Here's a letter I received today from C-Realm listener Ergoat.

(This is a long one, so I won't be using the blockquote feature. Everything after this parenthetical is Ergoat.)

Hello KMO!

I stumbled onto your site full of wonderful podcasts about a month ago through, quite randomly (or not), a link through Daniel Quinn's website when looking for a quote from My Ishmael.

I'm surprised that I didn't cross paths with you in cyberspace before now, as I have been following many of the very topics that you illuminate on your shows. Specifically ayahuasca, the McKenna brothers, Gnostic Media, and the biofuels, with the many others I have listened to filling in gaps of context and information.

I came to my greater consciousness seven years ago at the age of 18, and began my search and research into these matters. My guiding principle was my awareness of Hemp for Fuel, and the idea of cheap, sustainable clean energy that could break people free from the grid of 9-5 mill/factory/office mentalities and open society at large to ideals of a more creativity filled lives with ideals of artistry and artisanship placed in high value, as well as direct personal experiences with self and community instead of TV mass-media consumer materialist culture. ( Read more... )