Podcast Alembic

Sincere thanks to all the podcasters out there in 2008, and may I encourage fellow listeners to donate something to them if you can. They enrich our collective mindscape.
The following jumped off a page at me the other day:

“I just keep on remembering that we live in the best time in the history of the world to have a worst time: the time when collective action is cheaper and easier than ever, the time when more information and better access to tools, ideas and communities are at our fingertips than they've ever been." ~ Cory Doctorow in his year-end Boing Boing post. Well put indeed, and I think Reality Sandwich is one of those key sources and organizers of the "tools, ideas, and communities."

Here's to more nourishing bytes in 2009.

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Checked into Douglas Rushkoff's site recently and was pointed to his podcast interview on a site called Right Where You Are Sitting. The blurb: "Open-Source Reality: Obama’s potential to tap into bottom-up politics, what happens if we stop believing in the economy, Conspiracy Culture, hacking reality, what the next renaissance might look like, writing comics, why advertising doesn’t work and Magick." I always learn from Rushkoff riffs.

Listen here

Rushkoff's Audio/Video Page

Looks like Mr. Rushkoff is hosting a Radio show too...

Inside Owl pointed me back to the Buddhist Geeks podcast of Jun Po Roshi: "Psychotropics and NeuroLinguistic Zen." The blurb: "Jun Po Roshi, an American Zen Master in the Rinzai Zen tradition, joins us to discuss his fascinating history with psychotropic drugs, including a form of LSD called Clear Light that he helped to create and distribute a long time ago. We also speak with him about his new form of Koan practice that uses NeuroLinguistic Programming (NLP) techniques to help anchor spiritual realization in one's linguistic structures." Fascinating interview.

Listen to Part 1 here

Listen to Part 2 here

2 more interviews on New Man podcast

Did you see Dean Radin's recent post on Intentional Chocolate as covered in the L.A. Times? Have any Sandwichers tried the chocolate? In a previous post, Dr. Radin points us to Dr. Rupert Sheldrake's lecture on How Skeptics Work:

Listen here [MP3]

Sheldrake's Audio Page

Erik Davis' coverage of Klea McKenna's beautiful book The Butterfly Hunter led me to his talk at Ojai, titled The Imagination Is What We Are.

Listen to it here

In conjunction with Davis' interesting article on Biodynamic Farming, you might enjoy The Mystic Mind podcast on Rudolf Steiner.

 Listen to it here 

Lorenzo has mentioned the Biota.org podcast a few times. I finally made it over there to check out host Tom Barbalet's interviews of Bruce Damer. Very interesting.

Check it here

Hollyhock Center has started a podcast page. Vancouver lunchtime lecture series 2008: Leadership for Change, Making Change Happen. David Eby, Tzeporah Berman, Peter Robinson, Judy Rebick on a range of topics.
Find them all here

KMO points to the interview of Dr. Chris Martenson on the Bill Sharon podcast on Blog Talk Radio. Martenson is "the creator of The End of Money (live) and The Crash Course (on-line) economic seminar series, has extensive experience analyzing and communicating financial information, and publishes a weekly newsletter on the economy and finance." The online course looks very interesting.

Listen to the interview here and take the course here

In the mood for something formal? You might check this video podcast of 90-year-young James Lovelock, author of the Gaia Hypothesis addressing the Royal Society. Heartfelt alarm bells and advice. "I now take an apocalyptic view of the future..." [yikes.]

Watch it here [.m4v format - large file]

PODCAST ALEMBIC REGULARS:

The Psychedelic Salon
Podcast 163 - “Reality Syndromes & Cyberpunk Symptoms.” Guest speaker: Wrye Sententia

Podcast 164 - "McKenna: “Some thoughts about Ayahuasca.” Guest speaker: Terence McKenna

Podcast 165 -“From Beats, to Hippies, to McKenna.” Guest speakers: Terence McKenna, Timothy Leary, Allen Ginsberg, William S. Burroughs, Abbie Hoffman, Gregory Corso, and Diane Di Prima(?). Lorenzo also points to an interesting new project: Psychedelic Salon Quarterly

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The C-Realm Podcast

Episode 132: Transcendental Dependent Arising
The blurb: "KMO talks with meditation instructor James Baraz about his Awakening Joy course which combines the traditional wisdom of the Buddhist meditative tradition with up to the minute neuroscientific perspectives to encourage "wholesome" states like generosity, gratitude and joy." Enjoyed this very much. Appreciated Baraz's description of the therapeutic value of singing.

Episode 133: Jaguar & Pilgrim
KMO hits another one out of the park - a conversation with Robert Tindall, author of The Jaguar that Roams the Mind: An Amazonian Plant Spirit Odyssey. Among several topics, they discuss "Ayahuasca Tourism" -- synchronous with Adam Elenbaas's excellent recent article. I enjoyed Tindall's laugh and his cautionary and respectful remarks.

Episode 134: Zombie Apocaplypse Christmas Special
"KMO welcomes Neil Kramer back to the program to praise the films of George A. Romero and to judge those who carried on and/or ripped off his life's work. What does an animated flesh eating corpse symbolize?"

Episode 135: 08 Wrap Up
"KMO looks back at the C-Realm Podcast's 2008 offerings, anticipates the challenges of the coming year, reads email from listeners and discusses the on-going C-Realm Project with guest Neil Kramer. This is a long one folks, so make yourself a hot drink, get comfortable, and settle in for 90 minutes of in-group preening and navel gazing. Music by Glöd."

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Here's an interesting email interview of KMO on Diet Soap.

:: All C-Realm Podcasts :: iTunes

Psychonautica

Episode 61
Max Freakout plays a talk by Thomas Roberts called: New Horizons; potential benefits of psychedelics for humanity.

Episode 62
A talk by Michael Winkleman from the World Psychedelic Forum called: Psychedelics and human evolution, a view from evolutionary psychology.

Episode 63
Max first talks about the documentary about ayahuasca by the Dutch filmmaker Jan Kounen called Other Worlds, and about Dr. Kary Mullis and the Nobel Prize he received for pioneering work in molecular biology, which he attributed to insights about molecular structure he gained from tripping on LSD. Next, Max plays the first part of a 2-part talk by Daniel Pinchbeck from the WPF called The Future of Psychedelics.

Thanks for the heads up on that film Max Freakout. Great introduction to another great podcast.

Episode 64
Second part of Daniel Pinchbeck's talk at the WPF, including a good Q & A session.

:: All Psychonautica Podcasts

Red Ice Creations Radio

Dec 4 Featured Interview - Ezra Sandzer-Bell - Hidden Origins of Western Music "Sandzer-Bell discusses his blog "Hidden Origins of Western Musick" and Synchromusic(k)ology, the art of encoding cultural meaning into Western Music through esoteric analysis."
Dec 21 Featured Interview - A.J. Bruno - Living Outside the New World Order Grid - "A.J.'s ambitions to learn to build log houses and his business plan to sell houses debt and interest free. We begin to talk about where we might be heading in the next few years and why A.J. wants to break free from that."
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:: on Odeo

The Entheogenic Evolution 

December 4: Salvia Divinorum from A-Z with Daniel Siebert, Part 2
"We continue our conversation with Daniel Siebert from sagewisdom.org discussing salvia divinorum. This week we talk about how salvia came to the west."

December 11: Mushrooms, Mysticism and Medicine - Roland Griffiths, Part 1

"Part 1 of a conversation with Roland Griffiths from Johns Hopkins Medical School discussing their research programs with psilocybin on mysticism and cancer anxiety treatment. To volunteer as a research subject, visit cancer-insight.org"

December 18: Mushrooms, Mysticism and Medicine - Roland Griffiths, Part 2

"We continue our conversation with Roland Griffiths from Johns Hopkins Medical School discussing psilocybin and mystical experience. Also, Hal helps out with announcing the winner of the Entheogenic Evolution Sweepstakes and we discuss how to integrate mystical/entheogenic experiences after the journey."

 :: All Entheogenic Evolution Podcasts :: iTunes

Black Light in the Attic
Cody & Sancho continue mixing & mashing up a wide range of interesting sources. BLiTA 13.5 Holidaze Special features appearances from Jan Irvin, the 10,000 yr-old hippie, Queer Ninja, Max Freakout, KMO and the Attic Dwellers.

Check it here and their Show Notes Blog here.

Gnostic Media Podcast
Jan Irvin has lined up and conducted a number of interesting interviews lately. Rick Doblin, Ph.D., the founder of MAPS, Dr. James DeMeo, John Major Jenkins, Neil Whitehead on dark shamanism. I'm still playing catch-up with them. Listen to them here

Occult of Personality
Speaking of catching up, I've been meaning to check back into the O of P podcast: David Goddard - The Tower of Alchemy, Carroll “Poke” Runyon - The Book of Solomon’s Magick, Lon Milo DuQuette - Enochian Vision Magick

Listen to them here and show notes here

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