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 KMO talks with Jonathan Moll about the spread of ideas, religion, the potential benefits and pitfalls of psychedelic plants and chemicals and the harms that the Drug War does to civil society and to the ability of people raised on prohibitionist propaganda to think clearly and behave like adults. The show begins and ends with reference to the irresponsible and opportunistic comments made to the news media by Armando Aguilar, president of the Miami Fraternal Order of Police, in which he conflates MDPV (sometimes sold legally as “Bath Salts”) with LSD and asserts that the assailant in the recent cannibalistic assault there acted under the influence of “a new form of LSD.” Music by Andrew Woods.
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 KMO and the Lovely Olga K talk with Peter Bebergal about psychedelics, drug addiction, magical thinking, paranoia, fate, and spirituality. Peter’s book, Too Much to Dream: A Psychedelic American Boyhood deals with all of these issues, and Peter had a much rougher time growing up in the 80′s than did KMO, even though their interests and cultural touchstones were so similar. They both had a group of friends who fancied that they could contact the divine by altering their consciousness with psychedelics, they both endured the paranoia of living in a culture that criminalizes such exploration, but Peter’s path lead him through much darker territory.
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 KMO and Olga welcome Pam Grossman of Phantasmaphile and the Observatory Gallery at Proteus Gowanus and Peter Bebergal, author of Too Much to Dream: A Psychedelic American Boyhood to the C-Realm Podcast to discuss the intersection of magickal ritual, religious tradition, psychedelic exploration, and the thirst for gnosis. KMO summarizes arguments from Advanced Magick for Beginners by Alan Chapman, and Olga, acting as proxy for the regular C-Realm listeners likely to be bewildered by this conversation, asks for clarification at key moments. This conversation continues in Psychonautica 084.
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 KMO welcomes Eric Boyd back to the program to discuss possibilities for kicking the energy can down the road with cold fusion. Friend of the C-Realm, Joe S. joins the conversation to represent the viewpoint that free energy could be bad news, as it would allow humans to continue the project of constructing global dominance hierarchies and despoiling the biosphere. KMO plays a clip of Jeremy Rifkin talking about the ideas in his book The Empathic Civilization: The Race to Global Consciousness in a World in Crisis. Rifkin claims that advancing communications technology has allowed humans to expand the sphere of beings with whom they identify and for whom they feel empathy. With more time and energy at our disposal, might humans come to extend our empathic concern to include the entire biosphere? The conversation concludes with a discussion of the potential impact of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster. Music by Alexandre Tannous and Simon G. Powell.
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 KMO speaks with Professor Peter Moskos, author of Cop in the Hood: My Year Policing Baltimore’s Eastern District and In Defense of Flogging. Peter speaks against the drug war for L.E.A.P. and he opposed the drug war before, during, and after his stint as a police officer. The conversation starts off with references to the television shows The Wire and Breaking Bad and covers the slowly-changing public perception of drugs and the drug war, the drop in the crime rate, the bloated prison system in the United States, and the role of immigrants on crime rates.
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 KMO talks about sigil magic with Erik Davis. After playing clips of comic book authors Grant Morrison and Alan Moore, KMO asks Erik if, maybe, the real danger of results-based magic isn’t so much that it does not work but that it does. Could sigil magic work only to alter the consciousness of the magician and clear away the obstacles of unworkable attitudes and belief structures, or does it put the practitioner in contact with supernatural agents and energies which might demand a high price for their cooperation? In the second half of the program, KMO talks with Cheyenna Layne Weber of the Brooklyn Food Coalition about the upcoming Brooklyn Food Conference. The episode ends with a birthday greeting from the Dopefiend and Max Freakout.
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 KMO welcomes composer and ethnomusicologist, Alexandre Tannous, to the C-Realm Podcast to talk about music, entheogens, shamanism, and techniques for accessing alternate states of consciousness and activating the body’s innate healing capacity. KMO intercuts audio clips from the movie Jim, for which Alexandre composed the score and ends with a reading from the book, Nemu’s End: History, Psychology, and Poetry of the Apocalypse.
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 KMO continues his conversation with Sally Erickson and describes how selling insurance contributed to his education as a podcaster. In the second half of the program, the Lovely Olga K., co-host of the Z-Realm Podcast, and Justin Ritchie, co-host of the Extraenvironmentalist Podcast, traverse a lot of conversational ground with discussions of gentrifying neighborhoods in Brooklyn, Corporations undergoing catabolic collapse, New York city as an environment of plentiful energy that supports a great profusion of ecological niches, and how it is easy to dismiss all potential collapse narratives. Everything seems so stable.
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 KMO, Olga, and Justin Ritchie, co-host of the Extraenvironmentalist Podcast, talk about how people are adapting to economic decline, particularly in the increasingly wide-spread realization that a college education has morphed from a entry into the middle class into the express route to debt slavery. In the second half of the podcast, Sally Erickson, the producer of the film What A Way To Go: Life at the End of Empire, asks KMO to account for his refusal to sacrifice his own happiness for the sake of a respectable seat at the grown-up’s table of traditional employment.
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 With no pre-recorded interview material, KMO fills the hour with his seat of the pants ramblings about the Adam Curtis documentary, All Watched Over by Machine of Loving Grace, the Drug War, the commune movement of the 1970s and the cynicism that springs from a naive belief in cyber-Utopias and the so-called Balance of Nature.
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