C-Realm Podcast

http://c-realmpodcast.podomatic.com/entry/2010-03-17T17_12_33-07_00 KMO turns the interviewing duties over to Jason R. for the conclusion of an interview with Paul Gude. Topics include the way ideas seem to bubble up at multiple points in the collective imagination all at once and how Paul's comics invoke a sense of Lovecraftian comedy and nostalgic bigotry. KMO reads from a story by Jorge Luis Borges. Music by Treasures Untold (who wants you to check out this movie) Read The Aleph by Jorge Luis Borges

http://c-realmpodcast.podomatic.com/entry/2010-03-10T15_12_19-08_00 Jason R. interviews Paul Gude. The narrative thread eats itself, and a precise summation would seem a fool's errand, but topics covered include psychedelic experiences in K-Mart, video games, emulating the future, cheat codes for reality, time travel, flying cars, video phones, and a synchronicity involving psychedelic mushrooms and the song "I Want a New Drug" by Huey Lewis in the News. Music by Zarathrustra.

http://c-realmpodcast.podomatic.com/entry/2010-03-03T13_04_01-08_00 KMO welcomes Albert K. Bates back to the program to talk about the themes of his forthcoming book, The Biochar Solution. Could a form of homebrewed carbon sequestration provide a stopgap measure that could buy us time to implement effective atmospheric remediation? Should biochar be considered a form of geo-engineering? How do we prevent carbon credits from becoming the new credit default swaps? All this and music by Zarathrutra. CLICK HERE for a larger version of the comic. http://throbgoblins.blogspot.com/

http://c-realmpodcast.podomatic.com/entry/2010-02-24T12_01_31-08_00 KMO and Albert Bates talk across the kitchen table at the EcoVillage Training Center on the Farm in Summertown, Tennessee. The first half of the conversation centers on the on-going process by which we are exporting more of our attention and cognitive capacity into our cybernetic prostheses and the abstract spaces they allow us to inhabit. In the second half of the conversation the discussion centers on the state of the economy and the performance of President Obama. Music by Tim's Myth  

KMO welcomes James Howard Kunstler back to the C-Realm to talk about the themes of his new play, Big Slide. Topics include, paranoid conspiracy theories, the lucidity of John Michael Greer's writing, post-traumatic embitterment disorder, and the possibility for class-based antagonism, economic meltdown, religious craziness, and plentiful firearms to produce a kind of homegrown fascism that JHK likes to call "Cornpone Nazism."

Is societal collapse and a Malthusian Correction a workable path to a better future? Alex Steffen of WorldChanging.org says, "No." Moral considerations aside, a population die back and the scarcity that prompt it would spell very bad news indeed for the Earth's natural systems. What's the best path forward? Create something that works which is bigger than your house but smaller than the world.

http://c-realmpodcast.podomatic.com/entry/2010-02-03T12_59_02-08_00 KMO welcomes Charles Cresson Wood to the program to talk about the need for a radical transition to a new style of consciousness, how crises might prompt the shift and how the internet will prove essential in facilitating the process. Charles encourages us to embrace unity consciousness, confront our fears and challenge the reigning assumptions about the value of selling the hours of our lives to corporations.

http://c-realmpodcast.podomatic.com/entry/2010-01-27T13_11_47-08_00 KMO, on the day of the last stop on the West Coast leg of the Transitional Alchemy tour with Neil Kramer, presents a conversation recorded in Santa Cruz with Robert Forte. Topics of conversation include 9-11, UFOs, David Icke's "No Hassle Zone," shape-shifting reptilian overlords, and Noam Chomsky as left gate-keeper.

http://c-realmpodcast.podomatic.com/entry/2010-01-20T13_17_46-08_00 In this whistle stop episode, KMO talks cybernetic consciousness with Eric Boyd and Neil Kramer. Might machine minds prove more resistant to being warped by warped circumstances than humans, or might they go with the amoral flow? Later, Gordon Wardlaw, who hosted a Transitional Alchemy Tour appearance at his home in Mendocino provides some feedback on the event.  

http://c-realmpodcast.podomatic.com/entry/2010-01-13T01_50_20-08_00 KMO welcomes Gyrus back to the program to discuss his book War & the Noble Savage. Prior to the advent of the state, a greater percentage of people died from violence than in modern industrialized Democracies, but does that mean that Hobbes was right? Rousseau never spoke of "the noble savage," but a cartoon straw man of Rousseau's position not only takes a beating from apologists for ensconced dominance hierarchies, but free marketeers also invoke it to justify unfettered competition in the capitalist arena.

http://c-realmpodcast.podomatic.com/entry/2010-01-06T06_25_01-08_00 KMO welcomes Noble Ape creator Tom Barbalet to the program to discuss the nature of intelligence. Is survival the best indicator of intelligence? Is there anything special about so called "general intelligence?" Tom thinks that the leading Singularitarians proceed in their thinking about simulation, technology, and intelligence based on some very naive premises. Has the technological singularity already occurred? Tom gives his reason for thinking that it took place in the 1980s. Tom is the editor of Biota.org, The Artificial Life Project and host of the Biota Live internet radio program.

In this final installment of the C-Realm Podcast for 2009, Doug Lain, host of the Diet Soap Podcast, joins KMO to revisit 2009 C-Realm interviews with Jeff Vail, Thomas Homer-Dixon, Joe Bageant, and Frank Rotering. Can inferences about the economy and social relationships legitimately be drawn from observations about the cyclical behavior of a forest ecosystem, or does this sort of comparison lend legitimacy to unjust power relationships? Can a recovering Libertarian and a wavering Marxist even hear one another through the ideological noise? Take heart. http://c-realmpodcast.podomatic.com/entry/2009-12-30T09_46_04-08_00

https://secure.ckut.ca//cgi-bin/ckut-grid.pl?action=showaudio&show=tuesday,07:00 December 15th, 2009 Photo by Neil Kramer

Neil Kramer interviewed Maren C in August 2009, in a hotel lobby in the city of Bristol, England. They talk about consciousness, being, emotional intelligence, the frequency of love and re-wiring old behaviour patterns. She travelled to England in order to gain first-hand experience of the crop circle phenomenon. She worked with friend and podcaster Adam from the Psychonautilus – obtaining film footage and photographs of the mysterious and beautiful landscapes of Wiltshire and Somerset. Maren and Adam later met up with Neil Kramer and friends, inside the 29-Jul-09 Ogbourne St Andrew crop circle. Maren is currently working with Neil on the forthcoming 'Sacred Albion' project. Music by Glow! http://c-realmpodcast.podomatic.com/entry/2009-12-23T09_34_14-08_00 Neil Kramer is the featured guest in Diet Soap Podcast #37: The Control System and the Cosmic Christ. You can find the Terence McKenna special, Vertigo at History's Edge, here: http://c-realmpodcast.podomatic.com/entry/2008-02-23T10_41_25-08_00

KMO welcomes Sally Erickson and Tim Bennett, makers of the movie WHAT A WAY TO GO: LIFE AT THE END OF EMPIRE to the C-Realm. Covered topics include the shift in consciousness that occurs when one seriously delves into the vulnerabilities of industrial society and the fallout that it can have on one's relationships and the direction of one's life. Fast collapse vs. slow decline, living with uncertainty, and communication without craziness round out the list of topics. http://c-realmpodcast.podomatic.com/entry/2009-12-16T08_54_34-08_00