C-Realm Podcast

http://c-realmpodcast.podomatic.com/entry/2009-12-09T11_21_36-08_00 This installment features the conclusion of KMO’s conversation with Jason Horsley about the limits and pitfalls of entheogenic self-exploration and the utility of surrender. The second half of the program brings together clips from other podcasts and excerpts from Carolyn Baker’s book Sacred Demise: Walking the Spiritual Path of Industrial Civilization's Collapse to communicate the possibilities for transformation that collapse presents to each of us. At the end of your rope? Good on ya! Music by Jesse Miller of the Mystic Mind Podcast To learn more about the C-Realm/Cleaver Couch Surfing Tour or to lend a hand, please contact the following folks: Los Angeles: Jesse Miller Neil Kramer only. San Francisco: William Wardlaw Portland: Doug Lain Seattle: Volunteer Needed Vancouver: Justin Ritchie

KMO welcomes Jason Horsley/Aeolus Kephas to the podcast to contemplate the value of total surrender. You'll feel much better once you have abandoned all hope. Other topics include the difference between the insatiable desires of the ego and easily-satisfied requirements for psychological well-being, and how dwelling on the big picture can prove counter-productive when it takes us out of what we know. Music by St. Augustine Please click the link below. http://c-realmpodcast.podOmatic.com/entry/2009-12-02T10_06_29-08_00 You can also hear Jason on this recent episode of the Diet Soap Podcast: http://dietsoap.podomatic.com/entry/2009-11-11T03_16_39-08_00

KMO welcomes Charles Eisenstein back to the program to explore the metaphor of industrial civilization as an addict headed for rock bottom. In the service of a culture addicted to control, technology consumes the world, but after hitting rock bottom, might the destructive nature of technology be transformed along with human consciousness? In the second half of the conversation, Charles talks about the life and work of Weston A. Price and explores ways to reconcile the idea of doing sacred work with the demands of a money economy. Music by Big Dave http://c-realmpodcast.podOmatic.com/entry/2009-11-25T10_31_08-08_00

KMO welcomes Dr. Salo Stanley to the program to discuss the global transformation of consciousness in progress as it manifests in the form of psychic awakenings, spirit guides, UFOs, and crop circles. Dr. Stanley relates some simple techniques that anyone can use to induce a calm and receptive state of mind that is conducive to contact with helpful intelligences from the realms beyond the limitations of Monday Morning Reality. Music by Zarathrustra http://c-realmpodcast.podOmatic.com/entry/2009-11-18T07_50_34-08_00

KMO welcomes Bruce Damer back to the program to talk about the incredibly improbable development of an organic intelligence that creates virtual worlds and how the use of virtual worlds may reveal the mechanisms by which biological evolution got its start. Bruce says he feels like a character in a science fiction novel, and the conversation takes a tour through the realms of science fiction which has foreshadowed the global unraveling of industrial civilization in a world where information technology continues to proliferate and advance at an accelerating pace. Bruce explains why he thinks the mechanism of Moore’s Law is unlikely to spawn emergent machine intelligence. Music by Tim  

KMO welcomes Frank Rotering to the podcast to discuss ecological overshoot, the logic and institutions of capitalism, technology, and the expression of human biological drives in the economic realm. Frank Rotering contends that ideas like socialism are “solutions of the past” and that new ways of thinking will be required to meet the challenge of the historical singularity that we now face. Music by The Story Of   And the conversation continues in episode 30 of the Diet Soap Podcast.

Show notes to be added when they can be located or re-created.

Show notes to be added when they can be located or re-created.

KMO plays the first half of a conversation between AyasminA and Dr. Stephan V. Beyer. Steve is the author of Singing to the Plants: A Guide to Mestizo Shamanism in the Upper Amazon, and in the conversation Steve details his lifelong odyssey into the deep regions of consciousness and spirituality which include fifteen years spent in the upper Amazon with the Mestizo keepers of the Ayahuasca tradition. Music by Joseph A. The excerpt from Steve's book that I read appears on Reality Sandwich: http://www.realitysandwich.com/singing_to_plants Here's the link to the YouTube video that Doug Lain put together that I mentioned at the end of the program: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tzf4r4QMQNA&feature=player_embedded

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

Show notes to be added when they can be located or re-created.

KMO welcomes James Howard Kunstler back to the program to discuss "green shoots" delusions, the diminishing returns of information technology, "favela chic," and the failure of virtual experience to provide a fullfilling substitute for authentic experience in our electronically mediated lives. Music by Ken Tucker and James Swafford http://video.reboot.dk/video/486788/bruce-sterling-reboot-11 http://www.coloco.org/fichiers/_squelettes_74954_Diaporama-gif-01-bis.gif  

171_ The Tribe Lorenzo Hagerty returns to the C-Realm to discuss the themes of his audio-novel, The Genesis Generation. Is there a global psychedelic Tribe (with a capital T)? To what extent can a far-flung collection of people who share a set of values and experiences be considered a "tribe?" The discussion also touches on the fractal similarity between the American and Roman empires, the writings of Ayn Rand and our tendency to focus on individual actors in our societal drama when we would do better to focus on the inherent features of the systems in which we must make a living. Music by Andre Nobels

In this year's 9/11 extravaganza KMO welcomes Doug Lain, author, editor, and fellow podcaster, to the program to help make sense of some 9/11 themed commentary from James Howard Kunstler, John Horgan, Gwynne Dyer, and (indirectly) Douglas Rushkoff. Doug & KMO then continue the conversation in episode 22 of the Diet Soap Podcast. Lorenzo Hagerty of the Psychedelic Salon adds his perspective on attitudes surrounding 9/11 to the C-Realm mix in a prelude to next week's show. Douglas Rushkoff writes: Yes, I believe that 9-11 theorizing debilitates the counterculture. It robs us of some potentially creative thinkers. It replaces truly important questions with trivial ones. It marginalizes more constructive investigation of American participation in the development of Al Qaeda as well as its subsequent aggravation. And perhaps worst of all, it is precisely the sort of activity that government disinformation specialists would want us to be involved with. Link: http://www.arthurmag.com/2007/09/20/rushkoff-on-911-conspiracy-theorists stupidculture posted the following to the PodOMatic entry for this episode: As a long time fan of your podcast and someone who understands your ambivalence towards the topic yet is not afraid of pointing out the Naked Emperor at hand, I would HIGHLY recommend what activist Ken Jenkins has to say. Please check out: "Psychological Aspects Of 9-11" http://www.archive.org/details/snowshoefilms_KenJenkins_PsychologicalAspectsOf911 He would be a great guest on a future show on the topic. and ...IMHO. A more recent article by Ken Jenkins: "The Truth is Not Enough: How to Overcome Emotional Barriers to 9/11 Truth" http://www.cosmicpenguin.com/911/KenJenkins_9-11_psychology.pdf And there are two threads on the C-Realm Forum on the Grow Report on the topic of 9/11 eight years after the fact: Nine Oh Nine Oh Nine (#170) and 911/ oil/ Iraq.

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