C-Realm Podcast

KMO welcomes Frank Rotering to the podcast to discuss ecological overshoot, the logic and institutions of capitalism, technology, and the expression of human biological drives in the economic realm. Frank Rotering contends that ideas like socialism are “solutions of the past” and that new ways of thinking will be required to adress the historical singularity that we now face.

Music by The Story Of

This is a recording of a live radio interview recorded on Tuesday, 27 October 2009. Ed Yersh, the host of the Tuesday Morning After program on CKUT in Montreal interviewed KMO, host and producer of the C-Realm Podcast.

In this Halloween episode of the podcast, KMO welcomes Erik Davis back to the program to discuss pulp horror author H. P. Lovecraft, who has achieved an astonishing level of posthumous legitimacy and is now recognized as a seminal influence on the development of horror fiction and popular culture. In the second half of the discussion, KMO and Erik use the themes explored in Lovecraft’s work as a jumping off point for a more general discussion of the role of the human faculty of imagination.

Atmospheric music by Dr. Richard Grossman

KMO plays the second half of AyasminA’s interview with Dr. Stephan V. Beyer, author of Singing to the Plants: A Guide to Mestizo Shamanism in the Upper Amazon. Steve details the importance of the auditory aspect of the Ayahuasca experience, and then the conversation turns to the paternalism and condescension of First World defenders of indigenous peoples. Later in the episode, KMO plays a clip from the It’s Not Us It’s You podcast about the totalitarian aesthetic of Wal*Mart’s new generic product packaging.

Music by Zarathustra.

KMO plays the first half of a conversation between AyasminA and Dr. Stephan V. Beyer. Steve is the author of Singing to the Plants: A Guide to Mestizo Shamanism in the Upper Amazon, and in the conversation Steve details his lifelong odyssey into the deep regions of consciousness and spirituality which include fifteen years spent in the upper Amazon with the Mestizo keepers of the Ayahuasca tradition.

Music by Joseph A.

KMO welcomes Frank Aragona and Neil Kramer back to the program to discuss sacred geometry. Neil, immersed in the experiential study of crop circles, describes stepping into one as an encounter with paradox. Other topics include the use of sacred geometry in permaculture design, the suppression of sacred symbols, the extreme polarization of forces by industrial cultures, and the possibility of communicating with non-human intelligence via the language of fractal geometry.

KMO reads from and responds to editorials from Michael Lynch and Charlotte Allen and then plays the conclusion of his recent conversation with James Howard Kunstler which also touches on those two editorials. Other topics include looking for villains, Y2K, and the outrageously elitist notion that some things are better than other things. Jim reminds us that life is tragic and that history does not care if we make bad choices. Stupidity will continue so long as circumstances allow it, and when circumstances change we will adopt new behaviors.

KMO welcomes James Howard Kunstler back to the program to discuss "green shoots" delusions, the diminishing returns of information technology, "favela chic," and the failure of virtual experience to provide a fulfilling substitute for authentic experience in our electronically mediated lives.

Music by Ken Tucker & James Swafford.

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

In this year's 9/11 extravaganza KMO welcomes Doug Lain, author, editor, and fellow podcaster, to the program to help make sense of some 9/11 themed commentary from James Howard Kunstler, John Horgan, Gwynne Dyer, and (indirectly) Douglas Rushkoff. Doug & KMO then continue the conversation in episode 22 of the Diet Soap Podcast. Lorenzo Hagerty of the Psychedelic Salon adds his perspective on attitudes surrounding 9/11 to the C-Realm mix in a prelude to next week's show.

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KMO welcomes Derrick Jensen back to the program to explain why individual lifestyle change cannot substitute for organized political resistance. What's the point of taking shorter showers when industry and agriculture account for 90% of human water usage? Derrick explains why he thinks the Malthusian Correction can't come soon enough and why the physical world must be the independent variable in all of our calculations.

Music by Tonal Oak

KMO and Michael Anissimov of the Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence conclude their conversation on the promise and the dangers of the emergence of AI with an eye to the implications of the military aspects of its development and implementation, and then author Derrick Jensen offers a reality check and a counterbalance to Michael's optimism and exuberance. KMO closes the program with an excerpt from Ascent of Humanity by Charles Eisenstein on the diminishing utility of the technological program.

Music by Oaltitudo

KMO welcomes Michael Anissimov, media director for the Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence and keeper of the Accelerating Future blog to the C-Realm to dispel some wholly-headed notions about robots, artificial intelligence, and the possible consequences of their emergence from the space of possibilities into the world of our visceral experience. Topics include the uncomfortable similarity of Ray Kurzweil's Law of Accelerating Returns to Terence McKenna's Time Wave Zero, the very contingent nature of human morality, and the need to build "friendliness" into our Mind Children to prevent them from morphing into our Vile Offspring.

Music by Yon

KMO turns the interview reins to over Neil Kramer of the Cleaver. Neil took a trip to Wiltshire county in the southwest of England to visit crop circle sites. While in the area he lodged at a B&B on James Sheppard's farm, and a crop circle appeared on the property during Neil's stay there. Neil and James discuss what the crop circle phenomenon means for farmers and how farming practices in recent decades have shaped the English landscape and the myriad life forms that inhabit it.

Music by Aldbourne Band

KMO welcomes Lane Adamson, editor of Robots Beyond, an anthology of unusual robot stories, to the C-Realm Podcast. Using Lane’s robot story patterned after The Grapes of Wrath as a backdrop, they examine the themes of robot religion and robot revolution as well as the role of the robot in popular culture and how the development of artificial intelligence might play out counter to our media-induced expectations.

Music by Indole Ring

War has been a constant in the human experience throughout recorded history. Does that mean that it is inevitable? John Horgan suggests that it is not. Scientific findings indicate that human nature does not compel humans to go to war, but Gwynne Dyer joins John and KMO in the C-Realm to discuss how climate change and efforts to deal with it are likely to lead to armed conflict in the near future.

Music by Nine Inch Nails

KMO welcomes Tony Monchinski, author of Critical Pedagogy and the Everyday Classroom, 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

KMO reads a passage about the feedbacks between the real economy and the speculative economy before playing a conversation with Web of Debt author Ellen H. Brown about the refusal of Citigroup, Wells Fargo, and JPMorgan Chase (which each got $25 billion in bailout money from the taxpayers) and Bank of America (which received $15 billion) to accept IOUs from the state of California to help overcome its budget shortfall. The discussion touches on the performance to date and possible motives of US President Barak Obama.

Music by Tibet2Timbuk2

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

KMO welcomes Albert K. Bates back to the program, and they sit down together for a chat with Richard Heinberg, author of Peak Everything. Albert admits that he's finding it hard to maintain his "soft lander" status in the face of mounting evidence, and Richard talks about the themes in his new book, Blackout: Coal, Climate and the Last Energy Crisis. Later KMO plays a clip of post-interview banter with yoga instructor and musician Danny Paradise.

Music by Glöd.

KMO welcomes cartoonist, author and performer Paul Gude 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.

KMO welcomes Duncan Crary and Chuck Burr to the program to for a wide-ranging discussion that touches on humanism, sustainability, the idea of humans (and all oxygen breathers) as natural born consumers and the allure of apocalypse porn.

Music by Tibet2Timbuk2

KMO welcomes Douglas Rushkoff back to the C-Realm to discuss the effect that corporations have on our lives, where corporations came from, and how they enjoy a playing field tilted in their favor by government regulation which insulates them from competition from more local and human-scaled alternatives. Douglas addresses these topics in his new book, Life, Inc. Later in the program, Douglas talks about how messages from Quetzalcoatl really aren't from Quetzalcoatl once they pass human lips and how the ayahuasca crowd really needs to get over 2012.

Music by Patrick Ross

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.

After finishing up the interview with James Howard Kunstler recorded at the Kunstler Kave, KMO welcomes Duncan Crary, the talent behind the talent on the Kunstlercast, to the C-Realm to talk about podcasting, appropriate technology, the relationship between the old and the new media, finding the sweet spot between opinionated reporting and delusions of objectivity, and creating a niche for "ethical capitalists" in the new economy.

In this second installment of the Kunstler Kave symposium, KMO, JHK and two C-Realm listeners consider the human penchant for identifying patterns, even where none exist, the breakdown of the bicameral mind, and the wages of "success dependent planning." Neal Kramer checks in via the Diet Soap podcast, and KMO wraps up by reading from an essay by SF author David Brin.

Music by East Forrest

KMO ventures into the Kunstler Kave with two C-Realm listeners to engage James Howard Kunstler and Scooter the cat in a conversation on the topic of conspiracy, paranoid thinking, and the undeniable fact that humans at all levels of society do, in fact, collude with one another to advance their own interests and agendas. Other topics include the Obama administration's response to the ongoing financial meltdown, the impossibility of continuing to live on debt, and the maladaptive American penchant for grandiosity that distorts workable responses to challenging times into quixotic fantasies doomed to failure.

KMO welcomes Eric Boyd of X-Prize Cars back to the program to patrol the borders of conceptual space and test the vigilence of the border holders whose extreme ideologies provide comfort to the mainstream. Familiar landmarks include "the tragic comedy of suburban sprawl" and the superlative visions of Singularitarians. Eric also waxes enthusiastic on the Hacker Space phenomenon by which Alpha Geeks "find the others" in meatspace and wrest control of technology from the self-serving agenda of global corporate capitalism.

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.

Music by Float23

In the 150th installment of the C-Realm Podcast, KMO chews over some familiar themes with James Howard Kunstler and reconciles the coincidence of opposites with Frank Aragona, host and creator of the Agroinnovations Podcast.

Music by the Plant

KMO welcomes Joe Bageant, author of Deer Hunting with Jesus: Dispatches from America's Class War, to the program to examine the corporate media-fabricated bubble of hyper-propaganda that Americans perceive as the real world, the "Stockholm syndrome of the soul" by which we identify with the ideologies of our captors and align ourselves against our own interests, and what this snow globe of a society looks like from the outside.

Music by Neon Brown

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

Author and NPR correspondent Doug Fine returns to the C-Realm to explain why sustainability isn't just for hippies in Birkenstocks sitting outside a hut eating steamed dirt. Doug set out to get off petroleum without giving up any of his digital age comforts, and he answers questions from C-Realm listeners about his progress. Later, KMO and AyasminA track the thematic evolution of the C-Realm Podcast.

AyasminA returns to the C-Realm to help KMO plumb the darkness for landmarks along KMO's invisible path. In response to an email from the world's only credentialed "creative urbanist," KMO quotes from Kevin Kelly's blog entry about the fatal flaw in the anti-civilizationists' agenda. At the end of the program KMO enlists the words of Charles Eisenstein to anchor the over-arching theme of the episode.

Music by Adam of the Psychonautilus.

KMO concludes his C-Realm conference call with Charles Eisenstein, author of The Ascent of Humanity: Civilization and the Human Sense of Self. Are exponential advances in technology providing diminishing returns? What new economic system might follow the demise of our currently over-built and tottering ediface? Charles Eisenstein explains what he means when he says that we are facing "a revolution in human beingness."

Music by Tibet2Timbuk2

KMO welcomes author and regular Reality Sandwich contributor Charles Eisenstein to the program to discus the ideas in his book The Ascent of Humanity: The Age of Separation, the Age of Reunion... and the Convergence of Crises that is birthing the transition. In a new twist on the familiar format, two C-Realm listeners join KMO on the line to help put questions to the guest.

Show notes: http://kmo.livejournal.com/401062.html

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.

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.

KMO reads and responds to a thoughtful piece of feedback from a C-Realm listener. The subject matter covers the entire range of C-Realm themes (except zombies).

KMO welcomes Erik Davis back to the program to talk about Gnosticism as the underlying stream of Western esoteric experience as well as its modern manifestation in pop culture. Next AyasminA speaks with Dr. Tom Pinkson about life as a series of initiations and the real-life people and experiences that shaped the literary character of Carlos Castaneda's Don Juan.

Music by Jeff Andrews & the Blessed Unrest

Show notes: http://kmo.livejournal.com/397288.html

KMO welcomes Thomas Homer-Dixon, author of The Upside of Down, back to the program to discus the potential, connectedness, and resilience of adaptive systems like ecosystems and economies. Is restoring the growth trajectory of the global economy a viable means of securing long term prosperity? What impact is technology having on employment, and is full employment a workable or even desirable goal? Later, Tad reads from his forthcoming book, Carbon Shift: How the Twin Crises of Oil Depletion and Climate Change Will Define the Future

Music by Jeff Andrews.

Show notes: http://kmo.livejournal.com/395767.html

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.

Show notes: http://kmo.livejournal.com/394475.html

KMO welcomes Bruce Damer back the program to talk about what the pursuit of artificial life tells us about the possible nature and intentions of God. What limitations does the complexity of the human brain place on God's scope of action? Does God tinker with the universe to achieve a desired outcome, or did God establish the initial conditions and operational parameters of the universe, set it in motion and then let the process play out according to its own internal logic? Bruce Damer examined these issues in the chapter he wrote for the new book Divine Action and Natural Selection: Science, Faith, and Evolution.

Music by Galen Brandt.

show notes: http://kmo.livejournal.com/392791.html

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.

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.

Show notes: http://kmo.livejournal.com/390169.html

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.

Show notes: http://kmo.livejournal.com/389575.html

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.

Show notes: http://kmo.livejournal.com/388108.html

KMO welcomes Robert Tindall to the program 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.

Show notes: http://kmo.livejournal.com/387024.html

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.

Show notes: http://kmo.livejournal.com/386129.html

M. King Hubbert's peak is a perfect mathematical abstraction, and gliding over the top at speed might leave one with a giddy feeling of momentary weightlessness, but according to Albert K. Bates, the reality described by the mathematical object is more of a rocky mountaintop than a glassy smooth parabola, and moving over it's jagged topology won't (doesn't) feel much like gliding.

Show notes: http://kmo.livejournal.com/384640.html

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 for 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

Show notes: http://kmo.livejournal.com/383481.html

KMO welcomes Michael Tsarion back to the program to talk about the psychology of tyranny, crafting adaptive responses to media-induced insults and injuries to consciousness, and transitioning to the authentic life. Are there evil forces in the world committed to perpetuating human enslavement? Yes, there are, but according to Michael Tsarion, that doesn't get you off the hook. If you sell your soul to the devil, you can't blame him for buying it.

Show notes: http://kmo.livejournal.com/382052.html

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.

Show notes: http://kmo.livejournal.com/381415.html

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. Then Michael Tsarion provides his perspective on the mechanisms of political power and the significance of the Obama electoral victory.

Show notes: http://kmo.livejournal.com/379752.html

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.

Show notes: http://kmo.livejournal.com/378511.html

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.

Show notes: http://kmo.livejournal.com/377663.html

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 the podcasting life.

Show notes: http://kmo.livejournal.com/377446.html

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?

Show notes: http://kmo.livejournal.com/376970.html

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.

Show notes: http://kmo.livejournal.com/376071.html

KMO welcomes Daniel Pinchbeck and Dmitry Orlov to the program to discuss their visions of the challenges and opportunities that present 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.

Show notes: http://kmo.livejournal.com/375721.html

KMO welcomes Web of Debt author Ellen Brown back to the program to discuss the role that trade in derivatives has played in bringing about the current "crisis" in the financial markets and what the US government could do to really address the problem to which they now are seeking a SEVEN HUNDRED BILLION DOLLAR tax-payer-supplied remedy. In the second half of the program, KMO offers one listener the opportunity to present his synthesis of the seemingly disparate recurring themes covered on the C-Realm Podcast.

Show notes: http://kmo.livejournal.com/374384.html

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?

Show notes: http://kmo.livejournal.com/371074.html

KMO welcomes Richard Grove of 8th Estate Public Media and Research to talk about the events of September 11th, 2001. Richard spells out links between seemingly unrelated events and the relationships between figures who enjoy unimpeachable respectability in the public consciousness and those who stand as iconic examples of evil and the corruptibility of the human spirit. Other voices in this week's episode include Mike Hagan of Radio Orbit in conversation with Paul Laffoley as well as Open Source Intelligence advocate Robert David Steele.

Show notes: http://kmo.livejournal.com/369110.html

KMO continues the discussion of crop circles with Neil Kramer of the Cleaver. Neil provides a detailed account of how a series of crop circles which appeared in the summer of 2005 seem to have predicted the dramatic and unexpected behavior of comet 17p Holmes two years later.

Show notes: http://kmo.livejournal.com/368035.html

KMO welcomes Neil Kramer back to the program to talk about aliens, crop circles, Terence McKenna, and alternative ways to connect the dots.

Show notes: http://kmo.livejournal.com/367035.html

KMO talks with Dennis R. Wier, author of The Way of Trance, about how trance states can disable short term memory and impair cognitive function, individual autonomy and judgment. Other topics covered include meditation addiction, trance abuse, and the tendency of so many people to stay in trance all day every day to dull the pain of their existence.

Show notes: http://kmo.livejournal.com/366434.html

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.

Show notes: http://kmo.livejournal.com/365252.html

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.

Show notes: http://kmo.livejournal.com/363811.html

Dennis McKenna speaking at the 4th Annual International Amazonian Shamanism Conference in Iquitos, Peru.

A bare bones podcast from the Peruvian Amazon featuring a conversation between KMO & Jim Clark.

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.

Show notes: http://kmo.livejournal.com/361055.html

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.

Show notes: http://kmo.livejournal.com/359719.html

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.

Show notes: http://kmo.livejournal.com/358885.html

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."

Show notes: http://kmo.livejournal.com/358068.html

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.

Show Notes: http://kmo.livejournal.com/357340.html

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.

Show notes: http://kmo.livejournal.com/356926.html

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.

Show notes: http://kmo.livejournal.com/355737.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.

Show notes: http://kmo.livejournal.com/355022.html

KMO talks with Zipcode Man, David Rosdeitcher about the experiences that gave rise to his new book. Later, some Neil Kramer material returns from the cutting room floor.

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.

Show notes: http://kmo.livejournal.com/354122.html

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.

Show notes: http://kmo.livejournal.com/353472.html

Covert art by David "Slocum" Hewson: http://www.davidhewsonart.com/

In this 100th episode of the C-Realm Podcast, KMO welcomes SF author Charles Stross to the program to discuss the convergence of massively multi-player online games, live action role-playing games, and the emerging infrastructure of the surveillance society. After that he considers listener feedback on the topic of whether human intelligence is somehow privileged or more important than that of other forms of life.

Show notes: http://kmo.livejournal.com/353095.html

KMO gets an ayahuasca retreat update from Matt W. of the Temple of the Way of Light. After that Dennis McKenna manifests in the C-Realm to solve the riddle of consciousness and shine the light of his awareness on such topics as environmental degradation, the evolution of machine intelligence, and, of course, Amazonian ayahuasca shamanism.

Show notes: http://kmo.livejournal.com/352051.html

First, Dmitry Orlov, author of Reinventing Collapse, 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.

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.

Show notes: http://kmo.livejournal.com/351522.html

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.

Show notes: http://kmo.livejournal.com/351387.html

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 ayahusca tourism versus the effects of trans-national petroleum, mining and timber corporations on the people and the ecology of the Amazon.

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?

Show notes: http://kmo.livejournal.com/349780.html

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.

Show notes: http://kmo.livejournal.com/348815.html

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 realms beyond.

Show notes: http://kmo.livejournal.com/348314.html

In this special Friday episode, KMO welcomes Alan Shoemaker back to the program to talk about the upcoming International Amazonian Shamanism conference in Iquitos, Peru and revisit some of the topics that KMO covered in episode 89 with AyasminA.

Show notes: http://kmo.livejournal.com/347418.html

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.

Show notes: http://kmo.livejournal.com/346872.html

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.

Show notes: http://kmo.livejournal.com/345551.html

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.

Show notes: http://kmo.livejournal.com/344951.html

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.

Show notes: http://kmo.livejournal.com/344951.html

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.

Show notes: http://kmo.livejournal.com/343678.html

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.

Show notes: http://kmo.livejournal.com/343449.html

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.

Show notes: http://kmo.livejournal.com/343223.html

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?

Show notes: http://kmo.livejournal.com/342818.html

KMO welcomes Doug Fine, NPR correspondent and author of Farewell My Subaru 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.

Show notes: http://kmo.livejournal.com/341748.html

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.

Show notes: http://kmo.livejournal.com/340494.html

As the start of the fourth and final season of Battlestar Galactica draws near, KMO uses BSG to dig into questions of the continuity of individual identity over time with philosophy professor Amy Kind. Professor Kind contributed a chapter to the new book, Battlestar Galactica and Philosophy. In the second half of the program, we hear from Techgnosis author, Erik Davis. Erik details the need to employ tactical skepticism in negotiating the Mundus Imaginalis and dealing with its inhabitants.

Show notes: http://kmo.livejournal.com/339506.html

KMO responds to a query concerning the best place in the US to ride out the Malthusian Correction and later enlists the aid of former guests of the program to answer a listener's question about whether entheogens really do produce spiritual experiences or "higher" states of consciousness.

http://kmo.livejournal.com/338644.html

Dmitry Orlov and Albert K. Bates explore visions of a
post-collapse America, and later KMO talks food, consciousness, and
the forces of darkness with Neil Kramer of the Cleaver.

Show notes: http://kmo.livejournal.com/337437.html

A lecture by the late Terence McKenna recorded at the Open Center in NYC in April of 1994.

A lecture by the late Terence McKenna recorded at the Open Center in NYC in April of 1994.

KMO and guest David Blume spell out the difference between ethanol as a huge corporate/government boondoggle and ethanol as a strategy for re-localization and bio-remediation. After that KMO visits with organic farmer Patrice Gros and two of his energized and idealistic interns.

Show notes: http://kmo.livejournal.com/335681.html

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In this installment, KMO speaks with Colin Tudge and David Blume about the possible applications of high technology, genetic engineering, robotics and artificial intelligence in farming.

Show notes: http://kmo.livejournal.com/335289.html

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In this episode KMO talks with Gyrus about this crunch time in human history. Later we hear from author Colin Tudge on how to feed a global population of 9 billion and feed them well for the long haul.

Show notes: http://kmo.livejournal.com/335090.html

In this episode, KMO discusses the temptations of power on the shamanic path with Matthew J. Pallamary, author of Spirit Matters: A Memoir and techniques for reconstructing the prehistoric human mind with Gyrus, author of Archaeologies of Consciousness: Essays in Experimental Prehistory.

Show notes: http://kmo.livejournal.com/333619.html

In this episode KMO concludes his conversation with Dr. Kathy McMahon
of PeakOilBlues.com about common reactions to learning about the
implications of Peak Oil including the pathological faux-optimism she
calls "Panglossian disorder." KMO wraps up with a look at the
Singularitarian faith as reflected in Collapse: How Societies Choose
to Fail or Succeed, by Jared Diamond.

Show notes: http://kmo.livejournal.com/333566.html

In this episode KMO concludes his conversation with Dr. Kathy McMahon
of PeakOilBlues.com about common reactions to learning about the
implications of Peak Oil including the pathological faux-optimism she
calls "Panglossian disorder." KMO wraps up with a look at the
Singularitarian faith as reflected in Collapse: How Societies Choose
to Fail or Succeed, by Jared Diamond.

Show notes: http://kmo.livejournal.com/333566.html

In this episode, KMO concludes his conversation with James H. Kunstler, author of the Long Emergency: Surviving the Converging Catastrophes of the 21st Century. Later, we hear from Kathy McMahon, founder of PeakOilBlues.com about the range of psychological reactions which commonly manifest themselves in people who come to appreciate the implications of peak oil.

Show notes: http://kmo.livejournal.com/331946.html

KMO welcomes author Dmitry Orlov back to the program for a discussion of keeping people fed in times of turmoil and for a reading from Orlov’s soon-to-be-published book, Reinventing Collapse: The Soviet Example and American Prospects. After that, James H. Kunstler, author of The Long Emergency: Surviving the Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-First Century, drops by to talk about the fate of surburbia in the post-petroleum era.

Show notes: http://kmo.livejournal.com/331057.html

In this episode, KMO welcomes Neil Kramer, keeper of a blog called
the Cleaver, to the C-Realm to discuss the synchronicities,
entheogens, the Matrix, and the limited utility of pursuing
"conspiracy" research.

Show notes: http://kmo.livejournal.com/329678.html

KMO concludes his talk with futurist George Dvorsky about the wisdom of human enhancement, and then wraps up the year with a look at the real world Amish and the lure of Collapse Fetishism.

Show notes: http://kmo.livejournal.com/328667.html

In this 69th installment of the C-Realm Podcast, KMO speaks with
author Bill McKibben and futurist George Dvorsky about the ethical
implicatons of the Transhumanist agenda and what it means to remain
human in an engineered age.

Show notes: http://kmo.livejournal.com/326444.html

In this 68th episode of the C-Realm Podcast, we continue the
conversation with Lorenzo of the Psychedelic Salon about the
opportunities for community building and a rapid change in human
consciousness that arise in moments of crisis, then KMO talks with
Bill McKibben, author of Deep Economy: The Wealth of Communities and
the Durable Future about the advantages of establishing more resilient
and self-sufficient local economies.

Show notes: http://kmo.livejournal.com/325909.html

In this installment of the C-Realm Podcast, KMO speaks with Nate
Hagens of theOilDrum.com about the various fantasies for replacing
fossil fuels with bio-fuels, synthetic fuels, or anything else that
will supposedly take up the slack when global oil production peaks and
keep our first world of happy motorists shuttling great distances
everyday in their shiny metal boxes. Later KMO speaks with Yasmeen
Grant about the new CBC radio documentary, "In Search of the Divine
Vegetal," and finally we hear from fellow podcaster, Lorenzo, about
how sudden disruptions to business as usual can effect an
instantaneous change in consciousness that evaporates the ethnic,
economic, and ideological barriers that divide our communities.

show notes: http://kmo.livejournal.com/325265.html

In this week's episode of the C-Realm Podcast, KMO concludes his conversation with RadiOrbit's Mike Hagan and author Martin Ball about the big change on the horizon and on the ways in which the spirit works with, around, and in spite of our rationalistic belief systems to effect the necessary transformation.

Show notes: http://kmo.livejournal.com/324599.html

In this 65th installment, KMO welcomes Mike Hagan of RadiOrbit back to the program to discuss the changing media landscape and the acceleration of consciousness evolution that the evolution of media reflects. Later, Dr. Martin Ball joins the conversation to talk about his work studying with Mescalero Apache medicine people in New Mexico, music, visionary plants, and the Big Change.

Show notes: http://kmo.livejournal.com/323016.html

In this episode, KMO concludes his talk with meditation instructor Heidi Smith of the Center for Soulful Living and then rounds out the discussion of the relative merits of drug-free meditation vs. entheogen-assisted explorations of consciousness with Jan Irvin of Gnostic Media and Daniel Siebert of the The Salvia divinorum Research and Information Center.

Show notes: http://kmo.livejournal.com/322545.html

KMO and meditation instructor, Heidi Smith of the Center for Soulful Living pick up the conversation started on Psychonautica examining the friction between proponents of pharmacologically assisted spirituality and zero-tolerance advocates of drug-free meditation. Peak-oil oriented feedback, clips from the Psychedelic Salon and admissions of chronic absent-mindedness.

Show notes: http://kmo.livejournal.com/321517.html

In this episode, KMO talks with Chris Clugston of WakeUpAmerika.com about the coming adjustment in our material standard of living. KMO then acknowledges the possibility that business as usual for another 20 or 30 years might still be possible, if less than desirable.

Show notes: http://kmo.livejournal.com/320788.html

In this 61st episode, KMO plays a recording of Marlene Dobkin De Rios on why she condemns the practice of ayahuasca tourism. Before that, KMO plays a conversation that he recorded back in July in the Iquitos home of Alan Shoemaker with Melitta Tchaicovsky & Pepe Ozan of ArtNetwork Productions.

Show notes: http://kmo.livejournal.com/320545.html

In this episode we hear the conclusion of KMO's talk with Brian Trent with extra emphasis on the psychological appeal and the sociological implications of movies about the living dead. KMO also examines atheism, psychedelic shamanism, burning man, and the neo-zombie flick, 28 Weeks Later. Special guest appearance by C-Realm Listener Hanrahan. Show Notes: http://kmo.livejournal.com/319892.html

In this episode, KMO talks with novelist Brian Trent about
ideologically reflexive behavior that the echo chamber corporate media
has instilled in us. Later, KMO revisits the clashing belief systems
of 2012 prophets Whitley Strieber and Daniel Pinchbeck.

It's the First Anniversary non-special. In this episode, KMO welcomes Wendy Luckey and Philip Horvath back to the program to talk about 2012, giving up our meat bodies, the technological singularity, and the nature of catastrophe. KMO reads lots of emails from C-Realm listeners who chipped in to save Ungo, KMO's dog.

Extended show notes: http://kmo.livejournal.com/317608.html

In this special installment of the C-Realm Podcast, KMO explores the bonds between humans and animals with Professor Marc Bekoff.

KMO interviews Chip "Carlos" Tanner, a gringo apprenticing under a Peruvian curandero and explores the spirit realm with Wendy Luckey, with whom he participated in a San Pedro ceremony in Iquitos in July of 2007. Ever wondered why KMO bleeps out the profanity? KMO explains all and provides audio glimpses into two very different ayahuasca ceremonies.

Extended show notes: http://kmo.livejournal.com/316344.html

In this episode, KMO reads more listener email than regular listeners would probably expect to hear. He then takes a short quote from Vernor Vinge and spins it out for half the show talking with Professor Cornelia Butler Flora about the difference between "standard of living" and "quality of life."

Extended show notes: http://kmo.livejournal.com/315538.html

KMO reads Yin and Yang accounts of the 2007 Burning Man event. Author Carol Ekarius talks about toxic body burden, and author Vincent Casspriano Jr. unpacks Albert Bartlett's lecture on population.

Extended show notes: http://kmo.livejournal.com/314586.html

In this episode KMO concludes his talk with Professor Albert Bartlett on population, growth, energy and agriculture. After that, we hear from author Carol Ekarius about the many joys and advantages of keeping backyard chickens. Finally, KMO provides a short primer on memetics and closes with a teaser segment of next week's guest, Vincent Casspriano Jr.

Extended show notes: http://kmo.livejournal.com/312906.html

In this installment of the C-Realm Podcast, KMO welcomes Professor Albert Bartlett back to the program to do an advanced seminar on his basic lecture on population, energy and the exponential function. After that we hear from Mike Hagan, host of RadiOrbit.

Extended show notes: http://kmo.livejournal.com/312028.html

In this 52nd episode, KMO speaks with film-maker Michelle Espinosa about her adventures in Peru and Ecuador. Later we hear from visionary artist A. Andrew Gonzalez about his use of entheogens as tools in the creative process.

Extended show notes: http://kmo.livejournal.com/310420.html

In this 51st episode, KMO speaks with Dr. Richard Grossman, Yasmeen Grant, and C-Realm listener, Earthmansurfer about their experiences surrounding the 3rd Annual International Amazonian Shamanism Conference held in July of 2007 in Iquitos, Peru.

Extended Show Notes: http://kmo.livejournal.com/309030.html

This "best of" show draws from the most memorable interviews of the first 49 episodes of the C-Realm Podcast. Featured guests include: Douglas Rushkoff, Jeremy Narby, Catherine Austin Fitts, Dmitry Orlov, and Thomas Homer Dixon.

Start here for an excellent introduction to the major (non-psychedelic) themes of the show.

In this episode, KMO concludes his discussions with Digital Crusader,
Eric Boyd, and Center for Conscious Creativity founder, Philip
Horvath.

Extended show notes: http://kmo.livejournal.com/304926.html

 

In this episode, KMO welcomes Digital Crusader, Eric Boyd, back to the
program to talk about Transhumanist perspectives on the environment
and sustainable living. Later we hear from Philip Horváth of the
Center for Conscious Creativity, and finally KMO talks with BrainPaint
creator, Bill Scott, about the potential of EEG biofeedback technology
for ADD therapy, meditation, and self-improvement.

Extended show notes: http://kmo.livejournal.com/303016.html

Back from the shamanism conference in Iquitos, KMO relects on his
experiences with C-Realm listener, Pio, who journeyed with him, and
gives a rundown of the other podcasts that feature prominently in his
consciousness at the moment.

Extended show notes: http://kmo.livejournal.com/302456.html

Episode 47: Laughter in the Jungle

Podcasting from the 3rd Annual International Amazonian Shamanism Conference in Iquitos, Peru, KMO interviews Gringo Ayahuasquero, Ronald Joe Wheelock and enjoys Wachuma and laughter with Wendy Luckey and a group of truly exceptional human beings.

In this Independence Day edition of the C-Realm Podcast, KMO talks with Brian Czech of the Center for the Advancement of a Steady State Economy (C.A.S.S.E.) about the tension between our finite material resources and the expectation of never-ending growth. Later KMO reads from an essay by Stanley Krippner, "Consciousness and the Mythologies of Society," in which he holds the central driving myth of the so-called First World up to the light of consciousness. How long can we afford to plot our course by the Grand Narrative of Progress?

Extended show notes: http://kmo.livejournal.com/299734.html

Letcher vs. Irvin. We hear the conclusion of KMO's conversation with
Jan Irvin and contrasts Jan's presentation with passages from Shroom:
A Cultural History of Magic Mushrooms by Andy Letcher. Who won? This
is only the first round. We also hear about funny from Some Guy Named
Paul.

Extended show notes: http://kmo.livejournal.com/299241.html

In this episode, KMO gets together with Viking Brian to talk about sensory deprivation tanks and to interview Jan Irvin of Gnostic Media. Loads of listener email and a return of the long silent soap-box theme.

Extended show notes: http://kmo.livejournal.com/298939.html

This episode consists mainly of a presentation given by Frank Echenhofer at the 2nd Annual International Amazonian Shamanism Conference in Iquitos, Peru. KMO also reads from the artists statement of visionary artist, A. Andrew Gonzalez, the sponsor of this week's episode.

Extended Show Notes: http://kmo.livejournal.com/298656.html

This episode centers on the topic of global population. KMO reads some 5 year old gems from sciforums and speaks with author Sharon Astyk, author of “Enough with the freakin' bathroom metaphor Already!”

Extended show notes: http://kmo.livejournal.com/297936.html

A presentation given by Peruvian Curendera, Norma Aguila Panduro Navarro at the 2006 International Shamanism Conference in Iquitos, Peru.

Extended show notes: http://kmo.livejournal.com/297564.html

In this 40th installment of the C-Realm Podcast, KMO talks across months and continents with Lorenzo of the Psychedelic Salon, Max Freakout of Psychonautica, and Viking Brian of the Viking Youth Power Hour.

Blog entry: http://kmo.livejournal.com/296994.html

In this 39th installment of the C-Realm Podcast, we get a nuts&bolts
explanation of the neurophysiology of the psychedelic experience from
Dennis McKenna as presented at the first International Amazonian
Shamanism conference in Iquitos, Peru in 2005.

Download Part 2 here:
http://www.archive.org/details/Episode39Part2TheThreePoundUniverse

In this episode, KMO talks about psychoactive sacraments and the law with Jacob Sullum, author of the Reason Magazine article, "Spiritual Highs and Legal Blows: The power and peril of religious exemptions from drug prohibition."

Extended Show notes: http://kmo.livejournal.com/296160.html

KMO talks with Alan Shoemaker about the practicalities of lodging at the Soga del Alma site, and then we hear Peter Gorman's presentation entitled "Flailing in the Dark" about his experiences in the Peruvian Amazon with ayahuasca and other plant teachers.

Extended Show Notes: http://kmo.livejournal.com/295451.html

KMO talks with Thomas Homer-Dixon, author of The Upside of Down: Catastrophe, Creativity, and the Renewal of Civilization about the fragility of our vast centralized systems, the need for resiliency & diversity, and the possibilities for renewal and reinvention which only present themselves in historical moments of disintegration and collapse.

Extended show notes: http://kmo.livejournal.com/295353.html

In this episode I play the talk by Dennis McKenna that opened the first Amazonian Shamanism Conference back in 2005. It's called "Ayahuasca and Human Destiny" and is followed by a Q&A session.

Extended show notes: http://kmo.livejournal.com/294886.html

In this episode, we finish up the conversation with NLP instructor and "motivational mind-reader" Rex Sikes, and then KMO talks environmentalism and transhumanism with Digital Crusader, Eric Boyd.

Extended show notes: http://kmo.livejournal.com/294159.html

In this week's instalment, KMO talk agriculture and epistemology with Rex Sikes, the world's first motivational mind reader. After a sneak preview of this week's episode of Psychonautica, we conclude with a teaser interview with Prof. Albert Bartlett about the likelihood of a "Malthusian Correction" in the not-so-distant future.

Extended show notes: http://kmo.livejournal.com/293698.html

In this episode we conclude the conversation with Stephen Gaskin. We also hear from Cliff Davis, the head gardener and site coordinator for the Ecovillage Training Center on the Farm, about the basic principles of permaculture. Alan Shoemaker makes a return visit to explain exactly how to get to Iquitos for the Amazonian Shamanism conference.

Extended show notes: http://kmo.livejournal.com/292719.html

In this 31st episode of the C-Realm Podcast, KMO visits the Farm in
Summertown, Tennesse and talks to Hippy Lawyer, Alan Graf and Farm
founder, Stephen Gaskin.

Extended show notes: http://kmo.livejournal.com/291502.html

In this 30th installment of the web's favorite shamanic singularitarian podcast, KMO gets a post Dopestock eye-witness account from Black Beauty, concludes his conversation with author Albert K. Bates, and talks at length with Alan Shoemaker, in Iquitos, Peru about ayahuasca, hard-headed materialist skeptics, and the upcoming 3rd annual shamanism conference in Iquitos.

Extended show notes: http://kmo.livejournal.com/290045.html

Interviews with authors Douglas Rushkoff and Albert K. Bates.

Extended show notes: http://kmo.livejournal.com/287562.html

We start off with some listener submitted content, and then KMO talks
with Novamente founder Ben Goertzel about kinds of minds;
straight-laced and psychedelic, evolved organic and autogenous
"artificial" agents. The Dopefiend makes an appearance to dream big
about the future of podcasting, and we end with a teaser for next
week's interview with Albert Bates.

Extended Show notes: http://kmo.livejournal.com/286273.html

In this 27th episode of the podcast, KMO borrows material from J.
Hughes of Changsurfer Radio and picks the brain of ethnobotonist Nat
Bletter of the Botanical Garden of NYC. Topics include, ethnobotony,
quantum physics, shamanism, lucid dreaming, and NLP.

Extended show notes: http://kmo.livejournal.com/285018.html

In this 26th episode of the C-Realm Podcast, host KMO actually reads some listener email. Later he talks with author Jeremy Narby about entheogens, the mysterious teaching “voice” of the Other, and the pervasiveness of intelligence in the non-human world.

Extended show notes: http://kmo.livejournal.com/283965.html

In this 25th episode of the C-Realm Podcast, KMO talks with Jeremy
Narby, author of The Cosmic Serpent: DNA and the Origins of Knowledge.
We also sample from the Psychedelic Salon and talk to Lorenzo about
interfacing with hard core rationalists. We also touch on the matter
of podcasting without an Internet connection.

Extended show notes: http://kmo.livejournal.com/282121.html

In this 24th episode, KMO talks with two people whose path with heart
lead them to Maddison County, Arkansas. After that we re-visit the
Technological Singularity with Ran Prieur.

Extended show notes: http://kmo.livejournal.com/280992.html

In this episode KMO scrambles to put a show together after discovering that the he'd deleted the recorded conversation with Suzzette Hadin Elgin that he'd planned to use as the centerpeice of this episode. Brian of the Viking Youth steps in to save the day.

Extended show notes: http://kmo.livejournal.com/278815.html

In this 23rd episode, KMO questions former Lafayette, Colorado back-up associate judge, Leonard Frieling about his decision to resign his post rather than participate in a policy that would have drastically increased the penalties for minor marijuana possession or paraphernalia charges. After that we "conclude" the conversation with Margaret Wortheim about our changing conceptions of space and knowledge.

Extended show notes: http://kmo.livejournal.com/277743.html

In this 21st episode, we conclude the talk with Dmitry Orlov which includes a rough detour through singularitarian meme-space. After that we hear from Australian science writer Margaret Wertheim and talk about our evolving notions of space.

Detail show notes: http://kmo.livejournal.com/276880.html

In this 20th episode I speak with Gary Baddeley of the Disinformation Company about moving memes from the lunatic fringe into the mainstream. Then I chat with Dmitry Orlov about the end of the world as we know it, and I feel fine.

Extended show notes: http://kmo.livejournal.com/275279.html

In this episode I talk with Catherine Austin Fitts about the central banking/warfare/criminal syndicate form of government and how to purge the tapeworm from our collective system.

Extended show notes: http://kmo.livejournal.com/274664.html

In this Down Under episode I talk with the Dopefiend and Llamabox about a range of subjects. The show opens with an excerpt from the Greg Egan short story, "The Infinite Assassin." Special thanks to Black Beauty for the interstitial ID spots.

Extended show notes: http://kmo.livejournal.com/274018.html