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 [...]]]>

Occupy C-Realm

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.

Music by Kurt Liebezeit.

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.

Music by Tiny Machines.

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.

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 [...]]]> http://crealm.libsyn.com/259-the-paranormal-response

KMO talks with ETC neighbor, Carl E., about the community taking shape on the periphery of the Farm. There are great opportunities for getting “back to the land” in rural Tennessee, but Carl warns against making a move based on panic.

You can hear Carl discuss the philosophy and practicalities of salvage in episode [...]]]> http://www.archive.org/details/EtcVoicesPodcast019

KMO talks with ETC neighbor, Carl E., about the community taking shape on the periphery of the Farm. There are great opportunities for getting “back to the land” in rural Tennessee, but Carl warns against making a move based on panic.

You can hear Carl discuss the philosophy and practicalities of salvage in episode 231 of the C-Realm Podcast.

KMO talks with two travelers in search of community. Topics include peak oil, nuclear power, and the challenges of preparing for a post-collapse environment when the imperatives of the money economy remain in full effect.

258_-Navigating the Screaming Abyss

KMO welcomes Dennis McKenna back to the C-Realm to help promote his Kickstarter Campaign. Dennis is raising money to fund the sabbatical he’ll need to take in order to write The Botherhood of the Screaming Abyss, a book about his life with his brother, Terence. The discussion covers contact with [...]]]>

258_-Navigating the Screaming Abyss

KMO welcomes Dennis McKenna back to the C-Realm to help promote his Kickstarter Campaign. Dennis is raising money to fund the sabbatical he’ll need to take in order to write The Botherhood of the Screaming Abyss, a book about his life with his brother, Terence. The discussion covers contact with alien (though not necessarily extraterrestrial) minds, commodified spirituality, and the value of traveling to the Amazon to experience ayahuasca when the ingredients are readily available for purchase on the internet.

Music by Kyrstyn Pixton.

The clip with Steve Beyer is from C-Realm Podcast 175: Singing to the Plants.

You can hear more interviews with Dennis McKenna on the Extraenvironmentalist, Paratopia, and Psychedelic Salon Podcasts.

Episode 16 of the Z-Realm podcast sees us return again to the audiobook version of Max Brooks’ novel World War Z. This second section looks more into what happens in the novel when the world realizes that the dead ARE actually rising and hungering for living flesh. We also touch briefly on some recent [...]]]> http://www.archive.org/details/zrealm016

Episode 16 of the Z-Realm podcast sees us return again to the audiobook version of Max Brooks’ novel World War Z. This second section looks more into what happens in the novel when the world realizes that the dead ARE actually rising and hungering for living flesh. We also touch briefly on some recent topics like the new film Thor, 1973′s cult film The Holy Mountain, the legendary Loc-Nar and other topics as well.
We hope you enjoy the show and that you’ll continue to send us feedback at zrealmcast@yahoo.com.

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 [...]]]>

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

This episode features an impassioned plea for veganism delivered to an audience at the Farm by Dr. Will Tuttle. Meals are the most powerful rituals in our culture, and every meal that includes meat reinforces a notion of human superiority and dominance. Dr. Tuttle proposes changing meals as a means of changing consciousness and [...]]]> http://www.archive.org/details/EtcVoicesPodcast017

This episode features an impassioned plea for veganism delivered to an audience at the Farm by Dr. Will Tuttle. Meals are the most powerful rituals in our culture, and every meal that includes meat reinforces a notion of human superiority and dominance. Dr. Tuttle proposes changing meals as a means of changing consciousness and fostering compassion.

At the end of the podcast, KMO shares some of the details of recent changes in his diet which have him eating more, not less, meat.

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 [...]]]> 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

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 [...]]]>

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.

http://etcjournal.blogspot.com/2011/04/etc-voices-podcast-015.html

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 [...]]]>

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.

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 [...]]]> 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.

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 [...]]]> http://crealm.libsyn.com/251-inherent-risks

Interview with Jaron Lanier:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8FYj1wKyaY

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 [...]]]> 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. Of the (approx.) 3 billion base pairs in
the skull's genome, several thousand have been recovered. These nuclear DNA fragments have been
analyzed by the National Institutes of Health BLAST program, and a substantial percentage of that
DNA has "no significant similarity" to any DNA previously found on Earth.

These results have been verified and repeated; however, more DNA needs to be recovered and
analyzed before a formal report can be completed.

Law of Accelerating Returns http://tinyurl.com/29e82vw

An analysis of the history of technology shows that technological change is exponential,
contrary to the common-sense “intuitive linear” view. So we won’t experience 100 years of
progress in the 21st century — it will be more like 20,000 years of progress (at today’s rate).
The "returns," such as chip speed and cost-effectiveness, also increase exponentially. There’s
even exponential growth in the rate of exponential growth. Within a few decades, machine
intelligence will surpass human intelligence, leading to The Singularity — technological change
so rapid and profound it represents a rupture in the fabric of human history. The implications
include the merger of biological and nonbiological intelligence, immortal software-based humans,
and ultra-high levels of intelligence that expand outward in the universe at the speed of light.

Phoenix Lights plus 14: Still no answers http://tinyurl.com/4kkb83a

If you assume it is a very large universe and realize that, given the exponential rate of
technological progress just beginning to take firm hold of human civilization, a civilization
that was at our state of development a mere one hundred years ago would appear to us to have
advanced 20,000 years in the last century and if you take the thousands of reports from credible
citizens at face value it is reasonable to conclude that the Phoenix Lights observations is what
it seemed to be:  a gentle but deliberate display of advanced technology intended to provide
enough eye-witness testimony and personal experience to spark the recognition that humanity is
not the only intelligent life form capable of operating on earth.

The original Battle of Los Angeles 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EhjkMoWLE_Y
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Los_Angeles

The Battle of Los Angeles, also known as The Great Los Angeles Air Raid, is the name given by
contemporary sources to the rumored enemy attack and subsequent anti-aircraft artillery barrage
which took place from late February 24 to early February 25, 1942 over Los Angeles, California.
The incident occurred less than three months after the United States entered World War II as a
result of the Japanese Imperial Navy's attack on Pearl Harbor, and one day after the Bombardment
of Ellwood on February 23.

Initially, the target of the aerial barrage was thought to be an attacking force from Japan, but
speaking at a press conference shortly afterward, Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox called the
incident a "false alarm." Newspapers of the time published a number of sensational reports and
speculations of a cover-up. A small number of modern-day UFOlogists have suggested the targets
were extraterrestrial spacecraft.[3] When documenting the incident in 1983, the U.S. Office of
Air Force History attributed the event to a case of "war nerves" likely triggered by a lost
weather balloon and exacerbated by stray flares and shell bursts from adjoining batteries.

[Host note:  The USAF History does not explain why 1400 rounds of high-caliber anti-aircraft
fire could not take down a 'lost weather baloon.']

Battle:LA 
http://www.battlela.com/
http://www.reportthreats.org/  [Viral marketing website - some confabulation]

What are they?

Richard Dolan
http://tinyurl.com/4odw34c

I have come to a different conclusion. I concede that my position is provisional, and may change
in time. But the more I reflect on it, the more persuasive I find it. It is that the UFO
phenomenon is the product of an artificial intelligence. Advanced machine intelligence, vastly
outstripping our own, biological, intelligence.

Now, many people believe that machine intelligence is involved somehow in the phenomenon of UFOs.
What I am suggesting is that it is the driving force.

I assume that I am not the only proponent of this idea, but I am not aware of any other UFO
researcher who has expressed it in this way. Back in the 1960s, there was one writer whose
thoughts moved in this direction, or who at least entertained the possibility. That was Ivan
Sanderson, surely one of the most original thinkers ever to write about UFOs.

It is a shame that Sanderson, a biologist by profession, wrote only two books on UFOs. It is a
greater shame that he is all but forgotten today. His first book, Uninvited Visitors (1967)
remains among the most sophisticated analyses yet done on the possible nature of UFOs (Sanderson
called them Unexplained Aerial Objects, or UAOs).

Too long to summarize here, Sanderson methodically asked, not what UAOs were, but what they
could be. He developed a six page outline of the possibilities. Thus, they could be inanimate
or animate. If inanimate, they might be natural, or artificial, each possibility with several
subsets. If animate, they could also be natural or artificial. Natural forms might include
life-forms indigenous to space, or to atmospheres, or to solid bodies. Artificial forms might
be domesticated natural life-forms, genetically created life forms, or biochemically created
life forms. And so on.

Sanderson at several points suggested the possibility that the "occupants" of UFOs might be
artificial life forms. He was not dogmatic about this, and also entertained the idea that they
might be an as-yet unknown life-form indigenous to Earth. Still, the concept of UFOs as a form
of artificial intelligence is fertile enough that we might have expected some follow-up.

Another Tenant in the Building http://tinyurl.com/4kdaoqv

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.

Exponential growth http://tinyurl.com/46tsj9t

Time to act on humankind's big favorites of "Exponential Growth" - the new (excessive comfort)
and also the old (many children) "growth factors" call for new ways. Their ethical and
governance dimensions are breaking beyond today's very basics of politics, economy, society and
self. No one dares touch them, but negligence is not an option.

Dan Chay explains in a few minutes why exponential growth must lead to collapse. he shows
examples from the world of bacteria and asks "Are Humans Smarter Than Yeast?". Dan hopes so,
and urges us to become aware of taking a turn on the growth issue in our rapidly growing
societies. Especially, because the obvious effects of exceeded growth appear very sudden and
when it is already too late - to sustain the "good times"

Singularity University http://singularityu.org/

Singularity University  is an interdisciplinary university whose mission is to assemble,
educate and inspire leaders who strive to understand and facilitate the development of
exponentially advancing technologies in order to address humanity’s grand challenges. With the
support of a broad range of leaders in academia, business and government, Singularity
University hopes to stimulate groundbreaking, disruptive thinking and solutions aimed at
solving some of the planet’s most pressing challenges. Singularity University is based at
the NASA Ames campus in Silicon Valley.

Singularity Summit http://tinyurl.com/5cmtl5

The Singularity Summit is an annual conference focused on the Singularity and related
converging technologies such as robotics, nanotechnology, brain-computer interfaces, and
artificial intelligence.

Founded in 2006 by the Singularity Institute, Ray Kurzweil, and Peter Thiel, the inaugural
summit was held at Stanford, the first academic symposium focused on Singularity dialogue.

Past speakers have included Doug Hofstadter (author of Gödel, Escher, Bach), Peter Norvig
(Google Director of Research), Sebastian Thrun (Stanford AI Lab Director), Rodney Brooks
(MIT Professor of Robotics), Justin Rattner (CTO of Intel), and Stephen Wolfram (CEO and
Founder of Wolfram Research).

10 Questions for Ray Kurzweil http://tinyurl.com/37n8lne

Q: You predict we'll reach a point with artificial intelligence that you call the singularity.
How will that affect us?

A: By the time we get to the 2040s, we'll be able to multiply human intelligence a billionfold.
That will be a profound change that's singular in nature. Computers are going to keep getting
smaller and smaller. Ultimately, they will go inside our bodies and brains and make us healthier,
make us smarter. We'll be online all the time. Search engines won't wait to be asked.

Q: Do you think we'll find intelligent life elsewhere in the universe?

A: The consensus in the field is that there's somewhere between a thousand and a million
technologically advanced civilizations just in our own galaxy. But once you get to a point
where we are, within a few centuries at most, these civilizations would be doing galaxy-wide
engineering. It's impossible we wouldn't be noticing that. So my conclusion is that we may be
the first.

[Host note:  Mainstream academia, Kurzweil included, persists in proceeding from the fallacy
that there is no evidence of advanced intelligence in the universe.  It seems that they either
have not read the credible literature or have failed to comprehend it.

UFOs and the National Security State: Chronology of a Coverup, 1941-1973
Dolan, Vallee
http://tinyurl.com/4lsecqj

The Cover-Up Exposed, 1973-1991 (UFOs and the National Security State, Vol. 2)
Dolan
http://tinyurl.com/4bv25m9

UFOs: Generals, Pilots and Government Officials Go On the Record
Kean
http://tinyurl.com/4f69nap

I Know What I Saw
Fox
http://tinyurl.com/45cxk6d]

Betty Andreasson's alien abduction and NDE http://tinyurl.com/3pesvk

Now the Elder touched Betty's shoulder. There was a little explosion of white light, and
then they were in a different place: a hospital room, where a very old man lay in a bed,
with a nurse keeping vigil beside him. And there was more: two small entities which seemed
to be made of darkness where tugging at the man, as if trying to pull his soul out of his
body - this was Betty's impression. But there was also present a light-being; this was a
type of entity Betty had encountered before in her experiences - it had no visible human
features, but appeared as a bodily form made of white light. This being was also tugging
at the dying man; it was clearly a battle for his soul between these opposing entities. The
Elder resolved the conflict: he threw two tiny balls of light at the black entities, and
they flew away.

Alien Abduction Experience http://tinyurl.com/4nnn3rl

It appears that some experiences of UFO-abductees and mind control victims may be explained
by an advanced virtual reality technology. The late Dr. Karla Turner called these experiences
Virtual Reality Scenarios (VRS) [19, 20]. There are alleged mind control victims who claim
that someone implants pictures in their brain [32]. If someone has been implanted with an
intracerebral device, then the implant operators may be able to implant electronically pictures
and memories into the brain of the abductee. The New World Vistas was a major undertaking for
the USAF Scientific Advisory Board (SAB) [33]. This military publication was published in June
1996 and is a forecast of possible military developments over the next 50 years. In this
publication military scientists suggest that the development of electromagnetic energy sources,
the output of which can be pulsed, shaped, and focused, coupled with the human body in a
fashion that will allow one to prevent voluntary muscular movements, control emotions and
actions, produce sleep, transmit suggestions, interfere with both short-term and long-term
memory, produce an experience set and delete an experience set.

Highest Strangeness - Body Containers http://tinyurl.com/4dv79za

“I got the impression that the aliens do not like to do this
soul transfer (to cloned body containers) very often.”
- Linda Porter, California Abductee 

I put Linda Porter's audiocassette in my tape player and heard the following about an encounter
she had when she was 17-years-old in 1963 in Porterville, California: “I was shown a room with
very tall, clear, tube-like containers or cylinders on a raised platform, which seemed to be at
the center of the room. Inside these tubes - standing upright, naked, and appearing to be
asleep - were humans, or at least they looked human to me. They looked like they were in some
kind of suspended animation.

“I don't think they were dead because their color was too good. They were floating in what
appeared to be a purple gas. It was very thick and hard to see through, but it swirled around
so much that you could see the people as it moved.”

Linda Porter said she was taken by a “grey scientist” to a room where three people were in
tubes. She felt the people were alive, but in a state of suspended animation and that the man
on far right was a younger clone activated by a “soul transfer” from his previous older body
that Linda watched die in a rectangular container. 

Linda Porter: “My sketches relate to the following - I was taken into ‘the room of light’ and
shown a man about forty-six-years-old, who was very close to death. He was lying in a clear,
rectangular container.

I do not remember the mechanics of how this was done, but his soul was then lifted up out of
his dying body! It left the body in the area of the solar plexus (behind stomach organ). It
was about 2.5-feet-long, five inches wide and was a breathtakingly beautiful, soft, iridescent
yellow with a white, glowing inner core that radiated a very gentle heat. There was a pastel
orange layer around the yellow. 

Hologram Universe Reality http://tinyurl.com/6bx6v42

They use their very advanced telepathic abilities and their technology to create manipulated
artificial dreamscapes within a sleeping abductee's mind. They also use astral abduction where
the abductee is placed in virtual reality scenarios. Some of these scenarios are used in
combination with their telepathic abilities and mind control technology to make the abductee
resort to self destructive behaviors such as drug abuse or sexual promiscuity. I guess they can
even turn someone into a serial killer. They also use implants that are designed for the sole
purpose of mind control. They use their telepathic abilities to influence and mind control the
abductee. They also have technology to remotely mind control the abductee. 

They also have chambers in the form of transparent rectangular boxes. The abductee is placed in
the chamber. Then some kind of electronic equipment and machinery are activated. The abductee's
life force is then extracted and transferred into storage containers. They also extract
biological tissues and fluids. 

Quantum Mechanics and Consciousness: A Causal Correspondence Theory http://tinyurl.com/cku3z4

The problem of the relation between mind and body is well known as a difficult `world knot'.
Over the centuries various monistic and dualistic theories have been proposed, and the subject
has had renewed interest as we try to assimilate the implications of quantum physics. These
implications may make us reexamine our views of brains and bodies, but it is still not clear
what consequences they have for our understanding of minds. 

Another proposal by Marshall (1989) is that the mental and bodily realms derive directly from
a quantum realm, as separate appearances of an underlying structure given by quantum mechanics.
Since the unity of mental experience is one of its outstanding features, the proposal is that
consciousness arises from a quantum mechanical structure which shows remarkably unity, namely
Bose-Einstein condensates. This therefore requires not only that the brain amplifies quantum
indeterminism, but also that long-range and long-time correlations of quantum phases are set
up in the brain, by means for example of a structure proposed by Fröhlich.

Both these proposals go some way toward connecting the apparently disparate realms of mind and
brain. From the physics side, both have quantum mechanics holding virtually unchanged. They
furthermore then both require that neuro-physiological processes are in some essential way
`quantum processes'. They require then that the peculiarly quantum features of matter become
much more spatially spread out in the brain than is usually admitted. In the language of physi
cs Marshall requires that non-local correlations (of the kind described by Bell's Inequalities)
are set up between parts of the brain that are very far apart on the atomic scale, and hence
that the brain exhibits some of the characteristics of `quantum computers' as described by
Deutsch (1985). There is a difficulty that this implies much larger quantum effects than have
ever been observed in materials at room temperature. There is evidence of unusual microwave
absorption, but it is not clear whether this really demonstrates quantum correlations as
distinct from sets of coupled classical (non-quantum) oscillations. 

Consciousness and Quantum Mechanics http://tinyurl.com/dt59g

As we explore further into the quantum realm, things only get stranger. With the evaporation of
matter, determinism, and finally separability, our hero Schrödinger began to get a bit worried,
for as he looked further into the unexplored territory, he saw some very odd things, indeed.
What was most disturbing to Schrödinger was the fact that when an atom was not observed it could
be in a potential state and then—just by merely measuring it— we somehow trigger the projection
of the potential to the actual. To illustrate just how odd this situation is, Schrödinger
imagined performing the following experiment with a cat.

Supernatural Fingerprints of the Gods Graham Hancock http://tinyurl.com/662fdtl

As part of his research for Supernatural, Graham Hancock traveled to the Peruvian Amazon to
drink the powerful plant hallucinogen Ayahuasca with indigenous shamans. Such visionary
experiences, Hancock argues, were fundamental to the unprecedented and astonishing evolutionary
leap forward achieved by our species during the past 40,000 years and provided the inspiration
for the earliest art and religious ideas of mankind. It is difficult for those who have not
experienced Ayahuasca, or other related shamanic hallucinogens, to visualise the strange
parallel realities into which these substances bring us. Fortunately, however, a number of
shamans in the Amazon are also gifted artists and have made paintings of their own visions.
Through these paintings it is possible for all of us to get some glimpse of the Ayahuasca
Otherworld – which, mysteriously, is not a different place for each different individual who
drinks Ayahuasca. On the contrary, whether experienced by an Amazonian shaman, or an American
lawyer, or a European businessman, or a Japanese fashion designer, the Ayahuasca realm is
always recognizably the same place, inhabited by the same intelligent beings with the same
mission to teach us important truths about ourselves and the nature of the universe. 

http://tinyurl.com/6zyubrv

I operate on the assumption that our education system, media and indeed our entire society
today combine to give massive support and unquestioned acceptance to the orthodox side of the
argument. Until I and a few of my colleagues like John Anthony West and Robert Bauval began to
speak out there was really no counterbalancing view at all! And even now, although we've managed
to get some people's attention - and some television time - we're still in every sense
outnumbered and outgunned.

So the way I see it it's not my job to be "balanced" or "objective". On the contrary, by
providing a powerful, persuasive single-minded case for the existence of a lost civilisation,
I believe that I am merely restoring a little balance and objectivity to a previously unbalanced
situation. There exists a vast array of academic "experts", on comfortable and secure salaries,
with the resources of full university departments behind them, whose life's work is to churn out
endless refinements and confirmations of the orthodox theory of prehistory. These scholars, and
their many fans and chums in the quality media, do not hesitate to mount Doberman-like attacks
on any who try to argue in favour of a lost civilisation. The Dobermans also systematically
ignore all forms of evidence that cast doubt on the established view (for example the
implications of the astronomical alignments of the Pyramids of Giza) while at the same time
accusing us "alternative historians" of being "pseudo-scientists" who dishonestly "select" only
evidence that supports our case and who ignore or even misrepresent contradictory data.

http://tinyurl.com/6gnr37a

Less than 50,000 years ago mankind had no art, no religion, no sophisticated symbolism, no
innovative thinking. Then, in a dramatic and electrifying change, described by scientists as
'the greatest riddle in human history,' all the skills and qualities that we value most highly
in ourselves appeared already fully formed, as though bestowed on us by hidden powers.

His quest takes him on a journey of adventure and detection from the stunningly beautiful
painted caves of prehistoric France, Spain and Italy to remote rock shelters in the mountains
of South Africa where he finds a treasure trove of extraordinary Stone Age art.

He uncovers clues that lead him to travel to the depths of the Amazon rainforest to drink the
powerful plant hallucinogen Ayahuasca with Indian shamans, whose paintings contain images of
‘supernatural beings’ identical to the animal-human hybrids depicted in prehistoric caves and
rock shelters. And Western laboratory volunteers placed experimentally under the influence of
hallucinogens such as mescaline also report visionary encounters with exactly the same beings.
Scientists at the cutting edge of consciousness research have begun to consider the possibility
that such hallucinations may be real perceptions of other 'dimensions.'

Could the ‘supernaturals’ first depicted in the painted caves and rock shelters be the ancient
teachers of mankind? Could it be that human evolution is not just the ‘blind’, ‘meaningless’
process that Darwin identified, but something else, more purposive and intelligent, that we have
barely even begun to understand? 

http://tinyurl.com/2wjvpr

On 6th July 1960 Lt Colonel Harold Ohlmeyer, a United States Airforce Commander, sent a reply
to a letter from one Professor Charles Hapgood who had requested his opinion on a feature found
on a map of 1513 AD called the Piri Reis Map. Lt Colonel Ohlmeyer's reply was a bombshell. The
map, showing the coastline of the east coast of the Americas and the west coast of Africa, the
Colonel remarked, also seemed to show the coastline of Queen Maud Land in Antarctica free of
ice - a condition it had not been in for some 9000 years!

In fact, it is only in recent times that modern man has been able to map this coastline using
sub-surface surveying techniques that can penetrate the ice sheet that lies on top of it.

Ohlmeyer had no idea how a map existing in the 16th century could have got hold of such knowledge. 

Could the Piri Reis maps be evidence for a previously unknown complex maritime civilisation,
capable of mapping the globe? A global culture, cataclysmically destroyed at the end of the ice
age, remnants of which survived the devastation to pass on their knowledge to the shaken world?

Were the figures of Osiris and Quetzalcoatl survivors of this lost race - passing down not only
advanced geographical knowledge, but a secret astronomical code veiled in myth that pointed to
the devastation in the past, and warned of that which is to come?

From the mysterious sites of Tiahuanaco and Teotihuacan, to the enduring enigmatic Sphinx and
pyramids of Egypt, the grandiose Nazca lines of Peru to the stark primal beauty of the Osireion
at Abydos, this is a journey both around the globe and into the heart of the true prehistoric
origins of man. Part adventure, part detective story, this book will force you to revaluate your
beliefs of the past.

James Penniston on the Joiner report Audio Library
http://tinyurl.com/47c67kg

Scroll down page to:

Joiner Report Guest Jim Penniston – Inception Radio
[1/13/2011 | 44.3MB]

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.

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 [...]]]> 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.

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 [...]]]> 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.

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, [...]]]> 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.

Two Hearty Thumbs Up!

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 [...]]]> 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.

Music by The Margins.

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 [...]]]> 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

Music by Madeline Ava.

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 [...]]]> 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.

http://etcjournal.blogspot.com/2010/12/etc-voices-podcast-014.html

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. [...]]]>  http://crealm.libsyn.com/237-food-terrorism-and-sedition

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.

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 [...]]]> 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

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 [...]]]>

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.

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 [...]]]>

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!!

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 [...]]]> 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.

KMO is the guest on Agroinnovations Podcast episode [...]]]> 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.

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 [...]]]> 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.

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.

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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 [...]]]> 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.”

You can find the Z-Realm Podcast here:

http://zrealmpodcast.blogspot.com/

Click here to go to the episode on Libsyn.

Music by Tim’s [...]]]> 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.

Music by [...]]]> 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.

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 [...]]]> 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.

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? [...]]]> 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?

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

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.

KMO and Gregory Landua conclude their conversation about the permaculture and the upcoming financial permaculture course to be held on the Farm in September 2010. Later, KMO plays music and conversation recorded in the Green Dragon at the Ecovillage Training Center with Sugaree and John Henry.

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 [...]]]> 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

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? [...]]]> 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.

Paul interviews Mario, an ETC “eco-soaker” about his week on the Farm, and KMO talks with Gregory Landua about permaculture and about the philosophical principles that guide the ETC and how they differ from the guiding ethic of the larger Farm community.

You can learn more about the Gaia University Financial Permaculture course here:

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 [...]]]> 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.

This week’s show is all about the annual Farm homecoming event called ‘Ragweed.’ Perspectives from Farmies young and old.

The Albert Bates material was excerpted with permission from the Enlightened Business Podcast:

https://www.blogtalkradio.com/search/albert-bates/

KMO talks with Nathanael Johnson about his investigations into the harsh realities of medicalized birth in the United States. Nate also shares a recording he made of Ina May Gaskin talking about the role of midwifery on the Farm and how she discovered her life’s work as a midwife and a teacher of midwives.

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 [...]]]> 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.

Are there bad plants? There are certainly plants I don’t want growing in my garden or near where I live, but Cliff Davis has heard enough talk about so-called “invasive plants.” He tells KMO why that is, and Albert K. Bates talks about the population surge capacity of the ETC and about the difficulty [...]]]> http://www.archive.org/details/EtcVoicesPodcast007

Are there bad plants? There are certainly plants I don’t want growing in my garden or near where I live, but Cliff Davis has heard enough talk about so-called “invasive plants.” He tells KMO why that is, and Albert K. Bates talks about the population surge capacity of the ETC and about the difficulty of putting volunteer labor to productive use.

Music by Old Soul.

Here is the article from the Statesman and the Wikipedia entry on Kudzu from which I read on the podcast.

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 [...]]]> 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

A new round of permaculture apprentices means a new round of community building. KMO talks with Innkeeper Merry, apprentice Paul G, and guest Martina W about their hopes for creating community.

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 [...]]]> 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

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 [...]]]> 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

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 [...]]]> 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.

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 [...]]]> 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

KMO talks with Site Manager, Jason Deptula who starts out talking about constructed wetlands for waste water reclamation and goes on to introduce the biography and ideas of Viktor Shauberger, the Austrian Water Wizard. KMO reads feedback from listeners about the tension between permaculture and vegetarianism. Albert Bates describes gardening as a literally cosmic [...]]]> http://www.archive.org/details/EtcVoicesPodcast004

KMO talks with Site Manager, Jason Deptula who starts out talking about constructed wetlands for waste water reclamation and goes on to introduce the biography and ideas of Viktor Shauberger, the Austrian Water Wizard. KMO reads feedback from listeners about the tension between permaculture and vegetarianism. Albert Bates describes gardening as a literally cosmic experience. Music by Luke Who.

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 [...]]]> 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.

In this third installment of the ETC Voices Podcast, KMO and permaculture apprentice, Nilsa harvest shiitake mushrooms after two days of torrential rain. Later, Doug Lain of the Diet Soap Podcast joins the conversation to compare contrast high-energy municiple waste water treatment practices with the low-energy alternative of humanure composting.

Music by Luke Who

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 [...]]]> 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.

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 [...]]]> 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

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 [...]]]> 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

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 [...]]]> 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.

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 [...]]]> 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

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 [...]]]> 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.

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 [...]]]> 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

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 [...]]]> 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.

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 [...]]]> 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/

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 [...]]]> 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

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 [...]]]> 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.

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.

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 [...]]]> 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.

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 [...]]]> 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.

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 [...]]]> 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.

https://secure.ckut.ca//cgi-bin/ckut-grid.pl?action=showaudio&show=tuesday,07:00

December 15th, 2009

Photo by Neil Kramer

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 [...]]]> 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

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 [...]]]>

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

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 [...]]]>

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

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 [...]]]>

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

http://www.agroblogger.com/2009/10/08/c-realm-episode-174-follow-up/

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

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 [...]]]> 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

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 [...]]]>

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

Music by Richard Grossman [...]]]> 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

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 [...]]]>

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.

You can hear more of Danny’s music on his MySpace [...]]]> 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.

In my closing rant, I make reference to a [...]]]> 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

The Quiet Coup by Simon Johnson

Music by the Plant

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 [...]]]> 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.

Slocum’s full presentation can be found [...]]]> 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

You can learn more about the path that Tom [...]]]> 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

Thinkism by Kevin Kelly

The Agroinnovations Podcast – Reprap with Adrian Bowyer Part I

The Agroinnovations Podcast – Reprap with Adrian Bowyer Part II

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: [...]]]> 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/

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 [...]]]> “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

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. [...]]]> “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

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 [...]]]> “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!

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 [...]]]> “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!

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 [...]]]> “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.

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 [...]]]> “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

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 [...]]]> “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

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 [...]]]> “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. I love your show and look forward to it every week. It is one of several needed “intelligent conversations” I get each week.

I hope I haven;t offended you with this email or crossed a line. If so, again, I apologize and stress again how talented and excellent your show is. I’m sending this because I actually believe you are going places and your voice will be an important one in years to come. Please if you keep doing what you want to do, I’ll either love it, be ambivalent to it, or sometimes maybe hate it but I’ll always respect it.

-a happy C-Realm listener

The cover art for this episode features an image of Zbigniew Brzezinski.

Here’s a comprehensive list of Michael Tsarion’s interviews:

http://c-realmpodcast.podomatic.com/entry/2008-11-19T10_38_40-08_00

You can find Mike Hagan’s RadiOrbit interview with Michael Tsarion here:

http://www.mikehagan.com/2012/mp3/031306_JOHN_MAJOR_JENKINS.mp3

Michael also contributed an interview to The Chronicles of the Psychonautilus podcast which you can find here:
part 1: http://the-psychonautilus.podomatic.com/entry/2008-06-13T18_39_47-07_00

part 2: http://the-psychonautilus.podomatic.com/entry/2008-06-21T18_25_38-07_00

And you can find MANY hours of Michael Tsarion material on the Red Ice Creations radio program. Here’s a sample:

http://www.redicecreations.com/radio/2007/09sep/RICR-070920.html

As promised, those not wishing to listen to Michael Tsarion can find an hour and a half of new C-Realmesque material here:

http://www.archive.org/details/AyasminaInterviewsKmo

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 [...]]]> “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.

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 [...]]]> “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/

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.

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 [...]]]> “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.

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 [...]]]> “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.

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 [...]]]> “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/

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 [...]]]> “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

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 [...]]]> “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.

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 [...]]]> “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/

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:

The main codex video:

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. [...]]]> “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:

The main codex video:

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

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 [...]]]> “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). The negative aspects of the ‘cult of RA’ that unfortunately developed over time caused RA to leave, while remaining karmically bound to our race.

But the source of this material is less important than the information it contains… In strict interview format RA weaves a cosmology that, at least to me, seems to encapsulate and extend all other explanations of this reality we find ourselves in. It’s an extremely complex and detailed picture, similar to what we see when we look at the natural world, but extended ‘up’ into realms of consciousness we’ve yet to experience.

In a nutshell, the cosmology describes our current reality matrix as loosely divided into space/time and time/space – the illusory world we incarnate into, and our true home which we visit each night in our dreams and return to when we die. Along this axis runs a seven tiered evolutionary progression, with many different types of beings at each level and various degrees of interaction between the levels…

The first level or density consists of the chemical world, while the second contains most plants and animals, and most people are third density beings seeking to evolve into fourth density experience. They are here now because the planetary being itself has been transiting between third and fourth density – a process that takes roughly 75 years, with its midpoint occurring at the winter solstice 2012. Planets going through this transition offer an ideal environment for the beings existing on them to make the same transition.

During fourth density these folks will form into the type of being that RA is – a social memory complex. The seed of this being is what some call the akashic records – the sum total of our knowledge and experience. Eventually this becomes a self aware being in its own right, as we all gain more conscious awareness of it. In its early form it is an extremely compassionate being, since it is aware of all sides of societal conflicts.

According to RA, Jesus and similar entities in other cultures were fourth density beings, incarnate here in third density through a process called wandering. This was at a time when there were very few wanderers around, so they made a pretty big splash! Now about ten percent of the population are beings from other densities, here to offer assistance during the transition as best they can. Few of them are aware of their true origins though, many having gotten caught up in the third density illusion. Still, their vibrational presence here is helpful in shifting the planetary vibration, and more of them wake up every day.

What I find most unique about the material is its take on core morality – good and evil, positivity and negativity. RA defines these different approaches as service to others and service to self, while stressing that both are valid spiritual paths. The cosmology actually has the paths coming back together in seventh density, where the illusionary divide between self and other is no longer apparent. But to graduate from third to fourth density beings most be sufficiently polarized towards one path or the other, which they will then follow through the intervening densities. The negative path is fundamentally harder, so polarization requirements are stiffer – hence the incredible zeal with which some folks on this planet seek to control others!

Sorry this has gotten so crazy long – the material was harder to synopsize than I had imagined. I hope it’s been interesting, or that you stopped reading if it wasn’t. This material came to me soon after it was transcribed, back when I was young and seeking answers with the same sort of earnestness you display. It still provides answers today, though I have a hard time accepting the current ramifications of them! But when I can, all is well in my mind since even the worst possible outcomes for this planet are just different ways for the all that is one to know itself better, which is the ultimate point of the universe. In short, it’s all good…

Peace be with you,
doug

“The biggest problem with communication is the illusion that it has occurred.” – Shaw

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 [...]]]> “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:-

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

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 [...]]]> “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

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 [...]]]> “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.

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, [...]]]> “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.

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 [...]]]> “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.

“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, [...]]]> 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.

One (or perhaps both) of two things seems to be at work here:

Either I am fantasizing about the quality of life value of the free time and sense of community that these people enjoy, and/or people in the two thirds world are fantasizing about the quality of life that I enjoy here in the post-industrial first world. I suspect that both processes are at work here.

I should make it clear that I’ve never been to Africa. My impressions of life in the so-called “third world” were formed by my experiences in South America and Southeast Asia. Also, I’ve never been to Europe, and I understand that Europeans enjoy more of what I find lacking here in the first world: free time and a sense of community. My impression of the life of people living in societies shaped by global corporate capitalism comes from my experience of having lived in the United States, Japan, and Australia. I freely admit that I haven’t seen the worst of life in the two-thirds world or the best that life in the first world has to offer. So yes, I’m probably conjuring up some romantic fantasies here.

On the other hand, my counterpart in the two thirds world may live on a dirt floor, but he likely has access to a television, and that television depicts an image of first world life that we now recognize as a fantasy construction but which he takes to be an accurate depiction of the benefits of hooking in to the global corporate capitalist system. He sees endless commercials for consumer debt, (and really all commercials these days should be seen as enticements to get deeper into debt — even the ubiquitous commercials encouraging you to engage the services o XYZ & associates’ law firm for the purposes of suing somebody — even these can be seen as commercials for consumer debt because a big influx of cash will allow you to live, for a time, like the people on TV seem to live with their personal physicians, new cars, stylish clothing, immaculate, well-appointed houses and manicured lawns, traveling to exotic locations and eating in fine restaurants. The lawsuit settlement money will likely run out before you adjust your expectations and habits to match your actual financial means.

So, the people in the two thirds world see the endless enticements to debt slavery, and they’d love to buy into it. They want to come here and get a piece of the good life. Part of the story endlessly reiterated on TV is the notion that a foreigner who barely speaks the language can join the system as the lowest level, and that one’s personal dynamism, self-discipline, and drive can be translated into a fortune. And really, in some rare instances, that really does happen, but we who live here, in small but growing numbers, are coming around to the idea that this is no way to live, even if the system that makes the occasional Horatio Alger story possible had a long-term future, and we long for some aspects of life in the two thirds world that seem to come without effort, expense, or deliberate intention to many people living in so-called poverty.

Before you get the idea that I’m idealizing Third World poverty, let me make clear that in my experience the people who have the absolute worst of both worlds and the best of neither are the ones living on the margins of Third World cities. I love to visit Iquitos, Peru, but I hate Lima. The first time I visited Lima in 1999 I thought that the city looked as though it had been bombed. Buildings were falling down and people seemed to live in ruble. Children walked into traffic trying to sell pencils or toilet paper or whatever they could lay their hands on to passing motorists, and yet there were sections of Lima that were beautiful, where the streets were clean and replete with carefully tended flower beds, where you could walk by the ocean and purchase frozen yogurt, gourmet ice cream, and designer shoes. That’s something we haven’t seen here YET. Opulence right next to desperate, crushing, dehumanizing deprivation.

It doesn’t really have an ending, and that’s a part of why I decided not to read it on the podcast, but mainly, I think, those paragraphs represent a process of trying out a line of thought. I worked through it, and it may inform something that I put my official stamp of tentative approval on later, but for now I don’t quite buy it. It seems to miss some rather important element.

And on a (perhaps not obviously) related note:

http://www.livescience.com/health/080507-liberal-conservative.html

Also, this podcast interview with Joe Bageant was also fresh in my mind and jockeying for position and representation as I tried to put my thoughts together:

http://www.electricpolitics.com/media/mp3/EP2007.07.20.mp3

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 [...]]]> “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

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.

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, [...]]]> “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.

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 [...]]]> “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/

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 [...]]]> “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/

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 [...]]]> 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

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/

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/

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, [...]]]>

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

http://www.pyramidperu.com

Covert art by David [...]]]>
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/

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 [...]]]>

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.”

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 [...]]]>

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.

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 [...]]]>

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

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 [...]]]>

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.)

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 [...]]]>

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

Here is a list of dietary ‘do’s and ‘don’t's from Ayahuascero Javier Arevelo Shahuano, who will preside over the Temple [...]]]> 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

KMO talks with artist, urban innovator, and film-maker, Michael E. Arth about a project in which he turned a portion of a Florida town known as “Crack Town” into an area the locals now call “the Garden District.” Later the conversation breaks the bonds of linear thought and spirals into the recursive wonderland of [...]]]>

KMO talks with artist, urban innovator, and film-maker, Michael E.
Arth about a project in which he turned a portion of a Florida town
known as “Crack Town” into an area the locals now call “the Garden
District.” Later the conversation breaks the bonds of linear thought
and spirals into the recursive wonderland of the exponential function,
through a technological singularity, and into the ineffable realms beyond.

In our discussion of existential risks, Michael mentioned the Lifeboat Foundation and the Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence, which you can find here:

http://lifeboat.com/ex/main

and here:

http://www.singinst.org/

In talking about the potential role of autonomous cars and virtual (or “augmented”) reality I made reference to the novel Rainbows End by Vernor Vinge. Of course, you can buy it through the C-Realm Amazon store, or you can read it for free on-line.

Before the interview, in answer to a letter from a listener, I made reference to an Alex Jones “interview” with Noam Chomsky. Here is the first of four parts on YouTube:

The cover art for this episode is taken from a 1975 etching by Michael which I’ve tucked behind a

Cover Art by David Hewson – http://www.pyramidperu.com/Art_DavidHewson.htm

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 [...]]]>

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

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 [...]]]>

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

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

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 [...]]]>

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.

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 [...]]]>

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

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.

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 [...]]]>

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

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 [...]]]>

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.

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 [...]]]>

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.