C-Realm Podcast

117: Aliens are 'Real'

KMO — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 19:56:19 GMT

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

116: Know Your Trances

KMO — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 21:22:01 GMT

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

115: Good to Know

KMO — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 01:14:42 GMT

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

114: Community - Local, Distributed & Transient

KMO — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 22:57:35 GMT

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

113: Appropriate Faith

KMO — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 04:46:13 GMT

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

112: Incantations & Intimations

KMO — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 05:15:47 GMT

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

111: Stop Digging

KMO — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 02:00:00 GMT

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

110: A Crash Course in Burning Bridges

KMO — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 03:30:42 GMT

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

109: Women Are Medicine

KMO — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 02:47:44 GMT

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

108: Methane Burps & Tele Everything

KMO — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 13:17:39 GMT

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

107: Truth & Fear

KMO — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 14:58:44 GMT

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

106: A Sense of Proportion

KMO — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 23:07:04 GMT

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

105: Caught in the Web

KMO — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 21:42:50 GMT

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

104: C of Hype

KMO — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:35:31 GMT

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

103: Learning from Flawed Teachers

KMO — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 05:43:46 GMT

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.

102: A Vocabulary of Control

KMO — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 23:48:41 GMT

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

Episode 101: Pyramid Consciousness

KMO — Sat, 31 May 2008 01:09:37 GMT

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/

Episode 100: Interfacing with the Panopticon

KMO — Thu, 29 May 2008 02:42:44 GMT

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

Episode 99: Slapping the Monkeys Upside the Head

KMO — Fri, 23 May 2008 23:28:13 GMT

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

Episode 98: Beyond Civilized & Primitive

KMO — Wed, 21 May 2008 15:02:07 GMT

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.

Episode 97: Molecules and Messengers

KMO — Sat, 17 May 2008 01:04:07 GMT

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

Episode 96: Kollapsnik & the Ripping Yarn

KMO — Wed, 14 May 2008 20:50:32 GMT

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

Episode 95: The Art and the Outrage

KMO — Sat, 10 May 2008 00:19:08 GMT

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.

C-Realm Podcast 94: Xen & the Art of Perfecting Humanity

KMO — Thu, 08 May 2008 00:40:05 GMT

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

Episode 93: Diet and Preparation

KMO — Sat, 03 May 2008 01:50:59 GMT

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

Episode 92: Crack Town to Cosmic Internet

KMO — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 23:51:13 GMT

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

Episode 91: From Apprehension to Respect

KMO — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 23:56:18 GMT

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

Episode 90: Kiss of C

KMO — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 03:07:12 GMT

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

Episode 89: Ayahuasca, Alcohol, & Marijuana

KMO — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 22:52:37 GMT

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

Episode 88: Making a Living

KMO — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 15:04:51 GMT

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

Episode 88: Making a Living

KMO — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 15:04:34 GMT

Episode 87: The Way of Light

KMO — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 19:37:11 GMT

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

Episode 86: Moments of Contingency

KMO — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 03:10:59 GMT

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

Episode 85: Belief & Experience

KMO — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 02:11:40 GMT

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

Episode 84: No More Addiction

KMO — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 22:47:32 GMT

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

Episode 83: Goats & ROATs

KMO — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 04:14:10 GMT

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

Episode 82: American Bardo

KMO — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 21:37:45 GMT

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

Episode 81: Imaginal Identity

KMO — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 03:20:46 GMT

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

Episode 80: Higher States of Collapse

KMO — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 04:14:03 GMT

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

Episode 79: The Red Queen

KMO — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 00:21:45 GMT

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

Terence McKenna Special

KMO — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 18:41:25 GMT

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

Terence McKenna Special

KMO — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 18:31:40 GMT

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

Episode 78: Fuel vs Food: NOT!

KMO — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 02:55:14 GMT

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 http://www.permaculture.com

Episode 77: AI (Agricultural Intelligence)

KMO — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 21:42:37 GMT

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 http://www.permaculture.com

Episode 76: Feeding People

KMO — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 22:44:28 GMT

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

Episode 75: Archaeologies of Spirit

KMO — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 02:09:07 GMT

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

Episode 74: Big Hat No Cattle

KMO — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 00:39:26 GMT

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

Episode 74: Big Hat No Cattle

KMO — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 00:39:24 GMT

Episode 73: Cui Bono

KMO — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 00:45:54 GMT

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

Episode 72: The Long Emergency

KMO — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 22:54:16 GMT

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

Episode 71: Synchronicity Central

KMO — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 21:03:13 GMT

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

Episode 70: Who's "We?"

KMO — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 04:54:32 GMT

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

Episode 69: The L Word

KMO — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 20:16:58 GMT

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

Episode 68: Durable Communities

KMO — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 01:42:32 GMT

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

Episode 67: The Shift

KMO — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 22:27:23 GMT

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

Episode 66: Cultivating Spiritual C

KMO — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 21:28:56 GMT

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

Episode 65: Shaman's Orbit

KMO — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 20:20:38 GMT

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

Episode 64: Attention and Devotion

KMO — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 01:52:11 GMT

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

Episode 63: Pretty Amazing!

KMO — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 02:56:30 GMT

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

Episode 62: Over-extended

KMO — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 03:15:18 GMT

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

C-Realm Podcast #61: The Case Against Drug Tourism

KMO — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 21:14:00 GMT

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

Episode 60: Thoughts Alive!

KMO — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 16:27:31 GMT

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

Episode 59: Reflexive Memebots

KMO — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 17:23:54 GMT

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.

Episode 58: Turning Catastrophe Upside-Down

KMO — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 14:28:26 GMT

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

Ungo Special: Emotional Animals

KMO — Sat, 29 Sep 2007 03:46:03 GMT

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

Episode 57: The Curandero's Apprentice

KMO — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 01:59:16 GMT

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

Episode 56: Quality of Life

KMO — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 20:56:18 GMT

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

Episode 55: The Simplest Path

KMO — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 20:46:31 GMT

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