C-Realm Podcast

160: Flashing Lights on the Console

KMO — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 18:42:40 GMT

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.

159: Here Comes the (Zombie) Walrus

KMO — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 23:23:45 GMT

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.

158: Natural Born Consumers

KMO — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 18:06:08 GMT

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

157: Tilted Field of Giants

KMO — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 12:13:17 GMT

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

156: Insideous Hope

KMO — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 21:52:50 GMT

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.

155: Ethical Capitalism for the Earbud Generation

KMO — Wed, 27 May 2009 19:23:28 GMT

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. You can find more interviews with James Howard Kunstler in these archived episodes of the C-Realm Podcast: Episode 96: Kollapsnik & the Ripping Yarn http://c-realmpodcast.podomatic.com/entry/2008-05-14T13_50_32-07_00 Episode 86: Moments of Contingency http://c-realmpodcast.podomatic.com/entry/2008-04-09T20_10_59-07_00 Episode 73: Cui Bono http://c-realmpodcast.podomatic.com/entry/2008-01-16T16_45_54-08_00 Episode 72: The Long Emergency http://c-realmpodcast.podomatic.com/entry/2008-01-09T14_54_16-08_00 Two of the JHK episodes listed above also feature interviews with Dmitry Orlov. If you’re looking for more Dmitry Orlov material, here are his first and most C-Realm appearances: C-Realm Special: Reinventing Reality http://c-realmpodcast.podomatic.com/entry/2008-09-26T16_31_41-07_00 Episode 20: Closing the Disinfo Gap http://c-realmpodcast.podomatic.com/entry/2007-02-14T12_32_16-08_00

154: Just In Time vs. Just In Case

KMO — Wed, 20 May 2009 19:08:42 GMT

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

153: The Kunstler Konspiracy

KMO — Wed, 13 May 2009 18:54:03 GMT

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.

152: Long Inferential Distances

KMO — Wed, 06 May 2009 21:01:57 GMT

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.

151: The Next Step

KMO — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 22:21:44 GMT

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

150: Odometer Moment

KMO — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 03:50:34 GMT

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

149: A Chemical Season of the Mind

KMO — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 17:01:50 GMT

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

148: Grokking the Connections

KMO — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 15:38:08 GMT

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

147: Permission and Forgiveness

KMO — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 22:10:25 GMT

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.

146: My Invisible Path

KMO — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 22:26:13 GMT

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.

145: Pushing Chaos into the Future

KMO — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 22:40:44 GMT

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

144: The Full Flush of Genius

KMO — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 23:52:16 GMT

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

143: Catalyst Amazonia

KMO — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 21:24:43 GMT

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.

142: Altered Traits

KMO — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 00:58:29 GMT

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.

C-Realm Special: DIY Dispatch

KMO — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 19:33:52 GMT

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).

141: Maybe Gnosis

KMO — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 19:51:55 GMT

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

140: The Growth Imperative

KMO — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 20:34:37 GMT

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

139: Memes & More... Much More

KMO — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 21:36:39 GMT

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

138: God & the Copying Rule

KMO — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 17:01:59 GMT

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

137: Embracing Petrocollapse

KMO — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 17:55:52 GMT

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.

136: The Peer-Polity Peter Principle

KMO — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 19:33:11 GMT

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

135: '08 Wrap-up

KMO — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 23:58:51 GMT

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

134: Zombie Apocalypse Christmas Special

KMO — Thu, 25 Dec 2008 00:51:58 GMT

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

133: Jaguar & Pilgrim

KMO — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 20:09:49 GMT

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

132: Transcendental Dependent Arising

KMO — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 21:01:39 GMT

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

131: Rocky Top

KMO — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 19:55:03 GMT

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

130: Gravity Check

KMO — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 00:36:24 GMT

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

129: An Affirmation of Your Own Sanity

KMO — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 18:25:30 GMT

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

128: Irish Origins & the Roots of Tyranny

KMO — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 22:48:00 GMT

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

127: The Cube Remains the Cube

KMO — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 21:36:56 GMT

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

126: Horticultural Consciousness

KMO — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 02:04:29 GMT

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

125: Apocalypse, Not!

KMO — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 01:57:03 GMT

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

124: Pot Luck

KMO — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 03:11:14 GMT

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

123: Eyes of the Numerati

KMO — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 02:30:22 GMT

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

Episode 122: A Random Walk w/ Bruce Damer

KMO — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 01:57:26 GMT

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

Reinventing Reality C-Realm Special

KMO — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 23:22:02 GMT

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

121: Full Faith & Credit

KMO — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 16:13:47 GMT

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

120: The Long Descent

KMO — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 23:36:47 GMT

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

119: Who Benefits from 9-11?

KMO — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 23:42:01 GMT

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

118: 21st Century Koans

KMO — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 15:51:16 GMT

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

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

Episode 54: Malthusian Memes

KMO — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 08:56:55 GMT

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

Episode 53: Important but Trivial

KMO — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 20:31:02 GMT

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

Episode 52: Creatures of Imagination

KMO — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 03:34:57 GMT

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

Episode 51: Still Integrating

KMO — Wed, 15 Aug 2007 18:29:43 GMT

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

Episode 50: Fifty!

KMO — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 04:46:09 GMT

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.

Episode 49 Part 2 - A Julian Simon kind of Optimism

KMO — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 17:06:32 GMT

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

KMO — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 14:03:41 GMT

Episode 49 - Part 1: The Dharma of Conscious Creativity

KMO — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 17:38:05 GMT

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

Episode 48: Return, Reflect, Re-integrate

KMO — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 17:09:59 GMT

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

KMO — Thu, 12 Jul 2007 00:01:21 GMT

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.

Episode 46: Steady State

KMO — Wed, 04 Jul 2007 17:46:53 GMT

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

Episode 45: Letcher vs. Irvin - Round 1

KMO — Sat, 30 Jun 2007 01:00:45 GMT

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

Episode 44: East Star & the Deep Self

KMO — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 21:31:42 GMT

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

Episode 43: Numinous Neuroscience

KMO — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 21:28:27 GMT

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

Episode 42: Tragedy of the Bathroom

KMO — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 18:45:01 GMT

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

Episode 41: Norma Panduro

KMO — Fri, 15 Jun 2007 18:12:31 GMT

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

Episode 40: Aye, Ayahuasca!

KMO — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 22:04:41 GMT

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

Episode 39 - Part 1: The Three Pound Universe

KMO — Sat, 09 Jun 2007 18:19:53 GMT

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

Episode 38: Psychoactive Sacraments

KMO — Wed, 06 Jun 2007 17:54:12 GMT

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

Episode 37: Flailing in the Dark

KMO — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 21:20:35 GMT

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

Episode 36: Locus of Agency

KMO — Wed, 30 May 2007 20:24:49 GMT

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

Episode 35: Ayahuasca & Human Destiny

KMO — Fri, 25 May 2007 18:33:26 GMT

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

Episode 34: Principles of Precaution

KMO — Wed, 23 May 2007 19:14:31 GMT

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

Episode 33: Amazing Rex

KMO — Wed, 16 May 2007 21:50:15 GMT

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

Episode 32: Life on the Farm - Part 2

KMO — Wed, 09 May 2007 18:43:09 GMT

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

Episode 31: Life on the Farm - Part 1

KMO — Wed, 02 May 2007 21:39:25 GMT

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

Episode 30: Vine of the Soul

KMO — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 17:01:05 GMT

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

Episode 29: Corporatized

KMO — Wed, 18 Apr 2007 17:04:56 GMT

Interviews with authors Douglas Rushkoff and Albert K. Bates. Extended show notes: http://kmo.livejournal.com/287562.html

Episode 28: Building a Better Monster

KMO — Wed, 11 Apr 2007 17:39:40 GMT

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

Episode 27: Trans-Metro-Shamanism

KMO — Wed, 04 Apr 2007 19:18:04 GMT

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

Episode 26: The Voice of the Other

KMO — Wed, 28 Mar 2007 21:09:48 GMT

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

Episode 25: Origins

KMO — Wed, 21 Mar 2007 18:51:47 GMT

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

Episode 24: catalyzing agents

KMO — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 17:36:32 GMT

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

Episode 23: Dream Like a Viking

KMO — Wed, 07 Mar 2007 21:18:17 GMT

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

Episode 22: Ways of Knowing

KMO — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 18:05:40 GMT

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

Episode 21: Space

KMO — Wed, 21 Feb 2007 18:13:09 GMT

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

Episode 20: Closing the Disinfo Gap

KMO — Wed, 14 Feb 2007 20:32:16 GMT

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

Episode 19: Piratization

KMO — Wed, 07 Feb 2007 20:32:53 GMT

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

Episode 18: Down Under

KMO — Wed, 31 Jan 2007 19:42:31 GMT

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