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310: Gooey Ritual & Prickly Magick

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 [...]

309: Empathy Is the Invisible Hand

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 [...]

308: Prof in the Hood

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 [...]

307: The Portal of Chapel Perilous

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 [...]

306: Resonant If Not Coherent

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 [...]

Z-Realm 35: 28 Time Units Later

Episode 35 turns towards two landmark films in the zombie genre, 2002′s 28 Days Later and 2007′s 28 Weeks Later. These two films are where we all were first confronted with running zombies. Actually both movies use the term “infected” to describe the marauding groups of baddies. [...]

305: Choosing to Stay Connected

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 [...]

304: New Models in Old Bottles

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 [...]

303: Alluring, Naive Notions

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 [...]

Z-Realm 34: They WENT There!

Marty, Olga, and KMO take on the season two finale of The Walking Dead: Beside the Dying Fire. After a long detour from the narrative of the comic, it looks like the show might be getting back on track for season three. With Shane [...]

302: Beautiful, Glorious Limits

KMO welcomes the Archdruid, John Michael Greer, back to the C-Realm to talk about the content of his new book, Mystery Teachings from the Living Earth: an introduction to spiritual ecology. JMG explains why beauty springs from limits and how New Age abundance belief [...]

301: Away From Myself

KMO welcomes Duck Duck Go founder Gabriel Weinberg to the C-Realm to map out an escape from the filter bubble. Even if you’re logged out, when you do a Google search, Google’s algorithms go to great lengths to figure out who you are and [...]

Z-Realm 32: Marty’s Kryptonite

This week Marty, Olga and KMO gather with the stated purpose of discussing The Walking Dead Season 2 Episode 11: Judge, Jury, Executioner, but the real action is in the second half of the show when Marty and Olga recount their recent adventures in [...]

300: Theater of the Mind

In this 300th C-Realm Podcast episode, KMO welcomes Dmitry Orlov back to the program to check in on the collapse narrative and to compare the actual unfolding of events with Dmitry’s perspective of five years ago. Later Lorenzo Hagerty of the Psychedelic Salon Podcast [...]

299: Consciousness Cafe

KMO welcomes Jitendra Darling of Occupy Cafe to the C-Realm Podcast to talk about the tension in the Occupy movement between people who advocate direct action in resisting the status quo and those who insist on a strictly non-violent approach to social transformation. Just [...]