C-Realm Podcast

KMO and author 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. David Blume is the author of Alcohol Can Be a Gas!: Fueling an Ethanol Revolution for the 21st Century. In the podcast, I mentioned that we didn't have time for David to reproduce all the points about ethanol that I've heard him make on other programs. If you're interested in hearing more from David Blume on this topic, I would direct you to Alan Graf's Third Planet Report. David also appears in two episodes of Peak Moment. Here's the first:   You can find David Blume's website here: http://www.permaculture.com You can find the cyberspace home of Ross & Rebecca Williams hre: http://www.thedirtyway.com You can learn more about Patrice Gros at the Foundation Farm website: http://www.foundationfarm.com/

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. Both of the guests on this week's program have long and impressive bios which I did not even attempt to do justice when I introduced them. Here is a tasty tidbit from David Blume's bio: KQED, San Francisco’s Public Broadcasting System station, asked Dave to put his alcohol workshop on television, and together they spent two years making the ten-part series, Alcohol as Fuel. To accompany the series, Dave wrote the comprehensive manual on the subject, the original Alcohol Can Be A Gas! Shortly after the first show aired, in 1983, oil companies threatened to pull out their funding if the series was continued. KQED halted the distribution of the series and book (see this current book’s Introduction for the whole story). And here's a snippet from Colin Tudge's bio: CT nurses the conviction that human beings are basically both sensible and nice and that if only democracy could be made to work—creating societies based on people's real desires and values, as opposed to those assumed by economists and governments—then the world would be a much better place. After so many decades of muddle-headedness and abuse, it may well be too late to keep the world in a tolerable state. Yet this still may be achievable, and is surely worth a try. At the end of the show, I mentioned Martin Ball's new podcast, the Entheogenic Evolution. You can find it here: http://entheogenic.podomatic.com/ Laboratory AIDS And I also made mention of a recent episode of Mike Hagan's RadiOrbit program which features an interview with Ed Boyd Graves. You can download that episode here: http://www.mikehagan.com/2012/mp3/020408_BOYD_GRAVES.mp3 Do NOT ignore the black man with the flow chart! Finally, here is a sample from the journal of Russian sociologist, Pitirim Sorokin that C-Realm sponsor, Lorin K. sent to me:

Guests: Gyrus founder of the Dreamflesh Journal, and Colin Tudge, author of Feeding People is Easy. The excerpt I read on the topics of Nutritionism and the Problem of the Fixed Stomach comes from In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto by Michael Pollan. At the end of the program, I read part of my correspondence with Digital Crusader Eric Boyd which was sparked by Stuart Staniford's essay, The Fallacy of Reversibility: Why Peak Oil Actually Helps Industrial Agriculture. Another former guest of the C-Realm Podcast, Sharon Astyk has written an excellent response to Staniford. If I promised any links in the podcast that you don't find here, please post a comment and let me know.

In this episode, KMO discusses the temptations of power on the shamanic path with Matthew J. Pallamary and techniques for reconstructing the prehistoric human mind with Gyrus. Matt Pallamary (or Mateo as he likes to be called) is the author of Spirit Matters and Gyrus is the author of Archaeologies of Consciousness. You can find either book in the C-Realm Amazon Store, or you can order directly from the publishers. Normally I would encourage folks to order through Amazon so that the C-Realm Podcast earns a commission, but in this case, you might want to get the books directly from the publishers. The authors get a larger share of your purchase price when you order directly from the publisher. Mateo's publisher: http://www.mysticinkpublishing.com/ At the end of the show, I read an excerpt from American Vulgar: The Politics of Manipulation versus the Culture of Awareness by Robert Grudin. Gyrus' publisher: http://dreamflesh.com/projects/archaeologies/ KMO interviewed Matt Pallamary in May of 2007 for the Psychonautica podcast. You can find that episode here: http://dopecast.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=211038

  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. Quote from Navigating the Collapse of Civilization: a Spiritual Map by Carolyn Baker, Ph.D: For most Americans marinated in materialism, heads anchored firmly in the sand, never having heard the words “Peak Oil,” still driving their gas-gulping SUVs, reveling in suburban sprawl, and gullibly counting on their pensions and 401Ks to be there when they need them, the notion of civilization's collapse is ludicrous and merely the latest obsession of the lunatic fringe. For other Americans of the rapidly-vanishing middle class who are only one paycheck or one catastrophic illness away from financial oblivion—who between mortgage, car payments, monthly bills, medical expenses, gas prices, and doubling monthly credit card bills, realize that not only will they not be able to pay for their kids’ college education but that every day they are now walking over an economic tightrope across a gaping precipice with a thousand-foot drop. Those folks know in their bones the reality of collapse—they feel it, smell it, taste it, but may not yet be able to allow the words to pass from their lips. Others, such as the individuals I've named above, are the prophets and John the Baptists of our time who get in our faces and scream “Repent!” or in less biblical language: “Wake the hell up!”

In this episode, KMO concludes his conversation with James H. Kunstler, author of The Long Emergency: Surviving the End of Oil, Climate Change, and Other Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-First 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. In addition to the long emergency, Jim Kunstler wanted folks to be aware of his forthcoming novel, World Made by Hand: A Novel. Promised Links: Coming Clean, an audio seminar by Catherine Austin Fitts: http://www.solari.com/store/free_offer/ Century of the Self a BBC documentary by Adam Curtis: http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=the+century+of+the+self

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 End of Oil, Climate Change, and Other Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-First Century, drops by to talk about the fate of surburbia in the post-petroleum era. Dmitry Orlov appeared in C-Realm Podcast episodes twenty and twenty one. Toward the end of this episode, I make reference to an interview that I heard with Michael Tsarion on Red Ice Radio. Also, toward the end of the program, I read a passage from American Vulgar: The Politics of Manipulation Versus the Culture of Awarenessby Robert Grudin about physical and spiritual survival. I took the Terence McKenna clip that I played between the interviews with Dmitry Orlov and James H. Kunstler from Episode 119 of Lorenzo's Psychedelic Salon: "A Crisis in Consciousness." (No links because that page seems to be broken at the moment.)

In this episode, KMO welcomes Neil Kramer, keeper of a blog called the Cleaver, to the C-Realm to discuss synchronicities, entheogens, the Matrix, and the limited utility of pursuing "conspiracy" research. Past episodes of the C-Realm Podcast featuring Albert K. Bates, author of The Post-Petroleum Survival Guide and Cookbook: Recipes for Changing Times Episode 29: Corporatized Episode 30: Vine of the Soul Episode 31: Life on the Farm - Part 1

In this final episode of 2007, 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. You can find the first 18 episodes of the C-Realm Podcast here: http://www.archive.org/details/c-realmpodcasts

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.

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 about the advantages of establishing more resilient and self-sufficient local economies. You can find Bill McKibben's address at the Stanford Singularity Summit here: http://sss.stanford.edu/speakers/mckibben/

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. One might be tempted to think of the CBC as Canada's version of NPR, but unlike NPR, they don't seem to keep an archive of their shows on-line for folks to stream or download. They only seem to sell their old programs on CD. You can listen to the entire program for free here: Part 1: http://www.sendspace.com/file/5pnemo Part 2: http://www.sendspace.com/file/aoikic C-Realm Listener Veeg has pointed out another podcast that actually features excerpts from the CBC radio segment on Search for the Divine Vegetal. You can find that podcast here: http://www.drugtruth.net/007DTNaudio/COL_120407.mp3 You can find the full text of the material from Richard Heinberg that I used to introduce Nate Hagens here: http://globalpublicmedia.com/richard_heinbergs_museletter_peak_everything Check back tomorrow for the extended interview with Yasmeen Grant.

In this week's episode of the C-Realm Podcast, KMO concludes his conversation with RadiOrbit's Mike Hagan and author Dr. 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. In this episode, I read from two books by Robert Grudin, author of Time and the Art of Living and American Vulgar: The Politics of Manipulation Versus the Culture of Awareness. If you would, please click on one of the book titles in the previous sentence and read the sample material available for either book.

In this 65th installment, KMO welcomes Mike Hagan of RadiOrbit back to the program to discuss the changing media landscape and the transformation of consciousness that the evolution of the media reflects. Later, Dr. Martin Ball joins the conversation to talk about his work with Mescalero Apache medicine people in New Mexico, music, visionary plants, and the Big Change. Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow. -Melody Beattie

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.   Be the first kid on your block to own a C-Realm Coffee Cup! Available only from the C-Realm Podcast Cafe Press store!