C-Realm Podcast

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.

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.

In this whistle stop episode, KMO talks cybernetic consciousness with Eric Boyd and Neil Kramer. Might machine minds prove more resistant than humans to being warped by warped circumstances, 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.

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.

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.

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.

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!

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.

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

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 Augustine

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

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

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 adress the historical singularity that we now face. Music by The Story Of

This is a recording of a live radio interview recorded on Tuesday, 27 October 2009. Ed Yersh, the host of the Tuesday Morning After program on CKUT in Montreal interviewed KMO, host and producer of the C-Realm Podcast.