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LF140 Richard Heinberg – Afterburn: Society Beyond Fossil Fuels

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Richard Heinberg discusses his latest book Afterburn: Society Beyond Fossil Fuels. Climate change, along with the depletion of oil, coal, and gas, dictate that we will inevitably move away from our profound societal reliance on fossil fuels. But just how big a transformation will this be? While many policy makers assume that renewable energy sources will provide a relatively painless solution, Heinberg suggests instead that we are in for a wild ride; a civilization reboot on a scale similar to the agricultural and industrial revolutions.
Afterburn consists of fifteen essays exploring various aspects of the twenty-first century migration away from fossil fuels including short-term political and economic factors that impede broad-scale, organized efforts to adapt, the origin of longer-term trends – such as consumerism – that have created a way of life that seems normal to most, but is actually unprecedented, highly fragile, and unsustainable, and potential opportunities and sources of conflict that are likely to emerge.
From the inevitability and desirability of more locally organized economies to the urgent need to preserve our recent cultural achievements and the futility of pursuing economic growth above all, Afterburn offers cutting-edge perspectives and insights that challenge conventional thinking about our present, our future, and the momentous choices that we currently face.
www.richardheinberg.comwww.postcarbon.org
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LF138 Rick Strassman – DMT and the Soul of Prophecy: – A New Science of Spiritual Revelation in the Hebrew Bible

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Rick Strassman discusses his book DMT and the Soul of Prophecy – A New Science of Spiritual Revelation in the Hebrew Bible
After completing his groundbreaking research chronicled in DMT – The Spirit Molecule, Strassman was left with one fundamental question: What does it mean that DMT, a simple chemical naturally found in all our bodies, instantaneously opens us to an interactive spirit world that feels more real than our own world? When his decades of clinical psychiatric research and Buddhist practice were unable to provide answers to this question, Strassman began searching for a more resonant spiritual model. He found that the visions of the Hebrew prophets such as Ezekiel, Moses, Adam, and Daniel were strikingly similar to those of the volunteers in his DMT studies. Carefully examining the concept of prophecy in the Hebrew Bible, he characterizes a ‘prophetic state of consciousness’ and explains how it may share biological and metaphysical mechanisms with the DMT effect.
Examining medieval commentaries on the Hebrew Bible, Strassman reveals how Jewish metaphysics provides a top-down model for both the prophetic and DMT states, a model he calls theoneurology. Theoneurology bridges biology and spirituality by proposing that the Divine communicates with us using the brain, and DMT – whether naturally produced or ingested – is a critical factor in such visionary experience. This model provides a counterpoint to neurotheology, which proposes that altered brain function simply generates the impression of a Divine-human encounter. Theoneurology addresses issues critical to the full flowering of the psychedelic drug experience. Perhaps even more important, it points the way to a renewal of classical prophetic consciousness, the soul of Hebrew Bible prophecy, as well as unexpected directions for the evolution of contemporary spiritual practice.
www.rickstrassman.com
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LF137 John Michael Greer – After Progress: Reason and Religion at the End of the Industrial Age

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John Michael Greer discusses his latest book After Progress: Reason and Religion at the End of the Industrial Age. Progress is not just a goal in the West – it’s a religion. Most people believe in its inherent value as enthusiastically and uncritically as medieval peasants believed in heaven and hell. Our faith in progress drives the popular insistence that peak oil and climate change don’t actually matter. After all, our lab-coated high priests will surely bring forth yet another miracle to save us all. Unfortunately, progress as we’ve known it has been entirely dependent on the breakneck exploitation of half a billion years of stored sunlight in the form of fossil fuels.
As the age of cheap, abundant energy draws to a close, progress is grinding to a halt. Unforgiving planetary limits are teaching us that our blind faith in endless exponential growth is a dangerous myth. After Progress addresses this looming paradigm shift, exploring the shape of history from a perspective on the far side of the coming crisis. Greer’s startling examination of the role our belief systems play in the evolution of our collective consciousness is required reading for anyone concerned about making sense of the future at a time when we must seek new sources of meaning, value, and hope for the era ahead.
The Archdruid Report
Previous interviews with John Michael Greer:The Long DescentThe Ecotechnic FutureGreen WizardryDecline and Fall
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LF136 Courtney Brown – Remote Viewing Cydonia, Mars: Part Two

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Courtney Brown discusses The Farsight Institute’s latest project Remote Viewing Cydonia, Mars.This is a two part interview. Part one is here.
The data collected during the project suggests that long ago, a civilization existed on Mars. This civilization built something in a place now known as Cydonia. Many on Earth speculated that it appeared to be a ‘face’ looking upward, but it’s something else. The Farsight project suggests that it was a place where people congregated and lived; a city of Martians who were more like us on Earth than most would imagine.
Combining two of the most skilled remote viewers currently on the planet, using U.S. military derived methodologies for perceiving across time and space, and working within a scientifically clean and totally blind experimental design, the Farsight project describes how Martians lived, and how they died. The science of remote viewing has matured to the extent that a project such as this has finally been achievable, but no one could have expected the results to be as shocking as what was actually revealed by the new data. And there are lessons here that our own civilization can learn should we wish to avoid the terrible fate that befell the denizens of Mars.
www.farsight.org
Previous interviews with Courtney Brown:Remote Viewing, Consciousness and RealityAtlantis: The True StoryThe Mystery of the Great Pyramid Solved9/11: What Really Happened?
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LF135 Courtney Brown – Remote Viewing Cydonia, Mars: Part One

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Courtney Brown discusses The Farsight Institute’s latest project Remote Viewing Cydonia, Mars.This is a two part interview. Part two is here.
The data collected during the project suggests that long ago, a civilization existed on Mars. This civilization built something in a place now known as Cydonia. Many on Earth speculated that it appeared to be a ‘face’ looking upward, but it’s something else. The Farsight project suggests that it was a place where people congregated and lived; a city of Martians who were more like us on Earth than most would imagine.
Combining two of the most skilled remote viewers currently on the planet, using U.S. military derived methodologies for perceiving across time and space, and working within a scientifically clean and totally blind experimental design, the Farsight project describes how Martians lived, and how they died. The science of remote viewing has matured to the extent that a project such as this has finally been achievable, but no one could have expected the results to be as shocking as what was actually revealed by the new data. And there are lessons here that our own civilization can learn should we wish to avoid the terrible fate that befell the denizens of Mars.
www.farsight.org
Previous interviews with Courtney Brown:Remote Viewing, Consciousness and RealityAtlantis: The True StoryThe Mystery of the Great Pyramid Solved9/11: What Really Happened?
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LF134 Simon G. Powell – Magic Mushroom Explorer

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Simon G. Powell discusses his book Magic Mushroom Explorer: Psilocybin and the Awakening Earth.
We apologize for the sound quality during the first three minutes of the main interview.
Psilocybin, the active ingredient found in psychedelic mushrooms, is an invaluable natural resource for spiritually awakening the human psyche and reconnecting us to the biosphere and the vast intelligence of Nature.
Interweaving the most recent scientific studies in the United States and Britain, more than 25 years of sacred mushroom exploration, and behind-the-scenes details on the political wars against psychedelics, Powell offers a guide to safely navigating and maximizing the healing and spiritual potential of psilocybin. He explores the eco-psychological effects of wild psychedelic mushrooms, including enhanced biophilia, expanded awareness, mystical visions, and eco-shamanic encounters. He reveals how the beings and otherworldly teachers common in psilocybin experiences are actually emissaries from our higher consciousness that emerge when the floodgates of perception have been opened. He shares vivid descriptions from many of his own psilocybin journeys and shows how the mushroom offers a path of return to the ancient wisdom binding all life on Earth, a wisdom conveyed through tutorial visions and higher modes of perception.
Illustrating psilocybin’s healthful properties, now acknowledged by mainstream science, Powell describes his activism in the fight to keep psilocybin mushroom use legal in the UK and shows that an irrational rejection of scientific evidence underlies the harsh war against psychedelic states of consciousness. Laying the groundwork for a new relationship with our biosphere, Powell shows how the Earth’s psychedelic medicines can reconnect us to the spirituality and wisdom of Nature and bring the human race back from the brink of ecological and existential disaster.
www.simongpowell.com
Simon’s documentaries Metanoia and Manna
Previous interview with Simon G. Powell: Darwin’s Unfinished Business 
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LF132 Graham Nicholls – Navigating the Out Of Body Experience: Part Two

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Graham Nicholls discusses his books Avenues of the Human Spirit and Navigating the Out of Body Experience. This is a two part interview. Part one is here
The talk includes the nature of the out of body experience, the science behind it, and the state of current research into OBEs. Out of body experiences can be self-induced, but can they be controlled? Are out of body experiences always positive, and might they ultimately have a purpose? What might they tell us about the nature of consciousness and the possibility of life after death? Other subjects touched upon include remote viewing, near death experiences, reincarnation, quantum entanglement and the notion of extended mind and collective consciousness, and the role of sound in altered states of consciousness. We also discuss the skeptic community and their role in denying and debunking non-material forces and psychic phenomena in general.
www.grahamnicholls.com
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LF131 Graham Nicholls – Navigating the Out Of Body Experience: Part One

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Graham Nicholls discusses his books Avenues of the Human Spirit and Navigating the Out of Body Experience. This is a two part interview. Part two is here
The talk includes the nature of the out of body experience, the science behind it, and the state of current research into OBEs. Out of body experiences can be self-induced, but can they be controlled? Are out of body experiences always positive, and might they ultimately have a purpose? What might they tell us about the nature of consciousness and the possibility of life after death? Other subjects touched upon include remote viewing, near death experiences, reincarnation, quantum entanglement and the notion of extended mind and collective consciousness, and the role of sound in altered states of consciousness. We also discuss the skeptic community and their role in denying and debunking non-material forces and psychic phenomena in general.
www.grahamnicholls.com
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LF130 Randall S. Powers & Steven Konkoly – Practical Prepping: No Apocalypse Required

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Randall S. Powers and Steven Konkoly discuss their book Practical Prepping: No Apocalypse Required. Prepping – or preparedness – is simply about taking steps in your own life which could potentially be of great benefit in the event of a crisis or disaster situation. It has, however, become embroiled with the popular clichés of survivalism and images of groups or individuals holed up in armed redoubts with a million cans of beans and enough weapons to start a war.
Back in the real world, beyond popular post-apocalyptic fantasies, there are many often more mundane events which have the potential to seriously disrupt our daily lives. Terrorism, economic meltdown, natural disasters and pandemics such as Ebola and avian flu regularly hit the headlines. But even something as simple as a prolonged power outage or severe winter freeze can – and has – left thousands of citizens on the back foot with inadequate supplies of food, water and other essentials with which to ride out such an emergency.
The aftermath of Hurricanes Katrina and Sandy stand as stark examples of government failure in disaster management. They’re not the first and they certainly won’t be the last. Taken in tandem with the potentially fatal interconnectedness of our modern industrial systems and widespread public ignorance about the fragility of the infrastructure which makes our comfortable lives of consumption possible, a picture emerges in which we would all do well to do some serious thinking about how we and our families could cope should the worst happen.
Practical Prepping: No Apocalypse Required isn’t a book about ditching the suburbs for a heavily defended, self-sufficient compound in the mountains. It explores practical first steps that you can take to prepare for the disasters you are most likely to experience. The book offers a layered, foundational approach that can be tailored to your circumstances and motivation level. You’ll be surprised by how little time, effort and hard-earned cash you’ll need to put into Practical Prepping.
www.stevenkonkoly.comwww.practicaltactical4you.com
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LF128 Peter Jones – Wilhelm Reich and Forbidden Science

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Peter Jones discusses some of the issues raised in his book Artificers of Fraud. Wilhelm Reich (1897 – 1957) was an Austrian psychoanalyst, a member of the second generation of psychoanalysts after Sigmund Freud, and one of the most radical figures in the history of psychiatry. He was the author of several influential books, most notably Character Analysis (1933) and The Mass Psychology of Fascism (1933). His writing influenced generations of intellectuals and during the 1968 student uprisings in Paris and Berlin, students scrawled his name on walls and threw copies of The Mass Psychology of Fascism at the police.
From the 1930s onward, he became an increasingly controversial figure. After moving to the United States, he coined the term ‘orgone’ for a cosmic energy he claimed to have discovered, which he said others referred to as God. In 1940, he started building orgone accumulators, devices that his patients sat inside to harness the reputed health benefits. However, following vociferous media criticism, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration obtained an injunction against the shipment of orgone accumulators and Reich’s books. Charged with contempt in 1956 for having violated the injunction, Reich was sentenced to two years in prison, and that summer over six tons of his publications were burned by order of the court. He died in jail of heart failure just over a year later. Reich’s case is both bizarre and disturbing, but it speaks to a situation still prevalent today, in which scientists and researchers beyond the margins of mainstream academia are routinely derided, ridiculed, and in some cases, ruined. In the name of intellectual rigour, a new religion – Scientism – has been born.
www.orgonomyuk.org.ukwww.wilhelmreichtrust.orgwww.orgonomicscience.orgwww.orgonelab.org
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