C-Realm Podcast

"C" stands for consciousness 124: Pot Luck 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 life as a podcaster. Musical Guest: Andy Warren   The podcast ends when the rooster crows. Any copyrighted musical material that may follow on after the closing rooster crow is not part of the podcast, and I wouldn't have any idea how it got there.

"C" stands for consciousness 123: Eyes of the Numerati 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? Musical interlude: Beautiful Night by Tom Langford. http://www.myspace.com/tomlangford In the beginning of the podcast I read a short passage from Postsingular by Rudy Rucker. You can download the entire novel for free here: http://www.rudyrucker.com/postsingular/

"C" stands for consciousness Episode 122: A Random Walk w/ Bruce Damer 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. Some of the books discussed include Stand On Zanzibar, Rainbow's End, and Postsingular The podcast includes a song by Sharon Little called "Accidentally" from her album "Perfect Time for a Breakdown." Sharon Little's website: http://www.sharonlittle.com/ A Gigantic Unplanned Experiment … on You

"C" stands for consciousness Reinventing Reality C-Realm Special KMO welcomes Daniel Pinchbeck and Dmitry Orlov to the program to discuss their visions of the challenges and opportunities that pesent 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. Reality Sandwich: http://www.realitysandwhich.com Club Orlov: http://cluborlov.blogspot.com Coalessence Festival: http://www.coalessencefest.com Crossing the Event Horizon by Nassim Haramein More links to come.

"C" stands for consciousness 120: The Long Descent 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? http://thearchdruidreport.blogspot.com/ John Michael Greer made reference to Limits to Growth. I would recommend an episode of the Electric Politics podcast in which host George Kenny interviews Dr. Dennis Meadow, one of the three co-authors of Limits to Growth: http://www.electricpolitics.com/podcast/2008/07/modeling_planetary_dynamics.html I read portions of Rapture of the Nerds, Not by Steven Smithee and made reference to the upcoming Singularity Summit: http://www.singularitysummit.com/

"C" stands for consciousness 119: Who Benefits from 9-11? Guest: Richard Grove of 8th Estate Public Media and Research Links: Codex Alimentarius: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Codex_alimentarius Judi Dench-narrated video on Codex Alimentarius: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3273956447915041292&ei=dN3HSJesAYigrwLykJ3MAg&q=codex+alimentarius&hl=en The main codex video: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5266884912495233634&hl=en Official site of the opposition: http://www.codexalimentarius.net/web/index_en.jsp If you click this link: http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Partnership_for_a_Drug-Free_America You'll find that DuPont, Heinz, Bayer (i.e. IG Farben), JP Morgan, etc. all support the "Partnership for a Drug Free America." 8th Estate films: http://exposureroom.com/search/?q=8thestate&t=0 Black Light in the Attic Podcast: http://blacklightattic.podomatic.com/ Radio Orbit for Wednesday, May 23, 2007 Bin Laden Construction Company Worked on the World Trade Center: http://kentroversypapers.blogspot.com/2007/04/bin-laden-construction-company-worked.html

"C" stands for consciousness 118: 21st Century Koans link: http://crossingpointoflight.blogspot.com/2008/02/comet-17p-holmes-was-shown-in-crop.html There are a couple of places in the intro in which the completely wrong word came out of my mouth. I didn't notice until I went to edit those bits, and by then my window of quiet time had passed, so I didn't go back and re-record. Hopefully, I will return to "normal" cognitive function in the near future. Here are a couple of emails of the sort that I like to read on the show. I just didn't leave myself time to do so this week: Hi KMO, I just sent you a Paypal donation from my other email account. It's not much, but hopefully it won't be the last one. It sounds like you can use as much as you can get right now. Speaking of your current situation... you've always done a good job on the C-Realm of adhering to classic principles of journalism: keeping out of the way of the topic, overtly expressing your personal positions only insofar as they clarify or enhance the information, and warning your listeners of when you do "get personal" in an interview. As a former editor and student of media and society who is appalled by what passes for journalism in the mass media today, I've deeply appreciated this..... but it does mean that many of your listeners know very little about your ongoing personal situation, myself included. I'm assuming that those who were lucky enough to attend ceremony with you in Peru know what's up, but maybe you could edify the rest of us? I tend to think (idealistically, I'm sure) that the community of C-Realm listeners is, in fact, a community, albeit one that doesn't get to meet face to face very often. And people in communities help each other out. I know I alone can't possibly contribute enough money to pay your rent, or convince your wife that the C-Realm is a legitimate and highly needed enterprise worthy of your efforts. However, if Maryland doesn't work out, I'd be happy to engage my social network to help you find work, housing, or even just someone to take care of your cats. And I'll bet I'm not the only C-Realm listener whose wealth lies more in connections than in dollars. Be well, katuah Hi KMO, Just sent you a donation, because I know moving can be expensive! But it's small because I just moved too ;) Very much enjoyed this week's podcast about aliens. It seems like a good time to point you to some material I've found to be particularly interesting: http://www.lawofone.info/ The body of work is essentially an interview with an extraterrestrial, spanning several years in the early 80s. The interviewer was Don Elkins: a pilot who had seen a UFO and, in the course of investigating the phenomenon, was lead to channels who claimed to be in contact with them. The interviewee was RA: the 'social memory complex' that evolved from Venus, as channeled by Carla Rueckert and transcribed by James McCarty. While admittedly an extraterrestrial, RA stressed the relative unimportance of UFO phenomena. These visitations are described as wake up calls for those who need to be reminded that mystery underlies existence. Having occurred throughout history, they take whatever form the current culture is prepared to accept - as UFOs, spirits, angels, gods, etc. There are many different beings visiting us via several different mechanisms, and each experience is tailored to the individual's expectations - hence the wide variety of reports. I laughed out loud hearing of McKenna's encounter... so perfectly his! RA was not manifest on earth during the interview, but describes visiting the ancient Egyptians in a bell shaped craft and walking among them for an extended period. RA worked with the priests of that culture to create the higher arcana of the Tarot (as a tool for meditation on archetypes) and built the first of the pyramids there (as chakra balancing centers).

"C" stands for consciousness 117: Aliens are 'Real' KMO welcomes Neil Kramer back to the program to talk about aliens, crop circles, Terence McKenna, and alternative ways to connect the dots. The following links were provided by wakingsleep13: Psychedelic Salon #150: UFOs http://www.matrixmasters.net/blogs/?p=302 The Cleaver http://thecleaver.blogspot.com/ The Psychonautilus http://the-psychonautilus.podomatic.com/ The episode with the KMO interview is here: http://the-psychonautilus.podomatic.com/entry/eg/2008-02-24T09_21_36-08_00 Red Ice Creations Radio Programs w/ Neil Kramer http://www.redicecreations.com/radio/2007/12dec/RICR-071213.php http://www.redicecreations.com/radio/2007/12dec/RICR-071213-SUB.html Links from Neil Kramer: Great video intro to Crop Circles:- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uFKJJ5VMfWA Comet 17P Holmes & Crop Circles:- http://www.cropcircleconnector.com/anasazi/time2007g.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/17P/Holmes Particularly stunning 2008 circles:- http://www.cropcircleconnector.com/2008/barbury/barbury2008a.html http://www.cropcircleconnector.com/2008/ridgeway/ridgeway2008a.html http://www.cropcircleconnector.com/2008/westwoods/westwoods2008.html http://www.cropcircleconnector.com/2008/southfield/southfield2008.html http://www.cropcircleconnector.com/2008/wayland/wayland2008a.html http://www.cropcircleconnector.com/2008/cherhill/cherhill2008.html http://www.cropcircleconnector.com/2008/080808/080808.html http://www.cropcircleconnector.com/2008/Etchilhampton/Etchilhampton2008a.html Good Crop Circle resources and information:- http://temporarytemples.co.uk/imagelibrary/ http://www.cropcircleconnector.com/2008/2008.html http://www.bertjanssen.nl/cropcircles.html http://www.cropcirclesecrets.org/education.html http://theconversation.org/booklet2.html

"C" stands for consciousness 116: Know Your Trances KMO talks with Dennis R. Wier, author of The Way of Trance, about how trance states can disable short term memory and inhibit cognitive function, erode individual autonomy and impair judgment. Other topics covered include meditation addiction, trance abuse, and the tendency of so many of us to stay in trance all day every day so as to dull the pain of our existence. http://trance.edu/drupal/node

"C" stands for consciousness 112: Good to Know In this 115th installment of the C-Realm Podcast, 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. Thanks to Kent Bye of the Echo Chamber Project for recording the interview with Robert David Steele and for distributing it under a Creative Commons license. Thanks to C-Realm listener, Afgod for turning me on to Robert David Steele with the following links: http://www.thelasthope.org/media/audio/64kbps/Earth_Intelligence_Network_World_Brain_as_EarthGame.mp3 http://www.thelasthope.org/media/audio/64kbps/Spy_Improv_Everything_You_Ever_Wanted_to_Ask_and_Did_Not_Kno.mp3 http://www.thelasthope.org/media/audio/64kbps/Spy_Improv_Everything_You_Ever_Wanted_to_Ask_and_Did_Not_002.mp3 http://www.thelasthope.org/talks.html The musical interlude is by Beehive. You can download their singles "Pretty Little Theives" and "Better Than Lies" FOR FREE here: http://files.godigitalmedia.net/download/?plt.mp3 (Pretty Little Thieves) and here: http://files.godigitalmedia.net/download/?Beehive-Better_Than_Lies.mp3 (Better Than Lies) More of their music is available on iTunes, Napster, Rhapsody, etc.

"C" stands for consciousness 114: Community - Local, Distributed & Transient 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.

"C" stands for consciousness 113: Appropriate Faith I'm back in the States (but not firing on all cylinders just yet). Here's the first podcast built from material I collected on my recent trip to Peru. I make only a token appearance in this one, but I'll provide an account of my experiences on future programs. In this episode, you can hear the main part of Dennis McKenna's address to the 4th Annual International Amazonian Shamanism Conference. Enjoy.

Show notes will be added as soon as they can be located or re-created.

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 U...

"C" stands for consciousness 110: A Crash Course in Burning Bridges 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. In introducing Crash Course: Preparing for Peak Oil, I read an excerpt from a review by Frank Kaminski. You can find the full text of that review here: http://www.energybulletin.net/node/45566