Author and NPR correspondent Doug Fine returns to the C-Realm to explain why sustainability isn't just for hippies in Birkenstocks sitting outside a hut eating steamed dirt. Doug set out to get off petroleum without giving up any of his digital age comforts, and he answers questions from C-Realm listeners about his progress. Later, KMO and AyasminA track the thematic evolution of the C-Realm Podcast.

You can find the full Doug Fine interview here: http://www.talkshoe.com/talkshoe/web/talkCast.jsp?masterId=22480&cmd=tc

Okay, for those of you who are none too enamored with my long Michael Tsarion interview, here is the unedited recording of AyasminA's interview with me, which is to say, AyasminA interviews KMO:

http://www.archive.org/details/AyasminaInterviewsKmo

Hopefully it will be more in line with your expectations for the C-Realm Podcast and more to your liking. It's about an hour and twenty minutes long, and I plan to edit it down to about twenty minutes and post it to the new C-Realm blog as a sort of audio bio for the blog's author.

It's distributed under the usual Creative Commons Attribution, Non-commercial, Share-Alike 3.0 license, so you're welcome to make use of it in your own projects.

"C" stands for consciousness

Episode 89: Ayahuasca, Alcohol, & Marijuana



KMO talks with AyasminA, who deflates the ayahuasca hype balloon and re-sets expectations with a much needed reality check. KMO and AyasminA also compare notes on the role that alcohol and marijuana play in the evolving global ayahausca consciousness.

The mp3 on PodOMatic is broken and will remain so until Monday. You can download the full episode here in the mean time:


http://www.megaupload.com/?d=Y667J5TP