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GET FULL ACCESS TO ALL LEGALISE FREEDOM CONTENT HERE Dr. Rory Mac Sweeney discusses some of the ideas in his book The Paradox of Lucid Dreaming - A Metaphysical Theory of Mind. This is a three part interview. Part one is here. Part two is here. During the show, we further probe the blurring boundaries between the micro world of quantum physics and the macro realm of our so-called reality, and those between the waking and dreaming states of consciousness. It would appear that as these apparently discrete worlds collide and cross over, the gulf between mind and matter, between thought and the physical realm, is narrowing at an increasing rate. Developments in technology, language, and evolutionary biology are converging as we become more conscious of our individual and collective creative processes, carving reality from a field of potential where everything theoretically exists. Subjective experience, which mainstream science says we should ignore, is becoming increasingly significant. As these phenomena exponentially expand, what then happens to our preconceived notions of what is fact and what is truth? Is there, in the end, a hard, fast reality out there, or is all just a story that consciousness is telling itself? www.wakeupinyourdreams.com Greg Moffitt on Reality Check Podcast with Rory Mac Sweeney. Bumper music: Cliff Martinez 'Traffic OST' Fields of the Nephilim 'Dead But Dreaming' Cybotron 'Parameters of Consciousness'

GET FULL ACCESS TO ALL LEGALISE FREEDOM CONTENT HERE Dr. Rory Mac Sweeney discusses some of the ideas in his book The Paradox of Lucid Dreaming - A Metaphysical Theory of Mind. This is a three part interview. Part one is here. During today's show we delve deep into the dream space, discussing how the barriers between dreams and reality, and between mind and matter are dissolving as we awaken once again to the true nature of the world and the wider cosmos - one of paradox, illusion and constant change. The cosmos and the so-called laws which govern it are not static. The dualistic model of reality promoted by Western materialist reductionism is revealing itself as just another dogma. The scientific method has brought us many benefits, but the core concept that some empirical reality actually exists is constantly and increasingly being challenged by our lived experience of subjective realities and the limits of mass consensual reality. If you think you're awake you're dreaming, and if you know you're dreaming, you're awake... www.wakeupinyourdreams.com Greg Moffitt on Reality Check Podcast with Rory Mac Sweeney. Bumper music: Cliff Martinez 'Traffic OST' Fields of the Nephilim 'Dead But Dreaming' Maserati 'Rehumanizer'

GET FULL ACCESS TO ALL LEGALISE FREEDOM CONTENT HERE Laurie Endicott Thomas discusses her book Not Trivial - How Studying the Traditional Liberal Arts Can Set You Free. Why are there so many problems within our modern education system? In theory, our schools should be better than they've ever been, but growing numbers of people are embarking on their adult lives as functionally illiterate. Despite the best efforts of educators, much of the system is thus increasingly unfit for purpose. This has enormous implications for society in general, and politics in particular. Is this by accident, or by design? Are there hidden agendas at work? Upon investigation, it would seem that the true purpose of compulsory state education is less about liberation and freedom of opportunity, and more about control, coercion, and churning out compliant consumers and obedient workers willing to take their allotted place in society's hierarchy. When direct oppression is no longer possible, deliberate dumbing down will do just as well. www.nottrivialbook.com Related interviews: Richard Grove - What We Can All Learn From John Taylor Gatto Nick Duffell - Wounded Leaders Bumper music: Cliff Martinez 'Traffic OST' Pink Floyd 'The Wall'

GET FULL ACCESS TO ALL LEGALISE FREEDOM CONTENT HERE Gregg Levoy discusses his book Vital Signs - The Nature and Nurture of Passion. This exuberant and compelling work explores how you can cultivate not just a specific passion, but passion as a mindset - a stance - that helps bring vitality to all your engagements, from work and relationships to creativity and spiritual life. Vital Signs examines the endless, yet endlessly fruitful, tug-of-war between passion and security in our lives, the wild in us and the tame, our natural selves and our conditioned selves, and shows us how to stay engaged with the world and resist the downward-pulling forces that can drain our aliveness. Vital Signs also encourages courageous inquiry into our dis-passion - where we're numb, depressed, stuck and bored in our lives - so that we can rework these tendencies in ourselves, claim our rightful inheritance of vitality, and get our spark back. Drawing from centuries of history, art, science, psychology and philosophy, as well as in-depth interviews with people who rediscovered and reignited passion in their own lives, Vital Signs offers an expansive menu of possibilities for how to claim and reclaim your passion, and will help you maintain a keen awareness of where the pulse is and a determination to plug into that place. www.gregglevoy.com Bumper music: Cliff Martinez 'Traffic OST' Pink Floyd 'Time'

GET FULL ACCESS TO ALL LEGALISE FREEDOM CONTENT HERE Grafton Tanner discusses his book Babbling Corpse - Vaporwave and the Commodification of Ghosts. The age of global capitalism promised all things to everyone; a world of techno-utopian fantasies embellished by endless entertainment, copious consumerism, and instant communication. As the 20th Century finally gave way to the 21st, corporate central control offered a vision of a future free from war, fear, and limitation. In societies increasingly devoid of meaning and purpose, we bought into the promise of this digital dreamland with religious zeal. The future, however, is turning out to be far from that envisioned in the ivory towers of industry imagineers. The events of 9/11 and subsequent years of the so-called 'war on terror', and the seismic shock of the 2008 financial crash and it's fatal fallout have left America, the West in general, and many other regions of the world reeling with no end in sight and with the milk and honey promises of the past in tatters. Taking Vaporwave - a nascent musical micro-genre - as our starting point, we explore its parodies of popular culture, the changing face of a music business in meltdown, global capitalism's effect on art, the insidious side-effects of the electronic media which pervade our lives, the death of the old and emergence of new meaning in society, the burgeoning nostalgia industry, and our post-millennial obsession with a past which now resembles nothing less than a vanished golden age. Bumper music: Cliff Martinez 'Traffic OST' Quixotic 'Palms' Ogre 'The Bench'

GET FULL ACCESS TO ALL LEGALISE FREEDOM CONTENT HERE Grafton Tanner discusses his book Babbling Corpse - Vaporwave and the Commodification of Ghosts. The age of global capitalism promised all things to everyone; a world of techno-utopian fantasies embellished by endless entertainment, copious consumerism, and instant communication. As the 20th Century finally gave way to the 21st, corporate central control offered a vision of a future free from war, fear, and limitation. In societies increasingly devoid of meaning and purpose, we bought into the promise of this digital dreamland with religious zeal. The future, however, is turning out to be far from that envisioned in the ivory towers of industry imagineers. The events of 9/11 and subsequent years of the so-called 'war on terror', and the seismic shock of the 2008 financial crash and it's fatal fallout have left America, the West in general, and many other regions of the world reeling with no end in sight and with the milk and honey promises of the past in tatters. Taking Vaporwave - a nascent musical micro-genre - as our starting point, we explore its parodies of popular culture, the changing face of a music business in meltdown, global capitalism's effect on art, the insidious side-effects of the electronic media which pervade our lives, the death of the old and emergence of new meaning in society, the burgeoning nostalgia industry, and our post-millennial obsession with a past which now resembles nothing less than a vanished golden age. Bumper music: Cliff Martinez 'Traffic OST' Miami Nights 1984 'Early Summer' Dynatron 'Escape Velocity'

GET FULL ACCESS TO ALL LEGALISE FREEDOM CONTENT HERE Although most of us like to believe that disaster will never hit us where it hurts, time and time again individuals, families, and entire communities are caught out when it does. From floods to wildfires, from hurricanes to earthquakes, basic preparedness for disruption to our daily lives is relatively simple, and need not be expensive. And yet, when catastrophe comes calling, millions worldwide continue to rely on government riding to the rescue, and on state assistance which all too often fails with fatal results. Hollywood movies favour doomsday scenarios such as meteor strikes, nuclear wars, and the ever-popular plagues of zombie apocalypse, but everyday disasters are likely to be localized and much more mundane. They are also much more likely to actually occur. In a world of political, economic, and social upheaval, environmental destruction, climate chaos, and rampant resource conflicts, only the foolhardy or insane would insist 'It can't happen here!' The good news is that with a little time, study, and forward planning, almost anyone anywhere can begin to take a few basic steps to help ensure that they, their loved ones, and their community ride out the coming storms, whenever and wherever they strike. Bumper music: Cliff Martinez 'Traffic OST' John Carpenter 'Escape From New York' OST Gil Melle 'The Andromeda Strain'

GET FULL ACCESS TO ALL LEGALISE FREEDOM CONTENT HERE Phil Escott discusses alternative approaches to health and healing, including some of the subjects raised in his book Arthritis - The Best Thing That Ever Happened to Me. Modern medicine and mainstream healthcare are minefields of conflicting information and advice struggling to meet a constant stream of emerging threats and newly diagnosed conditions. For all that developed and even developing nations are today supposed to be living longer and better than ever, there are worrying trends in an entire constellation of chronic illnesses, and a disturbing decline in mental health. From diabetes to cancer, from autism to clinical depression, cases continue to multiply. Despite our scientific and technological sophistication, and in fact in large part because of it, we have created an incredibly toxic environment for ourselves. Beyond pollution of our air and water, a host of other problems from electromagnetic radiation and artificial light, to our schizophrenic relationship with food and fitness, conspire to make us unwell. Factor in societal pressures such as stress around money, work, and relationships, and we find ourselves facing an almost overwhelming assault. And yet questioning received wisdom about health and wellness can be extremely challenging. We live in a system geared towards treating symptoms, not causes, and in which profit all too often comes before people. Cutting through the confusion, however, reveals truths which we have always known: that the human body functions as a single system, mental health is intimately linked to physical well-being, and - beyond extreme trauma - the body can heal itself given a genuine chance. Bumper music: Cliff Martinez 'Traffic OST'

GET FULL ACCESS TO ALL LEGALISE FREEDOM CONTENT HERE Engelbert Winkler discusses the power and potential of light, and the development of the Lucia No.3 Hypnagogic Lamp. Light is essential to life, and it affects the brain and body in subtle and dramatic ways. But beyond warming our skin and growing our food, how many of us ever really afford it a second thought? Even the sublime beauty of the sunset all too often slips away unseen. Cutting edge research, however, is revealing properties of light which, although appearing to us as an unfolding paradigm, are in truth resonant reflections of insights and experiences that many of our ancient ancestors would have instinctively understood. In ages past, the powerful psychoactive effects of light changed lives, shaped entire cultures, and may even have led to the founding of religions, some of which are still with us today. Whilst exploring these almost antediluvian mysteries, we shed light on the future, from near death experiences and so-called mental illness, to light's therapeutic potential to heal trauma, transform our states of being, and evolve consciousness itself. Bumper music: Cliff Martinez ‘Traffic OST’ Tangerine Dream ‘Light of Creation’

GET FULL ACCESS TO ALL LEGALISE FREEDOM CONTENT HERE John Waters discusses his latest book 'The Abolition of Reality - A First Draft of the End of History'. This book may become to the reality of the past five years what Winston Smith’s diary proposed it might become within the fictional world of 1984. It is intended, first of all, as a permanent record of a time that only a few noticed while it was happening, a book - as Winston said - ‘For the future, for the unborn’. In that future it may be hard to persuade people that what happened from the spring of 2020 really did happen. Either the past will have been erased to such an extent that no one will know human liberty ever existed, or else a revolution of human consciousness will make it improbable that human beings could ever have so easily been duped into surrendering the rights and freedoms their ancestors had won in blood. A fake pandemic was the signal that one morning began the foreclosure on everything that had, until the evening before, been axiomatically central to the idea of liberal, democratic, constitutional republics. The most shocking thing was not so much that this started to happen, but that almost no one seemed to object to it happening; almost no one sought to cite or defend the rights and liberties being overturned. Liberals fell silent; leftists joined in the clamouring for more and more tyranny. In 'The Abolition of Reality', John Waters describes not just what happened but the meaning of what happened, in the course of what may well be judged by history as the most heinous crime of all time. Bumper music: Cliff Martinez ‘Traffic OST’ Dionysiac ‘New Star Broadcasting’

Listen to the full show on Legalise Freedom Dot Com Miguel Conner discusses his new book 'The Occult Elvis: The Mystical and Magical Life of the King'. Elvis Presley, the most successful solo artist in history and an emblematic cultural figure of the Western world, has been widely perceived as a conservative Southern Christian. However, the truth about the man has been missed. Conner reveals that Elvis was a profound mystic, occultist, and shaman. Beginning with the unusual circumstances of his birth - and his stillborn twin brother – the author traces the diverse thread of mysticism that runs through Presley’s life, drawing on firsthand accounts from the people closest to him, including his wife, Priscilla, and his spiritual advisors. He shows how Elvis studied seminal 19th and 20th century occultists and argues that Elvis was well-versed in the esoteric practices of sex magic, meditation, astrology, and numerology and had a deep familiarity with Kabbalah, Gnosticism, Theosophy, and Eastern traditions. He also reveals how Elvis was a natural healer, telekinetic, psychic, and astral traveler who had significant mystical experiences and UFO encounters. Looking at the conspiratorial and paranormal aspects of Elvis’s life, the author explores the 'Elvis visitations' that have occurred since the King’s death and the general high weirdness of his life. As Conner convincingly argues, Elvis was not just a one-of-a-kind rock-and-roller. He was the greatest magician America ever produced. Bumper music: Cliff Martinez ‘Traffic OST’ Dionysiac ‘New Star Broadcasting’

Mark Vidler discusses Sacred Geometry of the Earth - The Ancient Matrix of Monuments and Mountains Listen to the full show on Legalise Freedom Dot Com. From continent to continent across the globe, Mark Vidler and Catherine Young reveal that order is everywhere on Earth. On remote islands, soaring summits, and level deltas, they unveil natural topographic patterns related to pi, the golden ratio, and right-triangle geometry. And as the planet’s design emerges, it becomes clear that this hidden order in nature decided the location of ancient monuments the world over. Through detailed maps, Vidler and Young show how the locations of megalithic monuments reflect and enhance a natural pattern on the Earth that connects its major features. The authors examine the geography of many islands, and each continent, including Antarctica, to show how the highest peak on each landmass falls on a line connecting coastal extremes. They reveal how circles of standing stones and man-made mounds mark intersections of these lines. They explore the connection between the Nazca lines in Peru, and the Amazon, Nile, and Ganges deltas, and explain how the locations of the Giza pyramids, Stonehenge, and Machu Pichu are integrated into the natural design on Earth. As they uncover geometric patterns line by line, point by point, they reveal how the world’s ancient monuments represent a form of trans-global communication that far predates the written word. Perhaps the biggest mystery in all of this, however, is how, in ages before flight, satellites, and Google Earth, ancient peoples could have had a truly global picture of the Earth that we today are still rediscovering. Bumper music: Cliff Martinez ‘Traffic OST’ Black Sabbath ‘Stonehenge’

Graham Phillips discusses his book The Lost Tomb of King Arthur – The Search for Camelot and the Isle of Avalon. Listen to the full show on Legalise Freedom Dot Com. The story of King Arthur is known throughout the world. The fabled Camelot, Sir Bedivere casting Excalibur into the lake, and Arthur’s secret burial at the isle of Avalon – these are just a few of the enchanting themes in the ancient saga that historians have long considered to be pure fantasy. Now, in The Lost Tomb of King Arthur, Graham Phillips presents compelling evidence that such legends were actually based on real events. During a quest lasting over 25 years, he has followed a fascinating trail of historical clues showing Arthur to have been a living warrior who led the Britons around the year 500. He has discovered that the legendary Camelot, Excalibur, and Avalon were based on a real city, a real sword, and a real island. And, most astonishing of all, Graham has found what he claims to be the location where Arthur was finally buried. An ancient manuscript still persevered at Oxford University, Phillips believes, reveals the whereabouts of King Arthur’s long-lost tomb. Not in the South West town of Glastonbury, as the popular myth maintains, but at an ancient site in the isolated countryside of central England. With the help of archaeologists employing the very latest scientific techniques, the author now has what he is certain is the final proof that this disregarded Dark Age text really does reveal the last resting place of the man behind the legend of King Arthur. Bumper music: Cliff Martinez ‘Traffic OST’ Richard Wagner ‘Siegfried’s Funeral March’

Mark Olly discusses his book The Disappearing Ninth Legion. Listen to the full show on Legalise Freedom Dot Com At its height, the Roman Empire dominated five million square kilometres and over twenty per cent of the entire population of the Earth, conquered by its vast army, whose prowess in battle is the stuff of legend. Amid the triumph, however, there was of course tragedy, and sometimes curious conjunctions of both. Perhaps the most notorious is the tale of the Ninth Legion, a once proud fighting force among the very best the Empire deployed, who enjoyed victory after glorious victory across centuries before disappearing without trace. The theories about their vanishing are legion themselves, but none thus far has unearthed their fate. In 'The Disappearing Ninth Legion', Mark Olly traces their history and tests the theories in an effort to shed light on just what may have befallen them. Along the way, we relive the might and majesty of the Roman Empire and its awesome power to both build and destroy. In particular, we cast our minds back to the Empire’s attempts to conquer Britain, regarded by many Romans as a near-mythical land of dark sorcery and atavistic barbarism. The road ultimately leads to York, established by the Ninth Legion in AD71 as a Northern outpost and later expanded into one of the most important cities in Roman Britain. Many remains of the original Roman fortress lie under the foundations of York Minster, and excavations in modern times have revealed much about the rise and fall of one of the greatest empires the world has ever seen. But what of the disappearing Ninth Legion? Bumper music: Cliff Martinez ‘Traffic OST’ Hans Zimmer ‘Gladiator OST’

Listen to the full show on Legalise Freedom Dot Com Far from returning to business as usual, in the wake of the COVID-19 panic, society has lurched from one crisis to another in an apparent suicidal death spiral. Social unrest, political upheaval, economic woes, and rampant woke tyranny have combined to trigger a collapse in morals, values, education, social cohesion, and living standards. Diversity and inclusion are in, as long as they're the right kind. Traditional mores, meanwhile, are branded 'far right'. Corruption, depravity and ugliness are celebrated as the new normal while notions of right and wrong are dismissed as outmoded. But is what we are witnessing merely the inevitable downturn in the cycle of a civilization, or could it be that collapse is being deliberately orchestrated as part of a much deeper, darker agenda? Bumper music: Cliff Martinez ‘Traffic OST’ Dionysiac ‘New Star Broadcasting’

Listen to the full show on Legalise Freedom Dot Com Gary Lachman discusses his book The Caretakers of the Cosmos: Living Responsibly in an Unfinished World, which brings together many strands of esoteric, spiritual and philosophical thought to form a counter-argument to the nihilism that permeates the twenty-first century. Why are we here? Where do we come from? Where are we going? Human beings have asked themselves these questions for millennia. Modern science usually argues that humanity is the chance product of a purposeless universe. All too often, however, its facts are found to be merely theories hanging on the next great new discovery which will give us all the answers, but which somehow always seems to be just around the next corner. The result is a nihilistic postmodern world of politics, pop stars and pornography where millions live out empty lives, consumed by consumerism and haunted by a fear of death. For misanthropic environmentalists who view mankind as a cancer or a virus, this can’t come soon enough. But is this really all there is to our existence? Many ancient traditions believe that humanity has an essential role and responsibility in creation. Is it possible that we are a species with amnesia which has forgotten its place in the cosmos? And does the inexpressible longing and profound homesickness that so many of us feel point the way to our destiny? Bumper music: Cliff Martinez ‘Traffic OST’ Klaus Schulze ‘Kontinuum’

Listen to the full show on Legalise Freedom Dot Com Modern industrial civilization is a mode of existence which most of us take for granted. The abundant food, supercharged sanitation, endless entertainment, and constellation of other seemingly unlimited choices laid before us is rarely questioned, and its complexities are poorly understood. But in our headlong charge to consume more of everything whatever the cost, we have set in motion a chain of events which is currently cascading towards catastrophe. Within the realms of energy, the economy, the environment, and the dilating danger zone where all three meet, mounting crises are already undermining our ability to keep the wheels of the capitalist road-show turning. The dream of infinite growth on a finite planet is being exposed as the fantasy it always was. And yet still we pursue the impossible as if it were inevitable, billions of conditioned consumers unwilling or unable to imagine life without their technological trinkets and toys, and still billions more impatiently awaiting their share of the techno-industrial spoils. For most of those aware of our predicament, the future belongs either to a utopian paradise in which technology unfailingly offers solutions to each and every problem, or to a dark dystopian nightmare where the remnants of our race wander the wastelands preying on each other and praying for death. But another world is possible - a world in which we may lose everything, and yet ultimately, once again find ourselves. Bumper music: Cliff Martinez ‘Traffic OST’ Moskva-Kassiopeya ‘Black Rainbow’

Listen to the full show on Legalise Freedom Dot Com Fred Kuttner discusses his book 'Quantum Enigma - Physics Encounters Consciousness', co-authored with Bruce Rosenblum. In trying to understand the atom, physicists built quantum mechanics, the most successful theory in science. But they found, to their embarrassment, that with their theory, physics encounters consciousness, a mysterious phenomenon that science cannot explain and cannot ignore. Attempts to interpret the meaning and implications of all this are often controversial. But every interpretation of quantum physics involves consciousness, and the connection of consciousness with the Universe suggested by some leading quantum cosmologists is mind-blowing. There exists a boundary beyond which the expertise of physicists is no longer the only sure guide. In the few decades since experiments established the existence of quantum entanglement, interest in the foundations, and the mysteries, of quantum mechanics has accelerated. In recent years, physicists, philosophers, computer engineers, and even biologists have expanded our realization of the significance of quantum phenomena. Quantum theory tells us that an object can be in two places at the same time, that its existence becomes real only when observed, and that the observation of an object can instantaneously influence another distant object even if no physical force connects the two. Quantum theory thus denies the existence of a physically real world independent of its observation. Bumper music: Cliff Martinez ‘Traffic OST’ Ian Boddy ‘The Uncertainty Principle’

Listen to the full show on Legalise Freedom Dot Com Since the advent of the modern UFO era in the wake of World War II, controversy, cover-ups, and wild speculation have surrounded the huge numbers of sightings, encounters and other bizarre happenings associated with the phenomenon. The recent expansion of the term 'unidentified flying object' to include 'unidentified aerial phenomena' and the almost all-encompassing ' unidentified anomalous phenomena' has occurred in tandem with high-level political and scientific revelations about previously secret information and covert programs. To some, therefore, disclosure is happening now, right before our very eyes. Alternative theories within Ufology asking whether these phenomena could be interdimensional entities, non-material manifestations previously identified as angels or ghosts, or even past or future events somehow breaking into the present are finally eclipsing the simplistic conception of biological ETs traveling through space in physical craft, for which there is no real evidence. However, perhaps the most crucial questions remain on the margins: What is the connection between human consciousness and these phenomena? Do we play a role in their creation and do they play a role in our evolution? Are they messengers from a wider reality sent to help the human race survive? Bumper music: Cliff Martinez ‘Traffic OST’ Dionysiac ‘New Star Broadcasting’

Listen to the full show on Legalise Freedom Dot Com Exactly thirteen years since his first appearance, Anthony Peake returns to Legalise Freedom to discuss his latest book 'Near Death Experiences: The Science, Psychology and Anthropology Behind the Phenomenon'. Refusing to pander to the false dichotomy between militant materialists and woo-woo peddlers, Peake simultaneously seeks scientific explanations for extraordinary human experiences whilst acknowledging that the materialist-reductionist worldview will never have all the answers. His work ploughs a path which has become increasingly important as acceptance of myriad other dimensions beyond our limited everyday reality gradually awakens in the collective consciousness. In a broad discussion ranging from near-death and other out of body experiences (OBEs), to coma, dreams, precognition, and psychedelic trips, we ask whether life and death are really what we think they are. Bumper music: Cliff Martinez ‘Traffic OST’ Dionysiac ‘New Star Broadcasting’

Mark Olly discusses his book Revealing the Green Man. Listen to the full show on Legalise Freedom Dot Com To many, The Green Man is little more than a chubby face peering through a veil of leaves. Sometimes cute, sometimes vaguely sinister, he is nonetheless widely regarded as merely a meaningless symbol from an age long lost. In reality, however, he could rather be said to be the esoteric embodiment of the very essence of life itself, an ancient archetype once known the world over. On a journey through myths and legends, magic and folklore, we explore the mystery of The Green Man. From the time of the Celts and Druids, the rise of the Roman Empire, the Anglo-Saxon annals, and the descent into the Dark Ages and beyond, we meet with Robin Hood, Herne the Hunter, King Arthur, and many other colourful characters along the way. It is a tale pregnant with arcane symbolism, cultish rites, the perennial wisdom of 'as above - so below', and the final revelation of the Earth's eternal cycle of destruction and rebirth. Thousands of years ago, man went to war with nature, and thus to war with himself. Lost to the land as once was, he became Master of the World, for a while. Blinded by arrogance, hobbled by hubris, and emboldened by his technological toys, he brought the biosphere to the brink of oblivion, to exalt himself at the Earth's expense. This is our story, and we are not as clever as we might like to believe. In a timely re-learning of The Green Man's lessons, in the twilight of the industrial age, we are being invited, perchance for the final time, to change our ways, or perish. Bumper music: Cliff Martinez 'Traffic OST' Clannad 'Herne'

Listen to the full show on Legalise Freedom Dot Com In a follow-up to our previous interview Transhumanism: Man's Scientific Rise to Godhood, Aaron Franz returns to discuss transhumanism and popular culture. This is a two part interview. Part two is here Whether prophecy, predictive programming or outright propaganda, cinema, television and literature both past and present are rife with visions of a future in which humanity is transformed, enslaved or even annihilated by technology run amok. Science fiction, fantasy and other speculative forms foresee a time when robots, cyborgs and genetically engineered supermen manipulate the masses, artificial intelligence arises to rival and even surpass human intelligence, and humanity finally merges with machines to achieve Godlike immortality. It's a dream to some, a nightmare to others. From Brave New World to Blade Runner, from The Machine to Metropolis, and from Star Trek to The Six Million Dollar Man, we explore the hopes, fears, threats and promises of a future in which being human may no longer be enough. www.theageoftransitions.com Bumper music: Cliff Martinez 'Traffic OST' Brad Fiedel 'Terminator 2' OST Hawkwind 'Utopia'

Aaron Franz discusses his book Revolve: Man's Scientific Rise to Godhood. Listen to the full show on Legalise Freedom Dot Com Artificial intelligence, nanotechnology, implantable chips, and life extension. These and many other technologies are being promoted as the way for humanity to become something radically different. The transhumanist movement claims that by applying such technologies to our biology, we will become post-human. But behind this techno-utopian vision lurk the spectres of eugenics, mind control, police state propaganda, the end of privacy, and maybe even the end of the human race itself. A new religion for a new age is being born, arising from a scientific and increasingly sinister quest for eternal life. The Philosopher's Stone of the alchemists now appears to be within reach, as man strives to transcend Earthly limitations and merge at last with the Godhead itself. In Revolve, Franz moves beyond the typical Singularity sales pitch and artificial intelligence hype to bring us face to face with something far more profound, disturbing, and ancient. www.theageoftransitions.com Humanity+ Bumper music: Cliff Martinez 'Traffic OST' Brad Fiedel 'Terminator 2' OST Lee Rosevere 'The Machine That Won the War'

John Michael Greer discusses his book Decline and Fall: The End of Empire and the Future of Democracy in 21st Century America. Listen to the full show on Legalise Freedom Dot Com '''Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world.' Although he was writing nearly a century ago, William Butler Yeats could just as easily be describing the United States today. The decline and fall of America's global empire is the central feature of today's geopolitical landscape, and the nature of our response to it will determine much of our future trajectory, with implications that reach far beyond the limits of one nation's borders. Decline and Fall challenges the conventional wisdom of empire. Using a wealth of historical examples combined with ground-breaking original analysis, it shows how the United States has backed itself into a blind corner in the pursuit of political and economic power, explores the inevitable consequences of imperial collapse, and proposes a renewal of democratic institutions as the only constructive way forward. By shifting the conversation from whether today's American empire should survive to whether it can survive, and arguing persuasively that the answer to the latter question is 'no', Decline and Fall makes an invaluable contribution to the body of speculative post-industrial literature. It is a must-read for anyone concerned about where the world is headed and what, if anything, we can do about it. Bumper music: Cliff Martinez 'Traffic OST' Cyberchump 'The Long Goodbye'

Listen to the full show on Legalise Freedom Dot Com James Howard Kunstler discusses some of the issues raised in his books The Long Emergency (2005) and Too Much Magic (2013), examining how the global crises in energy, the economy and the environment have unfolded in the interim. The last two hundred years have seen the greatest explosion of progress and wealth in the history of mankind, but the age of oil that fuelled this expansion is rapidly coming to an end. The depletion of fossil fuels is about to transform life as we know it, and do so much sooner than we think. Kunstler explains what to expect after we pass the tipping point of peak oil production, setting out to prepare us for economic, political, and social changes on an unimaginable scale. www.kunstler.com Bumper music: Cliff Martinez 'Traffic OST' Jeff Grace 'Cold in July OST'

Simon G. Powell discusses his book Darwin's Unfinished Business - The Self-Organizing Intelligence of Nature. Listen to the full show on Legalise Freedom Dot Com Darwin's theory of evolution is undoubtedly one of the most important scientific ideas of the modern age, explaining the existence of both life and consciousness without recourse to divine intervention. Yet how do we interpret evolution? How do we evaluate the ability of Nature to engineer something as exquisite as the genetic code or the human brain? Could it be that evolution is an intelligent process? Is Nature smart? According to most scientists, the answer is no. While humanity may be intelligent and purposeful, the natural processes that crafted us are deemed to be devoid of such attributes. In a radical move away from orthodoxy, Powell extends Darwin's vision by showing that evolution is not just about the survival of the fittest but rather the survival of clever and sensible behaviour. Revealing the importance of the context in which things evolve, he explores the intelligent learning process behind natural selection. Rich with examples of the incredibly complex plants, animals, insects and marine life designed by Nature - from the carnivorous Venus flytrap and the fungus-farming leafcutter ant to the symbiotic microbes found inside the common cow - he shows Nature as a whole to be a system of self-organising intelligence in which life and consciousness are always destined to emerge. Examining the origins of life and the failure of artificial intelligence to compete with natural intelligence, he explains how our scientifically narrow-minded views on intelligence are now acting as a barrier to our own evolution. As Darwin's unfinished business comes to light and Nature's intelligence is embraced, we learn that Nature's agenda is not simply the replication of genetic matter, but of expanding consciousness. By working with Nature's creative and innovative powers instead of against them, we can address today's social and environmental challenges with a new green science of evolution. www.simongpowell.com www.plantconsciousness.com Simon's documentaries Metanoia and Manna Bumper music: Cliff Martinez 'Traffic OST' Klaus Schulze 'Sense'

Listen to the full show on Legalise Freedom Dot Com Many ancient sites such as the Great Pyramid in Egypt and Stonehenge in England appear to have unusual acoustic properties which suggest that these places had a purpose not yet recognised by mainstream archaeology. Resonating frequencies and other forms of sound have long been associated with altered states of consciousness and other spiritual and mystical experiences. Certain properties of many ancient sites indicate that they were designed to focus, concentrate and in some cases generate powerful energies including sound. Is it possible that they served a sacred ceremonial function intended to affect the brain and body, taking us beyond our crude intellect and into a more intuitive state of mind? The building methods used on many ancient sites also remain a mystery to us. Is it possible that sound played a part in their construction? Were the massive blocks of stone used in places like the Great Pyramid and Stonehenge perhaps quarried, transported and lifted into place by some subtle technology now lost in the mists of time? Although there appear to be more questions than answers, the evidence suggests that in high antiquity, humans thought very differently than they do now. Their entire worldview and concept of what was possible seems radically different from our own, based on a more integrated state of mind unburdened by the left brain dominance that is responsible for much of the chaos and destruction in the world today. In looking back, maybe can we learn how to move forward. www.infinite-connections.co.uk Conference on Precession and Ancient Knowledge Bumper music: Cliff Martinez 'Traffic OST' Stellardrone 'The Divine Cosmos'

Walter Cruttenden discusses some of the ideas in his 2005 book Lost Star of Myth and Time. Listen to the full show on Legalise Freedom Dot Com The myth and folklore of ancestral peoples around the world hints at a vast cycle of time, with alternating Dark and Golden Ages. Plato called it the Great Year. Long believed to be a fairy tale, there is now new astronomical evidence to show it has a basis in fact. Moreover, because it is caused by the acceleration of our Sun around another star, we learn that the Earth should soon be carried into a region of space that will have a beneficial effect on our atmosphere, nudging mankind into a higher state of consciousness. Lost Star of Myth and Time weaves together some of the latest archaeological evidence with cutting-edge astronomy to reveal a history of the world that finally fits with myth, folklore and the archaeological record. While the book explores some of the most interesting aspects of a once advanced civilization that covered the Earth, it is really about what happens to the Earth and consciousness as our solar system moves through space in the mysterious motion known as the precession of the equinox. Since the days of Isaac Newton, this astronomical phenomenon has been attributed to local gravitational forces wobbling the Earth's axis. Lost Star now shows us in no uncertain terms that the Earth's axis does not change orientation relative to objects inside the solar system at the same rate as it changes orientation to objects outside the solar system, meaning precession must be due to our Sun's binary motion around another star. Chapter by chapter it becomes clear that ancient cultures knew of precession, used it as the clock of the ages, understood it to be due to the solar system's motion through space, and realized this subjects the Earth to a cycle of waxing and waning stellar influences. It is these forces that affect our magnetosphere, ionosphere and indirectly create the larger seasons of the Great Year. This not only gives cause for a major rethink of human history and potential, but indicates we are approaching a tipping point in the awakening of consciousness. Bumper music: Cliff Martinez 'Traffic OST' Cwtch 'What Do Robots Dream About?'

Mark Olly discusses his book The Life & Times of the Real Robyn Hoode, a detailed investigation of a character who represents resistance to powerful and corrupt authority the world over. Listen to the full show on Legalise Freedom Dot Com Robin Hood is a heroic outlaw in English folklore who, according to legend, was a highly skilled archer and swordsman. Traditionally depicted as being dressed in Lincoln green, he is often portrayed as 'robbing from the rich and giving to the poor' alongside his band of Merry Men. He became a popular folk figure in the late-medieval period and continues to be widely represented in literature, film and television. Delving deep into the history and archaeology of people and places, we attempt to separate fact from fiction in the possible or probable lives of Robin and the familiar cast of characters such as Little John, Friar Tuck, Will Scarlet, Maid Marion, the Sheriff of Nottingham, and King Richard the Lionheart. Along the way we visit locations such as Sherwood Forest and the city of Nottingham, exploring the momentous change, conflict and power struggles of Medieval England. Although Robin's true identity may never be known, the tale which emerges is every bit worthy of the high adventure and wild romance of a centuries old legend that lives on to this very day. Previous interviews with Mark Olly: Revealing the Green Man The Disappearing Ninth Legion Bumper music: Cliff Martinez 'Traffic OS

John Michael Greer discusses his book Dark Age America - Climate Change, Cultural Collapse, and the Hard Future Ahead. Listen to the full show on Legalise Freedom Dot Com As we lurch on into the early part of the 21st Century, converging crises in energy, economy, and environment are rapidly undermining the foundations of industrial civilization and the materialistic way of life which so many of us take for granted. Energy - because cheap, easily accessible fossil fuels are running out and industrial civilization as we know it simply cannot be sustained by renewables. Economy - because at almost every level, global, national, corporate, and personal, we are drowning in debt that cannot and therefore will not be repaid but whose unravelling will cause mass destruction of governments, banks, entire industries, and millions of lives. Environment - because centuries of industrial civilization have wreaked havoc on the biosphere, triggering catastrophic climate change while poisoning the ecosystems on which life on Earth depends. Factor in population growth, mass migration, and escalating terrorist threats, and you have a dangerously unstable situation. Despite the protestations of puppet politicians, elite economists, and utopian scientists, no amount of wishful thinking, money printing or shiny new technology will ride to the rescue. The Prius of our dreams is heading straight for the brick wall of reality, and the current convulsions such as the Brexit referendum in the UK, the impending implosion of the European Union, and the election of Donald Trump as US President are but the latest wave of woes crashing on the shore of a fantasy future we fashioned for ourselves in a brief moment of gas guzzling madness. Under the illusion of invincibility we still tell ourselves that 'this time it's different' but as we shall soon discover, forces far beyond our control have other ideas. In his most uncompromising work to date, John Michael Greer maps possible futures for America during the hard times ahead and it's clear that before things get better, they're going to get a lot worse. The Archdruid Report Previous interviews with John Michael Greer: The Truth About Brexit After Progress The Long Descent The Ecotechnic Future Green Wizardry Decline and Fall Bumper music: Cliff Martinez 'Traffic OST' SURVIVE 'RR7349'

Douglas Lain discusses Advocate for an Indefinite Human Lifespan, a new Zero Books title exploring the life extension techniques and technologies of Aubrey de Grey and the SENS Research Foundation. Human beings are perhaps unique among Earth's sentient beings in that, from a relatively young age, we know that we are going to die. Despite this knowledge, and the fact that life and death are but two facets of the great cycle of creation and destruction, as a species we live in dread and denial of death, which remains one of the last great taboos. Some say we need to set death aside in order to live, while others claim that only acceptance of death allows us to truly come alive. Whatever the case, most of us are consciously or subconsciously terrified by the thought of our own annihilation. The religious cling to the hope held out by the promise of an afterlife, while the secular place their faith in a life well lived, free from comforting delusions. Medical and material advances have extended human life expectancy well beyond what it was in centuries gone by, but de Grey's radical vision is of humans living longer - much longer - and in good health. Beyond the contested limits of sometimes controversial medical interventions, de Grey's plans have already drawn many moral and ethical objections: What would we do with a thousand year life? How would it affect love, family, work, and culture? And what of population and natural resources on an already groaning planet? Technology, we are assured, offers answers to all such doubts, and if the transhumanist wing of the life extension lobby have their way, a millennium of existence may one day seem like the blink of an eye. Augmented, upgraded, downloaded - for the man machine of the future, death may be but a distant dream. But are we becoming God or merely playing God? Previous interview with Doug Lain: The Dream of Reality Bumper music: Cliff Martinez 'Traffic OST' SURVIVE 'RR7349'²

Dmitry Orlov discusses his book Shrinking the Technosphere: Getting a Grip on the Technologies that Limit our Autonomy, Self-sufficiency and Freedom. Listen to the full show on Legalise Freedom Dot Com Over the past two centuries we have witnessed the wholesale replacement of most previous methods of conducting both business and daily life with new, technologically advanced, more efficient methods, but what exactly is progressive or efficient about this new arrangement is hardly ever examined in depth. If the new ways of doing things are so much better, then we must all be leading relaxed, stress-free, enjoyable lives with plenty of free time to devote to art and leisure activities. But a more careful look at these changes shows us that the rapidly evolving brave new world of gadgets, gizmos and constant connectivity is instead a metastasising matrix of manipulation and control in which we have become slaves to money and machines. Creeping ever closer to outright omniscience, the Technosphere is an emergent intelligence in its own right. The harm to the environment, society, and our individual lives is plain to see, but is brushed off amid hollow mantras about productivity, progress, and the graven idol of economic growth. Shrinking the Technosphere guides readers through the process of bringing technology down to a manageable number of carefully chosen, essential, well-understood, and controllable elements. It is about regaining the freedom to use technology for our own benefit, and is critical reading for all who seek to get back to a point where technologies assist us rather than control us. The endgame of the Technosphere is total domination; the outcome will be total destruction. But can humanity take back control before digital Armageddon finally dawns? Bumper music: Cliff Martinez 'Traffic OST' Yuri Morozov 'Human Extinction'

Dr. Mari Swingle discusses her book i-Minds: How Cell Phones, Computers, Gaming, and Social Media are Changing Our Brains, Our Behaviour, and the Evolution of Our Species. Listen to the full show on Legalise Freedom Dot Com We live in a hi-tech age, an era in which almost every aspect of our daily lives is mediated by some form of technology. The worlds of work, education, leisure, food, transport, health, communication and many, many more are now not only augmented and enhanced by technology, increasingly, they are impossible without it. But while some of the unwanted side effects of technology are recognised and well-known, are we too quick to dismiss them as a temporary phase affecting a lonely minority? The advocates of 21st Century technology themselves are quick to point to an array of benefits, many undeniable, but at what point does our second life take over our real life, social media become anti-social? In our headlong rush towards techno-utopia, are we inadvertently breeding a generation of alienated, dysfunctional loners paralysed by endless choice and lost in a fantasy world of gaming, pornography, and all manner of virtual reality? Delving into the dark side of this brave new world, we examine the dangers of technological addiction and abuse, the debilitating psychological and physical fallout, and the potential to affect even the evolutionary future of the human race itself. Bumper music: Cliff Martinez 'Traffic OST' Dynatron 'Escape Velocity'

Frank Joseph discusses his book Our Dolphin Ancestors - Keepers of Lost Knowledge and Healing Wisdom. Listen to the full show on Legalise Freedom Dot Com Wild animals avoid contact with humans, but wild dolphins seek us out to play and socialize, even going so far as to voluntarily rescue people from drowning. What explains this remarkable natural affinity? Revealing the evolutionary basis for our special relationship with dolphins, Frank Joseph explains how we are both descendants of the same ancient branch of humanity. Building upon the aquatic ape theory, he details how we both began on land but devastating floods forced our distant ancestors into the seas, where humanity developed many of the traits that set us apart from other primates, such as our instinctive diving reflex and our newborns' ability to swim. But while some of the aquatic apes returned to land, later evolving into modern humans, some remained in the cradle of the ocean and became our dolphin cousins. Integrating scientific research on dolphin intelligence, communication, and physiology with enduring myths from some of the world's oldest cultures, such as the Aborigines, Norse, Greeks, and Celts, the author examines our physical commonalities with dolphins, including their vestigial thumbs and legs, birth processes, and body temperature. He explores dolphins' uncanny ability to diagnose disease such as cancer in humans and how dolphin therapy has had miraculous effects on children with autism, victims of stroke, and those suffering from depression. He provides evidence for dolphins' different attitudes toward men, women, and children, their natural affinity with cats and dogs, and their telepathic communication with other species, including ours. He explores dolphins' mysterious role in the birth of early civilization and their connections with the Dog Star, Sirius, and Atlantis and Lemuria - a bond still commemorated by annual gatherings of millions of dolphins. If we can learn to fully communicate with dolphins, accessing their millennia-old oral tradition, we may learn the truth about humanity's origins and our shared future, when humankind may yet again quit the land for a final return to the sea. http://www.ancientamerican.com/ Bumper music: Cliff Martinez 'Traffic OST' Loscil 'Altus'

John Michael Greer discusses the origins and potential outcome of the European Union's ongoing meltdown. Listen to the full show on Legalise Freedom Dot Com The recent Brexit referendum in the UK was never meant to happen. The result of a miscalculated attempt by former British Prime Minister David Cameron to neutralize the right wing UK Independence Party, Brexit has plunged the nation into a constitutional crisis. While 48% of the electorate voted for the UK to remain within the European Union, 52% voted to leave. As a result, the country is now deeply divided, and the rancour of a bitterly fought campaign has merely intensified since the outcome became clear. The total lack of planning for a vote to quit the EU is also starkly evident in the chaotic in-fighting and back-stabbing that has marred the political aftermath. So just how did this unintended mayhem come about? At the core of the crisis but unacknowledged by the political class, mainstream media, and society at large are serious systemic problems affecting the economy, the environment, and the very foundations of our industrial society. These problems existed before Brexit, and they exist now. They would have remained exactly the same whether we voted 'leave' or 'remain'. The problems are global and they are not going away. They are, in fact, getting worse. If you need any evidence for this, one need only observe the utter farce masquerading as the current US Presidential election or, closer to home, the ominous rise of the far right in most, if not all, European Union countries. Until these harsh realities are fully faced, the pundits, pollsters, and politicians will continue to get it wrong. The kaleidoscope has been shaken, the pieces are in flux, and the sky is black with birds coming home to roost. When they do, they will reorder this world. Bumper music: Cliff Martinez 'Traffic OST' Jim Williams 'A Field In England OST'

Listen to the full show on Legalise Freedom Dot Com The Apollo program, also known as Project Apollo, was the third human spaceflight program carried out by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), and the program was responsible for the landing of the first humans on Earth's Moon in 1969. First conceived during the Presidency of Dwight D. Eisenhower as a three-man spacecraft to follow the one-man Project Mercury which put the first Americans in space, Apollo was later dedicated to President John F. Kennedy's national goal of '''landing a man on the Moon and returning him safely to the Earth' by the end of the 1960s. Kennedy's goal was apparently accomplished on the Apollo 11 mission when astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin landed their Lunar Module on the Moon on July 20, 1969. Five subsequent Apollo missions reportedly landed astronauts on the Moon, the last in December 1972. However, beginning just a couple of years after the final Moon landing, doubts began to emerge about certain details of these missions and even as to whether any of them had taken place at all. Skeptics expressed many concerns about the feasibility of the missions: photographs taken on and around the Moon appeared to display many anomalies; questions were raised about the technology of mission control, the spacecraft itself, and the space suits, and whether any of it was actually up to the task; there were concerns about radiation, not just on the Moon itself but within the Van Allen belt which circles the Earth, a deadly radioactive zone some say would be impossible to traverse. And, of course, there is the question as to why man has never since returned to the Moon. Surely with today's vastly superior technology, this would be much easier to achieve. Despite being refuted in some detail by NASA and a host of other agencies and individuals over the years, the idea that the manned Moon missions were staged just will not go away. Critics argue that skeptics are simply distrustful of government in general and that the Moon landings serve as sort of poster boy for them. But there are compelling reasons as to why a government would want to pull a stunt like this, and with the debate as heated as ever, it would appear that just one thing will silence the doubters for good. www.nexusmagazine.com Bumper music: Cliff Martinez 'Traffic OST'

Claire Rae Randall and Greg Moffitt in conversation. Listen to the full show on Legalise Freedom Dot Com An increasingly common theme in popular science is the idea that our thoughts create reality, or that they at least interact with the physical world in some way. This trend has also been mirrored in some sections of popular culture. In fact, pop culture characterisations of mysterious mental powers long pre-date the current scientific interest in how mind might affect matter. Taken together with the theory that mind – not matter – is fundamental and that physical reality itself actually exists within some vast non-material cosmic consciousness, the entire Universe and everything in it begins to look like one infinite and unimaginably complex thought process. Cutting edge science increasingly lends credence to this and similar ideas which apply at each level of reality, from personal to planetary to galactic and beyond. What's more the process appears creative, and imbued with meaning and purpose, even if mainstream scientific materialism continues to refute any such possibility. But if you discovered that you are a cell in the organising intelligence which underlies everything, what would change? Previous interviews with Claire Rae Randall Bumper music: Cliff Martinez ‘Traffic OST’

Gregory Shushan discusses his book Near-Death Experience in Ancient Civilizations: The Origins of the World’s Afterlife Beliefs Listen to the full show on Legalise Freedom Dot Com Taking readers on a thought-provoking journey into our ancestors’ beliefs about death, dying, and the afterlife, Shushan reveals the powerful influence of near-death experiences (NDEs) on religious beliefs and ritual practices throughout human history. Focusing on five ancient world regions in Egypt, Mesopotamia, India, China, and Mesoamerica, the author expertly explores each civilization’s afterlife beliefs. He explains how each of these civilizations developed independently of one another, yet there is a series of similarities among afterlife beliefs too consistent and specific to be mere coincidence. This leads to the profound implication that afterlife beliefs are not entirely invented by cultures: they also stem from universal truths derived from NDEs. Drawing on anthropology, psychology, and philosophy, the author explores how each civilization interpreted NDEs and how afterlife beliefs develop over time. He also explores the metaphysical implications of his discoveries, including what an actual afterlife would look like. Revealing that NDEs have occurred throughout human history, Shushan shows how they continue to influence our understanding of what lies beyond death to this day. Bumper music: Cliff Martinez ‘Traffic OST’

Richard Kretz and Greg Moffitt discuss the so-called Age of Aquarius and the potential for planetary change. Listen to the full show on Legalise Freedom Dot Com For millennia, humans have gazed at the stars, seeking meaning in their patterns. Today, a growing chorus senses a shift, an electric hum of change in the air, hard to name but impossible to ignore. For many, most of the tectonic changes now underway on Earth are profoundly negative: political, social, economic, and environmental crises coupled with growing conflict, and trends in technology and artificial intelligence, all of which threaten the very existence of the human race. Weaving together astrology, astronomy, and mythology, Kretz proposes that although the future looks highly uncertain, a metamorphosis is currently underway, disrupting old patterns, awakening new awareness, and restructuring for what is to come. As in the past, earthly upheavals seem to be mirrored by events elsewhere in the solar system and wider cosmic rhythms. The total solar eclipse of March 2034 may be important, but it’s our choices that will shape what comes next. Other interviews with Richard Kretz Bumper music: Cliff Martinez ‘Traffic OST’

Anthony Peake discusses the life and work of Philip K. Dick. Anthony’s biography of PKD is here . Listen to the full show on Legalise Freedom Dot Com Philip K. Dick was one of the most imaginative and original science fiction writers of his era, and since his death in 1982, his novels have continued to be discovered by each new generation of sci fi fans. His stories have been adapted for the screen many times including Total Recall, Minority Report, A Scanner Darkly, The Man in the High Castle and, most famously, Blade Runner. PKD – as he became known – was a periodic drug user with a colourful and sometimes chaotic personal life, a life which increasingly resembled those of some of the characters he himself created. Recurring themes in his work include the nature of reality, of time, of perception and of identity, alternate realities, artificial intelligence, dystopian futures, authoritarian governments, drug use, and altered states of consciousness. Previous interviews with Anthony Peake Bumper music: Cliff Martinez ‘Traffic OST’ Cwtch ‘What Do Robots Dream About?’

Steve Taylor discusses his book Time Expansion Experiences: The Psychology of Time Perception and the Illusion of Linear Time Listen to the full show on Legalise Freedom Dot Com Although we often encounter the phrase ‘time is just an illusion’, everything about our subjective inner experience seems to suggest otherwise. The outer world too seems to conform to the same patterns, the flow of events and the apparently inescapable path from past to present and future. From the repetitive activities of our everyday lives to the vast cycles of life and death, of nature and the cosmos, all seems tethered to the tyranny of time. But what if time itself is merely a human construct, a way of trying to make sense of what is apparently happening? What if all that exists is in fact an eternal ‘Now’ from which everything that is, ever has been, and ever will be, arises? Millennia of indigenous cosmologies, spiritual traditions, and now cutting edge science strongly suggest that mind, not matter, is fundamental. Time, and even space, would therefore lose their place as defining dimensions of reality, replaced by an infinite mindfield in which all possibilities are present and from which the events of our limited five-sense, three-dimensional perception appear and disappear. But if the past still exists and the future is already here, what does this mean for the present? Previous interviews with Steve Taylor Bumper music: Cliff Martinez ‘Traffic OST’

Christian Morris and Greg Moffitt discuss some of the tumultuous events of 2024. Listen to the full show on Legalise Freedom Dot Com In their own peculiar way, the national elections in the USA, UK, and Ireland and events surrounding them were microcosms of tectonic shifts underway around the globe. As former British Prime Minster Tony Blair famously said in the wake of 9/11, “The kaleidoscope has been shaken. The pieces are in flux.” While the UK and Ireland have elected governments of incompetence, the incoming Trump administration is set to usher in a seismic shift in direction for the US, and by extension, the world. Meanwhile, happenings in other realms get weirder by the day, the recent UFO/UAP phenomena and raging forest fires being interpreted by some observers as nothing less than manifestations of the trauma haunting the collective human psyche. In an era beset by uncertainty and trepidation, high strangeness is the New Normal. Previous interviews with Christian Morris Bumper music: Cliff Martinez ‘Traffic OST’

Neil McDonald discusses his latest book In Search of Ancient Wisdom Listen to the full show on Legalise Freedom Dot Com Across the ages, myths and legends tell of secret knowledge hidden from the mass of humanity and guarded by shadowy organizations and mystery cults dedicated to its preservation and use for their own nefarious purposes. Although the origins of this knowledge – sometimes referred to as The Perrenial Wisdom – are lost to the mists of time, at certain pivotal points in history evidence for its existence emerges, even if its true nature remains obscured. The legends of Atlantis, King Solomon, The Knights Templar, The Holy Grail, and Rennes-le-Château all point toward secret paths to immense wealth and power. In the modern era, the elite echelons of the Nazi SS also tried to turn non-material forces to their advantage until their apparent defeat. But was it simply the German people who lost the war while the Nazi occult network went underground? In this wide-ranging discussion we probe the anatomy of The Perennial Wisdom and Western Mystery Tradition, revealing powers innate to humanity but accessible only by the most dedicated and determined. Previous interviews with Neil McDonald Bumper music: Cliff Martinez ‘Traffic OST’ Ruhr Hunter ‘Denned Earth / Decay and Rebirth’

In a talk inspired by the 1959 post-apocalyptic science fiction novel A Canticle for Leibowitz, Mark Stavish discusses the preservation of knowledge – in particular occult and esoteric knowledge – as the world plunges into an ever more uncertain and unstable future. Listen to the full show on Legalise Freedom Dot Com From an over-reliance on technology, to a lack of preparedness, and widespread general apathy, the potential threats to the entire library of human knowledge are growing in size and number. Spellbound by the myth of progress – the belief that progress is linear and ever upward – we are blind to the harsh lessons of history: the dark ages, wars, and catastrophes – man-made or natural – which mark the downfall of peoples, nations, and entire civilizations, and the heritage of their time. Although ancient knowledge has a way of surviving aeons of trial and tribulation, in this era of perhaps unprecedented danger, we would do well to consider what is in peril and what can be saved for our own sake and for the sake of those who come after us. A Canticle for Leibowitz is a social science fiction novel by American writer Walter M. Miller Jr., first published in 1959. Set in a Catholic monastery in the desert of the southwestern United States after a devastating nuclear war, the book spans thousands of years as civilization rebuilds itself. The monks of the Albertian Order of Leibowitz preserve the surviving remnants of man’s scientific knowledge until the world is again ready for it. Previous interviews with Mark Stavish Bumper music: Cliff Martinez ‘Traffic OST’

Keith Thompson discusses his book The UFO Paradox: The Celestial and Symbolic World of Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Listen to the full show on Legalise Freedom Dot Com In case after case related to UFO encounters and other unknown aerial phenomena (UAP), the same impasse is reached: testimony from witnesses on one side, dismissive responses from the authorities on the other. In the fertile void of this deadlock, however, lie extraordinary possibilities about the nature of mind and matter, spirit and soul, transforming the UFO into a celestial, metaphysical event. Focusing on the possibilities found by exploring both sides of the debate, veteran UFO observer and reporter Keith Thompson shares profound insights and experiences from his several decades of research, revealing that the UFO phenomenon is decidedly real yet perhaps not what either side of the debate expects. He looks at UFOs as a genuine unknown, from outer space or manifesting from hidden dimensions, as well as the theories of skeptics and debunkers who insist that UFOs can be explained as hoaxes, hallucinations, or misidentified phenomena. He explores the modern flying saucer era against the backdrop of visionary experience – angelic visitations, near-death experiences, shamanic journeys, religious miracles, and fairy tales – and shows how UFOs are simultaneously physical and spiritual, presenting a form of intelligence capable of altering the perceptions of witnesses. Thompson reveals how the UFO phenomenon ultimately represents a call from the cosmos for humanity to open to greater dimensions of reality and recognize that our understanding of the universe is still far from complete. Bumper music: Cliff Martinez ‘Traffic OST’ Dionysiac ‘Iota Ceti Contact’

Camille Sauvé discusses her book Sorcerers of Stone: Architects of The Three Ages Listen to the full show on Legalise Freedom Dot Com All around the world are mysterious ancient monoliths with strange features, and abstract forms with underground grottos and cave systems. Most archaeologists cannot explain them and attribute their construction to the earliest known cultures in the area. Examining sacred sites in Peru and their counterparts around the world, researcher and journalist Camille M. Sauvé shows how these sites share specific architectural characteristics and reveal evidence of a very ancient culture that once existed worldwide. Weaving a tapestry of what early humanity looked like, Sauvé examines the writings of famous clairvoyants like Rudolf Steiner, Madame Blavatsky, and Edgar Cayce who recorded the works of early man through the Akashic records. Besides the more esoteric questions about who could have built these wonders, the author also examines the unique properties of the monoliths themselves and the sophisticated science behind the construction of these sites. She shows how they seem to be placed on earth power spots and how most of the rocks have significant piezoelectric properties from high quartz and silica content. Revealing that many sacred sites are much older than previously thought, Sauvé shows that Peru may hold the secret to remembering our forgotten prehistory. Bumper music: Cliff Martinez ‘Traffic OST’

Thomas Sheridan and Sara Mondaini discuss their book ‘Hocus Focus – Merging Forteana, Hauntology and High Strangeness’. Other interviews with Thomas Sheridan Bumper music: Cliff Martinez ‘Traffic OST’

Christopher Dunn discusses his latest book Giza: the Tesla Connection – Acoustical Science & The Harvesting Of Clean Energy Listen to the full show on Legalise Freedom Dot Com. Sharing extensive new evidence and cutting-edge research that the Great Pyramid at Giza was an energy-harvesting machine, Christopher Dunn details how the ancient Egyptians might have generated clean power for their civilization and reveals how the pyramid builders and the inventor Nikola Tesla drew from the same universal knowledge. Dunn reveals how the pyramids in Egypt served to stimulate the release and collection of electrons in the Earth’s crust by harmonizing seismic energy while also attenuating the accumulating stresses. Drawing on research into the phenomenon known as ‘earthquake lights’, the author shows how the pyramid builders were inspired by this phenomenon and learned to stress igneous rocks in order to harvest the resulting electron flow. Dunn also analyses the results of extensive acoustic testing and measurements at ancient sacred sites and shows how the pyramids were tuned to the Earth’s frequency. While the pyramids’ sophisticated energy-harvesting abilities are now in disarray and disuse, some remnants of their technologies are still there, waiting to be rediscovered and provide our civilization with an abundance of non-polluting power. Bumper music: Cliff Martinez ‘Traffic OST’

James Howard Kunstler and Greg Moffitt in conversation. Listen to the full show on Legalise Freedom Dot Com. To quote the opening lines from the 1979 science fiction series The Quatermass Conclusion, “In the last quarter of the 20th century, the whole world seemed to sicken. Civilised institutions, whether old or new, fell, as if some primal disorder was reasserting itself. And men asked themselves: Why should this be?” Fast-forward to the first quarter of the 21st century, and we find ourselves in much the same quandary, living in what seems like an increasingly absurd dystopian movie. To quote my guest, “Everything organized at the gigantic scale is steaming toward failure: big governments, giant companies, the huge capital investment firms, global shipping, energy production, chain retailing, mass motoring, big electricity, big medicine, big education, big anything.” But there’s more to our predicament than mere systems failure. Consumerist culture tells us that life has no meaning or purpose beyond material concerns, and led to a crisis in our collective consciousness manifesting nihilism and insanity on a hitherto unimaginable scale. Can we unmake this inhuman deathwish before it’s too late? James’ latest book is CrazyLand: Dispatches on the Great American Derangement of Our Time Previous interviews with James Howard Kunstler Bumper music: Cliff Martinez ‘Traffic OST’

James Tunney and Greg Moffitt in conversation. Listen to the full show on Legalise Freedom Dot Com. Beyond even transhumanism, posthumanism seeks to eradicate the human being as we know it. Where transhumanism advocates augmentation and enhancement of the mind and body, posthumanism aims to replace humans completely, reducing the population of natural biological specimens as various forms of artificial intelligence take over. The signs of this transformation can be seen everywhere, from the war on the family unit to dependence-by-design on franken-foods and pharmaceuticals, and from the promotion of suicide – the so-called ‘right to die’ – and the undermining of social and cultural mores, gender, and even biological reality. Meanwhile, the boundary between fantasy and reality continues to blur as more and more of us live virtual lives surrounded by AI deep-fake deceptions. Will we really be the architects of our own extinction? James’ latest book is AI Posthumanism: A Cryptic Soap Opera Other interviews with James Tunney Bumper music: Cliff Martinez ‘Traffic OST’ Klaus Schulze ‘Zeitgeist’