. | 1/24/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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16: Sudden Violent Death | Had I left the chickens in the usual enclosure, they would have been safe from my neighbor's dogs, but I was afraid they'd freeze to death, so I moved them to an enclosure built for dogs to get them out of the freezing rain and give them warm(ish) dog houses to huddle in during the cold nights. When the first sheriff's deputy arrived, he stood guard while I picked up the chooks that looked like they had the best shot at survival and brought them in the house. Later, I went out with another box and collected all the ones still breathing and brought them inside as well. When I left home to drive to civilization to post the podcast, nine of the chooks were still breathing (two of them barely breathing) and three of them could stand. The rest, I fear, will die in the coming hours. I'll update this entry with links and musical acknowledgements in the next day or two. | 1/17/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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15: Fearless | C-Realm Podcast Give it a listen! Enjoy! -- KMO Guests Queerninja! Queerninja hosts the Sounds of World Wide Weed on the Dopefiend.co.uk Cannibus Podcast Network. New shows posted most every Thursday. Patrice Gros Patrice Gros started and nurtures the development of Foundation Farm. He and his family live in a house that he built in Eureka Springs, Arkansas. Reading Links I mentioned three things that I've been reading in the last week: Closing the 'Collapse Gap': the USSR was better prepared for peak oil than the US by Dmitry Orlov Narco News: Dillon, Read & Co. Inc. & the Aristocracy of Prison Profits by Catherine Austin Fitts The Cosmic Serpent: DNA and the Origins of Knowledge by Jeremy Narby Music Queerninja provided the track that closes the podcast: Download "Chaine A Chaine" (mp3) from "Bass, Sweat & Tears" by Gaudi Interchill Records Stream from RealNetworks / Rhapsody And then we have the usual suspects: Here you'll find links to musical tracks that I use frequently. I use them with permission in exchange for these links. You can download any of these tracks for free at the Promonet/IODAlliance website. Download "Closer to Heaven" (mp3) from "Tempting the Muse" by Mysteria Intentcity Stream from RealNetworks / Rhapsody Download "Somptin Happnin'" (mp3) from "Polymorphic Convolutions" by Various Artists Electronic Soundscapes Download "Lotus Eaters" (mp3) from "Polymorphic Convolutions" by Various Artists Electronic Soundscapes Download "Electric Gypsy" (mp3) from "Worlds Within" by Govinda Intentcity Download "On Jordan's Bank-Advent" (mp3) from "More Sublime Chant: The Art of Gregorian, Ambrosian, Gallican, and Sarum Chant" by The Cathedral Singers, Richard Proulx (conductor) GIA Publications Download "Rannanu" (mp3) from "Ancient Echoes - Music from the time of Jesus and Jerusalem's Second Temple" by SAVAE San Antonio Vocal Arts Ensemble World Library Publications Stream from RealNetworks / Rhapsody Download "Arabian Dance - Instrumental" (mp3) from "Ancient Echoes - Music from the time of Jesus and Jerusalem's Second Temple" by SAVAE San Antonio Vocal Arts Ensemble World Library Publications Download "From Mumbai" (mp3) from "Elixir" by Kaya Project Interchill Records Stream from RealNetworks / Rhapsody Download "Etcetera" (mp3) from "Sanctuary: A Shanti Mix From The Interchill Garden" by Various Artists Interchill Records Stream from RealNetworks / Rhapsody | 1/10/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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14: Enter the Ninja! | C-Realm Podcast Give it a listen! Episode 14: Enter the Ninja! Enjoy! -- KMO Guests Chip Walter Chip is the author of Thumbs, Toes, and Tears: And Other Traits That Make Us Human which you can find in the C-Realm Amazon Store. He has written other books and worked on Emmy Award-winning television science documentaries. You can learn more about those on his website: http://www.chipwalter.com/ Chip Walter NPR interview: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6539954 Queerninja! Queerninja hosts the Sounds of World Wide Weed on the Dopefiend.co.uk Cannibus Podcast Network. New shows posted most every Thursday. Music Here you'll find links to musical tracks that I use frequently. I use them with permission in exchange for these links. You can download any of these tracks for free at the Promonet/IODAlliance website. Download "Closer to Heaven" (mp3) from "Tempting the Muse" by Mysteria Intentcity Stream from RealNetworks / Rhapsody Download "Somptin Happnin'" (mp3) from "Polymorphic Convolutions" by Various Artists Electronic Soundscapes Download "Lotus Eaters" (mp3) from "Polymorphic Convolutions" by Various Artists Electronic Soundscapes Download "Electric Gypsy" (mp3) from "Worlds Within" by Govinda Intentcity Download "On Jordan's Bank-Advent" (mp3) from "More Sublime Chant: The Art of Gregorian, Ambrosian, Gallican, and Sarum Chant" by The Cathedral Singers, Richard Proulx (conductor) GIA Publications Download "Rannanu" (mp3) from "Ancient Echoes - Music from the time of Jesus and Jerusalem's Second Temple" by SAVAE San Antonio Vocal Arts Ensemble World Library Publications Stream from RealNetworks / Rhapsody Download "Arabian Dance - Instrumental" (mp3) from "Ancient Echoes - Music from the time of Jesus and Jerusalem's Second Temple" by SAVAE San Antonio Vocal Arts Ensemble World Library Publications Download "From Mumbai" (mp3) from "Elixir" by Kaya Project Interchill Records Stream from RealNetworks / Rhapsody Download "Etcetera" (mp3) from "Sanctuary: A Shanti Mix From The Interchill Garden" by Various Artists Interchill Records Stream from RealNetworks / Rhapsody Download "Higher?!" (mp3) from "Pigeon John & The Summertime Pool Party" by Pigeon John Quannum Projects Stream from RealNetworks / Rhapsody Original Podomatic Comments: Close this window8 comments at 09:47AM Wednesday on January 03, 2007, cannabistourist said: hey will have to save this episode for after work already know you and QN musta had a ball though! Quote | Delete at 12:56PM Wednesday on January 03, 2007, KMO said: Hey, CT. We did indeed. What a good time. Quote | Delete at 12:05PM Monday on January 08, 2007, said: I was kinda thinking that you would alert us to you r broadcasts. I joined thinking you would. But then, I emailed you and didn't get a response. Perhaps you don't like Californians? Thaks for the disappointment. Guess I'll listen elsewhere since you don't seem to want to respond to people that contact you about your show. I'll remove your c-realm podcast at my signature now, at the Mj sites I attend. Would have loved to hear back from you last week 0- but you myst be busy - too busy to return emails. Thanks! Quote | Delete at 08:39AM Tuesday on January 09, 2007, KMO said: Hello anonymous and miffed former listener. The best way to contact me is to send email to kmo@c-realm.com. To clearly deliniate your email from the high volume of spam that finds its way into my inbox, you might want to put "C-Realm Podcast" in the subject line. Hint for future on-line interactions: research has shown that in a noisy environment (like the world-wide web) "a t*t for two tats" provides better results than the straight-forward "t*t for tat" strategy you're employing here. For the record, | 1/3/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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13: Skillful Means | C-Realm Podcast Give it a listen! Episode 13: Skillful Means In this episode, I talk with radio host and think tank wonk J. Hughes about religion and the skillful liberation of hobbled minds and with Chip Walter, author of Thumbs, Toes, and Tears: And Other Traits That Make Us Human about taking an active role in human evolution. Guests Chip Walter Chip is the author of Thumbs, Toes, and Tears: And Other Traits That Make Us Human which you can find in the C-Realm Amazon Store. He has written other books and worked on Emmy Award-winning television science documentaries. You can learn more about those on his website: http://www.chipwalter.com/ Chip Walter NPR interview: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6539954 J. Hughes Dr. James Hughes hosts Changesurfer Radio and co-founded the futurist policy thinktank, the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technology: http://www.ieet.org Dr. Hughes is the author of Citizen Cyborg: Why Democratic Societies Must Respond to the Redesigned Human of the Future which again you can find in the C-Realm Amazon Store. Music Here you'll find links to musical tracks that I use frequently. I use them with permission in exchange for these links. You can download any of these tracks for free at the Promonet/IODAlliance website. Download "Closer to Heaven" (mp3) from "Tempting the Muse" by Mysteria Intentcity Stream from RealNetworks / Rhapsody Download "Somptin Happnin'" (mp3) from "Polymorphic Convolutions" by Various Artists Electronic Soundscapes Download "Lotus Eaters" (mp3) from "Polymorphic Convolutions" by Various Artists Electronic Soundscapes Download "Electric Gypsy" (mp3) from "Worlds Within" by Govinda Intentcity Download "On Jordan's Bank-Advent" (mp3) from "More Sublime Chant: The Art of Gregorian, Ambrosian, Gallican, and Sarum Chant" by The Cathedral Singers, Richard Proulx (conductor) GIA Publications Download "Rannanu" (mp3) from "Ancient Echoes - Music from the time of Jesus and Jerusalem's Second Temple" by SAVAE San Antonio Vocal Arts Ensemble World Library Publications Stream from RealNetworks / Rhapsody Download "Arabian Dance - Instrumental" (mp3) from "Ancient Echoes - Music from the time of Jesus and Jerusalem's Second Temple" by SAVAE San Antonio Vocal Arts Ensemble World Library Publications Download "Pearl Tower" (mp3) from "Instrumentals" by The Shanghai Restoration Project Undercover Culture Music Stream from RealNetworks / Rhapsody Download "The Bund" (mp3) from "Instrumentals" by The Shanghai Restoration Project Undercover Culture Music Download "MCMXXXVII" (mp3) from "Instrumentals" by The Shanghai Restoration Project Undercover Culture Music Comments originally posted to Podomatic entry for this episode: at 03:07PM Wednesday on December 27, 2006, Queerninja said: Awesome work KMO. Loving you're shows so much man...you're spreading the tendrils of an expansive consciousness through the cyber-dimension!!! Quote | Delete at 01:25PM Tuesday on January 09, 2007, thunderball said: QueerNinja is the awesomest name ever! Quote | 12/27/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
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12: A Dozen | C-Realm Podcast Give it a listen! Episode 12: A Dozen Enjoy! -- KMO Guests: Rick Doblin is the president of MAPS, the Multi-disciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies. You can read about Rick in his Wikipedia entry. I took the segment with Lorenzo and Sheldon Norberg from a recent episode of the Psychedelic Salon podcast: http://www.matrixmasters.com/podcasts/SheldonNorberg/064SheldonNorberg01.mp3 Also swiped from the Psychedelic Salon, a clip from a talk that Terence McKenna gave back in 1999 in which he castigates psychedelic partiers who "chip away at psychedelics" by taking pissant amounts and going to clubs or to the mall. I'll be returning to this talk in the future, so you might want to go and download it: http://www.matrixmasters.com/podcasts/TerenceMcKenna/TerenceMcKenna-Denver-1999.mp3 The snippet of conversation with Richard Grossman comes from the cutting room floor (virtual/metaphorical). You can find a longer conversation with Dr. Grossman in Episode 6 of the C-Realm Podcast. Daniel Pinchbeck was supposed to be on this week's show, but I guess he decided that it was more important to appear on the Colbert Report than to come for a chat on my little podcast. Can't say that I blame him. Music: I use the music in the show with the permission of Promonet/IODAlliance in exchange for the links below. The C-Realm Podcast makes no money if you buy the music below. (Hint, you can download any of these tracks for free on the Promonet/IODAlliance site.) Download "Somptin Happnin'" (mp3) from "Polymorphic Convolutions" by Various Artists Electronic Soundscapes Buy at iTunes Music Store Buy at eMusic Buy at Napster Download "MCMXXXVII" (mp3) from "Instrumentals" by The Shanghai Restoration Project Undercover Culture Music Buy at iTunes Music Store Buy at eMusic Buy at RealNetworks / Rhapsody Buy at Napster Stream from RealNetworks / Rhapsody Download "Closer to Heaven" (mp3) from "Tempting the Muse" by Mysteria Intentcity Buy at iTunes Music Store Buy at eMusic Buy at RealNetworks / Rhapsody Buy at Napster Stream from RealNetworks / Rhapsody Download "Electric Gypsy" (mp3) from "Worlds Within" by Govinda Intentcity Buy at iTunes Music Store Buy at eMusic Buy at RealNetworks / Rhapsody Buy at Napster Stream from RealNetworks / Rhapsody Comments left on Podomatic entry for this episode: 2 comments at 08:31AM Sunday on December 24, 2006, Wink said: Thank you for another wonderful show. I was glad to hear you speak about medical marijuana and agree the system is abused by malingerers looking for a *get out of jail free card*. Best wishes to you and your loved ones.mr and ms wink at 07:44AM Tuesday on December 26, 2006, KMO said: Hi Mr. & Mrs. Wink. Thank for listening to the show and posting comments. Stay well. | 12/20/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
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11: Illicit Maps | C-Realm Podcast Give it a listen! Episode 11: Illicit Maps Enjoy! -- KMO Guests: You can learn more about Moises Niam on his website. You can also read about him on Wikipedia. Illicit: How Smugglers, Traffickers and Copycats are Hijacking the Global Economy Rick Doblin is the president of MAPS, the Multi-disciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies. He too merits his own Wikipedia entry. Music: I use the music in the show with the permission of Promonet/IODAlliance in exchange for the links below. The C-Realm Podcast makes no money if you buy the music below. (Hint, you can download any of these tracks for free on the Promonet/IODAlliance site.) Download "Somptin Happnin'" (mp3) from "Polymorphic Convolutions" by Various Artists Electronic Soundscapes Buy at iTunes Music Store Buy at eMusic Buy at Napster Download "MCMXXXVII" (mp3) from "Instrumentals" by The Shanghai Restoration Project Undercover Culture Music Buy at iTunes Music Store Buy at eMusic Buy at RealNetworks / Rhapsody Buy at Napster Stream from RealNetworks / Rhapsody Download "Closer to Heaven" (mp3) from "Tempting the Muse" by Mysteria Intentcity Buy at iTunes Music Store Buy at eMusic Buy at RealNetworks / Rhapsody Buy at Napster Stream from RealNetworks / Rhapsody Download "Electric Gypsy" (mp3) from "Worlds Within" by Govinda Intentcity Buy at iTunes Music Store Buy at eMusic Buy at RealNetworks / Rhapsody Buy at Napster Stream from RealNetworks / Rhapsody Moved from Podomatic to Internet Archive on 3 July 2007. The following comments were erased from the Podomatic site in the process: at 09:22AM Thursday on February 08, 2007, Zak Morris said: Very nice episode. Thanks. at 09:36AM Thursday on February 08, 2007, KMO said: about 2 hours ago, Zak Morris wrote: > Very nice episode. Thanks. Hi Zak. Thanks for listening and providing feedback. Glad you enjoyed the episode. Stay well. -KMO | 12/13/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
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10: Plan B | C-Realm Podcast Give it a listen! Enjoy! -- KMO I'll clean this up later, but for now, here's the raw and unorganized info including segments that I scripted but lacked the gumption to read on the air with my messed up back. The Politics of... | 12/6/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
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9: Atheistic Faith | C-Realm Podcast Give it a listen! Enjoy! -- KMO The genesis for this episode came in the form of a Wired Magazine cover story: The Church of the Non-Believers: A band of intellectual brothers is mounting a crusade against belief in God. Are they winning converts, or merely preaching to the choir? by Gary Wolf. Excerpt: The New Atheists have castigated fundamentalism and branded even the mildest religious liberals as enablers of a vengeful mob. Everybody who does not join them is an ally of the Taliban. But, so far, their provocation has failed to take hold. Given all the religious trauma in the world, I take this as good news. Even those of us who sympathize intellectually have good reasons to wish that the New Atheists continue to seem absurd. If we reject their polemics, if we continue to have respectful conversations even about things we find ridiculous, this doesn't necessarily mean we've lost our convictions or our sanity. It simply reflects our deepest, democratic values. Or, you might say, our bedrock faith: the faith that no matter how confident we are in our beliefs, there's always a chance we could turn out to be wrong. Wired put out a podcast follow-up to the article. You can find that podcast here: http://sonibyte.com/audio/raw/1569.mp3 I also read from a Time Magazine article. You can find a summary here: http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/11/05/cover.story/index.html Subscribers of the now defunct C-Realm Thought of the Day, as well as long-time readers of my blog will recognize the William Finnegan quote I read to Peter Christ: The central ideology of "mainstream culture," the belief system that most of us share, is liberal consumerism--a secular, individualist creed that essentially adds more shopping hours to the old exaltation of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Our children are being raised in this tepid faith with what amounts to fanatic zeal: the average American child, by the time he or she leaves high school, has been subjected to more than 380,000 TV commercials. The role of advertising in our daily lives has grown so immense that it has become difficult to remember what it was like before the subliminal flood of "brand synergies" came to fill every corner of public space. Billions of dollars and fantastic amounts of energy are, after all, devoted annually to the creation ex nihilo of new desires--anxieties that, by design, only more consumption can console. The quote comes from Finnegan's book, Cold New World: Growing Up in Harder Country (Modern Library Paperbacks). Lorenzo mentioned Supernatural: Meetings with the Ancient Teachers of Mankind. I haven't read it yet, but check out the reviews on Amazon.com. Music Download "Somptin Happnin'" (mp3) from "Polymorphic Convolutions" by Various Artists Electronic Soundscapes Buy at iTunes Music Store Buy at eMusic Buy at Napster Download "The Oh Of Pleasure / Ray Lynch" (mp3) from "Deep Breakfast" by Ray Lynch Ray Lynch Productions Buy at eMusic Buy at RealNetworks / Rhapsody Buy at Napster Stream from RealNetworks / Rhapsody Download "Closer to Heaven" (mp3) from "Tempting the Muse" by Mysteria Intentcity Buy at iTunes Music Store Buy at eMusic Buy at RealNetworks / Rhapsody Buy at Napster Stream from RealNetworks / Rhapsody On 3 July 2007 I moved this episode from Podomatic to the Internet Archive, deleting the following user comment in the process: at 01:36PM Tuesday on December 05, 2006, Cannabistourist said: i love the 30 second afterlife! | 11/29/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
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8: Songs of Healing | In this episode, KMO reveals just how a small an audience he has listening at this point. He also interviews Dr. Richard Grossman about the use of sound for healing and inducing altered states of consciousness. C-Realm Podcast Give it a listen! Dr. Richard Grossman The cover art for this episode pictures instruments that Dr. Grossman used to create the music for this episode. His three websites having to do with acupuncture, sound healing, and experiential tours: http://www.acudoc.com http://www.soundjourney.com http://www.heartfeather.com If you've read this far it seems you have an interest. You might visit Dr. Grossman's websites and leave him a comment telling him that you heard about him on the C-Realm Podcast. Music Download "Somptin Happnin'" (mp3) from "Polymorphic Convolutions" by Various Artists Electronic Soundscapes Buy at iTunes Music Store Buy at eMusic Buy at Napster In June of 2007, I moved this episode from Podomatic to Archive.org in order to free up space to post new episodes to Podomatic. Here are the comments for this episode that would otherwise have been lost when I erased this episode from the Podomatic archive: 6 comments at 01:26AM Tuesday on November 28, 2006, BlackBeauty said: Hi KMO, have just arrived here from the Dopecast forums...have subscribed and am looking forward to hear your show after the other guy's recommendations at the forums! So, maybe now you can count on not having too small an audience for much longer smiley at 12:15PM Tuesday on December 05, 2006, cannabistourist said: im the same as above finnally followed the link! im glad i did im diggin the show im about to do my first roadcast im gonna slap an episode of the dopecast on a cd to give out to people i come across do you mind if i slap and episode of your podcast on there im sure the heads i run into will love it! the slip cover of the cd will include your web address and email along with the corresponding info of the dopecast hope to hear from ya soon im leavin out thursday at 03:44PM Tuesday on December 05, 2006, KMO said: about 3 hours ago, cannabistourist wrote: > do you mind if i slap and episode of your podcast on there im sure the heads i run into will love it! No problem. Go ahead and burn the show to disk and share it with folks you know would like it. Thanks for leaving a comment. Stay well. at 07:40PM Wednesday on December 20, 2006, said: I just discoverd you through Dopefiend. I am in SO CAL. Kudos, kudos, kudos. I will listen to this show as my initial try.. but I've already sent your site to many other intellectual entheogenic folks I know..... thanks much. I'll comment shortly. Quote | Delete at 05:27PM Saturday on December 30, 2006, Mike said: Awesome show!!! at 07:22AM Thursday on April 19, 2007, Anonomora said: This is one of my favorite episodes keep at it KMO! | 11/22/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
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