Guest speakers: Bruce Damer and Lorenzo Hagerty
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Today’s podcast features the first of the recordings from last weekend’s workshop (titled “Terence McKenna: Beyond 2012”) that Bruce Damer and Lorenzo led in the Los Angeles area on January 28, 2012. In addition to Lorenzo’s remarks and some comments by those in attendance, three videos created by Bruce Damer were shown. Those videos are embedded below.

The second part of the podcast is the Occupy Movement update, which features a conversation between Lawrence Lessig and Chris Hedges. During the course of their conversation they debate the relative merits of pushing for a Constitutional Convention verses non-violent civil disobedience. Also included is a sound bite from one of OccupyFreedomLA’s live video feeds in which a speaker addresses the actions now being taken by those who are suffering from the foreclosure epidemic that is facing so many people in the U.S.
» Continue reading “Podcast 298 – “Terence McKenna: Beyond 2012” Part 1″

Guest speaker: Douglas Rushkoff, Antero Alli, Tiffany Lee Brown, and Joseph Matheny
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The featured audio that I play in this podcast is part of a two-CD collection produced by Joe Matheny and given to the salon to podcast by the distributor, The Original Falcon Press, which you can find via originalfalcon.com. The voices you will here are those of: Douglas Rushkoff, Antero Alli, Tiffany Lee Brown, and Joseph Matheny.
» Continue reading “Podcast 297 – “A Tribute to Robert Anton Wilson””

Guest speaker: Terence McKenna
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[NOTE: All quotations are by Terence McKenna.]

“One of the most puzzling things about DMT is that it does not affect your mind. It simply replaces the world 100% with something completely unexpected. But your relationship to that unexpected thing is not one of exaggerated fear, or exaggerated acceptance, as in ‘Oh great, the world has just been replaced by elf machinery. Your reaction is exactly what it would be if it happened to you without DMT. You’re appalled!”

“A hallucination is a species of reality.”
» Continue reading “Podcast 296 – “The World and It’s Double” Part 2″

Guest speaker: Terence McKenna
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[NOTE: All quotations are by Terence McKenna.]

“Culture denies experience. We all have had, and even a population of non-psychedelic people have had, prophetic dreams, intimations, unlikely strings of coincidences, all of these sort of things. These are all experiences, which cultures deny.”

“I think of history as a kind of mass psychedelic experience, and the drug is technology.”
» Continue reading “Podcast 295 – “The World and It’s Double” Part 1″

Guest speakers: David Graeber & Tim Pool
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Today’s podcast takes a look back at some of the roots of the current Occupy Movement on the eve of the first anniversary of the death of Mohamed Bouazizi, whose self-immolation marked the beginning of the Arab Spring. Today is also the eve of the third anniversary of Occupy Wall Street, and so I have put together an audio collage that ranges from some early sounds of the movement to interviews with David Graeber and Tim Pool, as well as some comments by fellow saloner Jaret, and a couple of sound bites from Lawrence Lessig and Senator Bernie Sanders to round things out.

Links to topics discussed in this podcast:

Battle in Seattle
The Daily Show with Jon Stewart – Lawrence Lessig Interview
Brian Leher Program with David Graeber
Majority Report interview with Tim Pool
Jaret Johnston’s FEEDBACK ART

Guest speaker: Hakim Bey
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[NOTE: The following quotations are by Hakim Bey.]

“Why are artists still meddling, or mediating, between people and their desires?”

“All livelihoods are arts, from midwifery to war, nothing is mere labor.” [In reference to gift economies.]

“The artist sacrifices talent for money. The audience sacrifices money for talent.”

“One can no longer distinguish between cops and cop-culture, the media-induced hallucination of a society designed by its lawyers and police.”

“Ten minutes in a video store should convince any impartial observer that we live in a police state of consciousness, far more pervasive than the Nazis.”

“The first step in any real utopia is to look in the mirror and demand to know my true desires.”

“I will argue that illegality means more than mere law-breaking. Illegality as a positive attribute of the Temporary Autonomous Zone implies that the very structure, or deepest motivation of the TAZ-group necessitates the overcoming of consensus values, and that this is true when even no statute or regulation has been broken.”

“The Temporary Autonomous Zone should serve as the Matrix for the emergence of a Sorelian myth of uprising.”

“The Temporary Autonomous Zone cannot be realized solely as a hedonic exercise any more than the revolution can be realized without dancing, as Emma Goldman put it.”

“Today quilts. Tomorrow, perhaps, The Uprising!”

T.A.Z.
Temporary Autonomous Zone
2 Audio CDs
Joseph Matheny, Rob Brezsny, Hakim Bey, Nick Herbert, and Robert Anton Wilson

BrainMeats Podcast
Episode 1 Occupy BrainMeats

The inaugural episode of the BrainMeats podcast is devoted to the Occupy movement and what hackers and makers can do to support the protesters on the ground. Willow spoke over Skype to Ari Lacenski, Eleanor Saitta, Matthew Borgatti, Rubin Starset, and Smári McCarthy about the history of OWS, the meaning of illegibility within the movement, software tools for protesters, and more.

Guest speaker: Makana
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[NOTE: All quotations are by Makana.]

“This whole war that we’re fighting is a war of consciousness versus ignorance, of controlling human behavior by controlling people’s thoughts, by directing their awareness.”

“There’s always going to be disagreements as to what the solutions are, and even what the problem is, but if people in their own personal process start to face their own fear and let go of the prison that they are in, and that prison is the concern about what someone else thinks of them, if they get over that then they can be free. And then it’s up to them to facilitate the change they want to see. But we have to at least help them to get to that point, and that’s what I try to do with my music.”

“The only way we can bring about a revolution of freedom is to bring about a revolution of perception.”

“There are millions of people like me, who care about their future and will say something.”

“Aloha isn’t about representing yourself in a way that people will like you. Aloha is about valuing the well being of the other person, because you realize that you’re interconnected to them by the nature of life.”

“I know this sounds kind of silly, but for years I’ve been thinking to myself, it’s the musicians’ fault why things are so fucked up, because they have been programming people to not care for so many years now. And hopefully the musicians will start to not be afraid to say the things they really want to say, because music does something to you. It hits your emotions, and it goes right past that part of your brain that controls you.”

“When we can transcend this illusion that we are so different from each other, then we become powerful.”

“I feel that in the process of what we’re attempting to facilitate, to consider how people orient themselves to these issues is of utmost importance. Not just to present these issues, but to really know how to get inside and behind the barriers that have been put in place there by systems, an education system and a media that work to create an unthinking workforce, and people that don’t challenge authority and status quo. So I’m a big fan of understanding how nature works.”

ALSO SEE:
How I Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love the OWS Protests
by Matt Taibbi

Guest speaker: Robert Anton Wilson
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Occupy Segment alone is available at: Occupy Updates Day 66

[NOTE: All quotations are by Robert Anton Wilson.]

“I think we’re in a period of fractal chaos, and the whole system is collapsing, and every week is a new surprise.” (1990)

“Things are happening so fast that the only prediction I’ll make is that everything is going to happen faster than we expect it.”

“That’s why I don’t believe in monolithic conspiracy theories, there’s one group that runs everything. If there was one group that runs everything the world would make a little sense.”

This program was made possible by the copyright owner, Joe Matheny, and the publisher, The Original Falcon Press.

Tim Pool, Journalist Extraordinaire, (link to his live video feed from Occupy Wall Street)

GENERAL STRIKE, by Moe Shinola

“The Bat Signal”

Guest speaker: Robert Anton Wilson
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Occupy Segment alone is available at: Occupy Updates Day 60

[NOTE: All quotations are by Robert Anton Wilson.]
“There actually have been studies done at many schools in the big cities where IQ has measurably decreases from the entering of grammar school to graduation from high school. The longer they’re there they dumber they get. And some people think that’s an accident, or an oversight, or a mistake, but that is the function of the public schools. The function of the public schools is to stop thinking.”

“I perforce had to invent this style of paradoxes to prevent people from thinking they’re getting the truth out of my books. What you’re getting out of my books is my guesses, my hunches, sometimes my prejudices. … I don’t claim to know the truth.”

“And as a matter of fact, governments don’t act, governments only react. The bankers make the decisions, and then governments decide how are we going to adjust to this. Government can’t do anything unless the bank gives them the money to do it.”

Links and videos mentioned in this podcast

Robert Anton Wilson (DVD) “The ‘I’ in the Triangle” from The Original Falcon Press

Artist, saloner, and one of the Brooklyn Bridge 700:
Ken Vallario (Web site)

Ken Vallario’s story of his arrest

Information request about
Children of the Revolution: Tune Back In (2005)

OCCUPY STREAM (Video feeds from numerous Occupy sites)

MAKANA the Mighty

Guest speaker: Robert Anton Wilson
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Occupy Segment alone is available at: Occupy Updates Day 53

[NOTE: All quotations are by Robert Anton Wilson.]
“You know what family values means, that’s hating the same people your grandfather hated.”

“Information intrinsically tends to produce more information, and it breeds faster than rabbits.”

“We never do reach limits. That’s one of the big fallacies of our time, is the idea of limits. There are no limits.”

“We are graduating from being terrestrial mortals to becoming cosmic immortals. We are becoming the gods that we imagined a long time ago. I think that’s where evolution has been pointing.”
» Continue reading “Podcast 289 – Robert Anton Wilson “The Lost Studio Session””